Update: 09:50 GMT Thanks to Penelope for also finding this little bit from Ausiello.
"Now I'll return the favor with another one of my phenomenally successful multiple choice quizzes, this time pertaining to the fate of a certain MIA island on Lost. We will come to learn that one of the following is true in Lost's fifth season premiere.
A. The Island moved forward in time.
B. The Island moved backward in time.
C. The Island did not move in time, but it did move in space -- to another location on the planet.
D. The Island did not move in time or space -- it's still there, but Dharma tech renders it invisible to the naked eye."
Source: EW
Here is the latest tidbit from EW's Ausiello who followed up the spoiler about Claire not appearing in Season 5 to confirm that she will definitely be returning at some point.
Ausiello spoke to LOST Producer Damon Lindelof after the Emmys who confirmed that it is all part of the "grand plan".
Here you go:
Question: Thanks for the interview with Emilie de Ravin, but do you know for SURE that Claire will be back for Lost's sixth and final season? I'm suspicious. -- Devon
Ausiello: I was too, but then I asked executive producer Carlton Cuse and he put my mind at ease. "Claire is a wonderful part of the show and the audience can rest assured that they will see [her] again on Lost," Cuse told me Sunday night at the Governor's Ball. "It's just all part of Damon and my grand plan for how the story is going to be best told. And we don't want someone to be on the show and not be serviced well. The story that we're telling this year is going in some other directions, but we'll circle back around to include Emilie we think in a very exciting way."
Source: EW
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I love hearing them mentioning a grand plan. :D
Yessss!! I'm VERY anxious to learn where the Island moved -- in time and/or in space.
My vote is for B; moved backward in time. We know that A is not possible, because Darlton promised us that Dharma will be back this season. C is unlikely, because it is not the only thing, I mean if there were to write "...also in time" I would choose C. D is the thing that we've been dealing for 4 years and we already know it. How can something that was already invisible to the naked eye can be invisible again? It is invisible and that's that, isn't it?
I go with B! I wonder if we will see Radzinsky working in the Dharma Swan hatch?
I'm with B too. Darlton said when season 5 begins we wouldn't know where we are. If they were referring to the island, then some very confusing things must be happening. That rules out C & D for me. A further reason to rule out D is the fact that the donkey wheel was the trigger, and it seems more antiquated than Dharma. Factoring in recent spoilers about ancient people appearing etc. eliminates A.
Although I seem to remember Kristin once saying that it had moved in space and time. I guess one of the quintessential TV gurus of the earth is wrong ;)
"We know that A is not possible, because Darlton promised us that Dharma will be back this season. "
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Well that didn't make any sense...
I say A. Hopefully it will have moved millions of years forward to the nothern hemisphere.
Frozen Donkey Island here we come!
Also, are you people trying to say that the island mentally moved backwards in time?
roffle!
How would an island 'mentally move backwards in time'? I can't think of an occasion when I'd want to say that, nevermind try to :D
That's what you're saying. Instead of moving through a wormhole, suddenly it's dharma days on the island again.
That's what you're saying.
No it's not. It's how you're choosing to interpret what I'm saying.
If the island 'moved' backwards in time, (which in my opinion means that time as it exists within and immediately around the island has been altered, not the island itself) then it's not beyond the realms of a science fiction TV show for people consistent with the new timeline to be introduced. We've already seen Ben move in space and time and end up in another location as a result of the donkey wheel 'incident'.
This is crazy. That would mean Juliet, Sawyer, Rose, & Bernard all were around in the DHARMA days from the very beginning! After what we've seen, that's just nuts :)
BTW, I'm not disagreeing ;)
I doubt the island moved backward in time, since there are too many paradoxes to work out. However, I wouldn't rule out that a single character moved backward in time, but that would mean that someone was within the effect of the donkey wheel but off the island. I can't think of any characters like that, so I guess that theory's out.
Don't you remember Geronimo Jackson?
It looked like the people on the cover were Sawyer, Claire, Locke and Michael.
