I wasn’t going to comment on this… but I found an angle that I like! So the chatter out there is that Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia) is going to *appear* in episode 2 next season. I decided that this could actually be a good thing because it gives us yet another chance to have her killed off the show. Once just wasn’t enough! I know there are some of you out there who are fans but I personally couldn’t stand her character.  Why can’t they get Eko to come back?
Cheech Marin (aka: Hurley’s dad) is also set to appear in the episode so it’s looking like a Hurley flashie (I would assume flash back but Hurley sees dead people now so it could be a flash forward too).

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I swear, it kills me posting this stuff. I want to be there!  And, for any Faraday-tie theorists, there is a little tidbit in here for you!

Comic-Con: ‘Lost’ gives back to the fans
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Those who asked a question during the “Lost” standing-room-only session were well-rewarded.

Executive producers Damon Lindeloff (who was wearing a convention-appropriate “SAVE SNAPE” T-shirt) and Carlton Cuse bought a bottomless box of goodies for fans — think something like Mary Poppins’ carpet bag — all direct from the set of the ABC series.

But perhaps even more important than swag, the Comic-Con crowd was privy to a secret video — which will be available online soon, no doubt. The clip showed out-of-uniform Dharma Initiative scientist Marvin Candle (or Edgar Halliwax, depending on which of his videos you’re watching) urging those watching the video to reconstitute the Dharma Initiative, but all was quickly cut off by an unknown video recorder.

Here’s a rundown of “Lost” fans’ burning questions and the prizes that went with them:

Q: When the hatch imploded and the sky turned purple did the island move then? Like it did when Ben moved it (more recently)?
Damon Lindeloff: No. But something happened and that’s an excellent question.
Prize: an Oceanic Airlines bottle of water

Q: Are Jin and Locke dead?
Carlton Cuse: Jin and Locke will still be on the show in some form. You’ve not seen the last of either of those characters. You know, dead is a relative term. In the timelines of those characters there’s still a lot of story to be told.
Prize: Jin’s panda bear doll.

Q: Is “Lost” coming back next year?
DL: We’re doing 17 hours in February 2009 and 17 hours in 2010.
Prize: A “Lost” calendar.

Q: Favorite episode and favorite season?
CC: ‘The Constant’ would be my favorite episode. I think in terms of favorite seasons, the first one was so amazing and we were trying to figure everything out; yeah, just the excitement and terror of it.
DL: The Season One finale with the raft launch and all of that stuff. It was back when the show could be hopeful before it degraded into despair. And for favorite season? Season Four; everyone worked really hard. You will be rewarded for hanging in until Season Six.
CC: For us it was a huge advantage to get an end date to the show; it really reinvigorated us.
Prize: Apollo bar and an Apollo T-shirt.

Q: I just wanted to slap you around for the Jin and Sun episode — you guys are naughty.
DL: For slapping us around, here are some “Heroes” DVDs. It’s a much better show than ours. Enjoy!
Prize: “Heroes” DVD box set

Q: Are we going to get a Russo flashback? Will you definitively say in front of 6,500 of us that there will be one?
CC: We will say this: You will see Russo‘s story. But to use the word flashback would be disingenuous. We’re going to do flashbacks and flash-forwards next season, but we’ll mostly be doing something different.
DL: Danielle Russo will be in Season Five.
Prize: “Lost” luggage tags

At this point, someone asked a question about whether production would continue under “the new SAG contract,” to which Lindeloff replied that he wasn’t aware there was a new one yet — there isn’t — but reassured shooting would continue regardless. For asking the question, the guy received the best worst prize of the lot: Photographs of the actors who played short-lived Nikki and Paulo. “Who wouldn’t want that?” Lindeloff asked. “Yes, two SAG actors,” said Cuse.

Q: Do your own mothers not know how the show will end?
CC: They like to be in the dark.
Prize: A life jacket signed by all the writers.

