Lost -- no spoilers
Mar. 4th, 2009 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
very_improbableI'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.
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.
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Date: 2009-03-05 02:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-05 07:26 pm (UTC)!!!!!
(On some level I can actually see American network TV doing that one. Rose, "in charge" of the survivors, would probably have wound up more of a secondary lead character-wise and we probably wouldn't have had endless dwelling on her daddy issues, angsty love interests and Tragick Drive to Fix Things like we do with Jack. But either way...yeah.)