Welcome to the WABC's "7 Things About LOST" blog. This blog is brought to you by a few die hard LOSTies who pick apart the show every week anyway. This season we'll do that here, where we hope you'll join in the conversation. We'll have an enter-to-win contest starting soon - the prize: Seasons one through five on DVD. :) And there'll be more goodies in the weeks ahead, as the big finale approaches on May 23rd, 2010 (Do you think they chose the 23rd for a reason?? One wonders).
05/26/2010
A Final "LOST Untangled" and Some Parting Thoughts
I really am going to stop looking up articles, reviews and reactions to the LOST finale soon, and just let it be. Starting tomorrow. But I'm glad I googled around a bit more today, because I found a couple of really great links to share.
First up is this Lost Finale analysis found at latimes.com. I am sure part of the reason I like this article is because I agree with just about every word the author wrote. If you hated the ending of the show, you'll probably find lots to disagree with here. But he captured how I'm feeling three days after the finale: A little depressed it's all over, and still occassionally rolling the last half hour of it around my brain to decide exactly how I feel about it. And I've got the music firmly stuck in my head, which is not helping.
The LOST creators and writers said they hoped to have come up with a finale that would put the show to rest unequivocally, but also one that would leave people speculating for years to come. We will have to see about the years to come part, and how the show plays after it ages a bit, but it seems like they may have accomplished their mission.
it's been twenty six minutes since LOST ended, and I've had four changes of heart about how they wrapped it up. I've come to one conclusion: I need to sleep on it before I will know for sure what I feel about it.
Some Spoiler Free LOST Fun from the Cast, Creators
So here we are, hours from saying farewell to LOST. The story will be told, and whatever happens will have happened. Maybe you're looking for a little LOST-related entertainment to enjoy between now and 9:00 p.m. but want to keep it spoiler free. Well we're here for you with that.
If you're into LOST enough to throw a LOST party or to go to a friend's finale viewing party, odds are you also fan enough not to need a whole lot of advice on potential attire, accessories, fun food ideas, etc.
And if you're enough of a fan that you have your Dharma jumpsuit all ironed and ready to go, well my hat's off to you. I'm a tiny step short of that level of fandom, but I do have my ABC.com instant party kit ready to go: Festive balloons, napkins, paper plates, cups and a bottle opener all with the Dharma logo and helpful labels reading "PLATE," "NAPKIN" and "RANCH COMPOSITE DRESSING" in that iconic Dharma font.
It arrived UPS the other day. I'll wait to blow up the balloons until tomorrow.
Get a Big LOST Finale Fix: Preview Clips, Untangled and More!
We have something close to a plethora of LOST video clips for you! One day after the penultimate episode of the series, ABC is dishing up some preview clips, and a retrospective with sound bites from the key actors in the series.
I think this might be the longest blog post yet on this site for a single episode, and I'm still not able to include everything that happened! What a show.
Here are our "7 Things About LOST: What They Died For"
Wow. You can say all you want about how "Across the Sea" was necessary to fully explain MIB and Jacob and everything that's going to happen next... and I would agree with all that. But "Across the Sea" was no "What They Died For" and that is just simply that.
I'm a firm believer that the show's best when it's about the original 13 'main characters' and now on the island side of the show's equation we are truly down to the Core Four: Kate, Jack, Sawyer and Hurley. So much of what was powerful about this episode is about them, and where they've been and how it will all end.
The "Farewell to LOST Tour" - Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia Talk Finale
The Losties are on the 'finale' media tour, for sure! I'm still kicking myself that I didn't watch Jorge Garcia live on "The View" but i'll definitely look for the full episode on ABC.com.
Eighteen episodes seemed like so many 16 weeks ago. Now as I write this, we're just over 100 hours from the end of "The End."
Darlton have promised it'll be just that - an undeniable end to the series. To paraphrase them, the big finale is not entitled "The End?" and it's not entitled "The End....".
While I wouldn't trade living in NYC for the world, I am a little jealous of Los Angelinos today. All the fun LOST-related events seem to happen on the west coast. Last night it was "LOST Live," The Final Celebration.
The event honored Academy-Award winning "LOST" composer Michael Giacchino, whose music has added so much impact to every episode of the show. A bunch of the cast attended. Those who went actually got to watch "What They Died For," this Tuesday's episode, a whole five days early! There was even a reading of all those letters in a bottle that Sawyer, Jin and Michael took with them on their ill-fated raft trip in season one.
