
And so the writers said, 'Obviously, there are all these mysteries. Swoon x infinity, Desmond and Penny.)ĭamon added: "For us, one of the ongoing conversations with the audience and there was a very early perception, was that the island was purgatory and we were always out there saying 'It's not purgatory, this is real, we're not going to Sixth Sense you.' And we felt it too that the show had to become sort of meta in this way. We would have long discourses about the nature of the show, for many years, and we decided it needed to mean something to us and our belief system and the characters and how all of us are here to lift each other up in our lives." (Hence, the whole brilliang "Constant" concept. And because of that, we felt the ending really had to be spiritual, and one that talks about destiny. On what the finale was all about: Carlton explained: "Very early on we had decided that even though Lost is a show about people on the island, really, metaphorically, it was about people who were lost and searching for meaning and purpose in their lives. At the very end of the series, though? Yep, they were all dead when they met up in heaven for the final "church" scene.

And when people saw the footage of the plane with no survivors, it exacerbated the problem."īut the characters definitely survived the plane crash and really were on a very real island. "We thought, let's put those shots at the end of the show and it will be a little buffer and lull.


"We didn't have a lot of extra footage lying around, but we had footage of the plane wreckage on the beach," which they shot when the plane needed to be moved or it would have been washed out to sea.
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"At the end of the series finale, thought it would be good to have a buffer between when you have the end of the show and when they cut to say, a Clorox commercial," Cuse explained. They were not dead the whole time," Cuse said definitively, adding that he believes that some footage they showed at the very end of the series lead to much of the misunderstanding among fans. On whether the characters were actually dead the whole time (Since the time the plane crashed): "No, no, no.
