LOST bigwigs Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse recently agreed to answer ten fan submitted questions for Variety online readers.  No "What is the smoke monster?" and "How will it end?" were - unfortunately - not among the LOST mysteries that the duo put to rest, but some pretty amazing issues of LOST folk-lore were resolved, such as that mysterious Sawyer flashback that filmed for LOST season 2, but was never show.  Will it ever be seen?

This happens all the time in both film and TV, scenes or storylines are shot that just don’t work out as you hoped. We’ve been fortunate to have a really high success rate on “Lost.” In fact, that was the only time we dumped an entire storyline. No fault of the actors — it just wasn’t properly conceived. We have no plans to put it on the DVDs because unlike most deleted scenes, which just don’t fit into the body of a particular show, this storyline was not at the quality bar we have for the show.

Read the rest of the questions and answers here.