@Loster21's Tweets O' the Week from October 30 - November 5, 2010

 

Welcome to another edition of TOTW!  I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!  Make sure to check out the LOST-related Halloween tweets below, along with all the other great tweets from fans and from LOST cast and production.

The standard stuff: THIS IS NOT A SPOILER FREE ZONE so if you’ve not watched LOST from beginning to end, do so and then come back.  Tweets from LOST cast and production are in red, and a list of their Twitter names along with their positions with LOST and current gigs can be found here.

LOST for Halloween!

JensenClan88 This is a sexy Dharma Polar Bear @DamonLindelof @CarltonCuse http://plixi.com/p/54064075 1:51 AM Oct 31st

jenniferhollett @lostpedia LOST Halloween in Toronto! Claire, Charlie, Locke, Kate, Sayid. http://yfrog.com/m9quj 11:31 PM Oct 30th

christilton Me and Michael Giacchino. "Suck it" (he made me say that). http://yfrog.com/8d28289267j 10:34 PM Oct 30th Chris Tilton has worked on many JJ Abrams series and movies as composer and orchestrator, including Fringe and Star Trek

fetts  I'm Stuart Radzinski of the Dharma Initiative (1971-199?) http://twitpic.com/32hc2r #LOST @lostpedia @MrEricLange 10:16 PM Oct 30th Speaking of which…

MrEricLange My Halloween costume. I'm a Mythbuster. An actor going as a reality star. Ah, the irony. #mythbusters http://twitpic.com/32ghg8 9:00 PM Oct 30th

crouch17 @lostpedia Namaste! http://yfrog.com/jcmxprj 5:42 PM Oct 30th

Jenstar930 Kate Austen @DamonLindelof @CarltonCuse @lostpedia http://yfrog.com/n9nexlj 11:42 AM Oct 31st

AmericanParade My DS ring didn't arrive in time and I #lost my vans! Seems the Halloween outfit lost it's Pace... 1:14 PM Oct 31st

JayMcCreary Now this is impressive lol RT: @hkshanahan: The Lamp Post - pumpkin style. http://plixi.com/p/54239345 ( @Loster21 @LizPrietti @LOST_boss ) 7:23 PM Oct 31st

 YoshioKun13 Happy #LOST HALLOWEEN! - http://bit.ly/cHPz3T #CarvedPumpkin 8:16 PM Oct 31st

LOST Cast and Production:

Carrie_Preston I just wrapped principal photography on the feature film I directed, "That's What She Said"!!! 5:35 PM Oct 30th

heykristopher Up early for a satellite tour with Michael Chiklis. #NoOrdinaryFamily 7:30 AM Nov 1st

NathanFillion I have an entire page of run on monologue today. Tell me you guys listen to this stuff we say. 9:45 AM Nov 1st

MrEricLange My second 'Weeds' episode is on tonight at 10pm on Showtime! 5:34 PM Nov 1st

DamonLindelof Just finished watching the spectacular WALKING DEAD -- never has quiet been so disquieting. Man, they did it right. 1:10 AM Nov 2nd Couldn’t agree more.  My review of Episode 1 is here as LOSTblog kicks off its new section about shows like LOST that LOSTies like.

bexmader I'm on set shooting a guest spot on a new comedy for NBC "Friends With Benefits". So happy to be bringing the funny and not the tears yo. 11:09 AM Nov 2nd

iansomerhalder literally working on fan mail as i type-TVD/LOST fans are the greatest.I mean so much support.Damn right. Thanks! I hope not to screw it up! 2:04 PM Nov 2nd

bexmader Make sure to check out my 'Law and Order Los Angeles' episode tonight on NBC @ 10 PM! Thanks for your support and have a wonderful day! xxxx 7:45 AM Nov 3rd

NathanFillion 2nite, 10pm on FX, is @kwwheeler 's 1st writing credit on Terriers! You've come a long way since Firefly, baby! 3:25 PM Nov 3rd

mike_schaub RIP Undercovers. #badrobot 1:08 PM Nov 4th If only they had used @mjgoldman’s editing skills more often.  Condolences to Mark Goldman – can’t wait to see what’s next for you - and to JJ Abrams – we already know at least some of what’s next for you.

