The Lost 2-hour season premier of the final season kicks off tonight. The show notorious for raising a handful of questions for every 1 question it answers is back to finally wrap-up everything into one neat little package? Right? I hope so. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve yelled out “WHAT?” at the end an episode. I realize it’s just a TV show but there are so many loose ends that need to be wrapped up that I’m almost watching in disbelief that it’s possible to make sense of it all. What is all that crazy jungle whispering? How did John Locke come back to life? What’s up with Walt’s have special powers?  Why does Hurley see dead people? How does Hurley remain to be 300lbs on an island with limited food resources? Where is Claire? How is the island connected to Egyptian mythology? … I could do this all day.

The producers have said they plan to wrap up long-standing mysteries, such as the nature of the smoke monster, the four-toed statue of Taweret, the identity of the Adam & Eve skeletons from the season one episode “House of the Rising Sun”, and the reason the Dharma periodic resupply drops continue after the purge. Let’s hope they don’t disappoint.

Interesting news for you Lost fans out there– so don’t read forward if you don’t want any details. It’s sounds like Jack’s crazy plan worked. In May’s finale, the castaways detonated a bomb on the mysterious island in hopes of resetting the last several years of their lives. During Comic-Con this year numerous sixth season reports were made including the announcement of the return of Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet Burke), Jeremy Davies (Daniel Faraday) and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie Pace),  as well as the inclusion of Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert) as a main character. Josh Holloway stated his character Sawyer would revert back to his old self after the loss of Juliet.

Other announcements include Carlton Cuse (executive producer and showrunner) stating both the time travel and flash-forward seasons were over, and they’re moving into something different for the sixth season. These revelations confirms reports that suggested a “Lost” reunion of sorts for the final season.

“(In the first season, the characters) were running around the jungle, things felt intense and surprising. We have a way that we’re going to be able to do that in the final season too.” said Cuse.

“There’s a good chance you’ll be seeing many characters you haven’t seen since the first season again,” said executive producer Damon Lindelof.

The final season, producers say, will in some ways resemble the first.

Yet fans shouldn’t think that any sort of narrative reboot will invalidate everything that’s already happened, “because that would be a real big cheat,” said Jorge Garcia, who plays Hugo on the show.

“Just trust us,” reassured Cuse.

The show will also employ a new narrative device that’s unique to the final season.

“The time travel season is over, the flash forward season is over,” Lindelof said. “We’re going to do something different.”

Lost will conclude its sixth season with its 121st and final episode airing in May 2010. It is planned to have 18 episodes.

The theories range from interesting to ridiculous. Abrams, apparently eager to dismiss some of these theories recently spoke out to MTV. If you have not seen the movie yet, or are extremely bored by Star Trek minutiae you may want to skip the rest of this article.

The “Abrams Sabotaged Shatner” Theory: Some Trekkies have postulated that the new movie’s inclusion of the Beastie Boys classic “Sabotage” is a subtle dig at the original Captain Kirk, who has been known to mispronounce the word as “sabotaage.”

J.J. Abrams response: “Yes, I have heard that theory,” laughed Abrams. “It was so funny when I heard it. I wish I could say it was done on purpose, but it was not. I just dig the song.”

The “Throw the Old ‘Trek’ Off a Cliff” Theory: In the same scene as the “Sabotage” song, a young James T. Kirk drives a ’60s-era Corvette over a cliff, leaping out at the last minute. Some fans believe that the car is from 1966 — the year “Trek” came on the air — and that it represents a statement about the new film throwing away the trappings of the classic show.

J.J. Abrams response: “I’m not sure if it was a ’66,” Abrams said of the Corvette. “But that was also the year that I was born, so I wouldn’t want to do that to the year, for personal reasons. No, the idea was to show the renegade, young Kirk and have a wildly anachronistic scene where you had an earthbound, almost back-looking scene combined with a forward-looking futuristic scene technologically. It had nothing to do with that kind of metaphor.”

The “Kelvin Crew Knows Who Romulans Are” Theory: In the classic “Trek” series, humans didn’t know what Romulans looked like prior to Captain Kirk’s time; in the new film, a Romulan craft kills the humans aboard the U.S.S. Kelvin. According to one fan theory, the attack on the Kelvin leads to a slip-up by Abrams, because the human crew recognize their attackers as Romulans.

J.J. Abrams response: “It’s not mentioned in the scene on the Kelvin, but they are aware of it,” Abrams confirmed, agreeing with the sharp-sighted fans. “Because later in the movie, Kirk mentions that they were Romulan. And we very purposely begin the film with a moment that, for fans of ‘Star Trek,’ is a left turn from the timeline they are familiar with.” For anyone who thinks they “caught” Abrams, however, the director is quick to point out the opposite. “For fans of ‘Trek,’ yes, the Romulans appearing breaks with what is known to be ‘Trek’ canon. But that is on purpose.”

The “Sleeker, Faster Response” Theory: If the new “Trek” gives us the Enterprise equivalent of a Blu-Ray disk, then the ship on the original “Trek” looks like a Betamax tape. One fan theory is that the attack on the Kelvin forced the Federation to build sleeker, faster spacecraft in the movie’s new reality.

J.J. Abrams response: “Right,” agreed Abrams. “The idea of the story is that at the beginning of the film something happens that changes the course of history. They cross paths with this futuristic ship, and it changes everything that would’ve been the classic series ‘Trek’ fans are familiar with. … One could argue that, based on the readings they got from the [Romulan] ship that showed up, it inspired ideas and technology that wouldn’t have advanced otherwise.” Hence, the huge difference between the old Enterprise and his version. “On the one hand, you could answer the question by saying that history got a boost, an adjustment, from this moment at the beginning of the film,” he grinned. “And if you don’t want to answer the question, you could say it’s just a movie.”

So there you have it Star Trek nerds, now go outside any get some sunshine already damnitt!

[Source: MTV]