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Post by Champ on Jan 7, 2010 23:13:03 GMT -5
Premiering Tuesday February 2nd, 2010
On May 7, 2007, ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson announced that Lost will end during the 2009–2010 season with a "highly anticipated and shocking finale."
"We felt that this was the only way to give Lost a proper creative conclusion," McPherson said.
Beginning with the 2007–2008 television season, the final 48 episodes would have been aired as three seasons with 16 episodes each, with Lost concluding in its sixth season. Due to the writers' strike, the fourth season featured 14 episodes, and Season 5 had 17 episodes. Season 6 was planned to have 17 episodes, too. However, on June 29 it was announced that the final season will feature an additional hour, making the number of episodes 18.(that explains that)
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated that they "always envisioned Lost as a show with a beginning, middle, and end," and that by announcing when the show would end that viewers would "have the security of knowing that the story will play out as we've intended." Lindelof and Cuse stated that securing the 2010 series-end date "was immensely liberating" and helped the series rediscover its focus. Lindelof noted, "We're no longer stalling."
The producers also plan to wrap up long-standing mysteries, such as the nature of the smoke monster, the four-toed statue of Taweret, the identity of the Adam & Eve skeletons from the season one episode "House of the Rising Sun", and the reason the Dharma periodic resupply drops continue after the purge. Lindelof has also indicated that Walt's unusual abilities may be explained, although this may not necessarily require the character's direct involvement.
Matthew Fox stated in an interview that in the final season, the characters of Jack Shephard and John Locke "will come head to head." A third of the way through the final season, the two time lines will be "solidified into one" and "will be very linear – no more flashbacks, nothing." He has also claimed to be the only cast member who knows the ending of the series, though Lindelof has clarified that Fox only knows things that are relevant to his character.
During Comic-Con 2009, numerous sixth season reports were made. Carlton Cuse stated both the time travel and flash-forward seasons were over, and they're moving into something different for the sixth season. Josh Holloway stated his character Sawyer would revert to his old self after the loss of Juliet.
Though Cuse and Lindelof stated that the Dharma Initiative will no longer play a large role in the show, they have said that the "Dharma-Michigan connection" will play a significant role in season six. Lindelof has stated that the producers had a direct hand in the production of the season six promotional poster that was first displayed at Comic-Con, and that everything in it is intentional; he also made a reference to the Abbey Road cover in connection to the poster.
Season six is the first and only season of LOST ever to not feature any kind of preview or official promotional material such as sneak peeks and promo pictures for future episodes since the Lost producers considers any single frame from the first episodes to be too revealing. According to Lindelof, "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".
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Post by Champ on Jan 7, 2010 23:14:13 GMT -5
I figured we've already waited almost 8 months. There's finally less than 4 weeks til the final season, so I put up the thread now
This finale looks like it could be super awesome!
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Post by Naitch on Jan 8, 2010 9:40:12 GMT -5
the identity of the Adam & Eve skeletons from the season one episode "House of the Rising Sun", and the reason the Dharma periodic resupply drops continue after the purge.
The two things I care about the answers too. The statue is meh and I forgot about Walt and I'm not even sure what his powers are.
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Post by Champ on Jan 8, 2010 14:18:53 GMT -5
I don't recall the Adam and Eve statues well. What was the deal with that again?
I wasn't aware Walt had "powers" either. The only thing I recall is that he's appeared in front of people when he wasn't even on the island and when he was at home before coming to the island, his step father gave Michael back custody of Walt because he said bad things happen when he's around. Then a recent eps was Locke going to NY and Walt had a dream about Locke and told him what he needed to do next. To me, Walt''s just cursed and the people that saw him are losing their minds lol
If Juliet didn't survive the explosion or survived but in a different year, I would LOVE to see asshole Sawyer throwing out the nicknames again and abusing Hurley
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Post by Naitch on Jan 8, 2010 16:45:09 GMT -5
Adam and Eve were skeletons in the cave.
