LA X?

 

So, it seems that the first episode of Lost season will be called “LA X”. I thought I’d blog my quick thoughts on the title.

This will make some people think that the reset worked, for better or worse as they would land in Los Angeles otherwise known as LAX.

However, that single space there makes me think otherwise, as if marked on a sheet of paper, to say that “LA” as an answer is incorrect and it did not work.

So, what do you think, did Jack’s plan work or not?

Lost Hiatus Cures - #1

So, Lost is off the air, and you’ve done a rewatch, or you’ve started and need something else to cure the pain of missing Lost. I’m going to suggest a few things, feel free to comment on any more.

 

Lost Fan Club
If you’re not a member of Fanpop by now, why not? The Lost Fan Club has a nice quiz section, a section where you can put up Picks, which are opinion-based questions, or even Answers, which is where you can ask anything that has confused you about Lost. This is handy if you can’t remember a reference, or missed out what Jacob was or something similar.

I’ll do a few more of these during the hiatus, and hopefully you can use some of them.

It only ends once

Season Six Teaser

That’s the entirety of the next season of Lost we’ve seen, which is just actually footage from “Pilot, Part 1”, but what do we actually know?

• There will be 17 episodes
• It will start in February 2010
• It is the final season
• Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet) will appear in only two episodes according to Ausiello
• There was mention of Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) & Darlton Lindelof having a quick “five minute chat” about Charlie coming back, so we might see him guest spotting later.
• Cynthia Watros will not feature, as she’s being stubborn, leading to not being able to bridge the gap in Libby’s story.

Yeah, not a whole lot. Hopefully we get a few more details in the coming months to help us cope.

Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?

Well…no-one could have ever predicted that season five would start to end this way. We saw Jacob in the flesh, brandishing a red herring and a white shirt, living a simple life. Another man comes and sits besides him, wearing his black shirt proudly staring out at what is likely The Black Rock, and it’s captain Ricardos coming to The Island and promising he’ll find a loophole to kill Jacob. The two men act like it’s a game between them, and the ship full of people coming to The Island are mere chess pieces to prove one another wrong.

Within the flashbacks we see Jacob visiting, and perhaps more importantly physically touching each of them, even if only for an instant. Seeing an Apollo candy bar for the first time in three seasons was nice call back for Lost Experience players. We found out the origin of Hurley’s guitar case, and how he knew about Ajira Flight 316.

Jacob calmly waited for Locke to fall from a height which should have killed him according to the orderlies and doctors, but a small pat on the shoulder from Jacob, and he gasps and is conscious again. If Jacob was able to bring Locke back from the brink of death, why not remove his paralysis? Jacob does need to test a future leader of The Island I think.

“The Fork In The Outlet” was very shocking indeed. The Locke that we’ve seen on Island, since The Life & Death Of Jeremy Bentham, has in fact been Jacob’s Enemy (apparently nicknamed Esau by fans due to the bible story) trying to find a loophole. That being, that he could not directly kill Ben, nor direct someone to kill him in his own form. So, the best person to convince is Ben, and the best person to do that as, would be John Locke.

Thinking back, the shirted Christian who appears to Locke, pushes him to die, and Jacob’s Enemy tells Richard to tell Locke that he has to die in order to save The Island, and also tells him to move The Island, in another attempt to rid Locke off The Island so that he can maraud around as him instead. Does this mean every apparition we’ve seen on The Island is actually Jacob’s Enemy? From the “Jacob” we saw in the cabin, the Alex who convinced Ben to follow “Locke’s” every word, to Eko’s brother Yemi? I don’t think they all are, but if Esau can appear as certain forms, I think Jacob can too. Anybody remember the explicitly stated white tennis shoe, that we see off Island Christian wearing?

I think that white-shoed Christian is actually Jacob, who has only so far appeared to Jack, whom he mentioned “needed a little push”.

In 2007, Jacob’s Enemy had a job to do, and eventually reached the statue where Jacob really lives, instead of the cabin, which I assume Jacob’s Enemy had been presiding in. He led Ben in and spoke with Jacob about finding the loophole. Michael Emerson is a great actor and I loved his speech to Jacob about him being ignored. When Jacob replied “What about you?” you knew his time was up. But this leaves the question, who are “they”? And why are they coming? The Others and Sun now know that the Locke inside the statue. I wonder what their reaction will be come season six, or did it even actually happen because of the bomb? Jacob might not even be dead, nor Locke.

