Recap, weirdness alerts and observations by Amy on LOST 6.06 – “Sundown”

Previously on LOST:  LA_X:  Jack spent a significant amount of screen time half naked and/or looking SMOKIN’ hot (and Amy was happy).  Jack makes amends with his piano playin,’ musical genuis son, David.  He lets David know that the “you’re not good enough for me” parenting method will never apply.  Jack’s mom finds Christian’s will.  She asks about Claire. ISLAND: Jin hooks up with Clairuso and realizes that 1) she’s thinks the temple peeps are holding “baby Aaron,’ 2) she’s a a homicidal wacko and 3) Mock Locke is her “friend.”  Jack and Hurley sneak outta the temple and skedaddle through the jungle to the lighthouse on Jacob’s recommendation.  Jack smashes the lighthouse mirror after realizing “He’s been watching.”  Jacob admits to Hurley that 1) Jack had to know how important he is and 2) a VERY BAD man is coming to the temple.

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Begin Episode 6.06

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LA_X

Sayid stares from a cab. Cabbie reminds him the meter’s running. He heads to a house. He rings the bell. Nadia answers (with a BIG OL’ engagement/wedding ring on her finger).  They hug.  Two kids coming running to the door. A man follows.

• Kids:  Uncle Sayid! Uncle Sayid!
• Omar:  Flowers for my wife, huh?
• Sayid: Some of us still have mojo, brother.
• Omar: Still a skank! Come in!

Weirdness alert: Nadia is Sayid’s sis-in-law? ALSO: Nadia is wearing a silver bracelet on her LEFT wrist. A bracelet that some fans have noted reminds them of Naomi’s bracelet (the groovy sat-phone toting, freighter chick Locke knifed back in Season 4).  HOWEVER, this bracelet could ALSO remind us of: Esla’s bracelet (“The Economist”), which she wears on her left wrist AND Dogen’s (right wrist). Also note: Nadia’s necklace charm changes after her husband appears.

Nadia pours tea.

• Kids: Whadja bring us? Whadja bring us?
• Sayid: Check my bag and see.
• Nadia: They missed you.
• Omar: Yeah, so you’d better keep coming up with decent presents on all your fancy–schmancy world traveling.
• Sayid:  I translate contracts for oil companies. It’s almost as boring as dry cleaning.
• Nadia: Omar’s opening up a new store.

Weirdness alert:  Nadia sips tea.  From Sayid’s angle, she uses both hands, but from Omar’s angle her left arm’s on the table.  Her bracelet changes during this scene, and her necklace too, from what I can tell.

Omar’s cell phone rings.

• Nadia:  I thought we talked about no cell phones at the dinner table.
• Omar: (nervously leaving) Dinner’s over. This is business.
• Nadia:  Did you get my letters?
• Sayid:  Yes.
• Nadia:  You never wrote back.
• Sayid – no answer.

The kids return, thrilled with brand new boomerangs (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) and a picture of Nadia. Weirdness alert: it’s the picture the feds baited him with back in Australia (to go undercover and spy on his pal).  This makes no sense, right? ASK YOURSELF WHY this picture would so OBVIOUSLY be included.  Highlights the “doesn’t makes sense” nature of Sayid’s LA_X story, right?*  Nadia nervously fingers the picture. Across the room, a menacing looking Omar slowly snaps his cell phone shut.

[HINT:  The PICTURE is a CONSTANT.  ALSO: We've seen some serious cell phone weirdness in every LA_X story so far.]

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Disney Petition:  The Epic Journey Comes To An End

For those of you who don’t know the particulars:  LOSTblog’s very own Jon was the “hard core” LOST fan behind the Petition to ABC/Disney for LOST Themed Ride.  I suggested to Jon that since I was in Hawa’i and definitely going to the beach premiere, I’d be happy to try to present the petition to Damon and Carlton if I could.  Jon thought that might be cool, so once the signature reached a total of 4815, he sent me the file, I created a binder and we did everything we could to infiltrate the very thick layer of peeps around Team Darlton.

Long story short, we ALMOST got it to them!  Karen from Karen’s Lost Notebook hung out with me behind the screen while we waited for “official” word about what was to be.  Karen did “make it in” with the petition in hand, but in the hurry and chaos of scooting all the VIPs off the beach after the premiere ended, she couldn’t connect with Damon and Carlton.   [Many, many thanks to Karen for giving it a go! We appreciate your participation and enthusiasm!]

Undaunted, and irked, I reconnected with a very kind ABC publicity peep (the ABC spokesperson who contributed to the brief write up I did of the premiere) via email, and she offered to receive the petition in the mail and make sure it got sent directly to our boys.  Today I got email confirmation that, YES, that darn thing made it to Darlton’s offices.  No word on any personal reaction or any public comments about the petition. HOWEVER, I’m definitely proud that Paul Scheer brought up the LOST ride idea at the Paley fest!  (I’m also happy they think it’s as funny as we do!)

