WTF: ‘LOST’ producers hint at life after S6

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We’ve known for a while that this is going to be the final season of LOST. It has been known since the middle of S3 and S6 is being marketed as such.

But at a recent festival in Seattle, some of the LOST brass hinted that even though they won’t be involved with the property once “LOST proper” finishes next May, it will be hard for ABC to just put it away and never think about it again.

Oh. No.

I understand that ABC/Disney wants to milk LOST for all its worth (read: a lot), but extending the property in any other form after the program is over is a very risky and unneeded move. Based on the expansive world created by the show’s writers, clearly there would be room for some BS spin-off that features a side character, but the universe doesn’t really work that way for me, and I’d say most LOST fans would feel the same way. Sure, we’d like to know what was the deal with Libby, but we’re not watching a show about her — especially if Cuse, Lindelof, Horowitz, Kitsis or Bender are involved.

If ABC/Disney wants to create more dumb video games or produce some more Alternative Reality Games with some input from the current staff, fine. But LOST is a once-in-a-lifetime television property, fan experience and cultural phenomenon. They got it right by setting an end date in 2007. There’s no legitimate reason to go back on that now. Please. PLEASE?

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