Michael Emerson on Season 4

IGN - LOST's Michael Emerson Talks Season 4
This interview over at IGN is pretty lengthy. They were able to speak with "Ben," just before the writers strike began last fall. I pulled out one of the questions, but there are many many more.

"IGN TV: What did you think when you read the reveal to the flash-forward in the script?

Emerson: Well, it wasn t in my script! It was left out of everybody s script except Matt [Fox] and Evangeline [Lily]. So I didn t know what they were doing until it was broadcast. I didn t see those scenes and had no idea. And at first, I suppose like everybody else, I was a little bit confused. I thought Jack with beard… what kind of flashback is this? When did he ever let his beard grow? And then when it dawned on me that this wasn t in the past, this was in the future and that some survived, but not happily… And that their post island life is every bit as fraught and filled with regret and misjudgment as their life on the island… I just thought Oh, that s really grown up." More

The Doctor is In

'Lost'': Dr. Jack spills secrets - Entertainment WeeklyHits newsstands January 11th!

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:
What was your first reaction to the big twist in the season finale?
MATTHEW FOX:
Something like ''Holy s---!'' It really caught me off guard. I'm not sure I ever thought that people were going to get off the island.... Damon [Lindelof, who co-wrote the finale with fellow exec producer Carlton Cuse] did such an amazing job of orchestrating something that when you're looking at it for the first time it feels like a flashback, but there'd be little things that are a little odd — like why Jack seems so ridiculously messed up. You think it's in relationship to his marriage falling apart, and then boom, you go, ''Oh, my God, this is a leap forward in time. What does that mean? Why is he suicidal?'' I just think that's great. More

SPOILER: LOST Season Finale One Week Later

Lost (Season 3) "Flash-Forward Thinking" by Doc Jensen EW
More theories and analysis of the rattlesnake in the mailbox.

Season 3 Finale Clues: Grand Avenue

The newspaper clipping in the Season 3 finale says that the man was found dead by the doorman in The Tower on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, which i read on blog.lostpedia.com that this is an unbuilt project. This Los Angeles Times Article says that that construction on the first phase of this project will not begin until October 2007 with the entire project completed by 2011. So when was this flash forward?

Here's my new theory, perhaps this flash forward was the end of the show, and everything we see for the next three years will be leading up to that moment with Jack at rock bottom trying desperately to return to the island and save those he left behind when he and Kate made a deal and got to go home.

SPOILER: OCEANIC AIRLINES : ALL FLIGHTS CANCELLED : OCEANIC AIRLINES

OCEANIC AIRLINES : ALL FLIGHTS CANCELLED : OCEANIC AIRLINES

The producers of LOST set this site some time ago, showing that in the wake of Flight 815, Oceanic Airlines closed. How then could Jack be in a flash forward, flying on an Oceanic Flight? Again, just putting the information out there for you to make the decision.

Also on this very website, is an odd little message:

"I survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.

If anyone should find this message, please get word I'm alive and stranded on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Please send help soon. Things are bad. And they're getting worse...

Sally"

The questions arise: who is Sally? how did she access the website? why not just email someone? Why not more contact information? Why no last name listed? hometown?

SPOILER: One 'Lost' mystery solved - Los Angeles Times

One 'Lost' mystery solved - Los Angeles Times

They say this is the paper that Jack was reading, but obvious from the pdf file, the one they used in the show was different. The story about "Residents speak out about proposed coastal gas plant" is the same. So yes, they used part of this paper in their fake one, but they obviously changed some things and I don't think we should try to say definitively that it is from April 5, 2007.