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Worth Your Consideration 015 - A GF5 Linkdump
- Kevin Rose has the scoop on a linewide iPod refresh in September. Apparently, we’ll be seeing widescreen iPod Nanos, a cosmetic refresh to the iPod Touch, and a price drop across the line to differentiate between iPod and iPhone (which is now priced at $199 with a new two-year contract). Thanks to Mac Rumors for linking up Kevin’s post.
- Marvel Comics is ramping up for something big in 2009 featuring one of my favorite X-Men characters of all time, the won’t-stay-dead redhead herself: Ms. Jean Grey (a.k.a. Phoenix). Check out Newsarama’s article on the “teaser trifecta” that Marvel has released for a glimpse at some absolutely killer noirish images.
- Lastly, some Lost news. According to a scooper at DarkUFO’s spoilers blog, the Powers That Be are shooting a scene with Hurley and Sayid that takes place just after Sayid rescues Hurley from the mental institution at the end of season four. It sounds like next season is starting off as fast and furious as last season did. Awesome, says I.
Pirates of the South Pacific - Lost Producers Seek Two Old Ships
I had a hunch that the producers of Lost were planning on bringing us further back in time than ever before in the coming season, but this news from The ODI has me as giddy as a schoolgirl. Apparently, the Powers That Be are looking for two seaworthy ships of a 19th century persuasion to act as The Black Rock and a ship pursuing the Black Rock.
Um, drool…
I feel fairly confident in saying that the next season of Lost may raise the game even moreso than last season did, and that’s saying something.
Now, speaking of Lost, I’m off to complete the next test necessary to join the Dharma Initiative.
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!
Year Zero Comes To HBO?!?
Year Zero, easily Trent Reznor’s most ambitious project up until (and maybe including, depending on your perspective) Ghosts I-IV, may be coming to a boob tube near you at some point in the near future. The Nine Inch Nails frontman has been in talks with cable network HBO to bring Year Zero to the small screen, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“I just pitched it to HBO two weeks ago in L.A. It went great. Ideally, we’re trying to get them to do a two-year limited series. I prefer that over a film. We would have a second ARG tying into the second album and ties into the series and they all happen together with a budget needed to pull that all off. There would be a tour down the road. The record completes the story, the ending that no one knows. I know what happens. I knew when I started it. And it’s not what people think.”
I love the idea of doing this on TV instead of as a film. There’s just so much story to tell, and much of it would get lost as a standalone one-off movie. But I’m also really glad that he’s looking to tackle this as a limited series, which is what I think nearly all television series (and all comic book series, for that matter) should be. Serialized stories are so much more satisfying for me (and for a great many people, I’d wager) when I know that there is a definitive ending on the horizon, however far away that ride into the sunset might be. We need look no further than the example of Lost, which was entirely reenergized at the end of the third season, once the writers knew for sure when the series was going to end.
This is very exciting news, and I very much hope that it comes to fruition.
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.
