A featurette has been released in anticipation of "Lost" 5.03 titled "Jughead". It is a video interview with some of the cast of the show, including Naveen Andrews aka Sayid, Elizabeth Mitchell aka Juliet and Michael Emerson aka Ben, talking about the idea behind the new season.
All three of them hint on what viewers can expect from the fifth season, including whether the Oceanic 6 will return to the island or not, and what happen to the island that the survivors get attacked. Elizabeth in particular said that a lot of the flashback scenes on the island will unravel the people they love but cannot see, thus it will be rather heartbreaking.
"Jughead" will air January 28. Desmond goes in search of a woman who could be the key to helping Faraday stop the island's erratic movements through time, and Locke discovers the identity of the unknown forces who have been attacking the survivors.
If you're a Lost fan, you know that every episode is rich with Easter eggs, winks at the fans and story secrets. We pointed out a few from the premiere in our Lost Redux and Jorge Garcia Q&A, but we just spoke exclusively to Lost coexecutive producers Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who wrote Wednesday's second hour ("The Lie"), and they dished on some undiscovered treasures from the premiere.
Find out what you missed, and what surprises the producers have in store for later in the season...
Secrets of Lost's Past, Present and Future
The writers had a little fun with the convenience store scene after Ana-Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) appeared to Hurley and told him to get his act together. According to Eddy, "A hidden secret was the T-shirt that Hurley was wearing—I heart my Shi Tzu. That was my dog Stewart's debut. I am so proud of him. And I think [executive producer] Jack Bender has a wire terrier [which was one of the other shirts]. And you know what no one caught? The song playing in the background [of the convenience store], 'Dream Police' by Cheap Trick. When Hurley walks in after seeing Ana-Lucia, 'Dream Police' is playing."
As for the future, according to Adam and Eddy, Lost's house band, Geronimo Jackson (first unearthed by music aficionados Charlie and Hurley in the hatch in season two), will be back this season. The return of Geronimo Jackson is the No. 1 thing Adam and Eddy think eager fans should look out for in coming episodes: "Who knows when it's going to appear, and what [song is] going to be on, and what sort of new things we can learn about them."
According to Eddy, the new appearance by G.J. even has a backstory: "There was a guy digging around at a house up in Laurel Canyon [in Los Angeles], and he found some old tracks, and he showed them to some friends in the music industry, and suffice it to say, they got around. Sometime in the future [Lost watchers] might hear a long-lost demo track for Geronimo Jackson's second album, the follow-up to Magna Carta. I've heard it, and it's pretty cool."
Exposé Exposed!
If you're a longtime fan of Lost, you're probably a closet fan of their show-within-a-show, Exposé, the "jiggle TV" caper series on which Oceanic 815 survivor Nikki Fernandez (Kiele Sanchez) appeared with Billy Dee Williams. And if you were paying attention on Wednesday night, you spotted Hurley's dad sitting down for the new season. Adam and Eddy do a little moonlighting as Exposé producers and offered an exclusive preview of the new season to E! Online:
Eddy says, "If you were listening closely to the 'Previously on Exposé,' you learned that there's a new character joining the team, Tsunami, who was their archrival. Tsunami used to work for Cobra, so the question is, how are Crystal, Corvette and Autumn going to deal with Tsunami being introduced? Well, actually Corvette's dead, that was Nikki, but Crystal and Autumn now have to team up with Tsunami, the dragon lady of Van Nuys. And how that plays out is anyone's guess." Adds Adam, "Especially with the Scorpion on the scene. It's going to be a wild season."
Crazy! (Who else wants Exposé to be a real show?)
What's to Come
What else is coming down the pike? We'll learn more about the differences between Miles and Hurley, who both commune with the dead. According to Eddy, "Hurley seems to actually see dead people, and Miles, he seems to only be able to listen or hear. I would say that they both have unique abilities, and that very question of how they differ may be explored by the end of the series."
Speaking of the dead, Eddy says their next script is the Feb. 11 ep. "Our next one is hour five, 'This Place Is Death.' It's intense, and we think people are going to really dig it." Adam: "It's too complicated to say who is centric, but in our minds, it will be more interesting to just see it cold."
Any theories on what Lost place, exactly, is so deadly? And are you OK with Tsunami joining the team, or do you still hate her for being one of Cobra's minions? Post in the comments!
Lyly i've no time and energy tonight to add promo pics :( so just fews of our losties 'cause we didn't get one before the episode but don't ask me why it's abc choice, i mean it wasn't spoiler but hé they did like that so enjoy and tomorrow night i'll do my fav job to add all promo pics for you guys :) 'night
well i said lost scoop but it's not really true, kristin said someone will confess his love to a woman who will be almost dead and we all know it will be between DANNY BOY AND CHARLOTTE ;)
The new format of Lost is totally freaking confusing. And yet…not at all.
As you fans will see when the series returns tonight to ABC for season five, the island is "skipping" through time, backward and forward, which makes things interesting, to say the least. But still, the good news is that Lost won't lose you. Or at least not for long.
So how did executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof pull off what is perhaps the most convoluted format for a TV series ever without completely losing the fans?
I just got off the phone with the Damon and Carlton, who explained their game plan for season five and set the record straight on who is really dead…
I just talked to your good friend Michael Emerson last week, and he said that there will be flash-forwards, flashbacks and "flash-presents." What the heck is a flash-present? Damon Lindelof: Wait. I think we’re having one right now.
Are we? DL: Is it the present? It is!
Stop. You just love messing with my mind. Carlton Cuse: You know, time is a really relative thing. We basically didn’t want to lock ourselves into one way of storytelling, so we have characters off the island that are trying to get back to the island; we have characters that are on the island but are skipping through time; and we might introduce some other characters that might be drifting in some other places in time. We’re moving back and forth between the stories, but not in just the traditional flashback or flash-forward mode. We always look at it this way: What’s the best way to tell any individual story on the show? That’s how we do it, and sometimes it’s flash-forward, sometimes it’s flashbacks and sometimes it’s flash-presents.
You know all of that sounds confusing, right? So was it tricky making sure the audience could follow? How did you do that? DL: I think one way is to keep characters on the show who ask the questions that the audience is asking. So basically, if Dan Faraday is a physicist who is an expert in the space-time continuum, put him in conversations with Sawyer, who knows nothing about time travel and in fact is not interested in time travel. All he cares about is getting a shirt on. And all the female viewers care about is him not getting a shirt on. DL: (Laughs) Right. You know, we try to ground the show in a certain reality so that even when wacky things are happening, this is a world that dates all the way back to the pilot. If a polar bear comes running out of the jungle, you can sit around all day and talk about where you think it came from, but what’s more important is that you shoot it before it eats you.
In the premiere, we have at least two dead characters popping back in. Are we going to see more dead characters return this season? DL: You know, Lost always prides itself on the ability to give blasts from the past and see faces that haven’t been around for awhile. Christian Shephard, obviously, was dead before the plane even took off from Sydney and has worked more than most of the actors on the show, so you never know when someone’s going to show up.
But are all the dead people really dead? DL: We’ve tried to stick to the rule that when you die on the island, you are dead for good, unless you appear to Hurley. We try to play the dead card as infrequently as possible so that it doesn’t get stale. CC: Some of the actors, actually, they realize that they can work more once they are dead so they don’t really mind getting killed off.
Can Locke escape death somehow? DL: He looked pretty dead to me.