Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Adam Savage Mythbusting Season 4 Finale

MythBuster Adam Savage on Explosions in Season Four Finale of Lost - Popular Mechanics

Adam Savage from the popular MythBusters TV show has an article at Popular Mechanics about LOST! Here are some of his thoughts about the explosion and LOST in general.
I'm a huge fan of Lost, but sometimes my schedule keeps me from being able to watch all the episodes on time. Yesterday, after a 6-hour Lost marathon (I had no idea how far behind I'd gotten!), I was finally ready to take in last night's season finale. And after watching it, all I can say is: Holy crap.

First things first: the explosives. We blow a lot of things up on MythBusters, so I know from experience that last night Lost missed the mark. The 500 pounds of C4, that whole movie thing about "dummy triggers" and fake tripwires—it's all a load of crap. Nobody does that. At least that's what my friends at the FBI tell me. Would you want to set up explosives so that pretty much anything you did would make them go off? It's just like guessing and cutting one of the wires in the movies: Nobody would survive using that technique for very long, including Keamy and his crew. The whole training of a bomb tech is to work safely with explosives, not dangerously. There are too many ways to mess it up. Also, I'm pretty sure that C4 isn't conductive, which it would need to be to set up its wiring as a resistance feedback loop that could tell if you started to pull out the detonators. And if freezing the battery works, why not just disconnect it? Oh, right, the monitored feedback loop. But wait, C4 isn't conductive ... never mind. More

Humans Can See Into the Future Brotha!

Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered - Yahoo! News:

We didn't see Desmond's flashes in season 4, we did him time travel (his consciousness anyway), so maybe that "cured" his flashes of the future. Yahoo News is reporting that we really can see into the future, not like Desmond seeing Charlie drown, but still the future non-the-less.

"Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing
like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of
events one-tenth of a second before they occur.

And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions.
Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says it starts
with a neural lag that most everyone experiences while awake. When light hits
your retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the
signal into a visual perception of the world.

Scientists already knew about the lag, yet they have debated over exactly how we compensate, with one school of thought proposing our motor system somehow modifies our movements to offset the delay." More

Friday, May 30, 2008

Octagon Glocal Recruiting

Octagon Global Recruiting

The DHARMA Initiative are at it again. They will be recruiting new "umpaid" volunteers this summer in San Diego, CA July 24-27, 2008 - the same time as Comic Con!
"On behalf of the Dharma Initiative, Octagon Global Recruiting is currently
seeking volunteers to contribute to an important new research project.

The Dharma Initiative is a multidisciplinary research collective dedicated
to improving the human condition through innovative scientific research.

Our directors are recognized leaders in their fields, with distinguished
research histories in a wide range of social and scientific disciplines.

A new research project is about to commence which will play a vital role in
furthering the Dharma Initiative’s objectives.

Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, requires
research volunteers to assist in a range of unpaid positions.

Our national recruitment drive will commence in San Diego, California, July
24 - 27, 2008."

The Frozen Donkey Wheel Cometh!

Season 4 has now come and gone. Wow, this was the best. This is the best show ever. No doubt. i LOVE it. I like some other things on TV, but I do not love them. Why aren't more people on board with LOST? I have a friend that starting watching LOST yesterday, I think that's awesome. It's such a weird thing to watch the first few episode knowing what you know post season 4.

I was SPOILER FREE!!!!!

I LOVED that Desmond and Penny were back together last night! That was my favorite part of the show with out a doubt. I do have a few questions, but not like last season, OMG at the end.

anyway, I should have more time soon. So I should have a huge increase of LOST related posts and info.

Friday, May 23, 2008

POST 108 - One Year Anniversary

My LOST blog is officially 1 year old. yeah for me! What a long strange trip it has been. I have been thinking about the next several month of no LOST, and I think back to the last year. The blog and the mobisodes helped the months go by.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

LOST Season 4 DVD Pre-Orders


Lost: The Complete Fourth Season
The Expanded Experience

Releases on
December 9, 2008.


This has been an awesome season of LOST, and with only two episodes left, you can already pre-order the DVD set which will not be released until December 9. Right now, there are only 36 episodes of LOST left, what will happen next?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

10 Things Every Manager Should Learn from "LOST" - HR World

10 Things Every Manager Should Learn from "LOST" - HR World

Make alliances.
Find success as a team.
Follow your instincts.
Expect the unexpected.
Never assume you know everything.
Use available resources.
Take advantage of employees' skills.
Stay organized.
Be trustworthy.
Learn from the past.

