Watching Lost

I wasn’t able to catch this one, and you may have not seen it too. So, here’s the video to Eve’s guest appearance on Lettermen

Said by Josh Holloway in an interview with Company Magazine:

“The whole sex-symbol thing is really strange. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. I appreciate the opportunity to work, the cash it gives you, and other things it provides are wonderful. But the celebrity thing… I don’t like attention. Like anybody, it’s impossible not to feel self-conscious if someone’s looking at you all the time, everywhere you go. If someone approaches me and asked for a picture and I say no, then I’ll feel like an ass. But if I say OK, I’ll often end up doing another picture and another. Then my wife gets upset and we have a fight and that’s not good either.”

Awww.

Source: MSNBC

This is totally not related to the series in any way (or is it?) but how uncanny is it for this foundation to be named after a very integral character of Lost? And how amusing it is to read through the foundation’s thrust and find this:

• The John Locke Foundation, North Carolina’s leading think tank, seeks to protect individual liberty and promote innovative solutions to the problems North Carolinians worry about most. One of the most pressing needs is to protect citizens’ property rights from North Carolina’s extreme annexation law. Right now municipalities can forcibly annex areas for just about any reason and without any oversight, let alone say-so from property owners. Occasionally, public hearings will be held, but they are a big sham since municipalities have no reason to care about what affected property owners say. Furthermore, even though the state Supreme Court has ruled that the primary purpose of forced annexation is for municipalities to provide meaningful services to the annexed areas, they usually don’t have to provide water and sewer services within two years. And municipalities can violate the law’s procedural requirements so long as a court finds that the violation does not “materially prejudice the substantive rights” of the property owners.

Check the site out here.

Tipster: Kristin

Lost’s fifth season’s two-hour opening salvo did decent but was not good enough, as it goes up against a new series Lie to Me on Fox, Law and Order on NBC, CSI NY on CBS and 90210 on CW.

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JACK: Sorry you got dragged into this, but we need to know that you’re with us.
FRANK: Whatever you guys decide, I’ll just roll with.
JACK: Hurley, what about you?
HURLEY: I don’t think we should lie dude.
JACK: We need to protect the people that we left behind Hurley.
HURLEY: How does lying protect them?
JACK: It protects them from Charles Widmore. The guy hired a boatload of people to kill all of us, he faked a plane crash. I mean, you think telling him the truth, he’s just gonna, he’s gonna leave them alone?
HURLEY: Look, he’s your dad, right? Can’t you just, like, call him off?
PENNY: There’s no calling my father off.
HURLEY: But, he’ll never find them. I mean, the island disappeared. We all saw it. It’s gone.
JACK: You think anyone’s going to believe that? Believe any of it? They’re gonna think you’re crazy.
HURLEY: Not unless someone backs me up. Sayid, come on. They’ll think I’m nuts if I tell the truth, but what if we all do? I mean, if we can stick together, we can make them believe us. I don’t wanna spend the rest of my life lying. Do you?
SAYID: No. But, I don’t believe we have a better choice. I’m sorry Hurley, but we have to lie.
HURLEY: You know what dude? I’m gonna remember this. Then someday, you’re gonna need my help, and I’m telling you right now, you’re not getting it.

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BEN: Why don’t you close that up now, Jack? Come on. Let’s get him in the van. It’s out back.
JACK: Where are we taking him?
BEN: We’ll worry about that once we pick up Hugo.
JACK: (Sighs) Hurley… is locked away in a mental institution.
BEN: Which should make recruiting him considerably easier than the rest of your friends.
JACK: They’re not my friends anymore.
BEN: Oh, that’s the spirit.
JACK: How did we get here? How did all this happen?
BEN: It happened because you left, Jack. Now let’s get started, shall we?

SAWYER: Now talk.
FARADAY: The Island… think of the Island like a record spinning on a turntable, only now, that record is skipping. Whatever Ben Linus did down at the Orchid station I think… it may have… dislodged us.
MILES: Dislodged us from what?
FARADAY: Time.
JULIET: So that’s why our camp is gone? Because the Island is moving through time?
FARADAY: Yeah, either the Island is, or we are.
SAWYER: What?
FARADAY And it’s just as likely that we’re moving, your people and us. And everyone in your group–you’re all accounted for, right?
SAWYER: Not everyone. Locke.

WIDMORE: They only do what I tell them to do.
SUN: You. You had me brought in here? Why?
WIDMORE: You had the audacity to approach me in broad daylight in front of my business associates in public. Why did I have you brought here? Because you showed me no respect. I will be respected, Sun.
SUN: Fair enough.
WIDMORE: Since you seem to be worried about your plane, I’ll get right down to business. You mentioned that you and I had common interests. Why don’t you tell me exactly what they might be?
SUN: To kill Benjamin Linus.

