TV Jab cowriter Michael and I have had many a conversation about Lost, and its ability to have a satisfactory ending. His concern, as well as many other fan’s, I’m sure, has been that the only way that the show can end is to go with the “it’s all a dream” ending, which has been done to death in everything from St. Elsewhere to Newhart (now there’s a throwback for you). On this weeks official Lost podcast, producer Damon Lindelof gave a definitive answer on that very issue…

“We’re not interested in ‘all a dream’ storytelling…You can have dreams on the show, but you won’t ever have a character waking up, going ‘it’s all in a snowglobe’…we can confirm that Lost is not all a dream.”

Now, I guess you can start with the “he said it wasn’t a dream…but it could be something like the Matrix” argument, but I choose to believe that we can rule out that, in my opinion, lazy plot device. It’s safe to say that what these characters are experiencing is real…in some form.

Oh, yeah, and Lost is on tonight, and we officially find out who Ben has on the boat (though that doesn’t exactly take any powers of divination to figure out), as well as the final two members of the Oceanic Six.