Welcome To The Jungle

Before we begin, I feel obligated to make a few things absolutely clear.

I do everything I can to be positive and accommodating to all kinds of LOST fans online.  I think haters are completely worthless morons, and I refuse to be one in any way.  That being said, I’m pretty darn frustrated that fans are complaining that they aren’t “getting answers” in Season 6.  I’m even MORE frustrated that complainers quickly jump to the conclusion that the SHOW and its CREATORS are to blame.

[I won’t go into too much detail because I am actively trying not to single ANYONE out, so if you recognize yourself in the following statements, take them for what they are:  random observations.]

For example, I’ve heard fans complain (primarily about Season 6) that:

1. The flash-sideways (LA_X) storylines are “meaningless” and disconnected to what’s happening on the island.
2. The episodes offer few or no answers for the basic mysteries of the show.
3. The answers that are provided are anticlimactic, silly, contrived, confusing or unrelated to anything that’s happened in the show before Season 6 begins.
4. Characters’ storylines are not being resolved in any way.  Off-island events for characters don’t make any sense given the previous timeline/histories.

Remember, I am not a hater.  I have no intention of berating or embarrassing or insulting any LOST fan in any way.  My primary intention here is to offer possible reasons that fans are frustrated and observations from Season 6 episodes that refute every statement I list above.  If my comments sound snarky, please remember: 1) that snarky quality is something I’m afflicted with and 2) it actually makes things funnier as we go along.  Above all, please remember that just because I’m trying to point out things that you might not have seen in the show so far, it doesn’t mean I’m trying to prove that you or your theories are stupid.

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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.

Behold!  The stars and peeps of LOST put in the extra effort for fans at the premiere!

If you’re a fan of television, and your on twitter, and you’re not following Maureen Ryan (Mo) @moryan, you need to do three things before continuing to read this article:

1. Go here and follow her.
2. Go here and add her to your favorites.
3. Then go here, and consider donating to her “charity thing”. (eBay swag auction here.) (also as a bonus, you get a free DHARMA Beer Station pin for a $25 donation.) (more information here and here.) (Mo herself plugs this more in her interview, but I also want to put it up here at the top)

Now, since your a LOST fan, you’ve probably already done all three of those steps, and this might be repetitive, but Mo sat down with LOST Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for a whole hour, and posted not just one, not just two, but three transcripts of the entire discussion (if you have a short attention span the summary of this awesome interview is here).

I’ve enjoyed discovering Mo Ryan through her tweets and articles, and she’s a genuine TV fan first, and a professional journalist second (hey, it’s my article, my opinion, and she AWESOME at both!).  A self described “hardcore” fan of the Battlestar Galactica series, she is a popular columnist that still has time to tweet back to her twitter followers (like me).  I was extremely excited that she agreed to the brutal LOSTblog 16 questions, but I dared her to go DEEP and answer 7 more.  And. She. Did.  So without further ado, here’s Mo’s interview.

LOSTblog: How long have you been watching Lost? If you’ve been watching since
the pilot, can you remember your initial reaction to it?

Mo:

Oh, absolutely. It was the first fall that I was writing about television full-time. I watched the two-hour pilot that ABC sent and I was absolutely thunderstruck by how good it was. It was exciting and different and it had so many of the things I love about television — it was chock full of trippy, surreal elements, unusual characters, mysteries and adventure. More than all that, it was just a hell of a good story — or the start to what appeared to be a hell of a good story.

So of course I thought it would get terrible ratings and die right away! Most of the shows I love the most tend to do badly in the ratings, and I can distinctly recall thinking, before the premiere, that I’d have to be part of a “Save Lost” effort by the show’s second week.

It was beyond thrilling to see America and the world embrace the show, especially in that first season. It was just so unlike anything else out there — popular entertainment that was truly challenging and exciting.

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Geeky Tom is a part of the Lost Initiative which is the UK’s offical Lost video podcast so he needed to be asked to take the interview i think.

Q:  How long have you been watching Lost?

Since the beginning. I worked at Channel 4 when they bought the rights to the first series. I got told to watch it by a colleague because they thought I would absolutely love it..they were right. I got asked to do the Channel 4 Lost podcast on the back of the work I did on the Channel 4 Lost website and because I had seen the first season and the majority of the second. It seems that my Geeky status is a bit of a cheat!

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7 Days Until LOST Season 6 (Mini)-Premieres in Waikiki, Hawai’i

View From Hale Koa (Nearish to Waikiki)

As millions of LOST fans dodge spoilers, wrap up re-watch and finalize their best guesses on what happens after Juliet smacks the bomb, the Waikiki Improvement Association [WIA] and ABC/Disney studio marketing peeps are gearing it up, locking it down and rolling out the red carpet for what could be the single largest premiere event in television history.

