Sl-LOST has posted a screenshot from the pilot episode of “FlashForward” which shows a billboard, in the background, advertising LOST’s own Oceanic Airlines!
Oceanic Airlines billboard in the pilot episode of FlashForward
Weird!
FlashForward, which stars LOST actors Sonya Walger (Penny) and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie), will start on Thursday, September 24, at 8:00 (7:00 Central).
In other FlashForward news, the pilot episode has been leaked and is now available online on “several file-sharing websites.”
ABC also released the first 18 minutes of the pilot. The network is claiming that had always been their plan, but who knows.
I missed the big group rewatch put on by DocArzt and Lostpedia, but I’m going to be starting my own little private rewatch this week, when I’ll be getting the DVDs from the library and watching LOST all over again from the beginning. I probably won’t be writing a lot of commentary (see Fishbiscuitland and the sites listed on the Lostpedia rewatch page if you want to read some terrific rewatch analysis), but one thing I want to do is keep track of all the references that are made to the LOSTies being brought to the Island “for a reason.”
“For a reason” is the phrase that inspired the name of this blog, and I think, more than any other LOST catchphrase, it captures what the central mystery of LOST is all about.
Whenever I come across a character saying that phrase while I’m rewatching the show, I’ll make a note of it here on this post.
I’m curious to see how many times the phrase will pop up.
We first hear Locke talking about “destiny” in his flashbacks in 1×04 Walkabout. It’s not quite “we were brought here for a reason,” but it’s working up to it.
1×05 White Rabbit is the first episode where the actual phrase was used, when Locke asked Jack “But what if everything that happened here happened for a reason? ”
“Everything happens for a reason” was the official slogan of Season 2! You can see the full Season 2 poster (from which the image on top of this post was taken) on Lostpedia.
This post is a work in progress. Check back for updates.
This was shown at the D23 Expo (a convention for Disney fans held last week).
Although it was posted on YouTube by a spoiler site, the video itself appears to be spoiler-free. It’s comprised mostly of clips from Season 5, and touches on the main events and themes of that season. It also has a few quick glimpses, from earlier seasons, of some familiar faces that we haven’t seen in a while.
The narrator says:
All the lives on board Oceanic Flight 815 will find the answer to the biggest question of all.
Can’t wait! Less than five more months to go. Ha. Being a LOST fan is like taking an advanced-level course in learning how to cultivate patience.
In this segment of the LOST panel at Bumbershoot (the Seattle arts festival named after an old slang term for umbrella), producer/writers Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis, and Adam Horowitz talked about what it’s been like to write the show.
Host Jeff Jensen asked them what was the most difficult thing to write, and they all agreed that it was time travel. They had to put detailed charts and graphs on the writers’ room walls so that they could keep track of where they were.
Carlton said, “Fortunately, Damon really loves time travel.” They spent, he said, a great deal of time trying to figure out the mechanics of it. Maintaining their concept of non-paradoxical time travel was tricky, and when they opened a time loop, they had to put a lot of thought into making sure they could figure out a way to close it.
The panelists then talked about how getting an end date changed what they were able to do with the show.
They also said some fascinating things about how they write. It’s a collaborative process. Nine of them sit around a conference room table. They start writing each episode by deciding which character it’s going to be about. Each episode has three stories — an Island story, an off-Island story (which may be a flashback or a flashforward — or, Carlton said, “whatever that might possibly be in Season 6” … hmmm), and a little C-story. Then they fit it all into a six-act structure.
They wrote the show like fans of the show. “What would be cool?” they asked themselves. “Wouldn’t it be cool if we actually showed the statue?” And so they did.
Damon and Carlton may not be conjoined twins after all!
Last week, three LOST executive producers gave a talk at Bumbershoot, a large annual music and arts festival in Seattle. Jeff Jensen, of Entertainment Weekly, hosted the talk with producer/writers Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. (Was this the first time Carlton Cuse was ever seen in public without Damon Lindelof by his side? Perhaps they are not conjoined twins after all.)
A fan shot a 3-part 2-part video. In this first part, you can’t see much, but you can hear what they are saying. The LOST folks answered questions such as: Why isn’t there more sex? Why does Jack remind us of that annoying guy we used to date, who always had to get up early the next morning to train for a triathlon? In a battle with Sawyer’s hair and Jin’s abs, who would prevail?
