*Spoilers Ahead*


Okay, I am going to post away. If you don't want to know anything turn back now. (not that what I am about to disclose is anyway going to ruin your viewing pleasure)

EW had an interview with Matthew Fox about the past season and the upcoming season. Here is what he was able to share:

Jack's ranting about his father being drunk and to call him down in the season finale was deliberate...to give the impression that it was a flashback...but it was really Jack being all messed up and losing concept of time in his drug/alcohol induced depressive state.

Jack and Kate will return to the island...MF is cryptic if that happens immediately, he hints that it maybe be drawn out and episodes will feature scenes of being on the island...but before the end of the next 48 episodes they'll be back on the island.

Jack, Kate and other survivors that left the island will be the focus of a media whirlwind when they return home. MF mentions that Kate and Jack go their separate ways because they all made a pact to keep a secret regarding the island. Awkwardness and tension about the secret is what keeps them apart.

MF eludes his downfall in the flash forward was because Jack was not able to accomplish his mission of getting everyone off the island.

In the 8 episodes for season four we will not learn who was in the casket.

rumors of time travel and supernatural elements are true..but MF didn't really elaborate...but I think that's a duh kind of statement.

Check out the full interview.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20169281,00.html

I though it was a great interview with Mathew Fox. You can tell that he enjoys playing the character and it's not just a paycheck for him. I fall into the Jack fan group although I know there are many Losties that hate Jack. To each his own.

I did mention a few weeks ago the point about there not being a fear of Jack or Kate getting killed (because of the flash forward.) I am glad they gave an answer, although he made it sound like it could be episode 4 or episode 48 when he goes back to the island, so in other words it could be 0-3 years before he is in danger again (depending on how long this strike holds out) per Matthew Fox, so it is not like we are getting into specifics.

Maybe...just maybe the flash forward is only one possible time line and they can still alter destiny from the past (I hope so, poor Jack!) However, this show is always so mysterious and the interviews so cryptic it is just about impossible to even attempt to theorize.

As for the casket, I am of the school of thought that it is Ben, but like Matthew said, it will probably change before the final script is written even if they do know who they wanted it to be when they filmed that piece.

I got the impression that time travel may play a key role here and there may be more than one plain that they may be exploring.

one being the flash forward we saw ... and another where Jack comes back to the island before this flash forward takes place.

Really with the time travel or manipulating time and space they can go and do just about anything. Like not kill Charlie!!!!

I think it's pretty obvious that they are in a 'parallel universe'...remember Charlie talking to Desmond's girl or was it that other girl that was carrying the picture of Desmond's girl...that said "there are no survivors of Flight 815...they recovered the bodies" or something to that effect.

It could be just a conspiracy and the forces that are controlling the island covered up the possibility of survivors by saying they recovered the bodies.

Also in the article MF said there would be some flash backs with the flash forwards. So I take it the focus will be on the future Jack and survivors that did leave the island. With the flashbacks explaining the how they did get off.

I have a good feeling we will be seeing as much of Charlie as we saw in past seasons. Death on Lost can be very transient, lol.

I am excited that we are getting a two hour special to open the season on January 31st and I think once we see that, everything is going to make a lot more sense as far as how they are going to go about telling the story. Right now I assume they will be telling it from the on the island present tense, but maybe reality is now in the flash forward future and like you said the flashbacks will be them getting off. I wouldn't think that would be a first option as if a character did not make it off the island they could not flash, but I guess we will find out.

Whatever they do, I am sure they will choose once style and stick with it, as it could get really confusing if the future is the present and they are flashing to the past before the island (because then you would have trouble figuring out if it was the after island present or the before island past!)


Note: I still think they are in purgatory (maybe hell on earth) even though the writers say they are not. The whole thing with Locke's dad was written like it was.....he gets hit by a car and ends up there......

Yeah...Time travel HAS to become involved somehow. And with that they can tie in parallel universes or whatever.....

I really hope they know what they're doing haha

Here's my take on that. I'm not disputing ... well I guess I am going to dispute it. I don't think it is purgatory or anything a kin to it. Locke's dad was brought to the island by Ben for the sole purpose of Ben proving that John is not the prophet that Jacob speaks of...and thus gaining back control of his people.

He knew John would never kill his father no matter how evil the man is.

Ben's people, caused the car crash..or didn't. But they did drug the bastard and brought him to the island and then told John his mission was to kill his father to prove himself worthy.

To be in purgatory, you have to be dead and these people are not dead. If they were how could Kate and Jack get out and return home?

They are dead. The plane crashed and they found all the bodies at the bottom of the ocean! You said it yourself!

I believe that Anthony Cooper was telling the truth when he said he was hit by a car and ended up on the island. He was really kaput! Ben needed Locke's Dad (like you said) and caused the accident (probably via Jacob who is fallen angel of sort) to end his life and bring him to the island.

Have you ever seen a movie where someone dies, they go to heaven's waiting room, and they tell God, "I am just not ready to be dead. I need to do something else on earth." and God sends them back?

The island is that waiting room, and if God (The Island) deems you worthy, you can go back to life (Jack and Kate are the proof.) Dying on the island is just a transition to either heaven or hell (being that you are already physically dead to the world)

At the same time, man has found a metaphysical pathway to this way station of heaven and hell, most likely through a wormhole of sorts similar in nature to the Bermuda triangle. That is how people transit to and from the Island/ Alternative Reality (which is in fact purgatory!)

So you say, but we both know that the producers have verified that this theory is not true.

Is it plausible, sure. But not where they are going with the show. Unless they've rethought things.

And thanks for your explanation of purgatory. Totally unnecessary by the way..I am among the living, watch TV, read books and to boot am Catholic.

So by your stretch of the imagination, all the 'survivors' are laying in a coma somewhere???? You just can't come back from the dead after months of being that way (or however long the time lapse has been). And if they did find their bodies...then what? Sorry, your mistake. I was just sleeping and you buried me. I get that it could be...and their time is happening at a much faster rate then real time....and 30 days could equal one second. But I'm just not buying it.

Maybe it is some kind of purgatory, in the sense of the Bermuda triangle....but they're not dead. That does not make sense to me...it leaves too many questions of how and why...and WTF...about things that have happened thus far.