Jacob did not interact very long with Young Sawyer but did act as a type of conscious saying something about "I know what you did".
Source: The Observ3r@The ODI
- Sayid gets wounded
- We will see the return of the Cabin
Source: DarkUFO
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Michelle Rodriguez loses temper
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Actress Michelle Rodriguez says she's human and does "animalistic" things when people push her buttons.That's her explanation after blowing up at a reporter in Mexico City.Rodriguez was in Mexico for the premiere of the latest version of the movie "Fast and Furious." Television footage showed her arriving at the airport Thursday in a wheelchair and dark glasses.When a reporter approached her, she jumped up, shouted that she was sick and had to be held back as she lashed out at the crew.At a news conference Friday, Rodriguez did not apologize or explain why she arrived in a wheelchair.Rodriguez appeared in one season of ABC's "Lost." Her film credits include "Blue Crush" and "Girlfight."
Source: Starpulse
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Jacob Revealed and Asterix Puzzle solved
Fact: Dexter alum Mark Pellegrino has been cast on Lost in a pivotal role, multiple sources confirm to me exclusively.Unconfirmed scuttlebutt: He's playing Jacob in an off-island, circa '70s flashback involving some very familiar faces! More unconfirmed scuttlebutt: One of those familiar faces is *a****!
Source: EW
Posted by DarkUFO at 22:49
My good friend The ODI has managed to confirm the recent Asterix and has confirmed also the identity of Jacob.
As many of you have suspected and speculated, Pellegrino is indeed going to portray the infamous Jacob!!
Also as far as the Astrix clue goes, like all of you suspected, the answer is indeed:
"Young James meets Jacob at his dad's funeral."
As a matter of fact our source went as far to say Sawyer, so it is not another James. Additionally, the scene is a flashback and takes place in a church, so I assume it is an off island scene.
Source: http://lostspoilers-odi.blogspot.com/2009/03/season-5-finale-spoilers-clue-solved.html
More snippets from the set (Finale Spoilers
Posted by DarkUFO at 14:23
My source on the set has just allowed me to post the following snippets.
- Something goes horribly wrong with the construction of a Dharma station.
- A recent shoot might clue us into how Marvin Candle lost his arm.
- One death happens before the finale and one might occur during.
Source: DarkUFO
Friday, March 27, 2009
He’s Our You Thoughts
Flashbacks
I’m glad that they brought back the flashbacks; I enjoyed the flash-forward’s and the jumping back & forth between OC 6 & island jumping. But it’s nice to go back to the flashbacks in order to find out more about each character. Although now its kind of hard to strictly call them flashbacks since they are in the characters past, but technically some of the scenes were what was known as Flash-forward’s. But ether way I love these types of flashes where you get to see a mix of before the crash and after the OC 6 leaving the island.
The first scene reminded me a lot of Eko’s flashback where Remi had to kill the old guy but Eko did it for him. The other scenes were great because they finally explained why Sayid stopped working for Ben & hated him so and why Sayid went to save Hurley. I loved Sayid's airport realization moment just like Franks of it looks like I’m going back to the island anyways.
Young Riddle/Voldemort
The scenes between Ben & Sayid remind me of the sixth Harry Potter book. Harry & Dumbledore visit some of Dumbledore’s memories to find out about Voldemort/Riddle and how to beat him. Little Ben reminded me of young Riddle. The mixture of horrible treatment by his Father and the choices he had made in his life lead to who he was at that moment. Just like Riddle you could see the evil already taking hold on his soul. Which lead to his fixation towards the Hostiles. Well that and the desire to get away from his abusive Father. Both children grew up to do horrible things because of what had been done to them and the choices they had made in life. As for Sayid Lost is all about Redemption so I’m betting that by the time the series ends Sayid will make the choice to stop killing.
I’m glad that they brought back the flashbacks; I enjoyed the flash-forward’s and the jumping back & forth between OC 6 & island jumping. But it’s nice to go back to the flashbacks in order to find out more about each character. Although now its kind of hard to strictly call them flashbacks since they are in the characters past, but technically some of the scenes were what was known as Flash-forward’s. But ether way I love these types of flashes where you get to see a mix of before the crash and after the OC 6 leaving the island.
The first scene reminded me a lot of Eko’s flashback where Remi had to kill the old guy but Eko did it for him. The other scenes were great because they finally explained why Sayid stopped working for Ben & hated him so and why Sayid went to save Hurley. I loved Sayid's airport realization moment just like Franks of it looks like I’m going back to the island anyways.
Young Riddle/Voldemort
The scenes between Ben & Sayid remind me of the sixth Harry Potter book. Harry & Dumbledore visit some of Dumbledore’s memories to find out about Voldemort/Riddle and how to beat him. Little Ben reminded me of young Riddle. The mixture of horrible treatment by his Father and the choices he had made in his life lead to who he was at that moment. Just like Riddle you could see the evil already taking hold on his soul. Which lead to his fixation towards the Hostiles. Well that and the desire to get away from his abusive Father. Both children grew up to do horrible things because of what had been done to them and the choices they had made in life. As for Sayid Lost is all about Redemption so I’m betting that by the time the series ends Sayid will make the choice to stop killing.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
'Lost' Recap: A Will of Their Own
The trippy episode with many time-travel implications plays up the concept of free will as Sayid makes a stunning decision
TRAGIC HERO Sayid's life was set on its course very early, and it seems Ben was always meant to be a part of it
By Jeff Jensen
''The world is all that is encased here; life, death, people, the allies, and everything else that surrounds us. The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat it as it is, a sheer mystery!'' — Carlos Castaneda
TRAGIC HERO Sayid's life was set on its course very early, and it seems Ben was always meant to be a part of it
By Jeff Jensen
''The world is all that is encased here; life, death, people, the allies, and everything else that surrounds us. The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat it as it is, a sheer mystery!'' — Carlos Castaneda
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Something bigger then this seasons death?
Question: Is Elizabeth Mitchell leaving Lost? It will break my heart if she does. --Cristiane
Ausiello: I address the murky Mitchell situation in this week's EW (on sale Friday), but this much I can tell you now: Juliet will definitely appear on Lost next season.
Question: Please give us a hint about the big death in the Lost finale. --Bill
Ausiello: Just this one: That's not what people will be talking about the next morning. Trust me. http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/ask-ausiello--3.html
Ausiello: I address the murky Mitchell situation in this week's EW (on sale Friday), but this much I can tell you now: Juliet will definitely appear on Lost next season.
Question: Please give us a hint about the big death in the Lost finale. --Bill
Ausiello: Just this one: That's not what people will be talking about the next morning. Trust me. http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/ask-ausiello--3.html
Namaste Poll Results
What did you think of 'Namaste'?
Its was the reunion that I had always hoped for!
16 (23%)
Great
30 (44%)
OK
16 (23%)
As bad as being knocked out by a boat oar
4 (5%)
Almost as horrible as being made a Workman!
1 (1%)
Votes so far: 67
Its was the reunion that I had always hoped for!
16 (23%)
Great
30 (44%)
OK
16 (23%)
As bad as being knocked out by a boat oar
4 (5%)
Almost as horrible as being made a Workman!
1 (1%)
Votes so far: 67
Doc Jensen: 'Lost': 3 Theories, 1 Mystery
Doc Jensen is in the dark about tonight's ''He's Our You,'' but sheds light on a trio of new angles: the Sun-For-Claire Substitution Theory, the Phantom of the Orientation House, and the ''Wrinkle In Time'' Connection. Plus, a new ''Totally Lost''
WHAT'S UP? The Doc doesn't know a lot about tonight's Lost episode, but hears much of it is built around Sayid
By Jeff Jensen
''He's Our You'' is the title of tonight's Lost episode. What does it mean? As I write these words on Monday morning, I can honestly tell you that I don't know. If I had to guess, I would say that the episode will forge a connection between one of the castaways and someone from the Island's Dharma Initiative past. My FOIL (Fellow Obsessive In Lost) Dan Snierson and I get a little more specific with the speculation in the new episode of Totally Lost, which you will find at the conclusion of this column. (Unless we're not totally done with it, in which case you should come back later in the day for it.) Hint: ''Is it safe?''
I just wish the episode was called ''She's Our Her,'' because then it would make for a slightly less awkward segue into our next segment:
THE SUN-FOR-CLAIRE SUBSTITUTION THEORY
In which I offer an explanation for why Ajira 316 passengers Sun, Lapidus, Locke, and Ben were sent to 2007, while Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid were beamed back to 1977.
There are many unresolved bits of business on Lost, but one that many of you are fixated with — and I know this because I get e-mails about it all the time — concerns future-flashing Desmond's prophecy concerning the fate of Claire and Aaron. If you recall, the former accidental Island tourist said that if Charlie Pace would sacrifice his life by swimming down to the Looking-Glass Station and turning off the jamming device, then Claire and Aaron would be rescued. In fact, Des had a very specific vision about this: He said the Aussie mom and her creepy little kid would fly away in a helicopter.
That didn't happen. The conventional wisdom is that events in the Looking-Glass didn't proceed exactly as Desmond saw them in his head, so Fate decided to take things in a different direction — like turning Claire into an Island phantom. (Allegedly.) But it occurred to me recently that Charlie's heroism actually did yield a future in which a mother and child left the Island in a helicopter: Pregnant Sun and Baby Aaron.
My theory, then, is that Desmond's prophecy technically came true. He just got the identity of the mom wrong. And I think he got the ID wrong because the agency that gave Desmond the flashes — the Island — lied to him for the sake of motivating Charlie into a situation where he would finally just die already. What the Island wanted all along was to get Sun and Aaron away from its shores — maybe forever, but at least just for that one moment when Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel. Why? Because the Island didn't want Sun and Aaron to do the time warp shuffle with the rest of the castaways. The same can't be said for Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid. I think they were supposed to go back in time with Sawyer and the Left Behinders, but they threw a spanner into the works by jumping aboard Frank's helicopter, too.
Regardless, the Island now has almost everyone where/when they were always supposed to be — and where/when they were not supposed to be. Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid were beamed to 1977, because they were always supposed to be part of the Quantum Leap Crew. Meanwhile, Locke, Ben, Sun, Aaron, and Frank are not in 1977, because they were never meant to go back in time. Locke was supposed to turn the wheel and leave the Island. Ben was supposed to be removed from the Island by the freighter mercenaries. Sun and Aaron were supposed to have been transported off the Island in a chopper flown by Lapidus. Only the Mother/Child/Pilot portion of the plan came to pass. But Ben and Locke required some course-correction.
Notice that I said that almost everyone is where/when they're supposed to be. Desmond was also on the chopper, and as Eloise Hawking said in ''316,'' the Island is not yet done with him. Perhaps the former future-flasher was also never supposed to leave. Maybe he was. But he wasn't on Ajira 316, because unlike the other castaways, Desmond didn't come to the Island via airplane. Again, according to Eloise, the Island has a thing for symmetry; remember, she told Jack that the conditions of Oceanic 815 had to be replicated as much as possible in order to avoid unpredictable consequences. My guess is that when we see Desmond on the Island again — whether it's in 2007 or 1977 — it will be via shipwreck, not airplane crash.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid17439673001?bclid=17356114001&bctid=17440921001
Entertaining as always (I like how Sawyer calls Jack ''Bedpan''), but ABC's raucous recap-with-dolls doesn't even address the mystery that everyone is buzzing about...
A shout-out to Peter Quintiliani of Quincy, Mass., for bringing this to my attention: It seems that in the HD telecast of last week's episode, you could see someone hiding in the shadows in that dilapidated Dharma building where Christian, Sun, and Lapidus found the framed photo of Dharma's 1977 recruiting class. The figure appears to be a female with blond or strawberry-blond hair. Take a gander.
Given all the other freaky-creepy elements that were part of that sequence — Smokey's rattle, the Whispers, Ghost Christian — we must wonder if Phantom Girl was an Easter Egg intended to be discovered by Lost obsessives blessed with keen eyesight and very expensive television sets. What do I think? I think one of these following scenarios will be proven to be true if and when the truth is ever revealed:
A. It's Ghost Claire.
B. It's Ghost Charlotte.
C. It was a member of the Lost production crew that got in the shot by mistake.
As much as I like the idea of options A and B, I think C is more likely. The last time that Lost planted an Easter Egg for the HD set (see: the airplane in Charlie's weird dream in the season 2 episode ''Fire + Water''), there was a fair amount of ''Unfair!'' outcry from those like me who are less technologically fortunate. I know that I complained, and since Lost is actually — SPOILER ALERT! — the unfolding story of making me and ONLY me happy, I doubt the show would do it again. Because it would make me unhappy. And that's against the rules.
