The Writers Explain How Time Travel Works on LOST
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Below are the most interesting excerpts from Lindelof and Cuse’s audio commentary of The Constant from the Season 4 DVD:
Carlton Cuse: This was one of the hardest story breaks on the show. It took us about 5 weeks, normally it takes 2 weeks to break an episode. It just was a really hard episode to figure out what was sort of above the water line. When we think about stories we use a metaphor of an iceberg. You have to construct the entire iceberg, but only 20% of the iceberg is ever actually seen. The same is true with a story. You have to make a lot more of the story up and you have to make it all make sense but then you just show the part on screen that you want to show. A lot of the challenge here was how much explanation goes on. We didn’t want to bog things down in a lot of esoteric conversation about time travel but we wanted to find an emotional through line. And that emotional through line became the essence of the show in “What is Desmond’s constant?” Yes he’s time traveling, yes he’s experiencing an existence in two different consciousnesses, but the emotional constant that was taking him through it was Penny.
Damon Lindelof: When he [Minkowski] just said “I was on a ferris wheel” I cannot wait to do a scene at some point in the next two seasons where in the background we just see Minkowski riding a ferris wheel and we realize “Oh, that’s where he leapt to.”
Carlton Cuse: The one thing we insidiously avoid when it comes to time travel on Lost is what is known as paradox. This whole notion that you show up and see your same self in another period of time.
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