Movies and TV The Official "Lost" the series discussion - Page 57

Deberg_1990 · 10-06-2004, 04:29 PM

I figured I would start a thread for this and see what happens....there seemed to be quite a few viewers on the board for this show the past few weeks.....I like the direction the show is taking so far......episode 3 tonight at 7 central on ABC....

KingPriest2 · 02-24-2005, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Dartgod

I didn't read it because it looked like a spoiler to me. Even so, I hate knowing anything about what an episode is going to be about in advance. I like the surprise factor. I guess I'm in the minority here, so I'll just breeze past any of your posts in the future.

I will tell you what. If I do that I would put a space in between just to show that it will give you a warning about it.

**Dartgod** · 02-24-2005, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiefnj

***SPOILER***

**I'm Not Kidding**

[I've read that Hurley won a big lottery. That was why he was on the television. However, winning the money has been a curse. He finds his winning numbers on the map that Sayid stole from the french woman and goes looking for her.]

Goddamn it! Couldn't you have done that in a PM?

Motherf*********!!!!!!!!

**Dartgod** · 02-24-2005, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by KingPriest2

I will tell you what. If I do that I would put a space in between just to show that it will give you a warning about it.

How about you motherf****** don't post any spoilers here AT ALL!

KingPriest2 · 02-24-2005, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dartgod

How about you motherf****** don't post any spoilers here AT ALL!

WTF?!?!

OK first of all I was trying to respect your wishes and give you warning and this is what I get?

Second. They are not spoilers. They are descriptions just like TV Guide. I told you that already.

**Dartgod** · 02-24-2005, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

WTF?!?!

OK first of all I was trying to respect your wishes and give you warning and this is what I get?

Second. They are not spoilers. They are descriptions just like TV Guide. I told you that already.

Sorry, I quoted the wrong post. I apologize.

As for the spoiler that was posted, I saw the spoiler alert, but I had already scrolled down and also saw the first sentence about the lottery.

KingPriest2 · 02-24-2005, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Sorry, I quoted the wrong post. I apologize.

As for the spoiler that was posted, I saw the spoiler alert, but I had already scrolled down and also saw the first sentence about the lottery.

Hey that is cool

I saw that and I knew what was going to happen.

**Dartgod** · 02-24-2005, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

Hey that is cool

I saw that and I knew what was going to happen.

That was pretty much the point of my post. Why post any spoilers at all when it is likely that someone will "accidently" read part of them. If is absolutely necessary, the spoiler part could be posted in a font color similar to the back ground like this:

This is the way to post a spoiler you douche bags!

Then you can just highlight the text and read it if you want. If you don't, it will be difficult to accidently read.

**Dartgod** · 02-24-2005, 11:15 AM

Here's another example

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiefnj

***SPOILER***

**I'm Not Kidding**

Just highlight the text below to read.

[I've read that Hurley won a big lottery. That was why he was on the television. However, winning the money has been a curse. He finds his winning numbers on the map that Sayid stole from the french woman and goes looking for her.]

KingPriest2 · 02-24-2005, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dartgod

That was pretty much the point of my post. Why post any spoilers at all when it is likely that someone will "accidently" read part of them. If is absolutely necessary, the spoiler part could be posted in a font color similar to the back ground like this:

This is the way to post a spoiler you douche bags!

Then you can just highlight the text and read it if you want. If you don't, it will be difficult to accidently read.

I do agree with you there

FOR NOW ON IF ANY SPOILERS ARE POSTED CHANGE THE FONT COLOR.

**Dartgod** · 02-24-2005, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by KingPriest2

I do agree with you there

FOR NOW ON IF ANY SPOILERS ARE POSTED CHANGE THE FONT COLOR.

It would be nice if a mod would put that in the topic header in big bold type.

KingPriest2 · 02-24-2005, 04:43 PM

TV Notes: 'Lost' fans will find answers, says exec
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Is "Lost" leading viewers on a wild goose chase? Diehard fans say it is bringing up too many story lines and not resolving any of them. Creatively, "Lost" (8 tonight, ABC) could be one big tease without a payoff.

"I don't think that will be the case," Steve McPherson, president of ABC primetime entertainment, told reporters.

Of the major mysteries introduced -- ranging from the bloodthirsty creature in the jungle to the crazy Frenchwoman lurking about to the visions of the undead -- nothing has been firmly explained yet.