With the series finale so very close, not much is coming out for this Tuesday's new episode. We do have a few sneak peek pictures, but they might as well be stock photos for all they reveal. Which is fine by me. What they do show is Hurley, Jack, Kate and Sawyer back in the spotlight. Looks like the battle of good and evil will pit the four of them against Flocke. And what about Widmore and company? And where are Ben and Richard and Miles? Looks like it's going to be another jam-packed hour.
Here again are the video clips released from the upcoming episode, "What They Died For". No spoilers here either, but teasers if you are interested.
Looking Ahead to "What They Died For" and new LOST Untangled!
Our ancient history lesson is past us, and now it's on to the last-ever regular hour of LOST. If we established two things this week, i'd say that they are:
1 - No way are we getting every answer we want, because they sure packed 'em in this episode, and there are still just a ton left ...
2 - We might do well to be thankful some of the mysteries will stay just that, because explaining them sure strips some of the fun out of 'em.
First and foremost: If anyone on LOST ever says "I'm sorry" to you, run. They're about to either shoot you, punch you, or otherwise blindside you. More on that later. For now, here are our "7 Things About LOST: Across the Sea."
I'm sitting here with chills still running up and down me, and it's been several minutes since we learned who the infamous "Adam and Eve" of the island really are.
It's far from the only thing we learned in "Across the Sea," in fact this was the biggest mythological dump by far, far, far, ever on the series. But in terms of the history of the show, it's certainly the most heart-tugging, breath-stopping thing we learned tonight.
A Look Ahead to "Across the Sea" and LOST Untangled!
Well after the chaos of this week's "The Candidate" it seems likely we're in for a shifting of the gears, as the writers and producers of LOST give us one more episode with a lot of backstory. And this time, it's all about Jacob and the Man in Black. Bound to be really revealing.
But will they also weave in some forward movement on the island and in the Flashsideways? Seems they almost have to, considering that after "Across the Sea" we have one, just one more regular season episode before the finale.
Oh my, where to begin? It's been an hour and I still can't believe all the developments tonight!! Wow.
Here are our 7 Things About LOST: The Candidate
Smokey Flocke is not the good guy When the season started, Terry O'Quinn saId he was playing Flocke with
an open mind because hey, who knows, he could turn out to be the good
guy and Jacob may be evil...
Remember all those years ago, when it was announced that LOST would end with season six? I'm sure there are varying opinions on whether setting a deadline was a fantastic idea or a fantastically bad one but either way, it felt a long way off. Now here we are with just three regular season episodes left, and then the two hour finale. And then LOST is history.
I read a tweet from co-creator Damon Lindeloff that suggests they're just hours away from finishing the editing of the finale. Apparently they were oh-so-close to done with it overnight.
Well we're kind of getting a taste of what it's going to be like in four weeks, when Tuesday rolls around and there's no new episode of LOST! Dislike.
The show is on a one-week hiatus, and tonight we'll get a repeat of "Ab Aeterno" Richard's backstory and episode 6.12 that aired first on March 16th. It was certainly one of the most compelling episodes of the year, so at least there is that.
LOST Untangled and Revealing Pics for Episode 6.14: "The Candidate"
Okay, we are still nearly two weeks away from the next new episode of LOST. Next Tuesday, 4/27, we get a repeat of "Ab Aeterno". But already we have some sneak peek pictures for you from "The Candidate," which airs on 5/4.
We are starting to really get down to crunch time on LOST. Not much room for more fragmenting of the Losties into any new camps, and (hopefully!) no time for new characters: After this week, there are only three more regular episodes before the night of the big finale! Time for that epic battle between Good and Evil. And the Team Smokey adherents can say all they want that it's not clear which side is good and which is evil - I think that ship has sailed, don't you?
That proximity to "The End" might be why this week's episode is entitled "The Last Recruit". Team Smokey and Team Jacob have their sides all lined up - now we'll see who that last recruit is. My money is on either Aaron, or Sun and Jin's daughter Ji Yeon.
And oh, by the way, if the ABC promos are not being coy with us, it looks like we might just see the Jin and Sun reunion so many have been awaiting.
