Hello, my name is Bonnie and I'm a "Lost"aholic.

It's true. Every Wednesday I'm glued to my TV set watching the latest episode of "Lost" and then I hit the blogs and boards and yammer on and on about all my theories about "The Others," the hatch, the airplane crash, and the moles planted among the castaways.

So when I heard that BOTH the show's creator and head writer -- J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof respectively -- were huge HUGE fans of Star Wars, I thought they'd be a perfect feature in our Star Wars Rocks section of starwars.com.

I chatted with them about how a Bantha Tracks t-shirt made them become fast friends, why they like to sprinkle Star Wars references between Hurly, Sawyer, Michael and Jin, and how the island of "Lost" has it's own Force powers -- in a way.

"Lost" fanatics and Star Wars fans alike should get something out of it -- and J.J. chats a little about working with ILM on his big screen directorial debut of Mission Impossible 3.

Sample quotes from the article:

"The Star Wars movies really defined my entire generation of storytellers," Lindelof explains. "For most of us, A New Hope was the first movie we remember seeing and unlike other movies and TV shows, we saw it over and over and over again. The trilogy was a cultural event and a great story, so when one of our characters uses a Star Wars reference everyone in the audience knows what they're talking about."

Out of the multitude of references to the films, it's the wisecracking conman James "Sawyer" Ford's comments that entertain the creative duo the most. "I personally love that Sawyer refers to Jin as Chewie because he and Michael speak different languages, but somehow understand each other," Lindelof says.

"I agree with Damon," Abrams says. "That moment when Sawyer called him Chewie, it was obviously about this lack of communication but it was also classic Sawyer because he is an absolute hideous bigot and racist who believes that anyone who doesn't speak his language is some type of alien creature."

Read the full 4-page article here:
Mission: "Lost" in Star Wars -- J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof