02-07-07
Dear "Lost" Fans;
EW reveals clues for the rest of the season
Want answers? You'll get 'em! (Maybe.) When Lost returns from a hiatus on Feb. 7, fans will get 16 consecutive episodes, as well as the scoop on Jack's tattoos, Locke's wheelchair, and Desmond's creepy clairvoyance, which exec producer Damon Lindelof says factors ''big-time'' into the remainder of season 3. A preview of some other burning questions:
Is mutinous Others doc Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) a friend to the castaways - or a foe?
''Her agenda is more in line with the castaways' than we originally suspected, but that does not mean she is not sinister,'' says Lindelof. FYI, the Feb. 7 episode is all about Juliet.
How will Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) escape Others Island?
Of course, the showrunners wouldn't tell us - but exec producer Carlton Cuse allows, ''You heard correctly: The Others do have a submarine.''
The Hatch ''imploded,'' according to Locke (Terry O'Quinn). Case closed?
Nope, says Lindelof. ''Definitely more to this story. You will get a better picture of what happened when Desmond [Henry Ian Cusick] turned the fail-safe key.''
Who is ''Jacob,'' and why is Jack (Matthew Fox) not on his ''list''?
''The answer lies further downstream in the ongoing story,'' says Cuse. A clue? Lindelof reminds fans that character names in Lost are not assigned without reason. Yes, that is a clue.
Also from EW:
I'm going to make a statement that perhaps not all of you Lostophiles might agree with. Here it is: I don't believe that Lost needs to solve all its mysteries. Don't get me wrong: Clearly, there's a whole raft of questions the series must answer. Who are the Others? What is the Monster? Where did Michael and Walt go? And my new favorite: What's the deal with Patchy, the one-eyed creep Locke and company spotted on the video monitor in the Pearl station?....Except for Kelvin. Now there's one of those possible ''minor mysteries of Lost'' that absolutely, positively needs some resolution, at least in my book.
If you're struggling to recall who I'm talking about, Kelvin was the U.S. military spook who forced Sayid into becoming a torturer during the Gulf War. He was also the guy who was manning the Hatch when Desmond washed up on the island roughly three years ago. BURNING QUESTION: How did Kelvin wind up on the island as a member of the Dharma Initiative?
OPTION ONE If you believe that the Hanso Foundation and the Dharma Initiative were/are legit, then a simple answer to this question is that Kelvin was tasked by his spymasters to infiltrate the Hanso Foundation and figure out what happened to the Dharma Initiative. He found his way to the island, and got sucked into the insanity of Dharma's whole ''What's real?/what's not?/and even if you think it's not, can you take a chance on being wrong?'' dealio. And when Desmond showed up with his boat, he found the means to both pass the buck and get his butt off the island.
OPTION TWO Everything about the Hanso Foundation and the Dharma Initiative is a hoax - an elaborate lie created by Cold War-era utopian idealist/activist prankster Alvar Hanso, designed to undermine BOTH the United States of America and the Soviet Union. His idea: trick both countries into thinking he found a way to save the world. His hope: force the superpowers into diverting their attention away from each other and toward his mysterious enterprise. Call it ''Operation: Venus Flytrap.'' The whole point of Dharma was to lure agents from both countries (like Kelvin and his old Hatchmate, Radzinsky, who per this theory could have been a KGB agent) to infiltrate the Hanso Foundation, become part of the Initiative, and get to the island in order to find out what the hell was going on there.
Ironically, those who believe that Lost is actually just a big waste of time are more right than they know. Because that's basically the true purpose of Dharma: to waste the time and energy of the two superpowers leading the world toward ruin.
IMPLICATIONS Could the Others be a collective of secret agents, American and Russian, who came to the island, saw through the deception, but for various reasons abandoned their respective missions, banded together, and are now hiding out from their spymasters?
Could this explain why Ben told Sawyer that they were better con men than he could ever be - because they are all spies, trained in the art of deception and subterfuge?
And could it be that a long, long time ago, the U.S. and the Soviet Union figured out Hanso's ruse, but instead of busting him, have co-opted his enterprise for their own benefit? Could the island be a place where they banish bad agents and other undesirables? Or could it even be a place like The Village in The Prisoner - the place where they send People With Secrets in order to figure out what secrets they're hiding?
Or what if one of the castaways is a sleeper agent with a secret mission, and when he finds the target of this mission, a suppressed memory will activate inside the mind of this secret someone, and his flashback will reveal everything?
I'm thinking this secret someone could be Sayid.And I'm thinking he's been sent to the island to kill Patchy.
