Hawthorn

May 1, 2009
Episode description for 5x15 - Follow The Leader by whatsontv.co.uk
'As Locke attempts to cement his position as leader of the Others, more is revealed about the mysterious Richard Alpert. How long has the seemingly ageless Other been on the island, and what is his relationship to Charles Widmore, Eloise Hawking and former Other head Ben?
Back in 1977, the survivors' efforts to live within the Dharma Initiative become increasingly perilous as Sawyer and Juliet come under suspicion. And Kate and Jack find themselves ever more at odds over how best to manipulate events to ensure their survival.'


April 29, 2009
Promo for 5x15 - Follow The Leader

TV Guide scans: The Lost finale
"In the great tradition of the show, we have tried to end the season in a dramatic fashion," says Lost exec producer Carlton Cuse, "but we want to leave a lot of things up in the air - particularly going into the last season. [...]
It is expected to leave the fates of multiple characters in jeopardy until the series returns for its final season in early 2010.


April 27, 2009
Promotional photos for 5x16/5x17 - The Incident
Anna in Cardiff, England: Please, any hints for this week's episode of Lost? Can I expect something between Sawyer and Kate?
All we can say is that after you see the finale, you'll understand why season five of Lost has not handed you Sawyer and Kate on a plate.

Eliot and Sandra: Are there any spoilers for the two-part season ender for Lost? We just can't wait! Thanks.
Sayid's wife Nadia is back in the finale. Yes, technically she's his tragically murdered wife, but still: whee! We'll also be meeting young Kate, young Tom (Mr. Friendly Kate's friend from Iowa), young Juliet, young Rachel (Juliet's sister) and young Sawyer, and several of those sightings happen because a pivotal figure in the Island mythology wants to check in on our heroes in their youth, �* la Richard Alpert's test visit ("Which of these are yours?") to John Locke.


April 25, 2009
3 Sneak Peeks for 5x14 - The Variable


April 24, 2009
Press release for 5x16/5x17 - The Incident
'Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task.'

Epidose description for 5x14 - The Variable by whatsontv.co.uk
In Lost's 100th episode, Daniel's return to the island threatens to bring the castaways' lies to the Dharma Initiative into the open, causing a split in their ranks with violent repercussions for some of the gang.
More will be revealed about Daniel's past, including how he came to learn that Desmond would be his 'constant' and quite how 'the variable' will affect the mysterious hatch where the Losties first found Desmond.
There will also be revelations about Daniel's mother, Eloise Hawking, and her relationship to Charles Widmore will come under the spotlight.


April 20, 2009
Promotional photos for 5x15 - Follow The Leader


April 15, 2009
TV Guide scans: Lost's 100th episode


April 14, 2009
Promotional photos for 5x14 - The Variable

"Was That A Bullet?" via DarkUFO: Upcoming Snippets from the Set
- Widmore captures Jack and Kate
- Juliet and Sawyer become Dharma prisoners
- Jack and Kate are beaten by the Others
- 3 of Juliet, Sawyer, Jack and Kate are given a "ticket" on the sub.
- Sayid is responsible for the other one not getting a place on the sub.
- Ben and Sun go boar hunting with Locke
- Team Locke go with Richard to the Drug Plane
- Locke takes his place as Leader of the others after a big speech.


April 9, 2009
Watch with Kristin: Sawyer and Kate
MP: Is that stuff about Skate in season six reliable?
Ummm...not to spoil everybody for everything ever, but based on reading Harry Potter up through Half-Blood Prince, I can reliably tell you that Ron and Hermoine get together in Deadly Hallows. Either that or everybody dies, but Hermoine-Draco? Not ever gonna be canon.


April 7, 2009
Mega Buzz: Sawyer and Juliet
I like Sawyer and I love Juliet, but I really need this Sawyer/Juliet thing to be over soon on Lost. — Claudia
MATT: I on the other hand have taken a shine to "Suliet," so it is with some glee that I tell you that there will be a bit more idyllic "playing of the house" — as well as a little smooching! — before the action-packed ramp-up to the May 13 season finale. It kind of makes you wonder to whom Kate might turn since Jack, I am hearing, is going to only become more unlikable.


April 6, 2009
Watch with Kristin: Sawyer and Kate; major death;: finale secret scene codename
Gisselle in Tampa, Fla.: When are Sawyer and Kate getting back together on Lost?
No time in season five, but check back for season six. You should like what you see... (P.S. Exec prod Eddy Kitsis says, perhaps jokingly, perhaps not, "Season six is free to be you and me. Do what you feel.")


April 3, 2009
DarkUFO: Late set report and photos


April 1, 2009
Ask Ausiello: More about Jacob
Question: Do you have any snippet to share with us about Lost's season finale? --Megan
Ausiello: We will come to learn that the dude who may or may not be playing Jacob bore witness to pivotal events in the pre-island lives of Locke, Sayid, and Sawyer.


