As the final season moves forward, so do our characters, both on island and off. So far, we’ve seen that the sinking of the island in the flash sideways has changed many things in the lives of our Losties. Hurley is no longer cursed, Locke is getting married, Sun isn’t married (or is she? What are your thoughts?) But this week, we were exposed to the biggest change we’ve seen thus far. In addition, this is the first episode of the season that truly feels like Season One to me. It’s as if we are being reintroduced to the characters we fell in love with nearly six years ago.

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Tags: Episode 6.05, Erin, Hurley, Jack, Jacob, recaps&reviews, Season 6

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Prime Candidate:
Cultural Thoughts on LOST 6.04, “The Substitute”
by Pearson Moore

We know who he is.  We know his history and we understand his motivations.  The Prime Candidate was identified not only by name, but by number.

Carlton Cuse promised “illumination” in this episode, and he delivered:  illuminated integers, a child glowing in the jungle, and brilliantly coloured themes of balance, strength, and humanity.   “The Substitute” was a feast for the eyes and for the mind, and arguably the richest episode of the last six seasons.

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Tags: Flocke, Jack, Jacob, John Locke, LOST Theories, Pearson Moore, recaps&reviews, Season 6, Smoke Monster

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Terry’s interview and the list of names on Jacob’s Wall can be found after the jump.
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Magnificence
The Cultural Mythology of LOST 1.01 to 6.18
by Pearson Moore

His name is Kambei Shimada, a ronin who lived five hundred years ago. He is an aged, balding, unemployed swordsman, symbol of a dying breed of men useless in an age of muskets. His story required only two hundred seven minutes of celluloid. We think we know him: hero, defender of peasants, leader of men. But his story does not end with one year’s barley harvest, or even an entire nation’s movement into the modern age. Without Kambei Shimada, we understand neither sixteenth century Japan, nor even twenty-first century America. This single figure from the imagination of Akira Kurosawa holds the key to LOST.

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Pre-order now: Lost: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD) | Lost: The Complete Fifth Season [Blu-ray] | Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiation Kit | Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit [Blu-ray].

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Session #2: ‘Things That Go ‘Tikka Tikka Tikka’ In The Jungle’

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TV Guide’s Matt Mitovich has published a new interview with Titus Welliver. It’s a great read!

Titus Welliver probably thought he had seen it all during his run as Deadwood resident Silas Adams. But then he appeared on Lost for all of 1 minute and 45 seconds, and in short order his world — as well as that of the ABC drama — shifted forever.

Who was this mysterious “man in black” taunting Jacob on the beach in the Season 5 finale prologue? What did he mean with the observation, “They come. Fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same”? And why did this “Man No. 2″ so desperately want to find the loophole necessary to one day kill Jacob?

Welliver, who now has a recurring role on CBS’ The Good Wife (premiering Sept. 22), shared a look inside the far-from-black-and-white nature of his Lost visit.

TVGuide.com: How does it feel to be dropped into the zeitgeist that is Lost?
Titus Welliver: It’s pretty insane. It’s pretty insane. This is a completely different thing for me. At the street level, it has been crazy. People — from all walks of life — come up and say, “Now, you possessed Locke…?” “Are you in fact Locke?” “Has the character of Locke been created from you, and this was a whole setup to crash the plane?”

TVGuide.com: The funny thing is they can only refer to you as “you,” because they didn’t give your character a name. By what name did you know him?
Welliver: He has no name. He’s just “the man,” because they don’t want to give anything away. I know that this character has a name and I know the importance of it; that’s all that I know.

TVGuide.com: So you don’t know his actual name?
Welliver: No — and I think they deliberately withheld that.

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SciFi Wire has published a new interview with Michael Emerson:

As usual, all things about ABC’s Lost are hush hush, lest any posters on the Fuselage message boards get wind of spoilers, but rumors persist that long-departed cast members such as Maggie Grace may return for at least one appearance in the show’s sixth and final season.

First things first though: Are the regulars still coming back? Season five ended with a bomb exploding in the past, possibly erasing the entire present of the show.

Michael Emerson, who plays Ben Linus, confirmed that at least he is still an active part of the show. “My understanding is that I am,” Emerson said in an exclusive interview last week at the Saturn Awards in Burbank, Calif. “For how much of season six, that’s a good question.”

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