Team fluctuations over the years:

• Season 1: Abrams/Lieber/Lindelof/Fury/Taylor/Johnson/Dini/Litt/Grillo-Marxuach/Cuse/Goddard/Dick/Tamaro/Kitsis/Horowitz
• Season 2: Lindelof/Cuse/Maeda/Dick/Grillo-Marxuach/Wright/Kitsis/Horowitz/Sarnoff/Kim/Lambertsen Kelly/Ragghianti
• Season 3: Lindelof/Cuse/Pinkner/Goddard/Sarnoff/Kitsis/Horowitz/Schapker/Owusu-Breen/Kim/Rosenberg/Vaughan
• Season 4: Lindelof/Cuse/Goddard/Vaughan/Kitsis/Horowitz/Sarnoff/Nations/Kim/Pennington
• Season 5: Lindelof/Cuse/Kitsis/Horowitz/Vaughan/Hsu Taylor/Sarnoff/Pennington/Zbyszewski/Nations

Edited May 14, 200916 yr by Sylph

The ending was so damn sad. Great cliffhanger though.

It sure was! Juliet. Great scene with her trying to hold on to Sawyer and Kate trying to help. I figured Juliet was going to die since there were reports of Elizabeth Mitchell booking a pilot.

Toups, are you a fan of these things Lost does like Tawaret statue, the Hatch, the Temple, the Numbers?

Edited May 18, 200916 yr by Sylph

Toups, are you a fan of these things Lost does like Tawaret statue, the Hatch, the Temple, the Numbers?

I wouldn't say I'm a "fan" - I don't really do anything or seek out to find more information on them or anything like that. But I do like them as part of the show and mythology.

I wouldn't say I'm a "fan" - I don't really do anything or seek out to find more information on them or anything like that. But I do like them as part of the show and mythology.

Oh, I don't go into those decoding-the-show discussions. Very tiresome! I just let the writers write it all out.

But I like these bizarre things that pop up all the time — I mean, for God's sake, a Tawaret statue?! — it entertains me.

From discoalan on Guardian's website, a bit cleaned up:

To the question ‘are they making it all up’ — large parts, probably, but something interesting happens if you just look at the series finales. You can see the big story arc pretty clearly. Here’s the entire story in chronological order, rather than episode order,

—In 1845 Jacob and the man in black sit on the beach watching the Black Swan and discuss how much the man in black wants to kill Jacob. But for some reason he can’t [season 5 finale, see comment above about the recurring images of black vs. white, in the series]. A war begins, good vs. evil, although we have only seen hints of it.

—An electromagnetic pocket on the island explodes, creating the ‘incident’. [season 5 finale] The hatch is built to stop it recurring. The island undergoes some kind of trauma — no children can be born here. The war escalates.

—Jacob goes out into the wider world and makes contact with our heroes. [season 5 finale]

—When Desmond fails to operate the hatch, the oceanic plane is brought down on the island [season 2 finale]. It brings with it all of the people with whom Jacob has made contact. Presumably they are here to save Jacob/the island from the Man in Black.

—The man in log cabin, previously thought to be Jacob but lets assume it’s his enemy the man in black, tells John Locke to ‘help me’. [season 3 finale] The man in black takes the body of Christian Shepherd and tells him more explicitly that he needs to leave the island and die [season 4 finale] Locke dies [season 3 finale, Jeremy Bentham’s coffin] prompting Jack to have visions telling Kate ‘we HAVE to go back to the island.’ They don’t know why, but now WE know that they are pawns between Jacob and the Man in Black.

—Locke’s dead body returns to the island. Just as with Christian Shepherd, the Man in black takes control of Locke’s body [season 5 finale] and uses it to kill Jacob. He tells him ‘you have no idea what lengths I have gone to get back here.’ Jacob dies.

Not sure where it goes next, but feel it’s significant that our characters are being controlled by higher forces. We now know that ‘Locke’ is helping the Man in Black / Shadowy figure from the Log cabin / Christian Shepherd on the island. And we know that Kate, Jack etc. have been touched by Jacob, possibly making them his guys.

Charles Widmore and Ben Linus are just pawns in a bigger game. A game, that will presumably end with a couple, dying in a cave, with a black stone and a white stone — a clue planted early in season one.

Edited May 21, 200916 yr by Sylph

From discoalan on Guardian's website, a bit cleaned up:

Well, if this is accurate, it is very useful. It gives a big part of the overarching throughline that helps us decipher all the details.

I used to love things like the statue...but it becomes exhausting (for me) to "hold it in mind" for season after season, waiting for some kind of explanation.

I think that was my problem. I expected everything to be clearly explained and wrapped up. So, I spent too much time "puzzling", rather than just enjoying. And that, eventually, gets to be exhausting.

Well, if this is accurate, it is very useful. It gives a big part of the overarching throughline that helps us decipher all the details.

I think so, too. I read this several times and it just makes sense! However, I'm not sure if it totally kills the suspense or... I just have a weird feeling after "knowing" this. It's not bad at all, it's very good as a story, but I think I shouldn't have read it and should have waited for another 8 months to see things wrapped up.

I used to love things like the statue...but it becomes exhausting (for me) to "hold it in mind" for season after season, waiting for some kind of explanation.

I love it how they stuff the show with so many things: the spinning wheel, the tapestry, Penelope allusion, Flannery O'Connor, Egyptian myth... Love it! And more because of the wide compass of it all: literature, mythology, science... Everything from every place on Earth!