March 30, 2009
DarkUFO: One More Season 5 Finale Spoiler Revealed
Jacob did not interact very long with Young Sawyer but did act as a type of conscious saying something about "I know what you did".


March 29, 2009
Ryan podcast: finale spoilers
* Ryan says this week was the last week of production on the island, they are done with filming and had a wrap party.
* Starting off this week there was a big shoot at Byodo-In Temple, Kaneohe – it was previously used as Sun's father's big estate – they were filming a flashback for Sun and Jin's giant wedding (Mr Paik's family, kids, grandparents, a lot of extras).
* Later that week they returned to the Police beach at Papailoa – the original beach camp – E.B. from Colorado was on her Lost tour and got to watch a bit of filming but couldn't get very close. She saw most of the Dharma living Losties there – Sayid, Juliet and Miles. A security guard told her Rose and Bernard were there.
* Next shoot – a pedestrian, kind of outdoor street scene with Terry O'Quinn who was all beat up.
* Finally, a tantalizing shoot at a church in Ewa villages - Kanhean and Roxy collected some intel– it was a double funeral, there were two caskets, two hearses – it was the funeral for Sawyer's parents. The key event is who young Sawyer meets there – Jacob.


March 28, 2009
The Odi: Season 5 Finale Spoilers Clue Solved
As many of you have suspected and speculated, Pellegrino is indeed going to portray the infamous Jacob!!
Also as far as the Astrix clue goes, like all of you suspected, the answer is indeed:
"Young James meets Jacob at his dad's funeral."
As a matter of fact our source went as far to say Sawyer, so it is not another James. Additionally, the scene is a flashback and takes place in a church, so I assume it is an off island scene.

Filming report for 5x16/5x17 - The Incident
'Hi! On my way home today, I came across the Lost crew filming a scene outside Ewa Community church. There were people dressed in their black attire surrounding the backside of a hearse. I was going the opposite direction so I didn't make out who was in that scene. Sorry not that much info.'


March 27, 2009
Ask Ausiello: Jacob meeting the Losties?
Fact: Dexter alum Mark Pellegrino (he played Rita's abusive ex) has been cast on Lost in a pivotal role, multiple sources confirm to me exclusively.
Unconfirmed scuttlebutt: He's playing Jacob in an off-island, circa-'70s flashback involving some very familiar faces!
Fact: He turns up in the season finale.
Unconfirmed scuttlebutt: One of those familiar faces is *a****!

Spoiler clue for 5x16/5x17 - The Incident
Young ***** meets ***** at *** dad's funeral.


March 26, 2009
Set photos for 5x16/5x17 - The Incident: Josh, Elizabeth and Evangeline

Snippets for 5x16/5x17 - The Incident
- There will be an assault against Dharma.
- They will attack the latest Dharma station that is under construction


March 25, 2009
Watch with Kristin: What's to come for the quadrangle
# Juliet & Sawyer: Going strong. Season five is Lost's bizarroverse season, and Lost will devote a lot of screen time to the left-field pairing of Suliet through the end of the year.
# Sawyer & Kate: Over the next batch of eps, Sawyer and Kate get under each other's skin but probably don't actually get into each other's pants. (That's OK, Skaters—there's always fanfic.)


March 22, 2009
Ryan Podcast | Summary by Misty
On Friday 13 Lost was filming at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum at Peart Harbour. It was used previously as the interior of the Galaga, the Dharma Initiative's submarine that the Others take over. On the set were Josh Holloway, Jeremy Davies, Evangeline Lilly and Elizabeth Mitchell. There was also a young girl – in fact it was young Charlotte. There were some other folks there. Kate and Sawyer were in their jumpsuits, but Juliet was wearing her civilian clothes. There were other extras there with name tags we've seen in the background before (Casey, Donna). But the key to the scene, the primary centrepiece of the scene was a fight sequence that leaves Sawyer pretty badly bloodied.


March 19, 2009
Press release for 5x15 - Follow The Leader
'Jack and Kate find themselves at odds over the direction to take to save their fellow island survivors, Locke further solidifies his stance as leader of "The Others," and Sawyer and Juliet come under scrutiny from the Dharma Initiative.'

Press release for 5x14 - The Variable
'On the 100th episode milestone for the series, the time of reckoning has begun when Daniel Faraday comes clean regarding what he knows about the island.'

Lost Redux: Welcome, New Recruits!
WHAT'S TO COME
The love polygon lives. Sawyer and Juliet appear to be settled down, domestic and altogether fuzzy-wuzzy, but they have some struggles ahead. And don't forget, as Sawyer announced in season one, "It's about bunnies," and the newly released Geronimo Jackson album cover agrees with him. And you know what bunnies like to do, right?


