I’ve been hammering out a small editorial that takes on the notion of whether or not the creative minds behind Lost ever had a master plan detailing the evolution of the best show of television*.

After three drafts, I’m close to the final version, but a new interview from the show runners, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, may have rendered my efforts moot.

It appears evident that, after Cuse and Lindelof negotiated an end date for the show, things seemed to develop with a greater sense of direction.  However, this new interview makes some significant points about the tension between telling a good story, and doing the business of television.

Then, there’s this little nugget:

TVGuide.com: Have you always known what the end of the series would be? Has it changed at all?
Cuse: Always is the operative word. We developed a mythology, as I said earlier, in the first season and between the first and the second season, and we’re actually moving toward that exact end point. I mean, that has not changed. Certain details of how the show ends have evolved over time but that’s mainly on a character level as we’ve gotten to know the characters and seen how the actors interact. So there are parts of the ending that are still living and breathing, but the actual mythological endpoint has been constant since we developed the show.

Given Blogcritics’ editorial rules, I can’t really share the thesis of my little essay right now, but suffice to say, this one quote throws a monkey wrench into my entire argument.

*a title Lost shares with the BBC’s recent reincarnation of Doctor Who

Lost masterminds Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have leaked the first clues to the final season of their crypto-drama, thanks to a video shot by comedian Paul Scheer. The clip from damoncarltonandapolarbear.com is a good-natured spoof of crazy Lost fans. And the entire site is designed to provide hints about the season debuting early next year. Scheer’s major revelation: The premiere will be called ”LA X.” How to decipher that title? Well, Lostophiles will remember that Oceanic 815 was bound for Los Angeles when it crashed on Mystery Island, and that season 5 ended with time-traveling Juliet detonating a hydrogen bomb with the hope of creating a new reality in which everyone landed safely at LAX. So ”LA X” may refer to the airport. But that intentional space makes my Doc Jensen brain go tingly. If we read the title as ”Los Angeles ‘10” (the Roman numeral X equals 10, as in 2010), maybe it simply means the new season will begin in present-day L.A. That’s too easy! So I’m going with this: The characters touched by the maybe-magical Jacob — Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Hurley, Locke, Sun, Jin, and Ben — will begin the season scattered through time as a result of Juliet’s explosive reboot. They’ll have limited memory of their past Island life, yet they’ll find themselves inexplicably compelled to gather in L.A. in 2010. Yes, I get all that from the title. And by being one of those crazy Lost fans.

I can’t remember when I stopped watching LOST last season. I think I missed the last 10 episodes? Something like that? And it wasn’t because I got fed up with the show or thought it sucked or whatever. I’m not one of those fans. I’ve always had faith in Damon Lindelof and Carlton’s Cuse vision and have always trusted that they were telling the story they wanted to from start to finish.

It’s just that — and I don’t know if you’ve noticed — but LOST is such a HEAVY show. And then there’s the little issue of my obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. (No, I’m not exaggerating, and no, I’m not Monk-like. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder [Monk] and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder are two entirely different things)

Anyway. I don’t like not knowing every single hint and clue and detail and background puzzle piece. I mean, seriously? I tend to equate watching LOST with…school work. I feel like I have to study before and after an episode to actually grasp all of its genius tendencies. Especially since I haven’t read nearly enough classic and/or cultish literature and fiction that D&C use to inspire their storytelling.

It’s why I have come to love J.J. Abram’s latest brain child, Fringe, more. I find it more compelling and more entertaining and more intriguing and more…fun. LOST is genius, but it is not fun. I am usually only mildly exaggerating (and sometimes not exaggerating at all) when I claim that it gives me a headache.

Anyway, but February 2 does begin the final season, and I know that it will be amazing, and I don’t want to miss out on the opportunity of watching it live. And since the Season 5 DVDs come out tomorrow, I’m going to use the rest of December and January to catch up so that I can tune in on Feb. 2 caught up and ready to go.

And yes, I still have a major crush on Damon. I am in awe of his brain.

The Bookworms: Lost’s Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse have made cerebral appointment TV

(From TV Guide)

Lost is one of the most influential shows on television, but also one of the most influenced. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (or “Darlton,” as they’re known to fans) have created a baffling, intensely seductive story that blends sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, romance, and more than a little comedy. You can probably guess both men are obsessive consumers of pop culture, from Star Wars to The Prisoner. But they’re also well-read writers whose obsessions stretch from ancient mythology to Stephen King. Fans obsess over whether the show is rooted in Greek myth, the Old Testament, both, or something else entirely. We spoke to Lindelof and Cuse, who are among the influential television industry players interviewed for TVGuide.com’s Best of the Decade section, about who inspired them, why they set an end date for the show, and how they created their own myths.

TVGuide.com: Tell me about how each of you got involved with Lost.
Damon Lindelof: I got a call from an executive at ABC named Heather Kadin. It was late January. She was tasked with trying to coerce J.J. Abrams into rewriting a script that they had about a plane that had crashed on an island. J.J. said that he did not have time to do this because he was writing another pilot for ABC at the time and running Alias and trying to launch his feature career.

