On Sunday night the PaleyFest hosted a Lost reunion at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood with Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Maggie Grace (Shannon), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), and Malcolm David Kelley (Walt), as well as executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
The event marked the tenth anniversary of the show’s debut on ABC and gave the series’ cast and creators a chance to discuss some of the drama’s most pivotal scenes together for the first time.
During the Q&A with fans (the panel’s moderator, Paul Scheer, asked the audience not to ask about the missing Malaysian Airlines flight that many are comparing to Lost because it “won’t be in good taste”) Cuse confirmed the passengers weren’t dead the whole time. “At the end of finale, you had a buffer of when the show ends, to the first commercial [right after]. You don’t want to just slam a Clorox ad,” Cuse explained. But ”when people saw [the wreckage in that shot], it exacerbated the problem.”
The producers continued to defend the controversial series finale throughout the panel. “Lost was metaphorically about lost people looking for meaning in their lives,” Cuse said. “The ending had to be a spiritual one that explained these characters’ journey and destiny.”
“Obviously, there are all these mysteries, and in the final episode of Lost, we could answer a question that wasn’t asked,” Lindelof added. “What is the meaning life? And what happens when you die?”
Check out video and photos from the event below:
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