Beau and I rewatched over the summer and it was actually a better experience than I was anticipating. I was dreading the bad seasons and plot holes, but it wasn't too bad seeing it all again.

The thing that hit me though is that last season does not hold up well at all when watched with all the previous seasons. Beau thought the most recent season was the worst in the series. I'm not quite willing to go that far (but I might with a bit more contemplation), but seeing how far the characters came from their introduction was sad.

Lost seasons 1-5 are Amazon's deal of the day for $72.99 (blu-ray $103 or thereabouts).

Thanks, Frank! Just ordered it...

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ABC is saying that LOST Season 6 premiere episode “LA X” will screen at the (Oahu) Sunset On The Beach big screen on January 30th, ahead of the Groundhog Day network premiere. It may only be the first hour of the premiere.

Perhaps. There's a scheduling problem: President Obama's State of the Union speech was originally set for Jan. 26, but there's now talk of moving it to Feb. 2, which would conflict with the Lost network premiere. [link]

No-spoiler article about Lost Season 6 that includes one of the two "Lost Supper" photos. [link]

[link] This is fun, it includes all the other shows that have posed their casts similarly: BSG, The Sopranos, South Park, MASH.

links fixed? okay then.

Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, give The Hollywood Reporter an interview - [link]

My favorite part:

Cuse: I think the one thing that's pretty certain is neither of us have a great [urge] to do something [after Lost] that's this dense, sprawling and serialized. You need to exercise different creative muscles.

Lindelof: My hope is to rip off other successful shows.

THR: Like you've been ripped off?

Lindelof: Exactly. Maybe a show about vampires that work in an ad agency and one is a serial killer.

Cuse: Especially if the lead character is also cooking meth.

Lindelof: Oh, I hadn't thought of that. Almost guaranteed an Emmy. "Breaking Bad Men."

Ha!

The 8 min. 15 second recap of Lost: [link]

I can't believe I am looking forward to watching Lost again. And yet I am. I just have to see what they do with it.

Lost Supper stuff was fun.

From the vid:

..."Mr. Friendly throws like a girl." Heh.

Re-watching Lost from the beginning, at this point, is turning out to be a fascinating experience. Tiny speculation: I think they've already given us the 'how' of the entire show, with the ending of season five; the final season will be about the 'why'. Sort of. I think. Man, do I hope they close all the plot loopholes and don't leave any loose ends hanging.

Some of those loopholes will be left hanging. They have said as much. I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm not going to get all the answers that I want and the answers I do get may not be satisfactory.

I've been a little dismayed with all the articles about "Lost" I've read that focuses on how important the CHARACTERS are when apparently I am one of the few who cares about plot. If they cared that much about characters, they wouldn't have been so inconsistent: they eviscerated Kate, fucked up Jack and made him do really questionable things for no reason, and killed off people who were really interesting.