"We talk about pace all the time," McPherson said. "We talk about which mysteries are working, which aren't, how much we're giving, how much we're not giving.

"Those are probably the biggest fights that [co-creator J.J. Abrams] and I have in terms of what we're doing on a week-to-week basis."

At least one frustrating characteristic of "Lost" is about to come to an end.

The season finale, which will air later this spring, is reportedly going to include the death of a major character. "Lost" has "killed" off major characters before, only to reveal that the victim is not really dead. This time, however, the death is supposed to be a permanent one.

Lost" co-star Ian Somerhalder said recently he did not know who was being killed off, but he and the rest of the cast would find out when they get the finale script.
Somerhalder, whose character, Boone, has found more screen time recently, says he has been frustrated by the show's use of its characters. Having 14 regulars means hardly anyone gets lots of time in front of the camera.

"A doctor wants to practice, a judge wants to judge, and an actor wants to act," he said. "But you can't focus on all 14 characters every week. That's too much, so I understand that."

Fairplay · 02-24-2005, 04:50 PM

I would guess the person who gets killed off has been offered another part in a tv series/movie offers that have conflicting scheduleing with the current series LOST.

My guess would be of......well, its only a guess, but it would be of one of the two main characters. That is an ambiguous statement for the others who watch this show. Thank you.

KingPriest2 · 02-24-2005, 05:00 PM

check this website out

http://www.driveshaftband.com/

Lost but not forgotten

Charlie Pace may be lost, but devotees of his band DriveShaft can't let go.

"Happy Birthday Charlie, wherever you are," reads one entry on http://www.driveshaftband.com, a fansite lovingly maintained by Marie Siu and Jilly despite the fact that the drug-addicted bass player has been missing since his plane went down somewhere in the Pacific last September.

Of course, we know where Charlie is. As TV viewers, we see him every week as one of the crash survivors trying to understand the mysteries that make the hit show Lost so, well, mysterious.

But Marie Siu and Jilly, they exist in a different reality. They were born out of the mind of some ABC executive who came up with the brilliant promotional plan to launch a fake fansite for an equally fake band.

The DriveShaft site is a perfect spoof, with clips of the band's biggest (and only) hit "(You All) Everybody," bios of Charlie (a.k.a. Dominic Monaghan) and his mates, and menus that have failed to be updated (under Tour: "Coming Soon").

Plus, there's a guestbook that may or may not include real comments: "So about the TV guide post," says one. "Why did they say that driveSHAFT is fictional??? They are obviously stupid. And who is Duminac Monahan, and why did they say he was Charlie?... I can't believe they said that driveSHAFT isn't real. MY LIFE IS BUILT AROUND THIS BAND, IT BETTER BE PRETTY DAMN REAL. Right. That's all."

KingPriest2 · 02-24-2005, 05:03 PM

Kim Talks About the 'Lost' Art of Being Jin
(Thursday, February 17 12:30 PM)
By Kate O'Hare
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) "I was reading a SAG [Screen Actors Guild] report," says "Lost" star Daniel Dae Kim. "Did you know there were only 61 roles, in all of television, on every network, for Asian-American males [last year]? Sixty-one.
"That's why something like this show is so important, and that's one of the reasons I'm really proud to be part of it."

However many roles there are this year, Kim ("Angel," "24," "The Hulk") has one of them. On the Wednesday-night adventure drama, created by J.J. Abrams ("Alias"), Damon Lindelof ("Crossing Jordan") and Jeffrey Lieber ("Tuck Everlasting"), Kim plays Jin, a Korean man who, together with his wife, Sun (Yunjin Kim), and 40-odd other people, survived a plane crash on a deserted and enigmatic tropical island.

As the show has progressed, flashbacks in each episode illuminate the characters' histories. "House of the Rising Sun," which aired in October, showed how Jin and Sun met and married, then how their marriage disintegrated after Jin went to work for Sun's mysterious father.
Sun secretly learned English and was going to abandon her bullying husband before getting on the fateful flight, but changed her mind at the last moment.

Jin has been hostile toward some other survivors, partly because of the language barrier. Sun, in fear of her husband, has kept her English skills under wraps, except for Kate (Evangeline Lilly), who has plenty of secrets of her own.

