LOST: Season 6Everyone knows that the next season of LOST, 6, will be it's last and final season. Above is the first LOST Season 6 promo poster. It features all of the original main characters, as well as several "dead" characters and some Flight 815 tail-end survivors. From left to right: Faraday, Boone, Miles, Michael, Anna Lucia, Charlotte, Shannon, Desmond, Eko, Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Locke, Ben, Sayid, Libby, Sun, Jin, Claire, Hurley, Juliet, Charlie, Lapidus, Richard, Bernard, and Rose. Also, note the strange hieroglyphics within the letters of "THE FINAL SEASON". What does it say? What does it mean? We're feeling mixed emotions of sadness, relief, and excitement. There are so many questions that we need answering, so many mysteries we need solved. Well, according to the producers and writers of the series, we will not be disappointed. Stephen McPherson, ABC Entertainmet President, announced that LOST will end during the 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. Starting with the 2007-2008 season, the final 48 episodes were going to be aired as three seasons (4, 5, and 6), each with 16 episodes. Due to the writer's strike, however, the fourth season featured 14 episodes and season 5 had 17 episodes. Season 6 was scheduled to have 17 episodes as well, however, on June 29 it was announced that the final season will feature an additional hour, making the episode count 18. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have 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 said, "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 Egyptian Goddess of childbirth and fertility), and the identity of the skeletons from the season one episode "House of the Rising Sun". Matthew Fox (Jack Shepherd) stated in a recent interview that in the final season, the characters of Jack and John Locke "will come head to head." A third of the way through the final season, the two timelines 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. Cuse has stated that both the time travel and flash-forward seasons are over, and they're moving into something different for the sixth season.
Well that is alot to think about and hold on to. Many of us are wondering which of our favorite and most missed dead losties will return and how, and we all want the organized tangle of mystery to be finally unraveled. I, for one, am one of LOST's biggest fans, and I'm sure everyone else like me can not wait until 2010 rolls by and the season 6 premiere airs. Until then, however, all we can do is wait and speculate on what we've been given. Here are the links to the 2009 Comic Con LOST panel:
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