The Sixth Season of LOST Gains An Extra Hour

According to DarkUFO, ABC has confirmed that the sixth season of Lost will be one hour longer than the fifth. The season will apparently still be comprised of sixteen episodes, however. This means, according to Dark, that both the premiere and the finale will be two hours long.

Regarding this news, Sam McPherson at The Lostpedia Blog (where we found this story) asks an interesting question that I’d like to throw out to all the Losties out there: “What would you like to see answered in this extra hour?”

Bolivian TV Broadcasts Photos from LOST and Calls Them Photos from Air France 447

In the most blatant display of broadcast news stupidity I have ever seen, a Bolivian news station has broadcast images from Lost as if they were images of the real life crash of Air France Flight 447. This comes to us from True/Slant, and it’s unfuckingbelievable. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I mean, you’ve got to laugh, right? But the stupidity on display here is really, really, depressingly sad, isn’t it?

I mean, why did they not ask the questions that True/Slant does: “1) How did the camera survive? and 2) Why are the photos in wide-screen format?” And why did they not, as the YouTube uploader asks, “appreciate that while the flight 447 disaster occurred at night, the images represent the daytime fictional break-up of Oceanic Flight 815”?

The most tragic part of all this is that the person who pulled the prank attributed the photos in question to a man named Paulo. So, Nikki and Paulo strike again.

Damn.

LOST as a 90s Sitcom

We should all send thanks to occasional GF5 contributor Bethany Snyder for uncovering this absolute gem of a Lost parody. If you’ve ever imagined what Lost might look like as a 1990s sitcom, then look no further. TV Squad has a quartet of Lost clip-vids set to the tunes of 90s sitcom intros. I’ve embedded the best of the bunch, Lost meets Full House, above, but the others ain’t bad either.

Matthew Fox Spills on Season Six of LOST

Matthew Fox (Jack) has spilled at least a couple of season six-flavored beans during an interview at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. A full recap of the mild spoilers can be found here. The most interesting tid-bit to this Lost-aholic was summarized in this way by The ODI over at DarkUFO: “[Fox] knew that that Jack and Locke would have to go head to head quite a bit in Season 6.”

This is very promising for me as someone who is crossing everything he has a pair of in the hopes that we will not see history re-written or have another season’s worth of people trying to get back to the island. After all, if Locke and Jack are going to be battling each other “quite a bit,” and assuming that he means Fake Locke here and not dead Locke, then we can’t be wasting a lot of time on alternate reality bullshit. Can we?

Then again, consider this other bit from The ODI: “About a third of the way through the season both time lines will be ‘solidified into one time’ and there will be one linear time throughout the story on the island with no more flashbacks.”

Ugh! Is it 2010 yet?

Teases for LOST and HEROES

Greg Grunberg is the thread that ties my two favorite television programs together—he’s the psychic on Heroes and was the pilot in the pilot episode of Lost—and I’m still not entirely convinced that he’s not going to pop up in the Lost series finale and tell us that his name is really Matt Parkman and that he was sent back in time by Hiro Nakumura after wiping out his own memory, Gilderoy Lockhart-style.

That enough mixed references for you?

Anyway, I mention Grunberg because I’m including his picture here alongside an article about teasers for the upcoming fourth season of Heroes and sixth season of Lost.

Here’s the gist of the Heroes spoilers I’ve read:

Noah Bennet (HRG), with the help of Tracy Strauss, Angela Petrelli and all of our Heroes, is tasked with forming a new COMPANY. But that new organization won’t be concerned with conspiracies and prisons anymore. It will be about people. Finding them. Connecting to them. And figuring out why so many of them have been seduced by another “organization” out there that treats people with abilities in a fascinating, dangerous and potentially deadly new way.

And here, my friends, is an early look at what might be going down in the final season of Lost:

Says [Executive producer Carlton] Cuse: “The end of the show will be a combination of trying to answer mysteries the audience still cares about, such as the statue and the Smoke Monster. We’ll also be answering the skeletons in the cave question. We will answer the questions we feel are important and central to the plot. At the same time we will be trying to tell redemption stories about the characters. These characters do indeed have a destiny.

Consider me stoked on both counts.

Reuniting the LOST Castaways in Season Six

Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello has unearthed a very, very interesting quote from Lost producer Damon Lindelof, according to DarkUFO. The quote teases of the ending to the series, and goes something like this:

We’ve been planning out the final season for four years now. And of all the talks we have had about the show, [reuniting all the castaways] is the subject that has come up the most. The ending was almost where we began, and we had to figure out how to get there. It’s like a wedding where the reception is the part that requires the most planning and is the most fun to plan. We’ve exchanged our vows and I am ready to go party.

Interesting… very, very interesting. Which Lostie from days gone by are you most hoping to see return in season six?

The LOST Rewatch

Lost blogger Doc Artz, together with the fine folks at Lostpedia, is organizing The Lost Rewatch (see Lostpedia’s coverage here).

So, what’s the big idea? Over the course of the next seven months, the seven months leading up to Lost’s sixth and final season, all of us Lost fanatics are going to be re-watching the entire series, all 103 hours of it. The proposed schedule calls for a maximum of three to four episodes per week, which should be manageable, and we even get to take Thanksgiving and Christmas off.

So, what do you say? You gonna do it?

Finding the Next LOST

There is only one more season of Lost left to air, and the hunt is on for many of us for a new obsession. Lostpedia takes a look at three shows that might be potential Lost replacements in years to come, provided the networks give them the chance to develop, of course. The shows in question: Day One, Flash Forward, and V.

Last Night on LOST: The Incident

I distinctly remember the moment where I became obsessed with Lost. After hearing people talk about it like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread for more than two years, I’d read up on the series online, combing through Lostpedia for information. But I had never watched an episode. My sister-in-law was visiting, and she, my wife, and our daughter were in the next room. They were talking about the show, and I was in front of the computer. It occurred to me that I’d seen some advertisement proclaiming that I could watch full episodes of the series online at ABC.com, and so I opened a browser, went to that site, and installed the necessary plugin.

Continue reading.

Geek Force Utterz 156: Jules on LOST

In which ECC ponders what a bit of breaking Lost news might mean for his favorite character in season six.