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Tstormwatcher wrote:very interesting read Bob.
I don't know if there's anything to it or not, it may be that that guy just has way too much time on his hands. But so far, it's the best theory I've found that explains most of what's going on. I think it still leaves some questions about the others though.
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Funny Q & A column on TV Guide's website, regarding Lost. Don't read if you don't want to know spoilers!
http://www.tvguide.com/News/AskAusiello/
Question: Shannon?! Sorry, I didn't read any of the spoilers! What the [bleep]! Why Shannon?! What were TPTB thinking?! — Tammi
Ausiello: You'll find out when you read my exclusive Q&A with Lost's main men, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. It's coming up in just a few seconds!
Question: Shannon?! Sorry, I didn't read any of the spoilers! What the [bleep]! Why Shannon?! What were TPTB thinking?! — Tammi
Ausiello: You'll find out when you read my exclusive Q&A with Lost's main men, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. It's coming up in just a few seconds!
Question: Will we ever find out why Ethan abducted Claire and Charlie? — Evey
Ausiello: I got them to answer that one, too! Sit tight! Hey, did I mention that this is the first ever Ask Ausiello devoted entirely primarily to one single TV show? Well, it is!
Question: What do the numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) mean? — Alex
Ausiello: You won't believe what they said about that! Seriously.
Question: When is that bi*ch Ana-Lucia going to die? — Katie
Ausiello: Brace yourself — that question will be answered just as soon as… OK, enough with all the teasing. It's time for the main event. In lieu of peppering the entire interview with SPOILER ALERTS, I present you with this one and only warning: Avoid the following Q&A if you'd prefer to remain in the dark about some of Lost's biggest mysteries, including scoopy stuff about those pesky digits, Shannon's death, the mysterious Mr. Eko and that creepy monster. For everyone else, dig in!
First off, I have a bone to pick with you, Damon. Last July, I asked you if a female character was getting killed this season on Lost, and you said — and I quote: "I think it would be fairly silly for us to kill a woman — there are only three or four of them on the show. And they're all really hot." So, I guess my question is, how can I ever trust you again?
Damon Lindelof: I never said we weren't going to kill a woman. I said it would be silly. And you know, Carlton and I are pretty silly guys. You should see the hat that he's wearing right now.
Carlton Cuse: That's all I'm wearing.
Damon: And also a sock, but that's another story.
Did it bug you that Maggie Grace's people leaked that tidbit about her possibly joining the cast of X-Men 3 over the summer? It was a pretty major tip-off that she might be leaving the show.
Carlton: There's no incentive for them to preserve the creative sanctity of Lost. You have an agency full of people whose job it is to get Maggie Grace other work. And how could we begrudge her that? We can't prevent her from going out and earning a livelihood, you know?
There's the perception that Maggie had to turn down X-Men 3 because of Lost.
Carlton: I don't think that was the circumstance. We would have been accommodating had she been offered that job.
Damon: Carlton and I would have bent over backwards to see if there was a way to make it work.
Why was Shannon marked for death?
Damon: It was by no means a result of Maggie's abilities as an actress, which, we felt were gaining ground every time we saw her on the screen. But Shannon is a 22- or 23-year-old character, and the flashback stories and limitations in terms of her life experience…. The younger the character is on the show, the more limited you are in terms of stories you can tell. So, before we started running Shannon into the ground and doing the same stories over and over again, it felt like it was a very natural time to kill [her] off. And the idea that was appealing to us, and certainly to Maggie, was that we would finally show Shannon in this different light. Make her incredibly sympathetic and then she would die.
Will Shannon be back, like, say, in one of Jack's flashbacks?
Carlton: It's always possible she could pop up in someone's backstory. But she is definitely dead. When a character dies on the island, they stay dead.
Are you concerned that Ana-Lucia is beyond redemption? I can't tell you how many e-mails I got from AA readers asking, "When is that bi*ch going to die?!" Actually, I can tell you: 124.
Carlton: At the beginning of last season, people didn't like Josh Holloway's character either. And by the end of the season, he was one of the most-liked characters on the show. It'll be really interesting to see, as we tell more about Ana-Lucia, whether that changes the audience's perception of her. We think it will.