[Since I was a] stalker of J.J. and his work, Heather basically felt like this was a prime opportunity to put me in a room with him, even if the project went nowhere. I jumped at the chance. I met with J.J. on a Monday afternoon and we ended up geeking out for four hours, and five days later we had the outline for Lost. Ten weeks after that, we had the two-hour premiere completed.

Carlton Cuse: I created and ran a show called Nash Bridges and I hired Damon to be a writer on that show. We not only had a really good professional relationship, but we developed a really strong [friendship]. After the pilot process that Damon described, J.J. left to go do [Mission: Impossible 3] with Tom Cruise. Damon and I had been talking about the show and I had sort of fallen in love with what J.J. and Damon had done in the pilot and the world that had been created.

There were very few people who believed this premise was sustainable as a series, and that was incredibly liberating for me. Damon and I would sit down and have breakfast every morning — as we continue to do to this day — and we kind of approached it like it was just 12 episodes and out, how do we make these the 12 greatest episodes of television that we would want to see ourselves? We basically liberated ourselves from all the rules of traditional television narrative. We thought this thing would probably end up on DVD and would be like Twin Peaks or The Prisoner.

TVGuide.com: Did you ever think about syndication when you were creating the show, in that it’s so mythology-heavy?
Lindelof: I think at the time that Lost and Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy came along, serialized was a dirty word. But those shows basically proved that you could create a water-cooler zeitgeist around a show because it was serialized. To [ABC president] Steve McPherson’s credit, I think that there was a lot more focus on being successful while you were on the air, as opposed to thinking forward to what the possible syndication deals would be.

Fortunately for us at this time, the DVD television market was exploding. That provided a revenue stream for them that made up for the fact that the show probably wouldn’t [syndicate] well. But if you watch the first season of Lost, the heavy mythological elements were not really in play. There was character serialization, the romance, that kind of stuff, but in Season 1 it took them eight episodes to build a raft; in Season 5, they jump through time four times in a single episode. I don’t think we could’ve gotten away with that in Season 1, nor did we want to.

TVGuide.com: How do you respond to the criticism that people who were passionate about the show at the beginning have gotten “lost” along the way? Do you ever think: We’ve made things too complicated. We need to be simpler.
Cuse: In order to sustain a show over what ultimately will be 120 episodes, it has to be complex. If you took a non-Harry Potter viewer and asked them to watch the fourth or fifth movie, I think they’d be very confused about what’s going on. We feel like Season 5 was the highest degree of difficulty. We hope that a lot of viewers who left will come back for the end of the show. We tried to design the show with a certain circularity and we feel like Season 6 will be very much like Season 1 and while you do need to know backstories to follow what’s going on in Season 6, it’s very character-centric.

TVGuide.com: At what point did you decide: We really need to set an end date for the series. And why?
Lindelof: For us, the primary belief in the first season of the show was that we would not be able to sustain this premise forever because that’s what the story tells you. If the story starts with a plane crashing on an island, the story’s going to end when the people get off the island, and for us, the process of keeping them from leaving the island was going to be very finite.

By early in the second season, we engaged in a series of dialogues with the network, saying, hey, these flashbacks are not going to last forever. Once we answer the seminal mysteries of what it is that Kate did or how Locke ended up in the wheelchair, why Hurley ended up in a mental institution, then that phase of the story is done and we have to move into the next phase of the story, which we knew was basically the flash-forwards and the story of the Oceanic 6. We didn’t pull the trigger until we were allowed to move to the inevitable conclusion.

We always did our best to make the show great, but when you’re halfway through Season 3 and you’re doing episodes about Jack flying a kite in Thailand, then the network finally said, “Oh, this is what you guys were talking about.” So we were able to agree upon how many episodes were left and at that point we knew exactly how much time we had to arrive at our destination.

TVGuide.com: Have you always known what the end of the series would be? Has it changed at all?
Cuse: Always is the operative word. We developed a mythology, as I said earlier, in the first season and between the first and the second season, and we’re actually moving toward that exact end point. I mean, that has not changed. Certain details of how the show ends have evolved over time but that’s mainly on a character level as we’ve gotten to know the characters and seen how the actors interact. So there are parts of the ending that are still living and breathing, but the actual mythological endpoint has been constant since we developed the show.

TVGuide.com: Damon, during the writers’ strike, you wrote a piece for the New York Times mourning the loss of TV. I’m wondering how you think it’s going two years later.
Lindelof: I think that mourning the loss of TV was a very clever angle into [the way] the editorial was shaped but what I was really feeling was a tremendous level of excitement about the way television is watched. The fact of the matter is, people are still watching a lot of what we call “television,” except my brother-in-law goes to [college] and none of the kids in his dorm have televisions, they have laptops. They don’t watch television at 9 o’clock on a Wednesday night, they watch it on Hulu or ABC.com or the Comedy Central player. So can you really call that TV anymore? They don’t say, “I’m going to my dorm room to watch ‘computer.’”

Mourning television is this idea of [mourning a] traditional sort of broadcast, but the fact that content is so pervasive that anybody in the world can watch it is very, very exciting if you’re a storyteller. Two years later, what’s really great is all the things we went on strike for [and that we said] were going to happen are happening, and two years from now it will be even more profound.

