Lost: Season 3

[Jon Kano]

Originally Posted by Avenger 1) The theory that that is the monster is also fan-based as the producers have said nothing about it 2) This is most likely to have happened as it was in a pilot episode which is usually rushed and careless 3) They make it up AS THEY GO ALONG! Think they planned as far back as the first ep that the monster was black smoke? 4) LOL Lost isn't real!

1: True. But its still there. Still what could be considered a smoke cloud is seen dipping through the air and rising.

2: Rushed? Careless? maybe but still, if they are going to spend between $10m and $14m on the pilot alone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_%28Lost%29, they wouldn't of left it in there by mistake.

3) Yeah I heard they make up SOME elements as they go along, but due to the time spean in the show, the character connections, story arcs etc, I don't think they improvise as much as you have been lead to believe. I dunno if they thought about the black smoke since the beginning. I read the screenplay for the pilot where the monster was introduced, it described the monster as 'part mechanical, part biological and part gas/airborne' the gas/airborne wording wasn't that exactly I just can't remember. But I'm pretty sure they, from the beginning, they were not going to reveal its appearance.

4) Shut it!, shit?, really?