Watching Lost

Here’s a portion of an interview with Jorge Garcia on TV Guide. If you want to read the entire article, click here.

TVGuide.com: Now, what do you make of Desmond’s recent flashback episode?
Jorge Garcia: As to what is Desmond’s power, and is Charlie really destined to die? Well, I think they’re just flashes. I’ve heard people talk about him “traveling through time,” and I don’t know if it really matters whether he’s traveling through time or just seeing it all as a flash, because the experience he’s feeling is the same, as if this has happened before and this is going to happen now. As to the logistics of, like, what exactly is happening, this may sound a little weird but I think it’s independent of the information that he’s getting. What I like about it is it kind of harkens back to our more Twilight Zoney episodes, and The Twilight Zone has always been a huge influence on the show. Like in the pilot, when you hear the looping message that had been playing for 16 years….

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There will be a new lady in the world of Lost, Marsha Thomason. Michael Ausiello reports the following:

Exclusive: Lost Finds Las Vegas Babe!
Marsha Thomason has hit the jackpot!

The former Las Vegas bombshell — who has maintained a relatively low profile since leaving the NBC drama two years ago — has scored a recurring role on Lost. She’ll first show up in late April/early May.

Lost, Marsha Thomason

Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis helped write tonight’s episode, and while talking about their episode, they gave a little bit og information about what we can expect from the remainder of the season. According to TV Squad:

The writers teased that “the question on everyone’s mind” concerning Locke would be resolved in an upcoming episode, and that new plotlines would open up for the mysterious character. In addition to the Locke episode, Season Three will include flashbacks for Claire, Sayid, Paulo, and Nikki.

Cuse and Lindelof said that Paulo and Nikki would become important to us fans, so I’m guessing their flashbacks will give us some insight into why it was so crucial for them to be introduced this season.

Lost, Locke, Claire, Sayid, Nikki, Paulo

Well, for that I have no real answer, but the actress playing Tricia Tanaka is Sung Hi Lee. The Tail Section speculates that, since this is a Hurley-centric episode, maybe Tricia Tanaka was someone who died in the deck collapsing incident. As I’ve already reported, Cheech Marin will appear as Hurley’s dad. There is more information on that and some other interesting thoughts in The Tail Section’s full post. If you’re interested, check it out here.

Lost, Hurley, Sung Hi Lee, Tricia Tanaka, Cheech Marin

According the The Tail Section, here’s what’s coming up on this week’s episode.

February 28th - LOST - Tricia Tanaka Is Dead

Hurley centric. Basically, Hurley finds the Dharma party bus and tries to formulate a plan to get it back to the beach. Kate and Sawyer also arrive back in this episode. The flashback is rumored to feature an identical van (sans Dharma logo.) Cheech Marin plays Hurley’s dad in this episode and the flashback will feature a younger Hurley for part of the story. The question of whether or not Skate can hold up without captivity will be answered. Danielle will also reappear in this episode which should be interesting since Kate and Sawyer are bringing Alex’s boyfriend back to the beach camp. Will she get an update? That remains to be seen.

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According to BuddyTV and contrary to what producers have said before, Harold Perrineau, the actor who plays Michael, may not be returning to Lost.

Seems LOST’s Perrineau was deep in negotiations to reprise his role as Michael in season four of LOST, but in the words of Hollywood Reporter “…an agreement could not be reached.” Perrineau has since busied himself with film roles such as 28 Weeks Later (the sequel to the horror film 28 Days Later) and more recently has signed on to a potentially long term contract with CBS which kicks off with the pilot for ‘Demons’, a primetime horror offering which has Perrineau cast as one half of a team of monster hunting priests.

Check out the entire article here.

Lost, Michael, Harold Perrineau

After last week’s action-packed, mind-boggling episode, I have to admit that this week’s episode was a little bit of a letdown. We were told we were going to learn about three of Lost’s mysteries, but I only counted two: Jack’s tattoos and the children. Did I miss one??

The episode begins with Kate, Sawyer, and Karl on the boat. Kate wants to go back to rescue Jack. Sawyer thinks she’s crazy. We find out from Karl that the Alcatraz island is where the Others work, not where they live. They live on the same island as the Losties. Karl tells them that they took the kids to “give them a better life.” Later, Sawyer finds Karl crying over Alex in the jungle. Sawyer tells Karl to go back and get her, but Karl says he’ll be killed if he goes back. The most touching moment between Kate and Sawyer came at the end when Sawyer told Kate that he knows she feels guilty for sleeping with him. He says he knows she only slept with him because she thought he was going to die. Kate doesn’t deny it, but she does look hurt.

