Lost -- no spoilers

[very_improbable]

I'm late to the party and have only just discovered this fact.

In the commentary track on the Season 1 DVD, the producers explained that the character of Jack as the de facto leader of the survivors was intended to be killed off in The Pilot by the Monster, with Kate becoming the de facto leader. However, ABC executives and advisers to the producers convinced the writers and producers to keep him alive. They reasoned that killing him off, while a novel idea, generated feelings of betrayal, bewilderment, and anger in the audience. Instead, the pilot was written in and killed in Jack's place.


I can not possibly tell you how badly I want to see that version of the show.

Comments

[strangemuses.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. It would have reinforced the idea that no one on the island is safe, and that anything could happen to anyone at any time.

Not to mention that it would have spared me from having to put up with Jack week after week. He is my least favorite character on the show.

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

I might even say it would have introduced the idea that no one on the island is safe--I'm not sure I ever felt like "anything" could happen, and, you know, that's perfectly normal for a network TV show, it just would have been incredibly neat if it really had been that no one was safe.