'Lost' bosses Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse answer questions about series at PaleyFest

Lost went off the air in 2010, but fans are still wondering to this day about certain mysteries from the series. Most notably, was everyone dead the whole time and what was the point of the entire show?

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the two big bosses on the show, took fan questions at PaleyFest on Sunday and tackled these issues to try to put them to bed once and for all. Firstly, were the characters dead the whole time?

"No, no, no. They were not dead the whole time," Cuse said, according to a report from E! Online. Part of the debate stemmed from the footage of the plane wreckage that aired at the conclusion of the series finale, which gave fans the impression that the crash killed all of the characters in the first episode. But Cuse cleared that up once and for all.

"At the end of the series finale, [an ABC exec] thought it would be good to have a buffer between when you have the end of the show and when they cut to say, a Clorox commercial," he said. "We didn't have a lot of extra footage lying around, but we had footage of the plane wreckage on the beach." (They shot this when the plane had to be moved or it would have been washed out to sea.) "We thought, let's put those shots at the end of the show and it will be a little buffer and lull. And when people saw the footage of the plane with no survivors, it exacerbated the problem."

Cuse clarified, though, that the character were dead when they met up for the final scene in the church.

For more from Cuse and Lindelof, check out highlights from PaleyFest here.

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