See TVGuide.com’s picks for the Best TV Shows of the Year

TVGuide.com: What TV shows or entertainment figures inspired you or your work?
Cuse: For us, a lot of literary heroes, ranging from C.S. Lewis to Stephen King to Kurt Vonnegut and even the Bible, have been real sources of inspiration.

Lindelof: I think that there are also a number of TV writers, from David Kelley to David Milch to David Simon — the guy basically changed the form of storytelling on TV, character-centric storytelling. Carlton and I went to a panel at ComicCon this year that was Peter Jackson and James Cameron and one of the things that really struck me personally was, here are two guys that are willing to commit six or seven years of their lives to just one thing. Peter Jackson did it with the Lord of the Rings trilogy; Cameron does it every time he makes a movie.

So the idea that we were inspired by, you know, we saw this thing through. We were there in the beginning of Lost, we’re going to write the last episode. There have been a lot of times when we had very tempting offers to go off and do other stuff or leave the show and leave it in the hands of others, but the ideas we’ve committed this chunk of our lives to — this show is something that was inspired by guys like that.

Oh, yeah - I'm still really pissed off about THIS.

Enjoy, because this is all the new Lost you’re going to get for the next two months.

Episode 73 of The Lost Revisited Now will be recorded live on Talkshoe Monday December 7, 2009, time 9pm est.

Wendy and I will be going over the Lost essential episodes revealed to us by Carlton Cuse before season 5.  We avoided this article as it revealed spoilers for seaosn 5.  But know that season 5 is over and season 6 is upon us, we can now talk about whether they stood true to their revaltions.

We will also come up with our 10 essential episodes leading toward season 6.  Some may be relevant, some of humor, but don’t miss as we pick 2 episodes from each season  that you have to rewatch before the Lost season 6 premiere night on Feb. 2, 2010.

Here is the list of episodes from the article that was published before last seaosn.  Special thanks to Nicole’s Lost blog for keeping it up.

The Top 10 Essential Episodes:
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carolton Cuse exclusively reveal the Top 10 episodes Lost fans might want to review before Season 5’s January 21 premiere.

Season One:
1.0 Walkabout
Episode Clue: Locke was in a wheelchair before his arrival on the Island
Season 5 Preview: Jack and Ben try to bring to bring Locke’s corpse back to the Island. Can he be resurrected?

2.0 White Rabbit
Episode Clue: Jack’s dead father Christian appears very much alive on the island
Season 5 Preview: Christian returns and the mystery of his white tennis shoes will be answered.

3.0 Deus Ex Machina
Episode Clue: Locke pleads to the island “I’ve done everything you wanted me to do,” and a light comes on in the Swan hatch.
Season 5 Preview: “We will learn the whole nature of why the Swan hatch exists.” Lindelof

Season Two:
4.0 The 23rd Psalm
Episode Clue: When Mr Eko stared at the smoke monster you “learned the monster was able to pull memories from a character’s life,” reminds Cuse.
Season 5 Preview: A greater understanding of the monster will come this season.

5.0 Live Together, Die Alone
Episode Clue: Sayid, Sun and Jin pass the ruins of a giant four-toed statue.
Season 5 Preview: The statue will reappear.

Season Three:
6.0 Flashes Before Your Eyes
Episode Clue: Desmond meets Fionnula Flanagan who could presumably foresee the future.
Season 5 Preview: We will see the mysterious woman again.

7.0 The Man Behind the Curtain
Episode Clue: Ben’s back story was begun.
Season 5 Preview: A “nice juicy chunk” of Ben’s back story will be revealed confirms Cuse.

Season Four:
8.0 The Constant
Episode Clue: Desmond is shown time-jumping between 1996 and 2004.
Season 5 Preview: The consequences of incorrectly entering/exiting the island will play a crucial role as the Oceanic 6 attempt their return.

9.0 The Shape of Things to Come
Episode Clue: Ben tells Charles Widmore he will kill his daughter Penny. Ben responds “We both know I can’t kill you.”
Season 5 Preview: The power struggle between these men deepens and will be explored further this year.

10.0 There’s No Place Like Home
Episode Clue: Ben addresses Jacob before he turns the stone wheel and moves the island. Everything in this episode is relevant.
Season 5 Preview: We’ll see Locke’s death midway through the Season as his faith in the island will continue to be tested.

SOURCE : NICOLE’S LOST BLOG

I want to go to there.

The Final Season begins Tuesday, February 2, 2010. 

According to a recent interview with co-creator/co-showrunner Damon Lindelof, we may not get a real peek at the new season for a while.  Till then…

So… Finally someone decided when to air Lost. Yay. I figured it’s a perfect thing to write a blog post about seeing as this site is mainly about Lost and I haven’t posted anything in aaages.

So, here it is; straight from Carlton Cuse’s twitter. (click it to go there)

Yep, that’s a Tuesday. And that’ll be it’s slot for the season, as confirmed by this: clicky

A short but sweet post. But hey, it’s only 74 days until I’ll be whittering on about each and every episode of Lost, right here, after the episodes show.

This just in! According to Carlton Cuse’s verified Twitter account, LOST will be returning to us on Tuesdays at 9pm EST, starting February 2, 2010.

It’s a little later that what was being bandied about but still less than three months away.

