Big Worlds On Small Screens: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Lost”

~ by Rebecca Fisher

Introduction:

I well remember the lead-up to the premiere of LOST. It was something of an event. For weeks everyone had been speculating on the advertising spread over billboards and the backs of buses, all designed to resemble missing posters with the characters’ faces on them. Bits and pieces of information trickled down, most of it through word of mouth. The show apparently involving an airplane crash, a mysterious island, a twisty plot – no one seemed to know quite what...