desmond-related stories
Posted Mar 4th 2009 5:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
We won't find the answer to this question on tonight's episode of
Lost, but I've been wondering: who is the real bad guy in the
Lost power struggle, Ben Linus or Charles Widmore?
On one hand, Ben has done so many evil things that it's hard to see him as a good guy, and killing John Locke last week was probably the ultimate proof that Ben-haters have to name him as the bad guy. But he has also helped the islanders at several points (though we still haven't found out if he's doing that for his own reasons), and is it possible that he killed Locke himself because Locke has to die but can't kill himself for some reason? It's going to be interesting to see Ben wake up from his nap on that bed and see Locke alive again (or will he be surprised)?
Continue reading Who's the bad guy on Lost - Ben Linus or Charles Widmore?
Posted Feb 6th 2009 2:33PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Celebrities, Reality-Free
I'm a sucker for time travel shows. I loved it when
Star Trek did it (all of the
Star Trek shows did it, several times) and
Back to the Future is one of my favorite films. So I'm really enjoying
Lost this season, with it's time-tripping and skipping. But I have some problems with it, and so does
Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.
Jennings mentions on his blog that he thinks the writers have actually answered too many questions, which isn't a complaint that you hear from
Lost fans too often. He thinks if they had left more plot questions, some of the things that happened in previous seasons "could now be explained as the actions of Future Juliet or Future Sawyer or somebody."
Jennings thinks it's smart that the show has the rule that you can't change what happened, because if something happens a certain way it will always happen that way. But I think the show is breaking that rule here and there.
Continue reading Ken Jennings thinks Lost is making a mistake this season
Posted Feb 5th 2009 1:03AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E04) "I have to make them come back... even if it kills me." - Locke
And so begins the quest of Jeremy Bentham. That's been one of the real treats this season - seeing the Oceanic Six in the present while having their plot juxtaposed against the real-time (well... as "real-time" as real-time can get when you're time traveling) plight of those still on the island three years ago. The fact that we only saw Locke lay the foundation for his plan involving the Orchid to get everyone back was still mesmerizing. I love knowing what happens to him but not knowing the circumstances of his "suicide" and how he ended up in that coffin at Hoffs Drawler. Despite the lack of any more development on Locke's plan beyond what we got, this episode was still phenomenal - mainly because two people we've all been missing finally showed up again.
Continue reading Lost: The Little Prince
Posted Jan 28th 2009 10:03PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E03) "Because... he's one of my people." - Locke
I really need to get in the habit of taping my mouth shut while watching Lost because my jaw is always on the floor by the end of every episode. Time-traveling has added an entirely new dimension (literally) to the story-telling techniques of this show and the first three hours of this season have been some of Lost's best. The flash-backs always lacked a certain amount of tension because they already happened. On the flip side of the same coin, the same can be said about the flash-forwards because you know they're going to happen. But time-traveling has created this new ripple where nothing has permanence anymore, whether it happened, is happening, or will happen. This is mesmerizing stuff to watch unfold because everything becomes new the second Faraday, Locke, and Co. make a new jump. They may not be altering the ultimate outcome, but they are altering the moment.
Continue reading Lost: Jughead
Posted Jan 21st 2009 10:02PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E01) "You're gonna have to die, John." - Richard Alpert
Time travel! The future is now! later! here! gone! beginning! ending! OK, I give up. Lost is back and the future is... well, we don't know what the future is. Or the past. Or the present. All we know is what they were, because now they're just one big time travelin' mess.
As with seasons past of Lost, the fifth chapter of TV's favorite mindf*ck opens by presenting an entirely new storytelling technique - one that demands equal parts patience, attention, and imagination. More than anything, it's a test for true fans because the casual Lost viewer (do they exist?) probably had a hard time moving from A to Z (worst metaphor ever - I know) in tonight's season premiere. That being said, this whole hour gave me my own bloody nose.
Continue reading Lost: Because You Left (season premiere)
Posted Jan 14th 2009 10:01AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
As amazing as
Lost is, I still hate it for one tiny reason - every time a new season begins, I get terrified that I won't "get it." If that happened, it would completely deflate my enjoyment of the show. While
Lost has had its fair share of WTF episodes, most of them are decipherable after repeat viewings; season five's first two installments definitely fall into that category. It's like playing the sequel of your favorite video game - for the most part, the controls and game-play are the same, but there are enough changes that it still takes you a few hours to get a handle on it.
Continue reading Lost season five - An early look
Posted Jun 18th 2007 12:03PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost, Video, Watercooler Talk
Some very talented
Lost fan took plane crash clips from the last three seasons and
edited them together in a sequence to show what was happening as the plane crashed. Even though
the editor doesn't seem to think it's very good, it really is. Sure, the time doesn't match up exactly, but it's pretty damn close. The plane crash is shown in almost real time from the perspective of the passengers, The Others, and Desmond. It shows the cause-and-effect of the near-implosion of the hatch when Desmond doesn't push the button. It's very exciting, though I kind-of think it wouldn't make any sense to anyone who doesn't watch
Lost.