Q: Where is our special guest?
DL: The actors [are] scattered all over the world at the moment, so it’s almost a Herculean task to get any of them out here.
Prize: Signed box set of all seasons of the show.

Q: What happened to [the dog] Vincent?
DL: Vincent made it and will appear in season five. Safe to say he’ll make it to the end of the show.
Prize: Polar bear doll

Q: Are Jack and Kate your one true pairing and will they end up together?
CC: There it is. Someone who asked a real question, a ballsy question that gets right to the heart of the story and the mythology — we can’t answer it.
DL: Sir, we can not tell you the answer to that question. Obviously we’re very invested in that relationship.
Prize: Jack Shepherd autographed doll … delivered by surprise guest Matthew Fox.

Q: Will Kate ever see Sawyer again?
DL: Not if Jack has anything to say about it! No, yes, Kate will see Sawyer again
Prize: A signed “Lost” poster

Q: Now that the island has moved, what happened to the survivors and Daniel Faraday?
DL: You refer to the Zodiac boat and the non-line speakers, right? Sadly, there is a monsoon a comin’ for some…
Prize: An authentic Faraday tie. “For those of you wondering why Faraday is wearing a tie on the island, stay tuned,” Lindeloff said.

Q: Flash-forwards, how are you going to limit yourselves?
DL: When Season Five starts, you won’t know where and when you are. The way we’re gonna tell stories is gonna be different too.
CC: We organized a bit differently; if we were constrained by FF and FB that that was not gonna be the best way to tell our stories.
Prize: Hanso foundation hat.

Q: How does this show end?
CC: It ends well, we hope — we can’t answer that.
Prize: A six pack of Dharma drinks

Q: Do you ever come up with stuff like, let’s make Kate a dude, or do you have it all planned out from the beginning?
CC: You can’t have It all planned out. We actually try to write ourselves into corners every day. What we try to avoid is filming that without knowing the answers. We try to puzzle our way out of situations.
Prize: DryErase eraser signed by CC and DL

Q: How old is Richard Alpert and how many toes does he have?
CC: That’s a really good question. He is quite old. We’ve hinted that people age differently on the island and people heal. That is hopefully an engaging mystery that will keep you tuning in. You will learn more about Richard Alpert.
DL: You’re gonna see his toes too.
Prize: A T-shirt that says: “I asked a Richard Alpert a question and all I got what this lousy T-shirt.”

Two years of drought are over! Lost has been nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. Michael Emerson has also been nominated for Supporting Actor, but where are the rest? No Locke?

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“Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy return April 24, with each series airing five new episodes. To round out the Thursday-night knockout punch, execs are (as Ausiello first reported) placing Lost in the 10 pm/ET slot for at least five new episodes.”  Source;  TV Guide

At least five new episodes = Yeah!

10 pm = BOO!

Well, for the most part….

The great, awesome, excellent, superb news is that we would get six additional episodes of Lost!

Check out this link for the update, plus info on your other favorite shows.

ABC announced on Friday that Lost will return at Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 31st.

I, for one, am thrilled that Lost is back on at 9:00.  I am also beyond thrilled that they are for sure coming back this season, even if it’s only for 8 episodes.  I’m thinking this could be ratings GOLD for Lost considering there will be nothing new, outside of a barrage of reality TV (American Gladiators? They must be deseperate) to compete against.

Not really any new info, but this article came out in the LA Times the same day as the time change announcement:

Is half of “Lost” better than nothing?

“There is a fear that if the strike continues and we’re not able to complete the season, that people might feel a little frustrated because those eight episodes aren’t conclusive,” Cuse said.

The Golden Globe nominations have been revealed. I would have liked to have seen more Lost nominations, but after the Emmys at least there are a few nods here. Plus, Heroes is up for a few awards which leads me to believe that whoever chooses the nominees at least has *some* taste!

