ABC has released the latest editions of Lost Untangled, the 5-minute retrospective on what happened in each new episode, and the official Lost podcast.

Up first is Untangled, which I didn’t care for as much as past episodes. The silly vocal impression of John Locke is so off it ruins the whole thing for me. But it has a few good moments.

The official Lost podcast this week zeroes in on Matthew Fox and his character, Jack Shephard. Fox talks about his character’s evolution over the course of the last five seasons, and his take on where Jack is at now.

Here’s that promised new scene from “Because You Left,” the premier episode of Season 5.

Season 5 begins January 21st with a three-hour premier event. Speculation begins here.

This week’s Dharma Special Access with Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse is a special holiday edition, featuring a new sneak peek scene from the season premier (more on that in a sec) and Team Darlton answering fan questions about the show. Highlights and more after the jump.

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Lyly Ford Blog turned up ten new promotional pictures for Season Five. The pics are individual profile shots that match the cast shots from the Season Five poster (that “Destiny Calls” one you’ve probably seen a dozen times by now), which were obviously Photoshopped together to create the poster. Here’s your chance to see each character image from that poster solo, if that strikes your fancy. Note that these are not official ABC images, but instead appear to be the cut-and-paste (but still very professional looking) concoction of a TV network in Brazil, using the Destiny Calls poster as source material. But they still turn up a few interesting tidbits…

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In another excerpt from that much-discussed roundtable interview with series producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (this one from Sci Fi Wire), Lindelof points to the Jack and Locke “greenhouse scene” in the season finale as the most pivotal moment of Season 4. He says:

 …the ramifications of Locke telling Jack — once again — that he’s not supposed to leave the island, but if he does, he must LIE about everything that happens… is essentially what kicks off the entire story of the Oceanic Six. We think it’s really cool that it was actually Locke’s idea, even though Jack doesn’t present it that way. And now that Jack is standing over Locke’s coffin, the relationship between these two men becomes really central to the endgame of our story.

In essence, he’s saying that the greenhouse scene is crucial to what’s coming (and I read that to mean particularly in Season 6). They’ve been telling us since around Season 2 that the Jack/Locke, science/faith dynamic would be absolutely central to the show, so it’s nice to see that they intend to pay this off as the story reaches its climax.

Also, about the new storytelling structure that will be utilized in Season 5, Lindelof dropped this little tidbit:

The cool thing about Season 5 is that it takes a little while for your brain to fully absorb how the story is unfolding, but hopefully, once it does, you’ll realize we’re trying something new yet again.

It sounds like what we’re going to see this year is not flashbacks or flashforwards, but something… else. Can’t wait to see what it is! What do you think it will be?

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Character Profile
Jack Shephard
Flash Forwards

These flash forwards are presented in the order that they were viewed on the show. In parenthesis are numbers corresponding to the order that they flash forwards would appear chronologically for Jack’s life off the island.

Episode 3.22: Through the Looking Glass
(11) Jack drives down the road, listening to loud music. He pulls to the side of the road. He walks into a funeral home and asks if the funeral is over. There was no funeral, just a viewing. Nobody came. Jack takes a pill from a bottle and walks out.

(12) Jack unlocks a medical cabinet and takes some Oxycodone. As he goes to leave he knocks some files over. Dr. Hamill enters and says she’s been trying to get in touch with him. She says they need to talk about the woman that he saved on the bridge. Jack says that she knows nothing about him. “Do you have any idea what I’ve been through?” She asks how much he’s had to drink today. Jack says that if he’s drunker than his father, she can fire him. Read more

A clip from the latest Mitovich Mega Minute saying that we’ve not seen the last of Jack/Juliet kisses.

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Episode 4.06: The Other Woman
Airs: March 6, 2008
Spoiler

Guess what! Jack and Juliet will share a passionate kiss in this episode. Woo hoo!

Source: DarkUFO

Lost Mobisode
Episode 13: So It Begins

Video and Transcript after the jump…
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Kristin on E!Online revealed the following new general Lost Season 4 Spoilers.

• The Jack and Kate “because I love you” will be addressed. More than once even!
• Jack and Juliet’s romantic progress in the first four episodes will be pretty much nil. Or boring… one of the two!
• Ben reminds her a little of Boss Tweed or Don Corleone in his heyday. He’s on the wrong side of the law, but he has rock-solid relationships with grand pooh-bahs, with little people and with everyone in between, and as such, his influence extends to places you’d never imagine. S
• Unfortunately - just because we’re getting flash-forwards does not mean we learn now how it all turns out. Being at the “beginning of the end” means we’re actually smack in the middle of the story.

Source: E!Online