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

do we know she's dead? we do know elizabeth mitchell is coming back to the show though so... i don't know.

we do know elizabeth mitchell is coming back to the show

not as a regular. and at one point she wasn't coming back at all. so if she is it's likely to be in flashback i'd have thunk.

http://www.movieline.com/2009/07/elizabeth-mitchell-on-losts-juliet-she-had-found-this-kind-of-peace-that-i-fought-very-hard-against.php

the bomb not having gone off would be the biggest horseshit ever

right but the question is... if the bomb went off and jack (? or whoever, i have forgotten) was RIGHT, then the reset happens. so juliet lives. if the bomb goes off and he's WRONG, then she dies. but then surely so does everyone else.

i guess they could do the reset and not have too much juliet because she is boring, idk.

The alternative is what Miles said, and that exploding atomic bomb plus freak electromagnetic event causes whatever Incident they were trying to prevent. So the plane crashes just as it's always supposed to, and they find themselves in the 70s dealing with the fallout from the Incident. Which probably won't happen.

But if the bomb goes off there probably isn't much Island for them to go back to even if they have to. Unless it just cancels out the electromagnetism and nothing else, in which case this is rubbish science. Actually it's rubbish science whichever way you look at it.

Didn't Sayid or someone say something about it being only a small part of the bomb? Or some crap? I remember thinking, "I see what you're trying to pull here".

yeah I think they only brought the detonator, certainly not the entire bomb. Anyway, I don't see any good way out of this other than the losties causing the incident they were trying to prevent.

yeah I think they only brought the detonator, certainly not the entire bomb.

I'm pretty sure they said it was the thermonuclear core. If it blows up it's a proper nuclear explosion.

Yeah, the detonator for an H-bomb is, in fact, an A-bomb.

yeah but how big of an A-bomb?

an a-bomb will fuck u up, even a small one.

I was gonna say, I don't think it particularly matters to any of the ppl on that site how small the A-bomb was!

A-Bomb detonates -> Dharma Initiative dudes plus young Ben plus Widmore and Elly badly fucked up or killed -> Desmond and Juliet never turn up on the Island in the first place -> Flight 815 never crashes -> Faraday never sent to the Island -> A-Bomb never detonated.

It would be bollocks of the highest order, in other words. The only way they've made time travel work by now is on the premise that you can't actually change anything.

Actually the bomb might actually have gone off when the US military originally put it there.

= widmore dies?

Haha they've really fucked up by giving us a cliffhanger that gives us the best part of the year to work out all the different ways Lost might jump the shark.

haven't they done that just about every year?

maybe the electromagnetic activity at the site causes everybody to travel through time a second before everything blows up. Also somebody moves the island at the just the right moment so it's saved too.

their plan actually working makes the most sense (bomb goes off, was not the original Incident referred to by Chang but takes the place of it effectively), so 815 doesn't crash...but Jacob does find some other way to bring them all to the island anyway (this is tough because we don't want to see a second 'return to island' right?). why was he seemingly only ever interested a few of them tho - presumably he didn't visit Michael, Eko etc.

Frankly I never bought the idea that Lost would split into different timelines, since the show seems so overwhelmingly in favor of predestination. So I was surprised at the finale, and having seen the Comic-Con teasers it does look like they're going for some of kind of reality reboot. Still though, this is the final season, they really don't any more time for wiggling, I'm just trusting they've had this final chapter basically ready for a while.

honestly they can handwave the bullshittiest soft sci-fi mumbojumbo in the world if it still makes for good TV as far as I'm concerned

i think they're keeping one timeline, just changing 'the future'

lol "perfect safety record"

http://twitpic.com/j2z9j/full

from the FlashForward premiere

yeah i saw that.

a bit like amy poehler having a poster for 'the office' in her... office in 'parks and recreation'.

More off-island Richard scenes sound good.

this needs to hurry up and start airing already

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee1/drstrust/smilies%20and%20emoticons/jail.gif

proper trailer NAO

not thaaaaaaaat long now

i'm going into hawaii next month

where should a huge lost geek go to, y'know, geek out?

Is it still scheduled for late January?

saw walt in a chicken nugget commercial

Walt flinging chickens into the nugget-making machine with his mind.

Does that count as being somewhere he wasn't supposed to be?

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.