Javi Grillo-Marxuach on LOST

Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a writer and producer, best known for his involvement with the much-maligned LOST. During it's run, I certainly counted myself as a dedicated fan to LOST. I was also equally disappointed with its slow downfall and it's sour end.

But this isn't about that. This is about The Lost Will and Testament of Javier Grillo-Marxuach, in which a great deal of behind-the-scenes history and insight is shared about the conception and first two seasons of the show (arguably the best). This is a long read, with a load of fascinating anecdotes throughout. Here's a good one:

So the reason the hatch doesn't come up until the end of the tenth episode of the series -- even though JJ was stumping for it since before the pilot was written -- was because Damon didn't fully believe in any of the ideas presented to him for what was there.

As a writers' room, and a think tank before that, we kept pitching possibilities, but nothing we threw out ever overrode Damon's concern that if we shat the bed on that reveal, the audience would depart in droves. The hatch was pitched as a gateway to a frozen polar bear habitat, the mouth of a cave full of treasure that would so entrance the castaways with dreams of avarice that Jack would ultimately be forced to seal it shut with dynamite, the door to a bio-dome whose inhabitants could only breathe carbon dioxide, and even a threshold to an Atlantis-style lost civilization.

Great, right? All and all, it doesn't really settle any of the sour taste that may still stem from the finale but it's nice, refreshing, bit of LOST history that is compelling to read. Highly recommended for anyone that felt themselves trapped with that series and wanting to know what happened, particularly at the start of it all.