Fans of the show “Lost” were taken aback this week when one of the show’s favorite characters was smoked (literally), however executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof told TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello that this week’s death of Mr. Eko, played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, was planned all along.
This past Wednesday, Mr. Eko met his demise in the clutches of the mysterious smoke monster and was pounded quite merciously by the strange apparition.
Cuse told Ausiello that Mr. Eko was never long for this world. “When Adewale came on the show, he didn’t want to make a long-term commitment to a series,” Cuse said. “We love him, and so we agreed that he would come on the show, and then we would find a time in which his arc would come to an end. And we sort of felt after a lot of conversations with him–most of which took place at the end of the spring last year–that we would finish his character somewhere in [these first] six episodes. And as we started talking about what was going to really help the drama of these six episodes, we thought, ‘Well, this is the perfect place to do it.’ As we said, we all kind of went into this [with the idea] that it was only going to be for a limited period of time.”
Rumors that Akinnuoye-Agbaje had problems with some of the cast and crew have been around since season one of the series, but on that count Lindelof would only say, “We don’t really talk about anything other than the creative decisions made on the show. If you’re hearing it from other people, you’re not hearing that from us.”
On Thursday’s Regis and Kelly daytime talk show Akinnuoye-Agbaje also put to rest any talk about problems on the set explaining that his committment to the show was always to be short-term, and that for the next two years he will be needing all his time because he will be directing his first major motion picture. He did not elaborate on what the film will be about during the interview.
Lost will feature its last episode on November 8th at 9PM ET/PT before going on a 13-week vacation to allow the showing of Taye Diggs’ new SF thriller “Day Break” in the Wednesday night time slot. Lost will return for 16 full episodes to complete Season 3 in February 2007.
Submitted by: Cougar (SoSF Staff Reporter)
Minor Request. Could we avoid the title being the spoiler? I mean did you really post WASH DIES! and then put the spoiler alert in?
He was a cool character, I was surprised they killed him off. Can we be safe in assuming the black smoke can take the form of anyone to lead them somewhere? Remember Jack’s “hallucination” of his father in the first season?
I hadn’t yet seen the episode when I saw the headline in my RSS feed. Little upset by that.
Tony: most viewers reckon the same, the Monster can take on the form of people as well as the smoke form. Remember Hurley seeing Dave in S2? Or Locke seeing Boone in S3 episode 3?
Yeah… change the title to something like “Lost Twist No Big Secret To Some”
But anyway. The monster may be able only to take on the forms of people it consumes the body of? Jacks fathers body goes missing, Eko’s brother ( I can’t recall if Eko ever saw his brother before then in a non asleep form).
It doesn’t explain dave though… maybe because they were never real in the first place the monster could take the form. The monster then wanted to get into the group and eat them all for dinner mwahahaha
>_>
*cough*
:(”
But it was a good ep; and has probably saved the series for now.
Ok… I apparently deleted half my comment
>_>
It was a good twist with my favorite character. The makers of lost do this all the time though… we shouldn’t be surprised at it. He seemed like the only character that hadn’t changed for the worse. Though they seem to be brining Locke back to the brink of insanity in a different way…
Though the ep did cause me to change my MSN name to “lost sucks and in now about trains >:(”
actually the shortened comment was better… >__>
Since, the demise of Eko was plastered all over the papers and TV news and talk show circuit and on every other entertainment news outlet I went with the title to be sarcastic – Get It – Eko’s Demise No Big Secret….
Anyway – showing I am a very caring person I changed the title just for you 😉
Thankyou Sam.
Really, you need to pay atention to spoilers. you completly ruined the surprise. And don’t forget that not everyone that checks this site regularly is from USA. Some more attention, please.
If we waited until the entire world saw a movie or program before talking about it on the show or posting a news story on the website – then we would never broadcast or go to press. There is always going to be some group of people somewhere on the planet with access to this site that haven’t been able to see all that there is to see yet. That is why we put spoiler alert before a show or post it at the top of an article to warn those who have not seen the latest movie or television episode of a program they have the opportunity to not listen to the show or read the news item.
Not much more we can do on this issue and our policy will remain unchanged.
By putting the big spoiler on the title of the news you are assuming everyone has already seen it. I’m not saying you can’t comment the death of a major caracter of lost. Just don’t give it away so fast. don’t put it as a title.
Did you read my comment (#6) about the reasoning behind the original title that was used?
I won’t discuss something that seems so obvious to me anymore.
Thanks Sam. Somehow I managed to avoid seeing/reading anything about Lost. But since I only watch shows I DVR after the fact that’s probably why.
Knowing the context though that’s pretty funny.
I can’t believe they killed him. He was one of my favorite characters on Lost. Its so sad really. Actually I posted the video clip on Mr. Eko’s final moments on my blog at:
http://www.ewebtvworld.com
Just in case anyone wants to watch it again.