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This week on Lost, all the adult O6ers are leaving on a jet plane, and they don't think they're ever coming home. Before they can go, Ben has to tie up a loose end, Jack goes to see his grandfather, and Kate forfeits her Mother-of-the-Year Award.

When we saw in "Because You Left" that someone wanted blood samples to prove Kate's relationship to Aaron, it raised a lot of speculation. The big three guesses were Ben, Claire's mom and Widmore. The problem with that much guessing is that when one of them turns out right, we all end up feeling like "we knew it." Even if we didn't "know" know, we think we figured it out because the thought occurred to us before it was shown. This makes what should be a big reveal end up anticlimactic. That, and the fact that it followed the extremely popular "Jughead," is probably why this episode was a bit of a letdown for me.

The time is finally here for our favorite show to return! The season premier of season 5 of Lost will air January 21 at 9pm eastern time. We have seen fabulous early reviews from docArtz and from Jeff Jensen. Damon Lindeloff and Carlton Cuse have provided us with three sneak peeks and countless trailers. The build up has been increasing and the long wait is soon over! But what exactly can we expect from our first new episode in nearly eight months?

See a seak peek video after the jump

We are now only 7 short days away from the season 5 premiere of Lost, and our little Lost-empty hearts are beating so fast many of us can barely keep up with our daily routines. So, if you're feeling a bit like an addict who hasn't scored hit for far too long, I'm posting a list of episodes you may want to watch over the next 7 days in order to get yourself adequately caught up on some of the themes and storylines that its seems will be prevalent during season 5 on Lost. This list is coming from several sources across the web, including the producers of Lost as well as from Doc Jensen over at EW.com. Please be aware that some of you may consider the mentioning of these episodes to be minor spoilers.

Just a few days ago Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse hosted a round table to discuss the release of the new Season 4 DVD (available December 9). However, the discussion centered mostly around the new season of Lost, with some very interesting, though cryptic, things mentioned.

You can read the entire transcript of the questions and answers at DocArzt Blog. Please be aware that this may constitute moderate spoilers. Then be sure and let us know what your thoughts and comments are.

There has been some Lost news making its way out from the current filming in Hawaii. Reliable information is few and far between but sources at tvguide.com and ew.com have come across a few new items.
-A second new character has been cast. Said Taghimaoui, a Frenchman seen in traitor, will play Caesar. Not much is known about Caesar except that he is mysterious and will be associated with Llana, a new character played by Zuleikha Robinson. Carlton Cuse stated that Caesar will play "an important part of the setup for the final act of the show in season 6".
-Michelle Rodriquez will appear in the second episode along with Cheech Marin. It appears that Hurley will be seeing dead people again.
-Desmond has filmed a scene with Ben.
-Hurley has filmed a scene in a jail.
-Sawyer, Juliet, Daniel, Miles, Charlotte and some one else will learn of Jin's fate at the precise moment we do during episode 4.
-Claire will not be in season 5 but will be back for season 6.
Please post your thoughts about these tidbits. SWLS would like to hear your thoughts and prediction for season 5.

ABC.com has put out a new video podcast for Thursday's episode "The Shape of Things to Come". The podcast takes video questions from viewers and Damon Lindeloff and Carlton Cuse attempt to answer them without giving away any secrets. There is nothing earth shattering in their responses. The only thing spoilerish is that they do give us an idea of which episodes we will be getting some answers. ABC has also started a new on line game titled "Lostscape". After completing the game you can enter into a raffle to win a trip to ComicCon this summer. Lets first take a look at the questions and answer session.

Auseillo has confirmed that Lost will get its 14th hour this season. "We are very excited and grateful to [ABC president] Steve McPherson for working out the scheduling difficulties to allow us to make the second part of our finale two hours," says exec producer Carlton Cuse. "Damon and I were working on the script and we just couldn't get it all done in one hour without shortchanging the story. Now the finale will have all the sweep and emotional completeness we wanted it to have -- along with, of course, answering who's in the coffin." You read it correctly! We are now going to have a two hour season finale. There is one catch, we will have to wait two weeks from the May 15th episode. to the May 29th two hour finale.

Executive producer Carlton Cuse has revealed the plans for extending Season 4 of LOST past the eight completed episodes now that the writers' strike has ended. In an interview with Michael Ausiello at TV Guide, Cuse explains:

Damon [Lindelof] and I are going to try to make five more episodes before the end of May, which is ambitious. But we've found ourselves in a situation where we had eight episodes of story planned, and we're going to try to fit that into five hours of the show. Even though it's going to be very hard to execute, we felt like any less would be doing a disservice to the story we had planned. We really want to give the fans the best possible experience and ending... to Season 4.

That leaves three missing episodes that will be... lost. Although those three Season 4 episodes will be gone forever, Cuse says they remain committed to delivering the number of episodes planned. That means we'll likely see those three episodes (no longer Season 4 storyline) added to Seasons 5 and 6. Cuse also says there will be a four week break this season (rumored to be after episode 8, but some say it may come after episode 7, and lump 8 in with the five new episodes). There is also a rumor out there that the second half of the season will see LOST move to a 10PM slot on ABC, after Grey's Anatomy.