When Is “Lost” Going Next?

You guys know I’ve been pretty hard on “Lost” over the years.

I’ve often thought of it as overrated with creators and writers who are too full of themselves to admit mistakes.

But then we got that mindblowing finale and now I just can’t wait to see where the show is going next.

Or maybe the more appropriate question is when is the show going next…

Matthew Fox (Jack) gave an interview to “Entertainment Weekly” recently where he added even more mystery to the puzzle. When he was asked about what Jack meant when he told Kate in the future that he was sick of lying, Fox responded, “Jack and the other people, upon getting back to the world, are not being honest with the world. They are covering up [something]. That’s an agreement that they’ve all reached”…

Has the threat of death been removed from over Jack and Kate now that we know they got off the island? Fox said, “We have to get from the island to that point in the future before it can become a real threat again—and it will. When Jack Shephard goes, ‘We have to go back,’ that means he’s f---ing going back. And if there’s 48 episodes [left], you know that Jack is going back on that island for a certain section of episodes. That means that he could die”…

Fox also said that when Jack and the other people get off the island “it becomes this massive story” since everyone thought they were all lost. Fox promises that with a definitive ending date, the writers now know “when to let it go” and the show will get into questions like “What is this island? Where is this island? When is this island?”…

Is your mind reeling yet?

One thing Fox does clear up is Jack’s comment about his father in the flash-forward. Fox said Jack was so “loaded and emotionally distraught” that he talked about his dad like he was still alive. Fox said he asked Damon Lindelof (the finale’s co-writer) about it since he knew it could be seen as “manipulative” and Lindelof told him stories of real people who did the same thing…

“Lost” returns Thursday, January 31st at 8 p.m. on ABC…