When is LOST starting up again? (2 Viewers)

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

hey, you guys wanna see a dead body?

 

[pete]

Make no mistake, out of all the shows whose fate has been left dangling in the wind by the just-concluded writers' strike, the one we're most concerned about is Lost. Good thing, then, that the sixth fifth fourth third second first call Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse made after meeting with ABC execs this evening to finalize the new plan for Season 4 was to, yep, you guessed it, Variety Hollywood Reporter Entertainment Weekly Golf Digest Mac Addict me!

Welcome back!
Carlton Cuse: It's good to be back. It'll be even better tomorrow when the writers all start rolling in and we start getting to work... pending the vote, of course.

What came out of your meeting with ABC today?
Cuse: Damon [Lindelof] and I are going to try and make five more episodes before the end of May, which is ambitious. But, we've found ourselves in situation where we had eight episodes of story planned, and we're going to try to fit that into five hours of the show. Even though it's going to be very hard to execute, we felt like any less would be doing a disservice to the story we had planned. We really want to give the fans the best possible experience and ending that we can to Season 4.

Any chance that the first of the five episodes will air the week after that last pre-strike episode— thus eliminating any scheduling gap?
Cuse: No, there's probably going to be four weeks between the airing of the first batch of episodes and our new episodes.

What will happen to the three "lost" episodes? Will they roll over into next season's 16, or will they vanish forever?
Cuse: Damon and I remain committed to producing the 40 additional hours of the show that we promised. We haven't figured out exactly when we'll put those other three on, but we're not eliminating them from the show. You will get those three episodes downstream.

I know it's early, but have you decided what will have to get cut from this season's arc in order to accelerate things? Are we going to lose some flashbacks and/or flash-forwards?
Cuse: All those conversations will take place tomorrow when we actually start talking about story.

Is it possible that some guest actors you were planning to use before the strike may no longer be available now? Like, for example, Andrea Roth?
Cuse: Yeah, there are a lot of issues that have to get sorted out. We're also in the middle of pilot season... We're kind of figuring out what has happened to all of our actors who have gone on to do other things. Literally, there are cobwebs on the couches in the writers' room. Call me in a couple of days and I should have more answers for you.

OK, last question: Have you come up with a code word for this season's top-secret cliffhanger?
Cuse: [Laughs] Not yet. That's a very good point. We'll have to get on that. If you have any ideas, Mike, let us know.

(BTW, I was joking in my intro. I'm pretty sure I was Carlton's first. Wait, that came out wrong... )

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[pete]

Lost is back! Oh, wait, that happened two weeks ago.

What I mean is, Lost will be back-back, after the strike. And even better, we've just checked in with inside sources, and we have dates! Yes, dates! So, break out your calendars, 'cause we're hearing this is the approved plan:

The last episode of the current pod (episode seven) will air Mar. 13. Then the show will be off the air for six weeks and return Apr. 24 at 9 p.m.

(That Apr. 24 episode will be the already-completed episode eight, which was filmed prestrike, but which apparently works much better as a minipremiere than it does as a minifinale.)

Anyhoo, the following week, on Thurs., May 1, a little show called Grey's Anatomy returns to its usual 9 p.m. time slot, so Lost will move to 10 p.m., where it will stay for the rest of the season.

"Yippee" just doesn't do it justice, does it?

To find out what this all means for the season-four story, I checked in with my personal Jesus, Damon Lindelof, who explains how his writing team plans to squish the eight episodes of plot they had planned into only five more episodes.

"We are going to execute our full story plan for season four," D.L. says. "This simply requires a shift from high-octane storytelling to superhigh-octane storytelling. It requires no cramming, only a slightly heavier foot on the gas pedal...so, hold on to your hats. Those of you waiting for the long-anticipated Jin and Hurley Ping-Pong tournament, however, will be very disappointed.

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[tim]

Did they explain that Hurley is deadly at table tennis by playing in the asylum. These are the kind of things I really need to know.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

in real life hurley would eat the table becuase he's so fat
and he would think it was made out of sweets

hahahahah

 

[tim]

in real life hurley would eat the table becuase he's so fat
and he would think it was made out of sweets

hahahahah

I heard he ate CHristian SHepard's corpse.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

hurley ate artz's remains

 

[tim]

GOOFBALLS!

 

[pete]

my guesses

Oceanic 6:

Spoiler

Jack
Kate
Hurley
Sayid
Jin
Sun

Also off:

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ben
juliet
desmond

 

[nofriendo]

Spoiler

jack
kate
hurley
sayid
ben
desmond

 

[pete]

Spoiler

jack
kate
hurley
sayid
ben
desmond

see, the last two don't count...

 

[nofriendo]

see, the last two don't count...

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yeah, but if ben made it off the island do you not think that he would lie and say he was on the plane....or something like that

also just thought, if michael and walt got off the island wouldnt they be included in the 6 ? that would then only leave room for 4! Jack, Kate, Sayid, Ben

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

f - the spoiler tags, shit's been broadcast all over the place

are you dim or something godson? do all the fake passports
and wads of cash not suggest that ben has other means of
getting off the island? i mean seriously!

i'm lovin this series though. shame it'll be so short.

i ham sayid jahrrahh, but deiirdreee, hi love hyou...

 

[tim]

His glasses were terrible

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

i have solved the mystery of who is in the coffin!

 

[nofriendo]

are you dim or something godson? do all the fake passports
and wads of cash not suggest that ben has other means of
getting off the island? i mean seriously!

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what with the sub and the boat gone ? I didnt realise that he could have just headed to the islands airport with those passports! you would think someone would have found the airport by now.

of course the writers can just make up some other way of ben getting off the island (i am predicting a terradactyl) but the fact that these folk came to the island to get ben and desmond, maybe.....you know.....just maybe........they might actually take them

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

SHUT UP GODSON! he's not gonna be one of the oceanic six
and they still have the VW van, so he could probably drive or
get a lift if he doesn't have his license

 

[Johnnyc]

What's the deal with the delay on that "mini-rocket thing" that the chicken from Saving Private Ryan called in?

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

plot device to let us know that something weird is up with the island!
possibly to do with....TIME???

 

[tim]

plot device to let us know that something weird is up with the island!
possibly to do with....TIME???

Maybe just maybe. Does anybody genuinely care about shit like that? Was anybody actually like "oh my god the rocket was delayed....mmmm.....what an intriguing mystery we have on our hands".