Back over at The Swan site in 1977, we knew certain things had to happen. Chang had to have an accident with his hand to get the prosthetic arm with saw him with in the future…or past…one of those.

Phil had to die, after it was built up that we hate him, especially for hitting Juliet in the previous episode. Jack and co. came with the bomb to erase the last three years so that The Swan is never built, Kelvin can never be there to get Desmond, Desmond can never not push the button, and thus Oceanic Flight 815 will never crash. We saw a scene similar to season 2’s finale, where all things metal were dragged away by an electromagnetic force, including some large metal chains which ensnared Juliet. Poor Juliet. I wish I wasn’t right all the time. Oh yeah, I guess Sayid died off screen too. I don’t care.

Juliet did manage to survive the fall down the massive shaft, and realised that the bomb had not yet gone off, so she struggled in some great acting by Elizabeth Mitchell, smacked the bomb until we came across the “son of a bitch” line so frequently used this episode and then…

Gragh. 2010 can not come quick enough for this story to carry on. Did Jack’s plan work? What happens if it did? What happens if it didn’t? Have we seen the last of Jacob? Is Juliet still alive? I have no idea, so I leave you with this, from the web comic After Lost.

Follow the leader, leader, leader

Etcetera. We’re edging our way in to finale times. Jack is tromping through the jungle to save people, Kate is changing her man and Hurley has joined two other people in another location. I guess we now know who the cameraman for Pierre Chang is: Miles.

I initially thought it would be Daniel Faraday given how much it sounded like him. Imagine a good segue way here. I think Chang and Horace make good leaders of the DHARMA Initiative.

Then, we have Richard, Ben & Locke, all with some authority over The Others, but obviously Jacob presides over all of them, and now Locke wants to kill him. What?! Does Locke intend to take his place, or is Richard actually Jacob as many fans think?

 
Our original de facto leader is confronted with the Thunderbird 2 like hydrogen bomb, which has something to do with The Incident. Strange that we have a large amount of concrete in The Swan. I never expected that it would be buried underneath The Barracks though.

I guess that Sayid is the major death for this season, which makes sense as his story is pretty much wrapped up.

Sorry this is only a short recap, but I’m still getting back in to it. The finale recap will be better and more awesome.

Lost on Twitter

As some of you are well aware I'm a big fan of the show Lost, and a prominent user of Twitter. The two seem to have intermingled a lot lately though, with people posting as characters or organisations from the show. In following them, you can enter an alternate reality, which some users play very well. You might be interested in following some of them, so I'm going to 'showcase' the best ones.

Let's begin with various versions of The Island's leading surgeon: Jack Shephard


- Jack Shephard
This is an "Oceanic Six" account from the folks over at SpoilerTV forums. Not sure who runs it, but have a check around and you can find out. Keeps updated too.

- Jack Shepard
A fairly recent account, but the use of hashtags puts me off. Seems to be run by the same bunch of people who run an account called @The_Island.

There's two more but I wouldn't bother with either one of those. One has only two updates, and the other one may be a real person called Jack Shephard.

Now on to another main character, another of the infamous love triangle on the show: Kate Austen
- Kate Austen
Suprisingly there is only one Kate on Twitter, this is another one from the people at The_Island. This account seems to post some strange stuff about selling Aaron on eBay and other odd bits, but as she's the only Kate (for the time being), you're kind of stuck with her.

Now, the last one in the triangle to get it out of the way (oh how I despise it), James Ford, also known as Sawyer.

- James "Sawyer" Ford
Errr...this account has no updates. Fair few followers though.
- James "Sawyer" Ford
This user has protected their updates, so I can't really see what's going on there.
- James "Sawyer" Ford
So, you're left with this account, with the use of hashtags again. Not the best choice again.

Now, on to the resident Iraqi of The Island, who will break your neck with his legs, Sayid Jarrah.

- Sayid Jarrah Only one Sayid Jarrah that I can see, and it's another Island hashtagger. I don't know, I feel like the hashtags take away from the alternate reality feel that fictional character accounts should try and put across.

Now, as Sawyer calls him, the "rotund" Hugo Reyes.

- Hugo "Hurley" Reyes This account is another SpoilerTV one and another well run one, though a bit slow in updates. - Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
This is another Island one, which apart from the strange background doesn't seem chuckle worthy.

