Well, yesterday was the big day for Lost at San Diego Comic Con. However, it turns out that the big announcement (or at least one of them) got dropped at a press conference the day before because the reporters were, well, whiny little babies.

I mean, seriously. Look at this:

“Not to be a crybaby . . . what’s the point of having 150 reporters with access to millions of readers sitting here?” asked another critic, joining the pile-on. “You have the announcements. You can give them out. Instead you are going to hold them to give to people who have to pay to get into a convention.”

I’ll bet it was a joy being their parents on Christmas Eve. “What do you mean, we can’t open the presents? We’re here! The presents are here! You want us to wait until Christmas morning to open them? You have the presents! We should be able to open them!”

McPherson, the head of ABC Entertainment, finally did divulge one of the big revelations about the show: Harold Perrineau, AKA paternal-instinct powered turncoat Michael, will be returning to the show. My suspicion is that he’ll be appearing in flashforwards, with his now older son Walt (because, let’s face it, the actor is almost old enough to drive now, so playing a 10 year old is troublesome).

The ComicCon press conference also went off, and thanks to The Tail Section we have a nice summaryof the event.

So, Michael will be back as a regular, which doesn’t necessarily invalidate Walt appearing in Flash Forwards. I will not be denied! Darlton suggested his arc will be a redemptive one, which, well, I guess he didn’t do anything worse than Locke, Sayeed, Kate, Jack or Sawyer.

Other news: Ben was caught accidentally, and we will see more about it, and where he was actually going. Richard may not be on the next season, which would suck, as I enjoyed him, but apparently Nestor Carbonell is going off to do another show. Jack and Claire will discover their blood relationship in season four. Rousseau will get a flashback in one of the next two seasons.

They’re also planning to move Lost to Fridays, which is just a bad idea.

The Lostaways escape from the island is not the end of the story; another chapter is to be told (possibly in flashforward, possibly in the course of the normal story progression) off the island.

It looks like we’ll get a lot more ambiguity in the future, particularly with regards to LostZilla.

Of course, more info will start to come out, particularly as we get closer to the new season’s broadcast time.

This post was Authored by Justin Mohareb, Our Resident Authority on all things Lost

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