Jan 26 2009
Carlton and Damon chat about time travel
In a video interview with Entertainment Weekly, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, the ubiquitous writer/producer pair, talk about time travel on the show. They say that as we watch this season unfold, we will become aware that they have been doing things in past seasons that have been leading up to this season’s events.
They say that Season 3’s Flashes Before Your Eyes (which we’ve been talking about here earlier), along with Season 4’s The Constant, were seeds that they had planted to put ideas of time travel into the show, and that this season is about implementing those ideas.
They talk about Sawyer as being someone the audience can relate to. All he cares about, in the premiere, is getting a shirt and something to eat! That keeps the show more grounded than it would be if all the characters were completely comfortable with the idea that they were traveling through time.
In that same premiere episode, Faraday says that you can’t change the past. But the writers say this is only Faraday’s theory. It may or may not be correct. So was Faraday right? We’ll just have to watch the rest of the season to find out.
Screenshot of Daniel Faraday (c) ABC, via Lostpedia
