Here is some high level info regarding the grand plot of Lost:
Cuse: We also spent a lot of time talking about how we don’t want the last season of the show to be didactic. It’s very dangerous to basically create a checklist of answers and then start trying to tick them off, because we want to make sure we’re telling engaging stories. For us really, while the mythology is important, for us it’s a story about these characters. And so most of our focus has been on, how are we going to resolve the character stories?
We really feel we are very committed to this notion of not stripping the show of its essential mystery. I mean, mystery exists in life and we kind of always go back to the midi-chlorians example [in the ‘Star Wars’ prequel films]. Your understanding the Force was not aided by knowing that there were little particles swimming around in the bloodstreams of Jedi.
There are sort of fundamental elements of mystery and magic to the show that are unexplainable, and any attempt to explain them would actually harm the show, and in our opinion, the legacy of the show. So we’re trying to find the right blend of answering questions, but also leaving the things that should be mysterious mysterious.
Cuse: Yeah, if you go back and you say, “OK, Jacob is obviously someone who was of great significance to the mythology of the show, but who was before Jacob? And then but who created that person?” If you go back in the universe you can say, the universe was created in an event called the Big Bang, but then you can inevitably ask the question, “Well, what was before the Big Bang?”
Lindelof: We keep getting asked about the final image and we’re like, “Yeah, sure, we know what it is.” But people are acting like the final image of the show is revelatory in some way, as opposed to maybe [what’s revelatory] is what happens in the first hour of the finale.
Cuse: But what’s happened is, I think people have expectations that have grown from other shows, where that last moment is such a sting. Whether it’s all of a sudden you see a snow globe [as in “St. Elsewhere”] or you cut to black or somebody wakes up and it’s all been a dream. Whatever it is, it’s like that final twist negates or completely overshines everything that’s come before it.
Lindelof: Which is amazing because the fact that people invested six years of their lives and over 120 hours on “Lost” and they’re going to pay it all off in this 30-second scene. “That is going to change the entire way that I feel about the show.”
Cuse: We hope it doesn’t.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2010/01/lost-carlton-cuse-damon-lindelof-season-6-abc.html#
I love Cuse & Lindelof. For the past few months now I’ve been rewatching the whole series from the pilot to the last finale. I’m half-way through the last season and it’s a crazy wild ride, but it’s also amazing television. I’m sure they’ve lost a lot of viewers since introducing time travel, hieroglyphics, flash forwards, and gods but personally I’ve held on tight and never let go. Episodes like “Walkabout”, “The Constant” and “Through the Looking Glass” are easilly some of the best examples of what television has to offer.
Can’t wait until Feb 2!
