Turns out Michael Emerson (a.k.a. Ben) talked to a lot of reporters at the Saturn Awards, including a bit of series-finale ruminating he did with EW. Don't worry, there are no spoilers; this is all ruminations from a fan...who happens to play a pathological liar with daddy issues:
I don't think Lost will have a happy ending. It's the end and I think we are going to start seeing more casualties. I would put money on major characters being killed. I believe it will be a sad ending to the show -- or at least bittersweet. I think it will definitely be a series finale for grown-ups. [...]I killed Jacob...maybe...probably. It isn't like we haven't seen plenty of other people be killed and somehow come back. And what does it mean if I did kill him? Who the hell was he anyway? Obviously, Ben wanted a father. So much of our show is about bad fathers. It is one of our biggest themes. And Jacob disappointed in those final moments. And maybe Jacob made it easy for him. Maybe that was all meant to happen. Is it all ordained? Maybe. And for that matter, can Jacob even be killed? Stay tuned is my response.
Nice. I especially like the bit about Jacob purposefully making it easy for Ben to kill him. A common theory, sure, but a good one.
Ben: What was it that was so wrong with me? What about me?Jacob:What about you?
Jacob's response still haunts me. Terrific delivery. Was he saying:
Wake up. You're not special. Get over yourself.
Or:
Why are you asking me? Choose your own destiny, you have free will.
Or:
I know this will make you mad, but you have to kill me, so, here goes.
Or why can't it be all three?
TAGS: Ben, Destiny, Free Will, Interview, Jacob, Michael Emerson, Saturn Awards, Series Finale
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Ah, geek awards. They're even better than real awards. The Saturns -- handed out by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films -- were held this past week and Lost won Best Television Series. J.J. Abrams was there to accept (presumably on behalf of Lindelof and Cuse); Michael Emerson and Mark Pellegrino (Jacob) were also in attendance.
It was up against Fringe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Life on Mars, Supernatural, and Heroes.
Collider.com nabbed a five-minute interview, completely spoiler-free, with Emerson on the red carpet:
TAGS: Awards, Best Television Series, Interview, Jj Abrams, Mark Pellegrino, Michael Emerson, Red Carpets, Saturn Awards, Video
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ABC has confirmed that Lost's sixth and final season will contain not sixteen hours (the original plan), not seventeen hours (the plan after the strike shortened the fourth season), but...eighteen hours!
That'll include a two-hour premiere event and a two-hour series -- not season, sniff -- finale. (Good thing. How lame would it be if after all these years, the series finale was only an hour long?)
The only thing I'm not sure about is whether or not the two-hour season premiere will be a two-parter (like the pilot) or just the first two consecutive episodes (like they did with Season 5).
Either way, we'll now be getting the two-hour premiere, fourteen one-hour episodes in the weeks following, and then the two-hour series finale. Rock on.
TAGS: Lost, Schedule, Season 6, Series Finale
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Nope, this isn't a big theory post. Just letting you know that Mark Pellegrino, Jacob himself, has been cast on Supernatural as...Lucifer himself.
It's funny. When Pellegrino was first cast as Jacob, I thought to myself: "but he looks so normal." But now, after his great work in the Season 5 finale, I hear he's going to be Satan and I think, "Yeah, that works."
I don't watch Supernatural, but apparently Lucifer was released from Hell (but not seen by audiences) in the show's Season 4 finale in May.
In the upcoming season, he'll play a bigger role, but Pellegrino is still only signed on as a recurring guest star -- which a bunch of outlets are taking as evidence that Pellegrino will still show up on Lost as Jacob next season.
Here's the thing, though: Jacob's dead. The Second Man killed him. As much as I'd like to, I don't think we're going to be seeing a lot of him. If we do though, here are a few ways it could happen:
1. Richard's Long-Awaited Backstory
An episode finally deals with Richard -- almost assuredly a passenger on the Black Rock -- landing on the island, coming into contact with Jacob, and getting "blessed" with immortality. The big hurdle to this episode is the nuts-and-bolts problem of budgeting: crashing a 19th century slave ship on an island is probably expensive.
2. Shadow of the Statue Cult's Backstory
Obviously, we'll eventually find out why Ilana was wrapped in all those bandages in her flashback from the finale. And if we're getting an Ilana flashback episode...well, she already knew who Jacob was, so an appearance would seem logical.