LOST Season 4 Finale Press Release

AS THE FACE-OFF BETWEEN THE SURVIVORS AND FREIGHTER PEOPLE CONTINUES, THE OCEANIC SIX FIND THEMSELVES CLOSER TO RESCUE, ON THE TWO-HOUR SEASON FINALE OF "LOST," MAY 29 ON ABC

"There's No Place Like Home," Parts 2 & 3 - The face-off between the survivors and the freighter people continues, and the Oceanic Six find themselves closer to rescue, on the two-hour Season Finale of "Lost," THURSDAY, MAY 29 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Terry O'Quinn as Locke and Harold Perrineau as Michael.

Guest starring are Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Ken Leung as Miles Straume, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, L. Scott Caldwell as Rose, Malcolm David Kelley as Walt, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, John Terry as Christian Shephard, Sonya Walger as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Kevin Durand as Keamy, Francois Chau as Dr. Marvin Candle, Anthony Azizi as Omar, Alex Petrovitch as Henrik and Starletta DuPois as Michael's mom.

"There's No Place Like Home," Parts 2 & 3 were written by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof and directed by Jack Bender.

Last Offical Podcast of Season 4 Released

Finally revealed....Damon has a wooden leg! Why are the Oceanic 6 lying? We will see an expanded version of the press conference next Thursday!!! (a few more questions) How do the 6 end up together, they are spread throughout the entire island and on the freighter? What is the Orchid Station? Will we see the full orientation film? Will we see more flash forwards? What is Sun up to in Korea? We'll see May 29!

The ISLAND intervened in Jack's life in last season's finale, he was about to kill himself, but the island wouldn't let him!!!! That was my theory, I was excited to have that confirmed by Damon and Carlton.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Desperate Straights and Disparate Locations

I haven't posted for almost a month because I've been in "Desperate Straights and Disparate Locations." I'm back! Just in time for my one year anniversary, coming up soon!!! And oh course the end of the season 4, which has been awesome!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Code 14J and the Shape of Things to Come Recap

ON ISLAND: The Jack of the future appears to be surfacing with his pill popping and him writing his own prescriptions.

The Dr. from the freighter washes ashore with a slit throat.

code 14J - The sonic fence has been turned off and Ben's phone rings with the automated message "Code 14 J." Locke and the Gang go to tell Ben, and he starts getting ready for war because "They're here!"

LOST

Off ISLAND: Ben wakes up in the desert basically shocked, as if he's gone through a portal of some sort, especially since he's wearing a winter coat with "Halliwax" on it. Two arab speaking men ride up on horses and draw guns on Ben who appears to have a gun shot wound on his right arm. He asks he they speak english, but they don't respond to any language he tries. One comes to search him and Ben beats him in the face with an awesome stick and then shots the other guy with the first's gun. Then he shots the guy after he shows he does speak English, when he says "surrender." Ben then rides off on the shot.

ON ISLAND: Jack is trying to figure out what happened to the Doc. Daniel and Charoltte says they don't know anything about it.

Ben and Locke are barricading the doors and Sawyer is looking for Claire. Sawyer gets locked out, and then gets shot at. Three random LOSTies were killed, while Sawyer was looking for Claire. Just as he's running toward her house is is shot with a bazooka and explodes.

Off ISLAND: Ben is is Tozeur, Tunsia on Oct. 21, 2005. He uses a flase name that is a perferred customers at the hotel. He says that it is not his first trip to Tunisa, but it has been a while. He sees Oceanic Six member Sayid on TV with lots of paparazzi, saying that he just wants to bury his wife.

ON ISLAND: Claire survived the blast. Sawyer takes her back to Ben's house, where Locke and Ben were going to let them stay outside until Hugo broke a window to let them in. Soon Miles shows up and says the people out there want to talk.

OFF ISLAND: Ben is Tarkit, Iraq to see Sayid. He climbs up in an old building with a camera and starts taking pictures. Sayid sees him and thinks he a paparazzi, and is going to kick some butt until he sees who it is. He's obviously surprised to see him. Ben says that he used Desmond's boat to go to Fiji and charter a plan. He tells Sayid that one of Whidmore's men killed Naidia in LA. We see Sayid's "tackling fuel" to quote the waterboy.

ON ISLAND: Miles tells him that they have his daughter. They bring her out and banter the usualy hostage situation type of things. Ben grand stands and thinks that they won't kill Alex and is in shock when she's shot.

ON ISLAND: Ben is in shock, and the others are discussing what to do. After standing in shock for a long time, he says, "He changed the rules." He goes in to a panic room and then into a tunnel.

OFF ISLAND: Ben is still in Iraq in a bar. He sees the killer, and goes to have a talk with him. Sayid comes up from behind and kills him in cold blood, and doesn't want to stop there. He wants to join Ben in his war.

ONISLAND: Ben comes out of the secret tunnel and tells Team Locke that when he gives the signal that they've got to make a run to the tree line. Sawyer says, "where those guys are." Ben says that you want to be as far away from them as possible. Then the smoke monster who looks very large this time, comes rolling through New Otherton and goes on a rampage against Whidmore's men. Team Locke figures out that Ben called it. Then they take off, and Ben says goodbye to Alex.

