LOST Fan

That’s what the interviewer in this video from TV Guide thinks. He puts the question to producers/writers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, and they answer, noncommittally, “That’s an interesting theory.”

I think it’s far-fetched.

Carlton does promise that the show will answer the question of who Ellie is and what role she plays.

I think we already know the first part, who she is. And it’s not Rousseau.

In an earlier video interview from this TV Guide series, Carlton says they are approaching time travel a little differently than the way it’s been done on other shows.

Also, when asked if the Oceanic 6 are going to be using a donkey wheel to get back to the Island, Carlton says “That would be crazy. That would be saying, what kind of show is this? That would be nuts.”

So there are actually ideas that the LOST writers think are too crazy to put in the show. That’s oddly reassuring.

Unless Carlton is just pulling our legs. It wouldn’t surprise me. I think these writers might be as fond of the long con as Sawyer was, though with far more benign intentions, of course — all for the sake of entertainment and surprise.

If the Losties do return through a kind of reverse donkey wheel, then we’ll know.