The Official Exit Strategy
ABC has made it official (and we didn’t even have to wait until next week's ABC upfront to hear the news): Lost will end at the conclusion of season six.
The good news: we get Lost for three more seasons, with the show concluding in 2010. It had been speculated late last week that we would only be getting two more seasons.
The bad news: while on the surface the “three more years” plan for Lost may look good, when we look deeper it’s not quite the deal that it initially seemed to be. You see, while the show will run for three more seasons, the number of episodes per season is being reduced from 22 to 16. For those of you doing the math at home, this means there are a total of 48 Lost episodes left to run over three seasons. Now, had the producers and the network opted for the “two more seasons of Lost” plan, then we would have seen two seasons with 22 episodes per season, for a total of 44. So you see, that third season really isn’t adding anything more to the mix than four more episodes. I don’t know about you, but I feel kind of cheated!
Anyway… the other news out of ABC is that the 16-episode seasons of Lost will run without interruption… so we’re looking at a February through May run for the series from now on.
Let me take this opportunity to make a plea to Misters Lindelof and Cuse: please, please promise me that by the end of that 48th and final episode in 2010, you'll finally have explained to us what that smoke monster is all about.
The good news: we get Lost for three more seasons, with the show concluding in 2010. It had been speculated late last week that we would only be getting two more seasons.
The bad news: while on the surface the “three more years” plan for Lost may look good, when we look deeper it’s not quite the deal that it initially seemed to be. You see, while the show will run for three more seasons, the number of episodes per season is being reduced from 22 to 16. For those of you doing the math at home, this means there are a total of 48 Lost episodes left to run over three seasons. Now, had the producers and the network opted for the “two more seasons of Lost” plan, then we would have seen two seasons with 22 episodes per season, for a total of 44. So you see, that third season really isn’t adding anything more to the mix than four more episodes. I don’t know about you, but I feel kind of cheated!
Anyway… the other news out of ABC is that the 16-episode seasons of Lost will run without interruption… so we’re looking at a February through May run for the series from now on.
Let me take this opportunity to make a plea to Misters Lindelof and Cuse: please, please promise me that by the end of that 48th and final episode in 2010, you'll finally have explained to us what that smoke monster is all about.
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