3. Jacob Pulls an Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Lost writers are obviously Star Wars fans (see: "Some Like it Hoth"). And they're also fans of ghosts. So you could take Jacob's death, in which he's pushed into the fire by Impostor Locke, thus turning to ash, as similar to Obi-Wan's death: "You can't win, Darth. Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Vader sliced him down, his body disappeared, and the next thing you know he's making frequent appearances to Luke in the form of an apparition.
4. Full-Fledged Origin Story
How cool would it be to devote an entire episode to the origins of the relationship between Jacob and the Second Man?
TAGS: Casting, Impostor Locke, Jacob, Mark Pellegrino, Obiwan Kenobi, Second Man, Some Like It Hoth, Star Wars, Supernatural, The Devil
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Unlike the past two years, I'm almost positive that I won't be attending Comic-Con this year. Which sucks, because the cost of a flight and a hotel, and a weekend spent surrounded by people in Joker costumes, is almost worth it for the annual Lost panel with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
Two years ago, in addition to the normal Q&A, they announced Michael would be coming back, brought out Harold Perinneau, and screened an orientation film that had been filmed just for the panel. (They later stuck it on a DVD.)
Last year they screened more just-for-Comic-Con footage (with another Dr. Chang appearance) and brought out Matthew Fox.
(The ones I didn't attend were even bigger. In 2004 they screened the entire pilot three months before it aired -- though it's hard to measure, the screening was credited with giving the show some of its early buzz -- and had Fox, Dominic Monaghan, and Evangeline Lilly. In 2005 they had Josh Holloway and Maggie Grace, and in 2006 they had Jorge Garcia and Daniel Dae Kim.)
So clearly, they make an effort, and I'm looking forward to whatever cryptic video they have in store for us this year. Reuters had a story on Comic-Con recently, and they had this to say about Lost's panel:
ABC Studios is hosting at least seven panels, including one for the final season of ABC's "Lost," credited as the first TV show to launch at Comic-Con.ABC takes a different approach to its "Lost" panel. Instead of simply screening footage and answering questions, the event is a carefully planned production that typically includes specifically shot footage and surprise guests.
"We've been working on the 'Lost' panel for literally months," said Mike Benson, executive vp marketing at ABC Entertainment. "We want the audience to experience 'Lost' in a fully entertaining way."
Comic-Con takes place in San Diego the weekend of July 24th. We'll be on the lookout for the inevitable YouTube leak.
TAGS: Carlton Cuse, Comiccon, Damon Lindelof, Lost, Pierre Chang, Video
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Time for the fourth in my occasional series of in-depth theorizing about the Season 5 finale. Previously:
#3: The Mystery of the Cabin
#2: The Fates of Juliet, Sayid, Locke, Jacob, Life, the Universe, and Everything
#1: "The Incident" Preliminary Rambles
In "The Mystery of the Cabin," I tried to work out who had been using the cabin, what the Shadow of the Statue cult expected to find there, and what the broken ash line meant. Two viable theories and the problems with each:
1. Jacob had been using the cabin, and surrounded it with the ash line to keep the Second Man (or Smokey, or both) out. When the Second Man was able to break through, Jacob abandoned it for the Four-Toed Statue. The Second Man had been using it since. But if he wasn't trapped in there, why did he ask Locke, "help me"?
2. Jacob trapped the Second Man inside the cabin with the ash line. (Explains the "help me" line.) Someone later broke the ash line which allowed him to escape. But the Shadow of the Statue cult went there expecting to find Jacob, and they knew about the ash line. If the ash was laid to keep the Second Man in, they would've known Jacob wasn't there and had no need to go there.
Now let's introduce Christian and Claire into the mix. For this, you need to recall two particular scenes. After re-watching both, I've formed a master theory that ties up as many loose ends as I can:
1. Season 4 premiere, "The Beginning of the End":
That's Christian Shephard sitting in the rocking chair, and this is the only time we've ever seen the cabin move. But Lindelof later said about this scene that we should be most concerned with who the eye belongs to. Since the "obvious" guess was Jacob, Lindelof's comment implies that it was someone else -- and now that we know about the Second Man, I think he's the clear choice. That puts the Second Man and Christian in direct allegiance.
2. Season 4, episode 11, "Cabin Fever":
I think the following exchange tips Christian's hand:
Locke: "You know why I'm here?"
Christian: "Yeah, sure. Do you?"
Locke: "I'm here...because I was chosen to be."
Christian: "That's absolutely right."
For one thing, Christian is clearly be playing into Locke's sense of destiny. But ironically, wickedly, he's also telling the truth -- just not the version Locke imagines. The island never chose him for a noble purpose -- instead, the Second Man chose him all along to be the vessel through which he'd be able to kill Jacob.
