After a long wait, Lost is back on Feb. 2. So let's have some recap and pointless speculation, shall we?
What we supposedly know from various spoilers and interviews: Boone is back. Charlie is back. Libby is dead AND back. Claire will be back. Hurley now is lucky instead of cursed. And there's been tons of Talmudic-like parsing of every ad and promo, trying to suss out details and spoilers.
The return of Boone and Hurley's good fortune seems to indicate that the atomic bomb cliffhanger from last season worked, at least to an extent, and history has been changed. But at the same time, I have to imagine one key theme of this season will be the inevitability of fate. Oceanic 815 HAS to crash, doesn't it, or there is no show.
The reboot opens the door to a number of changes. Locke could be alive again. Yet at the same time, the fact that Libby is dead seems to indicate that the atomic bomb did have some permanence as well.
The Amazing Grace promo, unfortunately, seems to be a mix of old footage and new so it's tough to get too much out of it. But the shot of Locke ducking as a plane swoops right overhead on the island looks to be new, again leading to the idea Locke is back alive.
The Official Trailer shows what looks to be 815 crashing again, but this time not on a tropical island, which could lead to all sorts of questions. Could the Island not be a major setting of action in this final season?
My favorite by far is the Chessboard promo just for its trippy visuals.
One thing I'm not looking forward to this season - the Kate/Sawyer/Jack triangle. After five seasons, I really don't care anymore. She should be with Sawyer, there, case closed.
