You can tell the hype machine is ramping up when the show’s crew comes out of hiding and starts giving interviews all over the place. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse in particular have been showing up everywhere lately. One of the best interviews I’ve seen is a new one with TV Guide, where they talk about how they got started on the show, what their inspirations are, and what’s still to come. An excerpt about the coming end:
We developed a mythology, as I said earlier, in the first season and between the first and the second season, and we’re actually moving toward that exact end point. I mean, that has not changed. Certain details of how the show ends have evolved over time but that’s mainly on a character level as we’ve gotten to know the characters and seen how the actors interact. So there are parts of the ending that are still living and breathing, but the actual mythological endpoint has been constant since we developed the show.
TV Guide also has a great interview with JJ Abrams, though he talks more about his other projects than Lost.
Lastly, there’s one other interview worth your time, this one from TVOverMind with Lost script coordinator Gregg Nations. The interview is all about Lost University, how it got started, how it works, and where it’s going. A bit of news: Nations hints that if LostU proves popular, it could continue on past the two semesters currently planned. He even drops the words “graduate degree” into the conversation. Hmm…