Lost Tidbits

It's over. Cue the withdrawal.

Since I have a good eight months or so before season five, I'll take my time and give you my thoughts on last night's episode tomorrow. So stay tuned.

In the meantime....

I called the kiss.

Here's the most hilarious unused teleplay of the pilot's opening act. This is why I hate trying to explain the show to people. I just tell them, "Rent the version. Then we'll talk."

And apparently, the actual scripts are filled with profanity. Which oddly makes me happy.

Actor Michael Emerson, whose intimidating eyes certainly need no curse words behind them, said reading the scripts “sometimes gives us a giggle.”

“I think it’s a way for writers to “act out” the scenes in their own minds,” said Emerson, who plays Benjamin Linus. “They’re like tone notes or color notes. They’re sort of suggestions in what the tone of the scene is at any given moment. I don’t take it very seriously. It’s funny, though. It’s cute. I think it has a lot more to do with the needs of the writers than the actors. It’s a way for them to have fun.”

Jorge Garcia, who plays the affable Hurley, said he got a kick out of the spicy language that serves as an inside joke of sorts.

“They put them in parenthesis so we know not to say them,” Garcia said. “But they want that feeling. There’s a lot of f-words and a lot of ranting. In the directions, you’ll see stuff like, ‘Are we gonna go there? OH YEAH, WE’RE GONNA GO THERE AND IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME!' " Sometimes it feels like it’s being narrated by a NASCAR announcer. That’s the ‘Lost’ we get to watch.”

Check the article out here.

And finally, while Michael may have had an uncomfortable night last night (we'll discuss later), today Harold Perrineau announced the birth of his second child, daughter Wynter Aria, born on May 7th. Congrats.

TAGS: Finale, Perrineau, Scoop, Writers
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