I'm almost at the end of season 5 on my bluray mega re-watch
After watching the extras of each season, its quite obvious that the show was planned for one season only. Heck, after watching the making o f the pilot episode the cast didnt even know if the show would get picked up for a proper series at that point
So, the pilot had 'the monster' which at the time was in there to try and add layers of mystery purely to get the show signed up. The writers stated that they knew they would be on the island, there would be a 'monster' of some kind and that there would be 'a hatch' that they find. When the hatch was blown open and the season ended they DIDNT KNOW what would be inside, so the dharma initiative was made up for season two.
Season two was dharma at its high point story wise for me as it was a much more potent story telling device when you knew nothing about them. There's something so chernobyl-esque about an empty series of stations with no trace of human life. This is why season 5 was a bit naff for me (although i still love it). I don't WANT to know more about Dharma in that respect, I don't WANT to know about a guy called Phil and Horace...The Losties actually IN the initiative?!
Sawyer actually senior in their ranks?!
Back to my oroiginal point (if there was one
), it was pretty much said that the show could be wrapped up at the end of the first season if it got cancelled. From that you can only guess that the island WAS originally meant to be purgetory, but when it got extended and the internet theories pretty much guessed what was going on, the writers changed the game every time things were worked out, leaving us with bloody lights at the bottom of water slides along with the smoke monster being a bloody person
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