March 18, 2009
USA TODAY: For the near future 'Lost' will settle in the past
Starting next week, the show returns to its original format, each episode built around a single character with the back story in flashbacks.
The show "becomes a lot more character-centric," Lindelof says. "For those people who were more confused or scratching their heads" at the time-traveling, "it's sort of normalized."
A major focus is the new love triangle of Kate, Sawyer and Juliet. Juliet is living with Sawyer, mysteriously known as LaFleur, Dharma's tan-jumpsuited security chief, in the '70s. "Juliet's aware that Kate's return will cause problems," Cuse says. Yet Jack, who vied with Sawyer for Kate and was engaged to her off the island — still carries a torch.
But Lindelof, conceding viewers were frustrated, likens Lost to coursework: "College gets harder as you go on, and you're now taking Advanced Lost." For those who follow the drama for its rich character entanglements, "all that really matters is that (Sawyer) likes Juliet, Juliet likes him and now Kate is back. But the real hardcore fans want mythology.


March 17, 2009
Matt Mitovich: Will Lost's Juliet Find Herself Betrayed by Sawyer?
TVGuide.com: What went through your mind as you learned of the Juliet-Sawyer love story?
Mitchell: There's my initial feelings, my middle feelings, and then my feelings now. At first, Josh [Holloway] and I were like, "Nuh-uh! That's never going to work!"
TVGuide.com: But surely you had an inkling they'd go that way, after the storylines got split.
Mitchell: I think I even said, "I don't think that sounds like a very good idea at all." But then as the season went along, I realized there were these little asides and glances... Both Josh and I were like, "We don't know about this." But luckily — and I mean this very, very sincerely — it became something I'm very happy with. Josh turned to me the other day and said, "Hey, that's pretty good huh?" I said, "Yeah, it kinda works!"
TVGuide.com: Has it been in the back of Juliet's head that Kate could return to the island someday?
Mitchell: Yeah, I do think it's been there. But I also think that at some point in time, because three years is so long, she actually came to believe that maybe this might work. Maybe that came to her just in the last two months before [Kate, Jack et al] showed up, but for the first time in her life there was a grain of hope. So I think that it's very sad for her.
TVGuide.com: Does any insecurity register on Juliet when she first learns Kate is back?
Mitchell: I think so. Juliet is torn in a lot of different directions. She's torn that Kate is there, I think she's torn over how Sawyer is going to respond to it.... It's very telling that he doesn't saying anything at first about Kate being there. Juliet's just busy reading him, but of course there must be massive worry about [Kate's return].
TVGuide.com: What are Juliet's priorities now?
Mitchell: Juliet has a couple of priorities, one of which of course is being in love, and that's figuring quite heavily in the writers' minds. And there's always the thing of, "How do I get my life back? How do I keep my sister and her child safe?" They are in this eye of the storm, this little hiatus, and that's new for her. Good lord, she's working in the motor pool, so she's not even trying to save lives! For the first time in her life, she's quite peaceful and living. Now it's becoming a matter of survival again.

TV Guide scans: "A baby for Sawyer and Juliet?" / "Lost's Romeo and Juliet"


March 16, 2009
Watch with Kristin spoiler chat: Sawyer is safe
Don in Dallas: Kristin, are they killing off Sawyer on Lost?
Yes, they're killing Sawyer off Lost. Other season finale deaths to expect this year: A depressed McDreamy commits surgical hara-kiri with a scalpel on Grey's Anatomy, Blair uses thallium poison to kill Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl, and Jon Stewart is being written out of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. (Sorry for the bad joke.) To my own personal knowledge, Josh Holloway is not going anywhere (swear). However, it is possible there is a death I don't know about..

DarkUFO: title for episode 5x16/5x17: The Incident


March 14, 2009
Photo of Josh with a fan at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum | more photos


March 9, 2009
Watch with Kristin Spoiler Chat: Sawyer/Kate & Sawyer/Juliet
Sydney in Hollister, Calif.: Kristin! I need some serious solace! As an avid Skater I've been at a loss for what to think this season. Jack and Kate? Sawyer and Juliet? Please tell me that all will be right in the world again when Sawyer is reunited with his true love, Freckles!
Hoping this will help: In this week's Lost podcast, Josh Holloway talks about his messy love quadrangle on the Island. After conning his way into New Otherton Josh says, "He's actually found a life that is more fulfilling than any of his past adult life, so it's become his reality. The con has become the reality that is a better reality than reality." Were any of you following that? Does this mean Sawyer and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) are going to stay together in Dharmaville? Josh adds, "When he jumped out of the helicopter, that was his ultimate sacrifice to love." Loving which one? Hit the comments with your vote: Kate or Juliet.

