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so much good artwork out there!

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?The Exit? by Justin Sena

Do you guys remember the DamonCarltonandaPolarBear art series that culminated with the art show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles in December? This project is not related or affiliated with that or the show at all, but there is now DamonCarltonandMe.com. The print you see above comes from that, and is available for purchase here for $30.

Episode 6.03 - What Kate Does -

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Nestor Carbonell Discusses What to Expect for Richard

TVGuide.com: Have executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse at least explained to you why Richard doesn't age?

Carbonell: Yes. I knew at some point that they were going to answer some of the bigger questions, I just didn't know when. We have gotten to that point where there is an episode that deals with the origins of Richard Alpert and the bigger questions about his character, as well as bigger questions about the island and the mythology of it. It's an episode that reveals a lot. After three years playing this character, I was floored when I got the script and I was so excited to actually get to do the episode. They wrote a really tremendous script.

TVGuide.com: Is Richard one of the oldest people on the island next to Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) and the Man in Black?

Carbonell: It's safe to say he's been around for a long time. Initially, in Season 3, when he appeared in the '70s to young Ben, he was described as a Hostile, an indigenous member of the island, so we will find out if that's true or not or what that means exactly. If he was a Hostile, what is a Hostile? Who is this man? We're going to find out all that. He's clearly, of the cast you see, the one who's been around the longest. I don't know with respect to Jacob, but I think we're going to get a sense of all of that.

TVGuide.com: Is there a possibility that there are teams: Team Jacob vs. Team Man in Black? Would Richard lean one way or another?

Carbonell: There are some amazing twists this season. You're going to see elements of characters that I never thought I'd play for my character and I think others didn't expect to play them in their own characters. There are going to be emotional highs and lows for people that you've never seen. With respect to alliances, there's going to be a lot of movement and fluctuations. There will be loyalty, but there's going to be a lot of shifting and power struggle, which is always at play. Everyone's mettle is tested in this final season. It's the payoff season where all of those loose ends, or most of them, will be tied. A lot of those big conflicts will be resolved.

TVGuide.com: Richard doesn't seem to want to be a leader. We've only seen him as the right-hand man. Has that always been true?

Carbonell: I was just talking to Damon and Carlton about that with Michael Emerson. You're right. [ben] is someone that I tapped to be a leader, who was chosen as the Panchen Lama taps the Dalai Lama. Alpert is acting as a Panchen Lama to Jacob. He became the powerful one, and Richard took a V.P. role, an advisory role when he's around. It was the same thing with Widmore and Eloise. That's traditionally been my role, but now, obviously, the order is going to be disrupted with what happens to Jacob. That's one of the unsettling things for Richard Alpert. It's been a long time finding his footing on this island. What is he? Is he a leader? Is he an advisor? He's in conflict with the people who are tasked to be leaders, and at the same time with himself. Why doesn't he have more power in that respect? It's been a great thing to play as an actor because you're insecure the whole time. You're in command, but you're not really in command. It's been a thrill to play that shifting, of feeling like you're in power to being completely powerless.

Read more: http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/#ixzz0f29rJeaw

Richard is definitely my favorite Minor Character in the show. The actor just has that perfect look about him to play this role. I think its awesome how richard is always wearing a dress shirt and dress pants, pretty much the same style (minus colour) through the decades. Its mysterious and cool.

anyone know what the deal with Locke is? Is he dead for good or will he come back to life? I know the smoke monster has taken his form but he / it is not the real Locke. He was one of the best characters on the show.

in his case he's dead

Do you have an answer to this ?Lost? question: Why wasn?t Shannon on the plane? Was it plot-driven, or actor-driven? ? Taffy via Facebook

Shannon?s absence from the season premiere was actor-driven ? Maggie Grace?s busy film slate precluded her from swinging by Hawaii at the right time ? though the ?flash-sideways? reality would have you believe that Boone was simply unable to talk his sister-lover into bailing on her abusive Aussie beau. Frankly, I found Shannon?s absence, Charlie?s arrest and Juliet?s re-death to scream, ?Actor unavailability!? Now, I heard from one source that Grace would make a cameo at some point, but I have yet to corroborate that buzz. Her rep will only say, ?There is not much to comment on at the moment.?

Why does ?Lost?s ?Man in Black? want to kill Jacob so badly? ? Gail

We may gain some insight around midseason when, Terry O?Quinn told E! Online?s Kristin, ?NotLocke? spouts forth ?four pages of the history of the island.? I personally suspect the gents? feud dates back further than 1845, when they sat there watching the Black Rock slave ship near the island. Why? Because at last month?s TCA tour, Damon Lindelof let slip that the Man in Black?s origins date back ?thousands and thousands of years.?

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