I'm not sure if he did. I vaguely remember some kerfuffle along those lines, and I don't think he said it about anything specific like what the button's about. It's just this overall feeling I'm getting from the writer's camp, and it may be totally off.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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Wolfram - Dec 27, 2005 6:04:40 am PST #521 of 5968
Visilurking
Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 6:06:25 am PST #522 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'm confident that they have a vauge idea of where things are going, and what the button does. I'm also confident that they're deliberately being noncommittal about it until they absolutely have to, in case they have a better idea later.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 27, 2005 6:31:14 am PST #523 of 5968
What is even happening?
I think the whole button thing was a psychological experiment in the first place, so it doesn't do anything, and because of that, the writers know what it does--nothing.
Wolfram - Dec 27, 2005 6:53:35 am PST #524 of 5968
Visilurking
I'm afraid of that too. What a great pay-off to a season+ worth of suspense. Like finding a patch of dirt under the hatch.
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2005 7:34:36 am PST #525 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fury did say they had no plan.
In fact, the plan they said they had has been contradicted so far as the non-supernatural explanations go--how can they pull that out? Answer--they won't, because they don't have an explanation for the numbers, period.
Steph L. - Dec 27, 2005 8:00:37 am PST #526 of 5968
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Fury did say they had no plan.
Though they are beltless.
Polter-Cow - Dec 27, 2005 8:19:55 pm PST #527 of 5968
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aside from them saying in the meeting with ABC when asked what happens:
"That's a good question,'' they said. ''We think it would be interesting to find out.''
I think that "We" refers to the viewing audience, mostly. Even if they didn't know what happened when they initially pitched it, I think they figured it out before they broke the season, you know?
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2005 3:59:36 am PST #528 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Even if they didn't know what happened when they initially pitched it, I think they figured it out before they broke the season, you know?
Like with the numbers, or the other details of their much-vaunted plan?
Frankenbuddha - Dec 28, 2005 4:52:35 am PST #529 of 5968
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I pretty much don't care if the writers know what the button does or not. It's what it turns out to do that I care about. If they never explain what will happen if it doesn't get pushed, I'll be annoyed. But I don't care if they pull the answer out of their asses as long as it isn't lame.
For the record, it all being a cognitive experiment wouldn't bother me as an explanation.
Jessica - Dec 28, 2005 4:57:49 am PST #530 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
But I don't care if they pull the answer out of their asses as long as it isn't lame.
This, pretty much. Though there is a point at which they will have made me wait too long for any explanation to be a good one, so I hope they figure it out before then.