Back on Alcatraz Island, Jack is moved from his cell into Sawyer’s cage outside. Juliet is placed in Jack’s old cell because “she’s in trouble” for killing Pickett. Juliet wants Jack to help Ben because his stitches are infected. Jack says he won’t help Ben or Juliet, but then he figures out that Ben is still ultimately in charge, and Jack wants to try to help save Juliet, so he ends up offering to help Ben if Juliet won’t be executed. Ben writes a note to Isabel (see below) telling her not to kill Juliet, just “mark” her. When Jack sees Juliet later, she has this weird star-shaped mark on her. He puts some aloe on it for her, and she tells him that they’re all going to be leaving this island soon to go back to what Ben calls “home.”

Later, Jack wakes up in his cage with a bunch of people staring at him. One is Cindy, the stewardess. She tells him that they’re there to watch. One of the children (so I guess we know they’re okay-that’s the answered mystery?) comes over and wants to know how Ana Lucia’s doing. Jack yells at them to go away, and they all look thoroughly perplexed. So, have they been brainwashed or something? I was very confused.

Jack’s flashback was pretty anti-climactic for me. He’s in Thailand (I think it was supposed to be Thailand). A little boy sells him a drink on the beach, and the boy seems fond of Jack. Jack’s trying to put a kite together, and Achara (Bai Ling) comes over to help. They start up a little relationship, but he knows nothing about her. At one point, a man gives her an envelope full of apparently money. I’m thinking she’s a prostitute, of course; she says that she has “a gift.” Later, we find out that her gift is the ability to see who people are. Her tattoos aren’t decoration; they’re definition. She says, “I see who people are, and I mark them.” Ooookaaay. She tells him that he is a leader and a great man, but this makes him lonely and angry. He asks her to mark him, but she says it’s against her people and that there will be consequences, but she does it anyway. And, boy, what consequences! The next day some men come and beat Jack unmercifully as Achara watches in tears. They tell him to leave the country. So, what did those tattoos mean? Well, we find out a little later, but it still doesn’t explain the beating.

A new character showed up – Isabel, aka The Sheriff. She’s not a very nice person. She knows what Jack’s tattoos say, and she says they’re very ironic. She’s almost taunting him about them. As the Others are getting ready to leave the island to go “home,” Isabel reads Jack’s tattoos: He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us. Jack replies, “That’s what they say, but that’s not what they mean.” So, what DO they mean?? It would work well if that’s really what they mean, don’t you think??

Lost, Stranger in a Strange Land, Jack, Achara, Bai Ling, tattoos, Isabel, Juliet, The Sheriff

“…but he is not one of us.”

So, that’s what Jack’s tattoos say, huh? Still, I don’t understand how those words mean that Jack should get the living daylights beaten out of him, but maybe that’s one of the many mysteries of the show. Which reminds me that we were supposed to get answers to three “Lost mysteries” last night. I figure that one was the tattoos, and the other was what happened to the children (which we still don’t really know, by the way). What was the third one?

I’m working on a recap, and I’ll have that for you a little later!

Lost, Stranger in a Strange Land, Jack, tattoos

This is what Damon Lindelof would call the assumption that all character flashbacks have been time travels. DocArzt over at The Tail Section wants us all to be clear on that.

Also, Jeff Jensen at Entertainment Weekly discusses “Flashes Before Your Eyes.” Here’s a little taste:

This trippy tale of time travel and romantic fatalism seems to have inflicted a Perplexity Pox upon the Lost Nation. Symptoms: head-scratching, head-shaking, just plain headaches. Did Desmond really travel through time — or was it all a hallucination? What was up with Ms. Hawking, the creepy old lady in the ring store who knew everything about Desmond’s unstuck-in-time plight? And how does any of this explain Desmond’s flashes-of-the-future, which portend to purport Charlie’s certain death? My interactions with Lost watchers this week have turned into proverbial house calls: ”What was that about?! Do you have ANY idea?!”

And of course I do. Several ideas — and one wild theory. First, however, let’s establish some context, including a clarification or two from the co-writer of the episode, executive producer Damon Lindelof:

1. The episode is essentially an ironic riff on some Big Ideas put forth by Desmond’s namesake, the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Those big ideas include a skeptical posture regarding the notions of interlocking cause-and-effect and seemingly miraculous phenomenon.
2. According to Lindelof, the events that transpired in Desmond’s flashback ”did NOT happen ‘’solely in Desmond’s imagination.”
3. If Desmond truly did travel back in time, says Lindelof, then ”ANY changes he made during this series of ‘flashbacks’ indeed DID happen… and thusly, the ramifications of said changes might reverberate later.”
4. It would be a faulty leap in logic to assume that because Desmond’s flashbacks were a form of time travel, then ALL flashbacks on Lost have been a form of time travel. ”I don’t really see anything in the show to support that,” says Lindelof.
5. Otherwise, the episode is open to interpretation.

