Lost gets more complicated

By Bill Keveney, USA TODAY
SAN DIEGO — Get ready for Hurley the filmmaker in The Lost Diaries, a new series of mobile-phone episodes, or "mobisodes."
In a preview shown to more than 4,000 Lost fans Saturday at Comic-Con, Hurley (Jorge Garcia) finds a video camera, which he uses to record events on the island. Plans are for 13 two-minute mobisodes on Verizon this fall, but the early going has been slow. "It has been hard to get it off the ground, because we don't want them to be ... lame," executive producer Damon Lindelof told a filled ballroom.

The video clips, including previews of extras in the upcoming Lost Season 2 DVD, were accompanied by Season 3 tidbits from Garcia, Lindelof and three other Lost representatives: Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) and executive producers Carlton Cuse and Bryan Burk.

Here's a little of what to look for in the upcoming season (premiering Oct. 4), which will be split into two parts to eliminate breaks in continuity caused by reruns:

• The first six episodes, before a 13-week break, "will look a little like a miniseries," Cuse said. Lindelof added a tease: "Something happens midway through the year that will fry everybody's brain."

• J.J. Abrams, who created Lost with Lindelof, will be more hands-on this season, co-writing the premiere — titled "A Tale of Two Cities" — and "hopefully" directing the first episode after the break, Cuse said.

• Kate (Evangeline Lilly) will get romantically involved. "Within the first six episodes, she'll be officially making her selection," Lindelof said.

• Desmond (Emmy nominee Henry Ian Cusick), the man in the hatch, will be back.

• The show will reveal more about the identity and history of The Others.

• There will be more adventure elements, which should please Locke and the actor who plays him, Terry O'Quinn, after a season largely spent typing on the hatch computer. "Terry said, 'I want a knife in my hand again,' " said Lindelof, who replied: "You'll get your knife back."

• The writers will get back to the off-island world, introduced in May by Desmond's girlfriend. "We're laying the seeds for a whole new element," Cuse said.

• A staged questioner said she was "Rachel Blake," a character in The Lost Experience, the show's online companion. She alerted fans to website hansoexposed.com.