Produtores e atriz falam sobre o destino de Juliet em Lost

“Ainda tem algo importante que nós ainda não mostramos sobre a personagem”, dizem

Atenção! Antes de começar a ler esta notícia, saiba que ela pode conter spoilers sobre a sexta e última temporada de Lost

Para começar, os produtores-executivos Damon Lindelof e Carlton Cuse confirmaram à EW que Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) está morta (“A decisão de matar a Juliet foi brutal”, diz Lindelof), mas apaziguaram os ânimos dos fãs da loira dizendo que ela vai aparecer em uma série de episódios, conciliando sua agenda com a do remake de V – A Batalha Final. “Ainda tem algo de muito importante que nós ainda não mostramos sobre a personagem”, completa Cuse.

Lindelof complementa dizendo que “a Juliet praticamente deu à luz a sexta temporada com o que ela fez nos segundos finais do ano cinco. Ela é totalmente responsável pelo fim que o programa vai ter. Por tudo isso, nós vamos ver a personagem sob um aspecto um pouco diferente este ano. Nós demos a ela aquele ato por um motivo e é por isso que ela é tão importante à trama da história”.

A própria atriz também falou sobre a sua volta à sexta temporada: “A única coisa que eu conseguia pensar é que ela podia dar um p-a-u no Ben [risos]… Eu pensava ‘acho que vou estar cheia de trabalho, mas gosto tanto dessa personagem. Ninguém teve que me torturar para eu voltar’. Mas foi uma montanha-russa de emoções porque eu já tinha me despedido da personagem”. Fonte: Omelete.

Not to say that my entertainment fix for humpday isn’t being fulfulled with other great shows (although this godforsaken World Series must end already so FOX will bring back new episodes of Glee!!), but there’s a little hole in my heart that can only be filled by a good helping of mystery from Lost. Last week’s oh-so-brief (a mere 15 seconds) promo for the final season that aired during Flash Forward certainly didn’t help matters, particularly as it offered no glimpses of what’s to come.

It did make me revisit more interesting (and decipher-worthy) videos courtesy the Comic Con panel from July.

And in other news, I’ve discovered an awesome piece of Lost art right under my nose at work!Created by a department colleague, he is one of only 16 artists commissioned by Team Darlton (exec producers and show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse) to capture significant moments and aspects of the show in commemoration of the final season – check out his blog detailing how he approached the piece. Each poster is steadily being revealed as the months to the January premiere tick off the calendar, and only limited numbers of prints are being sold on the website Damon, Carlton and a Polar Bear, but due to their exclusive nature all have sold out quickly.

• Titus Welliver (Ézsau/Anti-Jacob) pár hét múlva Hawaii-ra repül, tehát ő is visszatér a sorozatba.
• Carlton Cuse elárulta Twitteren a sorozat egyik új színészének a nevét: William Atherton. Az előző Forgatási hírek bejegyzésben írtam arról, hogy kivel lesz közös jelenete.
• Az írók most fejezték be a 8. részt, és a 9.-en dolgoznak. A színészek pedig a 6.-at forgatják.
• Lehet, hogy kapunk majd egy kis információt arról, hogy Walt miért is olyan különleges, de nem biztos, hogy Malcolm David Kelley visszatér.
• A készítők reménykednek abban, hogy Cynthia Watros visszatér az utolsó évadra, hogy meg tudják magyarázni valamilyen szinten Libby történetét, hisz mindenki róla kérdezi őket folyamatosan. [Josh: Tavaly állítólag nemet mondott nekik, amit őszintén nehezen tudok elhinni, hisz többször nyilatkozta, hogy szívesen visszatérne, ráadásul a 4. évadban két pár másodperces jelenetre visszatért, tehát most miért nem akarna?]
• Damon Lindelof elárulta, hogy Jeff Fahey, azaz Frank Lapidus, állandó szereplő lesz a 6. évadban.
• Locke (valószínűleg ÁlLocke) találkozik a szigeten többek között a badass Claire-rel, és egy irak-i meg is fogja késelni.
• A híres rendező és producer, Jon Cassar (“24″), rendezni fog egy Lost-epizódot.
• Természetesen a sok szereplő mellett visszatérnek a 6. évadban azok a bizonyos számok is. 4 8 15 16 23 42
• Casting hír a 6×08-hoz: [KENDALL] 30-as éveiben járó intellektuális szépségű, okos, intelligens nő. Kémkedésen kapták rajta, és hazudnia kell, hogy elkerülje a bajt. VENDÉGSZEREP, VAN LEHETŐSÉG A VISSZATÉRÉSRE
• A 6. évad promó pószterének a hireoglifái a következőt jelentik: “Ki a vezér?”
• Egy olyan régi, és bonyolult kérdésre fogunk választ kapni, amire nem számítanánk.
• Elizabeth Mitchell elmondta, hogy amikor visszatér, Juliet-nek lesz lehetősége beszélgetni valakivel, akit nagyon szeret. A készítők elárulták, hogy még mindig van valami nagyon fontos dolog, amit nem árultak el vele kapcsolatban. Azzal, hogy Juliet felrobbantotta az 5. évad végén a bombát, egy olyan folyamatot indított be, ami nélkül nem is lenne 6. évad. Nem véletlen adták neki ezt a feladatot, hisz nagyon fontos szerepe van neki az egész sorozatra nézve.
• A Charlotte-ot játszó Rebecca Mader sem maradhatott ki a buliból. Ő is visszatér a 6. évadra.