Sun has also had a bit of a flirtation with Michael (Harold Perrineau), an African-American with a young son, Walt (Malcolm David Kelley). This has not escaped Jin's notice, and the two men have clashed.

"Anything that gives our characters depth and dramatic situations is good," Kim says. "We'll see how it polarizes the audience or polarizes the people on the island. Exploration can be worthwhile, but whether or not I want to see Jin cuckolded, I'm not sure."

On Wednesday, Feb. 23, in an episode called "... In Translation," Michael accuses Jin of sabotaging the survivors' raft, escalating their rivalry, and Sun surprises everyone with a revelation.

"The episode will raise a lot of questions," Kim says, "but it will also answer a lot of questions. The audience will see Jin in a different light. There's the question of who Sun's father really is.

"He's a very powerful man, and powerful men have their fingers in a lot of pies. In Korea, there are large corporations, similar to Japan's corporations, and they don't handle just one industry, they have products that span every industry. They're mega-corporations, and her father is the head of one."

In one scene, Jin was seen washing blood off of his hands after returning from an errand for Sun's father.

"You're going to find out the reason there was blood involved," Kim says. "What's great about the show's structure is we're now seeing how interconnected these people are, on purpose or inadvertently. Part of that, in this episode, is you're going to see flip sides of scenes we've already seen.

"You're going to see what happened after that scene in 'The House of the Rising Sun,' and you're going to see the continuation of that. And we're going to see certain events told from Jin's perspective as opposed to Sun's."

The Jin-Sun dynamic so far has been her overtly cowering from his aggressiveness, while secretly rebelling. There was a moment in the pilot where he yelled at her to button her shirt up all the way, but when he turned away, Sun opened the top button.

"People actually clapped when they saw her do that at the premiere," Kim says. "She's definitely got some audience sympathy."

Although Jin hasn't generated much sympathy from the viewers, he has from the actor who plays him.

"This is the way I think about Jin," Kim says. "He is a man who commits 100 percent of himself to the thing he believes in. Once he got to the island, he fund out that the things he believed in were not necessarily worth believing in. It really shook his world. He's in a recovery process, so he's questioning everything about himself.

"He's questioning the choices he's made about his past. It's leaving him very vulnerable and insecure and scared. That's why he takes the actions he does sometimes. My favorite thing about the [Feb. 23] episode is that emotionally the stakes were incredibly high.

"Jin, on the island, is so hard and standoffish, but in my episode, you see him being totally the opposite. You see him being loving, you see him being loyal. You see him being honorable. You see him being compassionate."

Born in South Korea but raised near Philadelphia, Kim would also like to see Jin broaden his language skills. "He's got to learn English. We can't be in season five and Jin just grunting all the time. The island is magical, so I'm hoping there'll be some magic for Jin."

At the same time, Kim depends on help from his more fluent co-star, who appeared in South Korean TV shows and movies, for help brushing up his own rusty native language.

"Yunjin laughs at me," Kim says. "She's been great about it. She commented to me the other day that my Korean has improved dramatically."

He admits he may still sound strange to speakers of standard Korean. "My entire family is from Pusan, which is the deep south of Korea. So all of us there speak with an accent equivalent to someone from Georgia."

Fairplay · 02-24-2005, 05:04 PM

I said it then and i'll say it now, Driveshaft rocks!

Seriously, the name driveshaft for a rock band couldn't be all that obscure as i thought when i first heard it on the LOST series.
Some band out there is going to pick up on this free publicity.

