I was wondering the same thing -- it would be one way around that situation.

I think (Alias) they've already shot the last few eps of the season, so it won't be an issue.

We're talking about next season on Alias -- which they are supposed to start shooting in July.

I hope that we don't get all the answers in the next few weeks--they have to leave at least some (and I'm hoping a lot!) questions open for future seasons. Maybe it's because I never got into The X-Files (I've seen a grand total of two eps of that show), but I like the idea of having a huge mystery or two hanging over this island, and it'll keep me coming back for more as long as I don't feel like I'm being strung along for nothing.

We're talking about next season on Alias -- which they are supposed to start shooting in July.

Oh, nevermind then.

They've show the proposal thing in the promo for next week. That's the end-of-season cliche that Alias is going with.

I like there to be unanswered questions. I just hate it when the answers we do get are anticlimactic, especially when they make characters' guilt vanish or lessen.

Still kind of mad at Piers Anthony for that in On a Pale Horse.

Lost has an abundance of mystery to hold over from season to season. It will take satisfying resolutions to some of the mystery to keep me interested over time. Some of the reveals have been very interesting. Locke and Hurley backstories as an example. French Chick still being on the island was a biggee. The radio message from the survivors and the hatch are bound to be held over until next year. They need to keep a good balance of questions unanswered and satifying resolutions. I'm still enjoying the show very much.

There's also the fact that there was some pretty major league police pursuit almost instantaneously after Kate made a break for it. That says to me that whatever she did in the past was bad enough that they either had a huge stakeout around her mom or the mere mention of her name got the kind of response normally reserved for the Blues Brothers.

See, I saw that as a TV-world thing --- even if she'd been wanted for overdue library books, the police would have been there instantly and en mass. (Also, did they know who she was? I thought they just knew she had made a hospitaized woman scream and left the scene suspiciously.)

I had erased the Alias promo from my memory.