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In a new interview with TV Guide Magazine, producer Damon Lindelof opens up about the final season of Lost.

Does he give away any spoilers? Of course not.

But until the most layered, mesmerizing show on television returns in January, this is the best we'll get. Here's what Lindelof had to say:

On season six: "All I can say is that we've spent the last five years answering the question 'Were you guys making it up as you go along? Do you know what you're doing?' It's a great comfort to know that in about six months people will stop asking us that question. They'll basically say 'You were making it up it as you went along;' Or they'll go 'Wow, you really had a plan.'"

On a definitive conclusion: "There will not be a cut to black. It is not all in the dog's brain. I think the one thing that we're saying is that we're not leaving things open for a Lost movie. We are conclusively ending the story that we started... The whole reason that we asked for an end date was so that we could end it. That's what we're going to do."

On returning cast members: "I've heard rumors that Ian Somerhalder is coming back even though he's working on The Vampire Diaries. I've heard Dominic Monaghan is coming back... I do think it's safe to say that that final season of the show in a lot of ways is a curtain call for all the actors who kind of made these iconic performances and we're hoping that a lot of them come back for one final appearance."

Starting tomorrow night, Elizabeth Mitchell will anchor V, a wildly-anticipated new drama on ABC.

But Lost fans that have been mournig the death of Mitchell's Juliet can take comfort: despite her starring role on another series, and despite the atomic bomb that exploded to conclude season five, Mitchell will return for a few Lost episodes in 2010.

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actress spoke on her character's (quasi) death scene and on what Juliet might be up to when we see her next...

On season five's concluding scene: “At the time, I didn’t think I was ever coming back.  So for me it was just a really big goodbye and easily heartbreaking.... It was really primal... I love that we got to see all of her rage, because to me, that’s what’s driven her. To have the calm exterior, I always had to have that underneath. 

"That’s what made playing her kind of hard in my personal life because there was so much unexpressed.  So I’d be on the way home, Agggghhhhh!, crying or screaming.  That was the very first time that we got to see her naked - besides being in love. We actually got to see all of that pain and rage that had been built up for some time.

On Juliet's return: “It’s probably exactly what you expect, but because it’s [producer Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse], you know they’re just going to turn it on its ear.”

Cuse, meanwhile, has this tease for Lost fans: “There’s still something very significant that we have not yet learned about the character."

Man. Is it January yet?!?

It's both sad and exciting: we're just a couple months away from the final season of Lost.

Who will live? Who will survive? Did May's atomic bomb explosion reset life for the castaways? Countless questions keep many viewers of the show up at night, but Damon Lindelof is here to answer a few.

The producer replied to a number of USA Today reader inquiries this week. While he didn't reveal any major spoilers, Lindelof shed some light on a few major topics. For instance...

The season six poster is chock full of meaning: "Everything in the design of that poster is intentional. We oversaw it - now we know the audience looks at that stuff so closely, so we don't want there to be anything that we don't approve, especially at this point in the game."

Yes, Walt is unique: "We said he has this special ability, and the Others obviously grabbed him and studied him for awhile, then they got freaked out by him and decided to let him go... hopefully, why Walt was special and the role he played on the show will have a new significance when all is said and done. I'm not sure we really need the character of Walt to explain the significance."

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It's important to note that these are not Lost spoilers.

Fans are likely to get quite riled up, especially when they read the final quote below, but keep in mind: these are just the thoughts of Josh Holloway.

When asked by E! News how his character will react to the apparent death of Juliet, Holloway put it simply: not well.

"Now that he's lost Juliet, I think the leader-hero thing is gone. I think he doesn't give a s--t to be anyone's leader at this point. He's heartbroken. He's back to 'The world sucks' and maybe throughout this season someone can redeem him again and bring him back from hell, because right now, he's in hell."

Even if Sawyer is redeemed, Holloway doesn't see his time on the island ending well.

"Knowing Damon Lindelof, Sawyer must die. Maybe Carlton Cuse will soften. I always thought he should die. I think he should die because him and society is never going to work, so why go back?"

An interesting opinion. Do you share it?

He may have a vital role on The Vampire Diaries, but Ian Somerhalder is returning to Lost next year.

The actor has already confirmed his eventual appearance on season six of the ABC hit, though he's the first to admit that he has no idea what Boone will be up to.

But Somerhalder told E! News that he has his own hopes for the character. To wit:

"I would like to see him find his power. I think there was always solidarity there. Boone was a pretty successful guy who [was] in his own world and had created a certain amount of responsibility that he had. I think there was power in that, and when they took him out of his element, I think he lost his power, and we never got to see him come into fruition, by virtue of his untimely death."

It's one of the most pressing questions on the minds of Lost fans everywhere:

Why the heck doesn't Richard Alpert age?

