NYT Article

Timetable Energizes What Once Was ‘Lost’: "Setting an end date “changed everything,” Mr. Lindelof said. “It was nothing less than the difference between not wanting to do it anymore and being thrilled to do it to the very end. It had become such an arduous task: how can we start working toward any of the things we’ve been doing for the last three years if we don’t know when we get to do them?”"