Lost!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Walt is the best evidence that the writers made all this up as they went along.

Any show that knows they are going to be reshooting the same scenes over and over again, even 5 years down the line, is NOT going to cast a child. He couldn't even stay young enough to last more than a short while. As a result, we may have a split timeline but we are not going to see Walt and Michael in LA X, unless they go the soap opera route and cast the role with a new kid.

It's a bummer, since I liked their story a lot.

[Frikitiki]

we knew they were shooting from the hip. Michael Emerson was only supposed to be a short part and ended up being a regular and one of the most intriguing characters on the show.

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Frikitiki

we knew they were shooting from the hip. Michael Emerson was only supposed to be a short part and ended up being a regular and one of the most intriguing characters on the show.

I stick with what I said earlier:

Originally Posted by Me

This also speaks to what is bothering CP...I do think that sometimes along the way they've had to say, "gee, we implied this because we wanted to go here and now we need to add these things in order for it ultimately happen and make sense."

I would add that there have been wrenches thrown into their plan (i.e. Micael Emerson) that they have decided to incorporate into the story and/or had to explain them away. I also think the idea that they had planned the story from the begining doesn't mean they had the entire story fleshed out; it merely means that they had their story arc, they knew the story they wanted to tell. The specifics have been fleshed out as circumstances changed and the story was being told.




eta: Of course now I could just sum up my thoughts as, "I agree with GD."

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Walt is the best evidence that the writers made all this up as they went along.

Any show that knows they are going to be reshooting the same scenes over and over again, even 5 years down the line, is NOT going to cast a child. He couldn't even stay young enough to last more than a short while. As a result, we may have a split timeline but we are not going to see Walt and Michael in LA X, unless they go the soap opera route and cast the role with a new kid.

It's a bummer, since I liked their story a lot.

The writers vehemently argue that they always had a story to tell and that they knew it would take them 6 seasons to do it (and in fact told the network that at the begining).

Having said that, I don't think having Walt in the original story means anything (re them not knowing where it's going). The sideways timeline is clearly not a continuation of what would have happened had the plane never crashed, things vary like Shannon, Michael and Claire not being on the plane. There is every possibility that in the sideways timeline Walt never existed in Michael's reality.