Posted on 05/11/2005 10:24:48 AM PDT by k2blader
'Lost' Horizon
''Lost'' season finale will be three hours long. It'll be spread over two nights, with the last two hours airing opposite the ''American Idol'' finale
[Article by Gary Susman]
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| A THREE-HOUR TOUR ''Lost'' producers promise more surprises on the finale |
New episodes of Lost have been few and far between lately, but ABC will make up for it with the season finale, which will last three hours, and which the network hopes will give the season finale of Fox's American Idol a run for its money. Part 1 of the finale, called ''Exodus,'' will air May 18, and the two-hour ''Exodus Part 2'' will air May 25, opposite the deciding episode of Idol. ''The final two hours is so full of incident and character and shocks and scares and drama, all the things that people love about Lost, that it would have been silly to cut things out,'' Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a Lost writer and supervising producer, tells Sci-Fi Wire. ''So we've got a 25-hour first season! We busted our butts on it, but it's not going to feel like it's been padded. We are very proud of it.''
Grillo-Marxuach says that the original plan was for a two-hour finale, to be split over two weeks, ''and then ABC asked if we could do 90 minutes [the second week] so they could schedule it against American Idol. Carlton [Cuse] and Damon [Lindelof, who co-created the show with J.J. Abrams] did an amazing job on the finale script, and their first draft came in a little long anyway.''
Early rumors about ''Exodus'' had it that one of the castaways would die during the finale. No word on whether these rumors were misdirection meant to leave viewers unprepared for the shocking death of Boone (Ian Somerhalder) on last week's episode, or if the islanders really will have to face another death on May 25.
I will tape Lost and watch IDOL live.
I love Lost!
Are they in Purgatory? Is the island just a figment of someone's imagination?
Hehe, I will be doing the opposite. :-D
Per the show's creators, no, they are not in purgatory.
And it's not a dream. (Whew! :-)
Aw, I thought the purgatory idea was great. They all seem to need fixing before they can go on.
ping
I'll be watching Lost. Don't really care who wins Idol. I'll see it in the morning news.
That is no doubt one of the major themes.. :-)
Frankly, I would've felt let down if it turned out they were in purgatory.
Theories?
Same here!
Theories.. let me think about that for a while.. ;-)
(I'll be back later..)
My whole family watches Lost...have never seen even one episode of Idol.
Great. Marital discord ahead as I insist on watching Lost!
Better watch it in another room or Tivo.
American Yodel, *LOL*. I really enjoyed the 1st season (I guess since it was so new), didn't watch the 2nd season, tuned in to the 3rd season only because there were contestants from Hawaii (who really weren't very good), and am watching this 4th season with moderate interest (the talent is better than last year's). I hope Carrie wins because I like the concept of a "country bumpkin" American Idol. :-D
So does that mean that Alias wont be on that night. BWAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
"So we've got a 25-hour first season! "
It used to be 32 or more hours for a first season. 25-hours is pathetic.
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