Carlton Cuse originalmente puso una nota en su Twitter donde decía con un juego de palabras en inglés la noticia de que iban a tener un actor invitado en” LOST “. Para esto, en su Twitter dejó este fragmento.

Damon y Yo somos mega fans (Die Hard en inglés) de este actor que se la pasa dando grandes actuaciones (Barr high en inglés) en los programas que participa y ahora ya lo tenemos para que sea la estrella invitada en LOST. La vida (Life en inglés) esta buena”. Los seguidores de Cuse en Twitter quisieron saber quien era, así que después de leer la frase le encontraron un significado que les permitió ver que el actor había salido en “Die Hard”, de que su personaje en los “Cazafantasmas” fue Walter Peck y de que fue el Dr. Barr en “Desperate Housewives” y que de paso también participó en la serie de “Life”.

Cuse después confirmó una hora después de que había salido este mensaje de que el Actor William Atherton será el actor invitado para la serie de LOST.

“Para aquellos que le adivinaron correctamente…felicidades! Sí es William Atherton”.

El Royal Hawaian Theatre inundado de cámaras.  El Festival de Cine de Hawaii premia a Damon Lindelof y Carlton Cuse, creadores de PERDIDOS (LOST), por el impacto de la serie en la isla. Por la mañana, clases magistrales de director y productores. Por la noche, la gala a la que asisten Sun, Ben, Locke y Hurley entre aplausos de seguidores entusiastas. Nunca la ficción alcanzó cotas tan altas. El cine está en crisis. Hollywood ha perdido su musa. La televisión encabeza la ficción con guiones y actores de primera fila.  

Terry O´Quinn y Jorge García

PERDIDOS una serie de éxito. Un misterio narrado entre tiempos que exige al espectador recordar cada capítulo. Una explosión de foros en la red que interpretan cada imagen. Actores que desconocen sus líneas hasta el rodaje, entregándose en cada capítulo. Personajes a medida de los intérpretes. Sun nació de una entrevista con Yunjin Kim y Hurley del propio Jorge García. Locke de la intuición de Terry O’Quinn para construir un profeta sin destino.

El productor ejecutivo Jack Bender, Yunjin Kim y Carlton Cuse

Y Ben soñado para Michael Emerson. Sus amigos le advirtieron que PERDIDOS resultaría duro. El actor de Nueva York creyó que exageraban, rodar en Hawái parecía agradable. En la primera toma le ataron a un árbol y le torturaron. Actuación impecable que convirtió el tándem Ben/Locke en una de las claves de la serie. Ovación de la sala por el Emmy de la quinta temporada. Sorprende su carácter afable e inquieto, opuesto al rostro  frío y calculador de Ben Linus.  

Michael Emerson y la Dra. de producción Jean Higgins

Imágenes para el recuerdo. Sun despidiéndose de Jin al embarcarse en la balsa y el perro intentando alcanzarla. El encuentro entre Kate y Jack en L.A. que descubre que salieron de la isla. Y la escena en que Ben impide el suicidio de Locke y luego le estrangula. Otra  actuación memorable de Emerson. Al final la pregunta inevitable, los planes para después de PERDIDOS. Es como si le preguntan a una parturienta si desea tener más hijos, contesta Cuse con palabras que destilan melancolía. De la nueva temporada poco o nada. Lo único seguro es que Ben recibirá otra paliza y que Vincent se salvará.

Al día siguiente encontramos los tráileres de PERDIDOS al pie de Makupuu Head, al este de Honolulu. En las puertas el nombre de Jack y Hurley. En lo alto, la trasera de un decorado, cámara, micrófono y tres figuras. Tomamos unas fotos. Quizá en el episodio final aparezcan nuestras sombras. Tendremos que esperar a enero para conocer los misterios del Oceanic 815.

Fotos: M.da Silva

HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Hasta el 25 de octubre de 2.009.

PERDIDOS (LOST ) se emite en España en CUATRO los martes a las 23:15 (Quinta temporada)

According to Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (via TVguide.com):

If there is a theme to Lost’s sixth and final season, it might be “things coming full circle.”

“[In the first season, the characters] were running around the jungle, things felt intense and surprising,” the Hollywood Reporter quotes Cuse as saying. “We have a way that we’re going to be able to do that in the final season, too.”

The return of familiar faces — including the decidedly dead and presumed dead — will also come into play, with both Jeremy Davies and Elizabeth Mitchell set to reprise their roles as Faraday and Juliet. And based on the dramatic timing of Dominic Monaghan’s last-moment arrival on the dais, Charlie would seem a safe bet to (somehow) resurface as well.

“There’s a good chance you’ll be seeing many characters you haven’t seen since the first season,” said Lindelof.

Some tropes will be absent from Season 6. Time-travel is so yesterday, the producers indicated, and flashbacks/forwards are long gone. Instead, Lindelof said, “We’re going to do something different” to tell the final 18 hours’ worth of story.

