Star Wars references proliferated on Lost. But more significant are the similarities in the way stories like Lost and Star Wars are structured: To provide overwhelming amounts of information, but in a time-release fashion that creates maximum anticipation. Eddy Kitsis calls this the Boba Fett effect, after the bounty hunter who has a passionate following among Star Wars fanatics, even though he had only a minor role in the movies.<\/p>\n
“You’d see these glimpses,” he says. Boba Fett didn’t even appear in the original movie, but not long after his initial TV appearance he was made available as a toy. “You had to send in four proofs of purchase. Then, in The Empire Strikes Back, he had four lines. But he made you think about bounty hunters. Lost owes a lot to that.”<\/p>\n
This is the kind of thing that made Star Wars so influential. “Star Wars wasn’t just science ?ction,” says Kitsis. “What was cool about it was, it was a whole world. And it was about a kid in a small town [Luke Skywalker, on the podunk planet Tatooine] who longs for adventure.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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