Lost: Season 5 prediction

Season 4 just ended and most of us will have to wait till January 2009 to see the new episodes. Till then the team behind Lost are planning to keep us busy and baffled with the islands mysteries with more hidden clues.

Starting from Season’s 4 last episode, during the commercial break a strange advert was aired. A company called Octagon Global Recruiting was advertising job openings/recruitment that will take place in San Diego, California on the 24th of July. On the Octagon web site it clearly links the new company with the Dharma Initiative and its purpose will probably be revealed during the ComiCon conference that will take place in San Diego on that day.


Fans of ABC's Lost may recall hearing that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof demanded from the network that an end date be set for the series so they could properly map out the upcoming episodes and seasons and conclude the show in a satisfying way (for them, maybe not for us fans). Well, according to E! Online, ABC will soon announce that Lost will conclude at the end of Season 5 (we're currently in season 3).

Some fans may think this is bad news but if you take time to analyze it, you'll see it is a good thing. Producers and writers now have the assurance that ABC will air the show for two more seasons, nothing more and... nothing less. This means that they can plan the storylines and reveals accordingly. And, hopefully for us, they can plan a proper series finale instead of planning a "season finale that could serve as a series finale" or just leave us hanging with tons of cliffhangers and no more episodes to answer the questions.

The network is also rumored to confirm this report that Lost will air from January to May starting next year so that episodes air in a back-to-back fashion à la 24. The last news ABC is set to announce about the series' schedule is that it will more than likely go back to its original time: 9 p.m. Expect these announcements to be made during ABC's Upfront presentation on May 15.