Damon: In the same moment that we decided Shannon would die, [we also decided that] Ana-Lucia would be responsible for that death. It would be the first time one castaway was responsible for killing another, and it would give so much inherent conflict and trauma [heading to] the merge. We're walking a very tenuous tightrope with her, but we feel that over the course of the next two episodes the audience will hopefully get a better understanding for that character and what she's been through.
Can you confirm that Shannon was, in fact, shot? Fans have been speculating that she looked like she had a stab wound.
Carlton: She was shot.
Damon: People are getting a little too…
They're reaching a little too much?
Carlton: They totally are. And she did not have a Dharma Initiative stamp on her.
Let's talk about Malcolm David Kelley and Walt. Why was his role reduced this season? Were you concerned about him aging faster than the time line on the show?
Carlton: That's a legitimate issue. We've only gone 50 days on the island, and he's a kid in puberty. But Walt's disappearance and, ultimately, Michael's efforts to reunite with him were part of a grander plan. There are also financial considerations. Since Walt wasn't going to be around for a lot of episodes, we had to make an arrangement to have his role be a more reduced role.
Whether you use him once or twice a year or every week, the aging thing will still be an issue, no? Might you recast?
Damon: To answer that question is sort of to reveal what the plan is for Walt, and there is a plan. I always feel like recasting is the nuclear option. You do not do it unless it is absolutely, 100 percent necessary. But obviously, we have a story that we want to tell about Walt and about Michael and Walt.
Last week Shannon and Sayid gave us our first big Lost sex scene….
Carlton: It was the second big sex scene. Boone and Shannon had sex together [last season]. So, if you have sex on the show, you're pretty much going to end up dead.
So, who's having sex next?
Carlton: (Laughs) As we move into the middle run of episodes, we're definitely emphasizing the Jack-Kate-Sawyer romantic triangle. The level of sexual tension between those three characters is definitely being ramped up.
How will Ana-Lucia figure into it?
Damon: As the respective leaders of their respective units, Ana-Lucia and Jack have a great deal in common with each other, and that's definitely something we're going to be exploring. But [the fact that] Ana-Lucia inadvertently murdered one of the members of the tribe doesn't exactly [lend itself] to candlelight dinners and walks on the beach. She is a woman; she will have romantic entanglements. But I think the one that will begin to emerge over the season will be the one that you least expect.
What about Charlie and Claire?
Carlton: We're definitely going to be paying attention to their relationship, but it's not going to turn in ways the audience expects.
Will we get any clarification about the numbers this season?
Damon: Carlton might want to punch me for actually going on record and saying this, but I think that that question will never, ever be answered. I couldn't possibly imagine [how we would answer that question]. We will see more ramifications of the numbers and more usage of the numbers, but it boggles my mind when people ask me, "What do the numbers mean?"
Will we find out why Ethan abducted Claire?
Damon: Yes.
Carlton: You'll learn more about it this season.
Will Claire get some of her memory back?
Damon: The loss of her memory happened so long ago that it requires a sort of deft touch in order to reintroduce the concept. Once we start assuming that everybody is intimately familiar with everything that has ever happened on the island, I think the show risks becoming slightly confused. But all of that stuff is in play. It's just a matter of when and how we reactivate it.
Are you still planning to reveal why the plane crashed this season?
Carlton: Yes.
Are you saving that little doozy for the finale?
Carlton: We're saving it until later. We consider that on the ground of fairly major revelations.
Damon: We don't want to stick that one in the middle of March.
ABC billed last week's episode as the one "everyone will be talking about." What'll be the next one "everyone will be talking about"?
Carlton: Ironically, it's the next episode [airing tonight]. We think for us, it's even more of a water-cooler episode than the death episode. This is really a very special episode in that it's kind of a concept episode. It deviates from the form and style of our other episodes.
On Nov. 30 we'll finally learn what Kate's precrash crime was that landed her in so much hot water. Any other big flashback revelations this season?
