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Cnasty wrote:Why are you still watching Sportscenter?

The Creators of Lost Are Still Explaining Its Crap Ending

Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have explained to fans that the characters were not dead the whole time.

Speaking at the PaleyFest in LA to mark the 10th anniversary of Lost's premiere, the pair said the island was never purgatory, as widely believed.

"No, no, no. They were not dead the whole time," Cuse said, explaining that footage of the plane wreckage at the end of the show was meant to act as a buffer.

"We thought, let's put those shots [of the plane wreckage] at the end of the show and it will be a little buffer and lull. And when people saw the footage of the plane with no survivors, it exacerbated the problem.

"But the characters definitely survived the plane crash and really were on a very real island. At the very end of the series, though? Yep, they were all dead when they met up in heaven for the final 'church' scene."

Cuse also shared that Lost was metaphorically about "people who were lost and searching for meaning and purpose in their lives".

"We felt the ending really had to be spiritual, and one that talks about destiny," he explained. "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."

Lindelof 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."

Cnasty wrote:"But the characters definitely survived the plane crash and really were on a very real island. At the very end of the series, though? Yep, they were all dead when they met up in heaven for the final 'church' scene."

Cnasty wrote:Right? Who thought otherwise?

Cnasty wrote:Right? Who thought otherwise?

Weasel wrote:Is there a good place to read a summary of the last season? I watched everything but

Weasel wrote:Is there a good place to read a summary of the last season? I watched everything but

ajalves wrote:

Weasel wrote:Is there a good place to read a summary of the last season? I watched everything but

watch it

Weasel wrote:

ajalves wrote:

Weasel wrote:Is there a good place to read a summary of the last season? I watched everything but

watch it

Ive honestly tried 3-4 times. I get to the second or third episode and give up because I lose interest/forgot what was going on

Cnasty wrote:If you had about $200 to spend at Best Buy, what would you get?

And no Shel, not a gift card...but sorta.

shel311 wrote:

Cnasty wrote:If you had about $200 to spend at Best Buy, what would you get?

And no Shel, not a gift card...but sorta.

That begs for an explanation.

Haven't you talked in the past about a sound bar or surround sound? There ya go.

Weasel wrote:

shel311 wrote:

Cnasty wrote:If you had about $200 to spend at Best Buy, what would you get?

And no Shel, not a gift card...but sorta.

That begs for an explanation.

Haven't you talked in the past about a sound bar or surround sound? There ya go.

Exactly what I was going to say. Got a sound bar/sub for the living room, one of the better purchases Ive made in a while