AdamHorowitzLA Stop time travelling. You're really annoying me with all these visits. #tweetyour16yearoldself 4:44 PM Nov 4th

Josie has excellent taste in shows:

JOvsZ Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale is finally in my possession! #VICTOR! 5:41 PM Nov 4th

JOvsZ Fringe nite! I'm bringing tigertails #walterbishopfood 8:14 PM Nov 4th

dylanminnette Lie To Me set AND playing opening up for The Smitherenes at the Canyon CLub tomorrow night! Busy day!

heykristopher #FF @OKBJGM @AdamHorowitzLA @JOvsZ @NoreenOT LOST alums!

mike_schaub New tweeting writer on staff, #H50 peeps. Say hi to @theothermelissa!

LOSTies Elsewhere:

julianh Miles & Ben Linus! I#saw #lost 8:07 AM Oct 30th via Echofon

apricotdonuts I watched a movie yesterday that had 3 #LOST actors in it. Ben, Faraday and Richard. It was blowing my mind. 11:15 AM Oct 30th

apricotdonuts I felt like I was watching a #FlashSideways ! Do any other #LOST fans do this?? 11:16 AM Oct 30th

apricotdonuts And Michael Emerson (Ben) was a preacher. Talk. About. Creepy. #LOST 11:16 AM Oct 30th

welovecult #LOST writers have drafted the pilot "Once Upon A Time, " similar to the comic series "Fables". I am intrigued. http://ow.ly/32Oes 2:24 PM Nov 1st

Johnny2432 Sonya Walger on IN Treatment! very nice surprise.

Crossovers:

heykristopher Walking Dead may be the closest to the #Lost zombie season we'll ever. 7:41 AM Nov 1st

BrerMatt Hurley is the Mother! Now the fertility issues on the island make sense. #LOST RT @himymprod: Happy #HIMYM Monday! Table Read w/Jorge Garcia 8:52 AM Nov 1st

jackalbane I love that they referenced Jacob as god on #30Rock. #Lost 5:33 PM Nov 4th

Lost in Real Life:

x0taylormarie  i think instead of the teary goodbye speaches monday ill just say "see you in another life brothaaaa" (: 12:20 AM Oct 30th

JCK_Lost Dreamt that @DamonLindelof was recruiting people for some kind real life #LOST experience then John Locke came and he was in the wheel... 12:49 AM Oct 30th

JCK_Lost Chair then @DamonLindelof saw him and told him “I’m sorry sir but u can’t be here” then John started yelling “Don’t tell me what I can’t do” 12:50 AM Oct 30th

JCK_Lost Then @DamonLindelof replied “Yes I can! since I am the one who created your character and wrote your lines!" 12:50 AM Oct 30th

JCK_Lost Then all of the people looked at @DamonLindelof &said "oh u shouldn't have said that!" and john turned into the smoke monster and ate damon 12:52 AM Oct 30th

lostdogs20 @JCK_Lost That would be neat to have a real life Lost experience. Disney should reconsider a Lost theme park. 12:57 AM Oct 30th via web in reply to JCK_Lost

JCK_Lost @lostdogs20 yes it would! i will sign up for sure! it would be amazing if they did a lost theme park, they did for harry potter maybe they 12:59 AM Oct 30th via web in reply to lostdogs20

