Judging from what Rebecca Mader just said, it seems there's a clearer idea of how we'll kick off Lost's sixth (and final, I have to insist) season.

In the interview I just posted, the girl who plays supposedly dead Charlotte said that she's aiming for a resolution to many of her character's loose ends, most importantly her origins on the island. But I thought, if the producers promised that the story this season wouldn't jump as much as previous seasons, how will they do this without flashbacks? Maybe a meet-up with the current Charlotte in the revised no-815-crash storyline?

There are new details on the season premiere from E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos, and I think it's a little bit clear. Apparently, the season premiere will still feature two timelines--expected, since the crew have promised that the timelines will merge early in the season. But those two timelines are causes for confusion.

Timeline one: The bomb worked, and Flight 815 is happening all over again. That's the consensus.

Timeline two: In Kristin's words, it's where "we find out someone we thought was dead is actually alive ... in the same time we last saw him or her." So that's 1977, the same time the bomb exploded? Why am I guessing it's Charlotte who actually goes back to life?

It's because of what Mader told E! Online: "I can't say [how I'll return], because it's really, really, really, really, really, really exciting and I don't want to ruin it. It's too good to say. It's going to blow people's heads off."

My guesses: either Charlotte gets resurrected (which is not so plausible), or her links to the Island actually means she's part of that mysterious gang which includes Locke, or whoever poses as him. Wild speculation: is Richard her father?

And then there's still the theory that we still have an Island to deal with, especially with the characters in 2007 (Ilana, Frank, Ben, Richard) still around. Unless, of course, that 2007 storyline will be reset with the explosion, and we get a 1977 storyline with Richard, and a 2004 storyline with, say, Frank actually piloting flight 815. Also paves way for Jacob's return, judging from word that Mark Pellegrino is returning.

I'll leave it at that, for surely I'm forgetting something. Thoughts?





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