"Lost" scripts are loaded with F-bombs and other profanity
That's what the LA Times learned after producers offered a behind-the-scenes script-to-screen comparison. "Our favorite characters cannot cuss on ABC, so the writers do it for them, sometimes in the directions, sometimes parenthetically in dialogue," writes The Times' Maria Elena Fernandez. "The one constant is how frequently the f-bombs flow. Remember the beautiful opening scene of the May 15 episode? The one in which the Oceanic 6 are seen in the helicopter arriving at civilization? That alone had three f-words." Why all the profanity? Carlton Cuse explains: "In a network environment where you can’t have the characters say everything that they would say, we sometimes try to provide those words parenthetically so that the actors know to perform the dialogue as though they were saying that word."
It took 5 weeks to craft tonight's finale no: 5 weeks to write The Constant [ "The Constant," arguably the most highly praised episode of a well-received fourth season, saw island castaway Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) connect via his consciousness to a younger version of himself in England. It took five weeks, rather than the usual two, for the writers to put that story together, because they needed to determine its ramifications on future stories. Executive producer Damon Lindelof says "The Constant" may be the most important episode of the series in laying out Lost's rules for time travel. ]
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