Cating calls for episodes 5x16/5x17: Captain Bird; Doug, young Jeff

[DOUG] Caucasian, 40s. Charismatic, soft southern accent. Strong and authoritative but knows how to deliver bad news smoothly. Deals bad news to his buddy with empathy. NICE CO-STAR. || Confidence Man scrip: Doug is Sawyer's uncle

[YOUNG JEFF] Caucasian. 8 to 10 years-old, blonde hair, soft southern accent if possible. Hazel/Light brown eyes. Gone through much in his young life. Anger hides a deep pain. He's a tough kid with a wounded heart. NICO-STAR.


March 6, 2009
Casting calls for episode 5x16/5x17: young Emily; young Bob; Mr. Springer


March 5, 2009
Official Lost Videopodcast for LaFleur
'Josh Holloway ponders Sawyer's con-within-a-con; EPs Damon & Carlton take a new fan question. Namaste airs Wed., March 18th.'


March 3, 2009
Casting calls for eps 5x16/5x17: young Nathalie; young Donna; Alice

DArkUFO: title for episode 5x15 - Follow The Leader


February 26, 2009
Casting call for 5x15/5x16: Mitch


February 25, 2009
Casting call for 5x16/5x17: Jason and Samuel


February 20, 2009
TV Guide's Getting Lost video: Reassurance for Sawyer fans
'For Sawyer fans who fear he'll get less screentime now that Jack is back.
Carlton: Sawyer's exasperation with his circumstances is fun part of the story. He's really involve din the show this year so thos eof you who are Sawyer fans out there will get a lot of Sawyer this year. He's really good and has a lot to do.'


February 16, 2009
SFX Magazine scans (Josh, MF, EL, JG, HIC, ME)


February 12, 2009
Titles for episodes 5x13 and 5x14


February 10, 2009
The Daily Beast: Michael Emerson Interview
Do you think Ben is aware or conscious at all of the whole Kate-Sawyer-Jack-Juliet love quadrangle?
Ben is keenly aware of everything that goes on around him that is of a psychological nature. He’s already made mental notes, made computations, and played out a variety of fictitious scenarios based on that information and [is] seeing how it can be used to good effect. So, yes, we will visit that theme at some point.


February 9, 2009
Interview with Sky One's Iain Lee | recap by misteriosa

Ryan's Podcast | recap by misteriosa
'First, he caught them filming at Manoa Falls on Wedensday – he saw a newer Dharma van. They were working down below the Pradise Park facility where the Orchid station and cages were.
The next two days were even more interesting. He headed out to camp Erdman - Othersville and this time it was all worn out, all torn and dirty. They had reported about the Losties being there in Dharma jumpsuits but this time they are there as if a lot of time has passed since, perhaps this is in future. Now there was a broken down Dharma van. He thought he also saw Claire's house – it's back but still blown up.
Matthew Fox was there, still clean shaven but looking a little more shaggy than usual. He mentions hair growth.
Josh Holloway was also there, as well as some extras with guns – somebody suggested Sawyer was being held captive and Chris watched a scene where Sawyer was taking out one of the cabins and while he's there a little kid comes up and gives him something that loosk like a notebook.'


Entertainment Weekly: Digging Inside Season 5
'And inside a large soundstage, hidden away from prying eyes, Lost's iconic castaways are huddled on a top secret set, trying very hard not to totally spaz out. The action being shot for the year's 12th episode is almost spoilerifically indescribable, but we can report — perhaps to your great relief — that most of the gang is back on the Island after an early sweep of time-travel episodes that kept many of them separated by distance and history. Jack (Matthew Fox) sits tense and terse, dressed as...uh...can't say. Sawyer (Josh Holloway) bursts through a door, freaking out over...someone. Someone who is bleeding. A lot. As Kate (Evangeline Lilly) eyeballs both her men, trying as always to decide between them, psychic hustler Miles Straume (Ken Leung) cradles a shotgun while fretting about — and we think we're getting this right — the catastrophic collapse of the space-time continuum! (Or maybe he said ''the economy.'' Same difference, though, right?)'
[...]
'As for Lindelof and Cuse, they're channeling all their energies squarely onto the Island. ''We feel like the audience will be really clamoring to get back to the Island after these first seven episodes,'' says Lindelof. ''And they'll get a big massive dose of it for pretty much the remainder of the season.'' The next four episodes will tell the story of how exactly the Oceanic 6 get back (and which of them, too), as well as how the Left Behinders on the Island get their crazy quantum merry-go-round to stop spinning before it kills them'
[...]
'Once Oceanic 6 folk are back in the jungle, Lost will begin to shift back to character-centric episodes with off-Island flashbacks/flash-forwards. And episode 12 is a big one for Kate. ''Season 5 is about do they or don't they make it back to the Island, and every character has their reasons,'' explains Lilly. ''This is the episode where we understand the decision Kate has made. There's so much more than meets the eye.'' While Kate comes into focus, Jack will gain strength and start seeking his true destiny — good news for those not fond of Doc Shephard's despairing, hero-resisting, mangy-chin-bush-wearing shame spiral. ''I've always believed part of what was destroying him was his lack of physical proximity to the Island,'' says Fox. ''He is fated to do something on the Island, and he has fought that with every fiber of his body, and in doing that, the Island is destroying him from afar. When he finds himself back in this place, he's wide-eyed and alert. He knows he's in the path of his own destiny.''
Jack's rejuvenation may also involve renewed romance with Kate, though Kate-whipped Sawyer could put up a fight — presuming he hasn't fallen for Juliet. Or someone else: The Island's female hottie population is set to increase later this season with the addition of 24's Reiko Aylesworth and New Amsterdam's Zuleikha Robinson. Despite last year's helicopter kiss-and-whisper between Kate and Sawyer (contents of said whisper will be revealed soon), Lilly believes that the audience is rooting for Kate and Jack. ''But I could be completely wrong!'' she laughs. ''What I've noticed is that the audience tends to root for the coupling that gets the most screen time — and right now, what they're seeing is Kate and Jack.''
[...]
'Lindelof teases that the sci-fi-heavy season 5 (which includes more Smokey, four-toed statue, and numbers intrigue) ''sets up where we need to go in season 6, which will be much more grounded and character-centric than it is this year.''


