Thursday, May 27, 2010
Bid on lunch with Co-Star of ABC's #LOST, Nestor Carbonell aka Richard Alpert
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Includes: lunch for you and a guest in Hollywood with Nestor Carbonell. Based on a mutually agreeable time, subject to Mr. Carbonell's travel schedule.
Calling all LOST fanatics! This is your opportunity to chat with a cast member about the epic final episode of LOST.
BID NOW!
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
@Loster21's Tweets O' the Day from May 25, 2010
Tweets for LOST production are in red, and for a link to all known LOST production Twitter names click here.
Final WRWW – The End (Watch together or cry alone)
Thank’s ErinAva for the motto… our last We ReWatch Wednesday is tonight at 8PM CDT, for The End. Join us in the chat room a few minutes before, and have your DVR, Hulu, ABC.com or download (iTunes) ready to press play. Hope to see you there!
LOSTblog Changes: Rewatch – Reread – Relate
Our makeover will focus on three points:
- REWATCH – We’re Watching LOST Again #WWLA
The entire series rewatch of LOST will start on June 1st, with an evening session in a new chatroom. There will be posts before the episodes setting the stage, and posts after it with reactions. Amy and ErinAva will be leading the post-episode posts, and I’ll be pre-hashing the episode. There is a morning in the U.S./afternoon in the U.K. chat re-watch planned for Saturdays too. If you can’t make one of the group re-watches, consider starting another group time, or just keep up on your own. - REREAD – We’re Reading LOST Books #WRLB
We’ve started a book club, this is going to be a lot of making it up as you go along sort of club, so be patient as the kinks are worked out. Jess (@badm0mbot) will be the first leader and announce the book we’ll be reading and the format for the discussion. - RELATE - #LOSTblog is going social network, as well as standard blogging. This may mean that everyone will have to re-join with new accounts, I’m not sure yet. But anyone will be able to contribute posts, tweets, and join or create groups within their own space. We’ll be using the BuddyPress plugin which requires a re-make of themes to make all the social stuff work, so expect some dust as we (this really means me) have a bit of a makeover.
We’ll also be using our podcasting site at Talkshoe Channel – We Talk About LOST #WTAL - for rewatch podcasts, book club podcasts, or just special conversations. All the existing content will be around, probably stuffed in a ‘Mystery Box’, but still accessible. The makeover will probably start tomorrow, with an undefined ending point. Thanks for your patience as I get things put back together.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Chapter 1 of Amy’s Handy-Dandy Viewing Guide for LOST Rewatch

CHAPTER 1: The Basics and The Constructed World
First off I must confess. I frickin’ LOVED the LOST series finale [“The End”]. I was so excited as each scene went by, I was actually too happy to absorb the very last scene where Jack and his peeps “leave” at the exact same moment Jack dies on the island. When I went back and watched it again, I bawled like an idiot. That final scene, which gives us SO much information all at once, is just gut wrenching!
I think I loved this episode because I liked hearing the satisfying ‘click’ of the very last piece of the puzzle we’ve been working on for six years. I think the final scene gutted me because I hated to see Jack die alone, flat on his back in the bamboo while everyone else smiles and hugs at the church. The look on Matthew Fox’s face, that look of fate fulfilled, without fear, just KILLED me. Then Vincent shows up and offers the comfort of Dog Love?! Are you kidding me? I totally lost it. I’m even having trouble writing about it now!
In short, I think the final scene of this episode is the perfect conclusion for a show that starts and ends both in a perfect circle AND from one point to another in a straight line.
HOWEVER,
I’m pretty sure the finale was never intended to give us Answers answers. We got resolution, especially character resolution, but not any specific answers to develop that resolution. That tells me, we didn’t get “The End,” we got the last missing piece of the puzzle. NOW the work deciphering the entire puzzle can begin.
This is why I'm totally jazzed about LOSTblog.com's LOST Rewatch! Now that we are armed with ALL the information, it's time to start digging!
