My long interview with “Lost” executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse is here, here and here, but maybe you don’t want that level of detail. What are the basics you need to know about what’s coming up for “Lost” and its creative team? Here’s your spoiler-free “Lost” cheat sheet:

Will much time have passed for the characters since the end of Season 5? No. “Season 6 is going to pick up exactly where Season 5 ended,” executive producer Carlton Cuse said.

What new thing are they doing this season? Cuse and Lindelof would only say that they’re using a “new narrative device” in Season 6. “We are constantly pushing to never make the audience feel like they know what an episode of ‘Lost’ is,” Lindelof said.

Who’s writing the two-hour series finale, which will air in May? Lindelof and Cuse.

Who’s directing it? Executive producer Jack Bender, who has directed many important episodes of “Lost.”

Will they be giving interviews about the series finale right after it airs? No. “We are going to go off the grid after the show is over to avoid the actual issue of having to interpret the ending. We’ve always felt that one of the compelling elements of ‘Lost’ is its intentional ambiguity. The fact is, it’s open for interpretation and discussion and we feel like we would be doing a disservice to the fans and the viewers to say, ‘No, you must only look at this in one way,’” Cuse said.

What should fans not expect this season? “I think the expectation that, because it’s the final season, that every single hour is going to have a major revelations and major plot moves is completely unrealistic,” Lindelof said.

What can we expect? Characters from previous seasons will reappear, and here’s the only other revelation Cuse and Lindelof shared: There is a scene of “a character singing” this season.

Why haven’t they released any video clips (aside from one brief snippet of footage) to promote Season 6? “The whole mystery of what happened when the screen went to white [at the end of Season 5] — what did that mean? If we start putting out big trailers, then the mystery will be ruined,” Cuse said. ?

Do they want to be associated with any future “Lost” projects? No. ABC has made noises about spinning off elements of the franchise, but don’t expect Lindelof and Cuse to be on board. “The one promise that we are making is that what we’re not going to do is leave the show hanging so we can pick up the ball and run with it two years from now in some other television project or movie. I think that we owe ourselves and the story and the audience a sense of finality,” Lindelof said.

Will they keep working together? “Our collaboration is probably the thing that is most enjoyable about the entire process,” Cuse said. Still, “I think that having spent more time with each other over the last six years than with anybody else, including our wives and children, I think it’s reasonable that we’re going to take a break.”

Have they lined up new projects? Lindelof is working on the next “Star Trek” movie, but other than that, no. “Ideas sort of percolate around in the back of your brain, but I know personally I would feel guilty [to begin serious consideration of the next project]. It would be like cheating on ‘Lost’ to be spending mental time trying to work out the problems of those ideas,” Cuse said.

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