With the season five DVD of Lost about to be released, executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof reveal insider secrets from the writers’ room, as well as their inspirations behind the show in its penultimate season…

Lost fans seem ecstatic that questions are finally being answered in season five. Was this a conscious move by the show’s producers?

DAMON LINDELOF: In season five, we feel the biggest mistake we could have made was to hold onto all of the really big answers for season six. We wanted people to get to the end of the fifth season of the show and be more excited than ever before. And to that end I think we’re giving a lot of answers in the fifth season so that season six can be more character focused.

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