Previewing "Eggtown"; Producers speak to Jeff Jensen

What Will Eggtown Reveal?

There are a number of questions that Kristen at E! Online says will be answered on this week's installment, "Eggtown." I don't know these answers, so by my personal definition, these are not spoilers. But for the spoiler-averse, I've posted the questions to be answered on the spoiler blog, and not here. Click on the title of this post for the teases, and watch Thursday night for the answers.

Lindelof and Cuse Let Down Their Hair With Jeff Jensen
Today, ew.com ran a long interview conducted by Jeff Jensen with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. This interview took on a number of topics regarding season 4 (and the future). Below are some anti-spoiler highlights (i.e. things that Damon and Carlton disavowed or assured us are not going to be important going forward). Click here to go the spoilers blog for a list of questions and when we can expect answers (but not the answers themselves)...

1. There is no connection between Naomi's bracelet and Elsa's bracelet from last week's episode. Rather, Sayid's taking a moment to notice Elsa's was more a thematic reminder to him about Naomi, and not meant to imply that both Naomi and Elsa were receiving gifts from the mysterious "R.G."

2. Although part of the game of Lost is trying to figure out when in time different episodes' flash backs and flash forwards occur, within any given episode, those sequences are chronological. Thus, last week, Sayid shot the man on the golf course before he met Elsa.

3. Last week's episode was written before the Red Sox' 2007 World Series victory. Thus, Frank Lapidus's remark to Jack about "don't get me started" was not a hint that he had traveled back in time from beyond the next (post-2004) Boston championship, just a nod to how rough 2004 was for Yankees fans.

4. Lost and its answers do not and will not involve alternate realities or changing the future or paradoxes caused by time travel. Jack will get all drugged-out and bearded, and the first flashforward was not meant to be just one possible future that the characters (Jack, in particular) will be trying to change.

5. In last season's finale, when Penny seemed to be sitting in front of the video phone coincidentally at the exact moment the Looking Glass stopped jamming signals, what the producers intended was that Penny had some sort of alert mechanism telling her when the call would go through. Charlie turned off the jamming, so Penny got the alert, and that's why she placed the call at that time.

Now for the closer-to-spoiler reveals, click here...

Until after "Eggtown," Namaste!