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Have you seen the new Lost promo? If so, have you managed to hinge your jaw back on yet?
To keep the spine-chilling teases going for tomorrow night's big final-season premiere, I can tell you that I just caught up with Terry O'Quinn in Hawaii, and he mentioned something so revealing about his role in the upcoming season, he asked me not to react for fear the show's producers (Team Darlton) would see. So what was it? And what did Matthew Fox say we'll find out about Jack and Claire (Emilie de Ravin)?
It is now a confirmed story that Shannon will be seen again on “Lost“. Creators slash producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have approved the story to EW, saying Maggie Grace will return to the show that killed her character in season 2.
Although spilling the fact that Grace will be in the final season, the producer duo refuse to elaborate in what way Shannon would be back. “We’re really excited about having her back on the show and we have a good story for her,” Cuse says shortly.
Like Grace, Ian Somerhalder is also confirmed returning for the sixth season. Somerhalder plays Shannon’s stepbrother Boone who was killed off even earlier than Shannon. Other actors whose characters are dead but slated to re-appear are Harold Perrineau, Andrea Gabriel, Cynthia Watros, and Rebecca Mader.
“Lost” airs every Tuesday nights on ABC. On the February 23 episode, Hurley must convince Jack to accompany him on an unspecified mission, and Jin stumbles across an old friend. Below is a sneak peek to the episode which is called “Lighthouse”.
Matthew Fox was never intended to be a “Lost” regular – producers of the hit TV show planned to kill off his character in the second episode. The actor has become a familiar face on TV screens over the last few years, playing Dr. Jack Shephard in six seasons of the mystery drama.
But Fox admits the show’s creators originally had very different plans for his character. He says, “Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams thought it would be cool to set Jack up as the hero, and then kill him off in the second episode. But various people told them they thought this would be a bad idea.”
If Matthew Fox’s character in the TV series is killed, it is likely suitable with his plan which he recently revealed. The 43-year-old actor told Us Magazine that he wants to leave small screen, saying “I won’t be doing any more television. I’ve done two six-year shows, about 300 hours of television.”
He gushed, “I’m done with that. I’m either going to make movies with filmmakers I want to work with or I’ll be doing something else entirely.”
Backing up Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof’s statement during “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” about the end of “Lost“, ABC President Stephen McPherson announced on Wednesday, February 3 that the last episode of season 6 will air on Sunday, May 23. The sci-fi series will wrap up in a two-hour finale starting at 8/7c.
“Lost” kicked off the sixth and final season on Tuesday also with a two-hour event. It absorbed 12.1 million viewers and dominated adults-18-to-49 demographic between 9/8c to 11/10c. It was ABC’s best two-hour performance since November 2007.
” ‘Lost’ is an example of what happens when you put creativity above everything else, trust the creative vision, and take the risks required to be truly original,” McPherson said in a statement. “It’s a testament to staying true to the creative vision of one of the most iconic shows ever on television, and we’re giving the producers an unprecedented opportunity to respect the fans and really satisfy the viewers with a spectacular conclusion.”
Cuse and Lindelof promised that the end of the series will be a real ending with no cliffhanger whatsoever. “It’s not like we’re leaving anything that we were going to resolve left unresolved so that people can go see it in a movie theater,” Lindelof told MTV.
ABC has released the third and final Lost promotional photo based around Da Vinci’s iconic painting of Jesus and his Apostles at dinner.
Fans have been studying the first two pictures in detail, trying to determine differences between them that might offer clues about season six. (This is what we’re left to do when producers offer so few Lost spoilers. Damn them!)
In the third, below, no one has switched positions. But a few actions are different: Richard is pouring a drink for Claire; Sawyer has turned his head away from Locke; Hurley is looking toward the sky.
Judging from what Rebecca Mader just said, it seems there’s a clearer idea of how we’ll kick off Lost’s sixth (and final, I have to insist) season.
In the interview I just posted, the girl who plays supposedly dead Charlotte said that she’s aiming for a resolution to many of her character’s loose ends, most importantly her origins on the island. But I thought, if the producers promised that the story this season wouldn’t jump as much as previous seasons, how will they do this without flashbacks? Maybe a meet-up with the current Charlotte in the revised no-815-crash storyline?
There are new details on the season premiere from E! Online’s Kristin Dos Santos, and I think it’s a little bit clear. Apparently, the season premiere will still feature two timelines–expected, since the crew have promised that the timelines will merge early in the season. But those two timelines are causes for confusion.
Timeline one: The bomb worked, and Flight 815 is happening all over again. That’s the consensus.
Timeline two: In Kristin’s words, it’s where “we find out someone we thought was dead is actually alive … in the same time we last saw him or her.” So that’s 1977, the same time the bomb exploded? Why am I guessing it’s Charlotte who actually goes back to life?
It’s because of what Mader told E! Online: “I can’t say [how I'll return], because it’s really, really, really, really, really, really exciting and I don’t want to ruin it. It’s too good to say. It’s going to blow people’s heads off.”
My guesses: either Charlotte gets resurrected (which is not so plausible), or her links to the Island actually means she’s part of that mysterious gang which includes Locke, or whoever poses as him. Wild speculation: is Richard her father?
And then there’s still the theory that we still have an Island to deal with, especially with the characters in 2007 (Ilana, Frank, Ben, Richard) still around. Unless, of course, that 2007 storyline will be reset with the explosion, and we get a 1977 storyline with Richard, and a 2004 storyline with, say, Frank actually piloting flight 815. Also paves way for Jacob’s return, judging from word that Mark Pellegrino is returning.
I’ll leave it at that, for surely I’m forgetting something. Thoughts?
