Cuse and Burk talk about Lost Season 3

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At the Lost season 2 DVD launch party some days ago, Philadelphia Daily News got to talk to Carlton Cuse, one of Lost’s executive producers and writers.

Carlton explained a bit of what happened in last season’s final episodes and talked about what we can expect from the upcoming third season of Lost.

“The show’s going to be about our characters’ interaction with the Others. It’s going to be more of an action-adventure year, more romance. We’d hoped to get romance last year, but the story didn’t really get us there. We didn’t get as far as we wanted in that regard.”

“It’s going to be more character-oriented, less mythologically oriented. You know, last year was sort of dark and intense and underground and in the hatch.”

“Obviously, the other element that we introduced at the end of the season was that after 49 hours, we went off the island for the first time. And that was not a casual or coincidental or random choice, the introduction of the outside world as an element into the world of ‘Lost’ is also something new for Season 3.”

Carlton also had some things to say regarding the future of Michael and Walt:

“We were interested in exploring what price you would pay to get your son back. The price that Michael paid was so extreme, it didn’t seem possible that he could remain a part of this society after what he had done.”

“He’s been banished from the island, and that to us represented sort of the necessary consequence of his action. It doesn’t mean his story is over.” he said, noting that we have not seen the last of Michael and Walt.

Besides talking about Season 3, Carlton had some things to say about the large amount of Lost theories:

“I think that the mistake that most of the people who theorize about the show make is trying to come up with a very simple, you know, unifying theory.” he said.

So while the writers have explanations for everything that’s gone on in “Lost” so far - and script coordinator Gregg Nations keeps track of the documentation - “it doesn’t reduce down to a single, simple sentence,” Cuse said.

Carlton also explained that this doesn’t signify that the story is based on coincidence:

“There are theories in physics… that govern small particles, and there are Newtonian theories that govern gravitational fields for larger objects. Those two co-exist. They aren’t unified into a single theory, but the connection between them is not coincidental.”

At the same DVD launch party, executive producer and writer Bryan Burk revealed more details about the season 2 finale:

“The hatch has definitely had its moment, lets just say it was one big explosion.”

So the hatch is gone and the upcoming season will be a bit brighter and more adventure oriented, but is everything sunshine and rainbows on our beloved island from now on?

“There’ll be a lot of love. There’ll be a lot of comedy,” Burk said. “But we never can forget that these people are in a very dark place.”

Lost Season 3 is now in production. The first new episode airs on October 4th and is called “A Tale of Two Cities”.