NOTE: If you’re not caught up with LOST (end of Season 5), this post WILL contain spoilers. Why haven’t you caught up yet??!

Those that know me know that I’m a HUGE LOST fan. It should not be a surprise that I went to Comic-con this year primarily for LOST’s final panel at Comic-con, in preparation for their last season. [Insert uber sad face here!!!] It should also not be surprising that I also woke up at 5AM on Saturday morning to get in line for the 11:00 LOST panel.

Of course, I duly bow-down to those hardcore fans that really go the distance: some folks began camping out at 7PM on Friday night with sleeping bags and tent. For their true dedication and love for the show, the campers definitely deserved the closest seats at the front that they diligently earned. At that, I know that I can only self-identify as a “medium-core” LOSTie fan. Much props and respect to the TRUE hardcore fans! <3

Here is my summary of the LOST panel at Comic-con 2009 with the help of various videos that I’ve been able to find and compile from the net. Hope you enjoy it!

Standing In Line

Brent and I got to the line by 5:45AM, where there were at most 300 folks already lined up for the Hall H panel. Hall H has a 6700 person capacity, but with factors like front seats and spot-holding, I was more than willing to try to get a decent seat!

Around 6:45AM, JOpinionated started giving away some LOST paraphernalia by asking some TOUGH LOST trivia questions:

1. Who broke their leg while skiing?
2. Who is Maggie Ryan?
3. Who are the 3 Flight 815 passengers (that are on the island) that know that Locke was in a wheelchair before?

Do you remember the other trivia questions asked while in line, or who asked the questions? Please let me know!!

We sat, napped, and waited with some pretty chill people, a lot of whom were single fans without friends to accompany them–TRUE dedication, see? Friends or not, the LOST panel MUST be experienced! Someone from Nashville, someone from Ontario (Canada), we sat and chatted to pass the time.

Going Into Hall H

Around 9:30AM, they started letting folks into Hall H–w00t! We got in around 9:45AM and got pretty good seats near the front, center (relatively speaking since Hall H is HUGE?).

While coming into the Hall, we got some sweet LOST freebies, advertising the new ARG (alternate reality game, aka official game for LOSTies to pass the time to research more between seasons). The new ARG is LOST University!

The LOST Panel

Shortly after 11AM, the Hall’s lights dimmed and this ad for LOST University was shown:

How cute! Polar bear as the school mascot! Be sure to go to http://lostuniversity.org/ to find out more info! Enrollment begins on September 22, 2009–the day of Flight 815’s crash!

And then, an interesting clip from “Mysteries of the Universe”(?) with an intro that read: “The following is an episode of a short-lived television series from the 1980s. The topics explored may be of particular interest to fans of ‘LOST.’”

(Source: http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=lostmysteries&cmp=09_Lost_DharmaDoc_CO1)

Then, the final Season 6 banner is revealed in suspense!

Here is a video of how all the characters appeared:

(Courtesy of ODI: http://the-odi.blogspot.com/2009/07/lost-sdcc09-panel-opening.html)

:O Locke was the only one with his back turned! Audience kinda went crazy over this!

Finally! Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse come out with Europe’s awesome “Final Countdown” as their intro song!

Thanks to Tostie14 for posting the panel for us!

LOST Panel in HD Part 1:

Per 2:04 in the above video, Lindelof and Cuse gave props to some of their favorite, HILARIOUSLY awesome fan videos in this montage!

Btw, if you’re looking for the original fan videos included in the montage, here they are in order of appearance:

• SNL ‘Dear Sister” Parody (LOST Fans) by shawngendreau
• LOST Babies – Relations by elbarto643
• Jack is having troubles with his XBOX 360 by hfctorch
• Lost Rhapsody 2: Electric Boogaloo by CapnBob
• LOST Parody #8 – The Yankees (S2, E3) by JustForLaughsTV
• Brokeback Island- ORIGINAL (LOST) by crazymol4588

Continuing with the panel, Lindelof and Cuse address the question of “Are they making up the story as they go along.” They take out the two pages of the LOST finale, and lock them up in a chest with keys only they can open. They also announce that the night of the finale, they will read the 2 pages on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Awesome!!

Q&A Highlights:

• We’ll be seeing characters that we haven’t seen since Season 1! Awesome!
• Paul Scheer is hilarious and gives Lindelof and Carlton a velvet painting of the two with a polar bear (http://damoncarltonandapolarbear.com hahahha) – “Is that on velvet?” “It IS on velvet! Because you guys make us feel with our eyes and our head.” hahahahah
• Yes! We WILL see Faraday again!
• “The time travel season is over, the flash-forward season is over. We have something different planned.” What will the style of Season 6 be??

Lost Comic Con 2009 Panel – Part 2 HD:

Cuse performs the current LOST opener: “Wooooaaaaaaaaa” hahahah! Per 4:20 in the above video, they play the winning song of the new LOST theme (with some visuals that they put together). Hmmm can’t find a video of the clips they showed, but here’s a link to hear the new song: http://www.myspace.com/randomgibberish

After that, they showed us these three clips from their “sponsors:”

What the heck?? Ummm… I guess this is a preview of what Season 6 will be like if Jack was successful and undoing the plane crash. Oceanic doesn’t have any casualties, Hurley wins the lottery and runs Mr. Cluck’s Chicken successfully, and Kate is still on the run for killing a plumber and NOT her step-father?! Talk about alternate realities!!