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Post by MasterSnit on Jan 8, 2010 17:43:19 GMT -5
If Juliet didn't survive the explosion Champ, she got pwned in the face by a nuke. I kinda doubt she walked that one off with a few scratches and bruises, lol. I actually read that she isn't involved much in the upcoming season (thanks to aforementioned nuke ownage) and the actress who plays her is in one of the main roles in a new show. Personally I do care about Walt. I want to know what the big friggin' deal was with him. For the first couple of seasons he was a big part of the show but as soon as he and Michael left the island he was forgotten about. The thing with Lost that is so intriguing is that there are lots of characters who we all know so much about, but we don't really know what the agenda or the ultimate goal is for any of them. Even the ones we think we know, Jack for example, who we think went back to "save everyone" could swerve us and turn heel in an instant and it really wouldn't be too much of a surprise. So there are all these people stuck together on this island, and after five seasons we still don't really know anything as to why they are there and what each of them want to do.
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Post by Champ on Jan 8, 2010 18:29:28 GMT -5
You know what I mean dude lol. If the explosion goes off it's going to kill everyone on the island anyway. So if blowing up the hatch in 74 changes something, the writers can find a way to make anyone survive in any year they want. If they really want, they could bring back Boone, Ana Lucia and Libby. It doesn't matter whose face the nuke blew up in lol. If it changed things, it could bring back a lot of lives instead
I'm with you on that. I want answers to everything on this show and the greatest thing about it is they answer every question too. WWE can learn from them with continuity
The smartest thing they did with this show is leaving some sort of mystery to just about everyone and everything. We still don't even know for sure where Ben stands, although by the end of last season the answered the question to most of his motives. But who are really the bad guys in all of this?
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Post by Champ on Jan 8, 2010 18:41:10 GMT -5
If you think about the questions we're still waiting for, off the top of my head
Where does Locke really stand? Is he more powerful than Jacob?
Is Jacob bad or good?
Is Whidmore bad or good?
Why is it Sayid can read through any lie but if it's a hot chick he gets kicked in the face?
Where and what is the "loophole"?
Who is that Moses guy?
What's Walt's deal?
Who survived or escaped through a loophole with the hatch explosion?
What year are they going to be in afterwards?
Does the loophole from blowing up the hatch bring anyone else back to life?
What's Christian's relationship to the island?
Is there a future time we don't know about yet?
I'm going to stop there because I can go forever. The best part about it is everyone of these questions are going to be answered
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Post by MasterSnit on Jan 8, 2010 18:46:47 GMT -5
Yeah, that's the thing. I suppose Lost is just like WWE in a way right now because "shit just happens" and even after five years, we don't know why. At least Lost is promising to tie up those loose ends whereas in WWE, John Morrison's reasons for his face turn are still trapped inside the hole of a giant statue of Vince McMahon's ass.
I don't really want the explosion to change the past, thus changing the future and bringing new characters back but I think that is what is going to happen. I think with Juliet detonating the nuke, she will die (Obviously. Due to the nuke pwnage to the face) wheras the others who were on the island will survive, but will awaken in a different year as the explosion will have "moved" the island. Just a thought.
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Post by Champ on Jan 9, 2010 16:44:30 GMT -5
SM and I had a conversation about how everything is sports entertainment. SM said, there's Iguana's in Florida and they're just a nuisance. The weather down there was supposed to be cold enough for a couple of days to kill them. But the lefty liberals are trying to save them anyway. So that eventually got interpretated into,
The Iguanas are in a survivor series match. We want them to lose but the hypocrite lefty fans still want them to win the match
You can interpretate LOST like the fantasy fare. At the end of season 3, Hurley got a win with an object shot in the main event of season 3 when he ran over the others with the van. Then Sayid won a special when he snapped the guy's neck with his legs while his hands were tied behind his back
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Post by MasterSnit on Jan 9, 2010 19:02:08 GMT -5
If you think about the questions we're still waiting for, off the top of my head Where does Locke really stand? Is he more powerful than Jacob? Locke was never anything. He was always just a gullible dreamer who was led around by people to do their dirty work. In the last few episodes of last season, that wasn't Locke at all. The real Locke was dead and Moses was using his body as a vehicle so he could manipulate his way to Jacob. I've forgotten the threads of the story in term of the timelines, but I wouldn't be surprised if the real Locke has been dead since that episode about 3 - 4 seasons in when Ben shot him. In fact, I think he did die. And since then Moses used his body, because if you remember he was much more clear with his thoughts and intentions after that. That was Moses beginning his manipulation of Ben by using Locke's body. He is definitely being portrayed as good, but that doesn't mean anything. I have a feeling that his intentions will become clear and will be good. He is hell bent on getting back to the island for some reason. He definitely isn't gay. When he is interrogating guys he is all business, but when there are tits in the room his dick vetoes his brain. A loophole to take you from one alternate reality into another? I'm stumped on that. I reckon he is Jacob's brother. Either the evil brother or the righteous brother. He shows up on a deserted island as a timid young boy who still believes in the Easter Bunny and within three weeks he's shot up three feet and is slam dunkin' basketballs. Maybe Ben, Gay Tom and the rest of the Others just wanted him to be their fifth man for their weekly basketball game. That made no sense to me at all, I'm afraid. Desmond blows the shit out of himself and he shows up later rambling naked through the jungle with the ability to see the future. Knowing Lost, they will show up in 2090 in the first episode and just end the show right there because it really ended 80 years ago anyway. It probably produces Doppelgängers. Christian means nothing. That was never the real Christian, it was Moses using Christian's body to manipulate Jack. There's probably about eight of them. Well, they will hopefully all be answered. I'm beginning to look forward to it now.