One half of our Korean couple, and the guy who survives any kind of explosion, Jin-Soo Kwon.
- Jin-Soo Kwon
Whoever runs this obviously reads spoilers as there's a few name drops around of unseen characters, some Korean wouldn't go a miss, but otherwise it's okay.

Now, for his wife, Sun-Hwa Kwon.
- Sun-Hwa Kwon
Another Island account, and again the hashtags put me off, but that's just personal preference. - Sun-Hwa Kwon Another account from SpoilerTV, and in character too, but a bit sparse with updates.

Recently deceased, then alive again John Locke also has an account.
- John Locke Again, a very out of character Island account. Not hating on whoever runs The Island, just irks me that they're out of character, when they're accounts for fictional characters in the first place.

Now, there's also one of my favourite characters, Desmond Hume there.

- Desmond Hume
Though not updated for about a month, and having the big promotional picture as the background, this account is not too bad.

Miscellanious
- The Others
The bad, I mean good guys on the show. Some sillyness mixed in with all of this account. A very fun one to follow.

- DHARMA Initiative
The people who built all the stations on The Island. Another fun account, may be the same person/group of people who runs The Others account.

Have I missed anyone off? Have you started a new account you'd like me to add? Comment and let me know.

Please note: Names in bold were used as search terms on Twitter to find the accounts.

Character look-backs #1

Jack: "He told me that it was my fault for leaving..."

As I am sure you all know by now, the first episode of season five is named "Because You Left" and I thought I would share my thoughts about what might have happened to the Losties and the other people on and off The Island.

Let's take the de facto leader of our Losties. Recently escaping The Island in the present time-line, we have already seen Jack's wrecked and ruined path that he shall soon follow. Parts of it are still missing, such as his meeting with John Locke off Island. I think we will see this in "Because You Left" as you may have guessed from the quote at the start of the article. Jack's flashback's started to become very boring (Stranger In A Strange Land anyone?) so I am glad that we have stopped those and concentrated a lot more on his flashforwards, which have become very intriguing. He'll continue collecting people for their epic return to The Island, though I am unsure as to whether they will need Desmond or Frank. I am looking forward to seeing how those still on The Island cope without the man who has lead them for more than one hundred days now. Who will step up to the plate and what reaction certain characters who are close to him like Juliet will have.

Now on to Ms. Katherine Austen. Her story was also starting to bore me as well. Mainly because it had nowhere else to go, but now that they have blended Kate's storyline with Claire's by giving her Aaron, and trying to form a family unit with Jack, it has made a nice change. Kate seems very unwilling to return to The Island, so I am unsure how Jack will convince her. I am however, always happy for some more Evangine Lily screen-time. In regards to what may happen to her in "Because You Left", I think she will confront Jack and inform him of her strange dream and phone call from Claire, thus needing no convincing from Jack. Jack shares crazy visions of his father who died before they boarded the plane and they both carry along their paranoid little journey with baby Aaron in toe.

Please join me again during the week when we shall look at the next two characters, Sawyer & Sayid in preparation for Lost's new season starting in February 2009.

SPOILER: Six spoilers from TV Guide

TV Guide have revealed some spoilers for the second half of season four.

It doesn't take a flash-forward to uncover Lost's secrets. Just a trip to Hawaii and a few pry­ing interviews. Here, a sextet (in honor of the Oceanic Six) of spoilery insights. — Shawna Malcom

1) Others leader Ben (Michael Emerson) has been called many things — Master Manip­ulator, Bug-Eyed Bastard, Captain Bunny Killer — but an action hero? In the April 24 episode, Ben leads the resis­tance against the freighter fiends working for cranky billionaire Charles Widmore, while in his flash­forward adventure, he does battle in the Tunisian desert and spies on a funeral in Iraq. Emerson was as surprised as anyone by this unexpected turn of events, not to men­tion a little anxious. "Stunts, languages — all sorts of spe­cial skills were asked of me," he says. "feel like I've done everything but the kitchen sink in this episode. God only knows what's next."

