"Lost" Cast to Reunite at PaleyFest
Jan 8, 2014
by Sadie Gennis


"Lost" will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a reunion at The Paley Center for Media's 31st annual television festival this spring.

In addition to the "Lost" event, PaleyFest 2014 will also feature the anticipated "Veronica Mars" reunion, "Orange Is the New Black", "Sleepy Hollow" and "Community".

Tickets to the events will be available to Paley Center supporting members on Jan. 16, general members on Jan. 17 and to the public on Jan. 19.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Lost-Reunion-PaleyFest-Lineup-1075377.aspx

Who Will Go Back for "Lost's" PaleyFest Reunion?
by Matt Webb Mitovich
2/12/14


At least nine former castaways, as well as showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, will be on hand for the "Lost" reunion taking place at PaleyFest 2014 in mid-March.



Daniel Dae Kim
Yunjin Kim
Jorge Garcia
Emilie de Ravin
Ian Somerhalder
Nestor Carbonell
Henry Ian Cusick
Malcolm David “Walllltttt!” Kelley



(Paley notes that additional panelists may be announced)

http://tvline.com/2014/02/12/lost-reunion-paleyfest-2014-veronica-mars/

PaleyFest: "Lost" Creators Still Keeping Secrets at 10th Anniversary Reunion
by DIANE HAITHMAN
March 16, 2014


Tonight’s PaleyFest panel at the Dolby Theatre was a 10th Anniversary Reunion for "Lost" — the Emmy-winning ABC fantasy drama that made its debut in 2004. Apparently a decade is a long time when it comes to social media:

Executive producer Carlton Cuse and co-creator/EP Damon Lindelof said the show would never have been able to keep the kind of plot secrets that were the signature of early episodes in today’s Twitter-happy world.

“The spoiler culture was not what it is now,” said Cuse, who appeared on the large panel with Lindelof and cast members Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Jorge Garcia, Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace, Malcolm David Kelley and Ian Cusick.

(At the beginning of the panel, host Paul Scheer called a moratorium on any jokes about the mysterious disappearance of airplanes. “Let’s not have ask questions about that because they won’t be in good taste,” he said.)





The producers cited as a prime example their decision to kill off Ian Somerhalder’s popular Boone Carlyle character early in the show’s run. The decision was controversial even back then, but at least the producers were able to keep a lid on the surprise.

Cuse said the show wanted to defy TV series convention. In an episode of "CSI: Miami", for example, you always knew that whoever had a gun to the head of David Caruso’s Horatio was not going to pull the trigger.

“We thought the idea that we could kill a character that was so beloved would give the show incredible energy, so no one was safe,” Cuse said.





A less active social media community did not keep the producers from being aware when audiences hated characters, as they did the infamous Nikki and Paulo.

By the time they were aware of the audience’s distaste for these characters, Lindelof said, “we were already hating Nikki and Paulo ourselves.” Instead of dragging their story out for weeks, Lindelof said, “we condensed that into one single episode where we buried them alive.”





Both producers said that despite the pressure cooker of producing 23-25 shows per season, they thought "Lost" benefited from being on network TV rather than cable with its traditionally shorter season orders.

Said Lindelof: “It’s easy to say, yeah, it would have been great to do less episodes, but it would have resulted in a different show. It would have been a different show, and probably not as good.”





In response to an audience question about an unresolved plot detail in the finale, Cuse was deliberately enigmatic. He compared "Lost" to “the big bang theory” — not the CBS comedy, but the scientific phenomenon.

“Every question begets another question,” Cuse said. “We just didn’t feel like there was a way to answer all the open questions without it being didactic and boring. Tell us what happened to the characters. We care much more about what happened to them.”

http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/paleyfest-lost-secrets-10th-anniversary-reunion/

Having 9 cast members there is better than nothing. It was a great show.