Time once again for the “Lost” running diary after the jump. Spoilers ahoy, you are forewarned. A brief mention
about the clip show before the premiere. Michael Emerson could probably spend the rest of his career doing voice-overs. So very great.
Finally, that day we’ve been waiting for all year. The season premiere of Lost. I mean, Groundhog Day. Click to see the rest of that rodent-filled cartoon by the great creator of Cul de Sac, Richard Thompson.
As for Lost, yes, the recap/discussion thread will return tomorrow for this last season of nerdville’s favorite television program.
posted by Mark Coale
While a reviewing of Lost Season 5 may not be entirely necessary to enjoy next week’s final season premiere, it should be undertaken anyway because it’s simply fantastic TV. After five seasons, the acting, writing and directing have cohered into a focused unit; the characters and situations have become so clearly laid out that the various twists and turns can be enjoyed for all their thrills, tears, and surprises.
Like the best shows in the era of television as ongoing sagas, Lost Season 5 isn’t really like episodic TV at all — it’s a 16 hour movie. There are no random time fillers and subplots. It’s all narrative drive.
WARNING! SPOILERS! BELOW!
It doesn’t hurt that show runners Darlton — Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse — have masterminded, against all odds, a complex, intertwining storyline filled with mysteries that make time travel enjoyable and not an annoying “I can’t kill my grandpa!” time warp. The fifth season began with S.4’s climax — Ben has moved the island, the Oceanic Six are back on the mainland, Locke is in a coffin in the “present”, and Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, and the “Freighties” Charlotte, Miles and Daniel (and, we learn, Jin) are left somewhere — and somewhen — on the island. Unstuck in the time flow, they manage to witness a parade of the Island’s greatest hits — the crash of the Nigerian drug plane; the arrival of the Black Rock; young Charles Widmore and Eloise Hawking guarding an unexploded US atom bomb; Danielle Rousseau’s arrival on the island and the mental deterioration of her comrades through “the sickness,”; the time when the statue was whole; the night the hatch was opened. It’s also a tour of the Island’s greatest mysteries, from Smokey to Christian Shepherd to, ultimately, even Jacob, previously only known as a wind in the cabin.
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You have seven days to go back and re-watch old episodes to get caught up in time for the season premiere next Tuesday night (fittingly on Groundhog Day).
The Helper Monkey has been watching selected shows from all five seasons as a refresher course and has a few observations.
– The show is so much better without Charlie and Claire.
– Season Two Ben Linus/Henry Gale was just a tease of things to come. Michael Emerson = Show MVP.
– Jacob may not have “touched” Juliet in the Season Five flashbacks, but, according to Ben, he did cure her sister’s cancer.
– What DEADWOOD alums will appear in the final season? Surely there’s a role for Ian McShane as Daniel Faraday’s father or Charles Widmore’s brother.
Start your countdown clock….
[Posted by Mark Coale]
Lost Season 6 Promo (CUATRO)
Remember. The Season Five DVD box set drops next week.
Congratulations to Michael Emerson, for his Emmy win tonight, for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. You can keep your Don Draper. I’ll take Benjamin Linus as the best character currently on series television.
How long ’til Lost starts again?
How much work did the Lost brain trust put into their (last?) Comic-Con panel presentation? A lot, according to an article in today’s NYT.
“Is it too late for when Carlton and I come out onstage for there to be giant towers of flames?” Mr. Lindelof said (mostly) facetiously.
Tip of the hat to Peter Sanderson, since we saw the story first from his Facebook link.
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Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, the brain trust behind Lost, gave a presentation recently and they were asked if the show would have a comic book spin-off, as so many shows created by comics-friendly Hollywood writers seem to have. The answer would seem to be…”No.”
Q: My question is about the fate of Lost, because I know it ends with season 6, but do you think because of Bryan Fuller with Pushing Daisies continuing it in a comic book, and I love Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk (Damon’s comic) and with Lost it has a disjointed timeline and it comes together in the end, do you think that you’ll do any spin offs in a comic book form?
DL: We feel that if we hold anything back for the final season of the show, it will be bad. People have come along this far, and they need a conclusion.
Losties will find much else of interest (and spoilerish stuff) in the interview, including confirmation that Brian K. Vaughan has left the writing staff.