My job for rewatch is to provide recaps and analysis of each episode every Sunday (and I am SO excited about it!). Problem is, my recaps and analysis might be off the beaten path for many LOST fans. To prevent confusion (and eternally long posts), I've put together a handy-dandy guide viewing guide (for those interested) that explains how I watch LOST. If you have questions, PLEASE feel free to post them in the comments section!
As we begin, let's review what we know so far:
- LOST is a RIDDLE. Everything we need to solve mysteries or answer questions (the important ones) is ALREADY in the actual show.
- LOST is a PUZZLE. In order for the entire picture to make sense, we have to put each puzzle piece in its place. No two puzzle pieces are alike or interchangeable, and all puzzle pieces are necessary to complete the entire picture. This also means if two or more puzzle pieces aren’t fitting together, then we are trying to put them in the wrong place.
- LOST is VISUALLY VERIFIABLE. Darlton specifically mention in their Times Talks Live pre-finale interview that we can trust what they SHOW us. What we see on the show is what happened. However, if a character talks about something we never see or we see differently on the show, what that character says is suspect to the degree we trust them. They use Widmore as a prime example.
- LOST is WORDPLAY. Many a LOST fan has been stumped by the way Team LOST writes. Sometimes the meaning of what we HEAR is obvious, sometimes it’s ambiguous, and sometimes it’s obviously ambiguous. Best defense here is a good offense. If something we hear or a character says makes NO sense WHATSOEVER in relationship with what we’ve SEEEN happen on the show (which Darlton say “actually happened"), then we need to examine what we HEAR more closely.
- LOST is METICULOUSLY WRITTEN, FILMED, PRODUCED and EDITED. Sure, these guys make mistakes. However, if we blow off an unreasonable number of mistakes, we are missing clues. This show is one of the most amazing shows ever created specifically because of its attention to detail. Never assume they got lazy/they don't care/they're not trying. They make this inconsistencies obvious for a reason.
To roll with Amy's POV (and future recaps and analysis for LOST REWATCH), here's what you need to know.
AMY THINKS:
- Nothing we've seen on LOST takes place in a physical world BUT IT IS ALL REAL. [This one is the most important.]
- The world of LOST is a "system" (I have no idea what kind of system or how it's created). It has rules and guidelines, a history and a purpose. When Jack opens his eyes, the system is "broken."
- This "system" is an INTERSECT. That is, it is a world created by the interconnection of several minds (or memories) of several people. It's not clear (to me anyway) that those minds connected to create and change the island are the minds of our losties.
- Our losties are an intersect in the flash back and flash forward worlds. They are interconnected with each other, and yet still manipulated, mainly by sound. They are an intact and separate (from the island) intersect in the flash sideways.
- Our losties experience the island part of this world as a conscious dream state. Our losties experience the flashes part of this world as a subliminal dream state.
- Our losties experience their flashes subliminally, almost like repressed memories. They don't have consistent or complete access to these repressed memories unless they have a "constant," an item that exists in both worlds [toy plane, ring, letter, etc] or a person [Penny].
- Desmond is the only lostie (on the zipcord) that experiences the flash world in a conscious dream state. Anyone else who experiences the flash world this way eventually gets a nosebleed and drops dead.
- Our losties don't know any of the contents of their flash backs/forwards until they happen (with one or two exceptions, like Desmond). It doesn't matter if it's a flash back or flash forward. Our losties don't have access to the sideways flash world.
- The flashes are manipulated, mainly by Mock Locke and Jacob, to influence our losties on the island. This includes flashbacks and flash forwards. Flash sideways is a world separated from the influence on the island.
- The world of LOST is a constructed world, but what it can be constructed with is LIMITED, like legos. The blocks, in this case, are memories of whoever's "plugged in" to the system, and these memories are used and reused as needed to create this world [the island world AND the flash world].
- On LOST, your memories are WHO YOU ARE. Any alteration in your memories changes your identity.
Okay. Here’s the hard stuff. [Slow deep breaths!]
- There is NO timeline for our losties except what we see them experience on the show and this timeline is created IN SEQUENCE as events are presented on the show.
- Pulling the scenes as presented in the show OUT of sequence to create an external timeline works for the history of the ISLAND but NOT for the experience of our losties. If you extrapolate our losties experiences on the show and re-arrange them "chronologically" into a interpretive timeline, you are actually shuffling them out of order.
