New message from D&C. Click for a larger version.
We should be receiving access to weekly, exclusive content for Season 5 of LOST until the season starts.
The first 3 videos available are a welcome message/explanation from D&C, a brief tour of a producer signing party in LA and a recap short called ABC’s Lost Started Kit
If you haven’t already seen it, here’s the Lost Season 5 preview from abc.com.
Readers of The Lost Blog and DarkUFO have been invited to play in the DarkUFO Lost Fantasy League for Season 5. If any of you are familiar with fantasy sports leagues, the premise, rules and scoring will be easy to understand - if you are not, read them anyway because this could be fun:
Here’s how it works:
1) Please complete the submission form using the link below.
2) Please only submit entry 1 per person.
3) We have a new field to enter this year which allows you to select the site that you would like your results to appear in. EG If you are a Lost Blog reader and want to keep track of your place with other Lost Blog readers make sure you select Lostpedia from the Select Site option. NOTE: Everyone is still included in the full table but this allows other sites to easily track their own tables etc. Owners of these sites should be providing details of the league in the appropriate forums/blogs/sites.
4) You must use a valid email address.
5) This email address will NOT be displayed or sold to any third party marketing companies and will ONLY be used to contact you if you are a prize winner and to send you a confirmation of your picks.
6) Only fill out the Celebrity Code field if you have already been contacted by DarkUFO.
7) Make sure you enter your team Name so that it is unique to you. The team name is the name you will use to find your team in the full table- eg Don’t call your team LOST or Sawyer or Jack etc Make it unique like Andy’s Greatest Fantasy Team :) (but please, nothing obscene or tasteless)
8) After you have submitted your team you should receive an email confirming your picks. Please check your Spam/Junk Folder if you don’t receive one within an hour.
9) If you are a member of one of the sites listed, make sure that other site members know about the Fantasy League so that you can compete against your friends.
Make sure to denote you are a reader from The Lost Blog so that we can keep track of our subset!.
Read more about the league and scoring here - http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2008/06/announcing-season-5-darkufo-lost.html
Sign-up here - http://jotform.com/form/81620010342
Once you create a team - feel free to post who you chose and why in the comments section. You have until August (approximately) to register your team.
Okay, now that we’ve had a couple weeks to digest and decompress from the quite fantastic season 4 finale - it is time to get back to the work of deciphering just what exactly is going on. In that vein, we have received two very cool pieces from our contributors that I thought I would reference in this post.
In an update to the Fallon Theory, which we posted last year, reader Aonghus Fallon sent us the following diagram (he’s also updated the comment thread, which I would recommend reading):
Also, a pretty cool timeline sketch from reader “Rick” - which depicts three known timeline changes in the Lost world.
What do you think?
Yesterday, USA Today’s Life section had a large feature on Lost and the upcoming season. There’s a pretty cool “Where are we?” section at the top of the page that outlines the 12 key characters on the show.
The are a few quotes from cast members in the article including this one from Sun (Yunjin Kim):
“We’re all going to be disappointed that there are only eight instead of 16, but the eight episodes are amazing, and I think fans will be very satisfied.” She continues, “I feel like this season all the episodes are self-contained. The speed of the story is faster. Each episode contains a question and an answer, finally. So there’s a lot of satisfaction.”
For those that are interested, here is the Season 4 Episode 1 sneak preview:
The title of the episode will be “The Beginning of the End” which is an appropriate title for a number of reasons.
Enjoy!
FlyOceanicAir.com was updated yesterday and the video was consistently interrupted by the URL Find815.com. I will let you guys explore for yourself, but it is pretty cool; yet another story that seems to at least be tangential to the primary Lost storyline, representating another Interactive movement in the vain of TLE.
This particular story follows a gentlemen by the name of Sam and his quest to find out what happened to the passengers of Flight 815, specifically a flight attendant by the name of Sonya that he was obviously in love with. When the site loads we initially see a news cast associated with 815.
This ARG will continue for the next few weeks, up until the Season 4 Premiere. In this first chapter you should end up finding at least 3 videos and 2 interactive “games”.
