Hawthorn

May 13, 2009
The Washington Post: Season Finale? 'Lost' Minds Refuse to Spoil a Good Time


May 12, 2009
Entertainment Weekly - 'Lost': Going Out With a Bang? (Jeff Jensen interviews D&C)


May 11, 2009
Watch with Kristin spoiler chat: season finale; Sawyer/Kate
Sara in Rome: The last episode of Lost killed my Skate shipper heart. This should be the moment when you comfort us by telling us everything will be OK. Right? Right?
You guys have got to stop living episode-to-episode (you're going to give yourselves coronaries!) and start thinking long-term. Why? Because long-term, everything will be OK! Promise.

New York Post interview with Lindelof & Cuse
"Not everybody is interested in Faraday's mission," says Lindelof. "It's a very divisive issue and one that the audience is feeling too. It would be a big cheat, erasing the last five years of the show, and making it so that we never came to this island in the first place."
The show has been a wild and often confusing ride, but Lindelof and Executive Producer Carlton Cuse say they know exactly where it's all headed.
"That was a conversation that started back between seasons one and two of the show," says Lindelof. "We are following the plan pretty much to the letter, although there is room for improvisation." Lindelof says next season - which will be the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning series' last - will bring things full circle.
"Season six will feel a lot like season one," says Lindelof. "The focus comes back to the characters with whom we began. We've been winnowing away everyone else who came along. The Tailies are gone, only Miles [Ken Leung] is left of the Freighter Folk and only Juliet [Elizabeth Mitchell] is left of The Others. We're getting down to the end now."
"The metaphor we like to use is that this is a road trip. We know we intend to end up in New York City, but maybe we'll pick up a hitchhiker or stop at a bar and get drunk along the way," says Cuse.
"And then linger there for six episodes," jokes Lindelof.


May 9, 2009
THR.com interview with Lindelof & Cuse
The ultimate goal of humanity is to mature in some way, and the characters on Lost are no different. Their hope is that by the final episode of the series we'll be able to look at them in contrast to the pilot and say "Wow, I've spent six years of my life on these people, and they've really changed" - or attempted to (there are three categories: "Change", "Tried to change", and "Die").

Official Audio Podcast with Lindelof & Cuse | recap
- The S5 finale will satisfy fans because has a good mythological advancement, but will make people frustrated about waiting 8 months to see what happens next, because the ending has a S1 feeling according to Carlton: like when they opened/blew up the hatch and didn't show the content, and we went "You're kidding me". Damon says that they've promised that S6 would reflect somehow S1, and they're starting that this season, which has Jack at the Swan, just where S1 ended.
- Fan question: where does the compass come from? Carlton says that it's a fashinating puzzle that has no solution. Damon: if you ask them where it comes from, they would turn the answer - what came first, the chicken or the egg? Carlton: the idea that there is an infinitive loop is a very intentional motif that is excuted here. One of the challenges of the show is that they believe in a larger world of mystery and magic and they have no intention to demisty that world of Lost overexplaining things. The fact that the compass exists between those two characters is just a cool piece of mystery and magic.
- Damon feels that this finale (and the S6 premiere) will give us a good dea of where ths is all heading and will end.
- Damon makes a list of names to put under "Good Guys", "Bad Guys", "Haven't decided yet". Carlton puts Kate, Hurley and Frank under "Good Guys", Rchard under "Haven't decided yet", and Sayid under "Bad Guys".


May 7, 2009
Watch with Kristin Redux: Damon Lindelof about the future of Lost

Ask Ausiello: Finale Ending
Question: Got any scoop on the Lost finale? --Carolyn
Ausiello: Funny, we posed that exact question to Damon Lindelof at the Hollywood premiere of Star Trek earlier this week. "All I will say is that it is time for the time travel craziness to end," he said. "And once it does end, something very, very surprising will happen in its wake. It is a little bit of a game-changer."


April 29, 2009
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 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 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.")


February 9, 2009
Entertainment Weekly: Digging Inside Season 5
'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.''


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.”'


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

Rumors

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Crystaline

Thanks for the new thread, Fran!

chemistry86

Thanks for the new thread!

I have no self-disipline so regardlesss I'll find myself reading spoilers even if I don't want to. Atleast definately the Sawyer related ones, I have to prepare myself since these days I only enjoy few characters anymore

Hamburgo1001

I'll definitely stop reading spoilers when filming starts. Considering that I barely have anything to look forward to anymore, it's probably better for me to stay away because otherwise I would probably only get angry with the show months in advance. That's the same reason why I stopped reading spoilers for Smallville.

Hawthorn

I'm considering staying away from spoilers too, but a) I don't know if seeing stuff I don't like directly on screen will make it worse after, even if I got spared to be pissed in advance, and b) I don't know if I'll resist, afterall I've spent a huge amount of times discussing speculations and news here (the fact that we're at thread #59 with 4-5 regular posters is pretty telling, lol).

Alex - aren't you excited/curious about Claire's return, at least?

And I haven't updated the OP yet. I actually wanted to do it this morning but FanForum has been so slow, I gave up.

Nymph Marty

Thanks for the new thread!

Hamburgo1001

I am happy she's back, but I don't expect much to come from it. She's always been more of a redshirt on the show. She'll probably get her annual centric episode and from that point on she will more or less have to fight for her weekly 5 minutes of screentime considering that her only function is to be a prop in Jack and Kate's heroic journeys next year.

misteriosa

You made a Miles banner. Aww. That's nice because I don't see him lasting for very long.

For those who know Italian, here's a blog entry in about the event in Rome - About Lost & SAWYER: "Roma Fiction Fest"

Hamburgo1001

misteriosa

Worst spoiler/rumour ever!!!
But I definitely believe it's true. Makes me think season 6 will be full of annoying WTF and 'cool' moments. I was really hoping for more focus on the characters.

cammy_ford

So, more time travel?

misteriosa

I think there has to be some more time travel, but I don't see them going back to the 50s again. Maybe they left that wooden construction there for visiting Lost fans to see.

cammy_ford

Could be...

Or maybe they need to go back to 50s again (A&E theory).

Did Jack say that the corpses were there for at least 40/50 years?

misteriosa

I think they'll definitely use time travel to answer the Adam and Eve (IMO Jate) question, but I don't see why they'd need to show Jughead. They can just say the two of them will go back to whatever year in necessary.

But even without Adam and Eve, they'll still need time travel if the characters didn't end up in 2007 after the detonation becausethat's the year in which I expect them to see at some point.

Hawthorn

Thanks for bringing those bits over, Misty, Alex and Cammy.

I don't know if I believe the rumor. Charlotte is coming back, but no mention of Faraday, Mr. Popularity..? The reset is now one of the most speculated about scenarios, it would be easy to add some fuel to the discussion making up something like that.

ETA - I just remenbered this, although I doubt it means anything: Rebecca will be in Hawaii next August 23, partecipating to a celebrity triathlon competition for charity purposes.