Tuned In
Yesterday, I got the ABC logline and press release for next week’s Richard Alpert-centric episode of Lost. (SPOILER ALERT: Richard “faces a difficult choice.” I really hope that didn’t blow the whole series for you.)
What interested me most was the title, “Ab Aeterno.” Which made me think: Oh, yeah—Latin. What was up with the …
Tuned InUncategorized
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get a beer, heat up a TV dinner, soak in a little bit of the homespun wisdom of Michael Landon, then watch last night’s Lost.
Tuned In
Here’s a little light listening for your Thursday night: I recorded a podcast the other night with the Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan and Zap2It’s Ryan McGee. Basically, we each cued up the “Dr. Linus” episode and talked about our thoughts and theories as it played. Because this is Lost, and we’re critics, it runs longer than …
Tuned In
Earlier today on my Twitter feed I posted a question that occurred to me after I put up Lostwatch for last night:
What, now, is the objective [of Lost]? What, exactly, are we rooting for Jack et al to do?
It may be a stupid question, but it’s a serious one. Let me elaborate a little, and then I want to hear your answer.
Tuned In
[vodpod id=Video.2980572&w=425&h=350&fv=videoId%3D64582395001%26amp%3BlinkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.time.com%252Ftime%252Fvideo%252Fplayer%252F0%252C32068%252C64582395001_1958666%252C00.html%26amp%3BplayerID%3D42806370001%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3B]
While we wait for seven days to pass and scrape the bits of our brains off …
Tuned In
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get out your giant hollow wooden ankh and leave yourself a note reminding yourself to watch the season premiere of Lost.
Tuned In
On his Twitter feed yesterday, Star-Ledger critic Alan Sepinwall posted a link to this voluminous, two-part YouTube collection of one of Lost’s biggest pleasures: Sawyer’s nicknames:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or_BGsW7Mgg]
We can talk mythology and literary references and theories all day long, but this is why I really …
Tuned In
It’s finally here! The most joyous day on Tuned In’s calendar! And you know what that means: Time to lay down some severe rules.
Just kidding. Kind of. But as you may have heard, the first hour of Lost, screened by ABC for a select group over the weekend, has leaked out on YouTube, as screenings do. Tuned Inlanders are generally good …
Tuned In
I’ll be spending much of the next 24 hours or so getting psyched and prepped for the final-season debut of Lost, part of which involves simply trying to remember all the story we’ve downloaded over the past five years. Which means a lot of re-watching and looking back. So what better time to pick our fave Lost episodes that have aired so …
Tuned In
The first four minutes of Lost‘s season premiere have been leaked online, reportedly after a fan won the footage on a USB drive in a contest. James Hibberd at The Hollywood Reporter says ABC has given permission to embed it, and I’m doing so above also linking it here. (The clip comes from uber-Lost guru DocArzt.)
But I’m not going to …
Tuned In
I joked yesterday about the fact that death is a temporary state on Lost, but it seems pretty clear that, whatever mythology eventually gets revealed, it will have to have something to do with explaining about why we see (or think we do?) so many dead people walking around on The Island.
As with Battlestar Galactica, the solution goes …
Tuned In
Last fall, when I sat down to talk with Maureen Ryan and Alan Sepinwall about Lost (and other shows), one thing we discussed was that the show has done an excellent job of making you invested in characters who weren’t central—or weren’t even on the show—when it started. Alan, for instance, said that one of the most important things …
Tuned In
Only six more days until The Most Important Day in Human History (the season premiere of Lost), at least until The Other Most Important Day in Human History (the series finale of Lost). To start getting us warmed up for the premiere, I’ll kick things off with an old standby discussion question: What do you think the first scene/image …
