"There was a big, mythic architecture which included a lot of what's in the finale, in terms of where we end the show, that we knew way back in the beginning,” Cuse tells SciFiWire in a post-finale interview.
"And then, before each season, we'd have a writers' mini-camp and spend a month without any pressure of writing other scripts, figuring out the architecture of the upcoming season. That'd sort of take the artists' rendering and turn it into blueprints, and then, during the season, episode by episode, we built the structure. We allowed ourselves a lot of flexibility to change things around as we were doing construction.
It was impossible to have everything planned out, and so it was kind of built in stages."
I asked first-season writer-producer Jesse Alexander several months ago whether – when he was working on the series – he was aware Hurley would spend time in 1977. His answer? “Fuck no!”
I seem to remember Lindeof and Cuse saying they weren't certain at the end of season five that they would even pursue the flashsideways.