Damon: In the next string of episodes, one of the really compelling backstory elements is what happened to Jack's marriage. We think Julie Bowen is amazing and she and Matthew Fox are so great in scenes together, and I think the audience is really curious as to what went wrong there.
Carlton: And you should pay attention to Mr. Eko's stick.
Seriously?
Carlton: Yeah.
Damon: Keep your eyes on Mr. Eko's stick.
Carlton: That stick is an important ongoing clue.
Will we learn more about Monster this season?
Carlton: Definitely.
Damon: Absolutely.
Has Disney approached you about doing a Lost feature film?
Carlton: No.
And if they did, what would your response be?
Damon: I would punch them as hard as I could. We couldn't even begin to wrap our brains around how we would produce a feature film. Obviously, the production team in Hawaii is amazing, but the amount of time [it would require] to do a TV show and a feature on top of each other… I think it's safe to say it would be impossible.
Last question: Will there be another death this season?
Carlton: (Laughs) You're very good, Michael, but we can't say.
On that note, it's time to wrap up the special super-sized Lost portion of Ask Ausiello. Come back next week for more from D&C, including a preview of this spring's highly-anticipated Darren Aronofsky-helmed outing. Hey, maybe he'll kill that bi*ch Ana-Lucia!
Question: Why does this week's Ask Ausiello have to be all about Lost? There had better be some good scoop for us non-Lost fans. Otherwise, I am cutting you out of my life. Completely. — Amy
Ausiello: First off, are there really people out there who don't watch Lost? I find that very hard to believe. Secondly, I don't respond to ultimatums, Amy. But this is technically more of a threat, and those I do respond to. So scroll down and you'll find a few non-Lost questions….
http://www.tvguide.com/News/AskAusiello/
Question: Shannon?! Sorry, I didn't read any of the spoilers! What the [bleep]! Why Shannon?! What were TPTB thinking?! — Tammi
Ausiello: You'll find out when you read my exclusive Q&A with Lost's main men, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. It's coming up in just a few seconds!
Question: Shannon?! Sorry, I didn't read any of the spoilers! What the [bleep]! Why Shannon?! What were TPTB thinking?! — Tammi
Ausiello: You'll find out when you read my exclusive Q&A with Lost's main men, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. It's coming up in just a few seconds!
Question: Will we ever find out why Ethan abducted Claire and Charlie? — Evey
Ausiello: I got them to answer that one, too! Sit tight! Hey, did I mention that this is the first ever Ask Ausiello devoted entirely primarily to one single TV show? Well, it is!
Question: What do the numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) mean? — Alex
Ausiello: You won't believe what they said about that! Seriously.
Question: When is that bi*ch Ana-Lucia going to die? — Katie
Ausiello: Brace yourself — that question will be answered just as soon as… OK, enough with all the teasing. It's time for the main event. In lieu of peppering the entire interview with SPOILER ALERTS, I present you with this one and only warning: Avoid the following Q&A if you'd prefer to remain in the dark about some of Lost's biggest mysteries, including scoopy stuff about those pesky digits, Shannon's death, the mysterious Mr. Eko and that creepy monster. For everyone else, dig in!
First off, I have a bone to pick with you, Damon. Last July, I asked you if a female character was getting killed this season on Lost, and you said — and I quote: "I think it would be fairly silly for us to kill a woman — there are only three or four of them on the show. And they're all really hot." So, I guess my question is, how can I ever trust you again?
Damon Lindelof: I never said we weren't going to kill a woman. I said it would be silly. And you know, Carlton and I are pretty silly guys. You should see the hat that he's wearing right now.
Carlton Cuse: That's all I'm wearing.
Damon: And also a sock, but that's another story.
Did it bug you that Maggie Grace's people leaked that tidbit about her possibly joining the cast of X-Men 3 over the summer? It was a pretty major tip-off that she might be leaving the show.
Carlton: There's no incentive for them to preserve the creative sanctity of Lost. You have an agency full of people whose job it is to get Maggie Grace other work. And how could we begrudge her that? We can't prevent her from going out and earning a livelihood, you know?
There's the perception that Maggie had to turn down X-Men 3 because of Lost.
