Hmmm. Interesting.

[shipperx]

I'm kind of a lackadaisical viewer where Lost is concerned.  I was never deeply fannish about it.  On the other hand, I never turned against it in a big way as some others have.  Still, I haven't been "excited" about it since the very early days.   All that said, I found some of Matthew Fox's recent interview in Entertainment Weekly to be interesting enough to pique my interest:

EW: Now that we know Jack and Kate have made it off the island, has some of the death scare been taken off them?
FOX: There's no question. People are like, ''Well, it's not going to be Jack or Kate for a while.'' We have to get from the island to that point in the future before it can become a real threat again. But it can become a threat again — and it will. When Jack Shephard goes, ''We have to go back,'' that means he's f---ing going back. And if there's 48 episodes [left], you know that Jack is going back on that island for a certain section of episodes. That means that he could die.

EW: With the new flash-forward device, does the guessing game become ''Who else is getting off the island?'' instead of ''Who's dying next?''
That's the question for the first part of this year, for sure. Jack gets people off that island, [and] suddenly he and the other people are very well-known — it becomes this massive story because everybody thought that every person on this plane was lost.... Who are they? What is everybody else doing? Jack's mission was to get all of them off. It's the overriding force behind him. So, the fact that he ends up getting off and doesn't get that accomplished — I'm very curious to find out how that all goes down. And part of that is going to be part of the reason why he wanted to jump off the bridge in the future.... If I start giving you words about what I think it's really about, I'm going to be honing in on some stuff that I'm not sure I'm authorized to talk about. A truck might pull up and a bunch of dudes in suits get out and mow us down with Uzis. [Laughs] Seriously.

EW: What is Jack referring to when he says to Kate: ''I'm sick of lying. We made a mistake''?
Fox: Jack and the other people, upon getting back to the world, are not being honest with the world. They are covering up [something]. That's an agreement that they've all reached. And it's a weird, gross little bond that they have with each other. They don't see each other much, but when they see each other, it's incredibly awkward. And this lie — you can cut it with a knife amongst them.

EW: This season supposedly deals with time travel and other supernatural elements. Is that accurate, and, if so, are you happy with this direction?
Fox: Yes and yes. Really fascinating stuff. Last year, we find out Jack and Kate are off the island. How the f--- did that happen? And why does he want to go back? In answering those questions, you have to start addressing the bigger, epic scope of the show. In doing that, you're going to get into questions about the show that the audience is just dying to start finding out. What is this island? Where is this island? When is this island?

Not really a fan of "Jack", but I thought Fox did a fine acting job in last year's finale.