LOST Season 6 is Incomplete Without...

I can't believe it skipped my radar. But DocArzt's open letter now makes sense.

E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos has confirmed that Maggie Grace is, indeed, the only original LOST castmember who has not accepted the offer to reprise her role as Shannon Rutherford in the final season.

Here's what I said about the possibility that the holdout could be Maggie:

Maggie Grace? Per DarkUFO's Media Mentions section, Maggie is filming an indie drama entitled Flying Lessons and is scheduled to film the untitled Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz thriller this month. Per E! Online, she is open to return as Shannon but is neither confirming nor denying anything.

Indeed, her rep said it was because she just finished filming three movies. In addition to the indie drama Flying Lessons and the Cruise-Diaz thriller Knight and Day, she also did a movie with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker entitled The Experiment. Per IMDb, the film also features Fisher Stevens who played George Minkowski on LOST.

Can't she take a few days off from her sizzling movie career to shoot some scenes for LOST's final season?

It would be a shame to watch LOST's sixth and final season with one original castmember missing. I'm sure I'm not alone here, but I would love to see Shannon Rutherford back on LOST, even for one episode. Please, Maggie? Pretty, pretty please?

Also, I'm curious as to why Maggie is credited in LOST Season 6 premiere, "LA X," on IMDb if she has not signed on. Is it another goof on IMDb's part? A wishful thinking from an IMDb user who's also a LOST/Shannon fan? Hmmmm...

Who Wouldn't Want to Return to LOST?

What is this rumour I'm hearing that a former LOST castmember has declined to return to the show for its final season?


That's nuts. Besides scheduling conflicts, there's no good reason to decline an offer to appear on LOST's sixth and final season. Right?


According to E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos, this former Lostie is an original cast member, which rules out Mira Furlan (who portrayed Danielle Rousseau up to episode 4x08, "Meet Kevin Johnson" and who turned down a request to return, per EW.com's Michael Ausiello). We can also rule out Harold Perrineau, Jr., who claimed that no one has contacted him about anything related to LOST Season 6 and that he will return if asked to do so, and Ian Somerhalder, who revealed to Entertainment Weekly's Mandi Bierly that he was en route to Oahu when they spoke about The Vampire Diaries last month. Emilie de Ravin is confirmed to return in Season 6 after her Season 5 hiatus.


So, who is it?

• Malcolm David Kelley? He played 10-year-old Walt when he was 12. He recently appeared in episode 5x07 ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham") as 15- or 16-year-old Walt. If the reset rumours are true, then going back to play a 10-year-old kid would be difficult for Malcolm.
• Maggie Grace? Per DarkUFO's Media Mentions section, Maggie is filming an indie drama entitled Flying Lessons and is scheduled to film the untitled Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz thriller this month. Per E! Online, she is open to return as Shannon but is neither confirming nor denying anything. 
• Dominic Monaghan? Before he was confirmed as a series regular on FlashForward, he appeared in an ABC House promo (with Patrick Dempsey, Courtney Cox-Arquette, and Ed O'Neill) and seemed to reference Charlie Pace's tear-gland-draining death. Of course, it may actually refer to his mysteriously bad-ass character on FlashForward, but it may also refer to Charlie. Like Maggie, he is open to return to LOST but is neither confirming nor denying anything.
• Greg Grunberg? He was only there for the pilot episode, but a reset (if the rumours are, in fact, true) would not be complete without Capt. Seth Norris, who survived the plane crash but was killed by the Smoke Monster. A while back, he asked his Twitter followers if they want to see him on LOST again. He didn't announce the "poll results," but I imagine most of them said, "Heck, yeah," or something to that effect.
• Kimberley Joseph? She plays Cindy Chandler, the only surviving Oceanic Flight 815 crewmember. We last saw Cindy in Season 3 as Zach and Emma's guardian. I have no idea whether she has been approached to reprise her role or not.

This is all based on the assumption that "original castmember" pertains to one who had a speaking part, at least, on the pilot episode. I don't know if Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko), Michelle Rodriguez (Ana-Lucia), or Cynthia Watros (Libby) have been approached to return in Season 6, although Adewale has expressed his desire to reprise his role and I believe Cynthia is available after plans for the Gossip Girl spin-off fell through. 


So, who is it?