• Kristin szerint a 6. évad premierje előtt egyetlen egy új hivalatos promo képet illetve új felvételekből készült előzetest nem fog kiadni az ABC a producerek kérésére. Hogy ez mennyire igaz, az majd kiderül.
• Ez is Kristintől érkezett: Cynthia Watros (Libby) és Michelle Rodriguez (Ana-Lucia) is visszatér az utolsó évadra. Más régi szereplő akár több részben is feltűnhet. (pl Boone, Charlie stb…)
• Meg lett erősítve, hogy azt fogjuk látni a 6. évadban, hogy mi lett volna ha nem zuhan le a repülő, hanem megérkezik Los Angelesben. Úgy tűnik, ilyenek lesznek flashback/flashforward helyett.
• Said Taghmaoui (Caesar) is visszatér.
• Billy Ray Gallion (Randy Nations) Facebookjára felrakott néhány képet a forgatásról.
• Sonya Walger-nek fogalma sincs arról, hogy Penny visszatér-e az utolsó évadban.
• Rasmussen ügynököt, aki ott van a kórházban, amikor Claire-nek megszületik a babája, egy 30-as év körüli barna hajú nő játsza, akit most látunk majd először a sorozatban.
• Sayid-ot a templomban lévő Többiek elfogják, majd megkínozzak, annak ellenére, hogy ők látták el az 5. évad végén szerezett sebeit.
• A Többiek és a kedvenceink közötti konfliktusokat Richard oldja meg, majd mindannyian bemennek a templomba, ahol Sayidot élve találják meg.
• Dogan (Hiroyuki Sanada) és Jacob is bent vannak a templomban.
• A Jack-centrikus 6×05 címe: Lighthouse
• Azon kívül, hogy Dogan a templomi jelenetknél jelen van, Jack alternatív jelenében is ott lesz.
• Úgy tűnik a 6×05 egy elég fontos rész lesz, hisz Carlton Cuse és Damon Lindelof is ott voltak a forgatáson Matthew Fox-szal (Jack). Az epizódot Jack Bender rendezi. Kép 1, 2.
• A napokban látták Doug Hutchinson-t (Horace Goodspeed) Hawaii-on forgatni. Evangeline Lilly (Kate) is helyszínen volt.

“I use the word “arrogant,” but it’s a good guy of arrogance. It’s the arrogance that dares one to go above and beyond, perform great acts, and do something special. ‘Lost’ is FULL of such arrogance, and it’s the show it is because of it. This show attempts things no other show does, and pulls them off on such a consistent basis that at times it’s easy to forget just how amazing of a feat it truly is.”

Says Ryan McGee of Zap2: LOST.

And, you know, he’s right. It’s that “good-guy arrogance” that I want to emulate in my work, not necessarily the plot points (as I’ve sometimes feared). (It is sort of difficult to not feel like LOST ripoff artist when I want to have that arrogance and love time-travel and mysteries and physics and deserted locations and WTF moments to boot.)

The whole show is pulled off with just enough panache that it feels real. And definitely more confident than, say, Fringe. (If you want to read Ryan’s thoughts on season 5, here’s the link, ’cause I’m about to get tangential in a second.)

It’s partly because people on a desert island just don’t spend that much time around computer screens looking up explanations for smoke monsters. They simply run from them and then try to stay out of their way. This lets us as viewers run alongside the characters (or climb alongside to pick mangos), instead of looking over their shoulders.

Which brings me to something I was saying to one of my artistic friends the other day: When I watch a movie or a TV show, or read a book, I don’t want to know what is happening. And when I do figure it out, I want something else mysterious to take its place.

In the early episodes of Fringe, there’s was no real mystery arc that carries through all the episodes, leaving me with a desire for more. Sure, there’s The Pattern, but it’s so nebulous and intangible for so long that it ceases to be a motivating factor for watching multiple episodes. For all intents and purposes, the episodes are stand-alone.

Stand-alone with the exception of little moments after the story-of-the-week is wrapped up. (Firefly did that, too. “Two-by-two, hands of blue,” you know.)

And that kind of story-telling simply will not stand with me anymore.

Writers have to turn the ratchet (or frozen donkey-wheel) on inter-episodal tension in the midst of the story-of-the-week, so that the audience is left with a sense of “But what about the polar bear?” and “When will they ever answer that?” when the credits roll. If you tack on a shot of the polar bear running through the woods at the end of an episode about something else, you tell the audience that you’ll take care of the polar bear and then they stop worrying about the fact that it’s on the Island. (“Oh, I guess they’ll explain it to us next week.”) Where’s the mystery in that?

But the creators of LOST are arrogant enough to drop a polar bear on the Island and then not refer to it except obliquely for a while (through a comic book or a character line “But I did see a polar bear in roller skates with a mango”).

We need more of that kind of bravura story-telling in our lives.

Here’s hoping for a spin-off.

I first saw this on the stupendous lost.about.com site, Hosted by Bonnie Covel. It is an interview conducted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with Executive Producers Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse and the show’s most prolific director, Jack Bender. They discuss the process of development, writing and shooting of the show, using some iconic scenes as examples. The interview also highlights how each of them began their careers in television.

This is Part One

(Posted by baftaonline on youtube)

Here is the link to the rest of the interview .

Mucho se está especulando de “Perdidos” y es que al contar con su última temporada todo es posible, y es que es una de las series que más expectación levantan en el panorama actual. Lo malo es que tendremos que esperar hasta enero del 2010 para verla.

