MrJackBender

Yes.

I loved it.

And the reason I loved it was I believe it was true to the heart and soul of the show, which was always about the characters. How we live, and how we die, and the struggle to live a good life, and I know that some people were longing for some kind of convoluted phone ringing in the middle of the jungle, and it being the CIA, and there being an uber-espionage moment so everybody would gasp and say HOLY SHIT!. But I was much proud of the road that Damon and Carlton went down in the writing, which was this was bout the people. And by the way, for those that think they were dead, even though Jack Shepherd was in the same spot, looking up at the palm tree with the dog, the truth is the characters were NOT dead all the time, they really lived those lives that we witnessed. And i felt the ending was profound and human.

Well, there were numerous scenes and shots that I'm proud of and happy about, but there's one that comes to mind, during "Exodus Part 1", the raft launching on the beach, when Sawyer and Walt and Michael go off on the raft, and sail away trying to get help, the first time anyone's been able to leave the island - being a dog lover, I had an image of Vincent the dog swimming after Walt on the raft, so I said to the dog trainer, because the dog who played Vincent was not the world's most trained movie dog, I said "Don't tell me he's the only lab in the world that doesn't like to swim. Will he swim after the raft?"

And she said "If I'm on the raft."

So we shot towards the beach, and the dog did the most magnificent job swimming towards the raft, which was a heartbreaking moment for anyone who loves dogs.

hearty chuckle

My favorite flavor of ice cream - I could say, to play back on the 3 daughters, I could say Neapolitan?

But here's something that might be upsetting to people - I love vanilla. But a good mint chip is probably the way to go.

Good question.

Before JJ went off to do MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, he and Damon were conceiving of what the season, the first season, would be.

And shortly thereafter, Carlton Cuse came aboard to run it with Damon, while JJ went off. BUT during one of their sessions, when we were sitting around going through things, JJ shuts his eyes when he comes up with stuff, and he's going Well, maybe they're walking in the jungle, and somebody drops something - now, by the way, it could've been Damon, but I think was JJ, because of the answer - and the conception was What if somebody drops a flashlight or something, and instead of it making a THUD when it hits the jungle floor, it clinks.

So they bend down, and they wipe away the clay, and the dirt and there's a metal & glass window.

There's a hatch underground.

And a light goes on.

And we go OH MY GOD! That's scary as hell!

And then somebody asked, it might've been me, What's in the hatch?

And JJ thought for a moment, and said "Another hatch."

Which is very much JJ's style. For now, it doesn't matter what's in the hatch, we'll figure out what's in the hatch, all that matters now is that there's this amazing fucking hatch in the jungle, which opens up the story in myriad avenues.