Monthly Archives: November 2009

Author of the chessboard poem in the Spanish LOST promo

Posted on November 30, 2009 | 16 comments
Hand placing four-toed statue on chessboard (Detail from Cuatro LOST Season 6 promo)

Hand placing four-toed statue on chessboard (Detail from Cuatro Season 6 promo)

The Spanish station Cuatro, which ran the hauntingly beautiful chess-themed LOST Season 6 promo, announced a contest earlier today based on that promo.

Here’s my translation of what Cuatro posted on its site, done with my semi-remembered high school/college Spanish, with a lot of help from Google Translate. It may not be 100% accurate, but I think it’s close enough:

Carlton Cuse, the creator and writer of LOST, just sent a Twitter message saying that the promo Cuatro made for the final season of the series is the best LOST promo he has seen.

We propose a game based on the promo. The original text was not written by Cuatro. Can you tell us who the author is and what work it is from? Answer the question here, and get a photo signed by the stars of the series. The first person with the correct answer will get the prize.

To participate in the contest, you must be registered on the Cuatro site with your full name, address, phone, and email.

At the time I saw this post on the Cuatro site, there were already 11 pages of answers! It’s too late to win, but if you are playing along at home, the answer is below:
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Posted in Chess promo (Cuatro), Destiny versus Free Will, Opening Scene of Season 5 Finale, Season 6

Deleted scene from 5×09 Namaste, with Juliet and Miles

Posted on November 30, 2009 | Leave a comment

Juliet is looking for Sawyer. She asks Miles, down in the security office, if he’s seen him. Miles turns on the video monitors, and there, in black-and-white, they see — The Visitors! Oh no! Lizard people! Run!

I keeed, I keeed. Just watch:

The video clip is a sneak peek from the Season 5 DVD set, courtesy of Buena Vista Home Entertainment. ©ABC Studios

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Posted in 5x09 Namaste, Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), Miles (Ken Leung), Season 5 DVD extras

Life is a Chessboard — a Season 6 promo from Spain

Posted on November 29, 2009 | 1 comment

Proving once again that other country’s LOST promos are much cooler than our own, this promo from Spain presents the LOST characters as pieces on a chessboard, while a narrator recites this poem:

The wise man said
Life is a chessboard
of nights and days
where men are pawns of God
moved here and there
God allows them to kill
and kills
and piece by piece
he puts them back in the box
because there’s a destiny for every piece
for every player
and for God

Sl-LOST posted the video, translated the narration, and added the subtitles. Via TVOvermind.

Update 11/30/09: Post added with info about the author and source of the chessboard poem.

Update 2/20/10: The original promo has been pulled from YouTube, but there are two versions in English that are available, at least for now.

I’ve also posted a video showing how the promo was made.

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Posted in Chess promo (Cuatro), Season 6

Caption contest winner

Posted on November 29, 2009 | 4 comments

What is Hurley saying?

What is Hurley saying?

Thanks so much to everyone who entered the caption contest.

The entries had references to food, the numbers, code 14-J, Mommies and Daddies, the Oceanic 6, Jacob, Ben, famous telephone catch phrases — and an old Allan Sherman song.

The Winner

The Season 5 Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit goes to Jon for this caption:.

I’d like to order a super-sized pallet of Dharma-Pockets for the next Resupply Drop. Dude, How can you be OUT?

That sounds like something Hurley might really say. And it brought back fond memories of one of the greatest moments of Season 5, when Hurley threw a Hot Pocket at Ben:

First runner-up is Geraldine for another food-related line:

Uh, dudes? They said the pizza will take, like, 4200 hours to get here. Maybe we should try Mr. Cluck’s instead? I have an in.

Hurley does look like he is trying to order a pizza in the picture. Too bad even Domino’s couldn’t guarantee on-time delivery when the destination is Crazy Island.

Mags Magoon is second runner-up for his caption which uses all the numbers:

Yeah, we saw your message on a bathroom wall…for a good time, dial (481) 516-2342…

I’d hate to see what would happen if that call was ever answered.

You can see all the entries on the contest post. Thanks again to everyone who entered!

Publicity photo of Jack, Hurley, and Sayid, and the Dharma Initiative kit prize are courtesy of Buena Vista Home Entertainment. ©ABC Studios

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Last chance to enter the contest and win deluxe Season 5 DVD set

Posted on November 28, 2009 | Leave a comment

Season 5 Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit

The contest ends tonight (Saturday) at midnight, Pacific time.

Only a few hours left!

Great prize — collector’s edition of Season 5 DVD set with lots of extras.

Enter here: LOST for a Reason Photo Caption Contest

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Behind the scenes at ‘The Variable’ gunfight

Posted on November 27, 2009 | Leave a comment

This is the third sneak peek from the Season 5 DVD.

It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the Jack-Kate-Faraday-Radzinsky shoot-out scene in 5×14 The Variable.

Jeremey Davies (Faraday) says

I’m not a fan of weapons. I’m not a fan of gunfire. I’d rather watch Evie shoot a gun, or hand her my gun. I’m glad that they didn’t have me suddenly turn into Action Figure Faraday … although I would like to see that.

He’s so adorable.

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Damon asks, “What if Oceanic 815 never crashed?”

Posted on November 25, 2009 | Leave a comment

Here’s another sneak peek from the Season 5 DVDs. It’s about Daniel Faraday, the Jughead bomb, time travel, and other Season 5 themes and concerns.

Listen, at the very end of the clip, where Damon Lindelof says:

We wanted to flirt with the idea of the erase button, of the do over. We thought this was a really cool place to bring the finale, which is, what if Oceanic 815 never crashed?

How much of a hint is that to what’s going to happen in Season 6?

Is it a hint that Season 6 really is going to be about an alternate timeline where Oceanic 815 will land intact in Los Angeles, as many fans already believe?

Or is this a bit of misdirection, to divert us from the writers’ actual plans, so that come next season, we will be surprised? When Damon says they wanted “to flirt” with the questions of Oceanic 815 never crashing, does he mean the kind of flirtation that will never be consummated?

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Posted in Alternate timeline, Damon and Carlton, Season 5 DVD extras, Season 6