Category Archives: Season 6

Schedule for the final week of LOST, Tuesday May 18 through Sunday, May 23, 2010

Posted on May 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

Episode 6x16 What They Died For

Here we go — wow — this is the last week.

This is the latest word on the schedule:

Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 9:00 to 10:02
Episode 6×16 What They Died For

“While Locke devises a new strategy, Jack’s group searches for Desmond.”

As always, there are some surprises/spoilers on the guest and cast lists for the episode, which you can see on the ABC press release. I’ll just say that there are some people who I will be very glad to see again.

Saturday, May 22, 2010 8:00 to 10:00
The Pilot, Parts 1 & 2

Jack's eye at start of Pilot (click for much larger image)

Sunday, May 23

7:00 to 9:00 Lost: The Final Journey recap/clip show

9:00 to 11:30 The Finale, 6×17-18

How will it all end?

12:05 to 1:05 am Jimmy Kimmel: Aloha to LOST

Here’s the line-up for the Jimmy Kimmel post-finale show, according to a May 14 ABC press release:

“Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost” to air at 12:05 a.m. ET following the “Lost” series finale. Kimmel will be joined in studio by Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Alan Dale, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O’Quinn and Harold Perrineau, with special appearances by Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway and Evangeline Lilly and an exclusive look at THREE ALTERNATIVE FINAL SCENES from the minds of executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

All times an hour earlier for Central Time

“Next Tuesday” and “How will it all end?” screenshots are from the trailer for episode 6×16.

Jack’s eye is from Screencaps.org.

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LOST link round-up # 1

Posted on May 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

Round 'em up, ancient Egyptian cowboy!

It’s hard to believe, but we’re heading into the final week of LOST. So exciting and so sad.

The approaching end of LOST has unleashed a torrent of creativity around the internet. Such an excess of riches, and too much to describe everything in individual posts. I’m just going to start posting lists of links to interesting things, as I come across them:

Composer Michael Giacchino was honored in UCLA last night, May 13. The LOST folks at the event taped short tributes to him. They also said a few words about how they felt about the show ending.

Some of these videos have just been posted, so you can be among the first to watch. The videos feature Jorge Garcia (Hurley, still alive despite his red shirt), Michael Emerson (be still my heart) (Ben, who found redemption at last), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin, and fie on the producers for killing him off), L. Scott Caldwell (Rose, who is not Eve after all), Damon and Carlton (who I suppose can still be my boyfriends even though they killed off Sun & Jin right after they got back together), Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert, who can ride a horse and is not a vampire), Harold Perrineau (Michaaaaaaaael, last spotted whispering in the jungle), and Sonya Walger (Penny: will she return with her boat for the finale?)

There is also a long profile of Michael Giacchino in the current (May 17) print issue of The New Yorker (only an abstract is available online to non-subscribers).

What if LOST ended like The Sopranos? Or like Saturday Night Live? Atom.com has imagined the last 10 seconds of LOST, if it were to end like eleven other television shows.

It turns out that Previously on Lost is not the only recap band. There’s another (called, appropriately, The Others), and the ultra-talented Sophie made a video to go along with their song about the Jack-centric episode, The Lighthouse.

More to come.

Picture at the top of the post, which is via Wikipedia, is from a carving at the temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt, and shows the Pharaoh ready to lasso a sacred bull.

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Sneak peeks #1 and #2 for Lost 6×16 What They Died For

Posted on May 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

I’m still mulling over last night’s show (Across the Sea) and can hardly think about next week yet, but the sneak peeks are already here.

In the first one, a child speaks rudely to Hurley:

In the second sneak peek, Sawyer feels guilty:

Nothing from the sideways world. I miss it, and I hope we get to see more of it before the show ends.

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A bit more on my theory, plus thoughts about 6×15, plus still unanswered questions

Posted on May 11, 2010 | 3 comments

The Man in Black still doesn't have a name

Earlier this evening, before 6×15 Across the Sea came on, I took a look back at my Oedipus Lost theory.

How does it stand up after 6×15? (Warning: 6×15 spoilers ahead, so close your eyes if you haven’t seen the episode yet).

Like many other fans, I was right in thinking that Jacob and the MiB were brothers — twins, like the Biblical Jacob and Esau.

I was wrong in thinking that the Jacob-MiB saga would be rooted in patricide. This dysfunctional family had brother killing mother, and brother killing brother, but nobody killed a father because there were no fathers to be found.

I was right in originally thinking that Jacob was a prisoner, of sorts, of the Island, even though I later came to doubt that.

Well, enough about theories. Some random thoughts about the episode, along with some still-unanswered questions:

Amazing opening. When Mommy Dearest picked up the stone and attacked Birth Mother, I did not see that coming.

Quibble: Why was Mommy Dearest so surprised that there was a second baby? Did she not see Birth Mother’s belly?

Oh, and another quibble: Kid in Black said he didn’t know what death was, but then in the next scene he was running after a boar with a spear. What did he think he was going to do to the boar?

So Smokey will eventually inhabit his own dead body? Hmmm.

What gave Mommy Dearest, Jacob, and the MiB the ability to live so long? What gave Mommy Dearest the power to prevent Jacob and the MiB from hurting each other?

Who was the guardian of the light before Mommy Dearest?

If Mommy Dearest was the power behind Jacob and MiB, who was the power behind Mommy Dearest? Who started the chain of guardians of the light, and why?

And what is the light, anyway?

What was in that wine?

Who would have thought that Jacob could be so whiny and petulant! (“I don’t waaaaana guard the light.”)

Not sure how I feel about having the MiB revealed as a sympathetic character — not after what he did to Sun and Jin, and the 815 pilot, and the people in the Temple, and all the random strangers who got in his way.

How did the nice light turn him into such a mean monster?

When Mommy Dearest said “Thank you,” to the MiB, was she thanking him for killing her (thus ending the curse of immortality)?

The screenshot is from the Season 5 finale, from when the MiB asked Jacob, “Do you know how much I want to kill you?” Now we finally have some idea why he felt that way, and also why he needed a loophole.

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