Video is after the jump:
Continue reading The Lost plane crash clipped together - VIDEO
Posted May 24th 2007 5:23PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Lost
First off, spectacular season finale. It was exciting, dramatic, gave us answers (and even more questions) and was just beautifully done all around. Easily the best season-ender in the short history of Lost, and one of the best season finales of any series, ever. Every character had something to do (loved Hurley in the van and Locke throwing the knife into Naomi), the editing was phenomenal, the music was just really well done (the ominous drums, the sad music with Charlie dying, etc), and Matthew Fox deserves an Emmy for this episode alone.
Continue reading Why I'm a little worried about Lost next season
Posted Apr 20th 2007 4:21PM by Martin Conaghan
Filed under: Lost, Video
If you caught the recent episode of
Lost (
'Catch-22'), you may have already started scouring the web in search of clues regarding the little ditty Desmond sang during a flashback, while supping down copious amounts of wine.
The key to the song lies in Desmond's nationality. In case you hadn't noticed, he's Scottish (by the sounds of his accent, probably from Glasgow, possibly Paisley).
Henry Ian Cusick, the actor who portrays Desmond, isn't actually Scottish himself -- he was born in Trujillo, Peru. His
father is Scottish, but he spent most of his early life in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to Scotland when he was 15.
Continue reading Lost -- Desmond's little ditty explained - VIDEO
Posted Dec 8th 2006 2:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost
I'm not sure if you've been reading Doc Jensen's Lost theories over at Entertainment Weekly's web site. The guy is obsessed (in a good way), and has come up with some very intriguing and plausible ideas on what is really happening on the island and what all the clues (the numbers, the names, how people are connected, etc) might actually mean. Not sure if I follow his logic with his latest theory though.
He's been thinking about the names and what they could mean in the overall picture. The people behind the show have said that the character names have not been chosen randomly. Each name means something (though I wonder what "Hurley" could mean. Does he vomit a lot? Is he really a baseball player?), and the name that especially intrigues him is the new character, Jacob, who we saw in a quick scene on one of the monitors wearing an eyepatch (if that was him, that is!).
Continue reading Crazy Lost Theory #942: Jacob is Bernard!
Posted Jun 21st 2006 4:13PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost
The other day we told you that
Variety had broken the news that
Bad Twin, the
Lost tie-in book, was written by acclaimed mystery writer Lawrence Shames. Shames doesn't confirm that he's the author of the book, but he does have
a few things to say about it:
"It is interesting how closely his prose style resembles mine. He sets a lot of the story in places I've been." He also says that the book is "excellent" and "everyone should read [it]."
Ha!
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted May 26th 2006 5:57PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost, Web
I know, I know, you're saying to yourself, "jeez Bob, more
Lost posts?" I hear ya. But it's a popular show, and the theories and articles just keep a-comin'.
This site gives a chart of how many of the show's characters are related. Now, I try to follow the show as closely as I can, but since I don't want to go batshit crazy and end up in the loony bin with Hurley and Libby, I don't follow every single piece of information or clues, so I don't know if all of this is correct or up to date.
The date says it was last updated on May 11, so I'm sure a post-season finale upgrade is coming soon.
Posted May 26th 2006 3:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Talent, Lost
Not the actors and actresses that will be playing these parts, but the characters themselves. If it's true that the outside world will now become a plot point in the show (and after seeing the two Arctic station guys and Penelope on the phone at the end of the season finale, it looks like it will be),
new characters on
Lost will include:
- Female, 30s, with leadership qualities
- Female, early 20s, very attractive
- Male, Latino, early 20s, handsome, mysterious quality
So who do
you want to see in these roles?
Posted May 26th 2006 8:41AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost, Web
OK, so we're all trying to figure out what the hell happened on
Lost the other night. For all the new questions the arose (what was that big foot statue, who were the two guys in the Arctic station at the end, are Locke/Eko/Desmond dead, etc), I think the biggest question I have is, what the heck is wrong with Charlie? Wasn't he acting just a little bit peculiar last night? The way he acted with Locke and with Eko, and then when the hatch exploded, the next scene we see the castaways just sitting around a fire and he kisses Claire. Didn't he go to see what happened in the hatch after the big light explosion and that weird noise? Aren't the other castaways wondering what was up with that and where Locke/Eko/Desmond are? That was a weird scene, and I'm trying to figure out whether it means something or if it was just lazy writing.
Anyway, TV Guide's Michael Ausiello held a chat at WashingtonPost.com, and he is asked many questions about the season finale (which he loved).
Check it out.
Posted May 25th 2006 12:07AM by C.K. Sample, III
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost
(S02E23) Two hour season finale. Usually that means a slow-paced episode with tons of teaser bits to keep you stringing along with a few hard-hitters near the end to keep you excited for next season. The creators of Lost must have realized that a lot of the fans of the show were feeling like we weren't getting enough answers out of the story line, so they made a jam-packed finale. It was a great episode, and I'm somewhat at a loss where to begin in writing this review.
The episode begins where last week's episode ended: all the castaways on the beach attending the funeral for Ana Lucia and Libby notice a sailboat in the distance off the beach. Sawyer, Jack, and Sayid swim out to the boat to recover the vessel and see what's going on. Once they are aboard, they are greated by gunshots being fired from below deck. They dodge the bullets, then flip up the hatch only to discover a drunken Desmond below deck, recognizing Jack, saying "You," just before we go to the title screen.
Read more including plenty of spoilers after the break...
Continue reading Lost: Live Together, Die Alone (finale)
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