JCK_Lost @lostdogs20 will do one for #LOST! :) 12:59 AM Oct 30th via web in reply to lostdogs20

johnnyseale @NewbergReport yr report reminds me of #Lost w/ the spooky numbers, loose connection to BoSox and random hot chick appearance. #LovedIt 7:59 AM Oct 30th in reply to NewbergReport

dorfradio Half the clocks in the house changed automatically to wintertime, the others didn't. The stuff that gives me nosebleeds. #LOST 7:26 AM Oct 31st

hennybottle <grabs failwhale by fin> If we survive this, if we survive tonight.. we're going to have a Locke problem. & I have to know u have my back. 9:16 AM Oct 31st

slLOST LOL: "Not Penny's Boat" Signs Spotted at 'Rally to Restore Sanity' http://i.imgur.com/MIxh9.jpg http://bit.ly/ci1DmC #LOST 1:57 PM Oct 31st

jamieboosh @DamonLindelof OMG I just got my #LOST encyclopedia from Amazon (I'm in Melb, OZ) and I think I heard a choir of angels as I opened it :D 8:20 PM Oct 31st

TKOast I'm playing #lost the video game and it really reminds me how much I miss that show. #videogames 1:14 PM Nov 1st

chotirani Watching We Are Family; it's filmed in Australia...which is where they flew from in #Lost. DHARMA STRIKES AGAIN!!!! ;) @kjohar25 1:17 PM Nov 1st

PJCassidy Writing a paper on John Locke, I think I have to slip one #lost reference in... 10:03 PM Nov 1st

theJoshMeister Guess which room number I'm staying in at #MacTechConf? 815. #LOST follows me everywhere. 8:25 AM Nov 3rd

robdog1921 @brunablack my boss bet me I couldn't go 30 days without twitter, I couldnt even tweet and tell folks about the bet, I gave up on day 23 9:19 AM Nov 3rd

brunablack @robdog1921 Day 23? The Island brought you back! 9:21 AM Nov 3rd in reply to robdog1921

TrevX9 Remote sensing professor just connected atmospheric data collection importance to Desmond's computer in the shaft. Awesome? #LOST 8:58 AM Nov 4th

LetsMakeItUp1 While debating Rousseau's idea of Man's natural state, I called him "her." Thanks to #Lost I will always think of Rousseau as a crazy woman 9:00 AM Nov 4th

becca_scane We talked about The Hatch Act in my political science class & all I thought about was the hatch in #Lost <3 I wish that show was still on.

rdmdk won my first game of backgammon #Lost 5:38 PM Nov 4th

Brendo18 Isaiah Thomas is more stuck on getting back to the Knicks than Jack was to getting back to the island #NBA #Lost

scott_welch so, we came up with a #LOST theme for our association's big youth event this February. Yes, I am stoked!!!!

MRoane I often feel like Jin in the Kwon relationship. #LOST Hmm, at which point?

jopinionated This weekend I will finally have time to sit down and read the #Lost Encyclopedia thoroughly. Starting at J & Juliet, of course. #ProudNerd

jobnacpil saw a guy who looked like Mark Peregrino and suddenly missed #lost. i think i need another series that can keep me as engaged

LOST Love:

Xander_01 #LOST goodness over for tonight. I conclude by saying, Shannon was a fantastic character and Boone was actually quite pretty... 5:30 PM Oct 30th

NateIngraham Plowing through #Lost like some sort of junkie. Trying to finish season 6 before going to #NZ 8:30 AM Oct 31st

justinkeyes @corrwill Nice of Giacchino to leave us with 10 CDs worth of #LOST musical brilliance. 1:37 PM Oct 31st

Sarah_Bethe In another life Desmond and Claire wouldve been cute too. 1:55 PM Oct 31st

Xander_01 #LOST IS THE BEST SHOW EVER. FACT. 2:16 PM Oct 31st

Dougzies Watching #LOST on a bigger screen than a laptop screen for the first time! This is awesome! 9:38 AM Nov 1st

fuelbot Most people are in agreement the #LOST has one of the best damn pilot episodes ever if not the best. What are your favorite pilots? 2:19 PM Nov 1st

alecbojalad I'm ready for some #Lost spin-off novels or comic books. Somebody get on that. I don't even care if they suck. 10:13 PM Nov 1st

jessorso Really enjoying the @LOST_bookclub. I'm lucky that I am sort of forced 2read all the books. What a great way 2keep up the #LOST discussion. 10:14 PM Nov 1st

batchout Joining In//RT @aohora LOSTblog.com WRLB/bookclub – November – Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll #LOST_Bookclub 9:24 PM Nov 3rd

aohora LOSTblog.com's WRLB/Bookclub -- FIXED LINK!! [Sorry! :)] Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll http://bit.ly/c7GKMA #LOST 10:22 PM Nov 3rd

