Ramblings about entertainment and other things
The NY Post is running an article that briefly describes where LOST left things at the end of last season.
It also mentions two spoilers, so if you haven’t seen this yet, and don’t want to don’t read any further!
Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) will have a flashback in episode five.
Libby (Cindy Watros) will return in a Hurley flashback.
Boone (Ian Somerhalder) will be back in some way, helping out Locke.
Chuck Barney has an article on Contra Costa Times.com that is going to make a few Lost fanatics upset –
Take a hint: Characters — not symbols — make show.
While I agree with some of what he’s saying, I do have to point out that the show has been very popular to this point for the very things that he wants to change about the show: The mythology, puzzles, and the whole sense of “What the heck is going on here”.
Tinkering with something that’s working never ends up well. Let’s hope the show runners can keep a good balance, and not dump what’s made the show work.
The New York Times is running an article that discusses the merchandising and business behind ‘Lost’, which is a lot larger than I had imagined.
The article talks about the many products that have been created for the show. I thought it was interesting that some of the books by other authors were books that which Lindelof didn’t like very much. ABC merchandising commissioned them. So, they created Bad Twin the book we saw Sawyer reading last year, and put hints about what was going on in the show in there.
There’s Lost – The Game, Lost T-shirts, trading cards, Lost figurines (created by Todd McFarlane), Lost puzzles, and more.
As previously mentioned, they’re writing 13 Webisodes for Lost, and the article talks a bit about the other shows (CSI, 24, The Office) that are doing, or wanting to do the same thing.
Well worth reading.
Brad Walters of the Washington Post has interview with Michael Emerson, (Henry Gale) of Lost in this Sunday’s Washington Post. You can read it online now. (They didn’t quite get the formating right for the questions/answers, so take that into account when you read it).
Associated Press has got an article on some of questions we might get answers to this season on LOST.
They ask the following questions in the article, explain why they’re asking the question, but don’t really answer them… Here are my answers
“The Others” are at least working under the premise that they’re part of the Dharma Initiative. From what we’ve seen so far, there’s nothing to lead us to believe that they’re not. I mean, why have all those labels on food out on an island where no one else can see them, right?
I think the better question here is What are The Others Doing. They seem obsessed with children. Why? What are they looking for? I think they’re looking to see if any of the children have immunities or some sort of genetic makeup that can help them with what they’re looking for.
Why all the disguises? Well, if you wanted to keep people out of the way so they wouldn’t come to your camp looking for food or shelter, what better way then making it look like you have no real means of your own?
Between Jack and Sawyer? I think that’s easy. She’ll go Sawyer. Why? From the writer’s perspective, it’s a lot more interesting to write about those two than Kate and Jack.
Personally though, I don’t think it’ll be either of them. I think it’ll be someone new…. Yes, one of The Others.
The AP story says that victims of Locke’s father handicapped Locke. I don’t buy that. It completely ignores the two thugs that were after Locke. Remember them? They were looking for the money too. Could they have been the ones that beat Locke so badly that he ended up in the chair? Yes, but I think that’s a bit obvious. Personally, I believe that Locke’s father had Locke beaten up because Locke just wouldn’t go away.
I think this one is a red herring. Jae Lee, whom everyone thinks could be the father because of his relationship with Sun, isn’t the father. Jin’s infertility was “fixed” by the island.
This the question of the summer. We know that they’ll all back, so we know they didn’t die. After Desmond turned the key, the massive release of magnetic energy reversed itself. Reversed itself? Sure — Think about it. If the magnetism intenstified, the hatch door would NOT have been high up in the air, and would not have fallen to the ground, nearly hitting Bernard, Claire and the baby. The key was supposed to destroy the hatch. How would you destroy that? By giving an opposite charge that’s stronger than the magnetic charge was to begin with.
Now, what this did to Locke, Eko and Desmond… That’s a really good question. The only think I think we know for sure is they’re going to have hearing problems for a while.
The last time we saw Michael and Walt, they were headed out to sea on bearing 325, per Henry Gale’s instructions. I don’t think they’ll make it anywhere, and that Walt will end up being lost at sea. The actor that plays Walt is growing up fast… too fast for the show’s timeline. It’s only been 60 days or so since the crash, and it’s going on three years of real-time. If we do see Michael again, he’ll be going after The Others and Henry Gale for the circumstances that lead to Walt’s death.
As I said previously, they’re looking for some genetic sequences. That means they’ll still be after the baby and after Sun once they discover she’s pregnant.
