Again, it's not wholesale rip off considering they already used that metaphor to describe this very situation 13 years ago. It's a wink at best, but one that they're justified in using because they already established it's relevance in the second episode of the series.
Also, Jeanty added in the Oceanic on the plane as a joke. Go back in time and tell all the movies that use Oceanic that they too are ripping off Lost through time travel. The plane crashing is an allusion to Superman, not Lost. Jeanty just thought that added detail was funny. Like having Willow reading Wicked. It wasn't directed in the script.
So again, they're winks to Lost, not wholesale ripoffs. Which is funny to be accused of since the Lost creators cite Buffy as one of the huge influences on the show, as I recall. I mean, the creators even cited Buffy as an example of what they wanted to do and how they directed their writing staff (plus, Hai Drew Goddard).
It's just way too similar for my taste.
Right, but is that Buffy's fault? People have already noted the extreme similarities between the final season of Buffy and the final season of Lost. Plus, the Hellmouth/cork-in-a-bottle thing has been on the table for years before Lost's finale was even a twinkle in the public consciousness. Similar creations aren't ripoffs just because they're similar.
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Date: 2010-09-21 04:08 am (UTC)Also, Jeanty added in the Oceanic on the plane as a joke. Go back in time and tell all the movies that use Oceanic that they too are ripping off Lost through time travel. The plane crashing is an allusion to Superman, not Lost. Jeanty just thought that added detail was funny. Like having Willow reading Wicked. It wasn't directed in the script.
So again, they're winks to Lost, not wholesale ripoffs. Which is funny to be accused of since the Lost creators cite Buffy as one of the huge influences on the show, as I recall. I mean, the creators even cited Buffy as an example of what they wanted to do and how they directed their writing staff (plus, Hai Drew Goddard).
It's just way too similar for my taste.
Right, but is that Buffy's fault? People have already noted the extreme similarities between the final season of Buffy and the final season of Lost. Plus, the Hellmouth/cork-in-a-bottle thing has been on the table for years before Lost's finale was even a twinkle in the public consciousness. Similar creations aren't ripoffs just because they're similar.