LOST Spoilers - The ODI

Welllll Losties and spoiler lovers...we finally have some interesting tidbits of casting news for Season 5 of LOST, but nothing too shocking.

As expected word comes today LOST is in the process of bringing back John Terry (Christian Shepard) and Alan Dale (Widmore) for larger roles in Season 5.

Well here are the details from Ausiello who now teams up with Jeff Jensen at EW.

Question: I'm dying to have some juicy Lost tidbits. I'll take anything I can get. — Brittany

Ausiello: Damn straight you will! Team Darlton is doing their annual “radio silence” thing, so Lost scoop is at a premium these days. Luckily, I managed to unearth this little morsel: John Terry (Christian) and Alan Dale (Widmore) are in talks to return next season on a recurring basis. Big frakkin’ whoop, right?

Well, here’s where it gets interesting: In the fine print of both their contracts, it states that Lost has the right to pick up series regular options on both actors for the show’s sixth and final season. For insight into what this could possibly portend for Lost’s endgame, please join me in welcoming the man, the myth the legend, guru of all things Lost, Mr. Doc Jensen! “The prospect of expansive roles for Jack's maybe-dead dad and Penelope's dastardly deep-pocketed pop suggests a theory about the Island's true significance. Here is a seemingly-magical place where the lame can walk anew, the impotent can once more shoot bullets, and anyone can crank o! n ancient donkey wheels and leap through time. In other words, the Island provides the means for death-spooked mortals to cheat the grim reaper. I'm betting that's why Old Man Widmore is so desperate to find it. As for Ghost Dad, the Island allows him to stick around in his inexplicable spectral state and might even be facilitating a full-blown bodily resurrection; either scenario represents a violation of the natural order of things. In the end, Jack will no doubt have to convince his father — and possibly his maybe-dead half-sister Claire, too — that they need to move on. Regardless, keeping Terry around portends an emotional climax to Jack's father issue arc.” Really? You got all of that from my one little casting item? Cool.

Source: EW

Ryan sent us an email with an updated set report that he posted on his HawaiiBlog about the hospital filming that took place on the LOST set yesterday.

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This new set report contains a MAJOR plot spoiler revealing that John Terry was on set along with Matthew Fox to film scene inside Jack Shepard's office. Yes that is right, Jack's father, Christian Shepard will make another appearance during this season, this time apparently during an off island Flash forward (unless the writers switch it on us again and it is a flash back scene).

So will this be another vision or will we get the confirmation that some LOST fans (including myself) have been wishing for!? That Christian Shepard is alive!! Realistically to fit the story line it seems like this will just be another apparition like Michael seeing Libby off-island, but you never know with LOST.

Also spotted on set, but NOT a part of the scene was Sam Anderson who plays Bernard, but this confirms that he is back on set to film more scenes. Is it possible Bernard is also off-island....!? Hmmmm....I guess we will have to wait and see.

Here is Ryan's update:

The scene was set inside St. Sebastian Neurology Clinic, bustling with doctors and nurses in scrubs and white smocks. Matthew Fox was there, of course. But so was John Terry. One scene took place at the hospital’s front desk, and another inside Dr. Jack Shephard’s office. More than a few minds were blown when Sam Anderson showed up… but he was apparently just visiting with his wife and kids. It’s good to know he’s back in town, though!

Source: Hawaii Blog