It has been over a decade since Lost concluded and yet people are still wondering how the series ended with Jack Shephard's death. However, the conclusion shouldn't be much of a surprise for co-showrunner Damon Lindelof. After all, he and fellow showrunner Carlton Cuse had planned it right from the start.
Lindelof recently spoke to Collider about his new projects but also discussed Lost, confirming that he and Cuse came up with the idea of the show ending with Jack's death early on.
"We knew a bunch of things [early on]. One of the things that we knew for a very long time was that the series was gonna end with Jack's death," Lindelof said. "That would be the end of his arc… the symmetry of starting with his eye opening and ending with his eye closing felt really good to us."
That certainly makes sense but Lindelof stated that they made sure the series would explore everything that happens to Jack between the opening scene and the last shot of the show.
"Because Lost was a show that really reveled in non-linear storytelling and liked to jump around in time, we started to become very enamored of the idea that although the final image of the final season would be Jack's eye closing, we could show his entire experience post-death in some way Trojan horsed inside the show, and how could we hide it?" Lindelof continued.
"How could we give the audience what we felt the audience had been demanding from the pilot, which is 'Is this purgatory? Are they all dead?' Because when someone asks you a question, I believe — because this is how it is with me — they're really telling you what they want," he concluded.
The final season of Lost indeed answered those questions and it's amazing that although it took so long to get an answer, it was something that everyone has somehow anticipated from the start, just like Lindelof and Cuse.
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