On a serious note, I like the idea of embracing C because it reminds us that not everything is a clue (though I sure like to have fun thinking that everything is), and that Lost isn't perfect. (See also: hullabaloo over Charlotte's real age.) Sometimes, s--- happens. Mistakes are made. Budgets get slashed. Storylines don't pay off as anticipated. Characters and/or actors are shed because ''things aren't working out.'' All of these things and more tend to complicate epic serials that we hope will ''all add up in the end.'' That's why I think it's important that storytellers pull back the curtain and concede errors, miscalculations, or ''s--- happens'' moments. Ultimately, the Lost story exists in our heads. Fixing a continuity error or eliminating an unwanted element is just a matter of using our imaginations. Yep, that does make me sound like a Pollyanna, if not a Lost homer. But since I'm totally right, who cares?*
*Doc Jensen reserves the right to change his mind at a moment's notice the minute that Lost does even the smallest thing to undermine his most precious theories.
''Hi, Doc! My initial reaction to the end of Wednesday's episode was less Harry Potter and more A Swiftly Tilting Planet, the third book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet series. I think the Oceanic 6 and Left Behinders have been sent back to stop Ben from becoming bad, thus averting all of the things that happened in the future.'' —Anthony
Kudos to Anthony for blowing my mind. I know many of you have long suspected a tie between Lost and L'Engle's beloved time-travel books, which began with A Wrinkle in Time. I must confess that this fantasy saga is one of my pop culture blindspots — I've never read the books. (Too busy reading comic books, I guess.) But the second I finish this column I intend to go to the local Barnes and Noble, because I'm now wondering if ''Namaste'' may have been trying very, very hard to nod in L'Engle's direction. Remember that aforementioned moment with Sun, Frank, and Christian in the old Dharma building? Remember that creepy moment when a gust of wind suddenly opened the door? As it turns out, the second book in the series is entitled...A Wind in the Door. Goosebumps, huh?
In the first of L'Engle's books, a group of kids travel to a distant planet called Uriel via ''tesseract,'' the titular ''wrinkle'' that allows them to travel through space and time. Apparently, Uriel is a Planetary Dharmaville, a Utopia that aspires to peace, love and understanding. Alas, Uriel is under siege by a Smokey-esque monster, dark and cloudy, called the Black Thing. In fact, the whole galaxy is being bothered by this mysterious menace, including Earth, where scores of enlightened philosophers, artists, and religious leaders have waged war against it for a very long time. The kids then travel to another planet, called Camezots, which is under the control of a psychic, disembodied intelligence called IT. (Jacob?) It seems that IT has kidnapped the genius father of one of the kids, and they have to rescue him. (See: Jack/Christian?) In the final book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, the young hero must save his world from nuclear disaster by traveling to different points in time that are apparently flashpoints in an epic struggle between the forces of good and evil.
I could go on, but I think I should read the books instead of relying on external sources. Besides, I don't want to irk the Cult of L'Engle the way I irritated the Church of Narnia earlier this season with my bad research. And anyway, this sounds like some awesome literature that I would enjoy even if it had nothing to with Lost. So while I go and edify myself with Great Works of Art, I invite you to watch our soul-growing contribution to culture: The ''Namaste'' episode of Totally Lost. In addition to analysis and teasers, you'll also get a huge dollop of — get this — Totally Lost mythology! Plus, Dan and I have a few words to say about our archenemy's infiltration of Facebook. So enjoy. Next week in this space: More reader mail and No Prize winners. But before then, please, come back tomorrow for my recap of ''He's Our You.'' I promise you: Refreshments will be served!*
*No, they won't.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid17426657001?bclid=17356117001&bctid=17451400001
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1550612_20245769_20267651,00.html?xid=email-alert-lost-20090325-item1
WHAT'S UP? The Doc doesn't know a lot about tonight's Lost episode, but hears much of it is built around Sayid
By Jeff Jensen
''He's Our You'' is the title of tonight's Lost episode. What does it mean? As I write these words on Monday morning, I can honestly tell you that I don't know. If I had to guess, I would say that the episode will forge a connection between one of the castaways and someone from the Island's Dharma Initiative past. My FOIL (Fellow Obsessive In Lost) Dan Snierson and I get a little more specific with the speculation in the new episode of Totally Lost, which you will find at the conclusion of this column. (Unless we're not totally done with it, in which case you should come back later in the day for it.) Hint: ''Is it safe?''
I just wish the episode was called ''She's Our Her,'' because then it would make for a slightly less awkward segue into our next segment:
THE SUN-FOR-CLAIRE SUBSTITUTION THEORY
In which I offer an explanation for why Ajira 316 passengers Sun, Lapidus, Locke, and Ben were sent to 2007, while Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid were beamed back to 1977.
There are many unresolved bits of business on Lost, but one that many of you are fixated with — and I know this because I get e-mails about it all the time — concerns future-flashing Desmond's prophecy concerning the fate of Claire and Aaron. If you recall, the former accidental Island tourist said that if Charlie Pace would sacrifice his life by swimming down to the Looking-Glass Station and turning off the jamming device, then Claire and Aaron would be rescued. In fact, Des had a very specific vision about this: He said the Aussie mom and her creepy little kid would fly away in a helicopter.
That didn't happen. The conventional wisdom is that events in the Looking-Glass didn't proceed exactly as Desmond saw them in his head, so Fate decided to take things in a different direction — like turning Claire into an Island phantom. (Allegedly.) But it occurred to me recently that Charlie's heroism actually did yield a future in which a mother and child left the Island in a helicopter: Pregnant Sun and Baby Aaron.
My theory, then, is that Desmond's prophecy technically came true. He just got the identity of the mom wrong. And I think he got the ID wrong because the agency that gave Desmond the flashes — the Island — lied to him for the sake of motivating Charlie into a situation where he would finally just die already. What the Island wanted all along was to get Sun and Aaron away from its shores — maybe forever, but at least just for that one moment when Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel. Why? Because the Island didn't want Sun and Aaron to do the time warp shuffle with the rest of the castaways. The same can't be said for Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid. I think they were supposed to go back in time with Sawyer and the Left Behinders, but they threw a spanner into the works by jumping aboard Frank's helicopter, too.
Regardless, the Island now has almost everyone where/when they were always supposed to be — and where/when they were not supposed to be. Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid were beamed to 1977, because they were always supposed to be part of the Quantum Leap Crew. Meanwhile, Locke, Ben, Sun, Aaron, and Frank are not in 1977, because they were never meant to go back in time. Locke was supposed to turn the wheel and leave the Island. Ben was supposed to be removed from the Island by the freighter mercenaries. Sun and Aaron were supposed to have been transported off the Island in a chopper flown by Lapidus. Only the Mother/Child/Pilot portion of the plan came to pass. But Ben and Locke required some course-correction.
Notice that I said that almost everyone is where/when they're supposed to be. Desmond was also on the chopper, and as Eloise Hawking said in ''316,'' the Island is not yet done with him. Perhaps the former future-flasher was also never supposed to leave. Maybe he was. But he wasn't on Ajira 316, because unlike the other castaways, Desmond didn't come to the Island via airplane. Again, according to Eloise, the Island has a thing for symmetry; remember, she told Jack that the conditions of Oceanic 815 had to be replicated as much as possible in order to avoid unpredictable consequences. My guess is that when we see Desmond on the Island again — whether it's in 2007 or 1977 — it will be via shipwreck, not airplane crash.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid17439673001?bclid=17356114001&bctid=17440921001
Entertaining as always (I like how Sawyer calls Jack ''Bedpan''), but ABC's raucous recap-with-dolls doesn't even address the mystery that everyone is buzzing about...
A shout-out to Peter Quintiliani of Quincy, Mass., for bringing this to my attention: It seems that in the HD telecast of last week's episode, you could see someone hiding in the shadows in that dilapidated Dharma building where Christian, Sun, and Lapidus found the framed photo of Dharma's 1977 recruiting class. The figure appears to be a female with blond or strawberry-blond hair. Take a gander.
Given all the other freaky-creepy elements that were part of that sequence — Smokey's rattle, the Whispers, Ghost Christian — we must wonder if Phantom Girl was an Easter Egg intended to be discovered by Lost obsessives blessed with keen eyesight and very expensive television sets. What do I think? I think one of these following scenarios will be proven to be true if and when the truth is ever revealed:
A. It's Ghost Claire.
B. It's Ghost Charlotte.
C. It was a member of the Lost production crew that got in the shot by mistake.
As much as I like the idea of options A and B, I think C is more likely. The last time that Lost planted an Easter Egg for the HD set (see: the airplane in Charlie's weird dream in the season 2 episode ''Fire + Water''), there was a fair amount of ''Unfair!'' outcry from those like me who are less technologically fortunate. I know that I complained, and since Lost is actually — SPOILER ALERT! — the unfolding story of making me and ONLY me happy, I doubt the show would do it again. Because it would make me unhappy. And that's against the rules.
On a serious note, I like the idea of embracing C because it reminds us that not everything is a clue (though I sure like to have fun thinking that everything is), and that Lost isn't perfect. (See also: hullabaloo over Charlotte's real age.) Sometimes, s--- happens. Mistakes are made. Budgets get slashed. Storylines don't pay off as anticipated. Characters and/or actors are shed because ''things aren't working out.'' All of these things and more tend to complicate epic serials that we hope will ''all add up in the end.'' That's why I think it's important that storytellers pull back the curtain and concede errors, miscalculations, or ''s--- happens'' moments. Ultimately, the Lost story exists in our heads. Fixing a continuity error or eliminating an unwanted element is just a matter of using our imaginations. Yep, that does make me sound like a Pollyanna, if not a Lost homer. But since I'm totally right, who cares?*
*Doc Jensen reserves the right to change his mind at a moment's notice the minute that Lost does even the smallest thing to undermine his most precious theories.
''Hi, Doc! My initial reaction to the end of Wednesday's episode was less Harry Potter and more A Swiftly Tilting Planet, the third book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet series. I think the Oceanic 6 and Left Behinders have been sent back to stop Ben from becoming bad, thus averting all of the things that happened in the future.'' —Anthony
Kudos to Anthony for blowing my mind. I know many of you have long suspected a tie between Lost and L'Engle's beloved time-travel books, which began with A Wrinkle in Time. I must confess that this fantasy saga is one of my pop culture blindspots — I've never read the books. (Too busy reading comic books, I guess.) But the second I finish this column I intend to go to the local Barnes and Noble, because I'm now wondering if ''Namaste'' may have been trying very, very hard to nod in L'Engle's direction. Remember that aforementioned moment with Sun, Frank, and Christian in the old Dharma building? Remember that creepy moment when a gust of wind suddenly opened the door? As it turns out, the second book in the series is entitled...A Wind in the Door. Goosebumps, huh?
In the first of L'Engle's books, a group of kids travel to a distant planet called Uriel via ''tesseract,'' the titular ''wrinkle'' that allows them to travel through space and time. Apparently, Uriel is a Planetary Dharmaville, a Utopia that aspires to peace, love and understanding. Alas, Uriel is under siege by a Smokey-esque monster, dark and cloudy, called the Black Thing. In fact, the whole galaxy is being bothered by this mysterious menace, including Earth, where scores of enlightened philosophers, artists, and religious leaders have waged war against it for a very long time. The kids then travel to another planet, called Camezots, which is under the control of a psychic, disembodied intelligence called IT. (Jacob?) It seems that IT has kidnapped the genius father of one of the kids, and they have to rescue him. (See: Jack/Christian?) In the final book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, the young hero must save his world from nuclear disaster by traveling to different points in time that are apparently flashpoints in an epic struggle between the forces of good and evil.
