SAN DIEGO -- Assuming that you've been in a coma for the last several years, it may interest you to know that there's a show on TV called "Lost," it's about some dudes on an island, and it's kind of a big deal. You should also know that it is currently in countdown mode to its big finale. And finally, if we told you it was a show based on the idea that nothing is what it seems, you might ask how the end could ever really be the end.

You ain't alone. But this week at Comic-Con, we caught up with Damon Lindelof, co-creator of the show, and he set the record straight by saying that although he loves all the fans speculating about a "Lost" spin-off or feature film, to give them any of those things would be an insult.

"I'll give the short answer," laughed Lindelof. "We've worked so hard to basically do something that we didn't feel had ever been done before, which was take a highly mythologized show and arguing for an end date three years out."

Indeed, it's hard to imagine any TV show -- past, present or future -- ever earning the finale freedom that "Lost" has received. "We feel like it's kind of a slap in the face to the fans who basically said, 'We'll stick with it for another three years to get what we want' to not deliver an ending, you know?

"We can't deliver a sort of ending where it's like, 'Well, this could be the ending,' " reasoned Lindelof, whose show is like "Gilligan's Island," but way less funny. "This is our ending, and that's all I can say."

So, you can look forward to a high-profile "Lost" finale that already seems certain to be argued about with the same passion as the controversial sign-offs of "The Sopranos" and "Seinfeld." But don't expect your favorite stranded island enigmas to be getting resurrected on the big screen, a la "Sex and the City," anytime soon.

"It's not like we're leaving anything that we were going to resolve unresolved," Lindelof promised, "just so people can go see it in a movie theater."

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