'Lost' Comic-Con panel: Juliet, Faraday to return in final season

It's sounds like Jack's plan worked.

Elizabeth Mitchell (“Juliet Burke”) and Jeremy Davies (“Daniel Faraday”) will be back on ABC’s "Lost" next year, along with several other characters who haven't been seen since the first season, said producers at Comic-Con.

The revelation confirms reports that suggested a "Lost" reunion of sorts for the final season. In May’s finale, the castaways detonated a bomb on the mysterious island in hopes of re-setting the last several years of their lives.  

The items were among a scant few tidbits dropped during a well-produced hour in San Diego that featured several new mock "Lost"-verse ads and parody shorts, but no new video from the final season.

"There's a good chance you'll be seeing many characters you haven't seen since the first season again," said executive producer Damon Lindelof.

The final season, producers say, will in some ways resemble the first.

"[In the first season, the characters] were running around the jungle, things felt intense and surprising and the emotional discovery about the characters,” said executive producer Carlton Cuse. “We have a way that we're going to be able to do that in the final season too.”

Yet fans shouldn’t think that any sort of narrative reboot will invalidate everything that’s already happened, “because that would be a real big cheat,” said Jorge Garcia, who plays Hugo on the show.

“Just trust us,” reassured Cuse.

The show will also employ a new narrative device that’s unique to the final season.

"The time travel season is over, the flash forward season is over,” Lindelof said. “We're going to do something different."

As for lingering mysteries about the show's story, "everything that matters we're gonna answer," assured Lindelof.

Fans camped overnight for to see the “Lost” panel, which occupied the fan convention’s largest ballroom that Comic-Con usually reserves for summer tentpole films.

Also from the panel:

Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof take the stage to the synthesizer opening of "The Final Countdown."

Cuse calls this their "final Comic-Con," but it's almost certainly not. A title this big takes a long time to die at Comic-Con. There's a "Jericho" panel this year for crissakes...

There's a funny collection of clips of fan videos, the highlight being a "Brokeback Mountain" Jack-Sawyer video... (that clip is below)...

-- Mock fan introduces this site -- http://damoncarltonandapolarbear.com/dcpb/ -- a comic "Lost" spinoff site...

-- The mysterious Dharma food drops will be solved ... but there won't be much about the Dhrama Initiative in the final season...

-- Asked if the mysterious Jacob has ever appeared as any other character in the series, Lindelof says "no."