The TV Zone

When Christian Shephard told Michael - Harold Perrineau - in effect that he wasn't needed anymore, he really really meant it - Michael was not needed anymore, and then, kaboom. Turns out Harold - cast in ABC pilot, "The Unusuals" - was not happy with the demise, which he made clear last week. Now, here are some outtakes of an interview conducted by Dan Snierson for "EW;" Bottom line: Harold's had a weekend to sleep on it, and he hasn't changed his mind:

"I wouldn’t say I’m bitter. I’m just like the fans, and I got excited when Michael was coming back. I thought it was really significant when Michael dropped those people off with the Others; I thought he was going to have something just as significant when he came back. I was disappointed that he didn’t. He didn’t get to make amends with those people. And nobody got to see [him try to neutralize the bomb]. Walt didn’t get to see it. Jin got to see it, but wasn’t necessarily so mad at him. And Desmond, who Michael didn’t know at all, was there. I was disappointed more than anything, like the fans were disappointed. Like I think the fans were disappointed...

"Michael’s a black character and I’m a black person, so I have feelings based on it. I can’t really separate those two things — my race and my country and all that stuff. How it plays out in the story, I don’t know, because I don’t know how the rest of the story is going to play out. I accept that this is what [the producers] need to happen for something else to happen later."

By this point, I guess we can surmise that "something else" will not include a Michael redux.