At the end of the Season 5 finale, the Second Man, as Locke, told Jacob "You have no idea what I've gone through to be here." I propose that Locke has been manipulated almost from day one into being the Second Man's ticket to victory. All the destiny talk -- all of it -- was part of the Second Man's years-long quest for a loophole through which he could kill Jacob. That's what Locke's journey has always been about.
Now the Season 5 finale has set up Locke -- well, Locke's body, being used by the Second Man -- as the major bad guy of the series. And sure, I've heard talk about "he doesn't need to use Locke's body anymore, the jig is up" -- but the though of Terry O'Quinn as next season's villain is just too delicious to ignore.
Some loose ends:
-Why did the Second Man say "help me"? It wasn't because he was trapped; it just reinforced Locke's sense of purpose.
-What does Claire have to do with all this? Christian is definitely working on the Second Man's behalf, and Claire was hanging out very serenely with Christian. Was she relaxed, or drugged out? Right now I'm inclined to say she was clueless to the machinations occurring around her. But with her re-introduction as a regular next season, it might be something we get answers about quickly. Relatively quickly. Maybe.
-What about Locke's vision of Walt after Ben shot him in Season 3? "Get up, John." Was the Second Man (or Smokey) posing as Walt to keep Locke going on his mission? Or was it just Locke's deep bond with Walt -- you know, Locke imagines Walt appearing to him, while meanwhile in New York, Walt has a dream about Locke needing his help? As far as the story goes, the distinction isn't really that important, but it is important when you get into the inevitable question of: who's a ghost, whose side are they on, who's a hallucination, and who's actually Smokey. Which might be my next big post...
TAGS: Cabin, Cabin Fever, Christian, Claire, Hurley, Impostor Locke, Locke, Secnd Man, Terry Oquinn, The Beginning Of The End, The Incident
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Lindelof and Cuse must really like reality shows. There was that big Lost-themed Ace of Cakes episode earlier, and only a month later comes a Lost-themed Top Chef episode.
The thing is, unlike the cool Ace of Cakes episode, this looks adorably cheesy:
By the way, while I'm in the video mood, you'll also probably want to watch Entertainment Weekly's three-part interview with Sawyer, er, Josh Holloway. Among other things, you'll find out that Sawyer's theory about the island moving was "the only thing I was ever right about."
TAGS: Ace Of Cakes, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Josh Holloway, Other Shows, Reality Shows, Sawyer, Top Chef, Video
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Jeff Jensen was back today with his long-awaited end-of-the-season column at EW.com. (He's actually decided to keep writing columns through the summer, but, hey, semantics.) In it, he outlines four possibilities of what happened when Juliet made Jughead explode. Let's dig through them now, shall we?
1. The "Touched" Propel Back to the Future
This is the most common theory (and one I ruminated about at length last month): that when Jughead exploded, all the folks who were touched by Jacob -- Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, and Jin -- are propelled back to the future to the moment of Jacob's death.
2. New Timeline; the "Touched" Keep Their Old Memories
Juliet's act really did change the past -- it created a course-corrected alternate future. The only difference is, the touched -- everyone I listed above plus Sun and Locke -- retain their former memories and can choose to what degree they want to relive things or change things.
3. They All Died, and Now They're Ghosts
All the important folks caught within Jughead's blast radius turned into a ghost, a la Christian and Claire. Now they're stuck on whatever kind of island-purgatory exists for those types of ghosts.
4. They All Survived and Just Kept on Livin'
Everybody survived the blast and just hung out on the island. The folks in the current day run into them when they're, "like, 65 years old." (So basically, a joke theory.)
So those were the four theories that Jensen presented. As I read, I realized...
There's a Problem with All this Touchy-Business
Yeah, it would make perfect sense that when Jacob said "they're coming", it meant he was bringing everybody in the past back to the future to help fight against the Second Man. But Jacob touched Sun and Locke, too. If he went around touching people as a fail-safe against his own death, he only needed to touch the people that were heading to '77. And for reasons still unexplained, Sun didn't take the trip. (And Locke was dearly departed by then.)
My Own Thoughts, with a Thank-You to Matthew Fox
My own theory is that all of the above theories are wrong. This occurred to me after hearing about Matthew Fox's interview at the Monte Carlo TV Festival, in which he said the resolution to Juliet igniting the bomb would probably confuse a lot of people, and both timelines wouldn't be immediately solidified into one timeline.
