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“Community” Christmas special takes a swipe at LOST

Posted on December 10, 2010 | 1 Comment

The TV comedy Community took a swipe at LOST in this stop-motion animated episode (Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas).

In Santa’s workshop, Abed and Pierce look for the meaning of Christmas. A gift tag on a box promises that they can find the meaning inside. Inside the box is another box, and then another, and another. Finally Abed finds the gift inside, takes it out, and looks at it:

Abed: It’s the first season of LOST on DVD.

Pierce: That’s the meaning of Christmas?

Abed: No, it’s a metaphor. It represents lack of payoff.

Ouch. Damon Lindelof responded on Twitter and had the following exchange with Dan Harmon, Community‘s creator:

Damon: Okay, COMMUNITY. It’s ON!!!! Now if only I had a show to zing you back. And if only you weren’t awesome. Sigh…

Dan Harmon: @DamonLindelof Oh, man, Did not want you guys to see that! Relieved you are a good sport. Thank you for the flattery. Owe you a drink.

Damon: @danharmon Been a fan since CHANNEL 101, sir. There is no honor greater than being roasted. But I AM taking you up on that drink.

Dan Harmon: @DamonLindelof “a fan since channel 101?” WHAT?! That’s great. Maybe if we go out, @HartHanson will get jealous and leave his cabin.

Damon: @danharmon Two words. Laser. Fart.

Dan Harmon: Ahhhhh, I THOUGHT I detected a slight influence!

via SL-LOST

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Damon Lindelof apologizes to LOST fans who hated the ending

Posted on December 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

Damon Lindelof

Still catching up on the LOST news … a couple of weeks ago, Damon Lindelof wrote in The Daily Beast:

The most awesome part about being one of the primary storytellers of a popular television show is hearing how much its most loyal fans hate it.

Oh. Wait. It’s actually not awesome. It hurts like hell.

I know—boo hoo for me. That’s the price of doing business, isn’t it? If I’m asking you to invest your time and attention in a story I’m telling, it’s your right to tell me that you hate that story.

You just don’t get to call yourself a “fan.”

At least that is what I had always believed.

He changed his mind after watching the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, which he hated, despite being a Harry Potter fan. When he left the theater, his brain was churning:

As I staggered out into the parking lot, my brain was deftly trying to resolve a deep and complicated paradox: If I loved the book, and the movie was an incredibly loyal adaptation of that book…

How could I possibly hate the movie? And even more distressing…

Based on the careful emotional logic I’d been using to insulate myself from the slings and arrows of “Why didn’t you people answer any goddamn questions?” and “A golden light in the middle of the island? SERIOUSLY?!?”, if I hated the movie…

Did that mean I was no longer a fan?

He turned it over in his mind, in the parking lot, and came to a conclusion:

I still love Harry Potter. Deeply and profoundly… I’m still a fan. A huge fan. Huge.

And so I sincerely and genuinely apologize to all those whom I have stripped of their Lost fandom just for complaining about the stuff you didn’t like. It doesn’t make you any less a fan. In fact…

It just makes you honest.

I respect that. And I’m genuinely sorry for ever feeling otherwise.

Source: The Daily Beast

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Carlton Cuse has a new project

Posted on December 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Carlton Cuse

Carlton Cuse — half of the LOST writing/producing team Darlton — is working with Secretariat director Randall Wallace on a script for a television drama set in the Civil War era, called “Point of Honor.”

Variety says:

The two are keeping mum on details other than to say it will be a story focusing more on fictional characters than on historical figures. It’s envisioned as a serialized saga with a clear-cut “beginning, middle and end,” Cuse said — a storytelling form he knows well from “Lost.”

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More new projects for LOST alum

Posted on November 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

Jeremy Davis as Daniel Faraday

Here are a couple more recently-announced new projects, one involving a LOST actor, and the other LOST producers. (via sl-LOST)

Jeremy Davies (Daniel Faraday) will be joining the Season 2 cast of FX’s Justified, playing a recurring role as the Marshall’s nemesis. The new season starts in February, 2011. (via Hollywood Reporter)

I’ve never seen Justified, so I have no opinion on this. Has anyone seen it? Is it good?

LOST’s executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis have created a new show called Once Upon a Time that will be on ABC. The starting date has apparently not yet been announced.

According to Variety, it’s a modern take on fairy tales, a mix of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, with a female protagonist from a “unique” background.

Despite the fairy tale premise, show will have a strong human emotional center. Similar to “Lost,” there will be a large ensemble.

Sounds intriguing.

Horowitz and Kitsis came up with the idea seven years ago, before getting involved in LOST, and then put it on the back burner until LOST was over.

Bringing even more LOST flavor to the project, Damon Lindelof will consult on the show! (I just hope he doesn’t write the ending.) (Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I’m actually excited about this one — it sounds like it could be a winner, especially if they can develop the ensemble concept even half as well as they did on LOST.)

(Via Variety)

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Cast red carpet interviews at the Scream Awards

Posted on October 19, 2010 | Leave a comment

Another video from the red (actually silver) carpet, featuring quick takes from Jorge Garcia, Darlton, Henry Ian Cusick, Malcolm David Kelley, and a cameo from rocker Marilyn Manson:

SCREAM 2010 Talks Lost! | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com

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Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse interviewed on the red carpet at the Scream Awards

Posted on October 19, 2010 | Leave a comment

Damon and Carlton are a bit hard to hear in this. There’s a lot of screaming in the background, which is odd, but I guess appropriate because it is, after all, the “Scream Awards.”

They’re asked if they are going to work together again, and Carlton says that hopefully they will find something to do together “sooner, rather than later.” Also, Damon talks about “Star Trek 2,” the movie he is currently writing.

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse Talk LOST, the ALIEN PREQUEL, STAR TREK 2, and More on the Scream Awards Red Carpet from ColliderVideos on Vimeo.

(The YouTube video I had here was pulled, but I found this one via LOSTblog.)

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Reminder: LOST tribute on Spike TV Scream Awards tonight, Oct. 19, 2010

Posted on October 19, 2010 | Leave a comment

Tonight, you can watch a reunion of some of the old LOST gang, including the long-unseen Waaaaaaaaalt.

When: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9 PM (8 PM Central)
Where: Spike TV, during the Scream Awards

The show was taped on Saturday, and Spike TV released a clip of part of the LOST tribute. The cast and producers in attendance are, in order of appearance, Carlton Cuse, Jorge Garcia (who acts as the spokesperson for the group), Damon Lindelof, Francois Chau, Ian Somerhalder, Henry Ian Cusick, a very tall Malcolm David Kelley, Harold Perrineau, and a burning piece of Flight 815 wreckage.

Why no women? Hmmm.

SCREAM 2010 Says Goodbye to Lost | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com