What are you expecting from the 4th season of Lost?
Personally, I'm expecting a lot! Especially that the season has been cut down to only 8 episodes!
After all this wait, i want something to blow me away! Especially after that flash forward that ended the 3rd season!
Well, Matthew Fox dished a bit about the upcoming 4th season to Entertainment Weekly ...
Here's a bit of the spilled beans:
On the shocking flash forward: I’m not sure I ever thought that people were going to get off the island. Damon [Lindelof, who co-wrote the finale with fellow exec producer Carlton Cuse] did such an amazing job of orchestrating something that when you’re looking at it for the first time it feels like a flashback, but there’d be little things that are a little odd—like why Jack seems so ridiculously messed up. You think it’s in relationship to his marriage falling apart, and then boom, you go, “Oh, my God, this is a leap forward in time. What does that mean? Why is he suicidal?” I just think that’s great.”

More after the jump!

Matthew on Jake and Kate: “There’s no question. People are like, ‘Well, it’s not going to be Jack or Kate for a while.’ We have to get from the island to that point in the future before it can become a real threat again. But it can become a threat again – and it will. When Jack Shephard goes, “We have to go back,” that means he’s f***ing going back. And if there’s 48 episodes [left], you know that Jack is going back on that island for a certain section of episodes. That means that he could die.” ... die ... ???

Who was in the casket (in the flash forward)?
"It hasn't been revealed yet. I'm pretty sure i know who it is, but i'm not 100% sure.
I remember saying to Damon: 'I can play that scene without knowing.' But i wanted to know. And i got an answer. I'm not sure that the answer that i got will end up being who's in the casket."

Matthew on the eight episode fourth season: “I think the show is going to be better in its last three seasons than it was in the first three, There’s going to be some huge mind-blowing sh*t.”