Lost - Series 3 [spoilers]

[Platty]

Jasper on forums they are they things called spoiler tags, i don't know if you have heard of them but there preety cool.

 

But at the end of the day the thread title does state SPOILARS.

 

You know that the latest episodes will be discussed so if you havent watch them I suggest not reading any posts in here!

[Caris]

Yeah good point, i will come back soon as i have seen it

[Dante]

ABC is set to announce that Lost will end production after two more seasons.

 

This is what my E! Online partner in crime Marc Malkin just announced in his column, Planet Gossip.

 

I know. Breathe, Lost fans. Breathe.

 

Here's what I can tell you. I just spoke to insiders at ABC and they tell me it's true: The network and producers have reached a decision on an end date and they are expected to announce it in the next two weeks. This is meant to be a good thing, because now the producers finally can start mapping out the remaining episodes and start rolling out some of the major reveals and answers we fans have been waiting for.

 

I'm also told there are more big changes in store for the show!

 

According to sources, ABC is planning to push back Lost's return date to January of next year in order to air new episodes back-to-back, and it is also "extremely likely" that Lost will change time slots next season.

Still, the biggest change may be that massive, mind-blowing, cast-related "game-changer" I keep hinting about—to which I am sworn to secrecy, for it is that big—which is revealed in the season finale. (I cannot wait for you to see it.)

 

Word is, Lost is moving to an earlier hour, which will make at least one fan happy: Josh Holloway's brother. "I do feel like we're in the wrong time slot," Josh told me during my recent trek to the set in Hawaii. "Most definitely too late, because I lost my own brother. He’s like, 'Dude, I got to get to work in the morning!' I’m just going to say it. Let’s move it back to 9 o’clock or 8 o’clock."

 

Let it be said that Josh Holloway and his brother have mad pull.

 

So, what do you all think of saying goodbye to Lost in only two more seasons?

[Caris]

Watched the latest episode.

 

awsomeawsomeawsomeawsomeawsome.

[Bren]

i thought it would only get up to 5 seasons, so not too surprised at the news.

 

And episode 19 is a beast, cmon sawyer, kill that mofako

[Dante]

Jack and the castaways begin efforts to make contact with Naomi's rescue ship.

[harribo]

Jack and the castaways begin efforts to make contact with Naomi's rescue ship.

 

Wow such a big big spoiler. I never saw that coming.

[darksnowman]

Look at harribo's last fm! Fantastic!

 

Anyway, onto business... I dont like coming in this thread for fear of spoilers, but I take it you've all seen the episode called The Brig? It was on last night on Sky anyway.

 

What an episode, I cant wait to find out what happens next. Its not like Lost has any problem stringing me along anyway, but The Brig was really really good.

 

Anyway, I'll be off to avoid any spoilers once again. : peace:

[Dante]

In a potentially paradigm-shifting play, ABC has agreed to let the producers of "Lost" set an expiration date for the series -- three years in the future.

 

Skein will now wrap after the production of 48 additional episodes that will be divided into three, shortened 16-episode seasons. Final episode -- the show's 119th -- will air during the 2009-10 season.

 

In conjunction with the advance order, "Lost" showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have inked hefty new multi-year overall deals with ABC Television Studio to continue with the series until the end. Duo had made setting a wrap date for the show a condition for staying.

 

Lindelof and Cuse had wanted "Lost" to end after two more seasons. They're essentially still getting their wish: The 48 episodes they'll produce over the next three years is the same number the show produced during its first two seasons.

 

ABC execs, however, came up with a way to keep "Lost" on its sked for three more seasons. What's more, the 16-episode arcs will run without repeats (a la "24"), allowing the Alphabet to make the show more of an event.

 

"In considering the powerful storytelling of 'Lost,' we felt this was the only way to give it a proper creative conclusion," ABC Entertainment prexy Steve McPherson said.

