Lost Discussion Group: My Two Dads

From this week's Ask Ausiello (now relocated to Time's sister publication/site, EW), Michael Ausiello shares a small bit of Lost dish:

Team Darlton is doing their annual “radio silence” thing, so Lost scoop is at a premium these days. Luckily, I managed to unearth this little morsel: John Terry (Christian) and Alan Dale (Widmore) are in talks to return next season on a recurring basis. Big frakkin' whoop, right? Well, here's where it gets interesting: In the fine print of both their contracts, it states that Lost has the right to pick up series regular options on both actors for the show's sixth and final season.

EW's Doc Jensen offers his interpretation of the significance of this development—you can read it here if you want, but I don't want to prejudice your interpretations.

I'm not particularly surprised that Chas Widmore would become a bigger player in the endgame season of Lost, since all signs seem to point to some ultimate showdown with him over the Island. But the news about Christian is more intriguing, since we've become used to seeing him only in tantalyzing glimpses. Any guesses on what his (possibly) expanded role in the show's denouement says about who or what he is? Or about why we'll be seeing so much of two of Lost's worst fathers?

And a bonus question: Why are nearly all the fathers on Lost such jackasses, anyway?