Tara Bennett talks about the Lost Encyclopedia
Tara Bennett, Lost Magazine writer/editor, and co-writer of the upcoming Lost Encyclopedia talks on the You've Got Geek On You podcast about Lost in general and the encyclopedia, due out August 24th! (Same date as the DVDs)
(She comes in at 1:06:33.)
Some facts about the book:
It'll be 400 pages.
No behind the scenes info to be included. (ie no Matthew Fox entry...only Jack Shephard entry)
Darlton fact checks all info included. Gregg Nations a key source.
No theorizing in the encyclopedia. It's all to be canon.
ARG material that Darlton consider canon to be included.
Frogurt gets a whole page. Or at least most of a whole page.
Roughly 1,500 images to be used. What there aren't images of, Darlton didn't want images of. (I'm thinking...no detailed Island map?)
Quote:
"I've covered all kinds of stuff, but it's rare for me to cover something from the very beginning and really cover an entire life cycle of something. I mean, there have been other shows that I've adored, like Buffy and Angel. And Pushing Daisies, that didn't last for very long but I loved that show. But nothing has had the kind of epic scope of Lost, and the other shows in a way...there is a more traditional way that you can kind of track the history of those shows. Lost is really special in that there's really nothing that's as dense in terms of mythology out there like this show. ...There's never been a show that has kind of engendered the kind of obsessive, kind of speculation that this show has. And spawned all of these fandoms and communities and friendships around the world of people that just cannot wait for the episode to run, and then the next best thing is to immediately run to the computer and start talking about everything you've seen and start dissecting and going, "Oh I didn't think of it that way!" and to basically have another whole experience of revelation afterwards."
SO TRUE.
So how 'bout this book, eh?
(She comes in at 1:06:33.)
Some facts about the book:
It'll be 400 pages.
No behind the scenes info to be included. (ie no Matthew Fox entry...only Jack Shephard entry)
Darlton fact checks all info included. Gregg Nations a key source.
No theorizing in the encyclopedia. It's all to be canon.
ARG material that Darlton consider canon to be included.
Frogurt gets a whole page. Or at least most of a whole page.
Roughly 1,500 images to be used. What there aren't images of, Darlton didn't want images of. (I'm thinking...no detailed Island map?)
Quote:
"I've covered all kinds of stuff, but it's rare for me to cover something from the very beginning and really cover an entire life cycle of something. I mean, there have been other shows that I've adored, like Buffy and Angel. And Pushing Daisies, that didn't last for very long but I loved that show. But nothing has had the kind of epic scope of Lost, and the other shows in a way...there is a more traditional way that you can kind of track the history of those shows. Lost is really special in that there's really nothing that's as dense in terms of mythology out there like this show. ...There's never been a show that has kind of engendered the kind of obsessive, kind of speculation that this show has. And spawned all of these fandoms and communities and friendships around the world of people that just cannot wait for the episode to run, and then the next best thing is to immediately run to the computer and start talking about everything you've seen and start dissecting and going, "Oh I didn't think of it that way!" and to basically have another whole experience of revelation afterwards."
SO TRUE.
So how 'bout this book, eh?