Watching Lost

Yup, I know…I know… tonight, we’re going to get our minds all confused again, as the ninth episode returns. But before you sit down in front of the TV later, why not check out these links first and build the excitement up:

1. Play the newest Lost interactive game: LOSTscape. I haven’t tried but those who do will stand to win amazing prizes like a trip to the upcoming Comic-Con in San Diego in the summer. This trip includes plane tickets and hotel accommodation for two, plus a meet and greet with the cast members. It’s pretty cool! Participants have to look for 34 items (which bear clips and sneak peeks, too!) to be eligible for a chance to win the prize.

2. Watch tons of sneak peeks of The Shape of Things To Come on E! I did not try to click on any of the videos, though. Didn’t want to spoil myself. Incidentally, there are plenty of other interviews from the cast of Lost on the E! website:

• Yun Jin Kim
• Rebecca Mader
• Daniel Dae Kim

3. Read Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with Lost Producers Lindelof and Cuse … and another one with the AV Club

(Excerpts to the interview)

Kimmel: Do you have one jerk on staff whose job it is to come up with all of Sawyer’s nicknames?
Cuse: I wouldn’t call him a jerk. [Laughs] I’d call him one of our most valued writers, and his name is Eddy Kitsis.
Lindelof: And Adam [Horowitz], too. They both come up with a whole cavalcade of them.

Kimmel: Is the person in the coffin someone who’s not from the island?
Lindelof: [To Cuse] Tread lightly.
Cuse: You will know who’s in the coffin before the season is over, and it will not be like, “Who’s that person?”
Lindelof: The only people you can rule out, based on what you saw in last year’s finale, are Kate and Jack.

Kimmel: And the baby, just based on the size.
Cuse: Yeah, it’s too big a coffin for a baby.

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AVC: You mentioned the road map you generally have for each season. How detailed is the map for the rest of the series?

CC: The most liberating and significant event that’s happened for us was getting an end date for the show, negotiated with the studio and the network. Before that, Damon and I didn’t know if the mythology we’d created was supposed to sustain us over two seasons or six seasons, so it was very hard for us to do any sort of planning. But once we agreed upon a number of episodes before we were going to end the show, then we were able to start a situation where we could sketch out the rest. Once we finish writing the finale, we’ll have a mini-camp on season five. We have a mini-camp every year, but because we’re getting close enough to the end, the mini-camp on season five will also involve a lot of discussion about what’s going to go on in season six.

AVC: Do you both already know what’s going to go on?

DL: Do we know the absolute end of the show? Yeah. We’ve had that in mind for quite some time. But can we hand you a script for the last episode of the show right now? No, because there are market fluctuations that we are unaware of at this point. Certain characters that you want to write more for sort of wear out their welcome sooner rather than later. New characters are introduced, and pop in unexpected ways. The essential nature of that last episode is more specifically about what the last three or four scenes are, and us working toward those has always remained pretty constant.

Enjoy tonight!

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