Last LOST

The Last LOST

Tonight at 7:00pm, ABC will begin its countdown of its greatest television show... LOST. The sixth season finale airs, and ends, tonight ("The End"). All of us Losties will miss our favorite characters, but we have been waiting for this day for a long, long time. Thank you ABC.

I hope tonight that everyone watching will enjoy the last LOST... I know I will.

LOST: The Final Season

LOST: Season 6

Everyone knows that the next season of LOST, 6, will be it's last and final season. Above is the first LOST Season 6 promo poster. It features all of the original main characters, as well as several "dead" characters and some Flight 815 tail-end survivors. From left to right: Faraday, Boone, Miles, Michael, Anna Lucia, Charlotte, Shannon, Desmond, Eko, Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Locke, Ben, Sayid, Libby, Sun, Jin, Claire, Hurley, Juliet, Charlie, Lapidus, Richard, Bernard, and Rose. Also, note the strange hieroglyphics within the letters of "THE FINAL SEASON". What does it say? What does it mean? We're feeling mixed emotions of sadness, relief, and excitement. There are so many questions that we need answering, so many mysteries we need solved. Well, according to the producers and writers of the series, we will not be disappointed. Stephen McPherson, ABC Entertainmet President, announced that LOST will end during the 2010 season with a "highly anticipated and shocking finale." "We felt that this was the only way to give LOST a proper creative conclusion," McPherson said. Starting with the 2007-2008 season, the final 48 episodes were going to be aired as three seasons (4, 5, and 6), each with 16 episodes. Due to the writer's strike, however, the fourth season featured 14 episodes and season 5 had 17 episodes. Season 6 was scheduled to have 17 episodes as well, however, on June 29 it was announced that the final season will feature an additional hour, making the episode count 18. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have stated that they "always envisioned LOST as a show with a beginning, middle, and end," and that by announcing when the show would end that viewers would "have the security of knowing that the story will play out as we've intended." Lindelof and Cuse stated that securing the 2010 series end-date "was immensely liberating" and helped the series rediscover its focus. Lindelof said, "We're no longer stalling." The producers also plan to wrap up long-standing mysteries, such as the nature of the smoke monster, the four-toed statue of Taweret (the Egyptian Goddess of childbirth and fertility), and the identity of the skeletons from the season one episode "House of the Rising Sun". Matthew Fox (Jack Shepherd) stated in a recent interview that in the final season, the characters of Jack and John Locke "will come head to head." A third of the way through the final season, the two timelines will be "solidified into one" and "will be very linear... no more flashbacks, nothing." He has also claimed to be the only cast member who knows the ending of the series. Cuse has stated that both the time travel and flash-forward seasons are over, and they're moving into something different for the sixth season.

Well that is alot to think about and hold on to. Many of us are wondering which of our favorite and most missed dead losties will return and how, and we all want the organized tangle of mystery to be finally unraveled. I, for one, am one of LOST's biggest fans, and I'm sure everyone else like me can not wait until 2010 rolls by and the season 6 premiere airs. Until then, however, all we can do is wait and speculate on what we've been given. Here are the links to the 2009 Comic Con LOST panel:

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNjVeEBA_I&feature=channel

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMN89M9NmK4&feature=channel

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCn-xbBlb8&feature=channel

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-srKdiqz88&feature=channel

Lost in LOST

LOST

I had to write a quick blog about my all-time favorite tv show, LOST. I first heard about this show long before I started watching it. In fact, the show had already finished the third season and was a month or so away from the season four premiere. I was dogsitting for my friend who was in Ohio and I had his house to myself for a week and a half. I rented the first disk of season one at Blockbuster and I watched all four episodes that night. For the next ten days I rented every single disk from all three seasons. Sometimes I rented two disks, which is eight episodes, and would watch them in one go. I couldn't get enough of it. If you've never watched it, I highly recommend trying it out. The story mostly takes place on this mysterious island after Oceanic Flight 815 flying from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles crashes on it, somewhere in the South Pacific. It follows the lives of the crash survivors and what transpires on the island. They initially stay on the beach where the majority of the plane wreckage is, but as the days turn into weeks and so forth, they are forced to improvise and adapt in order to overcome and survive. I don't want to ruin anything, but the island holds many surprises for the survivors and everything is not as it always seems. There is something in the jungle, and the survivors may not be the only ones on the island. I was able to finish seasons one through three just in time for the premiere of season four. At the time of this writing, seasons four and five are already finished, and they were great seasons. The next and final season, six, will premiere in early 2010, a few months away. Hopefully the mysteries and questions raised in the first five seasons will be answered, but nonetheless, LOST is undoubtedly one of the greatest show on television, and I am lost in it. Thank you abc. If you've seen and liked LOST, check out FlashForward, abc's new show. Some say it's the new LOST... we'll see.