LOST

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

I've just thought, how messed up would it be if Christian (Jack's Dad) ends up being Jacob/Him?

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Uhhh.....he's dead.

[dubq 0]

I'm hoping if they cut down the cast, they won't feel the need to instantly add more new characters. Claire, Sayid, Jin...etc havn't had that much air time given to them this season, all so the writers can concentrate on great new characters like Nikki and Paulo.

 

You mean Nikki and Paulo who are now dead?

[Atticus Chaos 0]

I'm hoping if they cut down the cast, they won't feel the need to instantly add more new characters. Claire, Sayid, Jin...etc havn't had that much air time given to them this season, all so the writers can concentrate on great new characters like Nikki and Paulo.

 

You mean Nikki and Paulo who are now dead?

 

 

Yeah, but why even waste all that time on them if you were just going to kill them off? What did it accomplish in the long run? You could have given Sayid another storyline or given Claire a bit more to do (honestly, apart from all that stuff with the birds, she's done nothing this season.) Instead, they're concentrating on 2 characters the audience hates, who are getting killed off anyway and won't add anything, and probably making some of the cast, who already feel underused, even more disgruntled.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Claire sucks. Why would anybody want to see more Claire?

 

"WHAT IS RUNG WITH MOY BAYBEE?!"

[Atticus Chaos 0]

Claire sucks. Why would anybody want to see more Claire?

 

"WHAT IS RUNG WITH MOY BAYBEE?!"

CHAW-LAY!!!

 

She's not my favourite character either. But, she's there and you might as well use her somehow. And she's not as annoying as Kate. And, as much as I'd love it to be the Sawyer/Hurley/Jin/Charlie show it is an ensamble and you should try and use your cast.

[Longdogger_Pete 0]

If they need people they could bump up Rose and Bernard to regulars. They *did* already get a flashback episode.

[Jonathon 0]

If anyone needs to get bumped off the show now, it's Claire.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

Uhhh.....he's dead.

 

Have we seen a body? Why was his coffin empty? This is Lost, anything is possible.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Yeah, we saw his dead corpse at the morgue in Sydney. And the island can do many things but as is proven with Ethan, Scott, The Federal Marshall etc... it cannot bring people back from the dead.

[dubq 0]

I'm hoping if they cut down the cast, they won't feel the need to instantly add more new characters. Claire, Sayid, Jin...etc havn't had that much air time given to them this season, all so the writers can concentrate on great new characters like Nikki and Paulo.

 

You mean Nikki and Paulo who are now dead?

 

 

Yeah, but why even waste all that time on them if you were just going to kill them off? What did it accomplish in the long run? You could have given Sayid another storyline or given Claire a bit more to do (honestly, apart from all that stuff with the birds, she's done nothing this season.) Instead, they're concentrating on 2 characters the audience hates, who are getting killed off anyway and won't add anything, and probably making some of the cast, who already feel underused, even more disgruntled.

 

You should use past tense when talking about things that already happened.

[tommytomlin 0]

We were told last week that Lost would only have two more seasons, now here's the confirmation and the TWIST~!

 

The end is in sight for ABC's acclaimed island mystery Lost, but fans will have to wait until 2010 for all the answers.

 

In a highly unusual move, the network announces plans today to end the show after three more shortened seasons of 16 episodes each. The episodes will air consecutively, repeat-free, from February to May.

 

COMPARE: See how 'Lost' and 'Heroes' match up in weirdness

 

ABC's bold step marks a response to the show's producers, who have been eager to set a finish line to better plot out their convoluted mystery of plane-crash survivors and to placate fans who are frustrated that the show seemed to be vamping its way to a conclusion.

 

"Among fans there was an unease that they were making an investment in a show that's complicated without any sense of where that's going to lead them," co-creator Damon Lindelof said in an exclusive interview. "From the very beginning, fans and even critics have been saying, 'Are you making it up as you go along?' " which was "a legitimate question."

 

 

I'm digging this. I'm one of those patient people who were happy for Lost to go for 9 Seasons of convoluted crap before getting a resolution, but 6 seasons (essentially 5 in terms of episode count though) seems like the best way to tell the story. The waiting will suck, as Lost will be on four months and off eight months, but it does mean a whole lot less filler eps like 'Claire watches birds' or 'Jack rapes a chick in Thailand to give him a tattoo'.

[Matt Young 0]

Hmm... I don't know.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

32 Episodes to wrap it all up, that and they have a Lost game on the way? I'm glad they've called an end date to all it, as it should keep things pacey.

[UZI Suicide 0]

Apologies if this topic has been beaten into the ground - I kind of lost interest in the show near the end of season 2 and into the beginning of this season and I'm just now getting caught up and my question is, are Michael and Walt ever coming back? Walt was such an integral part of the first season and I know they left on the boat but fuck man, how could they leave his story so unexplained?