Series, Drama:
“24,” Fox; “Big Love,” HBO; “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC; “Heroes,” NBC; “Lost,” ABC

Actress, Drama:
Patricia Arquette, “Medium”; Edie Falco, “The Sopranos”; Evangeline Lilly, “Lost”; Ellen Pompeo, “Grey’s Anatomy”; Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”

Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie:
Thomas Haden Church, “Broken Trail”; Jeremy Irons, “Elizabeth I”; Justin Kirk, “Weeds”; Masi Oka, “Heroes”; Jeremy Piven, “Entourage”

I’m not an Entertainment Weekly fan, but this article makes it worth the money. The only way this article could be *any* better is if they somehow included Heroes. lol

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The upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly has a BOMBASTICALLY cool article which is basically a conversation moderated by Jeff Jensen between Stephen King, JJ Abrams, Carlton Cuse, and Damon Lindelof! The conversation took place right here in Maine (I’m a Mainer, ayuh) in King’s home town of Bangor - just 40 minutes up the road from yours truly. For Jeff’s memoir of the event click here.

During the conversation, the inevitable happened. Much to the delight of dual LOST/KING fans everywhere they asked King the big one: How would you end LOST. His answer lays beneath the jump!

Here, in his own words, is how Stephen King would end LOST:

I would take the main guy, Jack – the first shot of the whole series is his eye-ball close up, right? What that always said to me was that from now on, everything I see, Jack’s the eye of the beholder. So I would do something at the end where I flashback to the airport when they were getting on the plane, and I would have him taken away by people who wanted information out of him.

I would have them hook him up to a machine or something, or feed him drugs, and reveal the whole series had been Jack’s hallucination, built out of fragments of his real life – people from his past, people in the airport, his father, of course, and the numbers. The whole thing would be a lot of shuck and jive. I’d make it work somehow. It would creak, but I’d make it work.

I never thought about Widmore having some sort of vendetta against *all* of the survivors.  Maybe Libby could be the link between them all?

Source: Starpulse.com

Dominic Monaghan’s attempts to clarify the plot of complicated TV drama Lost have been dismissed by producers. The 29-year-old, who plays rocker and heroin addict Charlie Pace, thinks the desert castaways are at the mercy of a bitter billionaire wreaking revenge for past wrongs. But the star’s ideas fell on deaf ears with directors.

He says, “One of the theories I came up with was that we’d all in some way p**sed off some huge billionaire. He’d managed to get us all on a plane and have it crash into this island so that he could watch us from his castle with hidden cameras and create a Truman Show nightmare for us all.

“Maybe I’d s**gged his daughter, or Evangeline’s character, Kate, had stolen money from his bank, or Josh’s character Sawyer, had fandangled money out of him. But (the idea) got pooh-poohed by the writers.”

When I read this story I thought *FINALLY* Sawyer gets to kick some butt! I very much enjoyed the first two X-Men movies (I won’t go there on the third, it was just too painfully bad to discuss here) and look forward to seeing this!

LOST STAR UP FOR X-MEN ROLE
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LOST star JOSH HOLLOWAY is being tipped to star in the next X-MEN movie as fan favourite GAMBIT. Holloway, who plays SAWYER on the hit TV show, was set to star as Gambit in X-MEN: THE LAST STAND but pulled out because of TV commitments. But it’s reported the model/actor will star in the next installment, which will not feature many of the film’s original stars, including HUGH JACKMAN, SIR IAN MCKELLEN and HALLE BERRY. The film’s producer LAUREN SCHULER DONNER tells Moviehole, “Remember in Lost? There was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the straight hair, good-looking, the bad boy… Sawyer. “The reason we didn’t use Gambit was because in a sense his persona is a bit like WOLVERINE in that he’s got attitude and his power is not quite as exciting as the others. “That’s why we went to NIGHTCRAWLER on 2 because he looked different than everybody else and he had a great power. So yes, I think we would weave Gambit within our story, (but) it wouldn’t be The Gambit Movie”. Gambit possesses the ability to charge objects with energy, causing them to explode.