EW reveals clues for the rest of the season
Want answers? You'll get 'em! (Maybe.) When Lost returns from a hiatus on Feb. 7, fans will get 16 consecutive episodes, as well as the scoop on Jack's tattoos, Locke's wheelchair, and Desmond's creepy clairvoyance, which exec producer Damon Lindelof says factors ''big-time'' into the remainder of season 3. A preview of some other burning questions:
Is mutinous Others doc Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) a friend to the castaways - or a foe?
''Her agenda is more in line with the castaways' than we originally suspected, but that does not mean she is not sinister,'' says Lindelof. FYI, the Feb. 7 episode is all about Juliet.
How will Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) escape Others Island?
Of course, the showrunners wouldn't tell us - but exec producer Carlton Cuse allows, ''You heard correctly: The Others do have a submarine.''
The Hatch ''imploded,'' according to Locke (Terry O'Quinn). Case closed?
Nope, says Lindelof. ''Definitely more to this story. You will get a better picture of what happened when Desmond [Henry Ian Cusick] turned the fail-safe key.''
Who is ''Jacob,'' and why is Jack (Matthew Fox) not on his ''list''?
''The answer lies further downstream in the ongoing story,'' says Cuse. A clue? Lindelof reminds fans that character names in Lost are not assigned without reason. Yes, that is a clue.
Also from EW:
I'm going to make a statement that perhaps not all of you Lostophiles might agree with. Here it is: I don't believe that Lost needs to solve all its mysteries. Don't get me wrong: Clearly, there's a whole raft of questions the series must answer. Who are the Others? What is the Monster? Where did Michael and Walt go? And my new favorite: What's the deal with Patchy, the one-eyed creep Locke and company spotted on the video monitor in the Pearl station?....Except for Kelvin. Now there's one of those possible ''minor mysteries of Lost'' that absolutely, positively needs some resolution, at least in my book.
If you're struggling to recall who I'm talking about, Kelvin was the U.S. military spook who forced Sayid into becoming a torturer during the Gulf War. He was also the guy who was manning the Hatch when Desmond washed up on the island roughly three years ago. BURNING QUESTION: How did Kelvin wind up on the island as a member of the Dharma Initiative?
OPTION ONE If you believe that the Hanso Foundation and the Dharma Initiative were/are legit, then a simple answer to this question is that Kelvin was tasked by his spymasters to infiltrate the Hanso Foundation and figure out what happened to the Dharma Initiative. He found his way to the island, and got sucked into the insanity of Dharma's whole ''What's real?/what's not?/and even if you think it's not, can you take a chance on being wrong?'' dealio. And when Desmond showed up with his boat, he found the means to both pass the buck and get his butt off the island.
OPTION TWO Everything about the Hanso Foundation and the Dharma Initiative is a hoax - an elaborate lie created by Cold War-era utopian idealist/activist prankster Alvar Hanso, designed to undermine BOTH the United States of America and the Soviet Union. His idea: trick both countries into thinking he found a way to save the world. His hope: force the superpowers into diverting their attention away from each other and toward his mysterious enterprise. Call it ''Operation: Venus Flytrap.'' The whole point of Dharma was to lure agents from both countries (like Kelvin and his old Hatchmate, Radzinsky, who per this theory could have been a KGB agent) to infiltrate the Hanso Foundation, become part of the Initiative, and get to the island in order to find out what the hell was going on there.
Ironically, those who believe that Lost is actually just a big waste of time are more right than they know. Because that's basically the true purpose of Dharma: to waste the time and energy of the two superpowers leading the world toward ruin.
IMPLICATIONS Could the Others be a collective of secret agents, American and Russian, who came to the island, saw through the deception, but for various reasons abandoned their respective missions, banded together, and are now hiding out from their spymasters?
Could this explain why Ben told Sawyer that they were better con men than he could ever be - because they are all spies, trained in the art of deception and subterfuge?
And could it be that a long, long time ago, the U.S. and the Soviet Union figured out Hanso's ruse, but instead of busting him, have co-opted his enterprise for their own benefit? Could the island be a place where they banish bad agents and other undesirables? Or could it even be a place like The Village in The Prisoner - the place where they send People With Secrets in order to figure out what secrets they're hiding?
Or what if one of the castaways is a sleeper agent with a secret mission, and when he finds the target of this mission, a suppressed memory will activate inside the mind of this secret someone, and his flashback will reveal everything?
I'm thinking this secret someone could be Sayid.And I'm thinking he's been sent to the island to kill Patchy.