Walt Disney Home Video is releasing Season 5 of Lost on DVD and Blu-ray on December 8th of this year. They’re also — for the first time ever — releasing a special edition package that includes everything the DVD or Blu-ray sets contain, plus a whole bunch of special extras. TVShowsonDVD.com has acquired the first image of what this special edition set looks like, and here it is. Can I get a “wow!” out there, anybody? Holy crap!

It’s called The Complete 5th Season Dharma Initiation Kit, and based on what can be seen in the image, it looks to be an appropriately weathered-looking 3-ring binder that contains Dharma pamphlets, Dharma dossiers, octagonal logo patches, a VHS tape marked “Orientation Video” that we have to assume contains all of Pierre Chang’s orientation vids as seen on the show, and the DVD or Blu-ray discs in sleeves made to resemble old school floppy disks.

As TVShowsonDVD.com right points out, the image is marked as preliminary artwork and “subject to change.” So don’t take it to the bank just yet. But right now, it looks like the kind of set that most of us fans would wet ourselves over!

Image: TVShowsonDVD.com/Walt Disney Home Video.

With the raft nearly ready to depart and rescue suddenly a possibility, Kate makes a play for Sawyer’s spot on the raft. Locke and Sayid show Jack the Hatch.

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Several weeks in advance of Comic-Con 2009, the annual mega-event where (among other things) Lost masterminds Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse end their self-imposed radio silence post-season finale, the powerhouse duo participated in a Q&A for fans in London over the weekend at the Curzon Cinema. A blogger named McLeron attended the event and has provided a complete transcript of all that was revealed.

There’s a lot to digest in the transcript, but here are the comments this blogger believes to be the most telling, along with my thoughts:

• Damon Lindelof: “You are married to your destiny, you can try to avoid it, but it will catch up to you.” I’m thinking this is going to be hugely important in Season 6. Perhaps the hydrogen bomb’s detonation caused some changes to the timeline, but ultimately will not be able to alter the destinies of the main characters.
• Lindelof shut down any possibilities for spin-offs, comic books, or any other continuations of the show once Season 6 ends, saying, “We feel that if we hold anything back for the final season of the show, it will be bad. People have come along this far, and they need a conclusion.” Bravo, Mr. L. A very wise man, you are.
• Lindelof reveals that celebrated comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan, who’s been on the Lost writing staff since Season 3, has “left for greener pastures.” Say what?! I hadn’t heard that. Did we know this already? Somebody help me out here, I’m seriously bummed over this.
• Filming on Season 6 begins Monday, August 24th.
• Regarding where the show’s major characters find themselves, at the beginning of Season 6, Lindelof would only cryptically say, “…everybody gets back together in one form or another, and we feel that Season 6 is a lot like Season 1 with its [feeling of] community.” Sounds like the whole gang is getting back together!

Sayid takes it upon himself to ascertain the truth from Locke about what really happened to Boone, while Shannon vows revenge on the person she holds responsible for Boone’s death.

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While Jack tries to save Boone’s life, Claire goes into labor.

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Entertainment Weekly reports that actor Mark Pellegrino, who was unveiled as Lost’s Jacob at the end of Season 5, is joining the cast of The CW’s Supernatural playing none other than Satan himself. (Hopefully he’s not being pigeonholed for playing rather spectral, non-human characters.)

If you’re wondering (and of course you are) if this means that Jacob’s time on Lost is over, and Jacob may really be dead after all… EW points out that Pellegrino’s status on Supernatural is as a recurring character, not a regular. So he should still have free time on his schedule in case some trips to Hawaii are requested of him…

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Okay, so we know that Dominic Monaghan (Charlie), Maggie Grace (Shannon), and Ian Somerhalder (Boone) are all keen to return to Lost in its final season, and at least one of them has been in active talks with the show’s producers about that very possibility.

Now Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the actor who famously played Mr. Eko — and then asked to be released from his contract long before his planned character arc was finished — says he wouldn’t mind going back to Lost. “To be able to give that rich character some completion would be nice,” he told TV Guide Magazine. Quite a change of heart.

But as TVG points out, the actor burned a lot of bridges with the show’s producers when he left it prematurely, forcing them to compensate by ending their long-term plans for his character. What do you think? Could a full-on reunion with Lost’s dearly departed be in the cards for Season 6? Or would Lost’s producers even consider bringing the actor back, after their difficult first experience?

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Locke’s troubled history with his father is revealed when he believes the island is leading him and Boone to search the jungle for another downed aircraft. Elsewhere, a bemused Jack diagnoses the source of Sawyer’s recent headaches.

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There’s been some speculation that Lost’s sixth and final season might tack on an extra hour beyond the contracted 18. Over the weekend, EW’s Michael Ausiello reported via Twitter that the rumors are true: Season 6 will be comprised of a total of 18 hours, thanks to a planned 2-hour premier and a 2-hour finale.

Hurley decides to track down the French woman, Danielle Rousseau, after he sees something alarmingly familiar on one of the papers Sayid stole from her. Locke asks for Claire’s help in building a mysterious item.

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