TV Guide’s Matt Mitovich posted a brief Q&A with Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, in which Mitovich manages to actually get them to spill good info on some truly “burning questions.” Fear not, spoilerhounds, there are none to be found here. Just hints as to what’s coming, and when. Of greatest interest to yours truly was their rather revealing (if you read between the lines) answer to whether or not “all” of the Oceanic Six really have to go back to the island… As well as how they’ll get there…

Continuing the series I began last week, here are a few more tidbits I’ve picked up so far from viewing the extra features on the Season 4 DVD set:

• The 20-minute “Conspiracy of Lies” fake documentary reveals that Boone, Libby, and Charlie were the three survivors the Oceanic Six claimed died on the island, in their lie about the crash. I think this may have been mentioned somewhere before by the producers or someone connected to the show, but I can’t recall ever seeing official confirmation of it until now.
• The season finale, the three-part “There’s No Place Like Home,” began filming before the script was complete. During the filming of the scene of the Oceanic Six boarding the helicopter for the final time on the freighter (just before the freighter blows) actor Jorge Garcia says that at that point, he did not yet know how Hurley got to the freighter and escaped from the island.
• The writers used a series of maps and charts to determine and keep track of where all of the Oceanic Six were at different parts of the season, and how they would all end up escaping from the island together at the end.
• Though he speaks with a natural accent that uses the same cadences that he uses in the show, Henry Ian Cusick’s real voice is surprisingly different-sounding than Desmond’s. It’s a bit higher and less throaty. And most fans probably already know this, but Naveen Andrews sounds very different than Sayid (he’s also British, not Middle Eastern).

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Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse sure are getting chatty these days. It is that time of the year — media coverage time — for the new season of Lost, and they’ve been making the rounds, dropping lots of hints about what to expect, but not giving away anything important, of course. After the jump, you’ll find the answer to one of the biggest questions fans have about Season 5 (hint: it’s in the title of this post), plus several other morsels. Read more

Lost
Episode 4.12 - There’s No Place Like Home
Airs: May 15, 2008
Sneak Peek

The Oceanic Six are on board an aircraft. An Oceanic spokeswoman tells them that will be landing on a military facility in Hawaii. All of their family members are there. She says that they don’t need to speak to the reporters but Jack says that they all agree to talk, they just want to get it over with.

“We all know the story,” Jack says. He says if they get any questions they can’t answer, just keep their mouths shut.

So we all know that Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, and Sun are members of the Oceanic Six. But who is the sixth member? Is it Jin, Aaron or someone else altogether?

The date of Jin’s death on his tombstone is the date that the plane crashed. But could this just be a ploy and he actually made it off the island, but passed away before Sun gave birth?

And we know that Aaron made it off the island, but is he considered one of the Oceanic Six?

What do you think?

Jorge Garcia opened up to TVGuide.com on his reaction to discovering he is in the Oceanic Six!

TVGuide.com: What was your reaction when you found out that you would be the third member of the Oceanic Six? Were you like, “Time to put in a pool at the house”?
Garcia: [Laughs] No…. But it was pretty exciting. There are so many more possibilities now, seeing where you are in your character’s life if you make it off the island. But it feels like a lot of pressure when it’s your episode coming out of the gate. You feel rusty, and that makes you nervous.

TVGuide.com: What is Hurley trying to “escape” from in the future, by getting recommitted?
Garcia: I think it’s the presence of whatever he’s haunted by, something that manifests itself in Charlie coming to visit him.

TVGuide.com: What are we to make of the fact that Hurley’s pal there also saw Charlie? Does that make it harder to write off Charlie as a mere figment of Hurley’s imagination?
Garcia: I think it does. What exactly the real-world explanation is, I don’t know. It’s somewhere in when Charlie says, “I am dead, but I am here as well.” Somehow both are true.

TVGuide.com: As Naveen [Andrews, who plays Sayid] pointed out to me, the Oceanic Six might just be the people who “officially” get off the island — there might still be people back on the island at this point. Is that your take, too?
Garcia: Yeah, that’s the interpretation I got. As for why we all have to go back, why we need to go back, that has to do with the people who are left behind. Why were they left behind? What exactly happened?

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