Again this week there will only be the new episode, and no pop-up-enhanced rerun of last week’s (6×10 The Package) — the rerun will again be bumped by a Dancing With the Stars results show.
U.S. Schedule for Tuesday, April 6, 2010:
9:00 – 10:02 New episode 6×11 Happily Ever After
Official ABC description: “Desmond wakes up and realizes he is back on the island.”
Behind the cameras, they brought out the big guns for this episode — it was written by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, and directed by Jack Bender.
In this week’s video podcast, Josh Holloway talks about what is was like to play sideways Sawyer in Recon. He also talks about how the actors, when the show first started, never imagined it would be so successful.
And speaking of Josh Holloway, ABC also put out a promo full of clips of Sawyer, set to music:
In last week’s audo podcast, Damon and Carlton talked about Sundown, raising the questions of whether Sayid was good or evil, and whether Dogen deserved what he got.
They talked about Dr. Linus, which Damon said was one of their favorite episodes of the season, if not the entire series.
They revealed something interesting about the episode title Recon: that it had a double meaning. It meant reconnaissance, but it also meant re-con, as in to con again.
They said that LOST: The Zombie Season will not be a Broadway musical, alas.
On a serious note, they said that the Man in Black may have gotten stuck in Locke’s form because that was the form he was in at the time that Jacob died.
Finally, Carlton got stymied by a viewer question about lactation.
This was the March 11, 2010 podcast, which you can find on the ABC site.
Matthew Fox talks about what Jack has been up to this season.
In a second official podcast, Damon and Carlton answer a question from “a perfect woman.” Darlton reveal that Vincent-the-dog doesn’t have any Daddy issues, which must make him unique among all the LOST characters. They also, on a more serious note, reveal whether Vincent will live or die this season. If you don’t mind being spoiled on that question, watch the video below:
This has clips of fans and panelists at PaleyFest. There’s some wonderful interplay between Terry O’Quinn and Michael Emerson, who are very funny together.
This next short podcast has got to be the most spoiler-free podcast ever made, revealing absolutely nothing about the show — except that the show is about good and evil. I think we figured that one out already. 😉 Damon and Carlton are having fun here, talking about banjos and apple-eating contests:
Terry O’Quinn talks about his character Locke and what he calls “the new embodiment of Locke.” He doesn’t call him “not” Locke or “fake” Locke, or anything like that. And he says that while his character is Smokie, he doesn’t know whether or not he is also the Man in Black. Interesting!
Then a fan asks Damon and Carlton what Damon calls a “new iteration” of the common fan question about whether the writers are making it up as they go along. This time, the question is about whether the backgammon scene in the Pilot, where Locke talked about dark and light, and good and evil, was intended to lead to where we are now. Darlton’s answer? Sort of yes, and sort of no.
In this video podcast Evangeline Lilly rehashes 6×03, the Kate-centric episode, and talks about her character. Also, Damon and Carlton promise that we will see more about the numbers.
In this video podcast, Damon, Carlton, Matthew Fox (Jack), Terry O’Quinn (Locke and notLocke), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), and Josh Holloway (Sawyer) talk about the sideways flashes and about some of the large questions of the season.
The most interesting things said on the video:
On the timelines
Carlton said the two timelines are related, and the way in which they are related is one of the big mysteries of this season.
On good versus evil
Damon said that it’s all about good versus evil, and we will have to decide if Jacob is the good guy and the Man in Black the bad guy, or if they have done a “switcheroo.” Both Jacob and the MiB are going to get a chance to make their case.
Carlton echoed that it comes down to good versus evil.
My theory had been that the show wasn’t going to draw clear lines between good characters and evil characters, but instead show something more ambiguous, with characters who were neither totally good nor totally bad, but instead a mixture of both. Going from what Darlton said here, it appears that may not be the case.