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Schedule discussions

Published by
jared
2 years, 6 months ago in General. 0 Comments

In response to a lot of complaints about the amount of reruns that we see, they’re now talking about changing the schedule around a bit.

There would still only be about 24 episodes per year, because no show like this can do more than that, so there are a few options:

  1. Split up the season in blocks (or acts, as the producers say - this is the one they want to go with) of 7, 7, then 8.
  2. Do like the show 24 does and just wait to start the season until like January and go straight through with no repeats.

Personally, I’m fine with the way it is now, and if they do choose one of the above options, I hope to God it’s not the no repeats one. That would mean that there would be no new episodes for more than six months. Personally I’d much rather wait a couple weeks at a time. The three act idea seems OK, but even that would delay the start of the new season from September to October.

What do you think?

Lost Episode “spoilers”

Published by
dancameron
2 years, 6 months ago in General. 2 Comments

Don’t forget to sort through these plot “spoiler”.

There are a lot.

Here are a few good ones:

Episode 2.20: Two for the Road (Ana-Lucia-centric)
Airdate: May 3, 2006

04/09 - Jack and Kate bring an exhausted Michael back to the camp, and with him, news about “The Others.” Meanwhile, Ana Lucia attempts to get the prisoner to confess, and Hurley plans a surprise date for Libby. Source: ABC

Episode 2.21: ?
Airdate: May 10, 2006

04/01 - Turns out that supercool black-light reveal is a major plot point that carries on through the rest of the season. “Oh yeah, big time,” Damon said. “I mean, it plays huge in the finale, and even in episodes 21 through 24. Twenty-one is an episode that is very much on the sort of fundamental axis of that map, and it’s a Locke and Eko story, which is going to be awesome. [Executive Producer] Carlton [Cuse] and I wrote it. That episode is just called ‘?’ because that is the symbol Locke remembers from the map.” Source: Kristin on E!Online

12 connections Lost has with Silent Hill

Published by
blazelion
2 years, 6 months ago in General. 1 Comment

Silent Hill, the movie adaptation is soon out (21st April), and being the avid Lost and Silent Hill fan I am, I could not help but compare Lost to Silent Hill the first time I watched Lost. I thought I should share those thoughts here. I know this is reaching the boarder line of what I should post on this blog, but I thought some of you might be interested.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying one plagiarised the other, but I feel there are a quite a few parallels to Lost and the psychological horror game series that would be interesting to bring up. Some of these may be very farfetched, but I hope you’ll get the general idea.

Here’s the quick breakdown:

1 – Both appear to have a group of “others” that guard over the area. (Lost – others/an island, SH– cult/a town)

2 – Children appear to be special, possibly due to their innocence. (Lost-Walt and the other kids in the tail section of the plane, SH-Alessa/Cheryl/Laura)

3 – Both the island and Silent Hill appear to have drawn most character there for a reason; seemingly it also has a strong connection with their pasts. They are reminded about events of their pasts during the events of both series’.

4 – There are several elements of mystery that are not necessarily controlled by the others/cult, and we, the viewers/players have not found out why yet. (E.g. Lost-The dark cloud, the “incident�, the polar bear and the disease, SH- various back stories we read about in the SH games, and the actual religion of the cult who is God and what is really the deal between Samael and Metatron?)

5 – People “gain” new abilities or are cured of something, realising they have something in them they never knew they had. (E.g. Lost-Locke, SH-Heather,James)

6 – Mystical symbols/hieroglyphs appear at random sections and appear to have some greater significance. They mean something, but as of yet, they have not been fully explained. (Lost-the numbers, hieroglyphs, the blast door map. SH-Seal of Metatron, Olympic symbols appearing in SH1 like Och, Phul.. etc.)

7 – There are ongoing discussions between characters particularly about science/reason vs. faith/spiritualism. (Lost- Locke and Jack, SH- Harry and Dahlia, Heather and Claudia)

8 – Characters stay in areas that hold more questions than answers. (Lost-the hatch, SH4-Henry’s apartment)

9 – Drugs play a heavy role in the back story of events that have or will occur in the area, also in the way certain people behave. (Lost- Charlie and Mr. Eko, SH- Dr. Kaufmann, the Cult)

10 – There seems to be objects carefully placed at still very random and odd locations. (E.g. Lost-The black roc and the 2nd half of the DHARMA video, SH-a lot of things connected to the puzzles in the games, some of which play a large part in the story as well)

11 – Mind games and Holes “going down somewhere unknown” is a reoccurring thing in both Lost and Silent Hill. Both portray it in a way that may be interpreted as diving into the character’s own mind, as if the person is about to realise something. (E.g. Lost- Hatch and the Staff hatch, Silent Hill- Holes: “There is a hole, will you jump into it?”)

12 – It’s a small world, most (or maybe even all) characters have something to do with each other one way or another before the events of the series’. (E.g. Lost – We’ve seen this on several occasions in flashbacks, SH – the superintendent and James Sunderland, Walter Sullivan and Dahlia Gillespie.)

(13 –There is a fat guy in both series and he whinges about his weight a lot. I mean, how many times do you see fat people in mainstream entertainment? Ok, maybe this one doesn’t count; I thought I might mention it anyway.)

What do you think?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29

Libby - still an “other”

Published by
jared
2 years, 6 months ago in General. 9 Comments

Was it just me or did anyone else think for a second there that she was going to get close to Hurley and then shove him over the edge?

My theory on the food delivery

Published by
jared
2 years, 6 months ago in General. 10 Comments

Haven’t seen this anywhere else yet (not that I look anywhere else anyway), so I thought I’d stake my claim to it here: I suspect that the food package was pulled onto shore from the sea magnetically - no plane involved.

Spoilers

Published by
dancameron
2 years, 6 months ago in General. 3 Comments

Spoilers Anonymous - TV Squad
Lost

* This week’s episodes is a Hurley flashback and Damon reveals that “it’s very much about the Libby/Hurley relationship on the island, and starting to develop that. We actually feel that Cynthia and Jorge have great chemistry together and we’re writing towards it, and you know, it’s a sort of very sweet love story that is sort of supplanting the Charlie/Claire relationship while it’s on ice. But we feel like seeing a different side of Hurley, in a relationship with a woman, is really, really cool to us and that’s basically the function that Libby is providing now on the island. But of course, you know, this big thing is dangling out there, which is that he says that he knows her from somewhere. He can’t quite put his finger on it. So we’re obviously going to be addressing that sort of continuing tip of the tongue quandary that he finds himself in.” Source: Kristin on E!Online
* Ausiello strongly hints that the original Sawyer, the one who conned the Sawyer we know, was Locke’s father. Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide

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