The Official Word on the Wreckage Shown During the Closing Credits

Here I am blogging for the fourth time in as many days. I thought once the finale aired my blog postings would decrease! Who am I kidding? I'll talk about Lost as long as people are still listening.

Apparently, a great number of viewers were perplexed by the closing credits and the scenes of airplane wreckage, which prompted this official response from an ABC rep:

"The images shown during the end credits of the Lost finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the episode but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news." The statement was first acquired by the Los Angeles Times. The images were added by the network, not producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, to soften the transition to the news.

When I read this, I was wracking my brain to remember why we hadn't seen the wreckage of Oceanic 815 since Season 1. Then I found this on-line:

About three weeks after the crash, a sudden change in the tide prompted the survivors to move their camp further down the beach. Subsequently, the middle section fuselage wreckage had never been seen since outside flashbacks and then the images during the finale's closing credits.

Note:The real-life behind-the-scenes reason for this was that actual seasonal tides on the North shore of Oahu would have eventually flooded the shooting site for real, thereby submerging the fuselage set and causing an ecological disaster. Therefore, an in-story reason had to be found for the survivors moving their camp to a different location.

I hope this settles the issue. Until tomorrow?