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I’m sure the Americans readers are aware Lost’s season 6 opener LA X was shown here in Britain last night.

Digital Spy have posted the viewing figures……. ‘The return of Lost for its final season was a ratings success for Sky1 last night, according to early figures….. ‘The first two episodes of season six, which revealed what happened after Juliet attempted to detonate the bomb, pulled in audiences of 830k (3.4%) and 728k (3.7%) from 9pm’.

For a satellite channel which Sky1 is these numbers are pretty good but not great, for example Glee’s latest episode was watched by 1.1 million on E4 but 24 on Sky1 also only had 671k for it’s latest episode. Despite this mixed news the critical reviews in the papers & websites here have all been extremely positive.

Halle Berry, “Lost” star Matthew Fox and Colin Farrell have joined the ranks of presenters at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards.

Berry is a three-time Globe nominee and won in 2000 for her work in the HBO movie “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.” Farrell won his first award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association last year for “In Bruges,” and Fox was nominated for “Lost” in 2006 (the show also won that year, though this year its only nominee is Michael Emerson).
Halle Berry, “Lost” star Matthew Fox and Colin Farrell have joined the ranks of presenters at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards.

Berry is a three-time Globe nominee and won in 2000 for her work in the HBO movie “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.” Farrell won his first award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association last year for “In Bruges,” and Fox was nominated for “Lost” in 2006 (the show also won that year, though this year its only nominee is Michael Emerson).
Halle Berry, “Lost” star Matthew Fox and Colin Farrell have joined the ranks of presenters at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards.

Berry is a three-time Globe nominee and won in 2000 for her work in the HBO movie “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.” Farrell won his first award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association last year for “In Bruges,” and Fox was nominated for “Lost” in 2006 (the show also won that year, though this year its only nominee is Michael Emerson).

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Obama is a smart fellow. Always nice when Lost makes the front page of CNN.

From CNN.com:

“Lost” watchers, all is right with the world again: President Obama will not interrupt the long-awaited episode by giving a national address the same night.

Fear gripped the hearts of fans when it was announced that the president wanted to push back the annual State of the Union address – typically held in late January – to February 2, which everyone should know by now is the premiere of the ABC drama’s final season.

Crazy talk! Doesn’t he know people have been dying to find out what happened to the castaways?

But White House press secretary Robert Gibbs assured viewers Friday he “doesn’t foresee a scenario in which millions of people that hope to finally get some conclusion in ‘Lost’ are preempted by the president.”

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The following was posted on my blog on December 8th.

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I made a off hand comment on Twitter to a friend:

@mfeige 1) never be sorry for Disneylan 2) I want pictures of when Tom Sawyer’s Island becomes LOST

(yeah, I tweet like a blog with typos)
Then I made an all out tweet:

Disneyland’s Tom Sawyer Island transformed to Pirates Cove… would be better as Dharmaville LOST Island. who’s with me?

Then suddenly:

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LOST BLOG is pleased to present the first of several sneak peeks of the
LOST season 5 DVD (release date December 8, 2009)! 

One of Ben's People: This deleted scene from LOST's fifth season episode
"Namaste"takes place when Christian Shephard, Sun and Frank
Lapidus meet at the abandoned Dharma barracks.

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For today only, the one-tshirt-a-day website TeeFury.com is featuring a LOST inspired shirt. The shirt parodies the polar bear and the hatch. Get them while they last!

LOST + Beer = mmmmm

In a world where the planning and casting of Lost happened exactly as the producers had planned, Yunjin Kim (who plays Sun) would have been cast as Kate. Kate would have been the main character throughout the series and would have been more like the character we know as Rose. Jack, who was originally written to be played by Michael Keaton, would have died in the pilot, and because Yunjin Kim’s audition is what made the producers create the characters of Sun and Jin, neither character would be included in the show. Sayid was not in the original script, either. Dominic Monaghan (who we know as Charlie) and Jorge Garcia (Hurley) both auditioned to be Sawyer, a suit-wearing con man, though the characters of Charlie and Hurley were created specifically for the actors. The producers liked Josh Halloway’s edge (according to Wikipedia he “kicked a chair when he forgot his lines and got angry in the audition”).

Locke and Michael were written with their respective actors in mind, however Ben (Michael Emerson) was supposed to appear in only three episodes. His role was extended due to his acting skill and, possibly, because of the way his character developed. Charlotte, played by Rebecca Mader, was supposed to be in only eight episodes of season 4 but her contract was extended, as well. As for why so many characters were added or kept around for longer than intended, series executive producer Bryan Burk has been quoted as saying, “You can have more interactions between characters and create more diverse characters, more back stories, more love triangles.”

