Lost's Final Episode Extended 30 Minutes, Showrunners Explain Last Night's Episode

Tonight it was revealed that ABC has agreed to extend Lost's series finale by an extra half hour. The final episode will air on Sunday, May 23rd 2010, from 9:00pm to 11:30pm. The overrun will push back the local news, and the previously announced "Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost" post-finale special will now air at 12:05 a.m. ABC will also be airing a two-hour retrospective on the series titled "Lost: The Final Journey" before the finale.

And for those of you who just got done watching last night's episode "The Candidate", showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse explain some of the choices, after the jump (obviously – if you havent seen the episode, beware of spoilers).

Over at Entertainment Weekly, Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse was asked to explain why they killed off Jin, Sun and Sayid.

Cuse: "There is no ambiguity. He is evil and he has to be stopped." ... "There will be very little debate at the end of this episode that [Fake Locke] is evil and bad and has to be stopped. The main narrative reason for him killing our main characters is to establish how much of a bad guy he is and to clearly identify him as the antagonist rolling into the end of the series."

Lindelof: "In many ways, the season was structured as a long con on behalf of the Man In Black. Once we revealed that Locke was the Monster, we knew the audience would immediately mistrust him, and we would have to spend at least a dozen episodes of Locke trying to convince the audience that he did not have malevolent intention, that all he wanted to do was get off The Island. But everything he was doing was leading up to one moment, which was [trying to] get the candidates in one fell swoop. He knew if he killed just one of them, everyone would know what he was up to.'"

Lindelof on Siyad's Death: "Sayid's entire season-long arc has basically been, if you tell him that he is evil, you can convince him he is evil. But if you tell him he is good, maybe you can convince him he is good. We basically decided that in a moment of pure instinct, if he did something, if he sacrificed his own life in favor of saving the other people's lives, that would convey to the audience, 'This guy was actually a good guy.'"

Read more over at EW. Also, feel free to share your thoughts about this season and last night's episode in the comments below!

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