Check out this spoiler free Spanish promo for the final season

Watch With Kristin at E!Online says:

Holy kickass promo! Since ABC and Lost's producers have decided not to show a single frame of the upcoming season, at least one international outlet (Spain's Cuatro network) has busted out what boss Carlton Cuse just retweeted is the "best promo ever"...

LOST's Emerson: S6 eps so far are 'dark and bloody'

In a recent interview with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Lost star Michael Emerson describes the ordeal that is the Emmy Awards, and talks just a little bit about Season 6.

No spoilers from him, of course, because the producers are being more careful than ever about letting out any details about the show's final season. (Not a single scene from the new season is supposed to be used in pre-season promotional clips.)

Six episodes of shooting are in the can, and Emerson says he's "had some vintage Ben stuff already" -- but he can't figure out how the series will end: "It's still so opaque."

USA Today Q&A with Damon Lindelof

Thanks to Tim for sending along this Q&A with Damon Lindelof.

Tim rightly points out this question and answer (but click the link above for the whole article) :

I would love to know what song Damon thinks would best match the mood of Season 6. -- dmachado13

Wow. I'd say Visions of Johanna by Bob Dylan.

Why?

I have that song on my iPod, and when I hear it I think about the show. There are certain lyrical phrases in that song that are very well-suited to Lost.

From Watch With Kristin's spoiler chat:

JasonBuskin via Twitter: Lost premiere is Groundhog Day. Coincidence?
Nope! I'm told it was fully intentional. Not so much by Lost's producers but by the higher-ups (Steve McPherson) at ABC. Pretty awesome, right?

Annie B.: I don't care about alt Lost where Sawyer and Kate apparently do cross paths. Do you have any info about Sawyer/Kate on the Island, or are they doomed in the present time line (with Suliet and Jate still going strong)?
I know Team Darlton referred to "killing off" Juliet in their latest interview with People, but you've probably figured out by now that we'll see her alive somehow which my source confirms. Hence, her guest spots in a few episodes on the sixth season.

Darrell in New Jersey: It's almost December already! Lost, please!
Honestly, guys, I'm so freaking confused right now because my rock-solid source is telling me two things that seem to contradict each other. I know most of you have heard about the "alt Lost" this season (see question above), and so have I. But I'm also told that the thing that I'm pretty sure needs to happen for "alt Lost" to happen does not happen.

Back to 'Mysteries of the Universe'...

We totally forgot to check out Parts 4 and 5 of the Mysteries of the Universe mock-doc on ABC.com, but here they are. They include some interesting details about the Dharma Initiative.

Part 4 (released Oct. 15) talks about Alvar Hanso, who attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) as an exchange student and stayed with the DeGroot family when Dharma founder Gerald DeGroot was a child, pre-World War II. Gerald's college records have been expunged from existence. Part 4 also shows us a new photo of the ultra-mysterious Danish munitions magnate, who is the powerful financier behind Dharma. In this photo, Alvar -- whom we had only seen previously from a distance, standing behind a window in a Dharma orientation film -- is sporting a beard.

In Part 5, which became available on Nov. 16, we hear of a Dharma food drop gone astray on a Tongan island. "Is the Dharma Initiative located on one of the 169 islands in Tonga?" Alvar Hanso, of course, is supposed to be the supplier of the food drops. Is the DI's octagonal logo perhaps connected to "Communist China?" the narrator asks portentously. "We know it wishes to remain shrouded in secrecy... Only time will tell the fate of this Mysteries of the Universe!"

ABC.com says extended versions of these five clips, plus Part 6 of the Mysteries series, will be available on the Blu-ray and DVD versions of Lost's Season 5, to be released on Dec. 8.

Lostpedia.wikia.com, in its interesting article on the Mysteries series, says the full version of the mock-doc will run for 26 minutes and 15 seconds. Since the Lost team helped create the Mysteries show, it seems that at least some of the information it contains could be considered canonical.

