Lost Again

I'm really enjoying this season of Lost. I know that some people find the never-ending mysteries of the series frustrating -- but I think that is part of the fun.

It is amazing that a series over three series has been able to avoid explaining even some of the most basic rules of the universe that it is in. It is obvious that it is some sort of fantastical premise -- but it is not clear whether it is a science fiction or fantasy series, or "how much" of either of those it is. It is not always clear who the good guys are and who the bad guys are -- and certainly people do bad things for good reasons, and may do good things for bad reasons.

But despite being so vague about the rules -- I rarely feel that this is a show that "cheats" -- it seems to be consistently playing by the rules that they've set out. Even though we don't really know what those rules are.

Lost is back

Excellent episode of Lost tonight -- I won't get into spoiler territory, but it's as good as it ever is, and it looks like now that we're in the latter half of the series, we're getting more and more hints about what is really going on. We aren't getting a lot of answers yet -- but we're being led to them for sure.

The Orchid

Here's a Lost nugget to try to carry us over for the next six or seven months...

Lost Heroes

I think the last month or two of both Lost and Heroes have been excellent -- so this joint interview with the two creators is especially satisfying.

Lost Theory from Tallahassee

I'll have my speculation -- since it might be a spoiler -- in the first comment.

My Heroes Casting Campaign

I was watching the commentary for the awesome Heroes episode Company Man today, and besides being really impressed with how the NBC site has their on-site commentary tracks visualized, I realized who they need to cast at some point to absolutely prove that they're making this show for me. Mark Hamill. They've hired someone from Star Trek (George Takai). They've had both The Master (Eric Roberts) and The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston). Malcolm McDowell starts soon.

So all they need to do to win Geek Bingo is for them to cast someone from Star Wars, and Lost apparently has Billy Dee Williams coming up. [see Lost Spoilers if you want]. So Mark Hamill it is.

Dharma Labels

One of the convention room party ideas that I'll never get around to is a Lost-themed room party, with the room set up like the underground hatch from the second season, with an Apple ][ case asking for the numbers on a regular basis.

Part of the idea would be that all of the food and drinks would have Dharma labels, and with (these labels you could pretty much do that. (check here for even more...

The Return of Lost

I think one of the things that is important to remember about Lost is that they're built around an entire season now. And I think the structure of this season in two batches set up a pattern that I think has frustrated a few people.

But tonight's Lost gave quite a bit more clues about some of the things that might be going on with the Island. I think the real question is one that has been circulating Lost from the very beginning -- how fantastic of a series is it? What are the rules of the universe?

It's one of the most interesting questions about Lost -- and the fact that two and a half seasons into it I'm not really sure what the answer is -- is especially interesting to me.

Heroes vs Lost

I'm amused by this Heroes vs Lost article.

I enjoy both series a great deal -- and I think the compare and contrast between the two series is very interesting.

I enjoy both series -- and like the Babylon 5 vs Deep Space Nine battles of a decade ago, two good genre series are better than one. And it's especially nice to see two good genre series on major broadcast networks instead of syndication. That both of these series can be successes is a something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

I'd say we're looking at the comparisons a little early -- but then it looks like we'll get our UK accented person with knowledge about the backstory that joins the series later in Christopher Eccleston's Claude on Heroes (as opposed to Lost's Desmond). So maybe not.

EW's Lost theory

I'm not sure of all of the Lost theorizing here but I am thrilled by The Prisoner reference in the theory. The mysterious black monster strikes me as very similar to Rover, the "security system" in The Prisoner's Village.


Only a few more months to see what is really going on...

Lost in your Jobsearch?

Looking for a job at the Hanso Foundation?

Lost and subLYMONal

subLYMONal is another strange page if you're Lost and looking for more information about the the Hanso Foundation....keep clicking on the screens, in a familiar and ever-increasing pattern.

?

I love that the upcoming episode of Lost is called ?. Many years ago I was involved with a Doctor Who fanzine also just identified with the symbol ?, and used that as the title of my Doctor Who pages until Torchwood came along. And in both cases, apparently, it wasn't really "Question Mark", but the actual symbol.

Weirded Out

Am I the only one that gets seriously weirded out when they start looking at Lost websites like And Found, or looking for information about Alvar Hanso on the Hanso Foundation?

Lost

There's an interview with two producers of Lost that is of course very, very spoiler ridden if you haven't seen that episode yet.

And I try to keep the main contents of these things relatively spoiler free, because I know that there's a good chance of international readership...

The Hanso Foundation

The Hanso Foundation has one of the more impressive front pages I've seen -- of course, I still have to dig into all of the details of it.

The Russell T Davies Solution

I had figured that it would be Bryan Singer, actually, but seeing JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof up for a Star Trek film doesn't really surprise me once I think about it. It's obviously very early days -- and I've got the same view as I did a couple of years ago before Doctor Who returned -- I'll believe it for real once cameras roll...

But still, as a fan of Alias and Lost, I could be ok with them behind a new film. Though I'm not sure if a Kirk/Spock prequel is going to be the right way to go... but we'll see..

The Lost Sequence

Wondering about the Lost numerical sequence? (4 8 15 16 23 42)

Doug Shaw has cracked the lost sequence.

Not that it explains anything about the series though.....

References

I'm convinced that tonight's episode of Lost, "Homecoming", made a reference to The Office. I don't imagine there would be other reason to reference a paper company in Slough in an American series...

DriveSHAFT

I found the The Unofficial DriveSHAFT Fansite -- it's a bit difficult to find information about the band at times since Charlie Pace got Lost on that airplane disaster a few months back, so this is a nice "unofficial" site supporting the band.

I still think Charlie was seperated at birth from one of the hobbits on Lord of the Rings though...

Get Lost

Sci Fi Wire and TV Shows On DVD are both saying that Lost is going to appear on DVD this fall, before the second season starts. I'm not terribly surprised by this, as they've done that with Alias recently, and Lost strikes me as a show that might do very well on DVD. Though it's an interesting question whether you'll want to watch the old episodes once questions are answered -- but I suspect that one will, as it's not just about the mystery.

I'm really enjoying the first two episodes of the new Battlestar Galactica.

There's a scene between Adama (Edward James Olmos) and the President (Mary McDonnell) that goes into military and politics that's fantastic. This isn't an easy series --they make difficult choices and are in difficult places.

It's a bit disturbing that once again someone with a British accent is one of the enemies with Baltar (James Callis), as that's a bit of a genre cliche (especially when the actor playing Apollo -- who is also English -- does an American accent) but he's really quite good, especially one of the scenes with Starbuck.

Highly, highly recommended. Sci-Fi will be repeating the episodes during the week, check your schedules...

I said a year ago in some conversations with friends that I thought that the genre tv market was going to go down a bit, with the end of the various Joss Whedon series and the decline of Star Trek -- but with Lost, which almost certainly has some sort of SF/F twist, and now Battlestar Galactica, things are looking pretty good.

And that doesn't even include Doctor Who, which I have high expectations given what I know about the production and the creative staff.

LOST-TV // the unofficial fansite for the abc series 'lost' [http://www.lost-tv.com/]
As new episodes start up again, I'm starting to look around for fan Lost sites. Got any other good recommendations?