We purposely design the show with a big amount of ambiguity so people can theorize about what a certain scene means. This allows the fans to participate in the process of discovery.
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I think we've made a bold choice in terms of how to answer that question. Some people will not like it, but I think a lot of people will like it, but no one will accuse us of copping out and taking the easy solution, or making a choice that is just confounding, like going into the hatch and finding another hatch.Carlton Cuse
We're viewers with control.
Carlton Cuse
The genre aspects of the show are cool, and we have fun doing it. But I am much more engaged by the people on the show, and I think that is fundamentally what we try to do.
Carlton Cuse
The mistake they made was hanging everything on the question of who killed Laura Palmer. In our show there is not one overriding question comparable to that. There are a series of mysteries what is the nature of the island, what is the monster, what is the hatch, who are the mysterious 'other people' Making sure that some of those mysteries are answerable over time is the way to prevent that frustration.
Carlton Cuse
Damon and I came up with the idea that this character would die last spring,
Carlton Cuse
The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their living rooms just about the time people are saying it. We thought everyone's expectation would be for her to have a black husband. We wanted to confound everyone's expectation. Everyone would be looking for the 50-year-old black guy.
Carlton Cuse
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