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The debate about whether or not Aaron counts as one of the Oceanic Six still rages amongst my group of friends.  My friend Jeff insists that, even if he wasn’t on the flight manifest, the media would latch on to baby Aaron and promote him as one of the six the instant he got off the island.  They’re not going to ignore the child of one of the passengers.  I can’t really find fault in that logic, but what if the media never found out about Aaron? There are still unanswered questions in that situation.

Thankfully, I’m not the only one asking them.  The new issue of TV Guide, which has a special Lost cover, has an article where the cast members ask some questions of their own and have them answered by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. The issue also has other Lost spoilers and scoop, so be sure to pick it up if you want hints of what’s to come.  As for the Oceanic Six, it turns out that Yunjin Kim also wants to know what’s up with Aaron:

Yunjin Kim (Sun): "Is Aaron actually one of the Oceanic 6?"

Cuse: We’re not officially saying yet. We want the audience to engage in an active debate about who the Oceanic 6 are.

Lindelof: Following [Sayid's] episode, we got several inquiries we weren’t anticipating about, ‘Is Ben a member of the Oceanic 6?’ He could’ve assumed the identity of somebody on the plane [with] no surviving family members. Who the actual six are is very much in play through the end of the [March 13th] episode. We’ll confirm or deny after that.

Here are a couple of the more intriguing questions:

Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond): "It’s 2004 on the boat. What year is it in Penny’s world? What year is it when the Oceanic 6 get home?"

Lindelof: What’s fundamentally interesting about all the time-jumping is that we want it to make sense when people watch the show 10 years from now. We don’t want it to seem dated. So it’s not really about what year it is in the outside world, it’s about how many years have elapsed between the time that we’re watching on the island and the flash-forwards. That’s one of the fun games the audience is playing: "Gee, Aaron looks like he’s about 18 months old. What does that mean, and how old was he when they got off the island?"

Cuse: There are some growth issues when you go on or off the island. But I can’t say more about that.

Lindelof: You’ve already said enough.

Evangeline Lilly (Kate): "Did Michael reach the mainland? Go home? Come back to rescue us?"

Cuse: The good news is that Evie will get all of her answers in [the March 20th] episode.

Lindelof: Well, most of them.

Cuse: Those questions form the basis for that episode. Evie should be somewhat happy.

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