Carlton: I don't think that was the circumstance. We would have been accommodating had she been offered that job.
Damon: Carlton and I would have bent over backwards to see if there was a way to make it work.
Why was Shannon marked for death?
Damon: It was by no means a result of Maggie's abilities as an actress, which, we felt were gaining ground every time we saw her on the screen. But Shannon is a 22- or 23-year-old character, and the flashback stories and limitations in terms of her life experience…. The younger the character is on the show, the more limited you are in terms of stories you can tell. So, before we started running Shannon into the ground and doing the same stories over and over again, it felt like it was a very natural time to kill [her] off. And the idea that was appealing to us, and certainly to Maggie, was that we would finally show Shannon in this different light. Make her incredibly sympathetic and then she would die.
Will Shannon be back, like, say, in one of Jack's flashbacks?
Carlton: It's always possible she could pop up in someone's backstory. But she is definitely dead. When a character dies on the island, they stay dead.
Are you concerned that Ana-Lucia is beyond redemption? I can't tell you how many e-mails I got from AA readers asking, "When is that bi*ch going to die?!" Actually, I can tell you: 124.
Carlton: At the beginning of last season, people didn't like Josh Holloway's character either. And by the end of the season, he was one of the most-liked characters on the show. It'll be really interesting to see, as we tell more about Ana-Lucia, whether that changes the audience's perception of her. We think it will.
Damon: In the same moment that we decided Shannon would die, [we also decided that] Ana-Lucia would be responsible for that death. It would be the first time one castaway was responsible for killing another, and it would give so much inherent conflict and trauma [heading to] the merge. We're walking a very tenuous tightrope with her, but we feel that over the course of the next two episodes the audience will hopefully get a better understanding for that character and what she's been through.
Can you confirm that Shannon was, in fact, shot? Fans have been speculating that she looked like she had a stab wound.
Carlton: She was shot.
Damon: People are getting a little too…
They're reaching a little too much?
Carlton: They totally are. And she did not have a Dharma Initiative stamp on her.
Let's talk about Malcolm David Kelley and Walt. Why was his role reduced this season? Were you concerned about him aging faster than the time line on the show?
Carlton: That's a legitimate issue. We've only gone 50 days on the island, and he's a kid in puberty. But Walt's disappearance and, ultimately, Michael's efforts to reunite with him were part of a grander plan. There are also financial considerations. Since Walt wasn't going to be around for a lot of episodes, we had to make an arrangement to have his role be a more reduced role.
Whether you use him once or twice a year or every week, the aging thing will still be an issue, no? Might you recast?
Damon: To answer that question is sort of to reveal what the plan is for Walt, and there is a plan. I always feel like recasting is the nuclear option. You do not do it unless it is absolutely, 100 percent necessary. But obviously, we have a story that we want to tell about Walt and about Michael and Walt.
Last week Shannon and Sayid gave us our first big Lost sex scene….
Carlton: It was the second big sex scene. Boone and Shannon had sex together [last season]. So, if you have sex on the show, you're pretty much going to end up dead.
So, who's having sex next?
Carlton: (Laughs) As we move into the middle run of episodes, we're definitely emphasizing the Jack-Kate-Sawyer romantic triangle. The level of sexual tension between those three characters is definitely being ramped up.
How will Ana-Lucia figure into it?
Damon: As the respective leaders of their respective units, Ana-Lucia and Jack have a great deal in common with each other, and that's definitely something we're going to be exploring. But [the fact that] Ana-Lucia inadvertently murdered one of the members of the tribe doesn't exactly [lend itself] to candlelight dinners and walks on the beach. She is a woman; she will have romantic entanglements. But I think the one that will begin to emerge over the season will be the one that you least expect.
What about Charlie and Claire?
Carlton: We're definitely going to be paying attention to their relationship, but it's not going to turn in ways the audience expects.
Will we get any clarification about the numbers this season?
Damon: Carlton might want to punch me for actually going on record and saying this, but I think that that question will never, ever be answered. I couldn't possibly imagine [how we would answer that question]. We will see more ramifications of the numbers and more usage of the numbers, but it boggles my mind when people ask me, "What do the numbers mean?"