February 3, 2009
Casting call for 5x14 - The Variable: George


January 29, 2009
Casting call for 5x14 - The Variable: Sophie


January 28, 2009
Lost Redux: Will Sawyer and Juliet Hook Up?
How would you describe the Kate-Sawyer-Jack love triangle storyline this season? Is it given much prominence, or are you pulling away from that a little bit?
Carlton Cuse: Not at all. I think we're always trying to find the balance between character-based stories and mythology-based stories, and I think it'd be better to categorize it as a quadrangle. Juliet is very much in the middle of that. In fact, Sawyer and Juliet were last seen together on the Island, and Kate and Jack were off the Island, so that's something that is interesting to us and we will explore. It very much is a quadrangle.
Damon Lindelof: What's cool about the show this year is that we're kind of picking up both stories exactly where we left off. On the Island there's been this big flash of light, and Sawyer and Juliet are standing there on the beach having just seen the freighter explode. For those guys, Kate just left on the chopper five minutes ago...[but] for Kate and Jack, they were engaged, they broke up, she went on trial, he got addicted to pills, he grew a horrible beard...


Matt Mitovich interviews Cuse and Lindelof
Here in Episode 1, I ask executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse if the time-tripping remaining castaways are at risk of running into their "younger selves." The answer? "The characters are trying to avoid [that]," says Cuse, "but they may encounter other iterations of themselves."


January 25, 2009
Sky One: Lost on Location - Part I | Part II | Part III


January 22, 2009
The Boston Globe: Planning ahead, to the end of 'Lost'
One character moving back to center stage in this penultimate season is Josh Holloway's nickname-bestowing Sawyer, who received less screen time last year as the off-island story of the "Oceanic 6" played out. Lindelof intimated that Sawyer is the right character to serve as a stand-in for audience members confused by the recent turn of events.
"It was important that Sawyer was not a huge fan of the time travel," he said. "You will find him, over the course of the year, constantly bemoaning the fact that this is the situation that he's in."


January 20, 2009
TV&Satellite Week & Sky TV Guide scans

Lost: Damon Lindelof Q&A - by Alan Sepinwall/The Star-Ledger
- What material did you have to leave out because of the strike that you won't be able to get back to?
- How did you choose the Oceanic Six?
- The freighter team
- Time traveling and long-term planning


January 17, 2009
MovieWeb: Watch 31 Interviews with the Season 5 Cast of Lost!


January 16, 2009
TV Guide: Lost Bosses Solve "True Mystery," Talk of "Utter Suckiness" and Tease a Super-Sawyered Season

Watch with Kristin: Lost's Bosses Dish on "Season of Josh Holloway"


January 15, 2009
- USA Today: From the past to the future, the time for 'Lost' has arrived + promo picture
- Answers to 'Lost' questions; catch up with the cast
James "Sawyer" Ford
Where we left him: Sawyer, riding in a damaged helicopter with members of the Oceanic 6, whispered something to Kate and then jumped into the ocean to get rid of enough weight to keep the chopper airborne. He swam back to the island, meeting up with Juliet. "He has lost everything he loved basically or has given it up," Holloway says. "Maybe he feels that something is healed by saving (Kate), that there's some redemption there."
Where he's headed: A shirtless Sawyer joins with Juliet and the freighter folk in trying to figure out what's happening to the island and stop it. As to the wardrobe deficit, "That was an issue I brought up, but they didn't seem to care about my opinion very much. (Eventually) I do get dressed."
On ending after six seasons: "I like the fact we have an end date. I feel the show has become more concise now." Does he know the end? "Hell, no. I wish I knew. I've never been right except when I guessed that the island moves a couple of years ago. That's the only thing I've gotten right in the whole Lost series."
What he did on his summer hiatus: Holloway played Wino, a tattoo artist and stoner, in Stay Cool, a comedy film from the Polish brothers that also stars Chevy Chase, Sean Astin, Hillary Duff and Winona Ryder. "It's fun, because it's such a removal from anything I've done."