2) In one scene witnessed by TV Guide, Sawyer, Miles (Ken Leung) and a banged-up Claire, holding baby Aaron, make a ghastly discovery in the jungle: one dead body and an extra dismembered arm. Surprisingly, the con man turns all Big Brother on the single mum. "Since Charlie's died, feel like no one's protecting Claire," Holloway explains. But can anyone really keep Claire from joining the island's body count? After all, Aaron's calling Kate "Mommy" in the future. De Ravin claims she hasn't received the dreaded phone call from producers. "Maybe just let the baby go first," she says. "Or maybe fall off the helicop­ter. But if that's the case, I'm not shooting that scene. Stunt double, please!"

3) Remember that water­color painting an insti­tutionalized Hurley was working on when Charlie appeared in the season pre­miere? Jorge Garcia painted it himself. He also decided what to paint — an Eskimo fishing outside an igloo. "I was like, 'hope peo­ple think this means something,'" says the prankster. Mission accomplished: After the episode, fan sites buzzed with theories, including one he expected: "I hoped people might think it had something to do with the guys [in the Season 2 finale] speaking Portuguese in the snow."

4) TV Guide caught a scene shot for the May 1 episode in which Jack collapses, unconscious, on the beach. Expect Juliet to take charge and perform emergency surgery. "get to go into Jack's guts!" says a glee­ful Mitchell, who adds, "After reading this episode, realized that Juliet really does truly love him." Even so, Jack's flash-forward revolves around Kate. We're sworn to secrecy but will let slip that fans of "Jate" are in for a long-awaited happy twist of events.

5) Coming attractions: The return of ageless Other Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell). A trek to Jacob's cabin. In the future, Hur­ley imparting a chilling message from Charlie to Jack. Christian Shephard reaching out to both (!) of his children.

6) The producers' ambitions for the season finale were so epic, they had to ask ABC for an additional hour (Part 1 airs May 15; the second and third hours will air May 29). "All we can say is, at the end of May 15, viewers will be left wondering how the hell in two hours are the Oceanic 6 all going to be together and off the island?" executive producer Damon Lindelof says. But get off they will. And as a result, expect Lost to be a whole new ball game — again — when it returns for Season 5.

What do you think to them?

What I expect to happen in The Shape Of Things To Come

Real time

- Ben will try and influence the Smoke Monster in to saving Alex and killing off a lot of Freighters
- Richard is the one on the phone being safely off Island calling Ben to tell him "CODE 14-J"
- We will see Others moving around in the jungle
- Juliet will try and detach herself from Jack
- Jack will then fall ill after being poisoned by one of the Freighters (Poisoned his bottle of water or something)

Flashforward

- Ben will recruit Sayid at Nadia's funeral to come and work for him to pay back for what he's done (On and off Island)
- We'll be unsure as to whether it's a Ben or Sayid episode at first
- We'll have a "...What?" moment at the end of the flash

Two good friends

Two friends of mine have recently been inspired to create Lost blogs of their own. Whether I played a part in their decisions or not, I don't know, but please do pay them a visit if you have the time.

Finding Desmond Hume

Finding Lost

The Shape Of Things To Come Sneak Peek

THEORY: Daniel Faraday has Savant Syndrome

I have a new theory about Daniel Faraday. Initially, I thought that Dan was simply suffering from memory loss, and severe emotional/mental problems.

However, after discussing the autistic spectrum and certain degrees of autism/savants I fully believe that Daniel Faraday has Savant Syndrome. For those who would like a more detailed explanation, please visit Wikipedia. For those that are happy to listen to me ramble on about what it is, please proceed. Having a savant skill does not necessarily make you autistic. Some cases of being savant are on the autistic spectrum but not all. If you have a savant skill you excel in one area expidentially, but you struggle with everything else. Savants are in no means geniuses, though there have been savants who are. Savants may be able to, for example, work out how to send a mouse's conciousness backwards or forwards in time using mathematical equations, but would find it hard to hold a conversation, or to get themselves dressed in the morning.

Savants, similarly to autistic people, need care. As Confirmed Dead's enhanced episode revealed to us, Daniel's caretaker was the woman standing behind him. I believe this woman to be Charlotte Lewis. Charlotte & Daniel have hardly been apart since meeting after the initial travel to The Island. Below are a few more instances that help to back up my theory.

- Daniel & Charlotte play a card memory game in an episode, and Charlotte encourages him afterwards as a person looking after a savant/autistic person would.
- Daniel states that he is not in charge of the packing. He would not be able to pack the items correctly, because he would not have very good spatial dexterity
- Charlotte tells Dan 'You can do this' when in The Tempest and shows encouragment once again
- When Daniel is in The Tempest, he is struggling to enter the correct sequence because he needed Charlotte's help to do it

Daniel excels at mathematical and scientific equations, though he is still astounded by other scientific things outside his area of understanding, such as the scattering of the light on The Island.

