'Lost' Producers Reveal A Few Hints For Final Season
"There's a good chance you'll be seeing many characters you haven't seen since the first season again," teased Lindelof. "The time travel season is over, the flash forward season is over. We're going to do something different." "In the first season, the characters were running around the jungle, things felt intense and surprising. And we have a way that we're going to be able to do that in the final season too," added Cuse. The pair also confirmed that we will finally get the mysterious Richard Alpert's backstory in Season 6 and the character will play a significant role in the final season. How big? In a separate interview, Nestor Carbonell said that he will be moving his whole family to Hawaii next week: "This whole time I've been flying back and forth, but now I'll be living on the island with the others. They tell me I'll be in 16 of the 18 episodes." And although the Dharma Initiative mythology will not be featured as much as it was in Season 5, the origin of the food drop from Season 2 will be one of the items explored. Juliet and Daniel Faraday are also expected to return for at least a few episodes, and if we had to put money on it, as will Dominic Monaghan. Monaghan made a brief cameo appearance at the panel, alongwith featured guests Jorge Garcia, Michael Emerson, Nestor Carbonell, and Josh Holloway. Now on to the biggest happening at the panel, in a series of spoof videos, producers suggested that Jack may have created an alternate timeline or even reset the castaways lives by detonating the bomb on the season finale. The first was a commercial for Mr. Cluck's chicken as Hurley talks about his good luck since winning the lottery and recent trip to Australia, which implies he returned safely. Another was an 'America's Most Wanted' segment which said Kate didn't kill her step-father after all and merely his apprentice. However, it was the third clip that was the most telling of them all. The ad for Oceanic airlines said the company was founded in 1979 and boasted of its "perfect safety" record for 30 years -- which obviously couldn't be true if Oceanic 815 crashed in 2004. So does that mean the plane didn't crash or the island no longer exists? Producers wouldn't comment what the videos meant, but acknowledged that the show wouldn't leave fans feeling cheated with a narrative reboot that would invalidate everything that's happened over the past five seasons. "Just trust us," reassured Cuse.
'Lost' executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse took the stage for their last-ever Comic-Con appearance on Saturday, and while the two were as evasive as ever, they did reveal a few hints for the show's final season.
July 26, 2009 | |