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Three television hours in just over two hours of real time. Awww, the luxury of commercial free DVDs and online sources. We rewatched the season one finale in a block of three last night, as we watched two distinct storylines. The survivors built the raft and at the coaxing of Doc Artz launched the craft with the four stalwart sailors: Michael, Sawyer, Jin and Michael. Those left behind were dealing with a threat of ‘the others’ brought to them by Danielle Rousseau who said they were coming to get Aaron. This threat gave Jack and Locke a reason to crack the hatch open they only needed something to help crack. Danielle led the party of Jack, Locke, Kate, Hurley and Doc Artz to the mysterious Black Rock to find some dynamite and that led us to the iconic look down the long shaft on the inside of the hatch door ending the first season of LOST.

Read the transcript from the marathon edition of WFTB, and make plans to kick off Season Two with us on Twitter starting Wednesday night at 8PM Central Daylight Time.

#LOST #WFTB Tweet-Cap for LOST #Exodus (#s1e23 #s1e24) LiveTweet (read top to bottom) http://u.nu/8xnh

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We had a nice little tweetup last night to watch the 22nd hour of season one goodness.  This was a Kate-centric backstory that focused on her life as a fugitive and the tension between staying and running.  The island drama focused on the raft leaving and gave us a great introduction to Doc Artz, that high school science teacher and part time greek chorus that gave greater urgency to getting the raft off and into the northward blowing trade winds before the reversed during monsoon season. Locke showed Sayid and Jack the hatch, and Jack wants to open it, Sayid thinks that’s nutz. Michael got severely sick. Jack and Locke bury their hatchet to work the leads on who’s poisioning Mike, but in the end the D.A. decides not to prosecute the perp (Sun. *gasp*)

There is the thumbnail recap for the episode, read on for the transcript of our tweets.

Programming Note: The #WFTB group is going to skip Friday, and then watch all of S1 Finale (Exodus) on Monday.  If timing allows we may start a half-hour early so the east coasters can get to be before midnight.  So stay tuned on Monday for last minute schedule adjustments and have a great weekend.  (And happy Independence Day to you staters. )

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We all everybody got together and watched Do No Harm together, and a whole bunch of tweets occured. I’m not as good as @batchoutlost at capturing, so I might have missed some tweets that search is still ignoring *shakes fist at Twitter support*. I’m in the final throws of our vacation, so I’m out of words, instead I’ll just let you all everybody read the tweets. Stay LOST and Namaste.

#LOST #WFTB TweetUp transcript for #S1E20 Do No Harm

LOST_WFTB: 8 minutes until press play

lostdogs10: @ZachsMind mine are showing up using just

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This was a great TweetUp… It seems the Locke episodes are heavily salted with big mythos, large storylines that weave through the whole series. After Walkabout where we see Locke was paralyzed on the island, Locke has been present as the resident island guru, talking Jack though accepting the mantle of leadership, helping Charlie with his Heroin addition, even guiding Sawyer on a boar hunt. He’s found the ominous hatch with the help of Boone, has excavated around it, exposing its huge shape, but its mysteries are still impenetrable. Much like the final mysteries of LOST going into the final season, we can discern the shape but we don’t really know what’s on the other side of the bright flash of light.

Deus Ex Machina, the title of the episode, means literally God from the Machine and Wikipedia defines it as:

…is a plot device in which a person or thing appears “out of the blue” to help a character to overcome a seemingly insolvable difficulty.

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Can I just say this one thing: I. Love. Hurley. Total man-crush on the dude-spewing dude. He is the voice of the audience on the crazy island and also the moral center for the troop of survivors. He’s often a bystander, but when he takes action, he takes it decisively. And this is the episode where we begin to uncurl the awesomeness of Hurley (aka Hugo Reyes). We also get the first peek or the mind-scrambling question of ‘The Numbers’. What do they mean, why are they EVERYWHERE. Get your easter basket and dive in with us for an easter egg hunt in this episode of LOST.

#LOST #WFTB Live Tweetup Transcript for #S1E18 Numbers (Hurley centric flashbacks)

LOST_WFTB:#LOST Previously on LOST: Sayid great jungle explorer gets pwned by a grrl.

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My Name is What

A Rose by any other name still falls for Bernard. And yet, there exists a real power in tying identity to one’s moniker. Many cultures elevate names to lofty or even spiritualistic levels. Lewis Spence writes, “in many Australian tribes a man gives up his name for ever at the time when he undergoes initiation into the ceremonies which confer upon him the rights of manhood…New names are thus probably given at initiation, and carefully concealed for fear of sorcery.” He also reveals that “many Egyptians received two names – the ‘great’ name and the ‘little’ name, or the ‘true’ name and the ‘good’ name; the latter was that made public, but the ‘true’ or ‘great’ name was most carefully concealed.” In short, names are quite important.

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