10-06-2004, 04:29 PM
Deberg_1990 In Search of a Life Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: San Antonio Tx. Casino cash: $3914454	The Official "Lost" the series discussion I figured I would start a thread for this and see what happens....there seemed to be quite a few viewers on the board for this show the past few weeks.....I like the direction the show is taking so far......episode 3 tonight at 7 central on ABC....
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02-24-2005, 04:43 PM	#851
KingPriest2 Super Grover Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: KCMO Casino cash: $9135135	TV Notes: 'Lost' fans will find answers, says exec Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Is "Lost" leading viewers on a wild goose chase? Diehard fans say it is bringing up too many story lines and not resolving any of them. Creatively, "Lost" (8 tonight, ABC) could be one big tease without a payoff. "I don't think that will be the case," Steve McPherson, president of ABC primetime entertainment, told reporters. Of the major mysteries introduced -- ranging from the bloodthirsty creature in the jungle to the crazy Frenchwoman lurking about to the visions of the undead -- nothing has been firmly explained yet. "We talk about pace all the time," McPherson said. "We talk about which mysteries are working, which aren't, how much we're giving, how much we're not giving. "Those are probably the biggest fights that [co-creator J.J. Abrams] and I have in terms of what we're doing on a week-to-week basis." At least one frustrating characteristic of "Lost" is about to come to an end. The season finale, which will air later this spring, is reportedly going to include the death of a major character. "Lost" has "killed" off major characters before, only to reveal that the victim is not really dead. This time, however, the death is supposed to be a permanent one. Lost" co-star Ian Somerhalder said recently he did not know who was being killed off, but he and the rest of the cast would find out when they get the finale script. Somerhalder, whose character, Boone, has found more screen time recently, says he has been frustrated by the show's use of its characters. Having 14 regulars means hardly anyone gets lots of time in front of the camera. "A doctor wants to practice, a judge wants to judge, and an actor wants to act," he said. "But you can't focus on all 14 characters every week. That's too much, so I understand that." __________________ Quote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally Posted by Taco John If you're not sure who you're voting for at this point in time, you can abandon all connection to the word "smart." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally Posted by Taco John ...He asked who I am voting for. I told him, "well, that depends... ." Last edited by KingPriest2; 02-24-2005 at 04:48 PM..
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02-24-2005, 04:50 PM	#852
Fairplay A certain set of skills Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: texas Casino cash: $10026683 VARSITY	I would guess the person who gets killed off has been offered another part in a tv series/movie offers that have conflicting scheduleing with the current series LOST. My guess would be of......well, its only a guess, but it would be of one of the two main characters. That is an ambiguous statement for the others who watch this show. Thank you.
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02-24-2005, 05:00 PM	#853
KingPriest2 Super Grover Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: KCMO Casino cash: $9135135	check this website out http://www.driveshaftband.com/ Lost but not forgotten Charlie Pace may be lost, but devotees of his band DriveShaft can't let go. "Happy Birthday Charlie, wherever you are," reads one entry on http://www.driveshaftband.com, a fansite lovingly maintained by Marie Siu and Jilly despite the fact that the drug-addicted bass player has been missing since his plane went down somewhere in the Pacific last September. Of course, we know where Charlie is. As TV viewers, we see him every week as one of the crash survivors trying to understand the mysteries that make the hit show Lost so, well, mysterious. But Marie Siu and Jilly, they exist in a different reality. They were born out of the mind of some ABC executive who came up with the brilliant promotional plan to launch a fake fansite for an equally fake band. The DriveShaft site is a perfect spoof, with clips of the band's biggest (and only) hit "(You All) Everybody," bios of Charlie (a.k.a. Dominic Monaghan) and his mates, and menus that have failed to be updated (under Tour: "Coming Soon"). Plus, there's a guestbook that may or may not include real comments: "So about the TV guide post," says one. "Why did they say that driveSHAFT is fictional??? They are obviously stupid. And who is Duminac Monahan, and why did they say he was Charlie?... I can't believe they said that driveSHAFT isn't real. MY LIFE IS BUILT AROUND THIS BAND, IT BETTER BE PRETTY DAMN REAL. Right. That's all." __________________ Quote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally Posted by Taco John If you're not sure who you're voting for at this point in time, you can abandon all connection to the word "smart." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally Posted by Taco John ...He asked who I am voting for. I told him, "well, that depends... ."
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02-24-2005, 05:03 PM	#854