January 13, 2009
Cuse & Lindelof interview with the Chicago Tribune: The 'Lost' brain trust answers burning Season 5 questions

TV Guide scans: LOST's 10 biggest mysteries decoded
- "We don't all succeed" in getting back to the island, teases Yunjin Kim, whose character, Sun, "takes matter into her own hands" in her quest to avenge the death of husband Jin.
- By February, one character (besides the coffin-inhabiting Locke) will be dead. And someone presumed dead will reapper.
- This season tweaks the flash-forward and flashback formula, but time will continue to play an almost adversarial role in the characters' attempts to free themselves from the island's grasp. "I have no idea where I'm at or what I'm doing," says Josh Holloway (Sawyer), speaking from home after weathering a rainy-night shoot that lasted until 3 a.m.
- Blame all this time traveling on Lindelof, who identifies himself as an expert on the subject. "If it relates to any kind of time travel, I've read it or seen it or studied it," he says, explaining that Lost's time travel differs from how the device is employed on NBC's Heroes, where good and bad incarnations of the same character routinely interact to alter future events. "Those are things we are very disinclined to do," maintains Cuse. Still, says Kim, viewers will find out later this season that certain characters "change something in the past, which is a huge turn in the story line."
- The producers plan to delve more deeply into the island's earlier residents. "We're really interested this season in showing more of the history of the island's inhabitants," says Cuse. Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet) says her character comes in contact with ruin's of the island's ancient civilization, while Holloway says "a whole new crew of people with a connection to the Dharma Initiative are introduced" - one of whom may be Sawyer's new love interest. Additionally, Emerson says, "We discover there are people Ben fears and to whom he must answer."
- "Just two nights ago, I was doing a scene on a patio with Josh Holloway," Lilly spills. "When Kate first sees Sawyer, there's almost a feeling of seeing a ghost. I really believe she thought he was dead."
- "Locke and his relationship to the island is very central to the fifth season," teases Lindelof.
- Lindelof: "We will learn the whole nature of why the Swan hatch exists."
- A greater understanding of the monster will come this season.
- The statue will make a reappearance, but the big questions - Why four toes? Who built it? - will have to wait for Season 6.
- The consequences of incorrectly entering or exiting the island will play a crucial role as the Oceanic Six attempt their return. Midway through the season, we will learn the island pulled off one doozy of a masquerade.
- Locke's faith will continue to be tested by the island and/or Jacob - likely with "great personal sacrifice," says Cuse. The question - What does the island ultimately want with Locke? - won't be answered until Season 6.


January 9, 2009
freep.com: Disappointing fall TV fades as 3 blockbusters return
Expect a lot of interesting things to happen sooner rather than later. But "Lost" is a character-driven journey, too, so there'll be plenty of focus on the romantic quadrangle of Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Juliet.
Speaking of sardonic hunk Sawyer, will he get the screen time he deserves? "We really feel it's the year of Sawyer," says Lindelof. "He's really stepping up in a major way."


January 3, 2009
Empire magazine scans


December 31, 2008
TV Guide scan: Sawyer's The Man On Lost (thanks to Susan)


December 15, 2008
A girl in vacation on Hawaii met Josh on set before Dec. 15 - photos


December 11, 2008
Sawyer S5 promotional photos


December 2, 2008
Another S5 group promo pic courtesy of ET online


November 19, 2008
Via DarkUFO: First Season 5 Poster


November 16, 2008
Lost TPTB @ the Creative Screenwriting's 2008 Screenwriting Expo: IGN article: Lost's Past and Future; Detailed report by thedemonhog; Full audio clip by Doc Arzt


September 28, 2008
TVWeek - Masters of Sci-Fi: Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
'It’s too soon for either man to be discussing his next project, but both were willing to offer a few words that describe the next season of “Lost.”
“Non-paradoxical,” said Mr. Lindelof.
“Time travel,” added Mr. Cuse. “But it’s much tougher to do time travel when your rule of time travel is, nothing you go back to do in the past can change what happens in the future.”'


July 28, 2008
BBC News: TV's Lost audience 'will be lost'


July 26, 2008
Official audio podcast from Comic-Con

Watch with Kristin: funny CC vids

New Dharma video | Transcript

Comic-Con live blogging by Jen & Liz @ Washingtonpost.com

Kristin of E! - Live blogging from Comic-Con


June 21, 2008
Carlton Cuse Interview from China TV/Film Forum (2 clips)
LOST writer Carlton Cuse, along with Ugly Betty writer were a part of a TV and Film Forum in China to discuss their shows and answer some questions about the industry.