Thanks to Jess for running the Club, and to Amy for helping to run LOSTblog!  Click here for more info about the We Read LOST Books Bookclub.

colbsssleperd i wish there was a show on right now like #lost 11:15 PM Nov 3rd

TonyTescadero Can't really sleep...so I'm visiting the island. #LOST 1:12 AM Nov 4th

LizPrietti Amen! RT @TheMentalist09: #Lost is One of the Best Shows ever!!! 8:30 AM Nov 4th

Davemoley3 Trying to make my #Lost rewatch last until my birthday (Next april) to see the finales on my birthday =D I love being stuck on S1 5ghndkfprl 9:00 AM Nov 4th

abadfran Guess what I found in the newspaper today! You got it! #LOST!! Finally premiered on the local tv last night! http://plixi.com/p/54920335 9:04 AM Nov 4th Congrats to the Phillipines on getting Season 6!  I won’t spoil it for you…

LizPrietti #icantlivewithout anything and everything that have to do with #LOST. Even all the awesome Losties I know!(= 1:13 PM Nov 4th via Echofon

Redrum612 My parent's were in floods of tears for the #Lost when Boone dies. Amatuers. Future doesn't bode well on the weeping front 3:27 PM Nov 4th

TheMentalist09 I'm missing Ben Linus!!! #Lost 3:31 PM Nov 4th

tvgirl1207 just watched #theconstant episode, i love that episode! #lost 4:59 PM Nov 4th

FinliOtego Finally got the final season of #lost on dvd. Special features making me very sentimental. 5:01 PM Nov 4th

Sh_AlHammadi Done with #LOST!!!!!! Aaaaah am gonna miss this show :( :( :( 5:05 PM Nov 4th

heatherjoan12 You know that tv show everyone in class watches except you? Yeah, it'll be your favorite tv show one day. #LOST #tweetyour16yearoldself 5:07 PM Nov 4th

IONRyan The End. #Lost. So enjoyable the second time around. 9:18 PM Nov 4th

LizPrietti Don't hate me beacuse I love #LOST. love me because I DO! 7:35 PM Nov 4th via Echofon

jdub79 … I just started my #LOST marathon. It's definitely gonna be a yearly ritual. I miss it.

LOST_boss #Shows that have filled part of the vacancy #LOST left: #Rubicon #Terriers #TheWalkingDead #Castle #Fringe #WhatShowsAreYouWatching?

TheWillTravers @Loster21 I'm looking for more and more evidence that #TheWalkingDead is really #LOST Zombie season. ;)

kriisppyyy #lost marathon? i think so. :)

xloz_je ugh i need more #LOST, they should do a christmas one or something. going back to the island for christmas..

JKub_eXtreme OMG MY DHARMA DECAL FOR MY MACBOOK CAME IN THE MAIL. IT IS SO COOL!

MichaelKoral i still cant let go of #lost

neeea #Losties, I love you<3  We love you back, honey.

Shelbyy23 I miss #LOST. It seems like yesterday... http://twitpic.com/34aflm

It does, doesn’t it?  I know I still can’t listen to the music… Ah well.  At least we have each other!  Thanks to everyone for tweeting about LOST; please keep it up!  Please remember to use the #LOST hashtag so that everyone can see all the brilliant, charming, funny and compelling tweets you post about LOST!  Have a terrific week, and I’ll see you on Twitter and here on LOSTblog.  Namaste ~

Staying Lost After Lost -- The Greater Good

This week, everyone is dealing with Boone’s death. Jack and Shannon are taking it the hardest. Both of them are blaming Locke for what happened. We have a Sayid flashback. Jack and Locke’s tension is building, Shannon is letting go of Boone.

