LOST discussion - thar be spoilers ahead!

[tomandshell]

At some point this season, I'll bet that we are going to be getting a flashback showing what was happening on the freighter at the other end of the conversation when George couldn't come to the phone.

 

[Entropy]

Either talking to Ben or tied up/dead after being discovered as a spy.

They discovered he was warning Ben and then killed him I'll wager.

 

[Batty]

I finally got around to watching this week's episode. It makes me realize how much I want the writers strike to end. Great episode!

I want to know why no one asked Charlotte why she was wearing a bulletproof vest on a rescue mission.

And I take it Fisher Stevens is George. I saw his name in the credits. Will Number 5 make an appearance?

 

[tomandshell]

How long does it take to get an episode through the production pipeline, from script to finished product? We have six finished episodes left to view, so if they really do start back to work on Monday we are looking at about seven and a half weeks until we hit a Thursday night without a new episode. We could add in a two week break to give them 9.5 weeks to produce an episode, and the season could still be wrapped up by the end of May.

Assuming that they already had the season's overarching plot road map planned out, I am hoping that they can jump right back in to the writing process and we might possibly get a full season this Spring after all.

 

[Batty]

I hope you're right, but I thought I read that this season (for all the networks) was done. I'm sure they already have their schedules mapped out for the rest of the season... Are they willing to change them if we can get new episodes? I'm not sure how it works.

Sawyer nicknames: Locke was called "Colonel Kurtz" and Ben was called "Yoda".

 

[tomandshell]

I'm sure I am being foolishly optimistic. But I hope we get an update from the Lost producers as soon as the strike is officially over and they are back to work.

And I liked the Apocalypse Now reference, lol.

 

[Darklord Dave]

I'd imagine starting up production in Hawaii is a bit more difficult than getting everyone together again in LA. Most one hour shows have an 8 day shooting schedule and about 2 weeks for post, but I'm betting LOST has a very different schedule. I wouldn't count on new episodes after the 8 until the Fall at the earliest.

 

[tomandshell]

I thought that a lot of the cast and crew were living in Hawaii. If not, then I can see that it's going to take a while to get that production back up and running.

 

[Giant Chicken]

I think a majority of the cast lives on the island. I know the actor that plays Ben lives in New York. I just read an interview on tv.com with him and he is anxious to get back to work.

 

[Agent0028]

It would be really awesome if they could get the rest of the season together. It would be even more awesome if they could get Heroes back up and running, but I know that one ain't gonna happen.

 

[Entropy]

Even if some actors and crew don't live on Hawaii, flying them somewhere is very easy to do and takes almost no time. Writing the scripts, which I'm guessing has already been done during the strike and simply filed away for later, finding & securing locations, getting costuming and props, etc. the whole business of pre-production for the show, getting the whole lumbering machine up and running again is what will eat up time.

Once that is done, filming for a week for episode '9' can be done while pre-production begins for episode '10', then they'll edit episode '9' while filming '10' and pre-production for starts '11' and so forth. Getting the "factory" assembly line up and running again is what will take the most time. I'm guessing fall is the earliest we'll see eps 9-16.

Anyone want to speculate what the cliffhanger for the end of the season will be? In an effort to jive the Lost experience info with the show info, I'm going to guess that the ship peeps, likely the medical vessel the Helgus Antonius, will release the Spider Protocol Sri Lanka virus on the island, hence the gas masks, in Thomas Mittelwerk's mad attempt to solve the Valenzetti Equation, a mathmatical equation using The Numbers and the hieroglyphics on the hatch countdown clock to kill exactly 30% of a population. The Oceanic 6 will escape as this happens due to some radical action by Jack possibly with Sayid flying the helicopter as I don't think the pilot Frank or any of the "rescue" team is going to live. Also we'll see the Temple and learn a bit more about the island. Jacob will finally reveal himself, as possibly Alvar Hanso, to Locke.

But would they really remove Jack & company from the island at the end of this season with 2 more to go or save that for next season?

 

[Buttmunch]

Even if some actors and crew don't live on Hawaii, flying them somewhere is very easy to do and takes almost no time. Writing the scripts, which I'm guessing has already been done during the strike and simply filed away for later, finding & securing locations, getting costuming and props, etc. the whole business of pre-production for the show, getting the whole lumbering machine up and running again is what will eat up time.

Once that is done, filming for a week for episode '9' can be done while pre-production begins for episode '10', then they'll edit episode '9' while filming '10' and pre-production for starts '11' and so forth. Getting the "factory" assembly line up and running again is what will take the most time. I'm guessing fall is the earliest we'll see eps 9-16.

Anyone want to speculate what the cliffhanger for the end of the season will be? In an effort to jive the Lost experience info with the show info, I'm going to guess that the ship peeps, likely the medical vessel the Helgus Antonius, will release the Spider Protocol Sri Lanka virus on the island, hence the gas masks, in Thomas Mittelwerk's mad attempt to solve the Valenzetti Equation, a mathmatical equation using The Numbers and the hieroglyphics on the hatch countdown clock to kill exactly 30% of a population. The Oceanic 6 will escape as this happens due to some radical action by Jack possibly with Sayid flying the helicopter as I don't think the pilot Frank or any of the "rescue" team is going to live. Also we'll see the Temple and learn a bit more about the island. Jacob will finally reveal himself, as possibly Alvar Hanso, to Locke.