Will we find out why Ethan abducted Claire?
Damon: Yes.
Carlton: You'll learn more about it this season.
Will Claire get some of her memory back?
Damon: The loss of her memory happened so long ago that it requires a sort of deft touch in order to reintroduce the concept. Once we start assuming that everybody is intimately familiar with everything that has ever happened on the island, I think the show risks becoming slightly confused. But all of that stuff is in play. It's just a matter of when and how we reactivate it.
Are you still planning to reveal why the plane crashed this season?
Carlton: Yes.
Are you saving that little doozy for the finale?
Carlton: We're saving it until later. We consider that on the ground of fairly major revelations.
Damon: We don't want to stick that one in the middle of March.
ABC billed last week's episode as the one "everyone will be talking about." What'll be the next one "everyone will be talking about"?
Carlton: Ironically, it's the next episode [airing tonight]. We think for us, it's even more of a water-cooler episode than the death episode. This is really a very special episode in that it's kind of a concept episode. It deviates from the form and style of our other episodes.
On Nov. 30 we'll finally learn what Kate's precrash crime was that landed her in so much hot water. Any other big flashback revelations this season?
Damon: In the next string of episodes, one of the really compelling backstory elements is what happened to Jack's marriage. We think Julie Bowen is amazing and she and Matthew Fox are so great in scenes together, and I think the audience is really curious as to what went wrong there.
Carlton: And you should pay attention to Mr. Eko's stick.
Seriously?
Carlton: Yeah.
Damon: Keep your eyes on Mr. Eko's stick.
Carlton: That stick is an important ongoing clue.
Will we learn more about Monster this season?
Carlton: Definitely.
Damon: Absolutely.
Has Disney approached you about doing a Lost feature film?
Carlton: No.
And if they did, what would your response be?
Damon: I would punch them as hard as I could. We couldn't even begin to wrap our brains around how we would produce a feature film. Obviously, the production team in Hawaii is amazing, but the amount of time [it would require] to do a TV show and a feature on top of each other… I think it's safe to say it would be impossible.
Last question: Will there be another death this season?
Carlton: (Laughs) You're very good, Michael, but we can't say.
On that note, it's time to wrap up the special super-sized Lost portion of Ask Ausiello. Come back next week for more from D&C, including a preview of this spring's highly-anticipated Darren Aronofsky-helmed outing. Hey, maybe he'll kill that bi*ch Ana-Lucia!
Question: Why does this week's Ask Ausiello have to be all about Lost? There had better be some good scoop for us non-Lost fans. Otherwise, I am cutting you out of my life. Completely. — Amy
Ausiello: First off, are there really people out there who don't watch Lost? I find that very hard to believe. Secondly, I don't respond to ultimatums, Amy. But this is technically more of a threat, and those I do respond to. So scroll down and you'll find a few non-Lost questions….
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Miss Mary wrote:JQ - can you expand upon Goodwin being the plant? I don't follow......
Miss Mary. I just meant even though they made it sounds like that other guy was the plant "the others" had sent in to infiltrate the survivors, Lost never seems to be so straightforward. I also found it interesting that Goodwin was so concerned about then putting that other guy into the pit. If that guy was in the pit then he couldn't do anything bad for fear of being caught so he had to kill off that guy. SOrry i keep forgetting that other guys name. Was it "nathan". But I meant "plant" as in "spy".
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JQ - after a while, I figured out what you meant. The guy in the pit, now dead, was named Nathan. We're starting to need a roster for Lost, to keep everyone straight!
I saw promo's for Lost, after Desperate Housewives, wow is all I can say! What do they mean by a 'reunion', right before Ana cuts Sayid's ties (looks like someone ties him up)? Does that teaser mean Sayid knows Ana already? I know she's not his one true love, the girl in the picture he keeps. At least we see Eko carry Sawyer up to Jack. I want him to live! Didn't much care for Sawyer at first, but he's growing on me now. I just don't think I'll warm up to Ana the same way though. I don't care what that interviewer/writers imply - she's too nasty!
