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Concerning the use of time on the show, the producers did point out that just because the characters believe they’ve been on the island for a certain number of days doesn’t mean that their record of time is accurate. They also said that the mystery of Locke’s paralysis and subsequent healing upon arriving on the island would be explained scientifically this season. Damon also said there would be more involving the new underwater hatch and more Wizard of Oz references for the fans. The character of Desmond would be back, as well as more flashbacks with Libby. Any character that has been killed will not be returning to the current storyline not ruling out flashbacks and that the hieroglyphs in the hatch represent symbols that say “underworld”. We were also told that Kate would be getting romantically involved with someone this season.


Some of the creative and technical processes of the show were touched on as well by the producers where we found out that the actors usually get a script 2-3 days before shooting a scene starts. The writers do have an end point for each season so they know where they’re going as they write the individual episodes during the season. The episodes are not mapped out as they go however, to keep an organic and spontaneous growth to the writing, which allows them to add new elements and remove that which might not be working. The producers did admit as well that the pacing of the show has been influenced by the internet chat rooms resulting in a lot of what was revealed in the season 2 finale because of fans voicing for a lot more of a payoff and acceleration of the Others storyline.


Things promised in season 3 include more of an action adventure vibe and a theme will be developing of a tale of two cities between the crash survivors and the others. There will be more exploration into where Michael went at the end of season 2 now that a link to the outside world has been established. Also fans that are curious about J.J. Abrahms continued involvement would be pleased to hear he has co-written the season premiere and will direct episode 7.

Lost creators say to expect more adventure, more Others

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If you'd planned on spending the dog days of August working on your Lost theory — the one that explains everything from the polar bear to those parka-clad guys in last season's finale — maybe it's time you abandoned the quest and hit the beach instead.

Because there is no one explanation for what's gone on in the first two seasons of ABC's Lost.

At least not according to executive producer Carlton Cuse.

"We hate to debunk" anyone's theory, Cuse said — though he and fellow show-runner Damon Lindelof have dismissed a few, including the one that posits that the characters on Lost are in some kind of purgatory.

And no, it's not that writers are keeping their options open, hoping to skim off viewers' best ideas when the time comes for the big reveal.

"I wish it was that easy. That would be great if we could actually do it," Cuse said at an ABC party in Pasadena, Calif., last month.

"I think that the mistake that most of the people who theorize about the show make is trying to come up with a very simple, you know, unifying theory," he said.

So while the writers have explanations for everything that's gone on in Lost so far — and script coordinator Gregg Nations keeps track of the documentation — "it doesn't reduce down to a single, simple sentence," Cuse said.

But if there's more than one theory at work on the island, doesn't that mean coincidence — that shaky crutch too often employed in TV drama — is a factor?

Not necessarily, insisted Cuse.

"There are theories in physics ... that govern small particles, and there are Newtonian theories that govern gravitational fields for larger objects. Those two co-exist. They aren't unified into a single theory, but the connection between them is not coincidental," he said.

(Useful tip: Talking about Isaac Newton is the No. 1 way to shut up a reporter who only passed high school physics by writing a paper about the relationship between science and government.)

Fortunately, Cuse had less complicated things to say about Lost and about Season 3, which launches Oct. 4.

"The show's going to be about our characters' interaction with the Others. It's going to be more of an action-adventure year, more romance. We'd hoped to get romance last year, but the story didn't really get us there. We didn't get as far as we wanted in that regard," he said.

"It's going to be more character-oriented, less mythologically oriented. You know, last year was sort of dark and intense and underground and in the hatch," he said.

"Obviously, the other element that we introduced at the end of the season was that after 49 hours, we went off the island for the first time. And that was not a casual or coincidental or random choice," he said. "The introduction of the outside world as an element into the world of Lost is also something new for Season 3."

And because the strongest link to that world so far is Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick), you can expect to see Desmond again, too, and not just in flashbacks.

"It would be very stupid of us to kill Desmond," Cuse said.

We'll also — eventually — see Michael (Harold Perrineau) and Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) again, he said.

"We were interested in exploring what price you would pay to get your son back. The price that Michael paid was so extreme, it didn't seem possible that he could remain a part of this society after what he had done," Cuse said, noting that banishment goes back to the Greeks.

"He's been banished from the island, and that to us represented sort of the necessary consequence of his action. It doesn't mean his story is over," he said.

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