Some Lost tidbits (spoilers likely)

Lost is on tonight, so all is right in the world. Tonight’s episode is called Something Nice Back Home.

Who knows what that means, but I’m shaking in anticipation. This show is seriously the best thing on TV week to week and it makes every Thursday like a holiday in this house.

I’ve scoured the web this week (meaning Jina sent me good tips as usual) and so I have some interesting quotes and tidbits to pass on to you guys.

Some of these have some SPOILERS in them so read at your own risk!

Ain’t It Cool News did an interview with Michael Emerson (Ben) and talks about last week’s episode and upcoming stuff.

One thing we now know is that Ben is going to be in a “secret scene” in the finale.

I guess I’m one of the lucky ones, because last year I wasn’t privy to the secret scene. I didn’t know that ending, that flash forward thing with Jack and Kate, I didn’t know that until I watched the broadcast. I was even present at the studio the day that they filmed it, but no one was talking about it. It’s kind of nice this year to know that at least when that day comes, I will know something that the world wishes it knew [Laughs] and then I’ll have to keep my mouth shut.

He’s an interesting thought from Emerson about Ben controlling the Smoke Monster:

“Let’s say that Ben was able to manipulate the smoke monster, but on the show everything is a binary system, everything is in balance, morally balanced or economically balanced, so for Ben to make a thing happen like that, there is also a price, I think, that he had to pay. … Everyone who has power also pays a price. John Locke is going to pay a price. Ben has paid a price … Nothing is for free in terms of power or morality on the island, and I’m beginning to see that the writers are more interested in that pattern, too, of this living ledger book system.”

What? Locke is going to pay a price? What the frak is that going to be. I can’t wait.

Jimmy Kimmel spoke to both Lost writers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindleof earlier this month with the intention of “grilling” them for answers.

You can read the entire thing on TVGuide.com, but here are some of the highlights below:

Kimmel: The island heals some people and doesn’t heal others. For instance, Ben needed an operation from Jack to beat cancer, but it seems like Sawyer gets injured every sixth episode and by the next, he’s fine. Is that just a TV thing?

Carlton Cuse: Wow. [Laughs] Where are the softball questions, Jimmy? What about the warm-up?

Damon Lindelof: The short answer is, it’s not arbitrary. Yes, there is a certain degree of compressing story. The idea that everything you’ve seen has really happened in 110 days of real time feels fantastical, but that’s the convention of the show. However, who gets sick and how fast they heal is something we talk about. In the second episode back [airing May 1], that becomes a major issue in the story. One character gets sick and another who has had experience being healed voices exactly that question: Is there any rhyme or reason to it?

Cuse: The healing is related to the degree to which you are in communion with the island at any given moment. Perhaps Ben getting sick and needing surgery had to do with the fact that he had fallen out of favor, that his connection with the island was maybe not what it had been in the past.

Once again, we get confirmation that they know what the final scene will be:

Kimmel: I see. So you don’t trust your writers. [Laughs] But you do actually know the final specific scene?

Lindelof: We absolutely, 100 percent know what the last scene of the show is and could put [the pages] in a safe deposit box. But there is an asterisk next to that, which is that we’re slaves to fluctuations in reality. If one of the actors in that scene decided to stop being in Lost…

Cuse: Or, perchance, got a DUI, the entire ending of the show could change. Basically, the show is in the hands of Hawaii law enforcement. [Laughs]

Hilarious.

More coffin stuff:

Kimmel: Is the person in the coffin someone who’s not from the island?
Lindelof: [To Cuse] Tread lightly.

Cuse: You will know who’s in the coffin before the season is over, and it will not be like, “Who’s that person?”

Lindelof: The only people you can rule out, based on what you saw in last year’s finale, are Kate and Jack.

Kimmel: And the baby, just based on the size.
Cuse: Yeah, it’s too big a coffin for a baby.

Looks like we’ll get some sort of scene with the Oceanic Six being celebrated on their arrival home:

Kimmel: Will we see the process of the Oceanic Six coming home and becoming international celebrities?

Cuse: We will probably not see them hanging out with Paris Hilton.

Lindelof: But you will see that period of excitement when they first come back before the end of the year. We really thought, “What would happen if there was a plane crash and everyone was believed dead and then six survivors turned up?”

And this last one is verrrry interesting:

Kimmel: Is everyone on the island from planet Earth?

Cuse: [Long pause] Yes. That may be one of the best Lost questions we’ve ever been asked.

Lindelof: When you get asked questions like that, you have to be very careful how you answer.

Just makes me thing the Lost Mirror Matter Moon theory is pretty spot-on.

Again, read the entire Jimmy Kimmel interview here and here.