Sawyer is still on the island. Claire is still on the island, in some form. Locke is still on the island. Michael is dead, but I'm betting another black guy might just show up in the original DHARMA who is a budding musician and rallies the other three together for morale and they end up recording an LP.
Charlie had never heard of them - that's because he died before the island moved backwards. Neither had Sayid - that's because he left the island before it moved backwards.
Locke HAD heard of them, or at least had some recognition of them...that's because he was actually in them and the band was flitting about his subconsious.
Decent theory?
my guess would have to be "A" because if the island went back in time then it would have to be moved again, or else when the O6 eventually get back to the island, everyone that was left behind will be much older, especially if it went back to DHARMA times as people are speculating.
I'm not sure how spoilers mentioning old ships and people dressed in ancient garb possibly using arrows can be reconciled with the island moving forward in time. But this is Lost so I guess anything is possible..
Just a thought, but maybe the island moved forward in time, but Faraday (being on the the line of whether or not he is on or off the island, remember, his boat was about halfway between the island and the helicopter) moved backwards, being caught in a rift. That's why we hear him talking to Pierre Chang.
Their seems to be this idea floating around that if the Island moves back in time it will create an unresolvable paradox, but the same will not occur if it moves forward in time. This makes absolutely no sense to me. If the Island moves forward you're still dealing with the possibility that the remaining losties never got off the Island and would still be there. Which would create it's own paradox. Either way the Island moves in time it will bring up difficult issues of space/time continium.
We have already seen pictures of Faraday on the beach with Juliet and Charlotte. So, it is not likely Faraday goes back in time to meet Chang immediately.
@ neoloki - It is still possible that Daniel goes back in time on his own after his meeting with Juliet and Charlotte, or (more likely) Daniel alone is sent back into the past, and that's how we get our DHARMA info (we get our Hostiles info from Richard and possibly Jin if Jin was sent even further back than Daniel), and once DHARMA has constructed the Orchid Station (with Daniel's help), Daniel uses the Vault to travel back to the future/present, and escapes the station before Ben and Locke blow it up. So as Daniel is being teleported into the past on the raft, he has also just come from the past via the Orchid and is making his way back to the beach where he has his scene with Juliet and Charlotte.
No paradoxes, we get DHARMA, island doesn't have to move back in time/move more than once. All problems solved.
Geez. NOT AGAIN:. The island CAN'T GO BACKWARD IN TIME, because all the characters (Locke, Sawyer, Juliet etc) would disappear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The islnd CAN MOVE BACKWARD IN TIME, because the CONTENT of the island it would be the same (Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, still be there, like nothing happened) BUT the OUTSIDE WORLD, would be FROM ANOTHER TIME. That means, that if theymove it to 1980, and in that year, soemone goes to the island, he will find people who claim they are FROM THE FUTURE.
Please, understand it already!
Well, I think D would be quite useless, really.
I really hope it moved backward in time.
The idea of time magically resetting is pretty ridicolous and it'll never happen.
Did ya guys forget the water fillng in the gap where the water had used to be?
It's obviously either A or B, but I don't think for a moment that by "moved backwards in time" they mean time s reset, rather than the island moving through a wormhole to sometime (and somewhere) before 2004
*where the ISLAND had just been
niwram, that's what I meant. I'm sorry that I am such an angry dude and don't express myself too well.
First (A) & (B). Whether the island moved forward or backward in time Is errelivant, if It existed 50 years ago to present or present to 50 years in the future, other then looking different It still has to be visible. now for (B) 10% of and Island Is above the water, 90% under, just like a mountain It's connected to the earth, and way to much mass to move, my guess, physics would say It's impossible. now that leaves (D) which seems to be the most unlikely,if the Information Is truly correct, then I'm going to have to go with (D).
Hmmmm....Perhaps there are TWO Daniels now, like there were TWO Doc Rays?
Also, I like the way Carlton Cuse speaks. He always says what is reassuring in the most confident of voices.
@ gokhan -- The island isn't invisible. Where did you get that? We've seen the Island a number of times, including a view from the helicopter flying above it.
Maybe it is somewhat like a Stealth plane -- not picked up by ordinary instruments, but visible if you get close enough.