The Producers Have Spoken

One of the primary sources I employ for this blog is the producers themselves, who put out a "podcast" of discussion points from the prior episode, a tease of the coming episode, and some responses to viewer questions that get posted to the ABC.com message boards. They skipped last week's but gave a good one this week, from which the following tidbits are gleaned (as promised, potential spoilers are saved for the end of this post).

First - one apparent "mystery" from the episode entitled "The Glass Ballerina" was not meant to be one. Sun's lover, Jae Lee, in fact committed suicide after Jin beat him up and warned him to leave the country. Any speculation that Sun's father, Sun herself, or someone else may have flung Jae from his balcony can stop, and the producers did not think they were being vague about this.

In what may have been just a joke, the producers stated that Bad Twin author Gary Troupe was in fact the man who, in the pilot episode, was sucked into the turbine of the plane.

They also discussed some questions about the polar bears. (***Beware of possible spoilers***).








Still with me? The bears escaped during the collapse of the Dharma Initiative, but they and their escape did not cause the collapse of Dharma. In what may have been just a tongue-in-cheek dismissive response, Damon Lindeloff claimed the bears have eaten all or part of approximately 20 people, children included.



(***More definite spoiler alert***)







The producers have confirmed that somebody will die this week in episode 305, "The Cost of Living," and that that somebody will be a character we would never believe they would kill.