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No spoiler’s in either video, except for the episode title for 6×08.

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Damon and Carlton try to get some pizza!

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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Videos may contain some spoiler’s in the form of Yes/No answers to the moderator’s questions

Paleyfest 2010 – Lost Symposium

Thanks Darkufo.

Thanks to Darkufo for the heads up.

Sorry my UK friends, I just can’t wait any longer to post tweets about this week’s episode, The Substitute.  There are too many good ones!  If you haven’t seen this week’s episode, consider this your spoiler warning!  There are no spoilers for any future episodes, however, so as long as you’re caught up with US episodes, it’s safe to enjoy the following very entertaining LOST-related tweets!

tomwilson23 – Thought up a new gameshow, it’s called candidate or no candidate. People open boxes to reveal a number that hopefully belongs to them. 11:49 AM Feb 17th

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Last night on Twitter I was lucky enough to find myself exchanging direct messages with Mark Goldman, LOST editor and director of “LaFleur,” whose prior credits include Editor on ‘Angel.’  He graciously answered a number of my questions about the process of getting a LOST episode completed, and agreed to allow me to post our conversation.  It all started when he found out about the Tweets O’ the Day Mark Goldman Special Edition – a post which came about because, again, he is so generous with his time and fan questions.

mjgoldman – My special edition… Without question, a first for me personally.

Loster21 – You’ve been so generous with your time and tweets, they’ve been really interesting and much appreciated, thank you so much!

Loster21 – So if you wouldn’t mind one more, are you generally working on one ep at a time, or several in different stages of completion?

mjgoldman – We’re ALL working on several eps right now. Last fri, Dam/Carlton & I locked 608, then watched 611 & took notes. I also got dailies for 614!

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Thanks to @TheODI

I’ve played around with sideways timeline thoughts on twitter, but haven’t set down to make a full post about it.  So here are some more (unorganized) thoughts regarding the flash-sideways.

1. I’m calling the two timelines O-time (for Oceanic time, where the crash happened, and the time jumping has been happening along one loopy timeline) and X-time (for LA_X where our familiar looking characters are playing out a different scenarion where Oceanic 815 doesn’t crash.)
2. Clearly there is a pervasive sense of deja-vu playing out with our characters.  This deja-vu doesn’t mean anything to the story, in my opinion, it just highlights these characters have connections beyond sharing a bumpy flight from Sydney to Los Angeles somewhere between September and October 2004.
3. Everything in X-time could be completely different from O-time.  If the island ceased to exist in 1977 X-time, then we might not have any influence of a banished Charles Widmore, a bereaved Eloise Hawking, a manipulative Benjamin Linus, or a sleuthing Richard Alpert.  We may run into a perfectly sane Libby, a close Des-Pen marriage (assuming that Penny was conceived off island, before 1977).  People’s fates might have switched meaning Jin could be a successful businessman, with an insecure non-English speaking Sun as his secretary.  We don’t know what changed between 2004 and 2007 in a non-island influences timeline.  That’s why it’s important to watch.
4. Everything that gets blown to smithereens must converge.  Or not.  Merging of timelines seems to be assumed, but I’m not sure it’s a given.  The obliteration of one in favor of the other might be the ending of the game, or a continuation of progress.

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LOSTblog.com presents Jon aka @LOST_BOSS talking with @badM0Mbot about the Disney Petition.