KingPriest2 Super Grover Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: KCMO Casino cash: $9135135	Kim Talks About the 'Lost' Art of Being Jin (Thursday, February 17 12:30 PM) By Kate O'Hare LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) "I was reading a SAG [Screen Actors Guild] report," says "Lost" star Daniel Dae Kim. "Did you know there were only 61 roles, in all of television, on every network, for Asian-American males [last year]? Sixty-one. "That's why something like this show is so important, and that's one of the reasons I'm really proud to be part of it." However many roles there are this year, Kim ("Angel," "24," "The Hulk") has one of them. On the Wednesday-night adventure drama, created by J.J. Abrams ("Alias"), Damon Lindelof ("Crossing Jordan") and Jeffrey Lieber ("Tuck Everlasting"), Kim plays Jin, a Korean man who, together with his wife, Sun (Yunjin Kim), and 40-odd other people, survived a plane crash on a deserted and enigmatic tropical island. As the show has progressed, flashbacks in each episode illuminate the characters' histories. "House of the Rising Sun," which aired in October, showed how Jin and Sun met and married, then how their marriage disintegrated after Jin went to work for Sun's mysterious father. Sun secretly learned English and was going to abandon her bullying husband before getting on the fateful flight, but changed her mind at the last moment. Jin has been hostile toward some other survivors, partly because of the language barrier. Sun, in fear of her husband, has kept her English skills under wraps, except for Kate (Evangeline Lilly), who has plenty of secrets of her own. Sun has also had a bit of a flirtation with Michael (Harold Perrineau), an African-American with a young son, Walt (Malcolm David Kelley). This has not escaped Jin's notice, and the two men have clashed. "Anything that gives our characters depth and dramatic situations is good," Kim says. "We'll see how it polarizes the audience or polarizes the people on the island. Exploration can be worthwhile, but whether or not I want to see Jin cuckolded, I'm not sure." On Wednesday, Feb. 23, in an episode called "... In Translation," Michael accuses Jin of sabotaging the survivors' raft, escalating their rivalry, and Sun surprises everyone with a revelation. "The episode will raise a lot of questions," Kim says, "but it will also answer a lot of questions. The audience will see Jin in a different light. There's the question of who Sun's father really is. "He's a very powerful man, and powerful men have their fingers in a lot of pies. In Korea, there are large corporations, similar to Japan's corporations, and they don't handle just one industry, they have products that span every industry. They're mega-corporations, and her father is the head of one." In one scene, Jin was seen washing blood off of his hands after returning from an errand for Sun's father. "You're going to find out the reason there was blood involved," Kim says. "What's great about the show's structure is we're now seeing how interconnected these people are, on purpose or inadvertently. Part of that, in this episode, is you're going to see flip sides of scenes we've already seen. "You're going to see what happened after that scene in 'The House of the Rising Sun,' and you're going to see the continuation of that. And we're going to see certain events told from Jin's perspective as opposed to Sun's." The Jin-Sun dynamic so far has been her overtly cowering from his aggressiveness, while secretly rebelling. There was a moment in the pilot where he yelled at her to button her shirt up all the way, but when he turned away, Sun opened the top button. "People actually clapped when they saw her do that at the premiere," Kim says. "She's definitely got some audience sympathy." Although Jin hasn't generated much sympathy from the viewers, he has from the actor who plays him. "This is the way I think about Jin," Kim says. "He is a man who commits 100 percent of himself to the thing he believes in. Once he got to the island, he fund out that the things he believed in were not necessarily worth believing in. It really shook his world. He's in a recovery process, so he's questioning everything about himself. "He's questioning the choices he's made about his past. It's leaving him very vulnerable and insecure and scared. That's why he takes the actions he does sometimes. My favorite thing about the [Feb. 23] episode is that emotionally the stakes were incredibly high. "Jin, on the island, is so hard and standoffish, but in my episode, you see him being totally the opposite. You see him being loving, you see him being loyal. You see him being honorable. You see him being compassionate." Born in South Korea but raised near Philadelphia, Kim would also like to see Jin broaden his language skills. "He's got to learn English. We can't be in season five and Jin just grunting all the time. The island is magical, so I'm hoping there'll be some magic for Jin." At the same time, Kim depends on help from his more fluent co-star, who appeared in South Korean TV shows and movies, for help brushing up his own rusty native language. "Yunjin laughs at me," Kim says. "She's been great about it. She commented to me the other day that my Korean has improved dramatically." He admits he may still sound strange to speakers of standard Korean. "My entire family is from Pusan, which is the deep south of Korea. So all of us there speak with an accent equivalent to someone from Georgia." __________________ Quote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally Posted by Taco John If you're not sure who you're voting for at this point in time, you can abandon all connection to the word "smart." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally Posted by Taco John ...He asked who I am voting for. I told him, "well, that depends... ."
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02-24-2005, 05:04 PM	#855
Fairplay A certain set of skills Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: texas Casino cash: $10026683 VARSITY	I said it then and i'll say it now, Driveshaft rocks! Seriously, the name driveshaft for a rock band couldn't be all that obscure as i thought when i first heard it on the LOST series. Some band out there is going to pick up on this free publicity.
Posts: 25,265