When I first sat down to watch this episode, it sort of struck me as odd that they would have a Sayid flashback during all of the Boone stuff that was happening. But at the end, I had if figured out for myself. Shannon. She was going through a lot this episode. She was one of the few who crashed with a family member and now he was gone. He was her brother. And even though she messed with his head a lot, she still loved him. I think Sayid saw a bit of his former roommate in her. She lost a loved one and wanted nothing more than to get revenge with Locke.

This was similar to the former roommate’s story. But unfortunately, Sayid didn’t get to save his roommate from making a big mistake. But he did get to save Shannon from making the big mistake of killing Locke. This helps Sayid kind of get a do over on this type of situation and I think it also assists Shannon in letting go of Boone. Instead of Shannon just killing Locke in an act of rage, she was able to come to some terms with his death before moving on from the island. Like Christian said in the church - “You needed them and they needed you.” This is a really good example of that to me.

The Jack and Locke dynamic really intensifies in this episode. According to Lostpedia, this episode was supposed to be titled “Sides” and I think that is really a very good name for it. This actually starts those two Jack and Locke sides. Foundations of Science vs. Faith have been given to us up to this point, but Boone’s death is a catalyst to Jack vs. Locke. I really do think that Boone’s death served the most purpose on the show. I mentioned some examples in previous posts. I feel like the episode title that they picked, “The Greater Good”, references Boone more than anyone else this episode. He was a sacrifice. He died for the greater good of all of the other Losties. Another example of “You needed them and they needed you.”

Like I have said before, Sayid episodes do nothing for me. They are too violent. I don’t enjoy them at all. This one wasn’t any different for me. Also, I feel it was quite stand alone in comparison to other episodes that fill a lot in for me. If anything, I will say that this episode just showed me how deep and strong the characters bonds are. They are all broken. And they all help each other become fixed. They really do need each other.

Staying Lost After Lost – The Greater Good

This week, everyone is dealing with Boone’s death. Jack and Shannon are taking it the hardest. Both of them are blaming Locke for what happened. We have a Sayid flashback. Jack and Locke’s tension is building, Shannon is letting go of Boone. When I first sat down to watch this episode, it sort of struck [...]

The Walking Dead - Episode 1 Review

Thanks to friend of LOSTblog Simply Television for sharing this review, as we kick off our new site section about shows like LOST that LOSTies like.



Stunning. Epic. Gut-wrenching. Sorry about that last one. Arguably the best pilot episode since Lost.

The long opening scenes of absolute quiet and stillness represented by abandoned cars and trucks… the great surprise in finding a survivor, a little girl … who turned out to be a walker, “put down” by the deputy… was an astounding way to begin the series. It truly set the tone of horror, not in the genre sense, but it the general-use sense; real horror at the situation.

Perhaps the most effective tool for supporting this atmosphere was the near-complete lack of background noises and incidental music. No pop songs, no emo, not even much of a soundtrack. THANK GOD. The pervasive and intrusive use of music in many series in recent years has been a giant bête noir for me. This exceptionally courageous refusal to fill the quiet is becoming a hallmark for AMC, the American network for whom this series was produced. The quiet means that gunshots are extra loud, and the splatter of blood when walkers are put down is clear as a bell.

Click here to continue.

Thanks again to Simply Television and editor Tom Wilson for sharing this review!

“We’re All Mad Here” – The Annotated Alice

This month WRLB/Bookclub’s selection is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.  This book, I’m sure you’ll remember, pops up on LOST quite a bit.  However, a specific EDITION of this book is associated with Jack/Christian/David [in "Something Nice Back Home" and "Lighthouse"].

The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition Lewis Carroll, Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner.

It’s that “NOTES by Martin Gardner” part that sent your old pal Amy to the bookstore. The NOTES are the most valuable clue here.