Q: What’s Brian K. Vaughan like?
DL: Unfortunately he has left for greener pastures. When he first came on the show Jorge Garcia was ecstatic because he’s a huge fan of his work.
This was probably a smart move on BKV’s part, because when people start asking what you are like at TV show panels, it’s sort of an indication that you may just have greener pastures somewhere.
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If you have been missing Lost this last couple weeks, well, no new episodes, but this might tide you over for a day or so. The Helper Monkey was on wrestling historian Karl Stern’s podcast today to discuss the season finale, the show as a whole, the greatness of John Locke and Benjamin Linus, the not-so-greatness of Jack Shephard and more.
You can download it here.
Isn’t it sad that both of these characters are dead and Kate is still alive?
Season Finale. Let’s get it on after the jump.
Due to an unexpected situation arising tonight, no Lost running diary.
Feel free to use this space as a discussion place for tonight’s episode.
posted by Mark Coale
Real time diary this week.
This week is all about Mr. Benjamin Linus. Huzzah.
more after the break.
[Note: Due to a new work schedule, I was unable to watch this week's episode of Lost in time to write the regular Day After column. We'll cut and paste it in here sometime Thursday after getting caught up. For now, Let's just call this an Open Thread.]
Is this another week where a below average episode (read: one starring Kate) is saved by the last five minutes? Discuss.
Well, we got some answers tonight. There can probably never be enough answers given to satisfy some of the nerds out there watching, but we will always take what Lindelof and Cuse will give us on any given week.
Let’s discuss those after the jump.
* Did Dr. Manhattan shoot his load the first weekend?
Depending on whom you talked to this week, the opening weekend box office for WATCHMEN was great or underwhelming. Things look a little clearer after the first night of weekend number two.
From Variety:
Warner Bros./Paramount’s comic book epic “Watchmen” fell 78% from its opening day landing third Friday with an estimated $5.4 million from 3,611 theaters. Pic’s eight-day cume currently stands at $73.3 million.
Did all the fanboys decide they didn’t need a second viewing? Was word-of-mouth outside the nerd bubble not great? Were people scared off by Dr. Manhattan’s package?
* In other nerd news
Time.com’s Nerdworld blog interviews annotator extraordinaire Jess Nevins. (Disclaimer: Jess and I went to grad school together and his work has appeared in my magazine.)
9. Have you, as an annotator, ever gone down in defeat? Are there things in the LoEG books that you just can’t solve?
Oh, heavens, yes. When Moore & O’Neill get into areas which I don’t know anything about and which are ill-represented online and in print–1950s British comic book science fiction, for example–I’m at a complete loss, and some of their references stump even the collective brains of the people who contribute to the annotations. In the Black Dossier, for example, Kevin O’Neill drew in spaceships from various British Fifties sf comics, and if he hadn’t identified them for the print version of the annotations, they would have remained a mystery to us all.Moore sometimes jokes about trying to stump me. I feel a pain in my head when he says that, because if/when he ever tries to do that, I’m not just stumped, I’m uprooted and thrown into a woodchipper.
*Since there was no Lost column this week…
A week without a new Lost means an extra week for people to scrutinize the most recent episode looking for clues about the statue or how to put all the various time traveling threads together. The coolest thing I read (don’t remember where) was that the hieroglyphs that showed up on the countdown clock are on the Ajira airline tickets.
*A non-comic note for all you people who hate non-comics news here.
Sad news this morning for the pro wrestling business as word broke that Andrew Martin passed away at the age of 33. For those who watched during the “Attitude Era,” Martin worked for the WWE as Test, a beefy mid-carder best remembered for being coupled with a young Stephanie McMahon and feuding with her brother Shane. While not the best in-ring performer, many people raved about the match between Test and McMahon at Summerslam 1999. Once removed from the McMahon family soap opera, he slowly drifted down the card until being released a few years ago from the WWE after failing a drug test. Recently, he had been working on shows in Europe and Japan.
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New characters. Births. Deaths. Time travel. Dharma Merlot. Beards (or lack thereof).
All can be found in tonight’s episode, “La Fleur,” but what people should really want to talk about is ….
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I think, given the events of tonight’s show, I have finally found a way to encapsulate the Benjamin Linus vs. Charles Widmore struggle.
More after the jump.
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