Writers At Work

Entertainment Weekly has a short back-to-work interview with Lost writers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. They're faced with the challenge of getting to their plot-line destination in fewer episodes this season, as well as coordinating their actors who are committed to other projects filming silmultaneously (most likely not just surfing in Hawaii).

They also address the Naomi-Elsa bracelet connection. Apparently there isn't one:

CUSE: One of our first concerns was cast availability. We have one actor we very much need who is doing a play and another actor doing an HBO series. But we also have some opportunities. Nestor Carbonell, who played Richard Alpert last season, was on Cane. But now we'll be able to use him. Another unforeseen advantage is that we'll be able to respond to confusion the audience might have about the season so far.
LINDELOF: Like Naomi's bracelet in the Sayid episode. I got some e-mails from some people who wondered if there was a connection between Naomi's bracelet and the bracelet worn by the woman Sayid killed in his flash-forward. There is no connective tissue. But some people interpreted that as ''Is there something more there?'' We might need to address that. Perhaps the biggest complication is character geography. We've always known how the season was going to end. To get there, we need to have the characters in various places on the Island itself, and it can take an entire episode to travel from A to B. So we have to get people moving sooner.

CUSE: We're definitely energized. We got a chance to recharge our creative batteries during the strike. We're sort of like Rosie Ruiz dropping into the marathon at mile 21 — we're just going to run the final five miles of this baby at a 10K pace.

Glad you're back, boys.

TAGS: Behind The Scenes, Season4, Strike, Writers
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