The island wanted LOST SEASON SIX THREAD to happen (***CLICK CAREFULLY -- CONTAINS SPOILERS***)

lol

i do hope we see walt again

I think virtually everyone will come back, even for a brief cameo, at some point during this season.

Damon Lindelof interview in USA Today from a couple weeks ago:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2009/10/a-lost-qa-damon-lindelof-tackles-your-questions/1

Great interview! My guess on the recurring character who didn't want to come back is Danielle. Surprised he was so candid about Cynthia Watros though. What is she even doing?

So it's moving to Tuesday nights at 9. Because hey! Why not move it around again?

eh...no biggie. They know the hard core of fans isn't going to bail now, and the back story's too complicated to entice too many new viewers, so why not. I'm just glad to finally get a start date.

Yeah, it's 2/2/10 btw.

(is that a clue for something?)

nah just conveniently the start of sweeps is my guess

Figured something like this would happen when Modern Family/Cougar Town have been doing well, they don't want to move them since they've got a brand new audience tuning into them. i guess The Middle is also doing well enough for them not to bump it out of its slot...

Just re-watching the first couple of episodes (an attempt to run thru all the seasons before 2/2/10, will probably give up when I get to Jack's tattoos, Jack/Sawyer/Locke fighting for the 1000000th time etc etc).

Not sure if it's just cos I haven't watched any Lost in ages but the pacing and music etc seems a bit different. I wish Shannon had died in like the first episode though.

Seems I'm not the only one :) http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Rewatch

I've started rewatching Season 1, but just skipping around and kind of watching whichever episodes on the DVDs have commentary + random others in between, because I just want to brush up on the first few seasons before rewatching all of S5 (which the wife hasn't seen) when it comes out on DVD next month.

i started last week but i only got halfway through episode 2.

Just re-watching the first couple of episodes (an attempt to run thru all the seasons before 2/2/10, will probably give up when I get to Jack's tattoos, Jack/Sawyer/Locke fighting for the 1000000th time etc etc).

God yeah, there was a rough stretch in there wasn't there? What was this, season 3?

I think every season has had its rough patches, but there were some dreary parts of S3 & 4 especially.

just starting to rewatch season 5 now. :)!

also last 3 mins of many an episode filled with contemporary soundtrack + montage of main characters walking around/sitting thoughtfully on the beach/near a fire

Thought that stopped once the batteries on Hurley's discman ran out?

2/2/10? So they'll show 2 episodes and then take two weeks off for the winter Olympics? That means the plan for seasons 4, 5, & 6 to run uninterrupted has been a total failure.

Just re-watching the first couple of episodes (an attempt to run thru all the seasons before 2/2/10, will probably give up when I get to Jack's tattoos, Jack/Sawyer/Locke fighting for the 1000000th time etc etc).

Yeah but it gets brilliant straight after that!

Thing about the Libby thing is that it's one of those things that could just purely be a coincidence, Ghostwritten-style. There's not necessarily any need to bring Libby back in order to answer that one.

If there's no Walt I'll be really pissed off though.

The producers said that Libby was in the mental hospital because her husband died, and by the time she gave Des the boat she was better.

2/2/10? So they'll show 2 episodes and then take two weeks off for the winter Olympics? That means the plan for seasons 4, 5, & 6 to run uninterrupted has been a total failure.

I think they're actually taking the Olympics on and running straight through them. Plus, it's really a necessity if they've got 18 episodes, but assuming the first is a two hour and the finale is a two hour, then 16 airdates, meaning that they've basically got to start on February 2nd or they won't finish during May sweeps.

Looks like they've cast another Deadwood actor--John Hawkes, who played Sol.

hopefully he doesn't die pointlessly in three episodes, never to be heard from again

saw walt in a chicken nugget commercial

Wait was it Mr Clucks?

who else have been from Deadwood?

juliet's sister

ahhh

Silas Adams was esau.

John Hawkes was also the dude from Me and You and Everyone We Know.

"who else have been from Deadwood?"

Also the blond prostitute who got killed pointlessly, etc.

John Hawkes was also the dude from Me and You and Everyone We Know.

The island = ))<>(( forever.

no one asked what else hawkes was in.xls

(eastbound and down!)

Don't forget William Saunderson (EB Farnum) as the Crazy Interrogation Expert for Dharma.

xp There was a pointless murder of a blonde prostitute on Lost? How did I block that out?

lol a friend of mine's sister is the prostitute that got killed on Deadwood iirc -- supposedly they were interested in her being a long term regular but she or her family was embarrassed or uncomfortable about the ahem nature of the show/role so they wrote her off

braggin 09

no one asked what else hawkes was in.xls

No, I volunteered the information. I've never seen Deadwood, so that's the only thing I know him from.

i dunno i guess more namedroppin than braggin? i've never seen the show or met her myself so it was just a piece of trivia i wanted to be able to drop at some point.

worked out nicely on the show, if that's the prostitute i'm thinking of

The actress was I was referring to was Paula Malcolmson (who played Trixie on Deadwood), she was basically put on the show at the beginning of Season 3 as one of the Others, only to be killed for no good reason immediately.

hopefully he doesn't die pointlessly in three episodes, never to be heard from again

RIP Zoe Bell T_T

hahaha. at least she got some off-screen radio time!

I think it might be helpful to rewatch without the mindset that certain characters are going to be much bigger and more important than they turn out to be. I think anytime they made a big deal about such and such actor joining the cast, I always thought that they were going to be a regular and/or return from the dead somehow after they were killed off three episodes into their stint.

OR MAYBE THEY WILL BE RETURNING FROM THE DEAD AFTER ALL........

how many characters introduced after season 2 have even really been important or had much long term screentime? I mean Juliet obviously and I guess Faraday and Lapidus, but it seems like in general the show is intent on always coming back to the original core cast, and when someone new shows up I usually don't expect a lot more than a brief arc.

Any new character introduced this late in the series almost has to be cannon fodder. They don't have time to get into any back story for them. From a recent press release it seemed that Frank and Illana are listed as main cast members for SSN 6.

Unless the new character is Alvar Hanso or something.