We don’t know for sure whether Libby was in the asylum when she saw Hurley before or after meeting Desmond. I’m guessing that it happened it happened before she met Desmond. So the timeline would be something like: Libby was married; her husband died in some way and it caused her to go into the mental institution; Hurley makes it out of the instiution, wins the lottery, and returns to find out what the numbers mean after bad things start happening — Libby sees Hurley.
Before she died, I swore up and down that she was working with Dharma, and I still believe that might be the case. I don’t have any evidence for this; it’s just a hunch.
This one is simple. Yes. That’s who Christian Shephard (Jack’s father) was trying to go see when he went back to Australia.
I sure hope so. The “Lost Experience” game over the summer was a pretty big let down; let’s hope that doesn’t creep into the show.
USA Today is running an article that describes the relationship between LOST writers Carlton Cuse and David Lindelof. It describes how they first started working together, how Cuse is the “science” guy and Lindelof the “pop culture” guy, and the mini “Lost museum” Lindelof has in his office.
I was surprised to find out that Lindelof was so overwhelmed by the Lost project at first that he nearly quit three times! It’s a good thing he didn’t!
The Herald Hunt is coming up next month, and for all of you that can get to it, I highly recommend going.
What is the “Herald Hunt”? That’s a pretty tough thing to describe…. Imagine a giant puzzle game where you and your closest 10,000 friends show up and try and make sense of the clues. You wander around a location in Miami doing everything from trying to count people in rat costumes, decipher letters and numbers on giant balloon animals to trying to make sense of giant billard balls (see the picture)
Yes, that’s me, from the 1994 Tropic Hunt. So, how did I get my picture on the front page of the Miami Herald (Dade Edition) without committing some sort of crime? Well, let me tell ya.
We started off in an area where four signs were erected, each with a number and a message that said “It’s not love, it’s body heat”. The signs were at the compass points, one north, south, east and west. Dave Barry came on the radio of LOVE 94.5, and started the Tropic Hunt (that’s what it was called back then). Basically, you get a hint about where to go, and then you’re off on your own.
My wife suggested that I tune the radio to 98.7, to see what we could hear. I tuned the radio headset I was wearing and listened — There was a evangalist speaking from a church. I listened a while longer and — it suddenly stopped! The next thing I heard was “Welcome to the Tropic Hunt Square Dance!” The caller on the radio said that you had to face a certain number to start, and then they started calling directions for what you had to do with the numbers.
Now, imagine the sight…. I started turning around in place facing the signs and I was listening to something no one else could hear. That must have looked pretty wierd. I did it twice to be sure and then went to consult with the rest of the group about what I had found. I started talking to them, when a really tall man leaned over to listen too. I said, “Who are you?”
He told me, “I’m with your group!”
I said, “I don’t think so….” and went further away. I explained the solution to the group. Then the tall man came over again to ask my name and where I worked. I asked him what it was for, and he said that he was covering the Tropic Hunt that year for the Herald. He and a photographer followed us around for the rest of the day.
Sometime during the afternoon, I asked, “So, how did you pick us?” He said that we looked like we knew what we were doing. We actually did that year… We solved all the initial puzzles in less than two hours. Unfortunately we ended up not getting the right answer for the last puzzle due to our lack of knowledge of billards. Doh!
After that year, we moved away, and haven’t been to the Tropic Hunt (which has now been renamed the Herald Hunt) since. A lot of the main team from that year (The “Blind Mice”) still participate, and I’m hoping they win!
Evangeline Lilly, the actress who plays Kate on LOST will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.
Charges against Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje for driving without a driver’s license in Hawaii have been dropped after his lawyers were able to show the actor that plays Mr. Eko on LOST did have a valid license.
What is it with the Lost actors and driving? Reminds me of the Miami Vice cast and crew getting in driving trouble when they were still making that show.
Wonder if they can make it through a whole season without someone getting into trouble?
I’ve already mentioned the message from Alvar Hanso in an earlier post. I’ve just found an additional message, from Thomas Mittelwerk, the person that took over The Hanso Foundation from Alvar Hanso.
You can see it for yourself at The Hanso Foundation website. Once you see the letter, click on the world “humanity”. Clicking on it will change the screen, and post a faded animation of Thomas Mittelwerk who give the following message:
You’ve taken a battle, but that’s all it was – a battle. Humanity needs me, now more than ever. I have the virus, I have the will, and I will not fail.
The message repeats until you click on the picture. It will then return you to Hanso’s letter.