The event primarily featured a live interview with Lost producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, who were both very funny. Questions were also asked from e-mail submissions from fans as well as ones from the New York audience with most being answered but with some "You'll just have to watch on Sunday" responses. There were also surprise appearances by the actors who play Ben and Hurley. Three clips from past episodes were shown and discussed: Locke convincing Jack to push the button, Desmond finally reaching Penny by phone from the freighter, and Hurley and Miles discussing time travel. It was so cool to see these scenes on the big screen.
The event ended with an exclusive scene from Sunday's finale, which was the icing on my birthday cake. Following are some revelations that were provided and a summary of the scene.
- Damon said that there would be a Star Wars reference about 7 minutes into the finale. (For us Star Wars fans, that's a big deal!)
- Walt will make an appearance in the finale. Damon joked that Walt had to be shipped off the series the minute the actor was taller than him.
- When asked about the significance of Desmond's comment to Jack at the stadium to "lift it up" in Season 2, this question received the "you'll find out on Sunday" response. Makes me wonder if that was actually future Desmond giving Jack an instruction that will come into play when Jack faces down UnLocke. Will Jack need to physically lift something up? Maybe overturn the outrigger canoe and dump UnLocke in the water where he will become vulnerable? I'm still theorizing right 'til the bitter end.
- The producers explained that prior to the filming of the final scene, they asked the actors participating in it if they had any questions about what was happening and not one did. Jorge Garcia who plays Hurley also said that as a fan of the show he really had no questions of the producers once the final scene was filmed. In other words, he got the ending and understood what the writers wanted to convey. Damon had a big smile and gave a thumbs-up.
- Now for the exclusive scene - Damon prefaced it by saying it wasn't too spoilery so read on. My guess is if it's not the first scene of the finale, it's probably one of the earliest we'll see set on the island during Sunday's finale. It opens during the day with UnLocke alone by the well, coiling up the rope presumably used to rescue Desmond. We see hiding in the nearby bushes Sawyer, who before he can do anything is surprised by Ben with a rifle. Ben marches him at gunpoint to UnLocke. Sawyer peers into the well to see Desmond is not there. (So if Jack's group didn't get Desmond out, then who did?) Just as this past Tuesday's episode ended, UnLocke again says he's going to destroy the island at which point Sawyer wrestles the gun from Ben and rifle-butts him in his face and escapes. UnLocke tells Ben to let him go. Ben questions him that he's actually going to destroy the island and he wasn't just speaking metaphorically? UnLocke says he has a boat and Ben is more than welcome to join him as he watches this island sink! (Remember in the opening of this season's premiere that the island was underwater in the parallel time line of 2004. Is this event in 2007 going to finally merge the two time lines?) Before they head off, UnLocke notices something about the ground around the well. Upon closer examination, UnLocke says that it looks like there was a dog around here and the scene ends. I kid you not almost everyone in the entire theater as a whole all excitedly whispered "Vincent." My immediate thought was that Vincent, doing his best Lassie impersonation, pulled Timmy - I mean Desmond - out of the well. It wasn't until two hours later as I was getting ready for bed that I remembered when we last saw Vincent and with whom. He ran out of the jungle when the time-jumping survivors ended up at the beach camp and was immediately followed out by. . .Rose and Bernard! I think we've found Desmond's rescuers.
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