LOCKE: What is this?
RICHARD: It’s a compass.
LOCKE: What does it do?
RICHARD: It points north, John. Look, I wish I had time to be more sensitive about this because it’s a lot to swallow, but you need to know it in order to do what you gotta do. So I’m just gonna say it, okay?  The only way to save the Island, John, is to get your people back here–the ones who left.
LOCKE: Jack, Kate. The chopper was headed for the boat. The boat–
RICHARD: No, they’re fine, John, and they’re already home, so you have to convince them to come back.
LOCKE: How am I supposed to do that?
RICHARD: You’re gonna have to die, John.

I love Lost a lot but I do get confused a lot of the times (that’s the fun part really). With a million characters in the series, sometimes it’s hard to follow every story line. And since the fourth season has ended several months ago, there is that tendency for me to forget where everyone is and what they were when we last saw them. Are you the same way, too?

Fortunately for us, TV Guide has come up with their….well, guide to each of the character’s storyline so far.

This should help when you begin watching the season premiere tonight:

• BENJAMIN LINUS (Michael Emerson)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF After moving the island with that “frozen donkey wheel” thing, Ben apparently left the island, since he pops up at the Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Home to offer Jack & Co. assistance in getting back to the island.
  WHAT’S NEXT Ben is in Los Angeles, and he has a mission. And… he has help from one familiar and a few unfamiliar faces.
• CHARLOTTE STAPLES LEWIS (Rebecca Mader)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Charlotte tells Daniel that she needs to stay on the island, so she can locate the place where she was born.
  WHAT’S NEXT That Charlotte-Daniel relationship is brought into sharper focus, as she begins to exhibit familiar behaviors.
• CLAIRE LITTLETON (Emilie de Ravin)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF A dazed and confused Claire wandered off in the middle of the night, leaving Aaron behind. Part of the Oceanic 6’s lie/story gave the baby a new mommy: Kate.
  WHAT’S NEXT Lindelof and Cuse have announced that De Ravin will not be a series regular in Season 5, but that Claire will return at some point.
• DANIEL FARADAY (Jeremy Davies)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Daniel was in a raft heading to the freighter when the sky went all crazy.
  WHAT’S NEXT It’s clear that Daniel has some extra insight into the island’s workings, which will come in handy as strange events begin to occur.
• DESMOND HUME (Henry Ian Cusick)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF His phone call to Penny spurred his unrequited love into action, and it’s ultimately her boat that saves the Oceanic 6, whom he bids farewell as they leave to fake their rescue story.
  WHAT’S NEXT He may be off the island, but Desmond will continue to be a crucial element of the show’s ongoing storylines in ways you might not have imagined.
• HUGO “HURLEY” REYES (Jorge Garcia)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Hugo’s post-island life takes place in the Santa Rosa mental institution, where a very grown-up-looking Walt visits him to ask why they’re all lying. Soon after, Sayid arrives to break him out of the loony bin.
  WHAT’S NEXT It will take a lot of convincing to get the jumpy Hurley to go back to the island.
• JACK SHEPHARD (Matthew Fox)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Sad Jack breaks into the Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Home on the day of the wake for Jeremy Bentham (aka John Locke). Ben surprises him there and tells him that everyone — including Locke’s corpse — have to return to the island together.
  WHAT’S NEXT Jack and Ben have a lot of work to do if they’re going to reassemble the Oceanic 6.
• JAMES “SAWYER” FORD (Josh Holloway)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF When the helicopter ran out of fuel because it was too heavy, Sawyer jumped out of the helicopter and swam back to the island, shirtless, where he met a sad Juliet on the beach just before the island disappeared.
  WHAT’S NEXT Lindelof and Cuse have dubbed the new episodes “the season of Sawyer,” saying that the focus will shift from the post-island Oceanic 6 to those left behind.
• JIN KWON (Daniel Dae Kim)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Freighter went boom with Jin onboard. It doesn’t look good for him, especially since we already know that Sun erected a gravestone for him back in Korea.
  WHAT’S NEXT But guess what? Kim is still a series regular! The producers have declined to say whether Jin is alive or dead, but as we all know, that hardly matters on Lost.
• JOHN LOCKE (Terry O’Quinn)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Now we know it was a pseudonymous Locke in the coffin, dead of an apparent suicide. Before he offed himself, though, he visited Jack and Kate to recruit them in a return trip to the island, where “very bad things” had happened since they left.
  WHAT’S NEXT A lot of time elapsed between the departure of the Oceanic 6 and the funeral of “Jeremy Bentham.” Locke’s role among those left behind — and those who were already there — will be significant.
• JULIET BURKE (Elizabeth Mitchell)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Juliet promises to stay behind to make sure everyone who wants to gets off the island. When she sees the freighter explode, she sits on the beach drowning her endless sorrows in a bottle of Dharma Initiative rum. She shares a significant smile with Sawyer when he washes ashore.
  WHAT’S NEXT Juliet knows more about the island than most; her former Other status will serve everyone well.
• KATE AUSTEN (Evangeline Lilly)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Kate tells Jack there’s no way she’s going back to the island. To reinforce this point, she is visited in a dream by Claire, who warns her, “Don’t you dare bring him back!”
  WHAT’S NEXT Someone knows the truth about Kate and Aaron, which prompts her into action.
• MICHAEL DAWSON (Harold Perrineau)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Michael was also on the doomed freighter, a suicide mission that he saw as his path to redemption.
  WHAT’S NEXT “I’m working for the same network so anything can happen,” Perrineau told the press while stumping for his new ABC cop dramedy The Unusuals. “You never know what Carlton and Damon are going to do.”
• MILES STRAUME (Ken Leung)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Miles unilaterally decides to stay on the island, why is unclear.
  WHAT’S NEXT Don’t forget why Miles was picked for the freighter team to begin with. He has some serious ghostbusting skills, and he will definitely use them.
• RICHARD ALPERT (Nestor Carbonell)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF The creepy, ageless Richard and his band of merry men helped Kate and Sayid subdue the freighter commandos, and welcomed Locke to the Others’ fold.
  WHAT’S NEXT At the winter-TV previews, Lindelof and Cuse reported that once CBS’ Cane was canceled, they immediately secured Carbonell’s services for the remainder of the series. Since he plays a big part in the Lost mythology, not doing so “would have been catastrophic,” says Lindelof.
• SAYID JARRAH (Naveen Andrews)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF The once-and-future assassin packs some heat to break Hurley out of Santa Rosa.
  WHAT’S NEXT Hurley and Sayid are on the run together, but toward what goal?
• SUN KWON (Yunjin Kim)
  WHERE WE LEFT OFF Embittered by the loss of her husband, Sun uses her Oceanic Air settlement to buy a controlling interest in her father’s company. Then, she pays a visit to the insidious Charles Widmore in London, and — shockingly — offers to help him.
  WHAT’S NEXT Sun and Widmore’s “common interests” become clearer. Not as clear are Sun’s intentions.

