[elc]

I'm starting a Lost ping list. If you want to be added, Freepmail me.

Feel free to add your island theories.

[ChocChipCookie]

Add me to your ping list. Can't wait for the new season to start!

[Ragtop]

Put me on this ping list, and it's about time! Lost, Battlestar Gallactica and 24 are the best shows on TV right now.

[Ragtop]

I also heard that Locke will be back to his kick a$$ self this season. Can't wait. Locke is my favorite character, followed by Eko and Desmond.
Personally, I think that "The Others" were once part of the Dharma Intiative, and found out about some of the Hanso Foundation's shadier dealings and rebelled. They have been in hiding using the technology gleaned form their experiments to wage a quiet war against the Hanso Foundation.
I think the Losties were brought to the island because of some unknown connection to Hanso/Dharma. But the crash landing was no accident.

[RockyTop4GOP]

Please add me to the list!

Has anyone followed the "Lost Experience?" I just haven't had the time to devote to it, but I'd like to understand the books and the creepy commercials.

Sadly, I have class on Wednesday nights. Thankfully, I can buy the entire season from itunes and then watch at my leisure!

[dead]

I wonder if the fact that the main bad guy is named after Dorothy's uncle in the Wizard of Oz means anything.

I wonder if anything means anything on this show.

Here's my theory - some quasi-government international agency has been conducting a multi-generational mindf*ck experiment on these people (they almost all have parents who were also either screwed up or made powerful in some way.) After forty or fifty years, the experiment is finally coming to a head or falling apart, depending on your point of view. That's why they've been bumping into each other at various points in their lives and that's why they were all brought to this island at this time.

Also, Walt's mother (Michael's ex) was in on the experiment - that's why she had to take Walt halfway around the world and stop his contact with Michael. Walt's some freakish fruit of the experiment, and the Dharma gang either had her killed for trying to get him out or she's not really dead and will be showing up on the island this season.

I could be wrong, but if it turns out that it is all just crazy Hurley's dream, I will find everybody involved in creating this show and torture them to death.

[Lucky9teen]

I love Lost. I wouldn't mind being on the ping list.

I saw that my local station is airing a Lost recap and interview with Damon Lindelof to talk about Season 3 and what it entails, etc. on Sept 2nd sometime. My DVR is set to record it, so I don't remember exact details.

I can't wait for Season 3...I'm hoping they won't drag out the episodes this year like they did last year though. That sucked.

[acad1228]

Please add me to the list!

[marinamuffy]

Please add me to the Lost ping list. Can't wait for the start of season 3!!!!!

[girlscout]

Please add me to your Lost ping list. Thanks!

[twin2]

Please put me on your ping list, I'm a hugh Lost fan.

twin1, pinging you here as I know you will want to get onboard.

[BunnySlippers]

Please add me to the list.

[BunnySlippers]

Awesome encylopedic site of all things lost by the owners of Wikipedia:

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[elc]

IS IT OCTOBER 4th YET???

Set your tivo now:

Special: Lost - A Tale of Survival
Airdate: September 27, 2006

Feeling lost? Having a hard time keeping up with what’s happening on the island? ABC has the remedy for what ails you by inviting both new and avid “Lost” viewers to take an insider’s look at the most talked about, critically acclaimed show on television. “Lost: A Tale of Survival” will explore the series in a way that will bring new viewers up to date, but which current viewers will also find illuminating. From the back stories of some of the most compelling characters on television to the mysteries of the island, “Lost: A Tale of Survival” will provide an insightful glimpse into the lives of the survivors of Oceanic Airlines flight 815. Source: ABC

[RabidBartender]

Sorry, never watched it, and I'd hate to start now for fear of not knowing what's going on.

Who plays Gilligan, though?

:D

[FrogInABlender]

Please add me to the ping list too.

[Tanniker Smith]

Just watched season 2. Okay, finally caught up.
interesting season.

[elc]

FIIIIINNNNNNNAAAAAAALLLLLYYYYYY!!!

The countdown has begun and I can't stress how excited I am for Lost. Especially since House and Prison Break are off for a few weeks because of baseball.

FYI - The main focus of the first 6 episodes will be about the “Others" Tonight we only see 4 of the original Losties.

Episode 3.1 - “Tale of Two Cities”

This isn’t the first time and won’t be the last time, some spoiler information has been wrong. Regarding the initial post and description of the first episode - I’m not sure how accurate that description is.

But, it will be a Jack flashback episode. Original information had it has a Kate centric episode. Tonight, we’ll see Jack’s wife and his father and we’ll see Jack mad about something involving both of them. Hmmm. A-F-F-A-I-R?

Last year the Lost writers said (my paraphrase) that once someone is killed off the island, that’s it for them. Dead is dead.

And they meant it, sort of. How do you get around this? Why, flashbacks of course.

I mentioned in my first post we will learn more about Libby, so I fully expect to see her in some flashbacks. But she’s not the only one.

Courtesy of E! (Entertainment television) - Boone will make an appearance in some scenes with Locke (sometime in the first 6 episodes).

So brace yourself. It's going to be an awesome night on the islands, with lots of twists and turns and ups and downs.

If you like to be on the Lost ping list, please Freepmail me

[elc]

Interesting article (from E!) about the decline in popularity of Lost. It was inevitable really. Even if viewers weren't increasingly annoyed with the lack of resolution in some of the story lines, viewership tends to decline over the years anyway.
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Going down a hatch is one thing. Climbing out of one, as Lost is learning, is another.

Based on Wednesday night's ratings, the ABC adventure-thriller-mystery hybrid remains in recovery mode after an unpopular resolution to the series' first-season cliffhanger.

Lost's third-season opener was watched by 18.8 million, ABC said. And while that was more than enough to make it the night's most-watched show, and should be more than enough to make it one of the week's most-watched shows, it wasn't near enough to match its own second-season premiere.

Last fall, 23.5 million checked out the Lost launch party. The big premiere was driven by interest in the big cliffhanger from the show's first-season finale. In that episode, aired in May 2005, the plane-wrecked castaways looked down one long, mysterious hatch.

What were they looking at? What was in the hatch? The questions simmered during that summer; the answers fizzled the following fall. As revealed during the 2005-06 season, the hatch led to a tunnel that led to a bunker which basically housed a 1980s home computer set-up, dot-matrix printer and all.

Oh.

The letdown seemed to take down the show's ratings--from 23.5 million viewers for the second-season premiere to 17.8 million for the second-season finale. (Airing opposite American Idol in the spring didn't help, either.) In the end, Lost's audience actually shrunk about 3 percent from its first season to its second.

That Wednesday's numbers were actually up 5 percent from last spring's finale could be a sign that the new "The Others"-kidnapped-Jack storyline is working.

Or, it could be a sign that American Idol isn't on yet.

[TradicalRC]

I would like to be pinged for Lost. However, I have no access except for DVD's or videos, therefore I cannot (CANNOT!) read anything about episodes I haven't seen yet. I am currently on the lookout for bootleg copies of same...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Nice looking numbers. I'm playing these for tonight's Wisconsin Megabucks game! I'm rich!