Dominic Monaghan at Comic-Con holding up hand which appears to say "Am I Alive?"
E! Online is saying that they have exclusive info, from unnamed sources, that Charlie, played by Dominic Monaghan, will be back for three more episodes.
Photo of Dominic Monaghan from SL-Lost.
Posted in Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Season 6
Jacob and Esau watch the ship approach
I’m working on a new grand theory of almost everything (ha!), and when I think about that, I find myself drawn back again to the first scene of the Season 5 Finale. There’s so much packed into that scene which seems to provide critical clues to what LOST is really all about.
In particular, I wanted to look more closely at one bit of the scene, the part where Jacob and Esau (the Man in Black) talk about the approach of the sailing ship.
Jacob: I take it you’re here because of the ship.
Esau: I am. (Pause) How did they find the Island?
Jacob: You’ll have to ask them when they get here.
Esau: I don’t have to ask. (Looks at Jacob) You brought them here. (Pause) Still trying to prove me wrong, aren’t you?
Jacob: You are wrong.
Esau: Am I? (Pause) They come, fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same.
Jacob: It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.
What conclusions can be drawn from that?
1. Jacob has the power to bring people to the Island — or at least Esau thinks that he does.
2. This is not the first group of people to come to the Island. Esau, sounding weary, says it “always ends the same,” which implies that similar scenarios have happened many times before.
3. Either Jacob and Esau are in a time loop, and the fighting, destroying, and corrupting groups that Esau refers to are groups from the future (the Others, the Dharma Initiative, the 815-ers), or else Jacob and Esau have been on the Island for a very long time, long enough to see many other groups come and go in the past. I’m betting on the second scenario.
4 There is some sort of linear progression. Jacob says “It only ends once.” Even if time loops are involved, we are still dealing with a story that has a beginning, a middle, and most importantly, an end.
5. Jacob believes that Esau is wrong about something, and though we don’t know exactly what, we know that Esau is cynical, world-weary, and resigned, and expects nothing but trouble from the many visitors to the Island. Jacob expects something more. But what is it that he expects?
I believe that LOST is a story about redemption and atonement. I think that is what Jacob is working towards, and that is why he keeps on bringing groups to the Island, over and over until some group finally gets it right. (I’ll be writing more about this later, as I work out my theory.)
Here’s a clip of the scene. Each time I’ve watched it, I’ve noticed something new:
Nestor Carbonell's Eyes
Alpert, the mysterious character who never ages, will be playing a large role in Season 6.
Nestor Carbonell told TV Guide that he will be appearing in 16 out of the 18 episodes of the final season.
LOST is notorious for not telling the actors what is going to happen in advance, and Nestor says he is “most curious to know” how old Alpert is.
So are we.
Picture of Carbonell’s lushly-lashed eyes cropped from Lostpedia.
This video from ABC shows highlights of what happened before, during, and after the LOST Comic-Con panel.
Fans camped out 13 hours before the panel started, the painting-on-velvet guy plugged his website, and Josh Holloway, Michael Emerson, Nestor Carbonell, Jorge Garcia, and Darlton all chimed in with comments.
Damon and a Hurley impersonator have good ideas for what to do after the show is over:
Posted in Comic-Con 2009, Interviews
A bit of this was excerpted in the Comic-Con montage of fan-made movies. Here’s the whole thing. Very clever editing!
Video by crazymol4588
Posted in Fan-made videos, Funny
LOST Season 6 promo poster, shown at Comic-Con
When a fan first posted video on YouTube which showed the whole LOST event at Comic-Con, ABC asked that the parts showing the video segments played during the panel be removed.
Those segments are now showing up separately on YouTube. But they might get pulled too, so enjoy them while you can.
I think this is all of them, except for the one showing the winner of the theme song contest, but if I find any more, I will post them.
This is an ad for Lost University. Enrollment begins on September 22:
This is Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative, a fake quasi-documentary TV show (a take-off on Unexplained Mysteries?) narrated in conspiracy-theory tones. It’s the first in a series, and ABC will be releasing more.
They revealed the promo poster for Season 6:
Here’s a montage of fan-created content, some of it very funny:
Here’s another funny one, Michael Emerson’s fake audition tape for the role of Hurley:
Here are two fake ads which, along with the Kate on America’s Most Wanted clip, seem to have come from an alternate timeline. In the first, Hurley appears as the owner and CEO of Mr. Cluck’s, a fast-food chicken place, plugging a new dish inspired by his “recent trip to Australia.” Best line: “Ever since I won the lottery, I’ve had nothing but good luck.” The other ad is from Oceanic Airlines (motto “Our skies lead to your destiny”), proudly proclaiming “30 years with a perfect safety record.”
This video, done in the style of the annual tribute on the Oscars to notable people who have passed away, is “In Memory of” LOST characters who have died. The longest tribute is to Charlie, which may very well be meant as a tease, if the rumors that Charlie is coming back are true.
The promo poster is from Lostpedia.
Videos are from latestlost, Imager123, Tostie14, ODI TV Spoilers, Laezydaezy, and TVOvermind.
Kate on "America's Most Wanted"
In this fake episode of America’s Most Wanted, shown at yesterday’s Comic-Con LOST panel, the show’s host claims that the night Kate blew up her father’s house, her father wasn’t there, but instead had sent his apprentice, Ryan Milner, to the house to lock up. It was Ryan, the host says, not Kate’s father Wayne, who was killed in the explosion.
What to make of this? I see three possibilities:
1. The video does not provide reliable information about the show — it is not “canon.” Comic-con videos have misled fans in the past, or
2. The writers led us to believe that Kate killed Wayne, but that may have been a clever bit of misdirection, prompting us to jump to conclusions that may not have actually been in the script. (Maybe someone who has a better memory than I do of the early shows can confirm if this is even possible), or
3. Kate did kill Wayne and there was no misdirection, but the America’s Most Wanted video came from an alternate (parallel?) time, one which we may enter in Season 6.
Video is by Jopinionated from DocArzt and TV Overmind.
Speaking of TV Overmind, I recently contributed an article there, about the hunkalicious Gilles Marini, of “Sex and the City” and “Dancing With the Stars” fame, who is now exploring a new talent: Gilles Marini Finds His Voice
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