 

Are we just chalking that up to another LOST "mystery" we'll never find out about or are there plans to bring Walt and Michael (or at least Walt) back?

[tommytomlin 0]

32 Episodes to wrap it all up, that and they have a Lost game on the way? I'm glad they've called an end date to all it, as it should keep things pacey.

 

48. 3 seasons of 16.

 

Apologies if this topic has been beaten into the ground - I kind of lost interest in the show near the end of season 2 and into the beginning of this season and I'm just now getting caught up and my question is, are Michael and Walt ever coming back? Walt was such an integral part of the first season and I know they left on the boat but fuck man, how could they leave his story so unexplained?

 

Are we just chalking that up to another LOST "mystery" we'll never find out about or are there plans to bring Walt and Michael (or at least Walt) back?

 

As for Michael and Walt -

The producers have said they should be back in Season 4

[Guest Starks]

"LOST" to end in 2010

 

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111796437...mp;cs=1&p=0

'Lost' set for three more years

ABC hit expires in 2010

 

In a potentially paradigm-shifting play, ABC has agreed to let the producers of "Lost" set an expiration date for the series -- three years in the future.

 

Skein will now wrap after the production of 48 additional episodes that will be divided into three, shortened 16-episode seasons. Final episode -- the show's 119th -- will air during the 2009-10 season.

 

In conjunction with the advance order, "Lost" showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have inked hefty new multi-year overall deals with ABC Television Studio to continue with the series until the end. Duo had made setting a wrap date for the show a condition for staying.

 

Lindelof and Cuse had wanted "Lost" to end after two more seasons. They're essentially still getting their wish: The 48 episodes they'll produce over the next three years is the same number the show produced during its first two seasons.

 

ABC execs, however, came up with a way to keep "Lost" on its sked for three more seasons. What's more, the 16-episode arcs will run without repeats (a la "24"), allowing the Alphabet to make the show more of an event.

 

"In considering the powerful storytelling of 'Lost,' we felt this was the only way to give it a proper creative conclusion," ABC Entertainment prexy Steve McPherson said.

 

"I always said that we would allow the series to grow and give viewers the most compelling hour possible," he added. "And, due to the unique nature of the series, we knew it would require an end date to keep the integrity and strength of the show consistent throughout, and to give the audience the payoff they deserve. "

 

McPherson also acknowledged that getting Lindelof and Cuse to reup "was critical to me and the network."

 

ABC Television Studio prexy Mark Pedowitz shared that sentiment.

 

"We wanted to make sure we had the team responsible for its success in place for not only the run of the show, but so that each of their future series creations have a home at the studio after 'Lost,' " Pedowitz said.

 

J.J. Abrams, who co-created "Lost" with Lindelof, defected to Warner Bros. TV last year and has been focusing on a new slate of TV and film projects, including the revival of the "Star Trek" franchise for Paramount Pictures. He told Daily Variety that he fully supported the advance wrap decision.

 

"It is the right choice for the series and its viewers," he said via an email message. "It takes real foresight and guts to make a call like this. I applaud ABC and Touchstone for making this happen."

 

Lindelof and Cuse, who are putting the finishing touches on the third-season finale, released a joint statement praising what they termed "a bold and unprecedented move for ABC" and thanking McPherson and Pedowitz for making it.

 

Cuse added that he hoped more shows will be able to follow the "Lost" lead and declare an end date.

 

"I think for story-based shows like 'Lost,' as opposed to franchise-based shows like 'ER' or 'CSI,' the audience wants to know when the story is going to be over," Cuse wrote. "When J.K. Rowling announced that there would be seven 'Harry Potter' books, it gave the readers a clear sense of exactly what their investment would be. We want our audience to do the same."

 

Cuse confirmed that devising an exit strategy for "Lost" was key to reupping with ABC Television Studio.

 

"In making this deal, Damon and I had two priorities: defining an end point for the show and keeping the quality bar high," Cuse said. "To do that we are both fully committed to the day-to-day running of the show right up until the very end. It's also why the 16 episodes per year was key for us. Because our show is so mythological, and because, unlike '24,' we can't reset each season, we need the extra time fewer episodes affords us to really plan out the specifics of our storytelling."

 

Lindelof and Cuse made public their desire for an end date during the TV Critics Assn. press tour last winter (Daily Variety, Jan. 15).

 

Cuse and Lindelof also wanted an end date in order to mollify critics of the show who worried producers were simply spinning their wheels as they worked through the show's layer upon layer of mystery.

 

ABC execs had already been talking to the producers about the idea, but they seemed taken aback when Lindelof and Cuse made the conversations public.

 

Indeed, it would be understandable if ABC execs had been initially cool to the concept of an early end date.

 

After all, with major hits a rarity in the network game, the rule is to keep hits on the air until every last ounce of success has been squeezed from them (e.g., "ER" or "The X-Files").

