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Lost - "Confirmed Dead" - - Mario Perez/ABC

By “original (featured) cast member” I think the working definition has to be the conservative list of who you saw in the pilot.
That excludes a lot of people, given LOST’s sort of high body count (All the Tailies except Bernard and many others and all those Others, as well.
So Jack, Charlie, Hurley, Sayid, Jin, Sun, Walt, Michael, Claire, Sawyer, Kate, Boone, Shannon, & Locke, right? Rose confuses me because wasn’t she in the pilot? After days it seemed, Jack found her shore down the way, insisting she was “waiting for Bernard.”

I’m not voting but educated guesses go like. There are probably a number of deliberate red herrings(s) but I’ll bite: Shannon.

The entertainment news people say they talked to Harold and he’s working and happy–just not for LOST (yet) He states that  they are friends and sounds like he’s convinced himself he should go back. But they’ve not asked him, he says. Not sure I’d reemploy an actor who responded to his LOST comeback by dissing the storyline and insinuating racism.

I think the writers at the end at least, really blew the Michael story. Part of the problem was indeed “Walt” and the fact that like everyone else–he could not age in the few Island months (first several seasons were only months in the show).

“Michael” seems to come up as “least-desired comeback character” in the polls I’ve seen floating around. As I’ve maintained, they slaughtered the character of Michael 1.By making a joke of him (Waaaaalt!!!) and especially, 2. When he killed both Libby and Ana Lucia in cold blood. No to the Michael character though I’ve liked a lot of Harold Perrineau’s work.

Question: Is Emilie de Ravin going to be back on Lost for the whole season or just a few episodes? And will we get to see what happened to her? 

A: Ausiello: The answer to both of your questions is a resounding (yes!). Better prepare yourself though. My LOST mole says season 6 will showcase “a version of Claire we’ve never seen before — a Rousseau-esque version.”

We’ll be in need of a Rousseau fix since the real version will be MIA. According to a LOST insider, the French Lady’s portrayer, Croatian actress Mira Furlan, turned down the show’s request to return for the final season due to a “prior overseas commitment.”..

The meatiest bits for Furlan I thought, were when she was getting physical with Ben (Michael Emerson) during the big, dramatic freighter not-rescue. We had watched so much dirty behavior on his part that when Rousseau whacked him in the face (with the butt of her rifle once or twice, I think), every time, it was an almost comedic moment to see Ben get his.  LOST has continued with that sort of signature Ben always getting beaten to a pulp–then getting back up and going-about his- nefarious-activities thread.

The Only Original Castmember NOT Coming Back For Season 6 /