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One Person's Magical Thinking Is Another Person's Cynicism.

I Stand By The Lost Finale. It's The Story That We Wanted To Tell, And We Told It. No Excuses. No Apologies. I Look Back On It As Fondly As I Look Back On The Process Of Writing The Whole Show. And While I'll Always Care What You Think, I Can't Be A Slave To It Anymore. Here's Why: I Did It For Me. I Liked It. I Was Good At It. And I Was Really … I Was Alive.

I Have Found, Unfortunately, That If I Take On Too Many Projects At One Time, There Is A Higher Probability Of Those Projects Sucking.

If I Went For A Long Period In My Life Where I Was Unemployed And I Was Unable To Make A Living And The Only Way For Me To Basically Provide For My Family Was, "hey, We're Bringing Lost Back!", Then I Would Probably Consider It. But I Feel Like It Would Be A Betrayal To The Fandom, And Myself, To Do Anymore Lost, Because We Had Such An Adequate Period Of Time To End The Show.

Hopping Around Time In A Non-linear Storytelling Fashion (on 'lost') Allows You To Bring Back Characters Who Are Dead And, In Some Cases, Buried. Now That Time Travel Is The Story Itself, It Opens Up Even More Doors. So When An Actor Reads That They're Getting Killed Off On The Show, They're Basically, Like, 'okay, But Should I Still Bother To Show Up Next Week?'