New Sneak Peek Pictures: Episode 6.13, The Last Recruit
We're starting to get close to the point where those who do not want to be 'spoiled' by revelations about the end of LOST will have to be very, very careful. I for one don't want six years of viewing deflated by someone who thinks it's their mission to share the big reveal before the show's producers, writers, actors and cast get their chance to wow us.
That might be why there seems to be growing 'radio silence' about the next four episodes that lead up to the finale.
So before we get into things here, a couple of random thoughts: Who’d have thought there’d be a day when the majority of Kate’s lines were in a L’Oreal commercial and not the actual show? Did you catch that the guy who played Dharma hatch designer Radzinsky is going to be in Modern Family this week? The former LOST cast is going to start showing up everywhere!
And oh, by the way, the plots of the shows are getting so intricate, it’s a real bear to write about them in any sort of linear way. So pardon this blog for being a little all over the place... just like Ilana (sorry).
Here are "7 Things About LOST: Everybody Loves Hugo".
I think we're going to have to watch that again....
OMG. I'll tell you the truth, usually by the time LOST is done, I have the outline of the blog written in neat little paragraphs and all that's left is to expand on them a bit.
Tonight I have just a long, laundry list of sentences that all go together - but it's going to take another viewing of "Everybody Loves Hugo" to decide just how.
"Numbers," "Everybody Hates Hugo," "Dave," "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead," "The Lie," they're all Hurley-centric episodes of LOST, and they're among some of the best ever in the series. Tonight, Hugo Reyes is in the spotlight again, in episode 6.12, "Everybody Loves Hugo."
Some fans are sure Hurley is the key to it all. Others looking at the structure of the show think the character kind of acts the part of the audience, asking his fellow castaways questions we wish we could ask. One thing is for sure, if the producers kill off the Hurley character, they are never going to stop hearing about it!
Sneak Peek pictures and video for "Everybody Loves Hugo"
All the way back in season two, there was the episode "Everybody Hates Hugo." In it, Hurley struggles with the job that Jack assigned him: To catalog and manage the food found in the Swan hatch.
Hurley's sure that people will end up hating him for having control over such a vital resource. That's also the episode where we first found out more about how he hit the lottery-- and the disasters that followed, leaving him miserable and feeling jinxed.
Wow. Okay, so I was skeptical for the first 20 minutes or so. But the LOST writers/producers got me with that scene where Desmond clearly sees Version 1.0 Charlie drowning, with "Not Penny's boat" written on his hand.
It was quite an episode. So here are our "7 Things About LOST: Happily Ever After"
What in the world is going on in this week's LOST?
First there was an indication from co-producer Damon Lindelof that something unusual is coming: He tweeted late last week that next week, "the conversation will be changing." Intriguing, to say the least.
A look ahead to "Happily Ever After" and the latest LOST Untangled!
First, Sun and Jin didn't get their happy ending this week in "The Package." And even though next week's Desmond-centric episode is titled "Happily Ever After," we suspect it won't be all sunshine and roses for Desmond either. Take a look at some of the newly-released pictures from "Happily Ever After," which seem to show Widmore's team conducting some strange experiments on Desmond.
I'm away on vacation this week, and was actually at the Yankees-Blue Jays game when LOST aired last night. It is, I'm pretty sure, the first time since at least season two that I waited until the next day to watch an episode. I have to say I feel like I didn't miss much. This one will not go on many favorite lists, I'm pretty sure.
That said, here are "7 Things About LOST: The Package."
A couple of weeks ago it looked like Ben's number was up, so to speak. But he survived the episode "Dr. Linus" in a most unexpected way. I'm wondering if Jin and Sun will be as lucky after tonight's show, "The Package"?
The Kwons haven't been in the same place since the end of season four, when Jin seemed to have perished in the explosion on the freighter sent to the island by Charles Widmore.
The creative team of LOST, which came up with such great episode titles as "All the Best Cowboys have Daddy Issues," (season one) "Man of Science, Man of Faith," (season three) and "Some Like it Hoth" (season five) have announced the title for the very last episode ever.
You may already have heard the news, and the title is "The End." That's it, just "The End." I think there are two possibilities...
A Look Ahead to "The Package" and "Ab Aeterno Untangled"
Sometimes the most dramatic shows turn out to be the easiest ones to spoof, and so it is with last night's LOST: The latest episode of "Untangled" is pretty darned funny.
