Lost Season 5 (pre-season links and speculation)

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It was brought up in the Lost Season 4 thread that we should start a thread to discuss all the information that came out of Comic Con and that will continue to be revealed prior to Season 5’s air date, and as a way to not clutter up the actual Season 5 thread with 20 pages of pre-season chatter. So voila!

Here are some links that Chewers have already started discussing in the Season 4 thread:

Lost podcast
The Lost women of Lost

‘Lost’ producers drop hints about next season

A few bread crumbs for Lost fans

A very blurry Dharma video

LA Times transcript of the Q&A session at Comic Con

Dharma wants you

Some of this stuff summed up:

* There will be 17 hours of “Lost” each in the next two seasons.

* The island did not travel when the hatch imploded, but something did happen.

* We’ll see more of Locke and Jin on the show. “Dead is a relative term,” and there’s still a lot of story to be told about those characters.

* Their favorite episodes are “The Constant” (Carlton) and “Exodus” (Damon). Damon adds that he really liked season four, and he admitted the show has had its “ups and downs.”

* They reiterated that getting an end date for the show has really reinvigorated it in terms of giving it energy and purpose.

* We will see Rousseau’s story this year, but it won’t exactly be a flashback. We’re done with flashbacks and flashforwards, but there will be some time-jumping excitement anyway. There will be storytelling on and off the island, and in different periods of time.

* Vincent the Dog is fine and will be in season five — and will survive until the end of the show.

* The Jack/Kate/Sawyer triangle is central to the show, and we’ll see more interesting permutations of it over the next two seasons. And Kate will see Sawyer again.

* The nameless extras in the Zodiac boat with Farraday, stranded with the island gone, may be toast, but “things are looking up” for Farraday himself.

* Speaking of Daniel, he has a little notebook that tells him stuff that’s happened, and stuff that will happen soon, and it’s going to figure prominently in season five.

* Richard Alpert is “quite old,” thanks to the island’s mystical properties, and we’ll see more of his history this year. We’ll also see him barefoot in “the near future, pun intended,” so we’ll find out how many toes he has.

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Nice Diva.

To hit the ground running I am reposting the last posts of the old, now abandoned Season 4 thread again. Sorry for quoting myself…

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Originally Posted by Schwartz View Post Man, if the show becomes a bunch of our heroes traveling through time to undo all the major events and deaths that happened over the last 4 years, I’m going to be fucking pissed.

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Originally Posted by Jan View Post True. True. But those little nuggets lend some evidence to that speculation. I am putting it into invisotext, just in case: - “Death is a relative term on this show” - The producers - We will see Rousseau again in a flash-something. - Locke will be back. - Faraday has a notebook that has stuff written about the past and the future in it that will play a key role in season 5. - He is featured in the new video as well. And in said video “Dr. Candle” describes events from the future. This might very well be just another case of me being misled by the producers. But if Schwartz us remotely right I am going to be pissed as well.
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I’m not a fan of the righting all the wrongs time travel theory either. I have faith the show won’t go that way. Although, after watching the new Dharma video, it seems like Pierre Chang (aka Marvin Candle) suggests just that.

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Originally Posted by Diva View Post I’m not a fan of the righting all the wrongs time travel theory either. I have faith the show won’t go that way. Although, after watching the new Dharma video, it seems like Pierre Chang (aka Marvin Candle) suggests just that.

I want to think they know better than to do something so stupid, but now that I think about it, I’ve been told that Alias (which I never saw) kinda went off the rails at the end, and that even Cloverfield didn’t exactly stick the landing.

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I didn’t watch Alias and thought the ending to Cloverfield was fine. My guess is that instead of a Quantum Leap-type story, we’ll see alternative timelines. I’ve been stuck on Faraday’s journal ever since “the Constant” and feel like imaginary time/space will play a role.

This is quite interesting as it combines Minkowski space and imaginary space in one theory.

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I still have hope that they’ll do fine with the ending, if only for the fact that they have all this time to work it out. Being nerds themselves, it’s not like are unaware of shows that suck at ending (X-Files, I’m looking at you).
I’m really happy to see that Rousseau’s story won’t be dropped.