Los productores de la serie, Damon Lindelof y Carlton Cuse, han hecho públicas unas declaraciones que dicen la serie de la ABC no resolverá todos los enigmas planteados a lo largo de estas cinco temporadas. Era lógico pensar que después de tantísimos enigmas alguno quedaría en el tintero, aunque realmente no me parece correcto ya que sus expectativas son grandes y posiblemente dejen pasar enigmas que la gente quería conocer. Más vale que ampliaran el número de episodios y dieran las respuestas a las preguntas planteadas (es mi opinión).

Spoilers. Se rumorea que volveremos a ver el avión que se estrelló, donde podría ir montado Jacob. Además también podríamos ver otra vez a Cindy, la azafata del vuelo Oceanic 815. La última escena de la serie está totalmente planeada y planificada, por lo que podría ser rodada en breve, algo bueno ya que hace ver que siempre han tenido claro el final de la serie y solo han seguido el camino para llegar hasta allí.

También se ha hablado de la incorporación de un viejo conocido de otra serie del blog: “Héroes”. El actor es David H. Lawrence al que pudimos ver en la serie de superhéroes interpretando al villano Doyle. La noticia se ha conocido gracias a su propio perfil de la red social de Twitter. Sin embargo todavía no se sabe a quién interpretara y si su papel tendrá un arco de episodio reducido o prolongado. Aunque podría ser alguno de los dos personajes que ya se habían dado a conocer con anterioridad: o bien Jeff, un personaje de entre 30 y 50 años gentil y simpático que dara una mala noticia a un directivo; o Paul, un hombre entre los 30 y 60 que podrá a prueba su capacidad nerviosa ante una situación de alto riesgo.

Y por ahora nada más, aparte de lo que ya sabemos: que muchos de los personajes ya fallecidos en temporadas pasados volverán a la serie. ¿A quién veremos otra vez? Desde luego que la serie va a ser un bombazo y nadie consentirá perdérsela.

Call me late to the party, but I just found this poster that was unveiled at Comic Con for Lost’s sixth and FINAL (*sniff*) season. Take a look at how many characters are coming back! Oh yeah… spoilers.

I think most fans sorta saw this coming, but it seems that Season 6 won’t be giving us all the answers we so crave.

Lost head honchos – Carlton Cuse, Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis have let it be known that we won’t know everything at the end of next yearsfinal season.

The writers were attending a festival in Seattle reports media website SlashFilm.

Unfortunatley, this news comes as little surprise to fans of the show. Let’s face it, after bringing in the massive new mystery of Jacob and friend(s) at the end of last season, they were never going to answer such questions as why Walt was so special .

But that’s not all Mr. Cuse had to say, he also hinted that the end may not be in sight.

Although the TV show will end next year, it seems Disney (parent company of ABC) may still want to do something with the franchise. Could this be a computer game, online presence, a rid at one of their parks? Could it even be the much rumored film, or simply nothing at all?

Whatever happens, it’s exciting to know the show will live on, I just hope it doesn’t have a negative effect on the ‘final’ season.

Queda ya tan sólo una temporada de Perdidos y sus fans nos frotamos las manos, después de ese suculento final de la quinta campaña, por lo poco que nos queda para conocer los misterios de la serie. Sin embargo sus productores ejecutivos Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis y Adam Horowitz comienzan a advertirnos de que puede que esto no pase. Lost seguirá reservándose incógnitas tras su final, aunque la intención de sus responsables, eso sí, es que todo encaje a grandes rasgos. Parece lógico que después de cinco años de continuos interrogantes no todos ellos sean respondidos en apenas 16 episodios, por lo que esta confesión es sorprendente a medias. Muchos seguidores se conformarían con un final lógico e impactante que sirviera de correcto cierre a la serie, ya que perderse en atar todos los cabos sueltos sería algo interminable y tedioso. Sin embargo, la razón por la que algunos aspectos de Perdidos sigan sin resolverse podría ser mucho más material. Disney, que está detrás (muy detrás) de la serie, no quiere matar a la gallina de los huevos de oro y pretende seguir explotando la idea mucho más allá de su final televisivo, independientemente de la calidad de estos nuevos productos. El decepcionante juego Lost: Via Domus sería un claro ejemplo de esta política, en la que Disney aprovecharía esos resquicios en la trama para nuevos lanzamientos. Perdidos, una de las series más seguidas de los últimos años debido a su intrincada trama, busca ahora un final a la altura de tanta expectación para no caer en ese grupo de grandes series mancilladas por conclusiones insatisfactorias.

Well, we sure know who’s going to be getting Juliette’s back, amirite? Haaaaa. It’s the swingin’ 70’s. Dharma’s heyday. The Dharmafolks are busy conducting experiments on who’s mellow is more yellow and who’s got the loosest caboose. That is, until Horace comes in, harshin’ everyone’s buzz.

Phil: Is that Horace? Is he carrying dynamite?! Ruh-roh. Better call LaFleur.

Dharma Guy: (into phone) Hello? Get me Jean Philippe LaFleur… I don’t care! Interrupt him!

They’ve all had a bit to drink and things are getting out of hand. They don’t take kindly to Miles, who’s trying to get everyone to settle down.