 

"I always said that we would allow the series to grow and give viewers the most compelling hour possible," he added. "And, due to the unique nature of the series, we knew it would require an end date to keep the integrity and strength of the show consistent throughout, and to give the audience the payoff they deserve. "

 

McPherson also acknowledged that getting Lindelof and Cuse to reup "was critical to me and the network."

 

ABC Television Studio prexy Mark Pedowitz shared that sentiment.

 

"We wanted to make sure we had the team responsible for its success in place for not only the run of the show, but so that each of their future series creations have a home at the studio after 'Lost,' " Pedowitz said.

 

J.J. Abrams, who co-created "Lost" with Lindelof, defected to Warner Bros. TV last year and has been focusing on a new slate of TV and film projects, including the revival of the "Star Trek" franchise for Paramount Pictures. He told Daily Variety that he fully supported the advance wrap decision.

 

"It is the right choice for the series and its viewers," he said via an email message. "It takes real foresight and guts to make a call like this. I applaud ABC and Touchstone for making this happen."

 

Lindelof and Cuse, who are putting the finishing touches on the third-season finale, released a joint statement praising what they termed "a bold and unprecedented move for ABC" and thanking McPherson and Pedowitz for making it.

 

Cuse added that he hoped more shows will be able to follow the "Lost" lead and declare an end date.

 

"I think for story-based shows like 'Lost,' as opposed to franchise-based shows like 'ER' or 'CSI,' the audience wants to know when the story is going to be over," Cuse wrote. "When J.K. Rowling announced that there would be seven 'Harry Potter' books, it gave the readers a clear sense of exactly what their investment would be. We want our audience to do the same."

 

Cuse confirmed that devising an exit strategy for "Lost" was key to reupping with ABC Television Studio.

 

"In making this deal, Damon and I had two priorities: defining an end point for the show and keeping the quality bar high," Cuse said. "To do that we are both fully committed to the day-to-day running of the show right up until the very end. It's also why the 16 episodes per year was key for us. Because our show is so mythological, and because, unlike '24,' we can't reset each season, we need the extra time fewer episodes affords us to really plan out the specifics of our storytelling."

 

Lindelof and Cuse made public their desire for an end date during the TV Critics Assn. press tour last winter (Daily Variety, Jan. 15).

 

Cuse and Lindelof also wanted an end date in order to mollify critics of the show who worried producers were simply spinning their wheels as they worked through the show's layer upon layer of mystery.

 

ABC execs had already been talking to the producers about the idea, but they seemed taken aback when Lindelof and Cuse made the conversations public.

 

Indeed, it would be understandable if ABC execs had been initially cool to the concept of an early end date.

 

After all, with major hits a rarity in the network game, the rule is to keep hits on the air until every last ounce of success has been squeezed from them (e.g., "ER" or "The X-Files").

 

And despite relentless media snarking this season -- and the fact that "Lost" has lost a chunk of its fall 2005 audience -- the series is still a top-15 hit that dominates its 10 p.m. Wednesday timeslot in key demos.

 

In its third season, it's still drawing as many young viewers as NBC's newer, more buzzed-about "Heroes" -- and that's not counting the roughly 2.1 million viewers who watch the show after its live broadcast or via free streaming on ABC.com.

 

ABC could be establishing a new formula by which nets find success through serving up skeins with more and more audacious concepts but shorter lifespans than the traditional network hit.

 

Already, the traditional syndie business model -- the one that required studios to produce 100 episodes of a show in order to recoup their investment -- seems to be fading away in an age of instant downloads and universal streaming.

 

That may be one reason, according to Lindelof, that McPherson and Pedowitz "never argued that the show should keep going and going. The issue has always been when it would end and how far out in front of that ending should we herald it."

 

Now that the end has been announced, Lindelof promised there would be no attempts to extend or continue the "Lost" mythology on air in some other way.

 

"There will be no extensions or enhancements. That number (48) is absolute," he said. And "once you begin to see where we're going, I think the idea of sequels and spinoffs will completely go away."

 

So if he, Cuse or Abrams suddenly come up with a killer plot thread that doesn't fit into the new timeline?

 

"We'll do it as a radio play," Lindelof quipped.

