Oh god no! There's a lot more interview there. On a more upbeat note they're looking at wrapping the show up by season 5 so it won't painfully drag on the mystery forever à la The X-Files.
This is the reason I no longer watch Lost, and haven't for a long time. If Battlestar keeps going that direction with the Apollo/Starbuck nonsense, I may be done with it, too.
I wouldn't be surprised if BSG didn't get a fourth season. It's really lost its way, and its last household rating was only a 1.4, after three consecutive 1.3 ratings. Too much filler. Moore seems to be making up the cylon plan as he goes along. He's completely squandered any potential Apollo had as a character. Why he abandoned the Bill/Laura/Apollo triangle that was going on in the beginning, with Apollo siding with Laura on matters of government, baffles me. Laura as a character has been sidelined really, ever since her miracle cancer cure.
I gave up on Lost a while back, when it became clear that the writers had no f'ing clue where the show was going.
Supernatural. There's a three year mytharc taking place on that series, and it's obvious that Eric Kripke has it planned extremely well. Little events in the series from when it started last season, events that seemed random at the time, are all falling into place as having a purpose. People don't take shows on the CW seriously, but that one is actually, surprisingly, quite good. Plus, it's eschewed romance. That's a big plus. The CW execs "suggested" to Kripke that he add some romance this season. He tried to introduce this impossibly cute little perky girl named Jo. After three episodes the fan reaction was so bad that he's written her out, execs be damned. Best relationship between brothers on television, and that's Prison Break and Heroes included.
I want one more season of BSG, and I want the shit wrapped up. Time to find Earth and resolve the issue. They need to take all the shipper bullshit and other inane crap and blow it out the frakkin' airlock.
I'm not deluded. I just said that I wouldn't be surprised if BSG weren't renewed. It's awfully expensive and its ratings have gotten low, even for cable.
My understanding is that Invasion had a specific plan. I'm reasonably sure that The Dead Zone has an endgame. More likely than not, The 4400 has one. too early to tell on Heroes but I hope so...
Regarding Lost.... I still watch it because certain characters fascinate me. Yes, I'd love to see the mythos addressed but it is network TV and I try to temper the expectations. But John Locke and Sawyer are just damn fun characters to watch. As long as they survive and do not go off their established characer, I'll try to hang in.
None of this is a business reason to cancel the show. It's an opinion. If Scifi can turn a profit one more year, they will, otherwise it's over. They really don't have anything else and don't get raitings on anything now. The good news is it's their only anchor show and they'll need it the first year they launch any of these other new crapfests they're about to start.
Eureka pulls higher ratings than BSG when it's airing new episodes. The Dresden Files is about to premiere Sunday the 21st. I'm not saying they couldn't possibly renew BSG. I'm just saying it's expensive as hell to produce and the ratings are much lower than they were. ECW wrestling was pulling higher ratings for several weeks, and reruns of "Heroes" were pulling the same ratings as BSG.
You know, this is one of a number of things that I despise about the hollywood suit mentality. To strip away/discard/set-aside whatever it is about a show that makes it unique and special. There are enough primetime shows that interject soap opera-ish crud. (usually in quantites far larger than is really necessary) The premise and setting and fantasy elements of Lost are/were entirely why the audience was hooked in the first place. In the first season, the focus was never on who Kate was really interested in. It's more than a little dissapointing to hear the producers share that little tidbit with its fans, because I think that if they really believe that (and they aren't really being directed by someone higher up in the studio) then they have completely lost sight of just what it was that made their show a big success.
They did have a plan for Lost. Unfortunately, that plan was for a minseries. Once they realized they couldn't reveal their ideas, indeed would make up convuloted and nonsensical plot arcs to avoid just that, is when the show became drek. Personally when I realized that they would obfuscate any forward progress in the middle of the first season when the pregnant girl got stolen by the Others then rescued - but had amnesia and was unable to relate any information she might have gained. I stopped giving a shit right then. Since then we had the tail survivors, spending hour after hour on their stories, none of which have any impact on the show. Indeed, most of them are already dead. Would have liked to see the miniseries. They didn't have enough material to make an interesting single season, let alone the length its lasted.
