James Gunn Once Described LANTERNS Writer Damon Lindelof As "A Total Scam Artist With No Integrity"

@BritishMonkey - You must be new.

@OriginalGusto1 - for the throat. Lol

@BritishMonkey - I concur, BritMonkey's [frick]ing old.

@thedrudo - Sci-Fi nerds don't like the idea of a divine presence in their Sci-Fi, even if it's baked-in from the start, like in RDM and Eick's Battlestar Galactica. Those guys never once lied to anyone about God being real in that world, and yet the hardcore nerds lost their minds when that finale was a great culmination to that series.

@HistoryofMatt - I think you would find that most sci-fi nerds don't mind a divine presence in their sci-fi at all, as long as it is well written and makes sense.

@Nightwing1015 - Lost writers and producers said more than once that the show's ending and the answers to every mistery would have some kind of sci-fi explanation, like how in Jurassic Park the scientists got the dinosaur's dna from the blood sucked by mosquitos found in amber resin, they gave that exact example, and they clearly lied, they said they had everything planned and iirc some time later one of the writers admitted they just made up sh*t every episode/season with no idea of how they would explain it later.

It was still a great show, even the ending and the misteries could somehow have some kind of sci-fi explanation for all the mystical stuff, but the writers and the producers clearly lied and just created a lot misteries with no idea of how they would eventually explain them and a lot of the stuff they gave to the fans in the final season was really disappointing.

It was not as bad as the BSG ending that other comment above has mentioned, but it's obvious why a lot of fans felt disappointed, it could and should have been much better.

At least Lindelof did a much better job with The Leftovers, where he made clear from the beginning that it was a mystical show where they would never bother trying to explain all the misteries, so nobody could feel disappointed.

He even kind of trolled the Lost fans with a "sci-fi explanation" for the main mistery in the last episode, but it was pretty obvious that certain character just lied.

@thedrudo - Imagine commit to a series on the premise of mystery box after mystery box and then when it comes to the final episode, after 6 years of audience investment, the show runners go on a talk show just before your final episode and they literally tell their fan base that "if you think we're gonna answer all those question's, your an idiot". How could you at the very least not feel cheated?

@Nightwing1015 - Like I said, the Lost producers gave the exact Jurassic Park example, with how the dinosaurs dna was saved by mosquitos trapped in amber, to say that every mistery in the show would have a scientific (or sci-fi) explanation similar to that one for how dinosaurs were brought back to life in the 20th century, and that there would be nothing left unexplained or supernatural about what was happening in the island and in the show.

That's why many people thought the smoke monster were nanobots, there is another Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park's writer) novel called Prey with a monster made of swarms of nanobots, and the show had a very obvious Crichton influence, recognized by the writers and by the producers, the island with the stations and the Dharma Initiative doing experiments and all of that was very similar to the stuff from Jurassic Park, we didn't even see the monster in the pilot or iirc in the first episodes, and a lot of people thought it could be a monster similar to Jurassic Park's T-Rex, but that it wasn't shown to keep the mistery and for budgetary reasons, but when the smoke monster was shown everybody said it would be nanobots like in the "Prey" novel, and maybe initially that was the idea and the writers changed it when they saw everybody had already "solved the mistery".

And who knows, maybe that smoke monster is made of something similar to nanobots that somehow scans people's memories, thoughts and "souls"?

And then they are saved as some kind of ghosts/files in a "cloud" inside the light of the island and that is the afterlife we see in the last season?

And some of them for different reasons get trapped in the island or in other parts of the world and those are the ghosts or spirits of dead people that are seen in the show?

There could be many "sci-fish" explanations for all the supernatural stuff in the show, like Arthur C. Clark said: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", who knows if the light in the island or in other parts of the world is just some kind of energy or alien form that humans just can't understand yet, and that unknown energy has an effect in biology and physics that not even the Dharma people could have ever understood, but what most viewers thought was that the ending was just an "a wizard did it" bullsh*t explanation because the writers did a really poor job and they never really had an answer for every mistery since the beginning like they said more than once.

Lindelof himself admitted the writers made the mistake of basically lying to the fans with promises of having a perfect sci-fi explanation for every single mistery in the show, and like I said before that's why he did exactly the opposite with The Leftovers, which is basically Lost 2.0, with Kevin being Jack, Matt being Locke, etc.

He said from day one that the writers would never bother to explain all the supernatural misteries in the show because they wanted that the viewers felt like the characters not knowing wtf was happening, and then in the last episode he gave them the trollish sci-fi explanation for the main mistery of the show, exactly what he thought people would have wanted from the Lost ending, but in a way I won't spoil for whoever might read this comment without having watched that show, except to say that in my opinion (it's left up in the air) a certain character is very obviously lying, that's why I say it's some kind of "f**k you" explanation directed towards people who complained so much about Lost's ending, though those people complaining were right and Lindelof has kind of admitted it, that it was his/their mistake for promising certain things that the writers and producers never delivered.

Anyway, Lost and The Leftovers are great shows, but Prometheus was one of the biggest turds of all time, lmao.

@cadunovaes01 - it definitely is

It pretty much was one of , if not the first to start the trend of online speculation and discussion.

Plus , it has some great characters & stories to this day.

@SuperCat - You’ll never guess what song I just played.

@SuperCat - shello...

Or, something from Creed.