Comic-Con: Lost Panel Stuns Fans With News and Cast Appearances

As soon as the line for Lost‘s panel in Hall H was let in, Comic-Con workers handed out various items to fans. When I sat down I took a look at them: a pencil that says lostuniversity.org on it, a flyer with the same website but an awesome polar bear logo and information about Lost season 5 on Blu Ray, and a plain white poster that says, “Lost: The Final Season 2010″. I turned the flyer over and saw it had some written notes on the back including the name Professor Adam Nussdorf in need of a T.A and a phone number (818-824-6300). I called it and the message said to check back September 22.

Once the panel got started, we were treated to a commercial for Lost University. It showed parts of the website lostuniversity.org in which people will be able to connect and with other Lost fans in an online community. Head there now to sign up for enrollment. Next, we saw a recut version of the season finale, in order to refresh the minds of the fans. It had a lot of awesome action from the last two episodes and was edited with Knights of Cydonia by Muse. Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse came out and seemed sad that this would be the last Comic-Con for Lost. However, they did say they had a lot in store for fans, and thus began the panel.

First, fans were treated to some of their favorite fan-made Lost videos. We watched videos of fans who have hosted Lost parties, recut portions to make them humorous, and other various tributes to the show. The best ones were the Muppet Babies recut to Lost, with Jack asking Charlie if he is high on drugs. It was priceless to see Baby Fozzie say he wasn’t high on heroin. Then, Carlton and Damon addressed the rumors that have plagued them since the show’s inception, that the writers never have a plan for anything and just write one episode at a time, with no plan or storyline. They say they can prove the critics wrong by placing what they said was the final two pages of the series finale in a box and locked it up, so after the series ended they would go on Jimmy Kimmel and open the box and read what happened. More on that later.

Taking questions from the audience, things began to get more interesting. One person (who I believe was a plant), got up and told them he didn’t really have a question, but had been working on Lost based artwork. He showed a velvet painting of Carlton and Damon hugging a polar bear. Pretty funny whether or not it was real. Then, a large man walked up to the mic, and it was Jorge Garcia! He asked a few silly questions until Michael Emerson came up with a mic and started giving him a hard time. Later, Nestor Carbonell, who plays Richard Alpert, is shown putting on eyeliner backstage then was introduced to the panel, same with Josh Holloway, who plays Sawyer. Josh took the key from Lindelof and made Cuse open the box, and Michael started to read what turned out to be script portions from an upcoming episode of Heroes. Good call knowing your audience, almost everyone there knew what the joke was.

Overall, it was by far my favorite part of Comic-Con. I got to see some of my favorite actors from the show entertain as well as give some awesome discussion on the panel. I am sad that Lost will not be at Comic-Con anymore, but at least I saw it before it was done for good. Considering September is coming up, I will be staying on top of the viral marketing and posting all the news we get.