Damon Lindelof: from Twin Peaks fan to Lost co-creator...
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:29 am
Damon Lindelof, most recently noted as the co-creator and executive producer for Lost, was a big Twin Peaks fan.
Here are a few excerpts from interviews and articles:
<<I remember watching Twin Peaks with my father when I was a teenager and the wonderful thing about that show was the way that it aired for an hour, but it created a culture of people who would talk about it for hours afterwards. People would get together and they would have theories ' not just about the central mystery of the show, which is who killed Laura Palmer, but about many other questions. What's the Black Lodge? What's the story with the log lady? We feel the same way about Lost because it's complicated. It's tricky. We will admit to the fact that you have to watch almost every episode to appreciate it for its true worth. If you miss an episode, you risk getting lost and I think Twin Peaks was the same way>>.
<<The show that REALLY affected me, however, was TWIN PEAKS, which I'd watch every week with my dad. He'd tape the show on his VCR (remember those?) and we'd watch the episode AGAIN right after it aired in our quest to pull every last clue out of the show. The idea of a TV Show being a mystery and a game that spawned hundreds of theories obviously was a major precedent (that's a fancy way of saying we ripped it off) for LOST>>.
<<"It was so zeitgeist-y," says Damon Lindelof, co-creator of "Lost," one of the show's direct descendants. He fondly recalls watching every episode with his father, who kept a binder of detailed notes and clues. "Everyone was talking about Cooper and the Log Lady and apple pie," Lindelof says. "Everything was so fresh . . . The vibe David Lynch and Mark Frost created was new and exciting." () "Instead of just saying, 'Oh, [so-and-so] killed Laura Palmer' -- which is the way 'Dynasty' or 'Dallas' or 'Falcon Crest' would approach the mystery -- 'Twin Peaks' went into this other realm. That certainly, in a positive way, inspires a fair degree of our storytelling [on 'Lost']," Lindelof says>>.
Are we going to create a new TV series someday?
Here are a few excerpts from interviews and articles:
<<I remember watching Twin Peaks with my father when I was a teenager and the wonderful thing about that show was the way that it aired for an hour, but it created a culture of people who would talk about it for hours afterwards. People would get together and they would have theories ' not just about the central mystery of the show, which is who killed Laura Palmer, but about many other questions. What's the Black Lodge? What's the story with the log lady? We feel the same way about Lost because it's complicated. It's tricky. We will admit to the fact that you have to watch almost every episode to appreciate it for its true worth. If you miss an episode, you risk getting lost and I think Twin Peaks was the same way>>.
<<The show that REALLY affected me, however, was TWIN PEAKS, which I'd watch every week with my dad. He'd tape the show on his VCR (remember those?) and we'd watch the episode AGAIN right after it aired in our quest to pull every last clue out of the show. The idea of a TV Show being a mystery and a game that spawned hundreds of theories obviously was a major precedent (that's a fancy way of saying we ripped it off) for LOST>>.
<<"It was so zeitgeist-y," says Damon Lindelof, co-creator of "Lost," one of the show's direct descendants. He fondly recalls watching every episode with his father, who kept a binder of detailed notes and clues. "Everyone was talking about Cooper and the Log Lady and apple pie," Lindelof says. "Everything was so fresh . . . The vibe David Lynch and Mark Frost created was new and exciting." () "Instead of just saying, 'Oh, [so-and-so] killed Laura Palmer' -- which is the way 'Dynasty' or 'Dallas' or 'Falcon Crest' would approach the mystery -- 'Twin Peaks' went into this other realm. That certainly, in a positive way, inspires a fair degree of our storytelling [on 'Lost']," Lindelof says>>.
Are we going to create a new TV series someday?