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If You're Constantly Hamstrung By Worry That People Aren't Going To Like It, You Can't Do Your Job.

Hopping Around Time In A Non-linear Storytelling Fashion (on 'lost') Allows You To Bring Back Characters Who Are Dead And, In Some Cases, Buried. Now That Time Travel Is The Story Itself, It Opens Up Even More Doors. So When An Actor Reads That They're Getting Killed Off On The Show, They're Basically, Like, 'okay, But Should I Still Bother To Show Up Next Week?'

I Think One Of The Problems In Determining The Ending For A Television Series Is That You Don't Know How Long The Show Is Gonna Last. Particularly Because We Were In The Unique Position Of Adapting Tom's Perrotta Novel The Leftovers, It Always Felt Like The First Season Was Gonna End With The End Of Tom's Novel, And Then We Would Figure Things Out From There And Look Back.

You Can Watch An Episode Of Friends Or An Episode Of Law & Order And Just Drop In, But You're Not Going To In The Middle Of Season 4, Episode 5 Of Lost. It's Like Picking Up A Harry Potter Book And Flipping To A Chapter. You Have To Read It From Beginning To End.

From My Own Internal Fanboy Perspective, There's Nothing That I Hate More Than Seeing A Three Minute Trailer For A Movie Where I Feel Like It's Shown Me The Entire Movie.