So what do you think? Obviously this is just a brief overall view of the theory, but please do comment.

This theory is also now posted at DarkUFO's site.

ABC Teleconference

Discuss Lost with Damon & Carlton.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A TELECONFERENCE WITH DAMON LINDELOF AND CARLTON CUSE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS OF ABC'S "LOST"

WHAT: Teleconference call to discuss the April 24th return of "Lost," airing on the ABC Television Network WHEN: Thursday, April 17 at 10:30 a.m., PT/1:30 p.m., ET WHO: Damon Lindelof, co-creator/executive producer; Carlton Cuse, executive producer, "Lost" CALL INFO: Conference Telephone Number: (719) 325-4817 Confirmation Code: 4002580 Title: Damon Lindelof/Carlton Cuse - "Lost" Please plan to dial in 5-10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. Replay Number: (719) 457-0820 Replay Passcode: 4002580 PLEASE R.S.V.P. TO ABC Media Relations: Jeff Fordis (818) 460-6676, jeffrey.a.fordis@abc.com

ABC Media Relations Contact:

Jeff Fordis (818) 460-6676, jeffrey.a.fordis@abc.com

I tried to send off an e-mail a few days back and here's the reply.

						Reply to all Forward Print Add Jeffrey to Contacts list Delete this message Report phishing Show original Message text garbled?
		"Fordis, Jeffrey A"			2 Apr (4 days ago)

MyName:

This conference is for US domestic press. I'm sure Disney-ABC International will be doing something on their own with Damon and Carlton in the near future.

Jeff

If anyone else wants to try and listen in for us fellow Losties, then please do.

HOAX: Lost script leaked?

A page from the apparent final episode of season four has been leaked, and here it is below:


This was an early April Fool's apparently. Oh well.

Source: PickUpFlix

Fanpop

Not that I want to encourage you to visit other Lost websites, but of course we all do. I visit a site named Fanpop, where I regularly create polls, and here are two of favourites. Please do answer if you join Fanpop, or answer in the comments here.

23 Days to go

So, fellow Losties, what are you up to whilst you await Lost's return?

Myself, I'm kicking back and watching My Name Is Earl and having a few drinks. Happy days. :-)

Theory: The Monster is the Dahaka

DISCLAIMER: This post and the one below it are not April Fool's. Bad timing I guess.

It may sound crazy, but this is a theory that me and my Lost friends discuss regularly and could see happening. Don't worry, it's only brief, but please feel free to discuss it.

If you've ever played Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within, you will know what the Dahaka is. If not, hopefully I can explain it well. The Dahaka acts as a guardian of the timeline, and only appears if something has gone wrong with it and then tries to correct it. During the time of the first new Prince Of Persia game, The Prince messes up the timeline by making himself have the Dagger Of Time before he actually has it on the real timeline in order to undo the mess he caused, but there are still strands of fate and time that are left and the Dahaka then manifests and tries to destroy The Prince to rectify it.

The Monster also operates on a similar system. The Monster is an embodiment of fate much like the Dahaka ensuring that the universe course corrects and that the timeline flows as it should. Some examples can be seen, such as where The Monster does not initially kill Eko for he still has a purpose to serve for The Monster but after Eko tells Yemi (who has been confirmed as The Monster) that he is not sorry for the things he has done this causes the timeline to be interrupted, and the way to correct it is by taking Eko out of the equation.

There are a lot more parts to this theory, but see what you think so far. There are some holes I know, but it's better than a lot of the theories I hear.

The Beggining Of The End Sneak Peeks

Thanks to DarkUFO for these sneak peeks. No spoilers in comments please.

Sam Thomas has some interesting friends

Sam appears to have some very interesting friends on Facebook. This would seem to confirm that the Tracey R we have learned of via e-mail is Tracey Rob. But why is Sam friends with Paul Artisan, the detective from Bad Twin, who had brushes with the Widmore Corporation? Theories below if you want.

Fly Oceanic Air Secrets

Fly Oceanic Air

Fly Oceanic Air's source code has some secrets hidden in the comments. Above is a capture highlighting the words and possible anagrams for them.