"I Hope You're Happy Now, Jacob"--The LOST Season 5 Thread

Haha.

Maybe he's been keeping that tie on all this time so that it will be used to create a fishing lure/boomerang/parachute for rescue.

Just watched the pilot of JJ Abrams' Fringe.

It could be the best show since Lost began. Serious.

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It could be the best show since Lost began. Serious.

Wow, I had the opposite reaction, I thought it was really derivative. I liked the production values and the lead actress is good, but there was nothing I haven't really seen before.

I liked Fringe a lot but yeah, wasn't that blown away. It's kinda standard JJ Abrams, I guess. hot female lead with loyal support team and a big mystery conspiracy. Only this time less spy hijinks, more pseudoscience. And Dharma/Hanso-like evil corporations rather than evil governments.

I'm guessing Michael Giacchino does the music for Fringe as well - he does the same cello "bong" sound whenever there's a crucial reveal/plot point. At one point, they re-used the bit from when the castaways are traipsing across the island in the finales... it was really odd and distracting to hear the Lost score on a different show.

Yeah, the re-used musical cues were distracting, since I recognized them from Lost too. I just assumed it was a temp track, like the Morricone cue from The Mission that was in every trailer for a few years. And I thought the credit sequence was unfinished, it seemed pasted on.

Kirk Acevedo's final monologue was … painful. Was it a good idea to cast Lance Reddick again? He's awesome but I dunno about having him in two Abrams shows at once. (Trying not to go into too much detail since offtopic and possibly spoilery.)

you're probably right that it is temp music - i forget they never settle these things for pilot episodes and assumed, with Abrams and Reddick in it, that they just got Giacchino to do it as well. I think the show has room to improve.. maybe get better writers. Dialogue was awful.

i don't really see a problem with Reddick being on both shows so long as they don't decide to significantly expand his role on Lost. I mean Alan Dale/Charles Widmore is on at least three or four different shows at a time (he's still a regular on Ugly Betty right? plus all his brit shows) and they still managed to make it work somehow.

widmore was killed off ugly betty at the end of last season i think but yeah, it was never really a problem having him on both.

ah ok.

btw, there's a tiny Lost shout-out near the start... i won't spoil it here, but did anyone else spot it? and their head showrunner is former Lost exec/writer Jeff Pinkner, so i'm guessing lots of little crossover-refs like this between these two shows if Fringe gets picked up.

plus all his brit shows

Er, these don't exist.

Well, except for one episode of Torchwood.

yeah? i thought he did a couple of other UK shows plus Spamalot. In any case, the guy seems to be regularly employed.

Britishes know him as Jim Robinson, one of the original characters from the popular Aussie soap Neighbours. He had one of the two most distressing death scenes of my childhood.

It doesn't matter how much A List American telly Alan Dale does, he will always be Jim Robinson to us.

Man, I bet he hates that.

Where'd you guys see Fringe? It's supposed to be premiering in Sept.

A couple of comments:

1. Adam + Eve = Bernard + Rose, obviously? Hasn't this occurred to anyone else?
2. Jack is not going to be able to convince everyone to go back to the island. He's going to have a kidnap at least one of them (part of what Ben meant by saying he could help).

"obviously"

yeah, how is that obvious

Alan Dale will always be conniving grandpa Caleb Nichol on The O.C. to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hNdFbwgg0E

Rose and Bernard as Adam and Eve occurred to me as well. I can't see them killing them off and I can't see them leaving the island, so it would be a convenient end to their story.

But I still think its Jack and Kate really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yATh1D-3u8

There's Jim Robinson dying. Eww that gurgling noise.

black and white stones - that's the clue

our favourite show got mostly shut out of the emmys again - not even a directing or writing nom. although crossed fingers for Michael Emerson (Best Supporting) and long shot for the Outstanding Drama category.

It got a bunch of technical noms.

aye but they hardly win those either. I think this is the least number of emmy noms they've ever had.

I don't like the Adam & Eve thing at all (if it's meant to be some kind of time glitch and that's two people we know now). If they were gonna do that kind of thing (on-island 'future echoes') there should be more incidents of it, unless J&K remain on the island long after everyone else has gone or directly cause another time-jump/teleportation/whatever - something significant enough for the future echo to be a gap of several years rather than just the minutes-hours we've seen so far. But this would still be rubbish as so many will have worked out who they are beforehand.

I never saw Jim Robinson die (stopped watching before that). Don't think I'm ready yet.

Just a consideration re: Adam & Eve and the stones: Jack took them, not Rose or Bernard. Of course, it's unlikely Jack managed to keep them, what with the being trapped in the hydra, a second plane crash, and all the other things.. but maybe they are in his tent?

Jim Robinson died?!?!

Didn't Desmond have the black and white stones at some point? I seem to remember them appearing in one of his flashbacks. I don't think I'm making this up. I remember being convinced that Adam + Eve would be Desmond and Penny for a while, anyway.

I was really hoping that the Des & Penny episode would get recognized somehow. I think I enjoyed that 45 minutes of television more than anything in a long, long time.

B&W imagery is rampant throughout Lost, but I don't recall seeing the stones themselves in Desmond's possession.

Lostpedia is great for this stuff: http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Stones

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ARG + other stuff from Comic-Con:

http://www.hawaiiup.com/lost/2008/07/25/trans-2008-07-25-comic-con-report-visionaries-panel/
http://www.hawaiiup.com/lost/2008/07/26/lost-panel/

Podcasts from the EW Visionaries panel and the Lost panel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_o9p4W1C4&feature=related
http://lostoctagonglobalrecruiting.blogspot.com/2008/07/screencaps-from-dharma-bluetooth.html

Dodgy-quality Dharma video sent out via Bluetooth + screencaps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn_dNsaz-AA

Really dodgy-quality Marvin Candle video, supposedly secretly filmed by one of the Octagon recruits. In which you find out Candle's real name, and he asks you to "save Dharma" and change the past. The vid appears to have been filmed by someone who sounds a lot like Faraday (except that this was supposedly 30 years ago so.... hmmm?).

thank u

Yeah that does sound just like Faraday's voice.

Is there going to be any more to the summer Dharma experience than taking tests?

i miss lost

lol me too

i checked the other day to see when it was starting // wtf 2009

I'd assumed January 2009?

maybe Feb. i thought i would miss it more than i am doin'. the wait for the final season will probably be harder.

internet says feb 4

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someone point me at a summary of the new lost ARG shit because i can't be arsed to keep up.

I just started season 2 in my "re-watch Lost" marathon. Walt just got taken by the creepy dudes on the boat, and Rousseau stole the as-yet unnamed (I think) Aaron. It's so fun to watch knowing what we know now! I have been paying special attention to Locke and Walt, of course.

prob just go to lostpedia xp

bored last night, i made these:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2905141377_96e8f5db1e.jpg

http://io9.com/5060911/magnetic-anomaly-map-of-the-world