I don't know what's going to happen on Season 6 of "Lost." And if I did know, I wouldn't tell you.
I'm not that mean.
If someone offered to give me the scripts of the final-season episodes, I wouldn't take them.
I don't want to know what's going to happen. Because I want to enjoy "Lost."
Honestly, this whole search-for-spoilers thing baffles me. If you're actually a fan of a show like "Lost," why in the world would you want to know how it ends before you get to take the journey that will be the final 16 episodes?
(Season 6 is set to debut with the first two of those episodes on Tuesday, Feb. 2.)
There's a reason they're called "spoilers." They spoil the mystery. They spoil the suspense.
They spoil the fun.
It's akin to buying a mystery novel, reading the last page to find out whodunit and then going back and reading the book.
Sorry, but if you do that sort of thing there's something wrong with you.
And yet there are Web sites out there claiming to have inside information about "Lost." Claiming to have had spies on the set. Offering conjecture based on episode titles and cast lists and anything they can get their hands on.
Spoilsports.
And if you believe anything on any of those spoiler sites, you're naive. It's an absolute given that the production company and the network are "leaking" false information to throw people off the scent.
Dumb people, that is.
I expect that the folks at ABC are going to be tight-lipped. Interviewing the stars and producers of "Lost" has always been interesting, given that there are so many questions they can't answer.
And I wouldn't want them to.
And if they did slip up, I wouldn't tell you what they said.
We're talking about entertainment here. Anybody who wants to spoil that entertainment for other people is, well, a jerk.
I would, however, make one very strong recommendation. If you're a "Lost" fan who's been in the habit of waiting until full seasons come out on DVD before you watch, you're going to want to rethink that.
Not that I'm against watching full seasons of a show on DVD. That's a great way to watch a show, and I've gotten hooked on a couple of series myself by catching up with them with a box set.
But there's going to be huge publicity when "Lost" airs its final episode. Stories and debates about the finale will fill every imaginable media outlet.
No matter how hard you try, you're going to find out how it ends before you can watch it on DVD. Even if you stop reading, watching and listening to every form of media, you're going to, say, get on an elevator with people who are talking about it.
So if you care about "Lost," start watching the final season when it begins airing in February.
And plan to watch the finale the night it airs.
Until then, avoid spoilers. And discount them if you can't avoid them.
RAZING THE BAR: After two seasons and 22 episodes, TNT has canceled the legal drama "Raising the Bar."
You might have thought it was already canceled, given that it last aired an original episode back in August.
The show wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly good. The latest outing by one-time super producer Steven Bochco ("Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law," "NYPD Blue"), the show's biggest problem was that it looked like a lot of shows that went before it. In the '80s and '90s.
Three unaired episodes remain. TNT has indicated they'll air. Eventually.
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