Emily St. James: In revisiting the show for [PLUG] my book, Back to the Island, out Sept. 20 (order now) [/PLUG], I genuinely became SO SAD for what we've lost. Yes, that show had some STINKER episodes, but the space it had to tell its story! The beautiful production! The ambition!!!

In revisiting the show for [PLUG] my book, Back to the Island, out Sept. 20 (order now) [/PLUG], I genuinely became SO SAD for what we've lost. Yes, that show had some STINKER episodes, but the space it had to tell its story! The beautiful production! The ambition!!!

You couldn’t produce Lost on streaming. It needed all that time and space to play and grow and be weird. Three eight episode seasons would not have covered it.

"Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" would only exist in a broadcast network model. So yes.

For every "Tricia Tanaka is Dead," there was a "Walkabout," "The Constant," or "Through the Looking Glass." Trade-offs, I guess.

"Tricia" rips. I hadn't seen it since 2010, and it's so good.

"Tricia" is one of my favorite episodes of the series. I was agreeing with Emily's point about how valuable those extra episodes were.

My bad. I got confused and thought you were referencing "Stranger in a Strange Land," the episode before "Tricia....," which is objectively not good. Now it all makes sense.

hi emily, long time reader, long time question asker. would you recommend people hold off on their nascent rewatches until they can read along with your and noel murray's new book, Back to the Island, out September 17th?

If it makes you more likely to buy the book, then yes.

oh I preordered the book the second I heard about it

I think it will make a fun companion to a rewatch; I also think it will be a fun read if you are not currently watching the show.

Their book is EXCELLENT. It’ll make your rewatch so much richer.

There's a lot about post-streaming television that's exhausting, but nothing more so than having everything on rails.

Star Trek is a great example. You don't have room for one-off episodes that focus on a weird concept like "Darmok" or have one character take center stage like "The Inner Light." You either get a season with no fun one-offs, or you get a season like SNW that's too many one-offs and few regular eps.

It was SO popular at the time - I did not watch, but my dad’s best friend is a pretty no name actor who played Matthew Fox’s dad, and when we were in NYC for my brother’s wedding in late 2008, he got fucking mobbed and it was truly surreal (and had to be explained to me).

I always remember when the back of the plane meets up with the front…and the show takes time for Rose seeing Bernard and I just lost it.

Trying to think what would be the last serialized drama that took advantage (for better & worse) of network long seasons. THIS IS US perhaps?

Like Game of Thrones, it was a very good show that didn’t stick the landing (though as a fan of both, I was big mad at the time/s)

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