For those fans of now dead “Lost” characters Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) ABC has good news. They will be returning to the show next season. ****SPOILER ALERT****For those with short memories, Burke fell through the Dharma hole and was next to the bomb when it detonated and Faraday got shot by his own mom before he was even born….talk about the grandpa paradox of time.
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse also hinted of a reunion of sorts of several other characters from the first season as well. These revelations came from the pair at this year’s Comic Con in San Diego.
“There’s a good chance you’ll be seeing many characters you haven’t seen since the first season again,” stated executive producer Damon Lindelof during the show’s panel at Comic Con.
Of course, with the detonation of that atomic bomb at the close of last season, seeing any of them return together to the island would be a reunion.
“In the first season, the characters….were running around the jungle, things felt intense and surprising and (then there was) the emotional discovery about the characters,” said executive producer Carlton Cuse. “We have a way that we’re going to be able to do that in the final season too.”
One of the cast members at the Con thinks showrunners need to be careful however, when it comes to a reboot of the show’s staple characters. Jorge Garcia (Hugo) commented to Reuters that to take the reboot too far off-kelter would be dangerous for the credibility of all that happened before by stating, “….that would be a real big cheat.”
Lindelof and Cuse promises a new kind of narrative device for the show’s final season. Fans have faithfully sat through seasons of flash-backs and flash-forwards but all that is about to change according to Lindelof. “The time-travel season is over, the flash-forward season is over,” Lindelof said. “We’re going to do something different.”
Both executive producers promise to not leave fans hanging when it comes to the important plot threads left dangling up to this point. “….we’re gonna answer (them all),” assured Lindelof.
I was never satisfied with how they ended the Boone/Shannon storyline. Maybe they can give it some closure somehow. Also, it will be nice to see Mr. Ecko again if he comes back.
How is Faraday getting shot by his mom a “grandfather paradox”? . . . i.e. accidentally (or purposefully) killing an ancestor. If you killed a descendant there would be no paradox. If he had killed his mom somehow then that would be a proverbial “grandfather paradox”. Mmmm, kay.
Personally I think Faraday’s plan worked and everything reset its self just as he predicted. But the twist is that those closest to the blast retained their memories so IE everything is reset and the plane crash prevented except for them.