Lindelof and Cuse acknowledge the clips we just saw: “Interesting, I always thought that Kate KILLED her father.” They take some more Q&A questions from the line and–who is it?! JORGE GARCIA at the Q&A mic!! hahahahah

“Jorge? You know you could have just called us if you had a question. You didn’t have to come all the way to Comic-con to ask us!”
“Yeah, I did call. You guys haven’t called me back.” hahahah

“Jorge, you just have to trust us.”
“Okay yeah, the last time I trusted you guys, you said that Nikki and Paolo were gonna be awesome.” waaaahahahha

“Okay, so this is the last season, so that means everything’s gonna be answered, right?”
“Yeah, everything that matters.”
“Yeah, cuz like, Season 1, Confidence Man… Sayid tortures Sawyer to get Shannon’s inhaler, right? But… Sawyer didn’t have the inhaler… So what happened to the inhaler? We never found out about that one…”
[ENTER GREATEST ENTRANCE EVAARRR!!]
Voice from somewhere: “Oh for cryin’ out loud, Jorge, what happened to one question per person?!”

MICHAEL EMERSON‘S SOMEWHERE!!! My favorite LOST character!!!! <3

Jorge accuses Michael of being jealous that he didn’t get the part of Hurley, of which Emerson responds: “What a sad fantasy.” hahahha!! Hurley queues up some evidence!

Michael Emerson’s “Hurley” Audition:

lol he looks so insecure, hahahha “Maybe that was… a little too much?”

Lost Comic Con 2009 Panel – Part 3 HD:

Some more Q&A highlights:

• Lindelof and Cuse note this as a very good question: If we’ll see a Richard flashback and if it has to do with the Black Rock being in the middle of the island. We WILL be seeing Richard a lot in Season 6 and we’ll see his background too!
• “I need to know that [Juliet's] okay… and if she’s not, can you make her okay?” Yessss! We WILL be seeing Juliet again!
• Bob Stencil shows up and asks about time paradoxes and ends up getting a nose bleed, noting that he needs his constant, Dharma beer, hahahaha And he gets a Bob Stencil Dharma tshirt! hahahah
• “Is Jacob’s friend named Esau?” – Michael Emerson doesn’t answer it at all. hahahah
• “Does Nestor [Richard Alpert] wear eyeliner before he comes on set?” hahaha w00t! NESTOR CARBONELL comes out as the next guest!
• “Where do the food drops come from?” Jorge Garcia answers this question: “Oh, it comes from planes.” Lindelof and Cuse let us know that food drops WILL be answered in Season 6! Yes!
• Dharma won’t be around much in Season 6. :O
• “Has Jacob ever appeared to our LOST castaways as any other image other than himself, such as Claire or any other another characters?” (”Claire” is the secret word! Prize = the original note from Par Avion that Claire sent off) The answer is NO for the Jacob question! :O

Lost Comic Con 2009 Panel – Part 4 HD:

Per 3:00 in the above video, Lindelof and Cuse roll a clip for the next surprise guest:

JOSH HOLLOWAY enters as one of the guest stars!!! (AHHHHHHHH!!!) He tases Lindelof and steals his key for the Season 6 finale chest, threatening Cuse to give up the key or he’ll tase “J.J.Abrams” again, hahahah Holloway gets his hands on the papers and stares at it. Emerson says: “Oh my god. You don’t know how to read, do you?”

Emerson takes over and reads out the script. It turns out to be from HEROES! “Sy-lar” hahahahha For their last minutes, Lindelof and Cuse give one last thank you to all the fans, and start a clip of all the people that couldn’t be with us today: a montage of all the characters that died on LOST.

[UPDATE 8/6/09] I found the last video montage!! (Thanks JOpinionated!)

The lights dim and we hear Boyz II Men’s “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” playing with clips of our characters (I only remember some of the many!): the guy who got sucked into the plane engine in Episode 1 (Gary Troup), Pilot Seth Norris, Dr. Artz, Frogurt, Ethan, Shannon, Boone, Ana Lucia, Libby, Mr. Tom Friendly, Nikki & Paolo (haaahahha), Michael, Mr. Eko, Charlotte, Danielle, Karl, Alex, Faraday :(( The music changes to “Win One for the Reaper” and we see Charlie’s whole final scene! Sooo sad!!

When the lights come up, and Dominic Monaghan is the final guest of the panel! He waves hello, and supposedly he had the words “Am I Alive?” written on his hand. (Thanks YuBlog.org for the photo!)

Lindelof and Cuse say thanks and “See you some other show!”

Conclusion

So sad for the panel to go so quickly!! Of course, it was much worth the wait, and I’m glad I got to be there for LOST’s last panel at Comic-con! :(

Being at the Con with the LOST fans felt like we all had a mutual understanding that we all came together because of a SUCH an amazing show. Yes, it’s “just a show,” but it’s one that inspires critical thinking, intelligence, and is incredibly full of CULTURE: religious, popular, musical, literature, artistic, and ethnic cultures!

I think the first fan dressed as Hurley put it in words really well:

I can’t even begin to articulate what a positive influence LOST has had on my life, how many fond memories I have attached to so many scenes from so many different episodes, or how many awesome people I’ve met. I’m sure a lot of people in this room have a real shared passion and camaraderie for the materials you guys produce. I just wanted to thank you for being part of that experience and help you guys tell what I think is one of the greatest stories that have ever been told….

Oh, and thank you for making Hurley, so someone like me can finally have someone to identify with on television.

I just love that last part soooo much!

LOST: Thank you sooo much for all the great times you’ve brought for all your fans! We await patiently for your return in 2010! We <3 you!!

Here are some of my pics from the panel!

Thanks again for everyone that posted up videos from the panel! These sites were also helpful for me in compiling this post:

• Zap 2 It: ‘Lost’: Summary of the 2009 Comic-Con panel
• CinemaBlend.com: Comic Con: Liveblogging The Lost Panel

And thanks to Brent, Norvelle, and Damian for being awesome buddies for the many hours we spent together in line and in Hall H! <3