Try THIS on for size:

From “Chapter VI: Pig and Pepper” [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, pp. 65-66]

Alice, having released a baby-turned-into-a-pig into the forest, comes upon “the Cheshire-Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.”

The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.

“Cheshire-Puss,” she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. “Come, it’s pleased so far,” thought Alice, and she went on. “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where — ” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

“—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.

“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”

Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. “What sort of people live here?”

“In that direction,” the Cat said, waiving its right paw round, “lives  a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”

[Notice that the Hatter and the Hare "live" in opposite directions -- they are POLARIZED. Get it? We learn in the next chapter that they actually ARE together. They are stuck at the tea table (with a sleepy dormouse) because Time is angry with the Hatter. Um, I guess the Hatter ticked him off. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!].

“But I don’t want to go among mad people, ” Alice remarked.

“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” ["I'm real. You're real."]

“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.

“You must be, “said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

Alice didn’t think that proved it at all: however, she went on: “And how do you know that you’re mad?”

“To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?”

“I suppose so,” said Alice.

“Well, then, “the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.”

“I call it purring, not growling,” said Alice.

“Call it what you like,” said the Cat.

The Cat defines himself as “mad” based on hinky logic: As a cat is the opposite of a dog, and since, as Alice admits, “a dog is not mad,” then the Cat, as POLAR OPPOSITE, MUST be mad by definition.  Alice points out that the Cat doesn’t compare to a dog — the criteria don’t match. The Cat basically says, well, that’s your perspective, isn’t it?

Interesting to note that there’s only ONE dog in this entire story: a puppy Alice encounters early on. The puppy is the only animal that doesn’t speak. It still acts like an animal.

Know why the Hatter was “mad?” Hatters used mercury to set the brims on hats. Mercury poisoning made the sufferer act “crazy.”  Gardner mentions this in his notes, but I’d already heard this interesting little tidbit on TV. Walter, the crazy scientist, tells his son about mercury and the hatters on episode 3.03, “Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sleep?” On FRINGE.

Further notes on the same scene [pp. 67-68]:

Compare the Cheshire Cat’s remarks with the following entry of February 9, 1856, in Carroll’s diary [That would be LEWIS CARROLL. The guy who WROTE the Alice books.]

Query: when we are dreaming and, as often happens, have a dim consciousness of the fact and try to wake, do we not say and do things which in waking life would be insane? May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: “Sleep hath its own world,” and it is often as lifelike as the other.

[Truck on over to Rewatching LOST: Amy, "Matthew Fox" and The Island to find out more about PERCEPTION, REALITY and MEMORY.]

Finally, Gardner throws in a little Greek philosophy, just for kicks.

In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss this topic as follows:

• Theaetetus: I certainly cannot undertake to argue that madmen or dreamers think truly, when they imagine, some of them that they are gods, and others that they can fly, and are flying in their sleep.


• Socrates: Do you see another question which can be raised about these phenomena, notably about dreaming and waking?


• Theaetetus: What question?


• Socrates: A question which I think that you must often have heard persons ask: how can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?


• Theaetetus: Indeed, Socrates, I do not know how to prove the one any more than the other, for in both cases the facts precisely correspond; and there is no difficulty in supposing that  during all this discussion we have been talking to one another in a dream; and when in a dream we seem to be narrating dreams, the resemblance of the two states is quite astonishing.


• Socrates: You see, then, that a doubt about the reality of sense is easily raised, since there may even be a doubt whether we are awake or in a dream. And as our time is equally divided between sleeping and waking, in either sphere of existence the soul contends that the thoughts which are present to our minds at the same time are true; and during one half of our lives we affirm the truth of the one, and, during the other half, of the other; and are equally confident of both.


• Theaetetus: Most true.


• Socrates: And may not the same be said of madness and the other disorders? The difference is only that the times are not equal.

Not equal as in UNBALANCED?

Whoa.

Happy LOST Reading!

LOST Extras: Featurette - It's Time to SHOOT [GUNS!]

A featurette about how frickin' complicated it is to keep track of all the guns on the island!!

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