Final Season of Lost Won't Give Up Answers Easily

Starting Feb. 2, Lost has exactly 17 hours of show time to wrap up all the loose ends and answer our questions. It looks like it’s going to have to get a whole lot worse before it can get better, though.

Of the season six premiere, executive producer Damon Lindeloff said at a recent panel, “Get ready to scratch your heads, America!” Even the cast had a hard time making sense of the twists and turns. “I think I had to read it three times before it made sense,” said Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire.

And in true Lost fashion, it looks like fans will have to wait all the way until the end for things to come together. Michael Emerson recently talked to TV Guide about the final season, and with seven episodes left to shoot, the ending is a long way off. “I feel great curiosity, because from what I’ve shot up to this point, I don’t see any end in sight,” Emerson said. “The storyline is continuing to expand instead of contract. It’s grown more fragmented, rather than becoming more unified. The threads aren’t joining up, they’re flying away.”

As fans know, death is never a sure thing on the island, and many characters previously thought were dead will be returning for the final season. Claire will definitely be back, along with Charlotte (the redhead anthropologist), Libby (the mysterious blonde who was shot in the hatch and later appeared in Hurley’s insane asylum), Michael (Walt’s overprotective father we last saw as a maintenance man on the freighter) and Boone (the handsome young man who died exploring a plane crash with Locke).

When the ending finally comes, don’t expect a pretty little bow. “If I could put on my predicting hat, there’s going to be some that think it’s the worst ending in the history of TV, and on the other end, to balance that out, would be my mom,” Lindeloff said.

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