ONISLAND: Daniel makes a telegraph, and lies about what the boat said. Bernard knows morse code and tells them that they said, "What are you talking about? The Doctor is fine." Jack is upset, and must really be having some stomach problems, he looks like he was in some serious pain.

Miles is still with Team Locke, and Ben catches up soon after. Ben says that they are going to Jacob's cabin. He's the man that going to tell them what to do next. Sawyer, Claire, Miles and Hugo start back to the beach, and John says that "Hugo stays with us." Hugo is willing to go with Locke. Sawyer and crew take off. Ben says"follow me."

OFF ISLAND: Ben is in London, England looking for the "Kendricks" at a very late hour. He has his little baton to kick butt with. He gets in the elevator and pulls out the elevator key and goes up to the penthouse. Ben is in Charle Whidmore's bedroom. He says, "wake up Charles." After they makes some interesting conversation, Ben says that I'm here to tell you that I'm going to kill your daughter. The hunt is on for both of them. Charles for the island, and Ben for Penny.

Claire Littleton - Emilie de Ravin

Lost character profile for Claire Littleton played by Emilie de Ravin - TVGuide.com

With everyone assuming that Claire will die soon, I thought that it would be fitting to link to this little atricle about Claire over at TVGuide. It give you all the basics, along with a funny prediction at the bottom.

Our Wild Prediction: "Upon returning to the real world, Claire becomes a minor celebrity as the quasi-girlfriend of Charlie Pace, and decides to pay the bills by giving interviews about her relationship with the now deceased rock star." - Jack Rodgers

Yunjin Kim on Lost's Return

Yunjin Kim on Lost's Return: Prepare to Be "Amazed" - TVGuide.com

TVGuide.com: Was it any special thrill, if only because of the job security, to learn you were among the Oceanic Six?
Yunjin Kim:
Initially I thought it would mean job security, but it doesn’t really look that way. It doesn't really mean anything. If you're not one of the Oceanic Six, that doesn’t mean you're going to be killed off the show.

TVGuide.com: When you were reading the script for "Ji Yeon," were you led to believe that Jin was on his way to see Sun?
Kim:
Yes and no. The Year of the Dragon was a pretty significant sign that we weren’t talking about in 2005. I got a sense we were in two different time zones.

TVGuide.com: What is Sun's involvement in this week's new episode?
Kim:
Well, usually when you do your "own" episode, you take it easy for the next one or two. But the story continues: Are we actually going to leave the island? Right now we’re going crazy trying to shoot three episodes all at once. [Laughs] We have three different units working, we're working every single day.... I think the finale is going to be amazing. I'm a huge fan of the show, and as soon as I get a script, I plow through it to see what happens next. People will be very amazed by how we end this season and set up the next one.

Jimmy Kimmel Chats with the Producers of Lost (Part 1 of 2) - TV Show Previews | TVGuide.com

Jimmy Kimmel Chats with the Producers of Lost (Part 1 of 2) - TVGuide.com

I've selected a couple of questions that I liked, but there's more so check it out if you want to.
Kimmel: The island heals some people and doesn't heal others. For instance, Ben needed an operation from Jack to beat cancer, but it seems like Sawyer gets injured every sixth episode and by the next, he's fine. Is that just a TV thing?
Carlton Cuse:
Wow. [Laughs] Where are the softball questions, Jimmy? What about the warm-up?
Damon Lindelof: The short answer is, it's not arbitrary. Yes, there is a certain degree of compressing story. The idea that everything you've seen has really happened in 110 days of real time feels fantastical, but that's the convention of the show. However, who gets sick and how fast they heal is something we talk about. In the second episode back [airing May 1], that becomes a major issue in the story. One character gets sick and another who has had experience being healed voices exactly that question: Is there any rhyme or reason to it?
Cuse: The healing is related to the degree to which you are in communion with the island at any given moment. Perhaps Ben getting sick and needing surgery had to do with the fact that he had fallen out of favor, that his connection with the island was maybe not what it had been in the past.

Kimmel: People come up to you all the time with theories. Has anyone come close to cracking the code?
Cuse: I think there are two assumptions that people make that are incorrect. One is that the whole answer to Lost reduces down to a sentence. It's not like searching for Einstein's Unified Field Theory. And the second is that you have enough information to "crack the code." The flash-forwards completely changed your notion of the show. So how could you do some accurate theorizing before you even knew those existed?

Kimmel: Is the person in the coffin someone who's not from the island?
Lindelof: [To Cuse] Tread lightly.
Cuse: You will know who's in the coffin before the season is over, and it will not be like, "Who's that person?"
Lindelof: The only people you can rule out, based on what you saw in last year's finale, are Kate and Jack.

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