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Former soap star jumping on-board to play a psychologist. Oh, the implications!

Not nearly as exciting as the news of Simon "I Walk Around Like I Got An 'S' On My Chest" Adebisi joining the castaways, but then, what could be?

I had an anxiety dream last night, like the ones where you have a final exam and you’re so completely unprepared and have been screwing up and cutting class for so long that you can’t even find your classroom, much less pass the test.

In this dream there was a LOST feature-length film showing with some regularity on cable. Inexplicably, since I’m not working right now and have nothing better to do, I kept forgetting to watch it. Every time I saw the preview I made a mental note to be there on my couch at the appointed time, and every time I missed it. At first I was only mildly annoyed, but I soon began to panic. The season premier was approaching rapidly, and I lacked the mental faculty to even watch the fucking movie that bridged the gap between seasons one and two. I woke up in a cold sweat. It was terrifying.

In waking life, fortunately, I’ve been plenty diligent in obsessing over the upcoming season, which in addition to mysterious hatches offers the tantalizing prospect of Michelle Rodriguez doing all sorts of sexy, dangerous, castaway type things.

The folks over at Oceanic Air have been kind enough to feed the beast and string me along a little with a new sneak peak. Clickity-clack on her seat (42F) for that Ana Lucia action.

'Bout a month away from the season premiere, so it was only a matter of time until the hype machine got to grinding. Everyone in the cast is doing interviews, and they're all talking about the motherfucking hatch. And while the prospect of two more cliffhangers and a dozen horn-overload-and-blackout-to-commercial stings is mildly frustrating, it's nice to know that one of the island's biggest secrets will be laid bare for us in the next three episodes. Out of everybody chattin' so far, the Big Guy has me most excited...

"They go right in with the creepy Twilight Zone-ness and everything. It's all about goin' down that hole... It's on the level of, like, Locke in a wheelchair... The great thing about it is you learn a little bit about what's in the hatch, and as you go through the first few episodes, more comes together, and you realize that it's a much more significant thing than it was at the start of the show."

Word to J.J. Abrams - get in touch with The Wire about borrowing "Way Down In The Hole" for this season's theme song.

Coming for Season 2...