Which just makes sense. At the beginning of basically every season of Lost, there's a seven-episode period where there's (at least) two groups of people in (at least) two different places, and they need to be reunited. It only stands to reason that the sixth season would include this settling-in period as well.
The key to what happens when the bomb goes off, I'm convinced, lies with two minor plot incidents:
1. Pierre Chang gets his hand crushed.
As the hatch was dragging everything inside it and everything was going haywire, the show took the time to explain how Pierre Chang busted up his hand (in the orientation videos, he only ever uses one hand): he got it jammed under a heavy metal object.
If Jughead was going to completely obliterate the known future, why on Earth would the show take the time to wrap up that loose end?
2. Richard claims he saw all of Sun's friends die.
My guess is, Richard's talking about the Jughead explosion. He didn't necessarily see them go up in smoke, but he saw the explosion, knew they were there, etc. He was obviously under the impression that they had perished, meaning he never saw them again.
So there's no alternate future, and they don't get whisked back right away because Season 6 takes a bit of time to merge timelines. So what does happen to them?
How about this: everyone at the bomb site pulls a Desmond and wakes up naked in the jungle after some time-jumping. Dharma and the Others assume everyone's dead until they all show up at Dharma headquarters, and, with Pierre's help, take over the joint. They then sentence Radzinsky to life in the Hatch and find an entirely different means of hopping back to 2007.
Nah, that's ridiculous.
TAGS: Jack, Jacob, Jughead, Juliet, Pierre Chang, Radzinsky, Richard Alpert, Season 5, Season 6, Season 6 Premiere, Second Man, The Incident, Theories, Touching
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Lost was nominated for Program of the Year as well as Outstanding Drama Series from the Television Critics Association. No, that's not the Emmys, it's better: the TCA nominates a lot of cool stuff like Battlestar Galactica, Fringe, and Friday Night Lights.
Competing with it in Program of the Year are Battlestar, Mad Men, Saturday Night Live, and The Shield. (I'm also a big SNL fan, so it's nice to see it get some critical love again after it returned to relevance thanks to the election year.)
In Outstanding Drama, it's up against Friday Night Lights, Mad Men again, Breaking Bad, and The Shield.
We'll have to wait until August 1st for the awards show, hosted by Chelsea Handler (if it's televised, it'll probably be on E! or something).
TAGS: Awards, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Other Shows, Saturday Night Live, Tca, Television Critics Association
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Remember that amusing ABC promo video I posted featuring Matthew Fox and Teri Hatcher? Here's another one. Watch closely.
Yep, that's Dominic Monaghan, a.k.a. our dearly departed Charlie Pace, playing Foosball with Courteney Cox, Ed O'Neill, and Patrick Dempsey. "You're so dead," Dempsey tells him. "Actually, I was," he responds.
So is Charlie getting resurrected as a character on Lost? Is he is he is he?
No, it appears not. Sadly. But obviously he's there for a reason, and EW's Michael Ausiello found out why:
It has nothing whatsoever to do with Charlie being resurrected on Lost next season. But that's exactly what the network wants folks to think. Why? Because they're trying to keep under wraps the real reason he was playing table soccer with Patrick Dempsey, Courteney Cox, and Ed O'Neill in that clip.This is the part where I warn you of an incoming spoiler and give you one last chance to bail before continuing on...
Okay, here it goes: The real reason Monaghan is featured in that cheeky spot is because he's actually joining the cast of another hour-long ABC drama series as a full-time series regular. And the net's brass want it to be a surprise.
Ausiello respects ABC's wishes and doesn't reveal the show Monaghan is joining, so we're left to guess. The one that immediately jumps to mind is V -- since it also stars another Lost hero, Elizabeth Mitchell.
But not so fast. Nowhere in Ausiello's piece does it say that Monaghan's joining a new series -- and indeed, it might make more of a fun "surprise" if he jumps into a show with an already-established fan base. Hour-long dramas officially coming back on ABC next season? Brothers and Sisters, Castle, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Private Practice, and Ugly Betty.
Lost is out, and frankly, I'm not excited about any of the other shows -- I can't really get worked up about Monaghan joining, say, Private Practice. Lame surprise.
So I'll stake my bets on V or another new series. The other major contender is the sci-fi drama Flash Forward -- which, as you can tell by its name, is already being pushed as the next Lost.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
TAGS: Charlie, Dominic Monaghan, Flash Forward, Lost, V The Series
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