Michael Emerson Lets Some Info Slip About the 'Lost' DVD Set
'Lost' star Michael Emerson (the ever-mysterious Benjamin Linus) was a guest on G4's 'Attack of the Show' last night and talked about the series finale of the ABC drama. What, you thought he was going to talk about politics?Besides talking about what he was doing the night of the finale and showing that great prison video he made years ago, he gave some info about what's going to be on the complete series DVD set that's coming out in August, and it's not clear on whether he was supposed to or not.
Emerson says that there's going to be a special feature on the set, a 14-minute scene that explains the time that Hurley and Ben spent on the island as "Number One" and "Number Two."
One of the reasons why people didn't like the series finale of the show isn't because they all ended up dead and in a church and that the flash sideways was a kind of purgatory (though that might have been part of it). People were irked and maybe confused by the time compression in the final scenes. One minute we see Jack die and talk to his dad and then right after we see Hurley come out the church door and talk to Ben about being a good Number One and a good Number Two.
I'm glad Hurley and Ben uttered those lines -- really the most important lines of the whole night -- because it told us that not everyone died at once or died so quickly. There was a gap, maybe even years, between the time that Jack died and the Ajira plane left the island and the time of the big let's-meet-at-the-church-and-have-a-party scene.
I was disappointed by the ending when I first watched it, but now that I've had several days to mull it over, I like it a lot more. It was beautiful, moving, and smart. I guess it helps if you're the type of fan that really doesn't have to know what the island was or who made the four-toed statue or any of those answers. And I bet this DVD set and its extras will make fans like it a lot more.
Not sure why the host gives the theory about it "all being in Jack's head," since that's an odd way to look at what happened. Luckily, Emerson pretty much explains it once and for all.

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