But would they really remove Jack & company from the island at the end of this season with 2 more to go or save that for next season?

I heard that the first 6 episodes act as a "pod" like last season's first six episodes. Then the other two were just in the middle of the rest of the season and that the only cliff hanger is that there is no cliff hanger. It just ends because there was supposed to be a new episode the next week. It would be just like if this week's episode was the last one. Not much of a cliff hanger.

 

[Agent23]

See, I read differently. And, if you remember the producers wanted to hold off on airing LOST until the strike was over because after episode 8 there is supposed to be a major cliffhanger (and the viewers are gonna be clamoring for more) and the producers said it would be like IF Season 2 ended after Ana Lucia and Libby were shot by Michael...(they said it wouldn't be a good idea)

Which by coincidence Episode 8, supposedly the flash back/forward is about Michael.

 

[Batty]

See, I read differently. And, if you remember the producers wanted to hold off on airing LOST until the strike was over because after episode 8 there is supposed to be a major cliffhanger (and the viewers are gonna be clamoring for more) and the producers said it would be like IF Season 2 ended after Ana Lucia and Libby were shot by Michael...(they said it wouldn't be a good idea)

Which by coincidence Episode 8, supposedly the flash back/forward is about Michael.

That's what I heard, too. Not knowing how long the strike would end, the producers wanted a cliffhanger to make sure fans would come back once there were new episodes.

 

[Agent0028]

I thought I read somewhere that they were looking at only airing 6 episodes and not 7 and 8 because the ending of 8 would be "frustrating" to the fans if they had to wait along time to follow it. I can't remember where i read that, probably somewhere in this thread or the Writer's Strike thread.

 

[barryo]

ok, may be a dumb question but i dont have a clue to how any of the hollywood machine actually works but......during this writers strike do the writers actually put down the pen (keyboard/whatever writing utensil they use) or do the keep writing ideas and just not submit them? i would think that a writer for a hot show or any other would like to keep up with the direction of the show and keep the ideas churning and burning. im thinking it may be hard to jump back in with both feet when when you are in a flow. i know some writers write for months and years at a time then take a break for whatever reason to get the creative juices flowing again but im thinking a show with a fast pace like lost would suffer if the writers stopped entirely. seems like there might be a break down in continuity or creative vision..........just wondering

 

[Batty]

I thought I read somewhere that they were looking at only airing 6 episodes and not 7 and 8 because the ending of 8 would be "frustrating" to the fans if they had to wait along time to follow it. I can't remember where i read that, probably somewhere in this thread or the Writer's Strike thread.

This is what Damon Lindelof had to say. It looks like ABC is airing all 8 (the last episode is set for March 20th), but I thought I read about them only airing 6 episodes too... I just can't remember where.

 

[Entropy]

I heard that the first 6 episodes act as a "pod" like last season's first six episodes. Then the other two were just in the middle of the rest of the season and that the only cliff hanger is that there is no cliff hanger. It just ends because there was supposed to be a new episode the next week. It would be just like if this week's episode was the last one. Not much of a cliff hanger.

I was speculating for the cliffhanger for the end of the season... episode 16 not episode 8. I'm sure something interesting will happen in episode 8 but I'm thinking about the overall design and structure of the season as it was plotted out to be 16 episodes not 8.

1: Introduction to survivors, island & discovery of the hatch.
cliffhanger: opening the hatch

2: History of the hatch, the button and Dharma.
cliffhanger: destruction of the hatch, capture of Jack & company

3: History and introduction of The Others.
cliffhanger: attempt to contact the ship, Jack flashforward, rescue.

4: Introduction of the rescue party & their true motives.
cliffhanger: ?

 

[Darth Caedus]

I was speculating for the cliffhanger for the end of the season... episode 16 not episode 8. I'm sure something interesting will happen in episode 8 but I'm thinking about the overall design and structure of the season as it was plotted out to be 16 episodes not 8.

1: Introduction to survivors, island & discovery of the hatch.
cliffhanger: opening the hatch

2: History of the hatch, the button and Dharma.
cliffhanger: destruction of the hatch, capture of Jack & company

3: History and introduction of The Others.
cliffhanger: attempt to contact the ship, Jack flashforward, rescue.

4: Introduction of the rescue party & their true motives.
cliffhanger: ?

4: Introduction of the rescue party & their true motives.
cliffhanger: I would probaby say that they find out why Dharma was on the island and what the island truly is (I personally think the "rescue party" were hired by Dharma [even though they probably don't know it] to find out from Ben what happened to the rest of the initiative [who Ben killed])

 

[Agent0028]

Is there a website that kinda goes through alot of stuff that has happened before? Not so much the plot, but alot of the underlying stuff like the various stations and their purposes and things like that. I've forgotten so much that half the stuff y'all say anymore I get confused about.