‘Lost’ Creator Lindelhof Op-Eds for NY Times

The Strike: Day 9

For as often as I criticize the writing on certain shows, one thing the writers strike has made crystal clear is just how brilliant these scribes really are.

The latest to jump into the fold is Lost creator Damon Lindelof. In a passioned op-ed for the New York Times, Lindelof puts his mastery of the written word on display, addressing a number of topics such as the evolution of the DVR and television viewing habits, his thoughts on the future of the medium, his anger at the studios and his hopes of whats to come:

Twenty percent of American homes now contain hard drives that store movies and television shows indefinitely and allows you to fast-forward through commercials. These devices will probably proliferate at a significant rate and soon, almost everyone will have them. They’ll also get smaller and smaller, rendering the box that holds them obsolete, and the rectangular screen in your living room won’t really be a television anymore, it’ll be a computer. And running into the back of that computer, the wire that delivers unto you everything you watch? It won’t be cable; it will be the Internet.

And just as the owners of vaudeville theaters broke down and bought hand-crank movie cameras, the studios will figure out a way to make absurd amounts of money off of whatever is beaming onto whichever sort of screen.

And we’ll still be writing every word.

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