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Wouldn't a more believable explaination be a cover-up for the sake of publicity?

"So, Bob, we still can't find that damn Flight 815."
"Well, Janice, tell them we found it and there were no survivors, so we can give up this tedious search."

Tada!

Go back to your 24 hole. You're not welcome here We actually like our seasons be different from one another. Not just.....Hey, someone is holding someone or someplace hostage. Jack better save the day. Oh no, something crazy happened. Look out, something bad might happen to Jack while he tries to save the day. Whew, that was close. OH NO, SOMETHING EVEN CRAZIER IS HAPPENING. That guy is not who you thought he was, he's someone else entirely. HOLY SH!T!!! OH NO!!! (tick tick tick) 24 ;D ;D ;D

The organization behind the Others is easily big and powerful enough to 'hide' the fact that there were survivors. With no one looking for them, they can continue to perform their 'experiments' on the Survivors unmolested.

Juliette is lying... TO EVERYONE!!. Sun's Date of Conception (D.O.C.) is really pre-island, but Juliette is telling her (and Ben) that it is post-island. Why? So that when her 'treatments' result in a successful (if 'premature') childbirth, Ben will let her go. Sun will be alive and happy thinking that Jin is the real father. The only person this hurts is Ben - and Juliette could care less.

She couldn't fake this before, not with Dr. Ethan looking over her shoulder. With him out of the picture, the only person that can screw with her plan is Jack, so expect him to catch on eventually. How far is Juliette willing to go to keep her secret and get off the island?

I bet Michael and Walt come back at the end of this season or the beginning of next season. There's no way they made it out. Ben said the submarine was the only way off. God these last episodes are gonna kick @ss.

I love these episodes where the flashbacks occur on the island. This was the perfect set up episode for the insanity that is about to take place. I can't wait.

What do you think Rousseau wants with a box of dynamite?

Thank you!!!!!!! I am glad someone one else wants to know the answer to that question. To me, that was the scariest thing about
last nights show. ???

what about what Juliette was saying to jack about "we should tell her" when kate was talking to them?

Jack and Juliette are both agents for Ben. We just haven't seen the story yet explaining why Jack turned (my theory).

i called last nights episode like 2 years ago, and they didnt fail me. It was awesome. Totally satisfying. I had doubts that James would actually kill the real sawyer, but he did, and wow. I knew the whole time Locke was taking James to his dad, and NOT ben. . . . .even though i predicted the whole episode, it was a great one

only 3 left!

Definitely!!! Best Season so far!!

I have some real questions as to whether Jack is with the Others. I'm not convinced yet, but it could happen.

I just can't wait to see the Others come back, and the Losties be ready for them. That is going to be a shitshow.

I thought I had read on here somewhere the possibility that Locke's dad was the "real" Sawyer. Karma to you sir. Great call.

Kate told Jack because, regardless of the situation with Sawyer, she still LOVES Jack. I'm not ready to believe that Jack has become an Other. I find it more likely that the liar Juliette has led Jack to believe he is doing something beneficial for the 815 survivors when she is just setting them up for the kidnapping of Sun and Kate. I can't wait to see what my man Jinn is going to do when the Others show up to take Sun.

Hmmm... guess that means 40 backstory filler episodes, and 8 "hey - something interesting happened!" episodes.

From E Online

Beginning of End for Lost
by Gina Serpe
Mon, 7 May 2007 09:54:43 AM PDT

Finally, some answers—just not the ones Lost fans were expecting.

ABC has announced that the island-dwelling series will run for 48 more episodes, to be spread out over three 16-episode seasons, before drawing to a close at the end of 2009-10 season.

Whether that end is heralded with the shattering of a tropical snowglobe, Jack awakening from a long dream, the completion of a stint in purgatory or—as is most likely—some heretofore unseen scenario, the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 will, one way or another, make their way off the island.

The announcement, first reported last week by E! Online columnists Kristin Veitch and Marc Malkin, comes after executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof publicly called for the network to set an end date for the show—not only to assuage viewer fears that the series, which began to shed viewers in its new time slot this year, was not simply treading water to bulk up its episode count, but to allow writers the ability to plot out the remainder of the series according to the creators' original plan.

Lindelof, who first pushed for such a move during January's Television Critics Association conference, said that having a specific date in mind was "incredibly liberating. Like we've been running a marathon and we actually know where the finish line is for the first time."

"What we didn't know was how long we had to play the story out," Cuse told the Hollywood Reporter, adding that the Lost brain trust has always known where they wanted the storyline to end up.

"By defining the end point we can now really map out the rest of the series in confidence," he said. "We sort of view Lost as a mosaic. Now there are only 48 more tiles to go into that mosaic, and we're figuring out, along with all the other writers, exactly where they go."

In January, Cuse and Lindelof, backed by cocreator JJ Abrams, voiced their concerns that commercial interests (i.e., ABC keeping the show on air until the last viewer turned) potentially would trump artistic interests (i.e., the producers ending the series on a well thought out and hopefully high note), saying that they hoped the show would run for just 100 episodes, or two more full seasons.

The guys just about got their wish.

The final three seasons, at 16 episodes each, will bring Lost to 119 or 120 episodes—the same numbers as if the show carried on for just two 24-episode cycles. By stretching out the show, ABC is able to make the end into more of an event.

Setting an end date also ensured that Lindelof and Cuse would remain with the series through to the end, as making the terminal announcement was a condition of both men reupping with the network.

"In considering the powerful storytelling of Lost, we felt that this was the only way to give it a proper creative conclusion," ABC honcho Steve McPherson said. "And, due to the unique nature of the series, we knew it would require an end date to keep the integrity and strength of the show consistent throughout, and to give the audience the payoff they deserve."

It's a payoff that Lindelof and Cuse claim is set in stone.

"There will be no extensions of enhancements," Lindelof told Variety. "That number [48] is absolute...once you begin to see where we're going, I think the idea of sequels and spinoffs will completely go away."

As to where exactly that is, fans will have to wait until the third season finale, set to air May 23.

E! Online TV columnist Veitch, however, has been touting for weeks that the finale will be a "game changer," which she says the show's writing team is referring to as "the snake in the mailbox," in terms of the direction the show will start to set up the countdown to the end.

ABC also indicated the remaining three seasons will air uninterrupted, à la 24, which means the fourth season won't debut until January 2008.

Fans and critics have groused that the current season, which began with a six-episode run in the fall, failed to gain any creative momentum until the last few episodes. Still, Lost remains in the top 15 most watched shows, averaging 15.1 million viewers, including several key demos. It's also the most TiVo'd show on television, consistently ranks among the most downloaded shows on iTunes and is a strong performer on DVD.