For every high-pitched shriek of rage we let loose after making it through a new episode of Lost without a single Big Question answered, there’s a part of us that doesn’t want to know what’ s going on anyway. Sure, it’d be nice if the epic’s smarmy producers decided to shed some light on what the four-toed statue from season two was all about, gave us some clues about the Smoke Monster, or what Josh Holloway might look like as a member of the full-frontal nudity club, but maybe getting some answers would weaken our obsession. At least that’s how we felt before hearing today that a sole cast member knows for sure exactly how the series will end. And we have a feeling that between now and 2010, they might wind up “blurting it out” despite assurances.

Yes, apparently that 2006 SNL sketch in which Fred Armisen grills Matthew Fox in an elevator, confident that none of the actors have a clue what's going on, isn't so funny anymore in light of reports that "he's the only cast member who knows how the series will end." And Fox has recently relented: "Yes, it's true. [The rest of the cast] understands I can't talk about it, but sometimes they'll ask, just hoping I'll blurt it out." Knowing it would only take a few drinks for Fox's Vault to open up is now #857 on our list of reasons Why We Want To Get Drunk With Matthew Fox. And with that, our safe state of ignorance is no longer blissful.

MATTHEW FOX KEEPS 'LOST' SECRET [Hollywood.tv]

4:45 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Molly Friedman
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Dr. Spaceman, Esq. at 05:20 PM on 05/19/08
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"It's all a retarded child's dreams" is the only ending that would make any sense/be satisfying.
mr.Man at 05:32 PM on 05/19/08
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Kind of a cock move to let his colleagues know he knows. Particularly since he ain't rocking a producer credit...I guess Mr. Salinger is just super special since there's no logical reason for only him to know while the lovely Ms. Lilly et al are kept in the dark.
hummingpenguin at 06:37 PM on 05/19/08
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They told Fox so he wouldn't pull a Duchovny and leave before the end of the show.

Meanwhile, Terry O'Quinn is assembling Molotov cocktails in his trailer...
johnbaptistephilouza at 08:52 PM on 05/19/08
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Jack Shephard Fears John Locke
CourageousCoward at 09:20 PM on 05/19/08
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Connectedness Index: 62

It all comes down to Isaiah Washingtooooops...
Lala11_7 at 06:00 AM on 05/20/08
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Why is this show popular?

I mean...am I missing something? I truly, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart...I truly don't get this friggin' show...

And why is that fat fuck...still fat...after being on a friggin deserted island for what...YEARS!!! I mean, does that island have some secret portal to a Wendy's (uhhhmmm...Wendy's...double cheeseburger...frosty)...

I mean...really
Rey at 06:04 AM on 05/20/08
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"Fat fuck?" Who are you, Cartman?!?

I'm just content to know it'd only take a couple of drinks to open up Fox's "vault".
Sasquatch at 06:36 AM on 05/20/08
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@Lala11_7: It takes patience and an appreciation of slow-paced, serialzed story-telling. I can see how a lot of people wouldn't like it, but I think it's the greatest thing on television since "Twin Peaks".

It's popular because it isn't just about the show. It's about sitting down with your friends and trying to figure out what's going on, given the small pieces of the plot that unfold every week. It's about all of the outside discussion going on about the show. It's the fact that comic and sci-fi dorks (like me) can finally sit down and see a show that unashamedly wears its influences on its sleeve (influences like classic comic books, and the works of people like Lewis Carroll, Phillip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, and others) but yet still seems like it won't get cancelled like every other show I've grown to love.

The show isn't hard to get. But it's not for the casual viewer.
GothamPity at 08:43 AM on 05/20/08
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@Sasquatch: You are right on the money.

While this show has an intricate mythology and universe that spans beyond our television sets, which all us fans spend more time than we'd probably like to admit discussing with friends, it's also this extraordinarily well-crafted character-driven story. What a lot of people who don't watch the show don't get is that, at it's essence, Lost is a show about this group of people searching for redemption from their pasts and meaning / direction for their futures... on an island with smoke monsters, time travel and four-toed statues of course.
Victor Ward at 10:24 AM on 05/20/08
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Well, I guess I must fulfill obligations:

That's not all I'll get out of him!
juniperjenny at 01:13 PM on 05/20/08
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Lost joins two childhood obsessions/joys of mine: mythology filled tv (Batman the Animated Series) and clue-filled computer games (Kings Quest! Gabriel Knight!). Although, I did try to do the internet Lost game, and it made me feel stupid. And worse than that...grown up.