I think that was my problem. I expected everything to be clearly explained and wrapped up. So, I spent too much time "puzzling", rather than just enjoying. And that, eventually, gets to be exhausting.

I did, too! But also when Damon Lindelof clearly stated: There will be unanswered questions, it made total sense. Who on Earth can explain so many things in one season left? But I'm hoping the most important stuff gets explained. And one of those is not the Island.

Damon Lindelof:

All of the character resolutions will be very defined. There is going to be no cut to black. The show for me and Carlton [Cuse] and J.J. [Abrams] and all the people writing it--it's not about the Island. The Island is where it takes place. It's about this group of people who crashed on the Island on Sept. 22, 2004 and how they influenced the history of the Island in some ways and had a very significant and pivotal role to play there. You're going to see that role play out, and their fates will all be resolved by the end of the series--that's the story that we're telling. In terms of every little bit of minutiae about the Island itself...There will be questions [left unanswered] after the show [ends].

There are certain questions about the show that I'm very befuddled by like, 'What is the Island?' or 'What do the numbers mean?' We're going to be explaining a little more about the numbers, maybe significantly more about the numbers, but what do you mean by 'What do the numbers mean?' What is a potential answer to that question? I feel like you have to be very careful about entering into Midi-Chlorian territory. I grew up on Star Wars; I've seen the Star Wars movies hundreds of times; I can recite them chapter and verse, and never once did anyone ever say to me or did it occur to me to say, 'What is the Force, exactly? Can you explain that for me, better than Alec Guinness does?' I understand, 'When are we going to find out about Libby?' That's a very finite question. 'Who is Jacob?' OK, yes, we've been talking to this guy named Jacob, so those questions then should have answers, but 'What is the Island?' That starts to get into 'What is the Force?' It is a place. I can't explain to you why it moves through space-time--it just does. You have to accept the fact that it does.

Warning: There's casting spoilers, and vague story spoilers (nothing in detail) in this clips.

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Thank you, Toups!

<p><span style="font-size:19.5pt;"><font face="Verdana">Everything You Need to Know From the Lost Events at Comic-Con </font></span>

<span style="font-size:7.5pt;"><b><font face="Tahoma">By Jennifer Goodwin</font></b></span>

<span style="font-size:9pt;"><font face="Verdana">Comic-Con provided a veritable tsunami of new Lost information, and we'll be sure to parse it into oblivion in the coming months, but for now we're summarizing the news into a quick, easy-to-read format.

Read on to find out what show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and actors Jorge Garcia, Michael Emerson, Josh Holloway, Dominic Monaghan and Nestor Carbonell revealed about season six!

SEASON SIX

• Season six of Lost will be reminiscent of season one in that there will be a lot of running through the jungle and emotional development for the characters.

• The marketing graphic for Lost season six included all our favorite characters (heralding the return of many of them) but the important thing is that the last character added to the animation was Locke, and he was very obviously facing backward, while all the other characters were facing forward. Ahhh, Unlocke!

• According to Carlton the time-travel season is over and the flash-forward season is over and they're moving on to something altogether different for season six.

• According to Josh Holloway in the press room, Sawyer will be destroyed by the tragedy of Juliet, pushing him back towards his original, more "salty" character. He'll still carry around season' five's character growth, but he'll be rejecting it. He also told us (and forgive the gross paraphrase-on-the-run): Functional relationships (Suliet) don't make for good drama. Skate is better TV.

CHARACTERS

• The extensive backstory of Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) will be explored in season six.

• Dominic Monaghan was introduced to the crowd following an In Memoriam montage of all the dead characters (in which it was revealed that Libby's last name is Smith). We can assume a return for Charlie is all but guaranteed.

• As we learned earlier this summer, Elizabeth Mitchell will appear on Lost in season six. According to Damon, her survival is contigent upon Jack's plan working.

• Jeremy Davies will appear as Daniel Faraday in Lost season six.

ALTERNATE TIMELINES

• According to a clip from America's Most Wanted, Kate Austen did not in fact kill her stepfather in an explosion, but she killed his employee, a plumber's assistant, instead. Have we wandered into alternate-timeline territory? And could that timeline possibly start before the crash of Oceanic 815? Two other videos that hinted at an alternate timeline were Mr. Cluck's (starring CEO Hugo Reyes) and an Oceanic Airlines commercial that said they've never had a crash...

• Another nod to alternate timelines was a funny fake video clip of Michael Emerson auditioning to play Hurley in 2004 wearing a bandana and cargo shorts.

GOSSIP

Carlton Cuse said right out loud that J.J. Abrams has not actively worked on Lost since season one. J.J. Abrams has always been pretty open about that, but it's so rarely said out loud and most middle-of-the-road fans are always cranking, "Damn J.J. Abrams for screwing up Lost," and it's nice to see those people proven wrong, darn it.

GAMES

Your homework for the remainder of the summer is at lostuniversity.org, abc.com/lostmysteries and damoncarltonandapolarbear.com! Go tell us what they say and post in the comments!

Gotta run to the Fringe panel now. Lots more to come. Check back soon!</font></span>

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Edited October 19, 200916 yr by Sylph

From The New York Times:

On his Twitter feed, Carlton Cuse, an executive producer of “Lost,” writes that the series’s final season will begin on Feb. 2 at 9 p.m. Remind us, who the heck was Jacob again?

According to the Lost Official Facebook page it will be a three-hour premiere.

Special recap will launch the whole thing at 8 PM.

I can't wat for season six to begin, however Lost is one series I don't want to say goodbye to