I could go on, but I think I should read the books instead of relying on external sources. Besides, I don't want to irk the Cult of L'Engle the way I irritated the Church of Narnia earlier this season with my bad research. And anyway, this sounds like some awesome literature that I would enjoy even if it had nothing to with Lost. So while I go and edify myself with Great Works of Art, I invite you to watch our soul-growing contribution to culture: The ''Namaste'' episode of Totally Lost. In addition to analysis and teasers, you'll also get a huge dollop of — get this — Totally Lost mythology! Plus, Dan and I have a few words to say about our archenemy's infiltration of Facebook. So enjoy. Next week in this space: More reader mail and No Prize winners. But before then, please, come back tomorrow for my recap of ''He's Our You.'' I promise you: Refreshments will be served!*
*No, they won't.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid17426657001?bclid=17356117001&bctid=17451400001
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1550612_20245769_20267651,00.html?xid=email-alert-lost-20090325-item1
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
LOST: Season 4 Original Television Soundtrack
Music Composed by Michael Giacchino
It's here! Michael Giacchino’s brilliant soundtrack, which follows every mysterious twist and turn of Lost’s addictive Fourth Season. Exploding with excitement, Lost reached new heights in the fourteen episodes of its fourth season. More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them. The mind-blowing story was told with original flashbacks and mind-bending flash-forwards. There was no shortage of drama in Lost’s thrilling Season 4 ... just what you would expect from one of the most groundbreaking shows in television history.
Michael Giacchino’s music has played a huge role in the series from the very beginning and fans have been dying for our latest collection of Lost musical highlights — over 75 minutes of Season 4’s emotional and thrilling score.
LOST: Season 4 is now available on DVD and BluRay from ABC Home Video.
Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 964 2
Release Date: 05/12/09
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It's here! Michael Giacchino’s brilliant soundtrack, which follows every mysterious twist and turn of Lost’s addictive Fourth Season. Exploding with excitement, Lost reached new heights in the fourteen episodes of its fourth season. More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them. The mind-blowing story was told with original flashbacks and mind-bending flash-forwards. There was no shortage of drama in Lost’s thrilling Season 4 ... just what you would expect from one of the most groundbreaking shows in television history.
Michael Giacchino’s music has played a huge role in the series from the very beginning and fans have been dying for our latest collection of Lost musical highlights — over 75 minutes of Season 4’s emotional and thrilling score.
LOST: Season 4 is now available on DVD and BluRay from ABC Home Video.
Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 964 2
Release Date: 05/12/09
http://www.varesesarabande.com/upcoming.asp?list_PagingMove=%3E&ListAbsolutePage=1&qfkeyword=&artist=&title=&description=&upcoming_id=&size=
Monday, March 23, 2009
Scoop: Who's getting married on 'Lost' and 'Grey's'?
Mar 23, 2009, 12:21 PM by Michael Ausiello
If you've been bummed out by all my end-of-season death charts and suicide blind items, I've got just the pick-me-up for you: Lost and Grey's Anatomy are both heading for weddings!
An ABC insider confirms that Lost will begin filming a wedding ceremony later today that is slated to air during the show's two-hour finale on May 13. Who's getting hitched? Here are a pair of clues: Actors of Asian-American descent are being sought to play extras, and the wedding will take place on the mainland, not the island. That pretty much rules out Jack/Kate or Sawyer/Juliet. "One theory is that it's a flashback to Sun and Jin's wedding," whispers a Lost insider. "But the wild rumor is that Sun and Jin's daughter will marry Aaron in the future (Click if you want to read Greys Lombotomy spoiler)http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/scoop-whos-gett.html?xid=rss-ausiellofiles-Scoop%3A+Who%27s+getting+married+on+%27Lost%27+and+%27Grey%27s%27%3F
If you've been bummed out by all my end-of-season death charts and suicide blind items, I've got just the pick-me-up for you: Lost and Grey's Anatomy are both heading for weddings!
An ABC insider confirms that Lost will begin filming a wedding ceremony later today that is slated to air during the show's two-hour finale on May 13. Who's getting hitched? Here are a pair of clues: Actors of Asian-American descent are being sought to play extras, and the wedding will take place on the mainland, not the island. That pretty much rules out Jack/Kate or Sawyer/Juliet. "One theory is that it's a flashback to Sun and Jin's wedding," whispers a Lost insider. "But the wild rumor is that Sun and Jin's daughter will marry Aaron in the future (Click if you want to read Greys Lombotomy spoiler)http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/scoop-whos-gett.html?xid=rss-ausiellofiles-Scoop%3A+Who%27s+getting+married+on+%27Lost%27+and+%27Grey%27s%27%3F
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Matthew Fox to quit TV
15/03/2009 21:19 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Matthew Fox won't make another TV show when Lost ends.
The actor - who plays Dr Jack Shephard in the cult US series - believes his small-screen career will be over when the programme finishes at the end of season six next year.
Los Angeles - Matthew Fox won't make another TV show when Lost ends.
The actor - who plays Dr Jack Shephard in the cult US series - believes his small-screen career will be over when the programme finishes at the end of season six next year.
Best Picture...Ever?
I just got a kick out of this picture. Sun's face is priceless. Night, night, Ben! Read MSN's "Namaste" recap here: http://tv.msn.com/lost/?gt1=28130
Friday, March 20, 2009
Exclusive: Elizabeth Mitchell trading 'Lost' for 'V'?
Mar 20, 2009, 03:53 PM by Michael Ausiello
I sure hope this doesn't mean what I think it does: Lost heroine Elizabeth Mitchell has been cast in ABC's eagerly anticipated V pilot.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking -- that this confirms Juliet as the major character who gets bumped off at this season's end? Yeah, I kinda thought you might be with me on that one.
However, my moles at ABC and Warner Bros. (which is producing V) say we need to chill, because Mitchell is just a guest star on V. But, however much I may want to chill, that's pretty hard to do, since everyone told me the same thing when tailie Cynthia Watros booked a pilot (and two months later, Libby was pushing up daisies).
So what do you think? Am I making much ado about nothing? Or is Juliet a goner? And in either case, how much cooler a project is V now that Mitchell's attached? I'm thinking "way." http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/exclusive-eliza.html
I sure hope this doesn't mean what I think it does: Lost heroine Elizabeth Mitchell has been cast in ABC's eagerly anticipated V pilot.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking -- that this confirms Juliet as the major character who gets bumped off at this season's end? Yeah, I kinda thought you might be with me on that one.
However, my moles at ABC and Warner Bros. (which is producing V) say we need to chill, because Mitchell is just a guest star on V. But, however much I may want to chill, that's pretty hard to do, since everyone told me the same thing when tailie Cynthia Watros booked a pilot (and two months later, Libby was pushing up daisies).
So what do you think? Am I making much ado about nothing? Or is Juliet a goner? And in either case, how much cooler a project is V now that Mitchell's attached? I'm thinking "way." http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/exclusive-eliza.html
USA Today: For the near future 'Lost' will settle in the past
By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
Is Lost turning into That '70s Show?
For now, at least, ABC's sci-fi fantasy ended its time travel in 1977 — and if you haven't watched this week's episode yet, stop reading right here.
Is Lost turning into That '70s Show?
For now, at least, ABC's sci-fi fantasy ended its time travel in 1977 — and if you haven't watched this week's episode yet, stop reading right here.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Thoughts on Namaste
By Paul Burrows
Setting up the rest of the season
This episode was a great way to reunite Sawyers group with Jack’s group and getting them all into the Dharma Initiative. It also reestablished the Quadrangle and the rivalry between Jack & Sawyer and between Kate & Juliet. I loved their stare down. It also established Radinsky which was awesome; What Sun & Frank will be doing and Young Ben and a promise of learning more about him.
Sawyer and the Dharma Jumpsuit of Many Colors (Well three if you count the black & white Dharma Patch)
Jack & Sawyer’s discussion reminded me of the story of Joseph of Egypt. His brothers sold him to Egypt. Joseph became a slave and went through many hard years. Eventually he worked himself out of slavery and became the Pharaohs second in command and helped the country get out of a drought. Because of Egypt’s abundance Josephs brothers came to Joseph and asked for food. Joseph was angry and put them through some hard trials, but eventually he did forgive & save them.
Jack, Kate & Hurley left the island and because of that Sawyer and the others that were left behind went through nose bleeds death and other trials, but eventually stopped time jumping and rose to prominence in the Dharma Initiative. Now Jack, Kate & Sawyer are here and depending on Sawyer for help much like Joseph’s Brothers did to him.
Some say that Sawyer was harsh to Jack, but I look at it like this they were friends before Jack left and so Sawyer knows him pretty well. In season one there was the nice moment between them where Sawyer tells him about running into his Father. Season two Sawyer told Jack that he was the closest thing to a friend that he had on the island after Jack asked him why he was telling him about sex with Ana Lucia.
Before Jack left the island he was trudging across the island with his stitches for the operation breaking in order to save Hurley and help people get off the island. Sawyer knew that he was stubborn and determined to go through with things and told him that he wasn’t going to get to “Die Alone” and followed him. So Sawyers rebuke came from the fact that he knew that Jack would once again try to be a man of action and not think things out. Jack did have something important to do, but still needed Sawyers help to get to the right place before he could do it. I truly believe that Sawyer also rebuked him because he cared about Jack.
A Bit Of A Journey Ahead Of You
Christian told Sun that she had a bit of a journey before her. My only guess is that it has to do with getting the group back to 2007 because he knows that Widmore will eventually figure out how to return to the island and it will need saving probably something to do with the Frozen Donkey Wheel. Or maybe something else that would bring them back.
Ben Meet your Future Torturer
When I saw young Ben with Old Ben being on the island I began to think, what if Old Ben figures out how to travel to 1977 and communicate with young Ben? Maybe that was how Ben has always been in the know about everything? Kind of like how in Back to the Future 2 Old Biff gave betting information to Young Biff, but without the alternate realities.
Setting up the rest of the season
This episode was a great way to reunite Sawyers group with Jack’s group and getting them all into the Dharma Initiative. It also reestablished the Quadrangle and the rivalry between Jack & Sawyer and between Kate & Juliet. I loved their stare down. It also established Radinsky which was awesome; What Sun & Frank will be doing and Young Ben and a promise of learning more about him.
Sawyer and the Dharma Jumpsuit of Many Colors (Well three if you count the black & white Dharma Patch)
Jack & Sawyer’s discussion reminded me of the story of Joseph of Egypt. His brothers sold him to Egypt. Joseph became a slave and went through many hard years. Eventually he worked himself out of slavery and became the Pharaohs second in command and helped the country get out of a drought. Because of Egypt’s abundance Josephs brothers came to Joseph and asked for food. Joseph was angry and put them through some hard trials, but eventually he did forgive & save them.
Jack, Kate & Hurley left the island and because of that Sawyer and the others that were left behind went through nose bleeds death and other trials, but eventually stopped time jumping and rose to prominence in the Dharma Initiative. Now Jack, Kate & Sawyer are here and depending on Sawyer for help much like Joseph’s Brothers did to him.
Some say that Sawyer was harsh to Jack, but I look at it like this they were friends before Jack left and so Sawyer knows him pretty well. In season one there was the nice moment between them where Sawyer tells him about running into his Father. Season two Sawyer told Jack that he was the closest thing to a friend that he had on the island after Jack asked him why he was telling him about sex with Ana Lucia.
Before Jack left the island he was trudging across the island with his stitches for the operation breaking in order to save Hurley and help people get off the island. Sawyer knew that he was stubborn and determined to go through with things and told him that he wasn’t going to get to “Die Alone” and followed him. So Sawyers rebuke came from the fact that he knew that Jack would once again try to be a man of action and not think things out. Jack did have something important to do, but still needed Sawyers help to get to the right place before he could do it. I truly believe that Sawyer also rebuked him because he cared about Jack.
A Bit Of A Journey Ahead Of You
Christian told Sun that she had a bit of a journey before her. My only guess is that it has to do with getting the group back to 2007 because he knows that Widmore will eventually figure out how to return to the island and it will need saving probably something to do with the Frozen Donkey Wheel. Or maybe something else that would bring them back.
Ben Meet your Future Torturer
When I saw young Ben with Old Ben being on the island I began to think, what if Old Ben figures out how to travel to 1977 and communicate with young Ben? Maybe that was how Ben has always been in the know about everything? Kind of like how in Back to the Future 2 Old Biff gave betting information to Young Biff, but without the alternate realities.
