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Any attempt to speculate about what will happen on LOST always involves a serious likelihood of being wrong. But I think that the conclusion of the last season involved the creation of a temporal paradox that this season will focus on undoing.<\/p>\n

As Jack Shepherd set about trying to put Daniel Faraday\u2019s plan into effect, he failed to consider the difference between himself enacting the plan and Daniel enacting the plan. By playing a decisive role in detonating the bomb, Jack created a paradox: by blowing up the pocket of energy that would eventually cause Oceanic 815 to crash, he changed the future. But as things now stand, unless Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on the island, Jack would never get to the island in the past to detonate the bomb and prevent the flight from crashing! And so presumably Jacob (saved from death by the changing of the past) and\/or some other force (presumably including Eloise Hawking, time cop) will try to resolve the paradox (and presumably save the universe) by getting Jack and company to go to the island by some other means.<\/p>\n

This could be completely wrong, but part of the fun of watching mysteries is trying to solve them before the end, and LOST is very similar in this respect.<\/p>\n

DocArtz<\/a> has posted the Season 6 logo, which is itself intriguing (note the hieroglyphics in the background, the inclusion of so much of the cast from previous seasons, and John Locke facing the other direction):<\/p>\n

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And of course fans will want to see the Comic Con videos<\/a>, available on YouTube and elsewhere around the web<\/a>, if they haven\u2019t already.<\/p>\n

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