The super-sized Lost finale weekend just got even bigger. The producers have so much important content for the much anticipated curtain closer that ABC have added an extra 30 minutes, meaning the finale will now run from 9pm – 11.30 pm on Sunday May 23rd.
Meanwhile, Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have decided to explain some of their high impact decisions from last night’s “The Candidate”. Head past the jump for more on that.
Entertainment Weekly have an interview with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse who explain some of the creative decisions behind outing Fake Locke as the bad guy and the deaths of Sun, Jin and the semi-claimed one, Sayid.
Cuse on Fake Locke’s motivations:
“[But] the story always comes first.” Lindelof elaborates: “In many ways, the season was structured as a long con on behalf of the Man In Black. Once we revealed that Locke was the Monster, we knew the audience would immediately mistrust him, and we would have to spend at least a dozen episodes of Locke trying to convince the audience that he did not have malevolent intention, that all he wanted to do was get off The Island. But everything he was doing was leading up to one moment, which was [trying to] get the candidates in one fell swoop. He knew if he killed just one of them, everyone would know what he was up to.’”
Cuse continues:
“There will be very little debate at the end of this episode that [Fake Locke] is evil and bad and has to be stopped. The main narrative reason for him killing our main characters is to establish how much of a bad guy he is and to clearly identify him as the antagonist rolling into the end of the series.”
Lindelof on Sayid’s arc:
“Sayid’s entire season-long arc has basically been, if you tell him that he is evil, you can convince him he is evil. But if you tell him he is good, maybe you can convince him he is good. We basically decided that in a moment of pure instinct, if he did something, if he sacrificed his own life in favor of saving the other people’s lives, that would convey to the audience, ‘This guy was actually a good guy.’”
Head on over to EW to read more from the creators and cast on “The Candidate”.
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