Enjoy and please use this thread to post anything you can find.
*Update*
On behalf of those who do not wish to have to dig for the videos, I will post those that I am able to locate, chronologically in each thread related to the ARG.
FlyOceanicAir.com Sam Thomas Hack
Find815.com Chapter 1 - Video 1
Find815.com Chapter 1 - Video 2
Find815.com Chapter 1 - Video 3
Find815.com Chapter 1 - Video 4
*The Lost Mobisodes will be titled Lost: Missing Pieces, and here is ABC’s official description:
Lost: Missing Pieces are 13 two-to three-minute stories of compelling, new, never-before-seen moments from LOST. These newly-created scenes (not deleted scenes from previous episodes) reveal answers and new details about your favorite characters. For each story, we leave it up to the you, the fans, to figure out where these pieces fit into the overall mythology. Watch new episodes on ABC.com
Mondays beginning 11/12.
So, if you cannot access these on your mobile phone, I am assuming high quality versions will be accessible beginning with the first episode this Monday on ABC.com.
*At some point yesterday ABC.com posted the following note on their official Lost page. Nice work by DarkUFO for catching this premiere description.
Lost
Thu Feb 14 -6/-7c
Stay tuned on February 2008!
The band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must continue to work together against the cruel weather and harsh terrain if they want to stay alive. But as they have discovered during their 70-plus days on the island, danger and mystery loom behind every corner, and those they thought could be trusted may turn against them. Even heroes have secrets…
The date has subsequently been changed to TBD, so this was either a mistake or someone pulling the proverbial trigger a little early.
-At least one “Lost” star captured a win at the Emmy’s, so again, congrats to Terry O’Quinn. Otherwise, Lost and Heroes were collectively shut out, and beyond that it was generally a Sopranos love fest, so if you missed it, you didn’t miss much.
-TV Guides’ Michael Ausiello confirmed today that Cynthia Watros (Libby) will be appearing in Season 4, so I definitely look forward to getting more of her story and what happened as she and Hurley crossed paths in the mental institution. There has been additional speculation that she might have been a DHARMA employee, so I’m sure her back story will be compelling. At a minimum, this essentially confirms that flash-backs will still be part of the show for Season 4:
She’ll be in enough of the show for us to fill in the missing pieces of her story,” says Cuse. “We could not be more pleased. Cynthia is a smart and engaging actor, and [executive producer] Damon [Lindelof] and I have some very cool parts of her story left to tell.”
-Numerous sites are speculating that the premiere of Lost will be Monday, February 4th, at 8 PM. Though this has not been confirmed, obviously the 8 PM Monday night timeslot should draw much larger non-DVR viewership than Wednesday at 10, which is great for the show
-Finally, at some point today an all new podcast should appear on ABC.com, from Lindelof and Cuse, we will provide a recap once that is published.
Enjoy!
Michael Ausiello of TVGuide.com confirmed two new characters and the actors that will be playing them in Season 4:
Sources confirm that The Wire’s Lance Reddick has been cast in the recurring role of Arthur Stevens, the intimidating corporate-recruiter character I first told you about in last week’s Ask Ausiello. Reddick also had a lengthy arc on HBO’s Oz, where he starred opposite returning Lostie Harold Perrineau.
Ausiello reported earlier this week that former Sopranos actor Ken Leung will also be joining the cast, fulfilling the role of a brilliant mathematician. Leung previously starred in Rush Hour and more recently in X Men: The Last Stand.
The rumor is that Leung will be playing the recurring role of Russell*, a brilliant mathematician who is capable of great insights and has a tremendous knowledge across various scientific fields. He’s expected to first turn up in February’s season premiere.
Further, Kristin at E! Online is also reporting that Jeremy Davies and Rebecca Mader will be joining the cast as well:
Oh, new Lost news makes me so ridonkulously happy. We’re hearing that creepmaster Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan) is doing eight eps of Lost this season, and one Rebecca Mader will have a major recurring role as well…perhaps as the much discussed Charlotte?
Four new characters for Season 4! What are your thoughts about the newest additions?