Is it true that Losts opening credits were designed as an homage to The Twilight Zone?
Abrams: Yeah, I did it on my laptop. That’s why I did it in black and white. Even the sound — it was definitely different from Twilight Zone, but certainly in the vein of it. TV Guide: Do you consider Lost a sci-fi show? Abrams: It was sort of Damon’s and my secret that it was a sci-fi show. We certainly never presented it that way. When we created it, conventional wisdom was that sci-fi on major networks didn’t exist. The X-Files was seen as an anomaly. So we kept it to ourselves in the beginning. If we had pitched Lost as a sci-fi show, it wouldn’t have gotten made. TV Guide: What do you think of the state of sci-fi on TV today? Abrams: There’s certainly a lot more on than there were a couple of years ago. I’m a fan, so the more the better. TV Guide: Do you think Lost’s focus on character-driven stories has changed the way sci-fi is done on TV? Abrams: If we’ve had influence, it’s a wonderful thing, and if we can be a show that inspires people to tell stories that are character-based