This past week's episode was much-anticipated among long time viewers, and it seems that's why so few pictures and just about no video were released. But there are already bits and pieces of next week's show available, including a clip from Episode 6.10: "The Package" and pictures - one is here, more coming tomorrow.
Well. Now we know what the island is. The island is a cork. It's the most beautiful prison on earth. And it's hell - if your only goal is to get away from it and you can't.
We also learned a few other things: That Smokey and the Man in Black are most definitely the same creature in different forms. And that Jacob believes mankind is inherently good while Smokey tends to focus on the evil- and is in fact evil incarnate himself, something so awful he has to be caged in paradise to save the rest of the world from his pure, unadulterated nastiness.
Tonight is a big night for hardcore LOST fans, as we finally get Richard Alpert's back story. Who is this character who appears out of nowhere in the jungle, who looks very much the same whether the year is 2004, 1977 or 1954?
My only concern about tonight's episode is the old saying "Watch out what you wish for, you just might get it." Not that I think we'll get anything less than a 'wow!' show. But with every answer we get, we're getting closer to the end - and realizing how much fun the mysteries have been.
We have new sneak peek pictures from the upcoming episode of LOST! Just released are half a dozen pictures from the episode "Ab Aeternum" airing March 23rd on WABC.
It's all about Richard Alpert this time, and we'll get his back story. But it also appears now that it's quite a bit about Jacob and the Man in Black. And there are pictures of an unidentified woman.
Just last week, Flocke told Kate a story about how he is still working through his start in life, born to a 'crazy' mom. Is this her?
A Look ahead to "Ab Aeterno" and the latest LOST Untangled!
After next Tuesday, we will know a lot more about Richard Alpert, who might have been a sailor on the Black Rock, who may be the recipient of the mixed blessing of eternal youth, and who definitely spent years and years as Jacob's advisor and go-to guy.
Episode 6.9 is fittingly entitled "Ab Aeterno," which I take it loosely translates into 'from the beginning of time' This should be good.
Where do we start with an episode that packed about three shows' worth of activity into 42 minutes? I can only hope to do it justice, just as I can only hope that the producers and writers of our much-loved show will please just stop introducing new characters and additional 'sides' to this battle.
With that rant (okay, there's one more rant later)... here are our "7 Things About LOST: "Recon."
It's Tuesday, and it's Sawyer's turn on LOST! We'll get a James-centered episode, both on and off the island, following the pattern we've seen all season.
Several of this year's episodes also share something else in common: The title says a little bit of something about both the Version 1.0 Losties, and their Flashsideways counterparts.
Michael Emerson offers expert commentary on "Dr. Linus"
ABC.com has a pretty neat feature that allows you to watch each episode of Season Six with some special guest commentary. And this week, it's none other than Michael Emerson himself, offering up his inside thoughts on his very own episode, "Dr. Linus." Here's some info on how you can find the expert commentary, and how to make it work.
ABC hits the "Wayback Machine" for New LOST Video, and New "Untangled"
Oh my - I downloaded the latest LOST video from ABC today. It had a long convoluted name full of letters, characters and numbers and so I wasn't sure quite what to expect. Promo for next week's show? A more general 'spot' promoting the season?
Reaction to "Dr. Linus" and a look ahead to "Recon"
I'm not the only Lostie in the building. Several of my co-workers are big fans, too, and we all have our perspectives on what's going on this eventful season. Here are reactions to "Dr. Linus" from two of them.
It's official: After Tuesday's episode, "Dr. Linus," it really seems that the Season Six Flashforward world is a glimpse at what might be, i.e. the core characters' shot at redemption. Either that, or it is wishful thinking incarnate. How that plays out is yet to be determined. What played out Tuesday night was yet another really amazing episode of LOST!
So here, this week by character, is our "7 Things About LOST: Dr. Linus"
There's been very little Ben in the past few episodes of LOST. That changes this week, with the latest episode, "Dr. Linus".
From the sneak peek pics that have been released, it appears that we'll see quite a bit of Flashsideways Ben, who is a European History teacher at the school where Flashsideways John Locke is temping as a substitute teacher. It ought to be interesting to see what kind of guy this Ben turns out to be.
Darlton Answer Fan Questions and Emilie de Ravin Interview
Just in time for the weekend, some new LOST video. The producers take a viewer's question about LOST, and Emilie de Ravin talks about playing "Feral Claire".
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