Is Evangeline Lily auditioning for fall pilots?

Apparently, Zap2it.com reported that Evangeline Lily was auditioning for fall pilots.

So, no Kate in season 6.

Except, Evangeline Lily isn't audtioning, says her rep.

She's not leaving the show? Kate's not dying?

So says Evangeline Lily: "I am very happy on Lost and have no reason to look anywhere else for a home."

But according to Korbi, who originally reported that Evangeline was auditioning, the network won't confirm or deny anything.

Recaps of 'Jeremy Bentham'

Here's what Doc Jensen had to say.

And E! Online's Watch with Kristin.

Kristin also reports that Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) is interested in returning for Season 6. No plans have been made. But Malcolm, like us, thinks there are some unanswered question about Walt that, well, need answering. (NO SPOILERS HERE)

Here's The Washington Post's recap and the chat.

What did you think of 'The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham?'

Ben killed Locke! Locke's alive?!?!?!?

What changed for Ben that he went from talking Locke down to strangling him? Was it Jin being alive or the mention of Mrs. Hawking?

WAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLT!

Well, we're now seven episodes into the season.

What did you think of tonight's episode and the season so far?

A little preshow reading

Doc Jensen has once again given us a little reading before we see tonight's epsiode.

He calls it The Keys to Locke.

Jeremy Bentham was a 18th century English ethicist and founding father of legal positivism, which stands in opposition to natural law, which was promoted by...17th century English philosopher John Locke, one of the founding fathers of the so-called Age of Reason. Locke was a deist (i.e., a creator God) who believed that man had certain intrinsic, unalienable rights; his philosophy was capable of integrating science and faith. Bentham said: BWA-HAHAAH! He thought natural law was ''nonsense on stilts.'' Bentham is a very post-God thinker: He believed the only rights a man had were the rights society gave him.
DOC JENSEN ANALYSIS: The castaway formerly known as Locke has chosen a namesake that literally mocks his previous namesake. Last week, Man of Science Jack switched teams: He became a Man of Faith. Is John Locke/Jeremy Bentham about to do a worldview flip-flop himself?

There's video, teases and corrections to last week's column.

Be sure to check out EW's Lost Untangled videos on the first page. They recap last
week's show and talk about the season so far.

Sneak peeks at 5.07: 'Jeremy Bentham'

This week's episode is "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham." And just from the title, Losties know it's all about what happens to John Locke after he adjusts the Frozen Donkey Wheel and sends the surviving Strandaways into one more timeflash (which apparently leaves them stuck back in the Dharma Initiative era).

Presumably we'll see how Locke ended up in that coffin. Maybe we'll even find out what happened to his corpse when Ajira 316 passed over the Island last week and the Oceanic 5 were, apparently, timeflashed right out of the airplane.

Of course, this being Lost, one must ask: Is Locke really dead? Ben certainly avoided answering that question when Jack asked. Surely it can't be a coincidence that Locke's face looked more whiskery last week, in the butcher shop's meat locker, than it did at the Hoffs-Drawlar funeral parlor. We're guessing the late Locke's about to join his pal, Dr. Christian Shephard, as a reincarnated inhabitant of Craphole Island.

If you're spoiler-ready, check out the three sneak-peek videos that were released today in advance of the show (airing Wednesday on ABC, 8 p.m. Central).

Recapping 5.06: "316"

Check out Doc Jensen's episode recap, which is called Keeping the Faith. The literary references keep coming. He probably has one of the most in-depth analysis of the show out there.

They're back. Back where they belong. Back where we want them to be. Nearly 21 months after Jack first bellowed ''We have to go back!'', the Oceanic 6 (minus Aaron, and don't ask why, or else Kate won't kiss you) finally undertook the perilous journey back to the place they never should have left — back to The Island, back to their ''mythic estate,'' to borrow a phrase from James Joyce's Ulysses, which last night's episode had the audacity to namedrop. For now, we only know of three who successfully fell to Earth — all the way to The Island's Dharma Initiative past, no less. There's Jack, blinking awake as he did in Lost's very first episode, this time looking not hopelessly lost, but gloriously born again. There's Kate, whose motivations for making the return trip were deliberately kept from us (all the better for a future flashback episode, my dears).

And here's what E! Online's Watch With Kristin had to say: (At the bottom of the page after you click the link, there are a few spoilers. Don't read anything after the notable quotes section, if you prefer to view Lost with virgin eyes.)

• Easter Eggs: (Attention, English professors: Next time you're trying to explain "intertextuality" to your students, just bring up Lost, and they'll get it right quick...)


• Ben was reading James Joyce's Ulysses, which is, of course, a psychedelic Irish novel that had a few Easter Eggs of its own and was based on the ancient myth of Odysseus, a lost sailor who is kept from his love, Penelope, by a series of wildly unbelievable but nonetheless thrilling adventures.


• Commenter Jules tipped us off to a C.S. Lewis nod: "Did anyone notice The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe reference with the Lamppost Station? They came out of the wardrobe at the lamppost, and it was where they knew they could get back to their world."


• Christian Shephard's white shoes/black shoes situation continues the show's flirtation with those constrasting colors.

And The Washington Post has this analysis. (They have a chat at 2 p.m. Central Time. Will post when it ends.)

What did you think of "316?" (aka "We're not going to Guam, are we?)"

What did you think?

What suprised you?

Is Mrs. Hawking good or bad or somewhere in between? Loved when Mrs. Hawking said Ben was "probably" lying?

What did you think of that Jack and Kate kiss? It seemed a little, well, desperate.

Line of the night had to be from the returning Frank Lapidus, who said "We're not going to Guam, are we?"

Think he'll turn up on the island?