“LOST” Not Losing Its Focus

Submitted by: Cougar (SoSF Staff Reporter)

Even though the upcoming third season of the ABC award winning show “LOST” will be taking a deeper look into those folks on the other side of the island simply known as The Others, the show’s producers want to let viewers know that those regular characters they have all come to know and love will still be center stage.

In an interview, one of the skein’s executive producers, Damon Lindelof said: “The rule of thumb that you’ll start to see establish itself is that the show is still about our people. It’s still about our guys, and … we don’t want to start handing off the show to strangers until the show is ready for that. So we’re going go be very much with Kate [Evangeline Lilly], Jack [Matthew Fox] and Sawyer [Josh Holloway], and they’re having their experience sort of out of the gate. … Point of view is a big part of Lost. We tried to do the same thing with the tail section people, which is you didn’t really learn their story until ‘The Other 48 Days,’ which was seven episodes in [the second season]. Otherwise, they were just … people interacting with Sawyer and Michael [Harold Perrineau] and Jin [Daniel Dae Kim]. So the others have a much more involved history than just having crash-landed on the other side of the island for a couple years. So we’re going to take baby steps, which, I think, is the way to go.”

“LOST” returns to ABC this fall on October 4th for a 6 to 7 episode arc before making room for the 13 week premiere of Taye Diggs new SF show “Day Break.” After the Diggs’ gig, “LOST” will return for its remaining episodes to roundout the season.