Doc Jensen 'Lost' Recap: The New Long Con
'Lost' Recap: The New Long Con Sawyer continues to take the lead by hiding Jack, Kate, and Hurley in plain sight, and finding a way to keep Sayid alive
By Jeff Jensen
'Let me begin by guessing what most of you were thinking at the very end of last night's Lost: Harry Potter. Right? Add a lightening bolt scar and a British accent to that bespectacled pasty white cherubic mug, and young Benjamin Linus would have totally been the spitting image of J.K. Rowling's boy hero. Which is a rather provocative connection to make. Quick! Write me a mini-essay on all the ways Ben Linus = Harry Potter. Be sure to work in the words ''Parselmouth,'' ''chosen one,'' and ''I seem to recall a lot of people wondered if Harry might go bad, which is kinda like Ben, at least in the sense that so many people wonder if Ben is a good guy or a bad guy.'' Send your homework to JeffJensenEW@aol.com. Meanwhile, allow me to forge other connections between ''Namaste'' and Harry Potter that are probably totally irrelevant but somewhat amusing to consider. Didn't Jack, Kate, and Hurley's Dharma orientation feel very Sorting Hat to you? And didn't Sayid's incarceration have a certain Prisoner of Azkaban whiff? (Hey: That book had a time travel hook, too!) And now that I'm really going down the rabbit hole: Hippyish Horace Goodspeed = Professor Dumbledore by way of Michael Gambon; Snippy Radzinsky = Snappy Snape; Body-challenged Jacob = reincarnation-questing Voldemort. And are The Others = Death Eaters scheming to facilitate his reincarnation?
Oh, wait: You came here to actually read about Lost, not Harry Potter, didn't you? ''Namaste'' in a nutshell: Time travel trio Jack, Kate, and Hurley got assimilated into 1977 Dharma society. Time traveler Sayid was suspected of being a ''Hostile'' and got thrown in the Dharma detention center. And back in the present — which in Lost time is the year 2007 — Sun and Lapidus paddled to the big island and learned from Christian ''Dead Man Walking'' Shephard where and when the other castaways are. It was a transitional episode of Lost — an installment that cleared up some unfinished business and put everyone where they needed to be for the episodes to come. Coming out of the two-week break, ''Namaste'' was good for reminding us where we are in the larger season 5 saga.
A BRIEF WORD ABOUT TIMING
I know how the time jumping baffles some of you. So let's establish temporal context. It seems those Ajira 316 castaways and the Oceanic 6/Left Behinders are separated by 30 years of time. While there's always been some debate as to when exactly the Oceanic 6 left The Island, I'm going to take the conservative estimate and say it was late December 2004. They spent three years away from The Island before boarding Ajira 316 to head back. Hence: The Ajira/Hydra castaways are in 2007. The time travelers are in 1977.
Got it? I hope so, because we're moving on.
PROJECT: ISLAND RUNWAY
Our landing strip speculations were accurate, after all! Who says tracking arcane bits of Lost mythology is a total waste of time? Besides my psychiatrist and my neglected children, I mean? (Now you know where my Ben's face-slapping anger comes from.) In the opening sequence, we saw that after the Island beamed Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid off of Ajira 316, Captain Frank Lapidus spied a makeshift runway on Hydra Island and successfully executed a landing. (Alas, RIP his shish-kabobbed co-pilot.)
If I am recalling the Lost lore accurately, the Others were working on the landing strip during the time that Kate and Sawyer were stuck in the polar bear cages. In fact, I think Project: Runway was the hard labor the fugitive lovers were assigned during their imprisonment. Sure, the Others may have been making the strip for their own use. But I'm liking the idea that they were making it because they knew — or more precisely because Ben knew — that it needed to be there in the future for Ajira 316. It certainly fits my long-held contention that Ben's machinations have been informed by knowledge of future events. Of course, Ajira landed on Hydra Island roughly three years after Kate and Sawyer's Hydra drama. So it's also possible that the project was started/finished during that three-year span by...well, by someone. Or some peoples.
One more note about the Ajira crash sequence: Did you catch the expression on newcomer Illana's face when the turbulence hit? I couldn't tell if her nonchalance was because she's a frequent flyer who's unfazed by rough air — or if she knew exactly what was about to happen. And did you catch the name she muttered when Caesar shook her awake. I heard ''Sarah.'' What did you hear?
Captain Lapidus was a stud for landing his mystery ship on Little Hydra Island. But it bugged me that he abandoned his passengers so he could follow after Ben and Sun and then subsequently paddled over to the big island. Check that: It bugged me that we didn't get a scene where we saw him make that choice. Because it makes sense that Frank would go. Destiny was tugging at him. Clearly, Cap'n Lap knows that it can't be mere coincidence that he and the castaways have been brought back to the Island. Surely he'd like to know why. I would. Still, I wanted to see him crunch and process his reasoning on the show.
Anyway, it appears that Caesar was making a play for being the Jack of his castaway tribe. Does that portend good things or bad things for the Ajira redshirts? Debate.
THE SMOKEY-CHRISTIAN CONNECTION
Sun and Lapidus took one of the Hydra Station outriggers and paddled their way to the Island. As they approached, we heard Smokey's distinctive rattle — and then the monster retreated. Arrrgh! Who dares waddle onto my beaches?! Oh. You guys. Yeah, you're all right. Welcome back. Help yourself to the Dharma beer in the barracks. A supernatural entity will be along in a minute to download some crucial intel. And sorry about the mess. Mercenaries, you know?
Said spectre was Jack's poltergeisty pop. Although Ghost Shephard seemed to be slightly more tangible than your typical Casper, didn't he? And interesting how he turned on the lights in that cabin and then led the way with the flashlight into the old Dharma orientation center. Does Christian actually need that light, or was he just being hospitable for his more conventionally humanoid guests — part of his duty as an otherworldly psychopomp, lighting the way for afterlife travelers? (PYSCHOPOMP! PSYCHOPOMP! PSYCHOPOMP!)
One other thought: Was Lost trying to suggest a connection between Christian and Smokey by having the two in the same vicinity at roughly the same time? Could Jack's father be the monster in human form? We'll explore the question in next week's Doc Jensen column.
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSANDS WORDS...AND ABOUT 30 YEARS
So there were framed photos of old Dharma recruiting classes on the cabin wall, including the one featuring Jack, Kate, and Hurley. ''You have a bit of a journey ahead of you,'' Christian told Sun. Spooky. Kinda reminiscent of The Shining, but I wondered if the reference was more Back to the Future-ish: Will the time travelers disappear from the photo if they do something in the past that negates the future, which brought them there? (Please tell me that made sense.) But what I really want to know is this: Was that picture even there when John Locke's freighter 'fraidy cats were bunking in the barracks last season? Or did that version of the picture not yet exist yet because the castaways in question had not yet traveled back in time? (Ouch. That one hurt my brain to write.)
Meanwhile, back in 1977....
''UH... WHAT?''
Sawyer got over his speechlessness enough to receive a bear hug from Hurley, exchange a cordial handshake with Jack, and share an awkward embrace with Kate. Then, they exchanged mindscrews.
JACK: ''John's dead.''
SAWYER: ''Dead? How?''
SAWYER: ''We're in The Dharma Initiative.''
JACK: ''They came back?!''
SAWYER: ''No, we came back. And did you. It's 1977.''
HURLEY: ''Uh... what?''
HURLEY: ''Dude. Your English is awesome.''
JACK: Sun was on the plane.
JIN: !
While Sawyer dashed off to get clothes for the cover story he was hatching for the Oceanic 3, and while Jin went searching for an airplane he would never find, Jack and co. chilled on the bluff.
KATE: So the woman who told you how to come back — did she mention it was going to be 30 years ago?
JACK: Nope. No, she left that part out.
KATE: So what are we supposed to do now?
JACK I'm not sure yet.
Which is a new look for Jack: Bemused calm in the face of utter Island weirdness, playing it cool, letting the situation come to him as opposed to him trying to control everything. Good for him. Doc Shephard has clearly made some changes, one that might make him a more effective leader here in his second tour of Island duty, though as we saw at the end, Sawyer wasn't ready to forget — or forgive — the old Jack. More on that later.
During the ride to the barracks, Hurley asked the question we were all mulling two weeks ago: Aren't the castaways sweating the Purge that's ultimately going to wipe out Dharma? ''I ain't here to play Nostradamus to these people,'' snapped Sawyer. ''Besides, Faraday's got some interesting theories on what we can and can't do here.'' Speaking of Daniel Faraday: Where is he? Sawyer either wouldn't say or didn't know. All the better to set up a future Faraday-centric episode, my dears.
THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU, YOU WERE JUST A LITTLE BLOOD SMEAR ON THE CEILING
And so, at long last, we met Radzinsky, who preceded Desmond as Kelvin Inman's button-pushing partner in the Hatch and was the originator of the map of the Island that John Locke found on the blast door in season 2. The conventional wisdom about the map has always been that Radzinsky was somewhat clueless about the scope of the Dharma Initiative, and that the Map represented everything he had learned about its facilities and history during his own Island adventuring.
But this doesn't quite jibe with the Radzinsky we saw last night. Here he was, a fully-involved Dharma member, possibly someone in leadership, stationed at the Flame, Dharma's telecommunications center (I dug The Muppet Show clips playing on his monitors), creating a model of the geodesic dome structure of the Swan itself — perhaps the same model seen in the Hatch's orientation film. Clearly, this was a man who knew a lot, if not everything, about the Dharma Initiative. So, presuming Kelvin was telling us the truth about Radzinsky — including the fact that the egghead blew his brains out inside the Hatch — why paint that map on the blast door? Because I'm guessing Radzinsky didn't really need to paint the Map for his own edification. THEORY: Again, I am taken with the notion that perhaps much like the landing strip, the map was painted on the blast door simply because it needed to be there for John Locke to discover it in the future in order to preserve the time loop and avert paradox.
Jin asked Radzinsky to use the Flame's tech to scan for crashed planes, which got Radzinsky's spider-sense tingling: What's up with Jin? Instead, the prickly Dharma dude found an intruder in Grid 325, which turned out to be Sayid running through the jungle, hands in cuffs as he was on the Ajira flight. Radzinsky wanted to kill Sayid, whom he suspected to be a ''hostile,'' because he had seen too much: That Swan model and the location of the as-yet not built station is very hush-hush/top secret. But then Sawyer arrived, got Sayid to play along with the Hostile thing by getting him to admit he was a Hostile (''We do not refer to ourselves as 'hostile,''' said Sayid, ''but yes, I am one of them''), which triggered terms of the truce which allows for prisoners of war to be spared instant execution.
All of this reminded me of my wild theory, proposed two weeks ago, that season 5 of Lost is running parallel to season 2. Because this bit of business totally evoked for me the Henry Gale story line of the show's second season, when the castaways nabbed themselves a man they suspected to be an Other. And they were right. Which leads me to my big theory of the column: I think that the Others/Hostiles got their hands on Sayid prior to his capture by Jin. I think they're blackmailing him into doing something for them that will prove detrimental to the Dharma Initiative and put Sawyer's standing at risk. And remember how Sayid was allegedly feuding with Ben? How he made that big show to Hurley about how he was never going to trust Ben ever again? Well, I'm entertaining the notion that that was all a ruse, too — all part of Ben's scheme to manipulate and herd the Oceanic 6 back to the Island. Crazy? Totally reaching? My guess is we won't have to wait too long to find out....
QUICK HITS
ETHAN That's the name of Amy's bundle of joy. If this is the same Ethan that will grow up to be the Other who infiltrates the castaway camp, abducts pregnant Claire, then gets killed by Charlie after he comes back to abduct Claire anew...well, that's interesting. And ironic. Ethan, of course, helped Richard in recruiting Juliet to the Island — and Juliet winds up traveling back in time to help facilitate his birth. It also means that Ben was not the only member of the Dharma Initiative to survive the Purge and join the Others. More on the significance of the Ethan revelation in next week's Doc Jensen.
BLUES IMAGE As in the sixties/seventies group, whose song ''Ride Captain Ride'' was heard when Sawyer brought Jack, Kate, and Hurley into the barracks. ''Ride, Captain, Ride, on your mystery ship/Be amazed, at the friends, you have here on your trip.'' Perfect.
BEN'S PEOPLE ''A Captain's first duty is to his passengers,'' Ben told Lapidus. ''But I have people to look after, too.'' But who are Ben's people now — the Others or the castaways? But then Sun smacked him unconscious, delaying his hero's/villain's journey for another episode.
DR. PIERRE CHANG He got pulled away from his lab to fill in for Amy in the orientation hut. Wonder what he was working on? Maybe some time travel project with Daniel Faraday. I was also intrigued by his reference to how things are so disorganized on the other side. Presumably, this would be the Dharma U.S. in Ann Arbor, MI. I wonder if we're ever going to visit there?