Finally, they head out to meet LeFleur, the shadowy head of Dharma security. A moment later the door opens. We hear a scruffy voice and see a lone form cloaked in shadow. We widen to reveal…!

When LaFleur hears what’s wrong, he gets a wistful look in his eye. A smile plays across his lips and a slight breeze ruffles his hair.

LaFleur: This reminds me of something. A long time ago. The perfect end to the perfect day. A day just like this one this one this one this one…

Three Years Earlier

LaFleur: We were dropped into the middle of the jungle, dressed as civilians. We were doin’ one thang, and one thang only. Killin’ Hostiles.

LaFleur: We found two of them beatin’ up on Horace’s wife. After we took ‘em out, she wanted to bury ‘em. I didn’t like it. If we left ‘em out, the Hostiles couldn’t help but imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives.

Dharma Guy: That’s kind of f**ked up.

LaFleur: She seemed a little shady to me. And I was right not to trust her. Once we got to that sonic fence, she gave us what for. Almost zapped our brains out.

LaFleur: When we woke up we’s was with Horace. Had his knickers all up in a knot over that Richard guy. The fancy boy with the makeup. I told him not to worry. I’d set things straight.

Dharma Guy: Whad’ya do, LaFleur?

LaFleur: I told him we’s the ones killed his Hostile buddies, and if he weren’t careful, we’d kill him and the rest of his eyeliner-wearin’ buddies, too.

——————–

Richard: My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

LaFleur: What now?

Richard: Nuss’ing. Mistare LeFlooure, ve vequiah JUSTICE! You meh tell Horse he hat nuss’ing to fere from ‘ze Hostiles, zo longk az ve can bringk bek ze man zey killed in ze jungle zis afternoon.

LaFleur: Hoss, you are tryin’ mah patience.

——————–

LaFleur: So anyway, I told Horace what the deal was, and he told Amy that she was gonna have to give over her dead boyfriend.

Amy: Will they respect his body?

Horace: Oh no. They’ll do horrible, horrible things to it. And he’s just gonna lie there and take it.

LaFleur: Because we smoothed things out with the Hostiles, Horace said we could stay on the island a spell. We’d have to leave sometime, but there weren’t no rush, ya’ know? At first, Juliette was a little skeptical, but I straightened her out, if ya’ know what I mean…hehehe…

Miles: LaFleur, we’ve got visitors! You’re gonna want to see this!

LaFleur and Miles jump in The Mystery Machine and head down to the beach, where they’re met with an unexpected surprise.

Hurley: Dudes! Blast from the past, or is that the future? When do we eat?

LaFleur: You know, Miles, I think this may just be mah masterpiece.

Miles: The hell are you talking about, dude?

Regarded as one of Japan’s most respected actors, Sanada is probably best known to western audiences for his roles in Rush Hour 3, Sunshine and The Last Samurai. The 48-year old is joining the cast of Lost’s sixth and final season for a “significant recurring role”.

(Minor spoilers and spec…)

Given that earlier this week John Hawkes was cast as Lennon, the translator for a foreign corporation, and Darlton have just cast a major foreign actor, it seems fairly logical to connect the two. That would seem to throw my theory about the “corporation” that Lennon works for being the Hanso Foundation, assuming that Sanada would be playing Lennon’s boss. It would be odd for them to have set up Alvar Hanso as a white Danish guy only to have him played by a Japanese actor, after all!

Whilst it might not be the most ethnically-sensitive casting (although it happens in Hollywood all the time) it’s also possible that Sanada could be playing a Korean; if, therefore, he is connected with Lennon/the corporation then it might suggest Paik Heavy Industries, the company headed by Sun’s father which has some sort of tie to the island.

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see. I think it’s interesting that Lost is still introducing new characters so late in the game, but it’s definitely a move I support. Having such an extensive ensemble cast is one of Lost’s strengths, and each well-handled character just adds another little thread to the tapestry.

Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof are looking to recruit another new player to the cast of Lost for the upcoming final season. (Minor character spoilers and speculation…)

The description of the character is thus.

Lennon: Scruffy, edgy, charismatic, and slightly stir-crazy, Lennon can be deferential when it’s called for. He’s the spokesperson/translator for the president of a foreign corporation. He’s a wily negotiator, and far more powerful than his lowly position would seem to indicate. Recurring.

Sounds like it could be an interesting character for one big reason. Does the mention of “foreign corporation” put anyone in mind of the Hanso Foundation, the company that funded the Dharma Initiative’s research on the island? Hanso is the one big faction that hasn’t been shown in the foreground of the action yet, even though the name has been bouncing around the Lost fandom since S2 introduced us to the Dharma Initative via the Swan Orientation video. Charles Widmore said last season that a “war” is coming, and it’s been clear for a while that a lot of people have a major interest in the island.

If S6 sees the Hanso Foundation step up in the action, I’d be very happy.

EDIT: Well, we didn’t have to wait long! The role has gone to John Hawkes, who’s probably best known as Sol from Deadwood, but who I recognised from the Miranda July movie Me and You and Everyone We Know. He’s certainly get the scruffy, edgy feel that the casting call described, and I can see him being a very good fit on the show. Once again, the Lost team prove that they’re great at casting.