- Our losties are all on ONE zipcord of existence. They can only experience events one at a time in a straight line, regardless if those experiences are on the island world or the flash world. [Yes. In sequence as presented in the show.]
- Our losties can NOT go back in time on the ZIPCORD, and they are all on the same zipcord and on the same point on the zipcord. They can only exist in THEIR present, THEIR now, THEIR current spot on the zipcord.
- Think of the island as a ‘green screen’ around our losties’ zipcord. No matter what happens on the green screen, our losties can only experience the present – where they are on the zipcord. They can only look BACK at their experiences on the zipcord (which begins when Jack opens his eyes). They can NOT see their future events on the zipcord.
- The starting point of existence for EVERYONE on the zipcord is simultaneous (when Jack opens his eyes). This means they are all experiencing time in the same way. Tricky part? Not everyone is on the zipcord.
- Every character we see on the show is either on the zipcord of existence in the same exact spot as our losties OR is part of the green screen (OR is outside the system somehow). Some characters, like Juliet, can hop on the zipcord with our losties. Others, like those who die, hop off the zipcord and enter the green screen.
- The only exceptions to #7 are Jacob, MIB, and the peeps in "Across the Sea."
HOW TO CONSTRUCT A "REAL" NON-PHYSICAL WORLD
The island world is created using knowledge as "legos" [Remember, not a PHYSICAL world, but still absolutely real, and our losties have been inserted into this constructed world from outside the system]. If we think of knowledge as that acquired through study, and the legos as memories of that knowledge, then we can play Name That Brain to account for nearly everything we see.
Amy's Name That Brain Game:
- Cultural anthropology and/or archeology brain.
- Physics [very advanced] brain.
- Philosophy studies brain.
- Humanities studies/ENGLISH major brain.
- Fine Arts brain.
- Surgeon/Medicine brain.
- Military/diplomacy studies brain.
- Handy-Man brain.
- Boy Scout brain.
- Psychology brain.
- Religious brain, general.
- Religious brain, eastern.
- Alternate Medicine brain.
- Feng Shui/Chakra studies brain. [This one is really important.]
- KNOWS the history of the ISLAND very well brain.
If we consider the intersect of our losties in the flash backs/forwards world (which sometime bleed over into the island world), we've got a pool of experiences, lines and scenarios, characteristics and talents that are reused over and over again. Here are just a silver of them as examples.
- Hit by a car.
- Pregnant/losing pregnancy.
- Pulling a con.
- Star crossed lovers.
- Abandonment
- Daddy issues
- Momma issues
- Murder for revenge
- Murder of an innocent
- Traps (being trapped, laying a trap)
- "Sonuvabitch"
- Mental institution/problems
- Criminal activities problems
- The numbers
- Airplane travel
- A blue business suit
- A black business suit
Are you starting to see it?
The reason all of this is important is to help us sift through what the legos are, what's important or not important in the green screen and how it relates to our losties. Once we do that, we can get down to the nitty gritty of our story: WHO'S WHO.
UP NEXT in CHAPTER 2: The Island: Green Screens, Zipcords and Time Travel
Highly recommended reading: Origins of the LOST World for a better explanation of how this world is created.
There will be a Mass Effect movie. Will #Lost ’s Matthew Fox play Commander Shepard?
by Nicholas Deleon on May 25, 2010
It’s takes a special type of nerd to read a video game’s novelization, and I’m none too proud to say that I recently started reading the Mass Effect novel. But there’s a certain quiet dignity in reading a novelization that simply isn’t present when sitting at the multiplex (or downloading the Blu-ray rip, as it were) watching a movie. Get ready: EA has sold the movie rights to Mass Effect, and it’s gone to Legendary Pictures, the same people behind The Dark Knight, Watchmen, and The Hangover. So there’s hope the movie won’t be total dross.
Several of the BioWare folks, including Ray Muzyka and Mass Effect project manager Casey Hudson, will be a part of the production, so there’s even more evidence that the movie has the potential to be OK.