Jensen is also great with theories. He has several concerning “Flashes Before Your Eyes.” I’ll give you the “nutshell” versions and you can read the rest for yourself if you’re interested.

THE ”IT’S IN THE TITLE, STUPID” HYPOTHESIS
IN A NUTSHELL: Desmond never really traveled back in time.

THE MINDF— HYPOTHESIS (Doc Jensen’s Paranoid Conspiracy Theory of the Week!)
IN A NUTSHELL: Desmond really didn’t travel through time, and he really doesn’t have precognitive powers — but he’s been brainwashed into thinking otherwise.

THE DR. MANHATTAN HYPOTHESIS (also known as: The ”Desmond Goes Jedi” Conjecture)
IN A NUTSHELL: Desmond really did travel backward — and forward — in time.

THE ”DESMOND IS GOD” POSTULATION (Doc Jensen’s ”Leave ‘em even more confused than they were before” theory of the week!)
IN A NUTSHELL: The point of ”Flashes Before Your Eyes” wasn’t to suggest that Desmond traveled through time, or that he was brainwashed by Dharma or The Others — it was to suggest that Desmond is subconsciously shaping reality on The Island, and by extension — the history of the world!

For the entire article and full explanations of Jensen’s theories, click here.

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Michael Ausiello, as usual, has some great scoop for us. Aside from some of the annoying comments, there’s some good stuff concerning the “game-changer,” Lost’s becoming fun again, Hurley and Libby, Vincent, and Kate and Sawyer. Check it out after the jump.
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This quote from Lost producer Damon Lindelof certainly lets me know that last week’s mind-blowing episode was just the beginning of great things to expect from our beloved Lost. Kristin at E!Online sat down with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and got some great scoop from them. Check it out after the jump.
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That has a nice ring to it, huh? Way back during the long hiatus, I posted a couple of times about Jack’s flashbacks. With the upcoming episode focusing on Jack, I thought your memory might need to be refreshed. This post features an interview with Jack’s Thailand mistress Bai Ling (pictured). I think it’s just what you’ll need to get excited for Wednesday’s episode!

Lost, Jack, Bai Ling, flashback

Here’s what we can expect:

February 21st - LOST - Stranger in a Strange Land

Jack centric episode is going to explain exactly why Jack got his tattoos and what they mean. A lot of people mock the importance of this flashback, personally I think being branded by someone who claims to be able to look into your soul has some pretty interesting possibilities as far as the island side of things go. Cindy, along with the rest of the tailsection folk that were kidnapped by the others, show up and seem to be pretty content. Are we going to find out why they are content? probably not. This episode closes the book on Jack for at least a couple of episodes so look for it end with a heck of a cliff-hanger as far as the good Doc is concerned.

Source: The Tail Section

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Here are some of the most interesting quotes from fan discussions over at Pop Candy. Enjoy!

Posted by: JazzMatt727
So my theory: We know from Desmond’s first episode that he maintained communication with Penny after they separated…or at least tried to. Is it possible that maybe Desmond told Penny about the Island and that’s how she knew to look for it? I mean how else would she know that Desmond was on a remote island somewhere in the Pacific? I think he told her that he would be stranded there and that she should look for a large burst of electromagnetic energy.

Posted by: foote23uk
Having just moved back home from Edinburgh, Scotland, I had some college courses there in “David Hume Tower”….if you noticed, the jeweler called him “Desmond David Hume”-not to insult any intelligences, but David Hume is a Scottish philosopher, historian, & economist-go to wikipedia & search his name b/c it’s very interesting….especially the part titled “Free will versus determinism”….

Posted by: RobMGA
One cool thing no one has said yet is that when Charlie appears as a street musician in Desmond’s flashback he’s singing Wonderwall by Oasis. These lyrics, which Charlie sings right around the time a confused Desmond shows up, are just slightly pertinent: “I said maybe / You’re gonna be the one that saves me..” Turns out Desmond isn’t the only one with amazing foresight, eh?

So, what do you think? There are many more here if you want to check them out!

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TeenTelevision did an interview with Jorge Garcia who plays Hurley, and Garcia gives a little bit of information about what’s going to happen with Hurley in upcoming episodes.

The fourth episode on February 28th is really Hurley-centric. You haven’t really seen him grieve since Libby died so we kind of come back to that and it deals with Hurley and his dad and has someone playing Hurley as a young boy.

Well, we know what the fourth episode flashback will be, but not much else. I already reported that Cheech Marin will be playing Hurley’s dad. There’s not much more scoop about Lost, but if you’re interested in the rest of the article, you can check it out here.

Source: The Lost Blog

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