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Friday, January 29, 2010
LOSTblog has 23 Questions for The Watcher – Mo Ryan of the Chicago Tribune
If you’re a fan of television, and your on twitter, and you’re not following Maureen Ryan (Mo) @moryan, you need to do three things before continuing to read this article:
Now, since your a LOST fan, you’ve probably already done all three of those steps, and this might be repetitive, but Mo sat down with LOST Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for a whole hour, and posted not just one, not just two, but three transcripts of the entire discussion (if you have a short attention span the summary of this awesome interview is here).
I’ve enjoyed discovering Mo Ryan through her tweets and articles, and she’s a genuine TV fan first, and a professional journalist second (hey, it’s my article, my opinion, and she AWESOME at both!). A self described “hardcore” fan of the Battlestar Galactica series, she is a popular columnist that still has time to tweet back to her twitter followers (like me). I was extremely excited that she agreed to the brutal LOSTblog 16 questions, but I dared her to go DEEP and answer 7 more. And. She. Did. So without further ado, here’s Mo’s interview.
LOSTblog: How long have you been watching Lost? If you’ve been watching since
the pilot, can you remember your initial reaction to it?
- Go here and follow her.
- Go here and add her to your favorites.
- Then go here, and consider donating to her “charity thing”. (eBay swag auction here.) (also as a bonus, you get a free DHARMA Beer Station pin for a $25 donation.) (more information here and here.) (Mo herself plugs this more in her interview, but I also want to put it up here at the top)
Now, since your a LOST fan, you’ve probably already done all three of those steps, and this might be repetitive, but Mo sat down with LOST Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for a whole hour, and posted not just one, not just two, but three transcripts of the entire discussion (if you have a short attention span the summary of this awesome interview is here).
I’ve enjoyed discovering Mo Ryan through her tweets and articles, and she’s a genuine TV fan first, and a professional journalist second (hey, it’s my article, my opinion, and she AWESOME at both!). A self described “hardcore” fan of the Battlestar Galactica series, she is a popular columnist that still has time to tweet back to her twitter followers (like me). I was extremely excited that she agreed to the brutal LOSTblog 16 questions, but I dared her to go DEEP and answer 7 more. And. She. Did. So without further ado, here’s Mo’s interview.
LOSTblog: How long have you been watching Lost? If you’ve been watching since
the pilot, can you remember your initial reaction to it?
Mo:
Oh, absolutely. It was the first fall that I was writing about television full-time. I watched the two-hour pilot that ABC sent and I was absolutely thunderstruck by how good it was. It was exciting and different and it had so many of the things I love about television -- it was chock full of trippy, surreal elements, unusual characters, mysteries and adventure. More than all that, it was just a hell of a good story -- or the start to what appeared to be a hell of a good story.
So of course I thought it would get terrible ratings and die right away! Most of the shows I love the most tend to do badly in the ratings, and I can distinctly recall thinking, before the premiere, that I'd have to be part of a "Save Lost" effort by the show's second week.
It was beyond thrilling to see America and the world embrace the show, especially in that first season. It was just so unlike anything else out there -- popular entertainment that was truly challenging and exciting.
Gizmodo: LOST case mod, perfectly suited for your hatch
What’s great about being a LOST fan, is that it’s perfectly appropriate to geek out with technology while professing your LOVE of the Greatest Show EVAHH!™.
This impressive Lost case mod incorporates a few disparate elements of everyone's favorite time-jumping mystery island. You've got the whole jungle thing going on and a Dharma Initiative-flavored octagonal shape. Oh, and it can take down airplanes flying overhead.
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The only problem? You have to use this Lost computer every 108 minutes or the world ends.
Countering The Countdown Blues: A Dose of Jack – 5
Pics of the MOST LOVELY Matthew Fox to ease the stress of waiting for LOST Season 6 to FINALLY start! I'll be adding a new pic every day to keep us sane. (CLICK ON THUMBNAILS FOR LARGER VIEW).
The LOSTBlog.com Interview: Susan & Helena of SKate Outlaws
To end the week (the last week of no new Lost - squeal!) we have a bumper edition of the LOSTBlog.com interview for you. We put our 16 questions to both Susan and Helena of SKate Outlaws, a forum for fans of the Kate/Sawyer pairing. Visit SKate Outlaws here or follow them on Twitter here.
Slate: LOST Season 6 Preview: Who’s Going to Win
Written by someone who taught a college course on LOST. Not a LOST University course, but a real honest to goodness LOST course: “The Future is Lost: Economic, Social, and Technological Impact of a Cult (and Cultural) Phenomenon”. Here’s an excerpt:
So yes, I'm anticipating this season and all the crackpot answers it will bring. And at the risk of sounding like I belong at Santa Rosa's right next to Hurley, I think they can actually pull this thing off. Last week I rewatched the Season 5 finale for the first time since it aired, and remembered that they haven't screwed up a season finale yet. It's far harder to avoid botching a final season, of course, but I think these guys have already shown that they know how to end things.
Read the rest here.
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