Surprised we have a new Lost, on T-giving Eve. That's risky, for ratings. We'll record and watch, of course. But had we been traveling for the holiday, I'd be dying to know what I missed and have to wait until Sunday probably! I predict there will many fans across the country in this boat - waiting to hear what happened, and trusting their DVR/Tivo/VCR to tape it! I really thought we'd have a rerun this week. Glad we don't, but still surprised it's a new ep.
mary
I saw promo's for Lost, after Desperate Housewives, wow is all I can say! What do they mean by a 'reunion', right before Ana cuts Sayid's ties (looks like someone ties him up)? Does that teaser mean Sayid knows Ana already? I know she's not his one true love, the girl in the picture he keeps. At least we see Eko carry Sawyer up to Jack. I want him to live! Didn't much care for Sawyer at first, but he's growing on me now. I just don't think I'll warm up to Ana the same way though. I don't care what that interviewer/writers imply - she's too nasty!
Surprised we have a new Lost, on T-giving Eve. That's risky, for ratings. We'll record and watch, of course. But had we been traveling for the holiday, I'd be dying to know what I missed and have to wait until Sunday probably! I predict there will many fans across the country in this boat - waiting to hear what happened, and trusting their DVR/Tivo/VCR to tape it! I really thought we'd have a rerun this week. Glad we don't, but still surprised it's a new ep.
mary
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sunny wrote:HUH? Why?
Couple of reasons:
TV season is about 35 weeks and there's probably 24-25 episodes AT MOST.
Olympics and American Idol will be going head-to-head with Lost in February(Idol Mid January through the end of the season) so they probably want to do repeats now while the competition is rather weak.
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Brent wrote:sunny wrote:HUH? Why?
Couple of reasons:
TV season is about 35 weeks and there's probably 24-25 episodes AT MOST.
Olympics and American Idol will be going head-to-head with Lost in February(Idol Mid January through the end of the season) so they probably want to do repeats now while the competition is rather weak.
There's talk of moving American Idol to Thursdays.
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lurker_from_nc wrote:Brent wrote:sunny wrote:HUH? Why?
Couple of reasons:
TV season is about 35 weeks and there's probably 24-25 episodes AT MOST.
Olympics and American Idol will be going head-to-head with Lost in February(Idol Mid January through the end of the season) so they probably want to do repeats now while the competition is rather weak.
There's talk of moving American Idol to Thursdays.
Yeah... I've heard that as well. It's pretty risky and might kill the show(not that I'm necessarily against that
). It'd be up against Survivor in March-May...
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...Brent wrote:lurker_from_nc wrote:Brent wrote:sunny wrote:HUH? Why?
Couple of reasons:
TV season is about 35 weeks and there's probably 24-25 episodes AT MOST.
Olympics and American Idol will be going head-to-head with Lost in February(Idol Mid January through the end of the season) so they probably want to do repeats now while the competition is rather weak.
There's talk of moving American Idol to Thursdays.
Yeah... I've heard that as well. It's pretty risky and might kill the show(not that I'm necessarily against that
Actually, there shouldn't be conflict with Lost. Lost is from 9 - 10pm and American Idol is usually from 8 - 9pm.
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lurker_from_nc wrote:Brent wrote:lurker_from_nc wrote:Brent wrote:sunny wrote:HUH? Why?
Couple of reasons:
TV season is about 35 weeks and there's probably 24-25 episodes AT MOST.
Olympics and American Idol will be going head-to-head with Lost in February(Idol Mid January through the end of the season) so they probably want to do repeats now while the competition is rather weak.
There's talk of moving American Idol to Thursdays.
Yeah... I've heard that as well. It's pretty risky and might kill the show(not that I'm necessarily against that
Actually, there shouldn't be conflict with Lost. Lost is from 9 - 10pm and American Idol is usually from 8 - 9pm.
No... Idol airs from 8-9pm on Tuesday... on Wednesday it'll be 9-930pm(once the auditions are over), unless they shift the results show to Thursday.
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Just great news! 
