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Lost's Garcia Looks Ahead
Jorge Garcia, who again plays Hurley in the upcoming third season of ABC's hit SF series Lost, told SCI FI Wire that last season taught him one lesson about the show's attitude toward women. "Yeah, sex kills girls," Garcia said with a laugh. He's joking, of course, referring to last season's deaths of Shannon (Maggie Grace), Ana-Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) and poor Libby (Cynthia Watros), who was about to hook up with Garcia's character when she met her demise. "It seems whenever a cast member ends up having or thinking about sex, they sometimes die," Garcia said in an interview. Lost's cast and crew have been tight-lipped about where the series is headed in its upcoming third season, which premieres Oct.ober 4. But Garcia does have a thought or two that he's willing to share. "There is going to be a lot about the Others in season three," Garcia said. "A lot more of their story as to what their interest is in that list and the people that they kept, which is exciting for me, because I enjoyed working with them. In the last few days of shooting we were all just kind of hanging out on the pier." As for Hurley? "Maybe we will see if he steps further into [the hero] role with the three of them gone,” Garcia said. The "three of them" are Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway), who were last seen as captives of the Others, while Hurley was sent back to the survivors' camp. This season, Garcia would like to see Hurley get more aggressive. "Yeah, he is more of a lover, not a fighter," Garcia said. "But, you know, at some point, push has to come to shove. ... It would be cool if Hurley became a little bit more of a leader in this new season." The second-season finale hinted that the show's centerpiece plane crash may have been caused by a magnetic phenomenon on the island. The finale also revealed what happens when the lostaways fail to input Hurley's numbers into the computer. (The secret meaning of the numbers was revealed over the summer through The Lost Experience alternate-reality game; see A Little Something LOSTfor 9/13/06 on the News page for that explanation.) As for the next season, Garcia said: "I am wondering if the numbers going to zero might have brought some new plane down ... or run a ship up on the beach or who knows? A Bermuda Triangle-esque accident might have occurred because of the numbers. ... Actually, what I'm most excited about in season three is that whole situation with the outside world getting a blip that we are around. We showed up on radar somewhere." That "blip" was the first time since Lost began that the series has featured a scene that didn't take place on the island or in a flashback. The blip happened "in the real world, so it's not a dream or purgatory or any of the more surreal type of environments that some people think the show might be in," Garcia said. "It puts us on a real plane. It puts us on Earth somewhere." Lost airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. SCI FI Wire  by Kathie Huddleston  9/25/06
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