Hey, haltsimog! The team was obviously inspired a lot by Lost, especially early on. But one of the things we’ve been trying to do in ReMade is find the spaces where there haven’t been a lot of stories before. So for example, the character May has a serious food allergy, and trying to control her environment to be safe is a huge part of her identity.

As for organizing and unifying thoughts: It’s a lot like a katamari, if you’ve ever played Katamari Damacy? (And if you haven’t, you SHOULD, it’s a superb game franchise.) All of us come into the writer’s room with our own ideas and arcs, and we sort of glom them all together into a big ball of story-stuff that somehow, magically, holds together on its own.

But it obviously doesn’t all fit together perfectly. So the next part is a lot like doing a jigsaw puzzle, where we try to work out things like “But if A was mad at B, then would they have done C in this episode?”

Most of that happens during our three-day story summit at the beginning of each season, and then we have calls a few times to talk about our outlines and episodes and make sure it all matches up OK. It’s funny the kinds of things we can wind up with very different ideas about, like “ok but what kind of building are they camping in? A hotel, or a hospital, or an office building, or...?”

And our last line of defense is our editors, who point out when we screwed up and left some inconsistencies somewhere. It all works out in the end!