JACK THE JANITOR Chang assigned to him to workman duty — just like Ben and his father during their Dharma days. ''Based on your aptitude tests, you'll be doing janitorial work.'' Genius. Even Jack snickered at that one.
SAWYER AND JULIET I wished there had been time for a scene where we saw them more fully process Jack and company's return and the implications. But I have no doubt that scene is coming soon. It simply must.
JACK VS. SAWYER Old tensions surfaced during the evening tête-à -tête between Kate's would-be lovers. Jack provoked it, criticizing Sawyer for reading and drinking when he should have been sweating their next moves. Sawyer — sensitive to the dumb hick thing — boasted of the big brain that saved the day, and reminded Jack of his failures as a leader during his tour of Island duty. Jack took Sawyer's punches with a mix of bemusement and acceptance; my guess is that his recent enlightenment is such that he can't completely disagree with Sawyer. It kinda bummed me to see Sawyer get so bitchy with Jack. I wanted to think that the reconstructed Sawyer, as evidenced by ''LaFleur,'' was a little bit better than that. Again, as I said two weeks ago, it makes me wonder if the return of the very people he's been waiting for all these years will prove to be the worst thing to happen to Sawyer in a long time. Or at least, in three years.
And with that, I cede the floor to you. But before your do, check out the new episode of Totally Lost if you haven't already. And for those who have: I swear, if you ''friend'' that freakin' pig, don't say I didn't warn you when ''the quickening'' bites you in the butt.... http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1550612_20245769_20266554_4,00.html
By Jeff Jensen
'Let me begin by guessing what most of you were thinking at the very end of last night's Lost: Harry Potter. Right? Add a lightening bolt scar and a British accent to that bespectacled pasty white cherubic mug, and young Benjamin Linus would have totally been the spitting image of J.K. Rowling's boy hero. Which is a rather provocative connection to make. Quick! Write me a mini-essay on all the ways Ben Linus = Harry Potter. Be sure to work in the words ''Parselmouth,'' ''chosen one,'' and ''I seem to recall a lot of people wondered if Harry might go bad, which is kinda like Ben, at least in the sense that so many people wonder if Ben is a good guy or a bad guy.'' Send your homework to JeffJensenEW@aol.com. Meanwhile, allow me to forge other connections between ''Namaste'' and Harry Potter that are probably totally irrelevant but somewhat amusing to consider. Didn't Jack, Kate, and Hurley's Dharma orientation feel very Sorting Hat to you? And didn't Sayid's incarceration have a certain Prisoner of Azkaban whiff? (Hey: That book had a time travel hook, too!) And now that I'm really going down the rabbit hole: Hippyish Horace Goodspeed = Professor Dumbledore by way of Michael Gambon; Snippy Radzinsky = Snappy Snape; Body-challenged Jacob = reincarnation-questing Voldemort. And are The Others = Death Eaters scheming to facilitate his reincarnation?
Oh, wait: You came here to actually read about Lost, not Harry Potter, didn't you? ''Namaste'' in a nutshell: Time travel trio Jack, Kate, and Hurley got assimilated into 1977 Dharma society. Time traveler Sayid was suspected of being a ''Hostile'' and got thrown in the Dharma detention center. And back in the present — which in Lost time is the year 2007 — Sun and Lapidus paddled to the big island and learned from Christian ''Dead Man Walking'' Shephard where and when the other castaways are. It was a transitional episode of Lost — an installment that cleared up some unfinished business and put everyone where they needed to be for the episodes to come. Coming out of the two-week break, ''Namaste'' was good for reminding us where we are in the larger season 5 saga.
A BRIEF WORD ABOUT TIMING
I know how the time jumping baffles some of you. So let's establish temporal context. It seems those Ajira 316 castaways and the Oceanic 6/Left Behinders are separated by 30 years of time. While there's always been some debate as to when exactly the Oceanic 6 left The Island, I'm going to take the conservative estimate and say it was late December 2004. They spent three years away from The Island before boarding Ajira 316 to head back. Hence: The Ajira/Hydra castaways are in 2007. The time travelers are in 1977.
Got it? I hope so, because we're moving on.
PROJECT: ISLAND RUNWAY
Our landing strip speculations were accurate, after all! Who says tracking arcane bits of Lost mythology is a total waste of time? Besides my psychiatrist and my neglected children, I mean? (Now you know where my Ben's face-slapping anger comes from.) In the opening sequence, we saw that after the Island beamed Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid off of Ajira 316, Captain Frank Lapidus spied a makeshift runway on Hydra Island and successfully executed a landing. (Alas, RIP his shish-kabobbed co-pilot.)
If I am recalling the Lost lore accurately, the Others were working on the landing strip during the time that Kate and Sawyer were stuck in the polar bear cages. In fact, I think Project: Runway was the hard labor the fugitive lovers were assigned during their imprisonment. Sure, the Others may have been making the strip for their own use. But I'm liking the idea that they were making it because they knew — or more precisely because Ben knew — that it needed to be there in the future for Ajira 316. It certainly fits my long-held contention that Ben's machinations have been informed by knowledge of future events. Of course, Ajira landed on Hydra Island roughly three years after Kate and Sawyer's Hydra drama. So it's also possible that the project was started/finished during that three-year span by...well, by someone. Or some peoples.
One more note about the Ajira crash sequence: Did you catch the expression on newcomer Illana's face when the turbulence hit? I couldn't tell if her nonchalance was because she's a frequent flyer who's unfazed by rough air — or if she knew exactly what was about to happen. And did you catch the name she muttered when Caesar shook her awake. I heard ''Sarah.'' What did you hear?
Captain Lapidus was a stud for landing his mystery ship on Little Hydra Island. But it bugged me that he abandoned his passengers so he could follow after Ben and Sun and then subsequently paddled over to the big island. Check that: It bugged me that we didn't get a scene where we saw him make that choice. Because it makes sense that Frank would go. Destiny was tugging at him. Clearly, Cap'n Lap knows that it can't be mere coincidence that he and the castaways have been brought back to the Island. Surely he'd like to know why. I would. Still, I wanted to see him crunch and process his reasoning on the show.
Anyway, it appears that Caesar was making a play for being the Jack of his castaway tribe. Does that portend good things or bad things for the Ajira redshirts? Debate.
THE SMOKEY-CHRISTIAN CONNECTION
Sun and Lapidus took one of the Hydra Station outriggers and paddled their way to the Island. As they approached, we heard Smokey's distinctive rattle — and then the monster retreated. Arrrgh! Who dares waddle onto my beaches?! Oh. You guys. Yeah, you're all right. Welcome back. Help yourself to the Dharma beer in the barracks. A supernatural entity will be along in a minute to download some crucial intel. And sorry about the mess. Mercenaries, you know?
Said spectre was Jack's poltergeisty pop. Although Ghost Shephard seemed to be slightly more tangible than your typical Casper, didn't he? And interesting how he turned on the lights in that cabin and then led the way with the flashlight into the old Dharma orientation center. Does Christian actually need that light, or was he just being hospitable for his more conventionally humanoid guests — part of his duty as an otherworldly psychopomp, lighting the way for afterlife travelers? (PYSCHOPOMP! PSYCHOPOMP! PSYCHOPOMP!)
One other thought: Was Lost trying to suggest a connection between Christian and Smokey by having the two in the same vicinity at roughly the same time? Could Jack's father be the monster in human form? We'll explore the question in next week's Doc Jensen column.
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSANDS WORDS...AND ABOUT 30 YEARS
So there were framed photos of old Dharma recruiting classes on the cabin wall, including the one featuring Jack, Kate, and Hurley. ''You have a bit of a journey ahead of you,'' Christian told Sun. Spooky. Kinda reminiscent of The Shining, but I wondered if the reference was more Back to the Future-ish: Will the time travelers disappear from the photo if they do something in the past that negates the future, which brought them there? (Please tell me that made sense.) But what I really want to know is this: Was that picture even there when John Locke's freighter 'fraidy cats were bunking in the barracks last season? Or did that version of the picture not yet exist yet because the castaways in question had not yet traveled back in time? (Ouch. That one hurt my brain to write.)
Meanwhile, back in 1977....
''UH... WHAT?''
Sawyer got over his speechlessness enough to receive a bear hug from Hurley, exchange a cordial handshake with Jack, and share an awkward embrace with Kate. Then, they exchanged mindscrews.
JACK: ''John's dead.''
SAWYER: ''Dead? How?''
SAWYER: ''We're in The Dharma Initiative.''
JACK: ''They came back?!''
SAWYER: ''No, we came back. And did you. It's 1977.''
HURLEY: ''Uh... what?''
HURLEY: ''Dude. Your English is awesome.''
JACK: Sun was on the plane.
JIN: !
While Sawyer dashed off to get clothes for the cover story he was hatching for the Oceanic 3, and while Jin went searching for an airplane he would never find, Jack and co. chilled on the bluff.
KATE: So the woman who told you how to come back — did she mention it was going to be 30 years ago?
JACK: Nope. No, she left that part out.
KATE: So what are we supposed to do now?
JACK I'm not sure yet.
Which is a new look for Jack: Bemused calm in the face of utter Island weirdness, playing it cool, letting the situation come to him as opposed to him trying to control everything. Good for him. Doc Shephard has clearly made some changes, one that might make him a more effective leader here in his second tour of Island duty, though as we saw at the end, Sawyer wasn't ready to forget — or forgive — the old Jack. More on that later.
During the ride to the barracks, Hurley asked the question we were all mulling two weeks ago: Aren't the castaways sweating the Purge that's ultimately going to wipe out Dharma? ''I ain't here to play Nostradamus to these people,'' snapped Sawyer. ''Besides, Faraday's got some interesting theories on what we can and can't do here.'' Speaking of Daniel Faraday: Where is he? Sawyer either wouldn't say or didn't know. All the better to set up a future Faraday-centric episode, my dears.
THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU, YOU WERE JUST A LITTLE BLOOD SMEAR ON THE CEILING
And so, at long last, we met Radzinsky, who preceded Desmond as Kelvin Inman's button-pushing partner in the Hatch and was the originator of the map of the Island that John Locke found on the blast door in season 2. The conventional wisdom about the map has always been that Radzinsky was somewhat clueless about the scope of the Dharma Initiative, and that the Map represented everything he had learned about its facilities and history during his own Island adventuring.
But this doesn't quite jibe with the Radzinsky we saw last night. Here he was, a fully-involved Dharma member, possibly someone in leadership, stationed at the Flame, Dharma's telecommunications center (I dug The Muppet Show clips playing on his monitors), creating a model of the geodesic dome structure of the Swan itself — perhaps the same model seen in the Hatch's orientation film. Clearly, this was a man who knew a lot, if not everything, about the Dharma Initiative. So, presuming Kelvin was telling us the truth about Radzinsky — including the fact that the egghead blew his brains out inside the Hatch — why paint that map on the blast door? Because I'm guessing Radzinsky didn't really need to paint the Map for his own edification. THEORY: Again, I am taken with the notion that perhaps much like the landing strip, the map was painted on the blast door simply because it needed to be there for John Locke to discover it in the future in order to preserve the time loop and avert paradox.
Jin asked Radzinsky to use the Flame's tech to scan for crashed planes, which got Radzinsky's spider-sense tingling: What's up with Jin? Instead, the prickly Dharma dude found an intruder in Grid 325, which turned out to be Sayid running through the jungle, hands in cuffs as he was on the Ajira flight. Radzinsky wanted to kill Sayid, whom he suspected to be a ''hostile,'' because he had seen too much: That Swan model and the location of the as-yet not built station is very hush-hush/top secret. But then Sawyer arrived, got Sayid to play along with the Hostile thing by getting him to admit he was a Hostile (''We do not refer to ourselves as 'hostile,''' said Sayid, ''but yes, I am one of them''), which triggered terms of the truce which allows for prisoners of war to be spared instant execution.
