Carlton Cuse
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"Arthur Carlton Cuse"[http://books.google.ca/books?id=0WYrAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Mr.+and+Mrs.+Arthur+Cuse;+a+boy,+Arthur+Carlton:+on+March+22.%22&dq=%22Mr.+and+Mrs.+Arthur+Cuse;+a+boy,+Arthur+Carlton:+on+March+22.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=q5qSUdzQD8q1rgHCqYFo&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA Amistad: Magazine of American Society of Mexico - Google Books][http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/6/5/carlton-cuse-a-carlton-cuse-81/ Carlton Cuse / News / The Harvard Crimson] is an United States/American screenwriter, showrunner and producer, most famous as executive producer and screenwriter for the American television series Lost (TV series)/Lost for which he made the Time Magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world in

2010.

Cuse is also considered a pioneer in transmedia storytelling.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11733566 Fox TV joins US networks to block Google TV ] By Maggie Shiels (2010). BBC.

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We're viewers with control.

Damon and I came up with the idea that this character would die last spring.

The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their living rooms just about the time people are saying it. We thought everyone's expectation would be for her to have a black husband. We wanted to confound everyone's expectation. Everyone would be looking for the 50-year-old black guy.

I think we've made a bold choice in terms of how to answer that question. Some people will not like it, but I think a lot of people will like it, but no one will accuse us of copping out and taking the easy solution, or making a choice that is just confounding, like going into the hatch and finding another hatch.

We were really surprised, but really pleased, that that did not get spoiled.

These guys get off the island.

I think we very much want to put those things into the show that lead to discussion and analysis and that's what makes the show engaging. It's not a show in which everything is spoon-fed to you, which is the problem with a lot of American television. There is room for ambiguity in this story.

While this episode is more on the mythological aspect, it's not reflective of a change in direction. Next week is a Hurley episode which is fairly comedic.