(urth) Fringe

[David Stockhoff]

On 4/4/2012 8:42 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> Jeff Wilson: Er, they did NOT plan out LOST; the conclusion violated
>> numerous statements the producers made in earlier seasons.
>
> Which conclusion? There was the part about the island's secrets being
> traced back to an eternal fraternal conflict between Jacob and his
> "nameless" brother (given that the writers are jewish I think we can
> conclude the name was "Esau" and the Jew-Muslim enmity is being referenced).
>
> And there was the final conclusion seeming to suggest the whole series was
> the dying dream of a plane crash victim, fabricated from glimpses of his
> fellow passengers and his own life.
>
> I think those two conclusions were planned from the beginning. Some of the
> rest was contradictory, resulting from some silly plot extensions they came
> up with in the final two seasons.

At least one was Jewish. Another was Catholic. I don't think Abrams is 
Jewish. Anyway, what difference would it make?