All of this reminded me of my wild theory, proposed two weeks ago, that season 5 of Lost is running parallel to season 2. Because this bit of business totally evoked for me the Henry Gale story line of the show's second season, when the castaways nabbed themselves a man they suspected to be an Other. And they were right. Which leads me to my big theory of the column: I think that the Others/Hostiles got their hands on Sayid prior to his capture by Jin. I think they're blackmailing him into doing something for them that will prove detrimental to the Dharma Initiative and put Sawyer's standing at risk. And remember how Sayid was allegedly feuding with Ben? How he made that big show to Hurley about how he was never going to trust Ben ever again? Well, I'm entertaining the notion that that was all a ruse, too — all part of Ben's scheme to manipulate and herd the Oceanic 6 back to the Island. Crazy? Totally reaching? My guess is we won't have to wait too long to find out....
QUICK HITS
ETHAN That's the name of Amy's bundle of joy. If this is the same Ethan that will grow up to be the Other who infiltrates the castaway camp, abducts pregnant Claire, then gets killed by Charlie after he comes back to abduct Claire anew...well, that's interesting. And ironic. Ethan, of course, helped Richard in recruiting Juliet to the Island — and Juliet winds up traveling back in time to help facilitate his birth. It also means that Ben was not the only member of the Dharma Initiative to survive the Purge and join the Others. More on the significance of the Ethan revelation in next week's Doc Jensen.
BLUES IMAGE As in the sixties/seventies group, whose song ''Ride Captain Ride'' was heard when Sawyer brought Jack, Kate, and Hurley into the barracks. ''Ride, Captain, Ride, on your mystery ship/Be amazed, at the friends, you have here on your trip.'' Perfect.
BEN'S PEOPLE ''A Captain's first duty is to his passengers,'' Ben told Lapidus. ''But I have people to look after, too.'' But who are Ben's people now — the Others or the castaways? But then Sun smacked him unconscious, delaying his hero's/villain's journey for another episode.
DR. PIERRE CHANG He got pulled away from his lab to fill in for Amy in the orientation hut. Wonder what he was working on? Maybe some time travel project with Daniel Faraday. I was also intrigued by his reference to how things are so disorganized on the other side. Presumably, this would be the Dharma U.S. in Ann Arbor, MI. I wonder if we're ever going to visit there?
JACK THE JANITOR Chang assigned to him to workman duty — just like Ben and his father during their Dharma days. ''Based on your aptitude tests, you'll be doing janitorial work.'' Genius. Even Jack snickered at that one.
SAWYER AND JULIET I wished there had been time for a scene where we saw them more fully process Jack and company's return and the implications. But I have no doubt that scene is coming soon. It simply must.
JACK VS. SAWYER Old tensions surfaced during the evening tête-à -tête between Kate's would-be lovers. Jack provoked it, criticizing Sawyer for reading and drinking when he should have been sweating their next moves. Sawyer — sensitive to the dumb hick thing — boasted of the big brain that saved the day, and reminded Jack of his failures as a leader during his tour of Island duty. Jack took Sawyer's punches with a mix of bemusement and acceptance; my guess is that his recent enlightenment is such that he can't completely disagree with Sawyer. It kinda bummed me to see Sawyer get so bitchy with Jack. I wanted to think that the reconstructed Sawyer, as evidenced by ''LaFleur,'' was a little bit better than that. Again, as I said two weeks ago, it makes me wonder if the return of the very people he's been waiting for all these years will prove to be the worst thing to happen to Sawyer in a long time. Or at least, in three years.
And with that, I cede the floor to you. But before your do, check out the new episode of Totally Lost if you haven't already. And for those who have: I swear, if you ''friend'' that freakin' pig, don't say I didn't warn you when ''the quickening'' bites you in the butt.... http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1550612_20245769_20266554_4,00.html
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Where are Rose & Bernard? Poll
Where are Rose & Bernard?
They have been time hopping with Sawyer's group, but on another part of the island
15 (51%)
Died during the flaming arrow attack
1 (3%)
Dead in the caves holding Black & White stones
2 (6%)
Time jumping at a different time sequence then Sawyers group
1 (3%)
They took a boat over to the island
0 (0%)
They found the Temple and are hanging out there
2 (6%)
Hanging out with the Others
6 (20%)
Hiding in a Dharma Station
2 (6%)
At sea
0 (0%)
Votes so far: 29
They have been time hopping with Sawyer's group, but on another part of the island
15 (51%)
Died during the flaming arrow attack
1 (3%)
Dead in the caves holding Black & White stones
2 (6%)
Time jumping at a different time sequence then Sawyers group
1 (3%)
They took a boat over to the island
0 (0%)
They found the Temple and are hanging out there
2 (6%)
Hanging out with the Others
6 (20%)
Hiding in a Dharma Station
2 (6%)
At sea
0 (0%)
Votes so far: 29
Doc Jensen on 'Lost': 'Lost': 'Namaste' Thoughts
Doc Jensen previews tonight's episode, including the presence of a figure of great interest to Dharma mythology mavens. Plus: Imagine if the Dharma/Others war is a scam, THE burning question from ''LaFleur,'' and more
SAWYER When last we left Lost, our man was locking eyes with Jack, Kate, and Hurley on the Island, circa 1977
By Jeff Jensen THE RADZINSKY RIDDLE
The intermission is over. Lost's fifth season resumes. Where were we? Jack, Kate, and Hurley were back on the Island, circa 1977, locking eyes with bespectacled, now respectable Dharma stud Sawyer, a.k.a. James LaFleur. Over on Hydra Island (maybe in the same year, but probably not), Locke was alive, but Ben was unconscious. MIA: Sayid, Sun, and Lapidus. In tonight's episode, ''Namaste,'' you'll see all of the aforementioned — except one. You will also become formally introduced to a figure of great interest to those of us fixated with Dharma Initiative mythology. Remember the season 2 finale, when we learned about Desmond's button-pushing days in the Hatch? He had a partner, Kelvin Inman, who spent his extracurricular time finishing the Map on the blast door — a project that started with Kelvin's old hatchmate, Radzinsky. According to Kelvin, Radzinsky committed suicide. Left a bloody stain on the ceiling, in fact. But in ''Namaste,'' you'll see Radzinsky alive and well in the Dharma '70s. You'll also see Radzinsky building...something that adds provocative shading to his map-making project in The Swan. I'll explain more tomorrow in my TV Watch recap.
And for those of you struggling to recall what happened two weeks ago, here's a fun, tidy recap of ''LaFleur'' that I found on YouTube, cobbled together by an industrious fan:
MEANWHILE, SOMEONE YOU WON'T SEE...
HORACE'S OTHER ''SIGNIFICANT OTHER''
Reader Brandon Haverland wrote me last week to say: ''In your recap of 'LaFleur,' you wondered about Olivia, Horace's 'original significant other. After re-watching 'The Man Behind The Curtain,' which contains the only appearance of Olivia, I find myself wondering why we all readily accepted Olivia as Horace's 'significant other.' Could she not be Horace's sister?''
Excellent point, Brandon. And more, I bet your theory is totally correct: As I reported the day after ''LaFleur'' aired, the actress who played Olivia, Samantha Mathis (Pump Up The Volume, Harsh Realm), chose not to be part of the new season of Lost and isn't expected to appear on Lost ever again. So whether by design or by circumstance, my guess is that Horace and Olivia will indeed be revealed as siblings — if Lost ever decides to mention Olivia again at all.
IS IT JUST ME...
...Or do you suspect that the Dharma/Others ''war'' is something of a scam — a choreographed piece of theater, jointly managed by the respective leaders of both sides, designed to achieve a mutually desirable end? Yes, we heard Richard Alpert and Horace Goodspeed bicker about the violation of ''the truce'' out there on the Dharma playground — but there was a whole portion of their conversation that we weren't allowed to hear. What were they talking about, anyway? Maybe something like:
RICHARD: Dude! Killing my men wasn't part of the deal.
HORACE: Well, neither was killing Amy.
RICHARD: My guys were NEVER going to kill Amy. It would have looked like they were deliberately targeting Paul (which we were) if they didn't at least try to kill Amy, so I told my guys to go through the motions — put a bag over her head, cock the guns... and then, suddenly ''hear something in the bushes'' and run away.
HORACE: I don't believe you.
RICHARD: Don't believe ME?! Why should I believe YOU? You're the manipulative evil mastermind here! You were the one who came up with the old ''King David'' idea of killing Paul just so you can get your mitts on Amy...
HORACE: Shhh! Keep your voice down!
IS IT JUST ME... (cont.)
RICHARD: Look, we both know we have to keep up the pretense of this war for the sake of what needs to happen on this island. But if you and I can't totally control every beat of this drama, we're totally screwed!
HORACE: I know! I know!
RICHARD: So how do we make this right?
HORACE: I'm thinking! In the meantime, pretend like you're heatedly arguing with me.
RICHARD: Okay. But while I do, I'm going to talk about Doc Jensen's new theory about what the Dharma acronym really stands for. Okay?
HORACE: Sounds fun. Go for it.
RICHARD: Okay, check this out. Doc thinks Dharma stands for ''Deconstructing Heroism and Reinventing Mythic Archetypes.'' He suspects that Dharma is trying to stage ''living propaganda'' for the Island to broadcast via its mystical electromagnetic frequencies into our Jungian collective subconscious — a new myth, if you will, that will reverse the spiritually corrosive consequences of post-modernism and inspire in people a sense of heroism and compel them to throw off the materialistic values of our culture and adopt a new sense of responsibility for each other and the planet. However, he thinks the problem with Dharma's mad master plan is that the test subjects keep failing. Instead of acting like heroes and revolting against the mind games you guys are concocting in your hatches (which they should be doing, thus activating the drama of this ''living propaganda''), they just sit on their asses and watch their monitors and push their buttons and generally continue acting like the cynical, self-involved, mass-consuming cowards that most people are these days. After all, is this not the '''Me Decade''?
HORACE: Wow. I didn't understand word of that. And I'm a genius!
RICHARD: I know. This Doc Jensen guy sounds like a stuffy, moralistic, pedantic jerk!
HORACE: Nah, he's all right. Have you ever read his ''The Others are animal/human hybrids theory'' from season 3?
RICHARD: OH MY GOD. How did he figure that out? Jacob will be so pissed. Maybe we should ''Purge'' him, too...
HORACE: ''Purge''? What's this ''Purge'' you speak of?
RICHARD: Nothing! Never mind! Hey, did you guys get a new swing set? Looks neat! Can I give it a try?
Okay, clearly I shouldn't be in the Lost dialogue-writing business. Moreover, if the general nature of my theory is correct, I suspect Richard and Horace are unwitting pawns — the real evil genius collaborators here are their respective bosses. (Widmore and Pierre Chang? Jacob and Chang?) Am I being silly — or am I onto something? E-mail me at JeffJensenEW@aol.com
SOMETHING I MISSED!
RICHARD AND THE SONIC FENCE-PROOF OTHERS
As many of you are painfully aware, I have a tendency to get so caught up in my own obscure interests and arcane theories (see: the previous bit) that I tend to neglect or forget about the genuinely interesting bits of Lost staring all of us right in the face. And so it goes that many of you on the message boards busted on me for not even mentioning that provocative disclosure by Richard Alpert that he and his Others can't be stopped by Dharma's sonic fence. To atone for my mistake, here's reader Billy Wadsack's take on the situation: ''Richard Alpert told Horace that the sonic fence doesn't keep 'us out' — meaning him and his people. After a few seconds of letting that compute, I realized that Richard is a ghost. And by ghost, I'm talking about a Christian Shepherd kind of ghost. I think that's why Richard doesn't age. Being a ghost would also explain how Richard got off the island to visit Locke as a child without the use of the Dharma submarine — just like Christian appeared to Jack and Michael when neither was on the Island.''
I like Billy's theory. Then again, maybe Richard and his Others can transform into hedgehogs and burrow underneath the fence. (See: The ''Sonic The Hedgehog'' Theory of Lost.) But right or wrong, Richard's revelation puts an interesting spin on the Others' war with Dharma, and specifically, the Purge. If the Others could easily penetrate Dharmaville's defenses any time they pleased, that means they could have staged an event like the Purge pretty much at any time. Which suggests that there must have been a defining moment that convinced the Others to do what they always had the means of doing: Exterminate Dharma. So: What was that turning point? Also: Remember the Season 3 episode ''Left Behind,'' when Juliet and Kate eluded Smokey by activating the sonic fence? If Richard is telling the truth about his sonic fence immunity, then that means the Others can do something Smokey can't do. Unless, of course, Richard isn't telling the truth about his sonic fence immunity, and that the real reason he got past it is because the Others have a mole inside the Dharma operation who turned it off. Hey: Where is Daniel Faraday these days, anyway?
