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Lost keeps a lid on final season

Don't expect to see much of Lost in previews before its final season due early next year.

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lstDamon Lindelof reckons we’ll be lucky to see much of Lost in previews before its final season due early next year.

“I think even a single scene from the show would basically tip what it is we’re doing this year, and what it is we’re doing this year is different than what we’ve done in other years,” he told SciFi Wire.

“That is the marketing strategy that we are trying to impose upon our masters. I can’t unequivocally say that we will be able to hold the embargo all the way up until the actual premiere, but it’s pretty cool that we’re not showing anything as late as November, so we’ll see. I think once the show actually starts, once we’re back on, then we’ll start showing people what we’re up to.”

Lindelof acknowledges how puch patience viewers have given the show (and how) but says he intends to answer every mystery the show intentionally created. But there are some that fans have spun all on their ownsome.

“I think that there are some Lost mysteries that we’re not even aware are mysteries,” Lindelof said. “That’s the thing. People ask us questions and I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘What happened to Scott? Are we ever going to find out who murdered Scott?’ It’s like, ‘Ethan murdered him.’ They’re like, ‘Well, but did he?’ I’m like, ‘YES! Yes, he did.’ So for the mysteries that we acknowledge as mysteries, they will be answered.”

Then there are some “mysteries” that are really just fans reading way too much into things. “I think that there are some mysteries, like why is the island an island, that aren’t mysteries to me,” Lindelof said. “That’s what it is. There are things like the midi-chlorian issue, which is essentially was anyone really saying, ‘How does the Force work?’ We just sort of accepted that it worked.”

The show will air on 7TWO next year -hopefully on time. The network hasn’t rules out adding it to Seven as well, but again too soon to know their time frame.

Source: SciFi Wire

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  2. people worried about the reset changing the show completely, from the spoilers ive read, it will change the show just as much as when we found out they got off the island, we thought it was over, but it just made things more complicated.

  4. @jjreed

    I think that was everyone’s worry about it being a “reset’. But at comic con producers kept reiterating to “trust them” so i expect whatever happened won’t erase 5 years of storyline.

  5. Man, if they do some “the plane never actually crashed, therefore they never actually crashed on the island and therefore we don’t have to actually explain anything cause it never actually happened” i and everyone else will be super angry.

    That type of pathetic plot device a bees **** away from “awww it was all just a dream”.

  6. thanks zac, I’ll have to keep an eye out, if it is too indirect I might miss it. which made me think of another thing, will 7 be continuing with “the lost ninja” on their website? this is basically the only extra content I read on lost (plus the aussie messageboard sometimes) because any american sites will have spoilers, and the extra analysis of episodes often reveals stuff I might have otherwise missed. especially since some of it requires research into books featured or the different places the numbers pop up. But since it is now on 7two there is a chance they won’t continue the lost ninja posts, I hope they do keep it up.

  7. @bindi

    I believe Lindelof said they didn’t have time to fully explore Walt’s powers due to his sudden growth spurt. But said they will explaining the situation with him in a less direct way.

    I can’t wait!

  8. it will be very hard to advertise. the end of the last season could lead anywhere. for all we know they are all dead. so the smallest clip could give away a lot.

  9. @marco, can you please tell me the approximate episode then so I don’t have to rewatch the whole thing because as far as I can remember they never fully explained how walt had a psychic power to summon animals and what the others meant when asking if michael was really his father and if he ever saw walt in the time before the island even though walt was really far away from michael at the time. and the others never explained what exactly “we got more than we bargained for with walt” meant.

    If you thought I was just talking about how the polar bears got on the island I know they explained that. I wanted to know how walt seeing an image of an animal somehow caused that animal to come to him.

  11. Here’s the real test for 7TWO on how serious they are about ‘Fast Tracking’ stuff. Lost fans will want it the night after it airs in the US.

    I’m not waiting a few weeks from US air to AUS air to have the internet spoil it all in the interim.

  14. @Nathan B: They went one better and based all of season five on the concept of being found. They got off the island (end of season 4/ first half of season 5) then they had to ‘Find’ the island for the second half (they had to go back).

    In fact, the song in the season 5 trailer is “You Found Me” By the Fray.

  16. By naming s06e01 “LAX” and their viral campaign that Oceanic Airlines have never crashed they have already let the cat out of the bag. Still can’t wait to see how it plays out 🙂

  20. wonder if that includes answering what the deal was with walt and animals seeing as they wrote him out of the story and then showed where he ended up just to tie off the story line but never went into the results of the testing the others did on him.

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