It is finally here!

Just to remind everyone, it’s going to be a three hour Lost fest on ABC tonight beginning with the recap show at 8:00 PM, followed by the first episode for Season 5, Because You Left, at 9:00 PM. The second episode, The Lie, will close the third hour at 10:00 PM.

The press release follows after the cut….

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Are we going to see Dominic play Merry again? With the filming of The Hobbit set in plans, talks about other hobbitses return to Middle Earth are ripe. Here’s what Dominic said about reprising the role that made him famous and well-loved to MTV, after the cut…

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Evangeline Lilly has already made plans when Lost is done in 2010. The actress is considering an early retirement from acting. Speaking before the press, the actress said quite a handful about her past, present and future after Lost —-

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Fresh video interview with Michael Emerson from Watch With Kristin on E!

Here’s a feature from NY Times about Gregg Nations, Lost’s producer and script coordinator who knows where everything is, the backbone of Lost, better than its series creators do.

A co-producer and the show’s longtime script coordinator, Mr. Nations has become the keeper of what has been found on “Lost,” charged with tracking everything that has happened and will happen to the characters on and off the island, in addition to charting the many mysterious characteristics of the island itself.

While most television series maintain a so-called bible — a guide to characters and plotlines that are developed by the creators but revealed over multiple seasons — few if any shows have twists and turns as byzantine as those on “Lost.”

And unlike many jobs, which get easier as the material becomes more familiar, this one has become exponentially more complicated and challenging with each new episode. That will be particularly true this season, when the island itself starts moving through time as the people who seem to be the guardians of its secrets try to protect it from a shadowy conspirator who could have darker uses for its powers.

Before the show’s premiere in September 2004, the producers were unsure that “Lost” would last beyond a few episodes. They therefore spent little time keeping track of the interlocking, overlapping and often confounding story lines that began to emerge even in the first episode.

But when the series proved to be an out-of-the-gate hit, “we quickly realized we needed some system to keep track of all the details, that we weren’t going to be able to do that by memory,” said Carlton Cuse, one of the show’s executive producers.

Enter Mr. Nations, who has now compiled an archive that, were he ever to print it out, might — as he put it in an interview at the “Lost” production offices on Disney’s Burbank studio lot — give “War and Peace” a run for its money.

Read more of it here: Television - Gregg Nations’s Job - Keeping ‘Lost’ on Track - NYTimes.com

Revealed at ABC’s TCA Press Tour earlier today with Carton Cuse and Damon Lindelof —

• Cuse confirms that “you’ll definitely see Jin this season… He’s a series regular.”

A lot of people have been wondering about it because Daniel Dae Kim was not in any of the photo shoots and publicity released last month. Of course, this doesn’t say in what shape or form we’ll see Jin. But we will be seeing him, that’s what counts.

For more revelation on the upcoming season 5 premiere, read this live blog transcripts from Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly.

Michael Emerson talks to New York Magazine about what’s ahead for Ben in Season 5. Some spoiler alert in store though…

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