4/22/09 Official LOST Podcast

This one slipped under the radar last week, but here’s what’s to be gleaned from the latest Official Lost Audio Podcast featuring Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse:

• In what will be a surprise to no one, “things are coming to an end in Dharmaville” for the show’s castaways. Very soon. (I’m thinking by the season finale.)
• Fan speculation that the title of this week’s 100th episode, “The Variable,” could have a direct connection to last season’s “The Constant,” is not off the mark. They refer to the two eps as “sister episodes.”
• Sawyer is ambidextrous — able to write and skillfully manipulate things with both hands. This is not a goof that was written into the show, it was planned from the beginning, according to Lindelof. They believed that Sawyer would be a more believable con man if he could use both hands, since many con men are known to write with both hands in order to mask their signatures.
• When a fan asks if the show will ever address Faraday’s “memory issues” (aka, his trouble remembering things, as seen throughout Season 4), Carlton responds that the show has already addressed this in a number of ways. Namely, we know that Daniel was conducting experiments on himself in his lab at Oxford, we know that those same experiments on his girlfriend Theresa put her in a vegetative state. So it’s reasonable to conclude that those experiments are the reason for his memory problems. Cuse also adds that the real question is, “What is Daniel going to do about his memory problems?” He points out that we shouldn’t forget about the island’s healing powers, and that this could be the reason Dan came to the island. They also say that this week’s episode will very likely address all of this.

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