TV Guide on Lost’s Season Four Finale

DarkUFO has scans of the latest issue of TV Guide, which features a cover story on the fourth season finale of Lost. Be sure to avoid the comments section of that page if you want to stay pure. We’re keeping spoilers off of GF5 with comment moderation, but Dark’s site is fair game for the League of Spoiler Assholes.

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Comment Moderation is On

Major spoilers for the Lost season finale have been leaked online, and it’s anticipated that the League of Assholes will soon be doing their best to spoil every single person they can, including all of you who do not want to be spoiled. In order to (hopefully) eliminate the chance of them spoiling the season finale for Geek Force Five readers, I am turning on comment moderation for the next week and a half. If your comments are slow to turn up on the site, that’s why. I’ll be personally checking through every comment before it goes live.

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Last Week on Lost: Cabin Fever

Teasing tonight’s episode for Entertainment Weekly’s Doc Jensen, Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof says, “Press conferences, funerals, and surprise parties.... Oh my!”

All of the teases that I’ve seen for this episode have been great, and I am huge fan of finales anyway, so this one will probably end up on my list of top ten favorites pretty darned quick.

In the meantime, here (below the fold) are some of my thoughts on last week’s episode, “Cabin Fever,” which was much cooler than I expected it to be, given the general suckiness of John Locke as a character this season.

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More Sneak Peeks from “There’s No Place Like Home”

DarkUFO has three more video sneak peeks from this week’s episode of Lost, plus a text-based sneak peek courtesy of Kristen dos Santos.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting more and more pumped for this episode every minute. I only hope that I finish covering the Apple Store opening fast enough to make the bus that will get me home in time to catch the show. I never thought one of my obsessions would stand in the way of another one, but it looks like that day might have finally arrived.

All I can say is that iTunes better have that episode available first-thing on Friday morning, or there’ll be hell to pay.

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HBO, NBC, and Flexible Pricing on iTunes

HBO television programs were added to the iTunes store today, including Sex and the City, Deadwood, and The Sopranos. But, you see, that’s not even the really big news. The really big news, as TUAW alludes to, is that some of the HBO programs are priced at $2.99 per episode, a dollar higher than the price of nearly every other television show that iTunes sells.

This sort of flexible pricing model is exactly what NBC was looking for when it took its shows off of iTunes last year. And me, while I’m not excited about the prospect of flexible pricing—I like knowing that any TV episode I buy, regardless of what show its from, is going to cost me the same two bucks—I do like the idea that maybe this opens up the possibility of Apple and NBC kissing and making up. I’ve missed out on an entire season of Heroes that I would have otherwise watched if I had been able to download it (legally) and catch up on it whenever I liked.

I really love the idea of a la carte TV. Like Dan Rubin, who twittered about ditching cable for an Apple TV and thereby saving a boatload of cash, I would absolutely jump at the chance to cancel my cable subscription and pay only for the two or three shows that I dig, if only all of those shows were easily accessible and purchasable from my Apple TV.

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