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I was bummed out no one asked about Mr. Ecko returning to the show during the CC panels.

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Well since the actor asked to be let out of contract, I think its pretty definitive he’s not coming back. The show had lots of plans for Eko had he wanted to stay on.

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Oh god im loving this show more then ever but alternate timelines? Going back and changing things? I never did like those kinds of stories and I have a feeling it’s going to get over complicated and run off the rails. This could be bad. Thts means that technically none of the characters are dead. I mean if you can just go back and change anything you want.

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Originally Posted by Vader View Post I was bummed out no one asked about Mr. Ecko returning to the show during the CC panels.

They did. Damon and Carlton said he was one of their favorite characters and they were super pissed he left and it still bothers them. They hired the one guy on the planet that hates Hawaii. What are the odds of that? They said a lot of the cast plans on staying there after the show is done, but from day one he wanted to get the fuck back to London as soon as possible. I think he burned the shit out of that bridge.

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Originally Posted by Waaaaaaaalt View Post Oh god im loving this show more then ever but alternate timelines? Going back and changing things? I never did like those kinds of stories and I have a feeling it’s going to get over complicated and run off the rails. This could be bad. Thts means that technically none of the characters are dead. I mean if you can just go back and change anything you want.

I’m pretty sure none of this is going to happen. Relax.

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Yeah, Walt, take a deep breath. This happens every season with this show…a small clue will get dropped, someone extrapolates a possible meaning and suddenly it’s God’s honest truth. C’mon, people. We can do better.

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Originally Posted by Greg Clark View Post Yeah, Walt, take a deep breath. This happens every season with this show…a small clue will get dropped, someone extrapolates a possible meaning and suddenly it’s God’s honest truth. C’mon, people. We can do better.

To be fair, the Candle video brings this idea up very directly. It doesn’t take much extrapolation to bring it out.

Still, I have a hard time believing they would be so dense as to use the last third of their 6 year run to invalidate in the first 2/3.

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I’m pretty sure the new video was made specifically for Comic Con and won’t be aired on the show, as previous videos were. I don’t consider it canon.

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As far as the Rousseau tidbit said in the first post, they can always do what they did with Charlie last year and appear as visions to people.

Regardless, I’m both pumped and sad that we’re entering the 5th season this coming year because it means there’s only one left. Although it will be nice to finally get more background on the island itself because that’s always been one of my favorite characters of the show.

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Still, I have a hard time believing they would be so dense as to use the last third of their 6 year run to invalidate in the first 2/3.

I share that concern. I hope that the plan is more elegant than “everybody jumps around in time to fill all of the logic gaps.” We’ll see.

I just finished re-watching Season 2 last night . . . I like it MUCH better than when I first saw it, simply because so much of the current story began that season. Season 1 established the characters and some mythology, but S2 is the one that starts building towards future seasons. It’s so hard to believe that the Desmond / Penny stuff didn’t even start until the S2 finale.

Re-watching it also made me even more pissed about how Michael’s character was handled in S4. I had also forgotten about how Walt was “more than they could handle,” according to Ben, referring, I’m assuming, to his psychic abilities. Klugh poses a question to Michael, along the lines of, “Did Walt have a habit of appearing and disappearing suddenly?” or something to that effect. I hope that comes back to play a key role in Seasons 5 and 6.

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Well I REALLY hope you guys are right. And if you aren’t I will travel back through time back to this moment and rub your faces in it.

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Thanks Diva. you missed the opportunity to start a poll with How many toes…

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Let the speculative madness begin.

Anyone else sign up for the Dharma ‘volunteer’ program? I never do viral marketing, but I couldn’t help myself - I took the ‘test’. Let’s see if anything fun comes of it.

As for the speculation on the direction of the show - to be honest, as long as they keep doing characterization and relationship stuff as well as they have, I won’t care what the ultimate sci-fi hook of the show is, as long as it’s executed as well as they’ve executed so much of this show so far.

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I took the test and loved that they cribbed the Tortoise question from Blade Runner. If you’re gonna steal, steal well.