New(ish) Blog: Finally Lost

This is a very fun blog to read.  A lot of off-season Lost sites kinda bore me (I’ll bet I would bore myself if I read my own blog), but this is an exception.  It’s called Finally Lost and it’s the blog of a Lost viewer who had never seen the show until recently.  He knew he’d like the show, but he chose to watch the entire show all in a row.  This is luxury many of us weren’t lucky enough to enjoy.  I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not, as much as the hiatuses drove me nuts I think I learned to enjoy the shows slow reveals.  A lot of the twists don’t have the same effect if you watch them all in a row.

Regardless of my opinion about watching Lost live, this blogger does an awesome job recapping his reactions and his experience of watching Lost for the first time.  Everyone should take a few days and check out the blog.

Click here to visit Finally Lost

Here’s a little quote from one of his season 1 reviews (from here).

How did you people survive watching this show week by week?? Especially when the show was running with off weeks. This alone made me feel vindicated in waiting all these years to finally begin watching the show. I’ll only have to deal with this frustration for one season. I understand I missed countless theory conversations and internet easter egg hunts but I think the hatch episodes would have killed me. There had better be something good in that hatch…

You gotta  love watching someone trudge through Lost for the first time.

- izi

What I’m Watching Now (Winter 2009/2010)

This is just a list of all the TV shows I’ve recently watched and shows I’m going to be watching quite soon.

I wrote a similar post in the Fall and the Spring, feel free to see what I was watching back then. And don’t forget to check out my Other TV Shows page.

Foreign Theories: Who is Desmond?

This is a very fun theory from Do Arzt.  This guy has a big twist at the end of his theory.  I was going to say what the end of the thoery is, but he should be allowed to build that up.

Doc Arzt: Who is Desmond

By the way, I highly doubt it, but it would be fun.  It actually sounds like a theory I would make up.

- izi

Foreign Theories: Top 10 Lost Villains

This isn’t a theory, but it’s still quite good.  The Ack Attack is always a good site, this list just proves that.  I highly recommend you check out her site if you haven’t already.

This is her list of the Top Ten Villains on Lost.  I dare you to try to guess her list before you go there.  I got it wrong simple because I forgot that her number one villain was actually a villain, also I forgot about Smokey.  This is why I don’t do top ten lists, I tend to omit important things.

- izi

The 2009 Golden Globe Nominations

Here are the nominations for the Golden Globes this year. I got these from Zap2it.

TV

Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical):

“30 Rock”
“Entourage”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”
“The Office”

If you know me well you’ll know I want 30 Rock to win.  I guess The Office comes next.
I haven’t watched the two new shows, Glee and Modern Family.  I’ve heard only great things about them, but I’ve avoided new network shows.

Best Television Series (Drama):

“Big Love”
“Dexter”
“House”
“Mad Men”
“True Blood”

No Lost, how unfortunate.  If Lost ever does win awards I hope it’ll pull a Return of the King and just win everything in one year to make up for the other losses.
If I can’t have Lost I would usually hope Dexter would win, but season 3 was pretty weak.  I’m watching season 4 and it looks better.
So if Lost can’t win, and Dexter was disappointing, then I guess I hope that True Blood or Mad Men win.  I’m a new recruit to both shows, and while I would choose True Blood over Mad Men, season 3 of Mad Men was the best season yet.  I’m a little torn.

Season 6 Cast Photos

ABC just released the promo pictures for the main cast members for Season 6.  Click the “read more” link to see them all.  Some people might consider these pictures spoilers.  That’s crazy talk if you ask me, but I try to respect the insane among  us.

I also talk a little about the official cast list for Season 6.

Extremely minor CASTING SPOILERS below.

Spanish Lost ad

Look what EW just found.  It’s a Spanish Lost ad, or a Perdidos ad.  This isn’t a season 6 ad technically, it just uses old footage and some fancy effects.  I’m quite impressed with it.

- izi

Season 6 Premiere Date

Get your calendars out.  The season 6 premiere will be on Tuesday, February 2, 2010.  They’ll have their usual useless clip show first, from 8:00-9:00.  Then there will be a 2 hour premiere from 9:00-11:00.  After that Lost will stay in the Tuesday 9:00 timeslot.  I’ll repeat that for people who don’t read well:

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 9:00

So the show is moving to Tuesdays.  That’s fine with me.  I’d prefer Wednesdays, but Tuesday at 9:00 is good too.  I’m 100% sure that I won’t be watching the episode live, but that’s fine.  I just got a new PC, and I’ve become obsessed with Windows Media Center.  Wednesdays were better but Thursdays were painful (for a while there it looked like ABC was going to move Lost into Ugly Betty’s old spot).  I also look forward to blogging more throughout the week.  When it’s on Wednesdays then I have to stay up all night to write it, because I watch ten other shows on Thursdays.  Hopefully I can get a more healthy blogging schedule this year.

Here’s something that I’m a little concerned about, someone said that Lost would take a hiatus during the Winter Olympics.  I’m OK with that, I’ll be all over the Olympics (I happen to reside nearby), but the Olympics are from February 12-28.  That means we’ll get two episodes then two weeks off then the rest of the episodes.  That sounds a little crazy.  And I don’t really understand why ABC cares at all about the Olympics.  NBC has the broadcast rights, as usual.  Does ABC plan to suspend all their shows during those two weeks?  It’s not like the Olympics are going to pull in crazy numbers or anything.  Remember Lost is usually up against American Idol.

- izi

Best Season 6 Poster

Best quality, that is.  This was posted in a few places: DarkUFO, BuddyTV, and Doc Arzt.

Here are the changes that I noticed:

• They demoted a few of the girls, Libby and Charlotte seem to have undergone the most shrinkage
• They got rid of the hieroglyphics
• They moved Frank over to the left between Charlotte and Shannon
• A lot of the characters got changed
• And they threw Vincent in at the end, how nice of them

You know who hasn’t been added?  Walt.  Apparently Vincent ranks higher than Walt.

- izi

Lost University: now open for enrollment

If you feel so inclined you may now enroll at the Lost University.

Enroll Now!

If you’re having trouble with the trivia questions in the entrance exam the answers are here at DarkUFO.  Frankly, this ARG bores me.  But maybe it will get more exciting as time goes on.

- izi