Spoilers for Lost season 4 for the first eight episodes
Lost has announced that they have eight episodes written and are finishing filming those eight episodes for the fourth season. The eighth episode ends as a cliffhanger, so it could theoretically end the fourth season if the writer’s strike continues. This means that eight episodes could be all we get this season 
It is also going to severely impact some of the storylines we have been expecting, but also means some of the characters we were going to see may or may not have made the eighth episode cut. Here is what we know so far.
Both Libby & Michael (Cynthia Watros and Harold Perrineau) made the eighth episode cut. And Ausiello feels they are probably involved in the cliffhanger somehow, which doesn’t surprise me! He also hints that three characters are returning for the Juliet-centric episode 6, with the hidden names of *o*****, **h*n, and **. *r*e*d**. So logical assumption is that it is Goodwin (one of the others that Juliet was getting it on with, who was killed by Ana Lucia), Ethan (surprise, lol) and Mr. Friendly (way too obvious!).
Hawaii blog has some great photos from “Fiji”, where the crew have turned Kewalo Basin into Fiji’s Port of Suva.
Is this Naomi’s freighter? Even though she said the wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 had been discovered in an ocean trench off Bali, the pilot had said he had turned back and was attempting to reach Fiji when the plane broke up over The Island. Or could it be another ship, and another time? Who ends up in Fiji, and when?
Be sure to visit the blog for the great photos.
Episode seven is Sun/Jin-centric, and the Hawaii Blog was there…
The street scene appears to be the exterior counterpart to the toy store scene they filmed the day before. We see Jin come out the door with, yes, a giant stuffed panda bear. He’s helping his plushy new pal into a taxi cab when a guy speeding past on a blue moped knocks his cell phone out of his hand. As he stoops to pick it up, the taxi cab takes off with someone else inside. Jin runs after the cab, yelling angrily, and to no avail. Cursing, he smashes his phone to bits on the street.
The scene, which may very well add up to less than a minute of footage in Episode 4×07, took all morning to film. But despite the rain delays, shooting wrapped after lunch as scheduled. It was a busy day for the crew, to be sure. Many had to rush off to report to the day’s second shoot: a scene with Sun, Yunjin Kim… at a funeral.
And from the wonderful Kristen at E!:
Episode eight, the last script completed before the strike, shoots today through the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and then that’s all Damelton wrote. Episode eight includes two new characters, Gus and Noreen. Gus is an “inner-city, unruly character type. He’s a sketchy business owner who preys on human weaknesses [and is] happy to exploit any opportunity he sees.” Noreen is “very tough on the outside, nurturing on the inside. Confronted with something from her past, she defends herself well, despite the emotional toll.”
I wonder how the whole eight episodes with a shortened season four will factor into the overall picture with the Lost team planning 48 episodes over 3 seasons, officially ending in the 2009-2010 season.
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