Nestor Carbonell, the actor that plays this mysterious character, wonders the same thing. He, along with viewers, will find out next season, as Carbonell has been made a series regular. 

"I'm moving my whole family to Hawaii next week," he told TV Guide Magazine. "This whole time I've been flying back and forth, but now I'll be living on the island with the others. They tell me I'll be in 16 of the 18 episodes."

Meanwhile, executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof confirm that Alpert's backstory will take a long time to reveal. Said Carbonell:

"Obviously Richard doesn't age, so I'm most curious to know how old he is and if he's in fact pulling the strings."

Instead of bouncing around the space-time continuum on Lost this fall, the lovely Elizabeth Mitchell is fighting reptilian aliens on a remake of the '80s miniseries V.

However, that doesn't mean Juliet doesn't make at least an appearance in the sixth and final season of Lost. Here are excerpts of E! Online's Q&A with the star ...

Q: When I read the pilot, I absolutely called that the part of Erica Evans was written for you, despite the reports that you were just a guest star on the series.

A: They actually said that it kind of was, but they didn't think I was going to be able to do it. I love the idea that it was so different from Juliet.

We have someone who's got a lot more hope this time, a lot more excitement.

Q: For who don't know too much about V, can you discuss your character?

A: Erica is a federal agent doing counterterrorism. She deals with finding sleeper cells and basically eradicating them as much as possible. She's smart and intelligent and all the things that you would want someone who is protecting our country to be. I must have a hero complex. I keep gravitating toward these roles. She has a son, and she's in love with her son, and her son is in love with the Visitors. She has to deal with the fact that she has to save him for the most part. Her husband just left her, so she's a brokenhearted counterterrorist detective.

Q: When it comes down to it, what's more important, protecting your son or protecting the world?

A: I think it's going to come down to both being the same thing. I think her son is becoming a huge example of what is going wrong, of the fact that this is becoming insidious, that these people are like toxins seeping into our groundwater. They're going to be everywhere. I think it's a little bit terrifying. She's actively trying to do something about it, and it's like the smallest person you can imagine against an army of millions. I like those odds. I think they make for good drama.

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He appeared on screen for a total of one minute and 45 seconds.

But Titus Welliver made a lasting impression on Lost fans during May's fifth season finale.

The actor waxed poetic on the condition of human beings ("They come. Fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same."), inhabited John Locke's body and killed Jacob.

Now, in an interview with TV Guide, Welliver speaks on his unnamed character. Here are a few excerpts:

On his character's lack of a name: "He has no name. He's just "the man," because they don't want to give anything away. I know that this character has a name and I know the importance of it; that's all that I know"

On good vs. evil on Lost: "The way that I interpreted it, on a biblical level, is that it's a sort of Cain-and-Abel scenario. So by destroying Jacob, what does that prove — that [the man in black] can ultimately have power over the island? Do the castaways become solely his playthings? And why was it so important that he find the loophole to be able to kill Jacob? That moved me in the direction of thinking that if he needs this loophole, there's a greater power than the two of them that they're answering to."

This article contains absolutely no Lost spoilers!  This is actually Lost creator J.J. Abrams discussing his opinion on Lost spoilers.

As the guest editor of Wird, J.J. wrote the following in his article about Mystery:

People often ask me how "Lost" is going to end. I usually tell them to ask Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who run that series. But I always wonder, do they really want to know? And what if I did tell them? They might have an aha moment, but without context. Especially since the final episode is a year away. That is to say, the experience—the setup for a joke's punch line, the buildup to a magic trick's big flourish—is as much of a thrill as the result. There's discovery to be made and wonder to be had on the journey that not only enrich the ending but in many ways define it

Abrams then goes more into the actual specifics of spoilers:

But the real damage isn't so much that the secret gets out. It's that the experience is destroyed. The illusion is diminished. Which may not matter to some. But then what's the point of actually seeing that movie or episode? How does knowing the twist before you walk into the theater—or what that island is really about before you watch the finale—make for a richer viewing experience? It's telling that the very term itself—spoiler—has become synonymous with "cool info you can get before the other guy." What no one remembers is that it literally means "to damage irreparably; to ruin." Spoilers make no bones about destroying the intended experience—and somehow that has become, for many, the preferred choice.'

Don't worry, we have every intention of continuing to spoil Lost for those of you who want it.  We know we sure do.  Those of you who don't, we always try to keep our headlines spoiler-free and label asspoilers accordingly.

With the Lost season five finale just three and a half weeks away, Hollywood 411 sat down with Michael Emerson (Ben Linus), who was finally able to reveal some insight into the action-packed finale.

Emerson reveals that viewers will see characters they've heard about, but never seen; and that the ending is an "explosive one."  You can watch the entertaining video below: