Michael Arndt, That Guy -

As A Storyteller, You Also Don't Want To Make People Feel Like They're Left Out, Like Other People Who Have Read The Book Have An Interior Knowledge Of This Show, And The Degree Of Difficulty In Watching It Is Much Higher.

I Promised Myself I Would Never Be One Of Those People Who Complained About "oh Man, Lots Of People Are Interested In Our Movie And Now I Gotta Talk About It."

I Think That We, As Writers, Get Excited By Risk. When We Are Feeling Comfortable And Familiar, I Wouldn't Say That We Get Bored, But The Energy In The Room Gets Flat. When We're Most Excited And When The Show Is The Most Fun, It's When We're Duking Things Out.

But I Do Think That, When You Slow The Conveyor Belt Down, The Quality Control Tends To Go Up. You Have A Lot More Time Between Seasons To Talk About What Worked And What Didn't Work, And Plan For The Future. And The Pacing Of The Storytelling, Particularly For On-going Serialized Dramas, Means That You Don't Need To Do Non-essential Episodes, Just Because You Have To Fill This Pre-existing Schedule.

The Interpretive Element Of "lost," The Fact That You Immediately Need As Soon As The Episode Is Over To Seek Out A Community Of People To Express Your Own Thoughts About It, Understand What They Thought About It And Form An Opinion, That's The Bread And Butter Of The Show.