Why do they not have enough episodes to go every week through out the season. I could understand last season thinking they didn't know the show was gonna be such a big hit, and didn't have enough episodes ready for the whole season. But this year again???? Ugggg. That is one thing I do not like about the show. The only thing. It aggrovated me last season, and I had high hopes they would not do it again, and now it is aggrovating me now. It just makes no sense to me. Are there any other shows that do that? I don't know of any. So sad 
Guess it will be something to look foward to after the Holidays are all behind us.
This what I think about the writers not having enough episodes for my addiction, or the producers, who ever is responsible for this. 
lol. I really want an answer to this, why only 25 episodes when they need 10 more? Like so many other questions to LOST this another question to add to list of many? 
Why do they not have enough episodes to go every week through out the season. I could understand last season thinking they didn't know the show was gonna be such a big hit, and didn't have enough episodes ready for the whole season. But this year again???? Ugggg. That is one thing I do not like about the show. The only thing. It aggrovated me last season, and I had high hopes they would not do it again, and now it is aggrovating me now. It just makes no sense to me. Are there any other shows that do that? I don't know of any. So sad Guess it will be something to look foward to after the Holidays are all behind us.
This what I think about the writers not having enough episodes for my addiction, or the producers, who ever is responsible for this. lol. I really want an answer to this, why only 25 episodes when they need 10 more? Like so many other questions to LOST this another question to add to list of many?
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Miss Mary
Miss Mary wrote:Well all right then, what they need to do to keep us all happy is throw in a few 2 hour episodes, before the long break. I swear, 60 minutes minus the commercials, and Lost seems to have a lot, is just not nearly enough!
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I dunno Mary, that a pretty long lull there! I feel a mutiny coming on
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Another thing we might want to realize is this - the cast has to live in Hawaii while filming. Wait, there's something wrong with that statement.....he he. What a hardship!!!! But maybe this is also a way for them all to return home, the mainland and see their extended family members. I dunno either. That's all I got!!!!
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O Town wrote:Just great news!
Yes... every scripted show is like that. 22 is the standard full season order, and Lost will probably get 24-25, so it could be worse.
You will not find over 25-26 episodes for any show... unless it's like Grey's Anatomy or Boston Legal where it had episodes leftover from last season.
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Miss Mary wrote:Another thing we might want to realize is this - the cast has to live in Hawaii while filming. Wait, there's something wrong with that statement.....he he. What a hardship!!!! But maybe this is also a way for them all to return home, the mainland and see their extended family members. I dunno either. That's all I got!!!!
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Yes and Lost is also VERY expensive because it films on location in Hawaii, not on a cozy set in Hollywood.
Oh and if ya'll saw how much work it is for the producers, writers and cast to film just 22-23 episodes, you'd understand. The crew gets about a month long break in May, but that's it(other than holidays). The writers meet as early as the end of May to start writing episodes, and filming starts in July, so there's not much room for extra episodes.
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Miss Mary
Bumping this thread up b/c we have a NEW Lost episode tonight. Yes the evening of the busiest travel day in the year! Just don't want anyone to forget to record it (if you're away from home). I'm not complaining.....glad it is a new episode. Again, just surprised they chose a new episode for tonight, of all dates.
And to get you psyched, here's a new article appearing in TV Guide:
http://www.tvguide.com/TV/CoverStory/
New Faces, New Mysteries
by Shawna Malcom
Lost's latest arrivals answer our questions — and raise a whole lot more. (Pick up the magazine for profiles of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's Mr. Eko and Cynthia Watros' Libby.)
Michelle Rodriguez
Plays: Ana Lucia Cortez, the tough-as-nails leader of the tailies who can hold her own against any man (Sawyer), woman (Shannon) or Other (Goodwin, we barely knew ya). Love her, hate her — but ignore her at your own risk!
You've seen her: Rodriguez scored a knockout as a street-smart boxer in 2000's Girlfight and kicked booty in The Fast and the Furious and Blue Crush. Does she ever feel typecast? "Of course," says the 27-year-old. "It's like, 'Enough of this tough-girl s---!'"
Getting lost: Last spring, Rodriguez met with Lost producers, who were immediately smitten. "She can hang with the guys and curse more than we do," Damon Lindelof says. "That's part of her charm."
