The Latest On The Return of “Lost”
My daughter got me to watch this show. Starting with season 4 as it was happening, then seasons 1 through 3 on video-disc in between the new episodes. Will I get back into it again after almost a year’s absence from the air? Probably. I’ll admit I have an addictive personality, and, remembering how easily I was drawn into “Dark Shadows” as a kid, I avoided the 80’s stuff (”Dallas” “Dynasty”, etc.) like the plague … although I somehow got sucked into “Falcon Crest”. “Lost” may be a soap, but it’s a fairly good one. It’s also well-produced television … and, seeing as there is so precious little of it these days, I’ll probably follow it through to the finish.
(season 5 promotional poster)
From Wikipedia, “the seventeen-episode fifth season will continue the stories of the survivors of the fictional crash of Oceanic Flight 815, after some of them are rescued and those still stranded seemingly disappear to an unknown location and time with the island that they inhabit. According to co-creator/executive producer/writer Damon Lindelof, the season ‘is about why the [people who have left the island] need to get back’. While the island stories of episodes of prior seasons were intercut with flashbacks or flashforwards of a featured character, the fifth season will be presented differently with part of each episode taking place off the island and the other part following characters on the island in a different time. Lost is scheduled to return on January 21st with a three-hour premiere consisting of a clip-show and two back-to-back new episodes. The remainder of the season will air on Wednesdays at 9:00 P.M. Returning are leader Dr. Jack, fugitive Kate, mentally unstable millionaire Hugo, future assassin Sayid, grieving wife Sun, former leader of the island’s inhabitants Ben, and three-year islander Desmond, who have all left the island. Also returning are crash survivor Sawyer, former Other Dr. Juliet, and Miles, a member of the science team from a freighter offshore. John Locke leaves his fellow crash survivors to become the new leader of the Others and is last seen dead in a coffin (under the name Jeremy Bentham) in flashforwards to three years into the future. The writers have announced that Jin will return (it has been reported that Jin survives and remains a main character in the fifth season), and the producers have stated that Vincent, a dog who survived the crash and lives on the island will be alive and well through to the series’ conclusion.”