No offense to Will for linking to Kristin’s “scoop”, but she always rubs me the wrong way. For her to portray this info as inside information is a bit disingenuous. I don’t think it’s news to anyone that there will be a new character on the show - D&C have said that Jacob will become more prevalent in season 4, and in one of their podcasts they had said Jacob hadn’t been cast yet. Personally I’d expect to have many new characters on the show, especially if there will be a rescue and/or “flash-forwards” showing what happens after they’re rescued.

Toeknee, the one thing that is interesting coming from this is that there is an expectation another semi-major character would depart as a result of this; that could have been Charlie, but perhaps we could see someone go early in Season 4…

Re-watching the departure of Michael and Walt, I was struck with the thought: you would think their story would have to be re-visited in the future. Did they indeed get rescued, and did Michael indeed keep his mouth shut because of the murders he committed on the island? Some closure is really needed on this.