Lost - Entertainment Weekly Interview
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse reveal how they arrived at the 2010 cutoff date for the series with ABC and tease this season’s finale:
Why is ending the show a good thing for Lost fans?
CUSE: I think it’s a good thing because now, people who are invested in Lost know that there is an end point. You now know exactly how much story there is left. I think there was some uneasiness over the possibility that Lost wasn’t going to end well, and the biggest contributing component of that anxiety was not knowing when the show was going to end. Now, I hope the audience will know where this road trip is leading. We hope that announcing this will be really reassuring to our fans who keep wondering, ”When are we going to get answers? When will the show pay off?”
LINDELOF: Even the most cynical of fans who go, ”Do these guys know where they’re going?” — they’ll get to find out too! And very important is this: They’ll get to find out as we go along. One thing I think we have to get out there is this: You won’t have to wait until 2010 to get all the answers you really care about. Some of these answers are going to be coming a lot sooner than you think. The reality is, we’re not going to make you wait until the last episode to give you everything. Hopefully, by announcing this, fans will be signing on for all 48 episodes, and stay until the bitter end. Of course, it’s our job to produce compelling episodes that will keep you watching until the last season. In fact, one thing we discussed amongst ourselves while deliberating the pros and cons of the 3 [seasons]/16 [episodes] proposal is that we can’t have two seasons of filler and expect people to hang around. We have to start giving answers now, so the show becomes more of an answer-based show as we work toward this end point.
CUSE: You now know exactly where you stand in the story. We’ve done 72 hours and we have 48 hours to go.
LINDELOF: We’re 60 percent done.
CUSE: We’re over the top of the mountain and heading down the backside. And we believe that our most exciting storytelling is yet to come.Is it true that the season finale for this season has been given the codename ”The Rattlesnake?”
LINDELOF: ”The rattlesnake in the mailbox” is the full name.
CUSE: It’s one of those highly scary and vulnerable things: What if you drove home and stuck your hand in the mailbox and there was a rattlesnake in there?
LINDELOF: Here’s how this came about. One day, Carlton was looking at his mailbox and thinking this: ”Wow! No one would expect this — a rattlesnake in their mailbox!” He shared this in the writers’ room one day, and every writer turned to him and said, ”What kind of sick thought is that?! Of course no one would think of a rattlesnake being in their mailbox, because only an extremely sick, deranged individual would put one in there!” And it was that which made us think, ”Actually, a rattlesnake in the mailbox is the perfect name for what we’re doing in our finale.” Because only an extremely deranged individual would think of doing what we’re doing.
CUSE: Well said.Does the finale set up season four?
CUSE: Yes. The finale clearly sets up season four of the show, and hopefully in doing so, people will see there is still a lot of storytelling left in Lost and will feel really good about the 48 number.
LINDELOF: And it will make you realize that the house you are standing in actually has a lot more rooms than you thought when you came into it.
Source (and more): EW.com
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