HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall has a new interview with “Lost” producers and writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Sepinwall asks them about last week’s polarizing episode.
The interview contains SPOILERS for last week’s episode and all of season six. if you’ve not seen it and don’t want to know, please stop reading…
One of the things I found interesting – and this is just me playing armchair psychologist – is that there’s a lot of text and subtext in this episode about how much of Smokey’s pain and the deaths it led to were caused by Mother’s refusal to explain things and give him honest answers. And I’m wondering if that was intentional on a conscious or subconscious level – that perhaps after six years of doing this and seeing how angry people get when you don’t tell them what they want to know, you’ve recognized the downside to that approach.
CC: We want the show to speak for itself. We don’t want to offer up our interpretation of what the thematics are of the episode. But a lot of the things you say are very interesting. But we will say this: This is what an episode of “Lost” that is about answering questions looks like. This thing is a big mythological download. Our belief is that the real resolution of the show and the one that matters is what happens to these characters. We’ve felt a desire to provide the audience with Jacob and the Man in Black’s origin story and make it not the last episode of the show for a very good reason. The show is going to focus on these characters. That’s what we believe is more important and that’s what we believe the audience wants to see. This all worked the way we wanted to. We planned it out so we could do a big mythological download episode at this point so that it would allow us to have the end of the show be more character-centric. That’s the way we chose to tell our story.
You can read the full interview HERE.
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