A Ton of Lost Tidbits!

Courtesy of Kristin at E!

In regards to the map on the hatch door, from Exec Producer, Damon Lindelof:
"The beauty of it is, the door goes back up and [Locke] can't access the thing anymore, so for the next two episodes, he's just trying to remember what it is he saw," Damon revealed. "It's such a huge piece of 'Wait a minute!' in sort of the spirit of Locke as a man of faith being given instructions from the island. This thing that only he can see."

Turns out that supercool black-light reveal is a major plot point that carries on through the rest of the season. "Oh yeah, big time," Damon said. "I mean, it plays huge in the finale, and even in episodes 21 through 24. Twenty-one is an episode that is very much on the sort of fundamental axis of that map, and it's a Locke and Eko story, which is going to be awesome. [Executive Producer] Carlton [Cuse] and I wrote it. That episode is just called '?' because that is the symbol Locke remembers from the map."


And some other goodies:

1. Someone's Having Sex: While answering a question many of you wanted to know--whether there are any gay characters on Lost--Damon slipped in a little juicy scoop of some upcoming jungle lovin': "All I can say is Lost is a remarkably chaste show, considering that any other group of people on an island for two months would be, basically, screwing like bunnies," he said. "And, you know, Sayid and Shannon are the only people who've made love since the crash. That is going to change by the end of the season. But it's all boy-girl action for now. For now!" The biggest remaining question? Did he intentionally or unintentionally leave out Jin and Sun?

2. Kate and Jack, Sitting in a Tree... Good news for you "Kack" fans! "Things are actually going to heat up a little bit between Kate and Jack in episode 19, which is Rose's and Bernard's flashbacks," Lindelof said. "That's a fun story that is very much sort of Kate bouncing back toward Jack now as we go into the finale." Breathe, "Skate" fans, breathe.

3. A Lostie Is Found: Damon (who, by the way, has stellar taste in television, including a love of Prison Break) also happens to be a fan of 24 and, like us fans, got a kick out of seeing his MIA Desmond [Henry Ian Cusick] coming face to face with Kiefer Sutherland in last week's episode. "He was holding a gun and saying, 'Don't move, or I'll shoot him.' It was the exact same dialogue!" As for the casting of Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) as a kidnapped boy on My Name Is Earl, Damon muses, "Hey, at least we didn't kidnap him...Oh, wait. We did." Regardless, when asked the status on all the MIAs (Walt, Michael, Desmond), Damon said only, "Desmond will be back. And that's all I can say." Hey, I'll take it.

4. Sun Is a "Dirty Little Whore": Okay, so, maybe I'm the one who called her that (all in good fun, of course), but Damon played along. "She is! She is a dirty little whore," he laughed. "No, I think what's really great about that story, and obviously we talked to Yunjin [Kim] a lot about it because as an actress she needs to know, like, 'What am I playing here? Did I sleep with this other guy?' So, I think it's a credit to her nuanced performance that your take-away as an audience member is like, 'Did she just lie to Jin's face?!' I mean, the episode is called 'The Whole Truth.' But what's so exciting to me is that for people who say nothing ever happens on this show, you need only look at Sun and Jin and where those two were in the pilot, where he slaps her hand, and where they are now. And those two are going to be very active in the finale. We've got some cool stuff cooked up for them."

5. The Clues Do Mean Something: Many of you fans wanted to know whether the Easter eggs and hidden "clues" that we online fans obsess over incessantly actually mean something. "I don't spend a lot of time on the Web anymore," Damon admitted, "because, you know, unfortunately Web chatter can be overwhelmingly negative, and it gets in my head. It was so much fun when I was reading about shows I wasn't writing! But people will come up to me and say, 'I saw this. Does this mean anything?' and I'd say that 90 percent of the things that people mention to me are intentional."

6. This Year's Season Finale Is [Fill in the Blank] Compared to Last Year's: When asked if there will be bigger reveals in the season ender, Damon said, "I mean, whatever I say, if I promise we're revealing craploads of mythology, then people's expectations will be high for craploads. 'Well, what is a crapload exactly? Is that more than a bushel?' It's our belief that we're answering a lot of questions. Certainly more than in last year's finale. But you know, in the tradition of the show, we have to end the season of Lost with something incredibly intriguing and engaging that will make people talk all summer long, if we do our job right, and want to come back when we premiere again. And when you do something like that and people have to wait for it, the reaction is very commonly, 'You didn't give me enough!' So, I can't really anticipate how people will react."

7. Get Ready: That said, the season is revving up. "We feel that this batch of currently running episodes, through 19, is kind of the calm before the storm," Damon said. "And then episodes 20 through 24, those final five hours of the show, we're all overwhelmingly excited about because there is a lot of incident and action and mystery revelation coming down the pike. We're really, really jazzed about that final pot of episodes."