New Damon/Carlton interview: The LOST Creators Come Clean

Ten years later, they talk about their mistakes, their successes, the worst episode, and why we’re all still talking about this damn show.

Damon: The real exciting conversation happened in the middle of season three as we were begging ABC to end the show — the idea that the narrative device was going to flip out of flashbacks and into flashforwards. Once we did that we assumed people would stop asking us if we were making it up as we went along because you have to move forward on the trajectory you’ve set up. 

Damon: We did 121 hours of LOST. Arguably only 15 to 20 of them were subpar, bordering on turds. It would be great to pretend those episodes never happened, but I love the fact that we’re still talking about Nikki and Paulo. Sometimes the mistake, the thing that wasn’t good, is the thing that’s really part of the legacy of a show like ours.