Damon Lindelof weighs in on the Game of Thrones finale backlash in comparison to Lost, says he rejects fan service

Entertainment Weekly

“You can only self identify as a fan and write this stuff for yourself to a degree and hope it connects with other people,” the Lost co-creator said during HBO's Watchmen panel at the TV press tour. “If your intention is for everybody to love it, you’re not going to be able to do this job … When the fans rise up, they have a high-mind approach. There is an empirical belief that, oh, ‘the Lost finale sucked,’ or, ‘We are putting together a petition to demand X, Y, and Z.’ That’s not all fans. That’s some fans. What they in proportion to the overall fandom is anyone’s guess. We are living in a culture where online (people) dictate what the zeitgeist is saying. On Lost, fans demand things they wanted, but they also wanted to be surprised and that felt like a bit of a contradiction... If I woke up every morning needing to make creative decisions that make fans happy, I don’t think I can be successful in that endeavor.”