It’s being written by the man who wrote I Am Legend, Mark Protosevich. I never understood how you can be credited with writing a movie when all you’re doing is remaking it…
The thing is, Mass Effect is already so cinematic that making a movie seems like overkill. Just play the game; I’m almost certain the movie won’t be as good as the game was.
Stating the obvious: Commander Shepard needs to be played by Matthew Fox, the guy who played Jack in “Lost.” They look identical.
The End of LOST, Doritos and Uncontrollable Sobbing
I posted my reaction to "The End" on my blog Catherine, Caffeinated today and below is the full text. Contains spoilers, but I'm guessing - hoping - everyone has seen it by now, and joined the 'How will I cope?' party...
My finale-watching didn't go so well first time round. I was, ahem, watching online as it aired on the East Coast of the United States, or from 2am on Monday morning. (Don't try this at home, kids, because it's technically illegal.) One hour in, the feed got cut by The Man and so I decided to have a short nap and watch it instead on Sky1 at five, which I did, even though a lack of sleep and an overnight diet of Doritos, sour cream dip, Coke (a-Cola) and coffee didn't put me in the best Lost-watching mood, and neither did having to watch the first hour twice.
But the cherry on top of my bad circumstances cake was my Sky Guide telling me Lost was on until 7.30am, when in fact it ended at 7.10. This meant that as Jack learned the true nature of the Sideways World from his father - a scene I can't even type about, as my tears would short-circuit my Mac - I thought we'd another 20 minutes of Lost love ahead. As the title flashed up with its trademark beat, I nearly choked on my toast. (I was onto toast by then; it was breakfast time.) What? That's it? That was the end?
@Loster21's Tweets O' the Day from The Day After, May 24, 2010





Target Salutes LOST in Finale Commercials
LOSTalypse – The End
If you want to hear how I break down some of the spiritual issues, I’ve had that conversation with Scott and Chris in this podcast. I don’t know that I want to muddle up this last post with my personal-faith muddying already murky waters. But this wouldn’t be veil-raising without a bit of faith tossed in.
To begin the series, Damon tweeted the word apocalypse, which was the foundation of these series of posts, an apocalypse has come to mean a cataclysmic event that brings on the end of the world. In the original language, apokalypis is the lifting of the veil, a revelation. I’d state that the final 108 minutes of LOST illuminated both definitions fairly well.
How To Deal With Losing Lost
That is the enduring and wonderous legacy of Lost: us, the fans. We have our squabbles (Skaters, Jaters, and Sulieters, anyone?), our theories (Jacob is a time traveling scientist from the future and Smokey is a group of nanobots bent on his destruction!), and our inside jokes and jargon (Who is your Constant? Somebody find Keamy! I want some eggs!) We have each other and the journey. Everyone's journey has been different, everyone's journey has been valid.
It will be hard to let go. It's been such a fantastic ride! And I admit, I'm not quite ready to let go. And that's ok, because I want to take the end slowly. I want to savor it's beauty and shimmering sadness. You may think I'm being overly dramatic about it, and I probably am. But to me, to many people, Lost was an experience that allowed them to process their own flaws tempered with the hope that we can get past the bad things that have happened, that we may have done, and become something better. Lost is and always will be, in my heart + mind, a redemption story. A story of community. Community is what Lost created among viewers. Community is how we will continue.
Namastè, and Happily Ever After
WTAL #29 "THE END" Reaction Podcast!
We had a great time talking about LOST last night! Thanks to all the people that joined us in live chat and gave us wonderful feedback that we were able to use for the call.
The chatters on the podcast were:
Neil @atruereview
Erin @erinava
Check out the recording of the podcast below or click here for the direct download and enjoy!
Monday, May 24, 2010
"THE CONVERSATION": LOST PRODUCERS SPEAK ON FINALE
Here is the first official interview Post-LOST Series Finale with the LOST writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse about the end of the show and the finale itself.
Thanks to @TheODI
@Loster21's Tweets O' the Day from *sigh* May 23, 2010
Tweets by LOST production are in red, and if you want to see who’s who, click here.









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More to come tomorrow, my friends! Thank you, and Namaste.