lost: new promo tonight! (kind of.)
During tonight’s FlashForward, there will be a new promo for Lost‘s sixth season. While this is indeed exciting, it comes with a caveat for spoiler fiends like me: word on the street is that it will contain no new footage whatsoever.
This is consistent with what we’ve been hearing about the final season–that producers will try to make it all the way to the premiere without showing a single frame of new material before airtime.
On the one hand, it makes sense. Because they’re either on the island or at LAX, right? There’s no way they can show promos that don’t give away whether or not they’re going for the reset. I understand why they’d be reluctant to show new footage.
That said, sounds ridiculously difficult and, as someone who lives for sneak peeks, promos, and the music videos that have accompanied seasons past, I’m a little frustrated. A good idea to combat this frustration would be for Lost and ABC to film non-canon material for promos, similar to the UK’s Channel 4 promotional campaign.
Notice how even though this promo is fantastical, it also highlights some major themes of season one: Locke as a bizarre ringleader figure (with a curious Walt nearby), Sun and Jin’s tumultuous relationship, the Shannon/Boone/Sayid love triangle, and, of course, the rivalry between Sawyer and Jack over Kate.