So many questions. And here's another one!
DID SAWYER CHANGE THE PAST BY SAVING AMY'S LIFE?
This is, perhaps, THE burning question to come out of ''LaFleur.'' Many of you believe that answer is yes, that Amy and her unborn child were supposed to die with husband Paul, and that now the Island's history is being rewritten, and events like the Purge may never happen. Writes reader Saul Goldbaum: ''I think when Sawyer and Juliet saved Amy from being killed, they changed history and started a time loop that prevents new babies from being born. I'm guessing that the baby that was born shouldn't have been born, and now 'fate' is preventing other babies from being born until the problem of Amy's baby is fixed.''
However, many of you believe the answer is no, that Sawyer and company aren't changing anything, but rather acting out their predestined parts — meaning that events like the Purge occurred because of the presence of the time traveling castaways in the Dharma past. (See: Faraday's ''whatever happened, happened'' theory.) In fact, there was that moment when one of those Others who was about to execute Amy seemed to get the draw on Sawyer and fired at him — but the bullet miraculously seemed to miss. Did Fate make the bullet miss Sawyer because pre-determined history required Sawyer's survival? So, who is correct: History Changers or History Non-Changers? I can tell you this: Tonight, Amy will reveal a piece of information that just might definitively settle the matter.
THE PROBLEM WITH MOTHERS!
In my ''LaFleur'' recap, I asked for your take on Sawyer's contention that the event that caused the Island's anti-baby policy had not yet happened. Part two of my survey of your theories includes this analysis from Joshua Cortina, my pick for READER THEORY OF THE WEEK, which I think nicely complements the view that, ironically, it's the time-traveling castaways who are responsible for much of the Island mythology that defined their post-crash drama. Joshua writes: ''In trying to stop the pregnancy problem before it starts, Juliet will be revealed as the cause of the pregnancy problem. I think that now that Juliet has 'come out' as being a fertility doctor, she will start working as a doctor on the Island. The problem that causes pregnant women to die hasn't happened yet, but she's determined to make sure it doesn't. Yet in trying to prevent that problem from ever occurring, she will end up being the cause of the problem. I think this may be why she was brought to the Island in the first place.''
In other words: Ben, Richard, and the Others have been shepherding the lives of Juliet, the castaways, and many others for a very long time in order to maintain a crazy time loop that props up reality as we know it. To that end, the Others brought Juliet to the Island in the present, because she was destined to go back to the past and create the Island's baby-making problem. If this theory is correct, then the question is: What is ''the right thing to do'' — sustain the time loop so history can be preserved, or collapse the time loop so history can be rebooted? Call it the ''Allegory About Our Economy Theory of Lost.'' Should we keep passing the stimulus packages and bailing out these imploding monolithic companies in hopes of preventing widespread economic catastrophe — or should we just let everything fail so we can rebuild a better and stronger economy, even if it means that everyone suffers horribly for who knows how long? See? Who says smoke monsters and four-toed statues have nothing to do with real life?
There are other theories, of course. Like this one from Christos Rousseas: ''My theory regarding why Amy's baby was successfully born is that the baby was born before Ben became the leader of the Others. I think that the Island starts to reflect the main emotional trauma of the leader of the Island. While Widmore was in charge of the Island, there were no problems with children being born. When Ben took over, the problem began. Why? Because Ben lost his mother during childbirth. Hence, that trauma started to manifest on the Island.'' Rousseas further speculates that when Ben left the Island, Locke became its chief custodian, and the Island subsequently began to mirror Locke's defining trauma: his father issues. Is that why the Island became dislodged from space and time? Because of Locke's abandonment angst?
Yep: Kinda heavy. So let's end on crazy: The new episode of Totally Lost, hosted by Dan Snierson and yours truly. Today, Dan and I take a cue from ''LaFleur'' and decide to throw our own Dharma-style ''hootenanny'' in the EW Security Center, complete with ''brownies,'' Geronimo Jackson, and general unauthorized tomfoolery. Naturally, disaster ensues. In addition to questionable comedy, you'll get some conversation about ''LaFleur'' and some additional teasers about ''Namaste.'' It all culminates with an event of such game-changing significance that...well, why spoil it when you can watch it RIGHT NOW? (Or later today when we finish and post it.) Let us know what you think — and come back tomorrow for my Thursday morning quarterbacking of ''Namaste.''
Toodles!
Doc Jensen
By Jeff Jensen THE RADZINSKY RIDDLE
The intermission is over. Lost's fifth season resumes. Where were we? Jack, Kate, and Hurley were back on the Island, circa 1977, locking eyes with bespectacled, now respectable Dharma stud Sawyer, a.k.a. James LaFleur. Over on Hydra Island (maybe in the same year, but probably not), Locke was alive, but Ben was unconscious. MIA: Sayid, Sun, and Lapidus. In tonight's episode, ''Namaste,'' you'll see all of the aforementioned — except one. You will also become formally introduced to a figure of great interest to those of us fixated with Dharma Initiative mythology. Remember the season 2 finale, when we learned about Desmond's button-pushing days in the Hatch? He had a partner, Kelvin Inman, who spent his extracurricular time finishing the Map on the blast door — a project that started with Kelvin's old hatchmate, Radzinsky. According to Kelvin, Radzinsky committed suicide. Left a bloody stain on the ceiling, in fact. But in ''Namaste,'' you'll see Radzinsky alive and well in the Dharma '70s. You'll also see Radzinsky building...something that adds provocative shading to his map-making project in The Swan. I'll explain more tomorrow in my TV Watch recap.
And for those of you struggling to recall what happened two weeks ago, here's a fun, tidy recap of ''LaFleur'' that I found on YouTube, cobbled together by an industrious fan:
MEANWHILE, SOMEONE YOU WON'T SEE...
HORACE'S OTHER ''SIGNIFICANT OTHER''
Reader Brandon Haverland wrote me last week to say: ''In your recap of 'LaFleur,' you wondered about Olivia, Horace's 'original significant other. After re-watching 'The Man Behind The Curtain,' which contains the only appearance of Olivia, I find myself wondering why we all readily accepted Olivia as Horace's 'significant other.' Could she not be Horace's sister?''
Excellent point, Brandon. And more, I bet your theory is totally correct: As I reported the day after ''LaFleur'' aired, the actress who played Olivia, Samantha Mathis (Pump Up The Volume, Harsh Realm), chose not to be part of the new season of Lost and isn't expected to appear on Lost ever again. So whether by design or by circumstance, my guess is that Horace and Olivia will indeed be revealed as siblings — if Lost ever decides to mention Olivia again at all.
IS IT JUST ME...
...Or do you suspect that the Dharma/Others ''war'' is something of a scam — a choreographed piece of theater, jointly managed by the respective leaders of both sides, designed to achieve a mutually desirable end? Yes, we heard Richard Alpert and Horace Goodspeed bicker about the violation of ''the truce'' out there on the Dharma playground — but there was a whole portion of their conversation that we weren't allowed to hear. What were they talking about, anyway? Maybe something like:
RICHARD: Dude! Killing my men wasn't part of the deal.
HORACE: Well, neither was killing Amy.
RICHARD: My guys were NEVER going to kill Amy. It would have looked like they were deliberately targeting Paul (which we were) if they didn't at least try to kill Amy, so I told my guys to go through the motions — put a bag over her head, cock the guns... and then, suddenly ''hear something in the bushes'' and run away.
HORACE: I don't believe you.
RICHARD: Don't believe ME?! Why should I believe YOU? You're the manipulative evil mastermind here! You were the one who came up with the old ''King David'' idea of killing Paul just so you can get your mitts on Amy...
HORACE: Shhh! Keep your voice down!
IS IT JUST ME... (cont.)
RICHARD: Look, we both know we have to keep up the pretense of this war for the sake of what needs to happen on this island. But if you and I can't totally control every beat of this drama, we're totally screwed!
HORACE: I know! I know!
RICHARD: So how do we make this right?
HORACE: I'm thinking! In the meantime, pretend like you're heatedly arguing with me.
RICHARD: Okay. But while I do, I'm going to talk about Doc Jensen's new theory about what the Dharma acronym really stands for. Okay?
HORACE: Sounds fun. Go for it.
RICHARD: Okay, check this out. Doc thinks Dharma stands for ''Deconstructing Heroism and Reinventing Mythic Archetypes.'' He suspects that Dharma is trying to stage ''living propaganda'' for the Island to broadcast via its mystical electromagnetic frequencies into our Jungian collective subconscious — a new myth, if you will, that will reverse the spiritually corrosive consequences of post-modernism and inspire in people a sense of heroism and compel them to throw off the materialistic values of our culture and adopt a new sense of responsibility for each other and the planet. However, he thinks the problem with Dharma's mad master plan is that the test subjects keep failing. Instead of acting like heroes and revolting against the mind games you guys are concocting in your hatches (which they should be doing, thus activating the drama of this ''living propaganda''), they just sit on their asses and watch their monitors and push their buttons and generally continue acting like the cynical, self-involved, mass-consuming cowards that most people are these days. After all, is this not the '''Me Decade''?
HORACE: Wow. I didn't understand word of that. And I'm a genius!
RICHARD: I know. This Doc Jensen guy sounds like a stuffy, moralistic, pedantic jerk!
HORACE: Nah, he's all right. Have you ever read his ''The Others are animal/human hybrids theory'' from season 3?
RICHARD: OH MY GOD. How did he figure that out? Jacob will be so pissed. Maybe we should ''Purge'' him, too...
HORACE: ''Purge''? What's this ''Purge'' you speak of?
RICHARD: Nothing! Never mind! Hey, did you guys get a new swing set? Looks neat! Can I give it a try?
Okay, clearly I shouldn't be in the Lost dialogue-writing business. Moreover, if the general nature of my theory is correct, I suspect Richard and Horace are unwitting pawns — the real evil genius collaborators here are their respective bosses. (Widmore and Pierre Chang? Jacob and Chang?) Am I being silly — or am I onto something? E-mail me at JeffJensenEW@aol.com
SOMETHING I MISSED!
RICHARD AND THE SONIC FENCE-PROOF OTHERS
As many of you are painfully aware, I have a tendency to get so caught up in my own obscure interests and arcane theories (see: the previous bit) that I tend to neglect or forget about the genuinely interesting bits of Lost staring all of us right in the face. And so it goes that many of you on the message boards busted on me for not even mentioning that provocative disclosure by Richard Alpert that he and his Others can't be stopped by Dharma's sonic fence. To atone for my mistake, here's reader Billy Wadsack's take on the situation: ''Richard Alpert told Horace that the sonic fence doesn't keep 'us out' — meaning him and his people. After a few seconds of letting that compute, I realized that Richard is a ghost. And by ghost, I'm talking about a Christian Shepherd kind of ghost. I think that's why Richard doesn't age. Being a ghost would also explain how Richard got off the island to visit Locke as a child without the use of the Dharma submarine — just like Christian appeared to Jack and Michael when neither was on the Island.''
I like Billy's theory. Then again, maybe Richard and his Others can transform into hedgehogs and burrow underneath the fence. (See: The ''Sonic The Hedgehog'' Theory of Lost.) But right or wrong, Richard's revelation puts an interesting spin on the Others' war with Dharma, and specifically, the Purge. If the Others could easily penetrate Dharmaville's defenses any time they pleased, that means they could have staged an event like the Purge pretty much at any time. Which suggests that there must have been a defining moment that convinced the Others to do what they always had the means of doing: Exterminate Dharma. So: What was that turning point? Also: Remember the Season 3 episode ''Left Behind,'' when Juliet and Kate eluded Smokey by activating the sonic fence? If Richard is telling the truth about his sonic fence immunity, then that means the Others can do something Smokey can't do. Unless, of course, Richard isn't telling the truth about his sonic fence immunity, and that the real reason he got past it is because the Others have a mole inside the Dharma operation who turned it off. Hey: Where is Daniel Faraday these days, anyway?
So many questions. And here's another one!
DID SAWYER CHANGE THE PAST BY SAVING AMY'S LIFE?