'The Gospel According to LOST'

Ever since the bestselling Gospel According to Peanuts, published in 1965, writers have been looking for spiritual messages in pop culture. Now, Houston writer Chris Seay has come up with The Gospel According to LOST (coming Dec. 29; Thomas Nelson, $14.99). It is illustrated with clever iconographic portraits of major series characters such as Hurley ("Felix," Latin for "luck") and Locke ("Apator," Greek for "fatherless").

If you've ever wondered why LOST's writers take so long to unravel the show's mysteries, Seay says, there's a very good reason: Series creator J.J. Abrams just loves mysteries.

Abrams' love of the unknown is hardly a storytelling fad; it is a lifelong
pursuit. As a child, Abrams would go to a quirky magic shop in midtown Manhattan with his beloved grandfather, who once bought him a Tannen's Magic Mystery Box filled with $50 worth of magic tricks. This striking box filled with surprises is the ultimate treasure for an aspiring young magician and storyteller, but young Abrams chose not to open the box -- in fact, he still has not opened it.
The mysterious box marked with a question mark sits on a shelf next to his desk,
and he continues to wonder about the infinite possibilities of what the box
contains. Abrams says, "It represents hope. It represents potential. Mystery
boxes are in everything I do. That blank page is a magic box. What are stories
but mystery boxes?"

LOST returning for final season on Feb. 2

The official word is out: Lost kicks off Season 6 with a two-hour premiere on Feb. 2, 2010, at 8 p.m. Central Time.


There also will be an hour-long recap episode preceding at 7 p.m. CT. If there are no hiatuses during this last season, it is estimated the S6 two-hour finale should air on May 25, during sweeps.


And take note, those of you who are accustomed to watching Lost on Wednesdays: Feb. 2 is a Tuesday.


Why the change? Zap2it.com says their guess is that ABC wants to pair up Lost with V (the new alien-invasion series starring Elizabeth Mitchell, aka Lost's Juliet Burke) for a one-two punch on Tuesdays when both shows return to ABC's lineup in early 2010.




UPDATE: With a little bit of a spoiler, so we're warning you: Don't click this link to EW.com unless you want to know who will be billed as season regulars, and who has been confirmed to appear as recurring characters on this final season. There's one of the latter that is just a little bit surprising, only because I hadn't already heard about it...but I had suspected we might see this person again.

LOST in Stephen King's 'Under the Dome'

Ben Linus would never approve, of course, but he's out of the book club anyway.

I've spent the last day engrossed in Stephen King's new bestseller, Under the Dome (Scribner, $35). On page 285, Big Steve pays tribute to our favorite series, which also happens to be his favorite series:

What did that Scottish guy say on Lost? "Don't mistake coincidence for fate"? Maybe that had been it. Maybe it had. But Lost had been a long time ago. The Scottish guy could have said Don't mistake fate for coincidence.

Actually, according to http://lostpedia.wikia.com/, it was Mr. Eko who advised Locke: "Do not mistake coincidence for fate," in the Season 2 episode "What Kate Did," and Locke later repeats the phrase to Desmond in Season 3's "The Cost of Living."

What did the author mean by "Lost had been a long time ago"? Well, Under the Dome is set in the near future -- sometime after the 2012 election, in which President Obama [who plays an offstage role in the Dome drama] was re-elected.

LOST producers talk about Juliet's fate

EW.com's Dan Snierson has a good interview with showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof about the fate of Dr. Juliet Burke, played by Dallas' own Elizabeth Mitchell. Although the producers confirm that Juliet's coming back for multiple episodes in LOST's sixth and final season, they also say that yes, she is dead.

However, "There's still something very significant that we have not yet learned about the character," Cuse teases. And that's what we'll be seeing in S6.

Liz also talks about Juliet's big scenes in the Season 5 finale. "I love that we got to see all of her rage, because to me, that's what's driven her," she says. "To have the calm exterior, I always had to have that underneath."

Need a season 5 recap?

Bone up on last season before the new episodes begin next year.

Yeah, it's still kind of far off, but Season 6 will be here soon. I hope.

Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly gives us the nutshell for each episode and gives them grades.

Do you agree or disagree with his marks?