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Who is your favorite minor character on LOST?
DarkUFO has an interview with Francois Chau, the actor who plays the doctor in the Dharma Initiative training films, and it’s got me thinking about who my favorite minor character on Lost is. Chau’s character certainly ranks high up there, but I’m not sure that I can decide. There are so many great characters on this show, both major and minor.
What about you? Who is your favorite minor character on Lost? Is it Chau’s Candle/Wickmund/Halliwax/Chang? How about Rousseau, the French woman? Are you a closet fan of Dr. Artz? Let us know in the comments. And, well, you know the rules: if you can’t decide on just one, give us your top five!
Because You Left - Lost Season Five Premiere
The fifth season premiere of everyone’s favorite television series, Lost, will be titled “Because You Left,” according to Entertainment Weekly columnist “Doc” Jeff Jensen. The premiere is expected to air at the end of January 2009, and should include at least two new characters, according to DarkUFO’s spoilers site.
If we could just skip this fall and the whole holiday season, I would be fine with that. Bring me January, and bring it to me now!
No Flashes in LOST Season Five
“We have something new this year,” says Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse, in reference to 2009’s fifth season. “We’re going to mix it up.”
This quote comes from a BBC piece posted by DarkUFO earlier this morning. Cuse’s partner-in-crime, Damon Lindelof, adds: “When season five starts, you won’t know when or where you are. And the way we tell stories will be different too.”
E! Online gossip gal Kristin Dos Santos, in trying to describe what her source is telling her about season five’s structure, says “Think about the Jin and Sun episode from last season.”
Interesting… very interesting.
Also interesting (and I’ll end on this note): speculation over in the comments section of this DarkUFO article. It seems that the person who is behind the camera in the latest Dharma video (which I mentioned in yesterday’s linkdump) is someone the audience has met before, and that it’s someone who definitely should not be a fully-grown adult when the video is being shot, but is.
Worth Your Consideration 013 - A GF5 Linkdump
- The official Website for Nine Inch Nails is getting updated far more frequently these days, now that the band is on tour again. Only trouble is: there is no official archive of the front-page articles that are coming fast and furious. Enter the NIN Blog & Media Archive. It is simply a must-bookmark for any serious Nine Inch Nails fan.
- In other NIN news, Rolling Stone has a full set-list from and a nice write-up of the private rehearsal show I mentioned last Thursday. The setlist that Rolling Stone has up says that the Ghosts songs played were 1, 25, 19, and 31.
- DarkUFO, Ain’t It Cool News, and the Lostpedia Blog have write-ups of the Lost panel held at the San Diego Comic-Con. Among the many teases provided by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse was a tidbit about the apparently ageless Richard Alpert. It turns out that the number of toes on Richard’s feet may have some significance. You do remember the statue with four toes at the end of season 2, right? There was also a new Marvin Candle/Mark Wickmund/Edgar Halliwax video shown, which was available on YouTube for a short while. That was really interesting, and I encourage you to check it out if you can find it. Apparently, Marvin/Mark/Edgar is actually a guy named Pierre Cheng. And he seems to have a bit of knowledge about his future that maybe he shouldn’t have.
- Also at Comic-Con: the one and only Kevin Smith. Kev was there pimping a bunch of things, but primarily his upcoming film Zack and Miri Make a Porno. News Askew has you covered on that front. The thing that piqued my interest the most was that the clip shown at the convention featured Justin “I’m a Mac” Long and Brandon “I’m Superman” Routh as a gay couple. The casting news on this just keeps getting better, doesn’t it?
- Lastly, AICN gets its second mention in today’s linkdump for providing the trailer to Oliver Stone’s George Bush biopic W. The accents don’t seem right, but the casting seems superb.
Topics: Lost, View Askew, Nine Inch Nails, Geekforce Reserves
The Dharma Initiative Wants You!
PHOTO: Trip by hawaii, on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND
Lost’s third alternative reality game debuts this weekend at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con and, as usual, DarkUFO and Lostpedia are the places to be for the latest information.
Here’s a snippet of the on-site report that Lostpedia has up as of this writing:
At the Octagon Global Recruiting booth, fans are given a waiver form and an appointment time by DHARMA staff (all with Australian accents). At their appropriate time, they can enter the booth, which has cameras on the ceiling (these appear to feed outside the booth so observers can see what is going on). With a set of headphones and television equipment, participants are shown images or given a series of questions, and have to say what first pops into their heads. Some of the images in particular are reportedly very bizarre. Questions are then asked such as “You just took away a child’s favorite toy. Why?”
This sounds very bizarre, indeed. I haven’t actively participated in either of Lost’s previous ARGs (Find 815 and The Lost Experience). They’ve always been just way too much for me to keep up with. Have you participated? Will you answer the call of Octagon Global Recruiting this summer? Let us know in the comments.
