Despite early reports when the show was just getting started and was halfway through its run, I think most people who watched Lost pretty much assumed that everything happening on the show wasn't always planned. With the series now finished, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have come out to say that, yes, some of the show was improv while other elements were always planned.

"It was a combination of both those things," Cuse said in an exclusive interview. "There was a big, mythic architecture which included a lot of what's in the finale, in terms of where we end the show, that we knew way back in the beginning. And then, before each season, we'd have a writers' mini-camp and spend a month without any pressure of writing other scripts, figuring out the architecture of the upcoming season. That'd sort of take the artists' rendering and turn it into blueprints, and then, during the season, episode by episode, we built the structure. We allowed ourselves a lot of flexibility to change things around as we were doing construction. It was impossible to have everything planned out, and so it was kind of built in stages."

In case you missed it, Michael Emerson was on Attack of the Show last night, talking about the Lost finale. It was a good interview, but the really interesting thing was what he revealed - apparently there was a near 15-minute epilogue filmed that apparently dealt with Hugo and Ben as number one and two on the island.

So how will you be able to see this epilogue for yourself? As it turns out you're going to have to fork over a bunch of cash, double-dip, and buy the complete series collector's edition when it comes out this August. Curse you marketing!

I find it hilarious that people have bitched and moaned about Lost not ending as the "smart" show it was with its scientific mysteries and instead going with the mystical religious angle, and yet these are probably the same morons who think that the closing credits of Lost - which showed the airplane wreckage - meant that the whole show was nothing more than a daydream of Jack's as he was near death.

Seriously - idiots out there think that the whole show has been one dream and that nothing over the six years happened. Morons! Did you not watch or even listen to the finale?

ABC has basically had to come out and say the ending credits was a thematic decision and nothing to do with the actual show.

In the end, Lost stayed true to itself.

Many people, myself included, wanted to know how everything in the series tied into each other. Why was Dharma on the island? What's the deal with the electromagnetism? What about the inability to have children? The numbers? Time traveling? The ancient Egyptian themes? The smoke monster? Walt being special? I could go on and on about dozens of mysteries, but really, the mysteries were never the point of the show. Plenty of other series have come and gone, each with tons of mysteries of their own, but Lost was head and shoulders above them all because of the characters.

"The 2 1/2-hour finale drew "Lost's" biggest audience since early in Season 4, averaging 13.5 million viewers and a 5.8 rating among adults 18-49 in the overnight ratings (its numbers will probably grow some when seven-day DVR numbers are figured in). It was also the show's highest-rated season finale since the Season 3 ender in 2007.

By all measures "Lost" was Sunday's (May 23) highest-rated show, but it didn't draw a great deal more viewers than it normally does. For the season "Lost" is averaging 11.55 million viewers per episode (including seven-day DVR viewing) and a 5.1 in the 18-49 demographic, so the finale provided about a 15 percent bump in total viewers over a typical episode and a 12 percent improvement in the demo."

Jimmy Kimmel's Lost finale special was pretty good last night, but after that there was a QA with the cast in attendance that was only streamed online. If it came on a little too late for you, here's the video for you to see today.

Here we are at the penultimate episode of Lost and I'm met with mixed emotions. The end of an era is approaching and it is bittersweet. I want to know how the story resolves, of course, but at the same time, I'm saddened to see such a quality show leave the airwaves. But all good things must come to an end and this episode sets up some pieces for just that eventuality.

Could this indeed be the last page of the Lost series finale script? It could be the real deal. It could be an alternate ending meant to throw people off the trail of the original deal. It could be just a prank.

I'd tell you what happens, but I don't care to read it should it really be the real deal. You can click on over to the link provided to read for yourself, but be warned - it could be authentic.

Right near the start of this episode, the following line is spoken by a mysterious woman: "Every question I answer will simply lead to another question." I think that's Lindelof and Cuse having a laugh at the expense of the viewers.

The mysterious woman rescued another mysterious woman from a shipwreck, which looks like a long time ago. The rescued woman is pregnant and pops out two children. The problem is that she only thought up a name for one of them: Jacob. The other child remains nameless. You can hear Lindelof and Cuse snickering some more. Oh, then the first mysterious woman kills the new mother and raises the two children as her own.

You can tell Lost is coming to an end after watching an episode like this. I guess the finality of the show's impending conclusion didn't hit me until this week. Some major characters are suddenly out of the picture, demonstrating that the minds behind the show hold absolutely nobody sacred.

Sunday, May 23rd is going to be one special night - as it will mark the ending of the fabulous Lost. It's already been reported that from 7PM - 9PM Eastern there would be a two-hour retrospective on the series, then the actual two-hour series finale from 9PM - 11PM, and then a special Lost themed Jimmy Kimmel special once the nightly news has aired.

Well, prepare yourself for another extra half-hour of Lost goodness, as the Lost series finale will now be two and a half-hours, running from 9PM - 11:30PM.

Get those DVRS primed - you know this will be a night of television you won't want to miss.

It's not very often when Lost's flash story doesn't concentrate on a single character, as it did this week. In fact, the sideways reality features many of the characters in equal part and it was the highlight of the episode. I must say that lately, I'm enjoying the alternate story more than the happenings on the island. Take the sideways events this week, for instance. So much happened at such a breakneck pace that it seems like the writers realized they're running out of racetrack. We got Desmond bringing together Claire and Jack at their father's will reading. Jack could hardly handle the news that she's his half sister, but didn't even have the time to process this info because he was called to the hospital to perform surgery on...John Locke, who got hit by a car by Desmond. After looking in a mirror (as everyone seems to do in the sideways universe), Jack realizes he knows this man. This line is a bit misleading, though. I don't think Jack is remembering the island at this point, he's simply remembering Locke from the plane.

I think it's pretty evident that reviewing individual episodes of Lost is somewhat unfair to the series. Imagine a scenario where you had to review individual chapters of a book. It just doesn't happen. An opinion of a book is rendered upon the complete entity in its entirety, not by section. I feel this is analogous to Lost. Each episode is a chapter of a greater story whose verdict can only be reached once the narrative is complete. However, deadlines beckon, so here goes nothing.