Flashback: The Nov. 23 episode revealed that, pre-crash, Ana Lucia was a Los Angeles police officer with a heartbreaking history. Rodriguez herself cops to a colorful past: As a child, she moved from Texas to her mother's native Dominican Republic, to her father's Puerto Rico and, ultimately, to New Jersey. She dropped out of high school in ninth grade (she later earned her GED) and clocked time at blue-collar jobs: "I worked at Toys 'R' Us. They fired me for playing with the kids. Then I worked at UPS. They had me lifting 50-pound boxes. I walked up to the manager and was like, 'See these cuts and bruises? I'm going to be famous one day and this won't do.' Most arrogant moment in my life."
Love is in the air: Expect a romantic quadrangle involving Ana Lucia, Jack, Kate and Sawyer to heat up now that all four are on the same side of the island. While Ana Lucia and Jack flirted in the airport before the doomed flight, Rodriguez has other ideas. "Jack and Ana Lucia are too similar," says the currently single actress. "I made a phone call to the producers and was like, 'You guys need to look at this chemistry [between Ana Lucia and Sawyer].' My character's a bossy little fanatic, and he's really good at making jokes out of everything. Chemistry comes when opposites attract."
Pick up the latest issue of TV Guide (on newsstands Thursday) for profiles of the other tailies. But first, look behind the scenes of the cover shoot in this exclusive photo gallery. Find out what else is in the magazine here:
http://online.tvguide.com/special/lost/ ... lery-2.asp
Mary
And to get you psyched, here's a new article appearing in TV Guide:
http://www.tvguide.com/TV/CoverStory/
New Faces, New Mysteries
by Shawna Malcom
Lost's latest arrivals answer our questions — and raise a whole lot more. (Pick up the magazine for profiles of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's Mr. Eko and Cynthia Watros' Libby.)
Michelle Rodriguez
Plays: Ana Lucia Cortez, the tough-as-nails leader of the tailies who can hold her own against any man (Sawyer), woman (Shannon) or Other (Goodwin, we barely knew ya). Love her, hate her — but ignore her at your own risk!
You've seen her: Rodriguez scored a knockout as a street-smart boxer in 2000's Girlfight and kicked booty in The Fast and the Furious and Blue Crush. Does she ever feel typecast? "Of course," says the 27-year-old. "It's like, 'Enough of this tough-girl s---!'"
Getting lost: Last spring, Rodriguez met with Lost producers, who were immediately smitten. "She can hang with the guys and curse more than we do," Damon Lindelof says. "That's part of her charm."
Flashback: The Nov. 23 episode revealed that, pre-crash, Ana Lucia was a Los Angeles police officer with a heartbreaking history. Rodriguez herself cops to a colorful past: As a child, she moved from Texas to her mother's native Dominican Republic, to her father's Puerto Rico and, ultimately, to New Jersey. She dropped out of high school in ninth grade (she later earned her GED) and clocked time at blue-collar jobs: "I worked at Toys 'R' Us. They fired me for playing with the kids. Then I worked at UPS. They had me lifting 50-pound boxes. I walked up to the manager and was like, 'See these cuts and bruises? I'm going to be famous one day and this won't do.' Most arrogant moment in my life."
Love is in the air: Expect a romantic quadrangle involving Ana Lucia, Jack, Kate and Sawyer to heat up now that all four are on the same side of the island. While Ana Lucia and Jack flirted in the airport before the doomed flight, Rodriguez has other ideas. "Jack and Ana Lucia are too similar," says the currently single actress. "I made a phone call to the producers and was like, 'You guys need to look at this chemistry [between Ana Lucia and Sawyer].' My character's a bossy little fanatic, and he's really good at making jokes out of everything. Chemistry comes when opposites attract."
Pick up the latest issue of TV Guide (on newsstands Thursday) for profiles of the other tailies. But first, look behind the scenes of the cover shoot in this exclusive photo gallery. Find out what else is in the magazine here:
http://online.tvguide.com/special/lost/ ... lery-2.asp
Mary
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