 

And despite relentless media snarking this season -- and the fact that "Lost" has lost a chunk of its fall 2005 audience -- the series is still a top-15 hit that dominates its 10 p.m. Wednesday timeslot in key demos.

 

In its third season, it's still drawing as many young viewers as NBC's newer, more buzzed-about "Heroes" -- and that's not counting the roughly 2.1 million viewers who watch the show after its live broadcast or via free streaming on ABC.com.

 

ABC could be establishing a new formula by which nets find success through serving up skeins with more and more audacious concepts but shorter lifespans than the traditional network hit.

 

Already, the traditional syndie business model -- the one that required studios to produce 100 episodes of a show in order to recoup their investment -- seems to be fading away in an age of instant downloads and universal streaming.

 

That may be one reason, according to Lindelof, that McPherson and Pedowitz "never argued that the show should keep going and going. The issue has always been when it would end and how far out in front of that ending should we herald it."

 

Now that the end has been announced, Lindelof promised there would be no attempts to extend or continue the "Lost" mythology on air in some other way.

 

"There will be no extensions or enhancements. That number (48) is absolute," he said. And "once you begin to see where we're going, I think the idea of sequels and spinoffs will completely go away."

 

So if he, Cuse or Abrams suddenly come up with a killer plot thread that doesn't fit into the new timeline?

 

"We'll do it as a radio play," Lindelof quipped.

 

As for "Lost," show's end game is expected to kick into high gear later this month with the broadcast of the season finale. Details of the plot are under wraps, but a person who has read the script described it as a major shakeup to the plot.

 

"It changes everything," the person said.

 

Nothing's official yet, but ABC has all but said that the fourth season of "Lost" won't premiere until January or February of next year.

 

* “Lost” will run three more seasons after the one that concludes this month.

 

* Each of the final three seasons will only contain 16 episodes, instead of the 23 or 24 produced for the first three seasons.

 

* The 16-episode seasons will run without repeats.

[Matt Young 0]

Gee, I never saw that one coming, Starks.

[In Credible 0]

Awesome, I'm glad to see all the sour grapes haven't spoiled the potential that this show has had all along. Now we know that they will get to finish it on their terms and the way they wanted to (unlike the way Alias had to wrap up it's series with little prior notice).

[bobobrazil1984 0]

Good stuff. Now all that's left is getting rid of those fucking Others.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

You should honestly quit watching the show if you're sick of The Others. It's only going to get worse when we get flashbacks to when they first arrived on the island and we get new characters introduced.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

Awesome, I'm glad to see all the sour grapes haven't spoiled the potential that this show has had all along. Now we know that they will get to finish it on their terms and the way they wanted to (unlike the way Alias had to wrap up it's series with little prior notice).

 

Alias should have finished at the 3rd Season, 4th and 5th did nothing for me personally. It's good that we have time scale now, and we're not going to see 'wasteful' episodes thrown in to extend the run.

[slimm44 0]

The only negative, the seasons start in February.

 

But good news on the extension. Last week the rumors were that next season would be the final season.

[In Credible 0]

Awesome, I'm glad to see all the sour grapes haven't spoiled the potential that this show has had all along. Now we know that they will get to finish it on their terms and the way they wanted to (unlike the way Alias had to wrap up it's series with little prior notice).

 

Alias should have finished at the 3rd Season, 4th and 5th did nothing for me personally. It's good that we have time scale now, and we're not going to see 'wasteful' episodes thrown in to extend the run.

 

You're right, I thought the 4th season was bad, but I actually liked how the 5th started. I wasn't a big fan of the pregnancy Sydney, but it was almost history repeating itself at the beginning of the 5th and it put some new life into the series. Then they went on break and were cancelled, so they had to squeeze the end of the entire series into a small block of shows.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Your official ABC.com preview.....

 

"The Man Behind The Curtain"

 

Ben begrudgingly begins to introduce Locke to the secrets of the island, beginning with the mysterious Jacob.

 

So, somebody's likely dying tonight.

 

I haven't seen anybody post this but it's pretty interesting. Looks like they shot some fake scenes between Kate and Sawyer and Ben and Sayid and screened it in front of an audience somewhere.

 

The Final Episode?

[C Dubya 04 0]

I started to read spoilers for tonights episode, then forced myself to stop. From what I was reading, this should be a classic episode.

[C Dubya 04 0]

I started to read spoilers for tonights episode, then forced myself to stop. From what I was reading, this should be a classic episode.

[AboveAverage484 0]

Claire sucks. Why would anybody want to see more Claire?

 

Hey, piss off!

[Matt Young 0]

Yeah, I havealways liked Claire. She's beautiful, and her story is actually pretty good. She just hasn't gotten much screen time this season.

[Craig Th 0]

I haven't been this pumped for a LOST episode since the first episode of season 2.