- Sawyer is his favorite: Handsome, charming and dangerous, everything he would want to be.
- He gives a shout out to Skaters and Jaters and then mentions that we call them Darlton. Kate will end up with one of the two eventually.
- Production starts in August and Season 5 will air from January to May 2009.

May 28, 2008
TV & Satellite Week scans - Finale Special
'Josh Holloway, who plays Sawyer, is glad to be a "left-behinder". "At first I got mad and kicked cans around the house, but then I thought, 'Well, I don't want to do scenes in a city. I'm not ready for a courtroom drama, I like the jungle. I like being dirty and sweaty and all messed up'", he says. "And the island is still one of the major characters in the show, and I'm on the island, so I'm with the big guy."'


May 24, 2008
USA Today Celeb Watch: Josh Holloway (YouTube link)
Q: Do you have any idea where Sawyer is heading, in the future?
Josh: Well, I'm on the island... they alluded to dark things.


May 9, 2008
S5 and S6 will have 17 episodes each.


April 23, 2008
A.V. Club interview with Lindelof and Cuse


February 24, 2008
The New York Post: 10 reasons why 'Lost' is found
2. We learn Jack's fate: The finale introduced the flash forward and showed us Jack's (Matthew Fox) slide into alcoholism when he leaves the island. "The flash forward is part of an overall plan for the show," says Damon Lindelof, co-executive producer. "Season 4 is about who gets off the island and the fact that they need to get back. Season 5 is about why they need to get back, and season 6 is about what happens when they get back."
3. We know who survives: Season four introduced six survivors: Jack (Matthew Fox); Kate (Evangeline Lilly); Hurley (Jorge Garcia), and Sayid (Naveen Andrews). This "Oceanic 6" make it off the island, but one will die - exactly who will be revealed this season. "We've made a choice to focus on the characters that fans have loved since the beginning - Jack, Kate, Sawyer (Josh Holloway), Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Sayid and Hurley," says Lindelof.


February 20, 2008
From EW: Jeff Jensen interview with Lindelof and Cuse
- Adam and Eve, the skeletons, will be adressed but not this season;
- The larger mythos, like "The Purge", will come back in season 5;
- NO to alternative realities, because they want the audience to invest in the story and the characters and what happens to them - that doesn't exclude time travel and bending of the space/time continuum though;
- the mystery of Ben's list is linked to the wreckage seen at the bottom of the ocean.


January 30, 2008
Doc Arzt interview with Josh Holloway for BuddyTV

Rumors

-

Crystaline

Thanks for the new thread, Fran!

Liz01

Thanks for the new thread!

I'm just anxiously awaiting next week!

chemistry86

Thanks for the new thread!

ABC was lame this week with their vote for the best couple crap. I wanted a new promo.

Oh well, atleast we know with Daniels "Anyone of us could die Jack" he's definately one of the people dying within the next few episodes.

misteriosa

Thanks for the new thread, Fran.

Sort of like Charlotte's "This place is death" - foreshadowing.


Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on 'Gossip Girl,' 'Grey's,' 'Big Bang,' 'Lost,' 'NCIS,' '90210,' and more! | 24, Ask Ausiello, CSI: NY, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Law & Order: SVU, Lost, NCIS, Private Practice, Psych, Su

Hamburgo1001

It was about time for Ausiello to cut the majorish bull.

addicted2much

*not looking*

Another title to make me worry.

misteriosa

He started all the major/majorish crap in the first place. And how convenient that he makes it clearer after it's been confirmed that Daniel will die.

You can look at it as preemptive and 'just in case' kind of title.


According to The Hollywood Reporter ABC will start promoting "Flash Forward" during Lost's 100th episode next week. Not sure what that means for "V" and EM's filming obligations. Maybe she really will be available to still work on Lost.

Hawthorn

Just watched the recap show. In case anyone was tempted to check out the feature: don't do it, unless you want to enjoy 40 minutes of Nestor Carbonell's voice.

Ausiello's reply confirms that he doesn't know who dies - if he didn't know about Daniel, he didn't know about the death in The Incident, so his "the major death isn't what you'll be talking about after the episode" means pretty much nothing.

So Flash Forward is pretty much a done deal. No idea what this means for "V", they're both sci-fi themed but both could get picked up, one is about aliens and the other time-traveling.

Thanks for the 2 new seconds of footage in the new promo after the recap, ABC. t was great.

chemistry86

Ha! Yeah, he didn't know crap in the first place, what a lolz.

I kinda resent ABC for putting that stupid poll right before the promo. If they had been serious we couldn't gotten new footage, but they were too busy trying to make Lost look like desparate houswives

misteriosa

I agree with you. I've always had the impression that Ausiello had no idea about who the majorish or major deaths are or when they are supposed to happen.