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Post by Champ on Jan 10, 2010 13:10:08 GMT -5
That's a pretty interesting theory. The only thing is, at the end of season 5 there was still a dead Locke body that Ben killed and was flown there from civilization, hence Locke had to have been alive to get off the island after Ben shot him originally. It couldn't have been Moses in Locke's body when Ben killed him because Moses stole the identity after Locke was flown back. But you could still be right because for all we know it could have been Christian in Locke's body or something like that and that's why he was so adament about Jack not leaving the island. So it's kind of like Ben would have strangled Locke's body but with a different soul in it. That could be pretty cool if they can pull that off!
That's another question, WHEN is the loophole?
Something tells me Jacob is a heel and we're going to find out Moses had a really good reason to kill him
Oh right. My bad
I really believe they'll answer everything. They're so good at that. They've answered questions where I'd be thinking oh crap I forgot about that!
I'm really optimistic about the finale. If this is supposed to be the season where the best part of the story is told after a slammin season 5, this should be good.
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Post by MasterSnit on Jan 10, 2010 17:37:20 GMT -5
That's a pretty interesting theory. The only thing is, at the end of season 5 there was still a dead Locke body that Ben killed and was flown there from civilization, hence Locke had to have been alive to get off the island after Ben shot him originally. It couldn't have been Moses in Locke's body when Ben killed him because Moses stole the identity after Locke was flown back. But you could still be right because for all we know it could have been Christian in Locke's body or something like that and that's why he was so adament about Jack not leaving the island. So it's kind of like Ben would have strangled Locke's body but with a different soul in it. That could be pretty cool if they can pull that off! Yeah, the dead body is where the theory breaks down. Then again, Lost deliberately leaves chunks of the linear storyline out to lead us down the wrong path all the time, so it might be easy to explain. Let's say that after Ben shot and killed Locke, Moses took then started using Locke's body to start manipulating Ben. The body would have just been lying there with all the dead Dharma skeletons. It was never explained how Locke got off the island and how he supposedly died whilst he was in California. The explanation could be simple. Maybe someone, knowing what Moses was doing with Locke's body, took the body off the island. Only for someone helping Moses to recover the body and help convince Ben to take it back. I really don't know because my memory of how everything has happened thus far is a bit sketchy. I really do think that the real John Locke was never anything but a pawn. It makes sense because his whole life before he got to the island he was taken advantage of by people. Then once he got to the island he was taken advantage of by Ben until he killed him when he no longer needed him.
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Post by Champ on Jan 10, 2010 20:23:27 GMT -5
That's a great point! Locke has always been such a goof and just got completely walked all over by everyone. Suddenly he got REALLY bad with not wanting people to leave the island. Another thing that speaks for that theory is, when Locke found his father in the "magic box" he got Sawyer to kill him because Locke senior was the same guy that ruined Sawyer's life. But if I remember correctly, Locke didn't know for sure he was the guy that ruined Sawyer's life if I remember correctly. He just knew they were both victims of con men
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Post by Naitch on Jan 10, 2010 23:53:33 GMT -5
I think Ben finished the job on Locke off the island. The whole reason they brought the body back was too kill Jacob. I don't know if anyone knew that (Probably the old lady) but whatever.
We've been re watching the previous seasons lately and let me tell you something, stuff that you probably forgot about seems a little more interesting now. We just was the ep where Hurley finds the van and Sawyer finds a map in the van. And just real briefly talks about a road and then digs further into the van to see what else he can find.
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