The ending of Misplaced is probably the most misunderstood sequence finale in tv historical past – but it surely virtually drew to an in depth in a far completely different means.

Keep in mind that flashback which sees Ben being taught concerning the island’s volcano as a teenager by the Dharma Initiative? You may need not too long ago seen it contemplating the hit drama was added to Netflix within the UK and US round its twentieth anniversary again in September.

The scene happens in third season episode “The Man Behind the Curtain” – and it has since emerged that this was “one of many first hints of an endgame”.

Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse spoke to EW concerning the scrapped plans in 2017.

*Spoilers comply with – you will have been warned*

The story goes that Cuse – very a lot the duo’s big-dreamer – received the thought of together with a volcano at the top of the sequence after visiting Hawaii’s Massive Island together with his household, and later envisioned it being house to the climactic showdown between Jack (Matthew Fox) and the smoke monster, incarnated as John Locke (Terry O’Quinn).

“We had been at all times seeking to cannibalise something on Hawaii to assist within the visible storytelling of the present,“ Cuse stated. ”We additionally considered the island as a personality on the present, so we had been at all times searching for issues that may give it extra persona.”

For individuals who do not know (and if you have not seen Misplaced, go watch it instantly), season six introduced the idea that the island was a metaphorical cork bottling up some very unhealthy issues that, if unleashed into civilisation, would trigger all types of destruction.

Lindelof – who adopted up Misplaced with The Leftovers and Watchmen – added: “The query was at all times, how do you principally visualise and dramatise the concept that the island itself is all that separates the world from hellfire and damnation? And the reply was the volcano.”

He continued: “The volcano had been dormant during the sequence however primarily based on shifting into this endgame, the island had develop into unstable and the volcano was going to erupt.

“We had been going to have a number of seismic exercise, and finally, there was going to be this huge struggle between the forces of fine and the forces of evil, which ended up within the sequence manifesting as Jack and The Man in Black, within the midst of magma. Magma spewing in every single place!”

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The volcano was later deemed too costly by the bigwigs at community ABC forcing the writing duo to improvise; the deadly battle ended up taking place on a cliff because the island crumbled to the ocean.

“ABC was like, ‘Guys, we love you, and we’re letting you finish the present; we are able to’t allow you to bankrupt the community within the course of’,” stated Lindelof.

Simply in case you are one of many individuals who misunderstood the ending, permit us to spell it out for you: they had been not lifeless all the time.

Emmy award-winning sequence Misplaced initially aired in 2004 and drew to a pure shut in 2010. Its ensemble solid included Evangeline Lilly, Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchell and Josh Holloway.

Discover a rating of each single Misplaced episode right here.

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