This frightening level of honesty comes from executive producer Damon Lindelof:
"Look, it would be nice to look back and say, 'We love every episode of Lost and every episode turned out the way we wanted it to'. There are sh*tty episodes of Lost that we wish we had never written (like the first episode with the polar bear?). But had we not written them we would be in a different situation now, because we ran out of ideas, we stalled, then the network realised what we had been saying from early on - that Lost needed an end date. And now here we are six years later on broadcast with a show that is - not what it once was [in the ratings] - but still performing, and we're ending it on our own terms because we had sh*tty episodes."
That's a bit of a rubbish apology for widdling in our eyes for over half a decade, but accepted nonetheless.
The final series, which should be entitled Lost: Continuously Up Its Own Orifice, commences airing on America's ABC on February 2nd. So RTE should get it shortly after that. Joy.