Jennifer said that the choices made in the next episode (or the one after it) will be bad and will lead to the major death. Judging by the way Daniel will die and that it willl happen in ep 14 or 15, she's definitely not talking about him.

I'm really surprised that ABC decided to shoot 2 sci-fi pilots and is in some ways is linking them to Lost (promotion, actresses cast). I really don't think the sci-fi element made Lost so popular. It was more a mystery drama with some interesting characters when it all began. Ever since the sci-fi aspect became so evident and even dominant, the ratings started dropping.

I seriously don't get what ABC is doing as far as Lost promotion is concerned this year. The promos are dull and they only make 1 version for each episode (we used to get 2 or 3 before). The sneak peeks are released on the day of the airing (the ones for GA are out two or three days before a new ep is shown).

This will sound weird, but I think their quadrangle showdown and Evi's podcast in which she talks about Jate were deliberately chosen for this week when the show is on a break. They are meant to keep the shippers talking and stressing out. You know, keep the buzz alive.

Hamburgo1001

V getting picked up or not doesn't mean anything for Juliet on Lost because if Mitchell wasn't leaving the show, she would not be playing the main character in a fall pilot in the first place. Or at least not the kind of main character around whom the entire series will be build around (like Buffy, Sydney Bristow, Melinda Gordon, Allison Dubois, Jack Bauer etc.) if it were to get picked up by one of the networks.

chemistry86

On a station like ABC which caters to shows like desparate housewives and ugly betty, people arent watching for sci-fi. I think when the characters started to become props to the plot, the show started to suffer and the ratings dropped. I hope season 6 is more character driven because I find season 4-5 to have a lack of continuity that the earlier seasons held.

I agree. The knew people wouldn't have anything to talk about with this clip episode and they didnt want the buzz on Lost to drop, so they released a stupid shipper interview hoping to peak peoples interest since the romance this season hasnt been very strong and fangirls are getting bored.

Hawthorn

The official spoiler sources check DarkUFO's more than us, that's the truth.

ABC promotion has sucked this season. I'm not even pleased with the promo pics. I can't remember a promo that wasn't underwhelming, and after the whole The Fray thing for the beginning of the season, they don't seem to care that much anymore, at least that's what the previews communicate to me. Plus, the feature on their website are boring. The Lost Untangled thing hurts my brain, now the Quadrangle Showdown, and they have the extremely interesting "Lost chasing moments", too. Exciting.

BTW Misty, I didn't check the podcast - did they show what question was asked to Evi? How did she come to start talking about Jate? That clip is the second part of what they showed last time, and there she talked about Aaron and Cassidy putting her in front of the truth about the kid. I thought she would talk about the whole Sawyer-breaking-her-heart thing in the second video. But they could've very much choosen to ask a Jate question to balance out the last episode and keep every side with something to discuss, just like you said.

I agree that Lost's success didn't come time traveling and Dharma, but maybe ABC is just trying to go for a new direction. Several of their lighter shows have been doing pretty bad, they may try with stronger stuff/another genre now.

And I agree, Elizabeth's role is too big to think that she would've committed to it (in case the series is picked up) while still obligated to Lost. And considering next season is the last one and they have a lot of storylines to wrap up, it's hard to imagine they would keep her around as a guest star/recurring, she's no Richard or another mythologic figure.

Maybe the "bad choice" is indeed Daniel's plan, the one that Losties may agree about and Jack will carry out in 5x15 and the finale. Maybe the character dies in whatever this "explosion" is about or for the consequences of it.

misteriosa

We don't know what question she was asked. What I get from her answer is that she wants Kate to be shown in a relationship with whoever Kate's final choice will be. It's sad that they have only one season left to do that imo - they could've written a decent lovestory for either couple and make at least one fanbase happy. This way they trashed both Skate and Jate and managed to get even most shippers frustrated and unhappy.

Right now I have a feeling like they are just avoiding to write Kate in a relationship and really and finally commit to either Sawyer or Jack. All because they want her choice to be one of their 'surprising' and 'cool' twists. It's a huge mistake to treat the characters and relationships as one of the shows's mysteries, but that's just me.

I continue believing that Jate are Adama and Eve and I won't find that ending shocking at all, so in that sense I agree with Evi - just let them get together and be a couple. The 'free' side of the triangle could get a decent storyline of his own.

Their last year's shows were mostly cancelled and the new ones aren't doing well at all. Maybe there will be room to try out both "Flash Forward" and "V".

She has a contract with ABC either way, right?
Maybe the filming for these shows won't collide and she'll be able to, at least make some guest appearences as Juliet. In case she leaves the island and doesn't get killed off, they could have her return or reunite with Sawyer at some point. Or, if they end with a cliffhanger which will leave us wondering who died, she could be back full time next year.

I don't know. It could be that neither of them will make the right choice.