'Lost' at Comic-Con: 'Death is a relative term'
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Just when I thought I’d buried my “Lost” obsession (at least until February, when Season 5 kicks in), a little July event called Comic-Con has to happen.
The show’s producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (a.k.a. Darlton), have been breaking radio silence at the convention for a few years now. And while they didn’t deliver any earth-shattering island news, there were some definite points of interest.
Mainly, that we haven’t seen the last of Locke or Jin!
We last saw Locke in the coffin during the finale’s last moments, and we haven’t learned the fate of Jin on the exploding freighter. But dead or not, don’t worry: Terry O’Quinn and Daniel Dae Kim aren’t unemployed.
Darlton confirmed that the two will be back in some capacity, and that death is a “relative term” on the show.
Same goes for Rousseau, who bit the bullet last season with Karl. We’ll be getting more info on her—FINALLY!—though the producers said it won’t necessarily be in a flashback.
In fact, speaking of flashbacks, that’s SOOO Season 4. We’re done with those—and flash-forwards, too.
The show will be time-hopping like Bunny No. 15 on and off the island, and you’re not going to know where or WHEN you are. (The guy who makes the whooshing sound effect gets to keep his job, too—YAY!)
And who else will we be seeing more of?
• Daniel Faraday. Guess he survived being near the freighter-go-boom in that raft, but is he stranded in the ocean now that the island’s moved? And remember that notebook that he keeps writing stuff down in? Things like “Desmond Hume is my constant?” Well, Danny’s journal will be prominently featured next season.
• Richard Alpert. Thank goodness “Cane” was canceled! More will be revealed about the ageless wonder, and he may or may not have six toes (like the ancient island statue).
• Vincent the dog. Walt’s puppy lives! He’ll survive until the end of the series, too, but will he be reunited with his owner? There was no mention of whether WAAAALT needs to join the Oceanic 6 posse that needs to go back to the island.
That was about all of the high points, except for one: There was a showing of yet another Marvin Candle video.
Remember last year’s Comic-Con? That’s when fans got a glimpse of the now-infamous Orchid video that was so important in the finale.
This year—in what sounded like a goofy stunt—a “Dharma recruit” ran onstage yelling that he had an exclusive secret video.
Cheeseball presentation, yes, but the video was anything but.
Check it out for yourself here, but here’s the short version:
Our pal Marvin shows up again, except this time, he says he’s done with the “game,” and reveals his real name (or is it?) as Pierre Cheng. (No explanation is given for why he’s been using aliases in the other videos.)
He also claims to be an astro-physicist from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and that this video is being transmitted from 30 years in the past. He was about to be killed in a “violent purge” (presumably the one that Ben orchestrated) that he’s “powerless to escape.”
He then went on to say that if you’re watching the film now, he’s dead—but George W. Bush is the U.S. president and there’s something called the Internet. Uh oh, Marv’s been time-traveling!
So if our favorite Dharma scientist is dead, why is it important that he send this video? He says it’s so someone can reform the Dharma Initiative in the future and continue its important work. In another comment that possibly foreshadows a Season 5 theme, he adds, “Perhaps you’ll be able to find a way to save us, to change the past…”
Then he’s cut off by the unseen cameraman, who says, “This is useless,” and some fans are already speculating that the camera guy sounds an awful lot like Daniel Faraday! (Not too farfetched, since if you’ll recall that Daniel is a physicist, too.)
Whew, is your brain spinning? Darn you, Comic-Con, darn you! Now I’m going to spend the rest of my work day trolling fan forums and Lostpedia in search of new theories, AAAAAHHHH!
Ooh, but before I go, here is one little bit of info that could relate to future “Lost” happenings.
It was recently announced that HBO had changed its mind about renewing “Tell Me You Love Me,” starring a lady named Sonya Walger (better known to Losties as Penny Widmore).
“Lost” producers have said before that they would like to feature Penny more, but Walger’s been super-busy with other projects. Now that her bread-and-butter show’s been cancelled, will we see Miss Widmore more frequently?
Could it be that my Desmond-and-Penny-on-the-run-from-Ben theory for Season 5 could really, truly come true? I did correctly identify the finale’s advertised “spectacular kiss” as being between a reunited Demond and Penny. Could the rest of my insane ramblings become a “Lost” reality?
We’ll have to wait and see … and I’ll file more tidbits as I come across them, Lost-philes, I promise.
(Photos courtesy of ABC)
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