The Looong Wait Until the End

Matthew Fox is promising Lost’s sixth and final season next years is going to be “amazing,” “incredibly satisfying,” “very surprising,” and “fairly confusing.”

Thinking radio silence, schmadio silence, the actor recently gave the crowd at the 49th Monte-Carlo Television Festival a glimpse at the final 17 episodes, which won’t premiere until – jeez! – next winter.

The season will begin with the aftermath of Juliet (the sure-to-be-missed Elizabeth Mitchell) seemingly detonating the Jughead bomb’s explosive core, in a development Fox said will be “very surprising – and probably fairly confusing, initially, to the audience.”

About a third of the way into the final season, Fox teased, Lost’s two timelines – in 1977 and 2007 – “are going to be solidified into one, and we will be operating in a more linear time, to the end of the series.”

Once the show moves to one timeline, he said, flashbacks will cease, and Lost will resolve its story on the island.

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