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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched Lost yet… oh, who am I kidding? Of course you’ve watched Lost.
My first observation comes courtesy of Mrs. Tuned In: what is it with Lost and orange juice? Before we saw Jack fix himself a screwdriver to open his and Hurley’s flash-forward last night, …
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The neighborhood I live in is dorky enough that I know of Democratic-debate-watching parties in local bars but none for Lost. Personally, I’ll be watching with Mrs. Tuned In and takeout Mexican food. (Or would be, if we hadn’t already watched. I may screen the second episode for Mrs. Tuned In’s benefit.) What’s your Lost ritual? I’ll …
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Or, rather, about the show that premieres after Lost, Eli Stone. Short version: don’t let it keep you from checking out the Lost fan boards come 10:01 p.m.
Only slightly longer version: This …
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One bit of speculation that passed through my mind while watching Pop-Up Lost: what about the woman Jack saved on the bridge? (Mrs. Arland? I don’t have a spelling.) This is Lost, after all: surely she wasn’t just a random stranger. What’s her connection? How and where is she going to come up again?
A quick Google search turns up one …
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Because we’re friends, I want to share with you the dumbest thing I have ever written in a TV review. (OK, one of the top 10 dumb things. Or so.) From my initial review of Lost in fall 2004:
A desert island is a hermetic setting — not much room for fun Quentin Tarantino cameos there.
At this point, I’d seen the pilot, so I didn’t see …
The Brits are getting up a full head of steam again over a proposal for a major public art project. I’ve already mentioned a few times my case of U.K. envy on this. It’s not that we don’t have the occasional outburst of public art here and there in the U.S. And there are …
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The people have spoken! The people want an LDG discussion thread on the Lost Missing Pieces mobisodes! And who are we to gainsay their willingness to come up with our topics for us?
You’ll find the first twelve of these short videos at ABC.com; the last, not yet posted on ABC.com (they’re released first on Verizon Wireless) is …
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In honor of tonight’s season 4 premiere, I’m going to try to keep it entirely to Lost posts today. Don’t settle the strike today, OK, Hollywood?
So who caught the special Pop-Up Lost last night? I could only stick with it so long, but in retrospect I would have loved to have watched it with a group of people who had actually never seen …
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I had lunch yesterday with Tim Winter, the president of broadcast-decency advocate and my sometime adversary, the Parents Television Council. Among the issues we discussed was CBS’s plan to repurpose Showtime’s serial-killer drama Dexter next month; the …
There’s a proposal to drill for oil in the Great Salt Lake in the vicinity of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, one of the definitive works of 20th century American art. The drilling will be underwater, but will require the construction of industrial infrastructure all around. …
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As if to prove that it can pursue ridiculous anti-Obama narratives as well as overspinning his triumphs, the political press has moved on to The Snub. I almost hate to call attention to it, but this may be the daffiest story of the primary season yet.
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Note: The following post is about the news media, and therefore contains extreme profanity.
In my latest Wire Watch, I made the offhanded comment that the scene in which Haynes is reprimanded for swearing in the newsroom was the first element in the Sun story that didn’t ring true to me. (I write this having just come out of a Time Arts …
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Great LDG comments so far this week. Keep ’em coming. But first, a public-service announcement. I assume that because I and others have gotten screeners of the first two Lost episodes, there is probably lots of spoilage on the Web by now. Tuned In commenters, being the upstanding models of Periclean civic discourse that you are, have not …
