New York Post previews “The Incident”

The New York Post has a preview of what’s to come in tomorrow night’s Season 5 finale, “The Incident.” It doesn’t reveal any actual spoilers, but it does include lots of wonderfully cryptic teases from Damon Lindelof. A few choice quotes from Mr. L.:

“In the grand mapping out of things, one would assume Sun has a larger role to play.”

“There are two fundamental approaches to the show. There’s the Jack approach, which posits that there’s no real explanation for what’s going on. Or there’s the Locke approach, which assumes that everything on the show is happening for a very specific reason. We are very strong supporters of the Locke approach.”

“Season six will feel a lot like season one,” says Lindelof. “The focus comes back to the characters with whom we began. We’ve been winnowing away everyone else who came along. The Tailies are gone, only Miles [Ken Leung] is left of the Freighter Folk and only Juliet is left of The Others. We’re getting down to the end now.”

The season finale will reveal more about the Egyptian symbols and the four-toed statue. Lindelof has also said elsewhere that all the time-traveling is about to stop, but it’s going to be replaced by something no one will see coming. I stuck that in here because my guess is that that stuff is going to happen with this finale, too.

The Post also mentions that Season 6 will deal with the show’s core characters on the island, presumably in the present, resolving why they landed on the island in the first place (which implies that the ones who are still alive were brought to the island for a reason).