On January 30, Sunset On The Beach, a WIA sponsored program that offers free, family-friendly movies viewed on a 30ft screen set up directly on Waikiki Beach, will host the highly anticipated, rabidly debated and virally marketed premiere of LOST’s sixth and final season.  A full-court media parade of LOST heavies will walk the red carpet, including writer/producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and (yet unconfirmed) number of cast and crew members. (FYI: Matthew Fox had better be there. That’s all I’m saying.)

This will be the first time since S3 that LOST has premiered at Sunset On The Beach.  S4’s was cancelled in the wake of the writer’s strike (and my pal Gina has never forgiven WAG for that because she moved off-island six months later), and S5’s was never scheduled at all.  No one was more irked than me (being 20 minutes away from Waikiki but only for a limited time).  I kept my ear on the ground, crossed my fingers and hoped for the best.

LOST Fans Rock — LOST Fans Rule!

And I got nothing.  After Damon and Carlton did a fan tribute skit-type deal at ComiCon (07/29/2009), the “We Love All You Crazy LOST Fans!” phase of ending the show seemed to run out of steam, and by the time I attended the Hawai’i International Film Festival [HIFF] sponsored “Evening with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse” (10/17/2009), it seemed unlikely ABC/Disney would revisit the event for S6.  They obviously didn’t need the publicity (I dare you to find a TV watcher who DOESN’T know about LOST ending).

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In all my years, I have never conducted a more unusual interview.  Once, I had to spend a week pretending that I was an Oompa Loompa just to convince Johnny Depp to open to me, but that was another day at the office compared to what I had to do for this.

To begin with, I had to agree to being drugged, transported to an undisclosed location, and give up all contact with my friends and family for three weeks.  Then, they trotted me around the Island, eventually bringing me to a quaint little ranch-style house nestled between groves of banyan trees.  Once inside, they led me down to the basement, where I was splattered with something that might have been chicken blood but smelled more like the strawberry syrup I mix with my milk.  After a few incantations, one of the walls slid away to reveal a torchlit chamber.  Miles and miles later (and probably deeper into the earth, too), we finally made it into what they call the monster’s den, a square room that seemed too big to be real.  The walls were adorned with artwork from time periods ranging from early cave drawings right up to Andy Warhol prints.  Here, I was given unprecedented access to one of television’s most enigmatic creatures, LOST’s “smoke monster.”

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Geeky Tom from Sky1’s fanzine The Lost Initiative has kindly agreed to send some theories for season 6 before it all kicks off in a couple of weeks ( 2 weeks left YAY!!!). Check out the Lost Initative’s shows here: Sky1’s The Lost Initative

I thought I would keep it short and to the point so we can tick them off as the series progresses. I went for some outlandish onesbecause knowing Lost, some of them could actually happen!

1. Sawyer is going to die
2. Jack will kill a major character – See what I did there?
3. The Island will be destroyed
4. We find out that Jacob is really the bad guy
5. Desmond died when he turned the key, he’s some kind of time echo currently – this one needs work
6. There will be a big swirling time vortex on the island somewhere -  Well at least I hope there is lol
7. Jack will probably succeed and make it so none of it ever happened by preventing the plane crash in the past. Which would be a sh*t ending.
8. The Egyptians will be connected to the islands mythology in some way. Jacob used to be an ancient Egyptian ruler or something like that.
9. Aliens from outer-space crashed their ship on earth and the island formed on top of it. Hence all the magnets and stuff
10. Jacob is really ME GEEKY TOM

Yes they get worse the further down you get lol.

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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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From DamonCarltonandAPolarBear.com :

In celebration of LOST’s final season and as a project of fan appreciation, 16 top designers and artists, who are also fans of the show, were commissioned to create artwork celebrating one of the series’ most memorable, and unforgettable, “water cooler” moments. This ultimate “fan art” was then turned into labor intensive, hand-pulled screen prints, limited to an edition of just 300, with less than 200 available to the public through our websites. Each beautiful poster tells its own different story, allowing the fan to relive memorable and influential moments in an artistic manner, as the show’s storied run comes to a close. Once this limited edition print has sold out, they will never be printed again. Celebrate the fandom, community and family created by one of televisions’ greatest shows by hanging a little part of it’s history, inspiration and influence on your wall.

Now that all 16 of the prints have been released, Lost Blog has set out to interview each of the respective artists. All these talented artists have different influences, different backgrounds, and accordingly…different takes on our favorite show. Over the next few weeks we will post our interviews with these incredible talents. Enjoy.

Our first interview is with Leia Bell. Her piece is entitled “The Love Triangle.”

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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?

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