Found this article from Inside Bay Area. It's quite long so i've grabbed some key snippets below. "They let Hurley go, so the other characters will know they are now without their leader Jack," Cuse says. "That sets up a whole new dynamic with them. We'll find out what kind of person Sayid is."
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The men tracking Desmond are in a polar region. Where polar bears live."Well, the Arctic is the only place where polar bears live," Cuse says. "And polar bears will be back this season."
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Which brings us back to that season-one episode titled "Special." Walt is reading a comic book in which you see a polar bear and a dome-like structure with electro-magnetic symbols around it. The dome is surrounded by snow. The book resembles a 1986 DC Comics graphic novel called "Watchmen," the first of its genre to win a coveted sci-fi Hugo Award. (Now we might know where Hurley got his first name.) In "Watchmen," one of the main characters is Ozymandias. Think of the stone foot in "Lost's" season finale and consider Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" and its "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone." Like his poetic namesake, the comic book character Ozymandias thinks he knows what's best for the world. He also happens to have a getaway in the Antarctic: a dome with a tropical world inside. There's a 1980-ish computer, much like the one in "Lost," in "Watchmen," and a scene on raft with sharks circling. The graphic novel centers on good and bad, belief in your own potential and psychic powers. There's also a lot of talk about mankind destroying the world — either by damaging the environment or through nuclear war. Could this be what "Lost" has in store?
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Executive producer Burk considers the first six episodes of the new season as "Lost 2.5." "Think of this fall as a miniseries," Burk says. "Then in the spring, be prepared to go in an entirely new direction."
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Why did The Others want these three? There's speculation that it's because they are the only ones who have seen things that might not have existed in the real world. Jack saw his dead father, Kate saw her horse and Sawyer saw an intelligent boar.
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Most of the Losties have one thing in common: Almost all have spent time in hospitals.
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Source: Inside Bay Area
