Lindelof is a unique case. He's a Reddit super fan who got to run a show watched compulsively by 20 million people. There was nothing to do but crash land. I laughed pretty hard at the South Pacific island getting nuked. That was like trolling himself as you said. I heard him say ABC wanted 12 seasons of Lost. Imagine that. Did you like the penultimate Leftovers that I hated so much? My problem might have been waiting a week and getting that and wanting/needing what turned out to be the finale.
A south pacific island gets nuked, a submarine is involved, the inexplicable disappearance of a large number of people startles everyone on the planet, a special world you can only access by a leap of faith and that's sparsely populated by miserable people separated from their families is accessed and then departed from, a secretive group is roaming about on this world trying to send the right people to it via magic magnets, you can't really fly planes on that other world so must travel by boat there. By a special dispensation an act of return is permitted, but the returnee must either pretend to be someone else or never tell the truth - and if they do will just be assumed to be crazy anyway. A man who was sick and got well again and assumes a supernatural agent was responsible gets sick again and loses his faith and dies. A son - who has begrudgingly assumed the same profession as his father and whose martyrdom complex keeps ruining his relationships is shocked to suddenly see that father on the far side of the world - ends up
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(Just checked the dates - he's not in charge of HBO's scheduling, but he did manage to get the Leftovers finale to within two weeks of Lost's 2010 one.)
Re. other Bishop preoccupations: The house stuff, big as a symbol of the state of a marriage and/or family in 1 and 2, is important in the final image. And the goat and birds both work as callbacks to the beyond perfect dog scene in the 2 finale
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Lindelof is a unique case. He's a Reddit super fan who got to run a show watched compulsively by 20 million people. There was nothing to do but crash land. I laughed pretty hard at the South Pacific island getting nuked. That was like trolling himself as you said. I heard him say ABC wanted 12 seasons of Lost. Imagine that. Did you like the penultimate Leftovers that I hated so much? My problem might have been waiting a week and getting that and wanting/needing what turned out to be the finale.
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Amazing!
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This is great. The parallels are staggering.
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