This is, perhaps, THE burning question to come out of ''LaFleur.'' Many of you believe that answer is yes, that Amy and her unborn child were supposed to die with husband Paul, and that now the Island's history is being rewritten, and events like the Purge may never happen. Writes reader Saul Goldbaum: ''I think when Sawyer and Juliet saved Amy from being killed, they changed history and started a time loop that prevents new babies from being born. I'm guessing that the baby that was born shouldn't have been born, and now 'fate' is preventing other babies from being born until the problem of Amy's baby is fixed.''
However, many of you believe the answer is no, that Sawyer and company aren't changing anything, but rather acting out their predestined parts — meaning that events like the Purge occurred because of the presence of the time traveling castaways in the Dharma past. (See: Faraday's ''whatever happened, happened'' theory.) In fact, there was that moment when one of those Others who was about to execute Amy seemed to get the draw on Sawyer and fired at him — but the bullet miraculously seemed to miss. Did Fate make the bullet miss Sawyer because pre-determined history required Sawyer's survival? So, who is correct: History Changers or History Non-Changers? I can tell you this: Tonight, Amy will reveal a piece of information that just might definitively settle the matter.
THE PROBLEM WITH MOTHERS!
In my ''LaFleur'' recap, I asked for your take on Sawyer's contention that the event that caused the Island's anti-baby policy had not yet happened. Part two of my survey of your theories includes this analysis from Joshua Cortina, my pick for READER THEORY OF THE WEEK, which I think nicely complements the view that, ironically, it's the time-traveling castaways who are responsible for much of the Island mythology that defined their post-crash drama. Joshua writes: ''In trying to stop the pregnancy problem before it starts, Juliet will be revealed as the cause of the pregnancy problem. I think that now that Juliet has 'come out' as being a fertility doctor, she will start working as a doctor on the Island. The problem that causes pregnant women to die hasn't happened yet, but she's determined to make sure it doesn't. Yet in trying to prevent that problem from ever occurring, she will end up being the cause of the problem. I think this may be why she was brought to the Island in the first place.''
In other words: Ben, Richard, and the Others have been shepherding the lives of Juliet, the castaways, and many others for a very long time in order to maintain a crazy time loop that props up reality as we know it. To that end, the Others brought Juliet to the Island in the present, because she was destined to go back to the past and create the Island's baby-making problem. If this theory is correct, then the question is: What is ''the right thing to do'' — sustain the time loop so history can be preserved, or collapse the time loop so history can be rebooted? Call it the ''Allegory About Our Economy Theory of Lost.'' Should we keep passing the stimulus packages and bailing out these imploding monolithic companies in hopes of preventing widespread economic catastrophe — or should we just let everything fail so we can rebuild a better and stronger economy, even if it means that everyone suffers horribly for who knows how long? See? Who says smoke monsters and four-toed statues have nothing to do with real life?
There are other theories, of course. Like this one from Christos Rousseas: ''My theory regarding why Amy's baby was successfully born is that the baby was born before Ben became the leader of the Others. I think that the Island starts to reflect the main emotional trauma of the leader of the Island. While Widmore was in charge of the Island, there were no problems with children being born. When Ben took over, the problem began. Why? Because Ben lost his mother during childbirth. Hence, that trauma started to manifest on the Island.'' Rousseas further speculates that when Ben left the Island, Locke became its chief custodian, and the Island subsequently began to mirror Locke's defining trauma: his father issues. Is that why the Island became dislodged from space and time? Because of Locke's abandonment angst?
Yep: Kinda heavy. So let's end on crazy: The new episode of Totally Lost, hosted by Dan Snierson and yours truly. Today, Dan and I take a cue from ''LaFleur'' and decide to throw our own Dharma-style ''hootenanny'' in the EW Security Center, complete with ''brownies,'' Geronimo Jackson, and general unauthorized tomfoolery. Naturally, disaster ensues. In addition to questionable comedy, you'll get some conversation about ''LaFleur'' and some additional teasers about ''Namaste.'' It all culminates with an event of such game-changing significance that...well, why spoil it when you can watch it RIGHT NOW? (Or later today when we finish and post it.) Let us know what you think — and come back tomorrow for my Thursday morning quarterbacking of ''Namaste.''
Toodles!
Doc Jensen
Lost: All We're Gonna Say Is "4 8 15 16 23 42" (Squee!)
Today 10:55 AM PDT by Team WWK
Remember that runway the Others were building? Oh it's back all right, and it seems that's how Ajira Airways flight 316 landed on the Island. Yes, landed, not crashed—though it was a shaky landing. Good thing Lapidus is such an awesome pilot!
Also, Jack (Matthew Fox) spills to Jin that Sun is also roaming the Island somewhere. Could the long-awaited Sun-Jin reunion be coming soon?
Check out the clips below for more Dharmaville goodness, including Sawyer (Josh Holloway) sneaking Kate, Jack and Hurley into the initiative.
"Namaste" airs tonight on ABC at 9 p.m.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b104986_lost_all_were_gonna_say_4_8_15_16_23_42.html
Remember that runway the Others were building? Oh it's back all right, and it seems that's how Ajira Airways flight 316 landed on the Island. Yes, landed, not crashed—though it was a shaky landing. Good thing Lapidus is such an awesome pilot!
Also, Jack (Matthew Fox) spills to Jin that Sun is also roaming the Island somewhere. Could the long-awaited Sun-Jin reunion be coming soon?
Check out the clips below for more Dharmaville goodness, including Sawyer (Josh Holloway) sneaking Kate, Jack and Hurley into the initiative.
"Namaste" airs tonight on ABC at 9 p.m.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b104986_lost_all_were_gonna_say_4_8_15_16_23_42.html
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Emilie de Ravin: From Lost Princess to Indie Queen
Apr 24, 2008 01:48 AM ET by TV Guide News
Emilie de Ravin by Mario Perez/ABC
Good luck forecasting Emilie de Ravin's next big-screen role. The ambitious Aussie beauty, who TV fans best know as Lost's Claire Littleton, this week is celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Ball Don't Lie, yet another edgy endeavor she can add to her resume alongside Brick and The Hills Have Eyes. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to ask de Ravin about her latest "interesting" film role, her romantic comedy aspirations (if she has them) and, of course, the increasingly shaky outlook for Lost's Claire. - Matt Webb Mitovich
Emilie de Ravin by Mario Perez/ABC
Good luck forecasting Emilie de Ravin's next big-screen role. The ambitious Aussie beauty, who TV fans best know as Lost's Claire Littleton, this week is celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Ball Don't Lie, yet another edgy endeavor she can add to her resume alongside Brick and The Hills Have Eyes. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to ask de Ravin about her latest "interesting" film role, her romantic comedy aspirations (if she has them) and, of course, the increasingly shaky outlook for Lost's Claire. - Matt Webb Mitovich
TVGuide.com: So, tell me not to worry about Claire.
De Ravin: To worry or not to worry.... What can I say? Oh, you know my lips have to be sealed, unfortunately.
TVGuide.com: Her pregnancy was positioned to be so significant to Lost's mythology, I always assumed she would be around for the long haul.
De Ravin: They're doing a lot of interesting things with my character, so I guess we will have to wait and see. [Chuckles]
TVGuide.com: Do you have any private, top-secret insight into why Baby Aaron is with Kate in the flash-forwards?
De Ravin: No! I'm very intrigued to find out why, though. That's one of the big questions I have right now. I always have at least one big question - and I never get answers until I get the script!
TVGuide.com: Was it hard saying goodbye to Dominic Monaghan (Charlie)?
De Ravin: It was hard in many ways. We had gotten so close working together. It was very sad, very emotional.
TVGuide.com: You must have thought that at some point they'd get to dive into their oft-stalled romance....
De Ravin: Yeah, but it got cut short, didn't it?
TVGuide.com: So, turning to your Tribeca Film Festival premiere, Ball Don't Lie: How does a pretty young thing like Emilie De Ravin fit into a teen boy's coming-of-age story set in the world of street basketball?
De Ravin: [ Laughs] I'm actually in the flashbacks, playing the boy's (newcomer Grayson Boucher) mother. There are a lot of flashbacks, a lot of back-and-forth. She's a bipolar prostitute, so she's got a lot going on.
TVGuide.com: But is she the bipolar prostitute with a heart of gold ?
De Ravin: With a heart of gold! She's a very sweet girl, but she's on the wrong side of the tracks.
TVGuide.com: This film features quite the ABC all-star team. Harold Perrineau (Lost), Richardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives), James Pickens Jr. (Grey's Anatomy)....
De Ravin: I know!
TVGuide.com: Was that coincidence, or did you all know someone who was putting this project together?
De Ravin: No, it was complete coincidence. It was funny when I heard that Harold was doing it because I never saw him on Lost. We had no work together.
TVGuide.com: Do you have any other films in the works?
De Ravin: I worked on a movie last summer called The Perfect Game, which is a children's baseball movie based on a true story and set in the '30s.
TVGuide.com: How did you like the 1930s' sort of wardrobe?
De Ravin: Oh, it's amazing. My character's wardrobe and speech is based on Katharine Hepburn, so it was a lot of fun researching that.
TVGuide.com: I look at movies like Brick... you playing a bipolar prostitute.... Do you have any aspiration to be the romantic-comedy darling?
De Ravin: Oh, I'd like to do that as well. I'm just trying to explore everything. It's fun to mix it up as much as you can. I don't want to get pigeonholed in any one genre. I like to extend myself as much as I can and challenge myself.
TVGuide.com: A romantic comedy would probably be a day at the beach after the likes of chasing zombies with a pick axe.
De Ravin: [ Laughs] Exactly! It's a little bit different.
http://www.tvguide.com/news/Emilie-Ravin-Lost-7711.aspx
De Ravin: To worry or not to worry.... What can I say? Oh, you know my lips have to be sealed, unfortunately.
TVGuide.com: Her pregnancy was positioned to be so significant to Lost's mythology, I always assumed she would be around for the long haul.
De Ravin: They're doing a lot of interesting things with my character, so I guess we will have to wait and see. [Chuckles]
TVGuide.com: Do you have any private, top-secret insight into why Baby Aaron is with Kate in the flash-forwards?
De Ravin: No! I'm very intrigued to find out why, though. That's one of the big questions I have right now. I always have at least one big question - and I never get answers until I get the script!
TVGuide.com: Was it hard saying goodbye to Dominic Monaghan (Charlie)?
De Ravin: It was hard in many ways. We had gotten so close working together. It was very sad, very emotional.
TVGuide.com: You must have thought that at some point they'd get to dive into their oft-stalled romance....
De Ravin: Yeah, but it got cut short, didn't it?
TVGuide.com: So, turning to your Tribeca Film Festival premiere, Ball Don't Lie: How does a pretty young thing like Emilie De Ravin fit into a teen boy's coming-of-age story set in the world of street basketball?
De Ravin: [ Laughs] I'm actually in the flashbacks, playing the boy's (newcomer Grayson Boucher) mother. There are a lot of flashbacks, a lot of back-and-forth. She's a bipolar prostitute, so she's got a lot going on.
TVGuide.com: But is she the bipolar prostitute with a heart of gold ?
De Ravin: With a heart of gold! She's a very sweet girl, but she's on the wrong side of the tracks.
TVGuide.com: This film features quite the ABC all-star team. Harold Perrineau (Lost), Richardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives), James Pickens Jr. (Grey's Anatomy)....
De Ravin: I know!
TVGuide.com: Was that coincidence, or did you all know someone who was putting this project together?
De Ravin: No, it was complete coincidence. It was funny when I heard that Harold was doing it because I never saw him on Lost. We had no work together.
TVGuide.com: Do you have any other films in the works?
De Ravin: I worked on a movie last summer called The Perfect Game, which is a children's baseball movie based on a true story and set in the '30s.
TVGuide.com: How did you like the 1930s' sort of wardrobe?
De Ravin: Oh, it's amazing. My character's wardrobe and speech is based on Katharine Hepburn, so it was a lot of fun researching that.
TVGuide.com: I look at movies like Brick... you playing a bipolar prostitute.... Do you have any aspiration to be the romantic-comedy darling?
De Ravin: Oh, I'd like to do that as well. I'm just trying to explore everything. It's fun to mix it up as much as you can. I don't want to get pigeonholed in any one genre. I like to extend myself as much as I can and challenge myself.
TVGuide.com: A romantic comedy would probably be a day at the beach after the likes of chasing zombies with a pick axe.
De Ravin: [ Laughs] Exactly! It's a little bit different.
http://www.tvguide.com/news/Emilie-Ravin-Lost-7711.aspx
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