 

As for "Lost," show's end game is expected to kick into high gear later this month with the broadcast of the season finale. Details of the plot are under wraps, but a person who has read the script described it as a major shakeup to the plot.

 

"It changes everything," the person said.

 

Nothing's official yet, but ABC has all but said that the fourth season of "Lost" won't premiere until January or February of next year.

[ViPeR]

Well I always thought it was going to have an end date. It can't exactly go on forever...

[Jasper]

Well I always thought it was going to have an end date. It can't exactly go on forever...

 

Off course...

 

They had setup for 100 episodes anyway.

 

Watching the next episode on internet is only two days away now, and answers are coming our way!

[jayseven]

not really too sure about teh Jacob reference, but I had a quick gander at wikipedia's memory banks about the biblical dude, and there's some stuff there about "pulling sheep from the flock", infertility, gateway to heaven... "Jacob is the only person in Old Testament (Jewish) Scripture whom God said He "loved"". Cool. His twelve sons were the forefathers of all the jewish tribes.

 

Personally I think, Like the Matrix, there's too much hype about what could happen, and the show will never live up to it.

[killthenet]

Well... that was pretty good. Also mental.

 

It's definately heating up, although we didn't really learn anything this week, it was still action packed, and it had Uncle Rico in it. Hooray for Uncle Rico.

[Platty]

Just watched the new episode. Pretty damn good, found out quite a lot interesting things.

[BGS]

If John Locke is really dead then I'm never watching lost again! He's pretty much the only reason I've kept with it this season.

 

Jacob - WTF?!?!

 

[Platty]

I don't think he will be dead. The whole Jacob thing is strange. There was someone there. The camera flashed onto him and you could just make out an old man.

 

I think perhaps Ben was the only one that could communicate with Jacob and thats why he became the leader of the others cos he is sort of special?

 

Then Locke turns up with amazing healing powers and in turn can also hear Jacob so therefore Ben is no longer the only special one on the Island and doesnt like that so he shot Locke.

 

The others have already started to take a shine to Locke so perhaps Ben could see himself being overthrown by Locke as the others no longer have much respect for Ben.

 

I dunno where im going with that I just need some sort of answers to keep telling myself.

 

I feel tho its now going way over the top.

 

[ViPeR]

Best episode so far. They managed to answer so many questions in just one episode. What the hell is with the true 'others' not actually ageing. And who the hell are those people, and Jacob.. wtf was that about

[Caris]

omg@thatepisode.

[Jasper]

He's .. dead!

 

No exciting revelations, only even more questions. Good episode, though I don't prefer it over previous ones. Sadly enough, barely anything actually gets revealed and what happens to Locke? Questions raised, though I doubt that Locke is actually written away for a while. He'll be back, very soon. I guess, next episode or in the season finale.

 

You don't make him disappear, he's way to important for the series.

[Dante]

Video of Jacob

 

[Platty]

Ah I actually clocked that image Dante if you read my post, nice one on finding the screen cap tho!

[Daft]

Video of Jacob

 

Its JESUS!!!.....anybody?....no........I'll just be quite now...

 

That was quite a cool episode. For the record, Jack is a gimp.

 

EDIT: Actually, that dude in the picture could be a pirate from the Black Rock...he kinda looks like a pirate.

[harribo]

Its JESUS!!!.....anybody?....no........I'll just be quite now...

 

That was quite a cool episode. For the record, Jack is a gimp.

 

EDIT: Actually, that dude in the picture could be a pirate from the Black Rock...he kinda looks like a pirate.

 

The Black Rock wasn't a pirate ship it was a ship transporting slaves wasn't it?

[Daft]

The Black Rock wasn't a pirate ship it was a ship transporting slaves wasn't it?

 

I assumed it was a pirate ship cos of the funky name...kinda like the Black Pearl!

[harribo]

I assumed it was a pirate ship cos of the funky name...kinda like the Black Pearl!

 

But it was full of dead slaves and mining equipment. They must be some pretty kinky pirates.