Once again Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof sat down to answer questions about Lost. Here's a summary of all the new and interesting things they said:
1. They killed Eko because they had a deal with AAA that he would be on for a little more than a year and no more.
2. There are other Tailies alive, we just don't know where they are. We will be seeing Cindy, the flight attendant, and Zack and Emma, the kids, in episode 3.08.
3. The assumptions that the Monster was downloading memories from Eko in the 23rd Psalm and that Yemi was a manifestation of the island generated by the Monster are good ones.
4. Eko said "You're next" and Locke interpreted it as "We're next".
5. Eko died on his own terms.
6. The producers wouldn't answer if the island was constantly moving.
7. We might come to learn what happened to all the doctors in future episodes.
8. Our time on "alcatraz" will be over in episode 3.06.
9. Damon and Carlton use The Stand and Charles Dickens novels as good models for telling a long, sprawling, serialized character-based story.
10. We will return to the Black Rock.
Source: ABC
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11.03.2006
Mr. Eko Says Goodbye
Here's a link to a great L.A. Times article about the end of Mr. Eko. The best part about the article is when Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse chime in about why it was Mr. Eko's time. I've copied that part below for your enjoyment.
"With the other characters who died — Boone, Shannon, Ana Lucia and Libby — "there was a quotient of shock value but there was the idea that it made sense, that it was the characters' time," co-creator Damon Lindelof said. "I think the audience may feel that Mr. Eko was taken before his time. The way that he dies is very significant. It is more spectacular, as it were."
When planning Mr. Eko's untimely demise, the writers looked at the episode in the second season in which Mr. Eko came face-to-face with the monster inhabiting the island and refused to relent, Lindelof said. What if the monster did not give up, as it seemed at the time? What if the monster was "just intelligence-gathering for a later date?"
"We wanted to make clear that the monster remains a dangerous force," executive producer Carlton Cuse said."
"With the other characters who died — Boone, Shannon, Ana Lucia and Libby — "there was a quotient of shock value but there was the idea that it made sense, that it was the characters' time," co-creator Damon Lindelof said. "I think the audience may feel that Mr. Eko was taken before his time. The way that he dies is very significant. It is more spectacular, as it were."
When planning Mr. Eko's untimely demise, the writers looked at the episode in the second season in which Mr. Eko came face-to-face with the monster inhabiting the island and refused to relent, Lindelof said. What if the monster did not give up, as it seemed at the time? What if the monster was "just intelligence-gathering for a later date?"
"We wanted to make clear that the monster remains a dangerous force," executive producer Carlton Cuse said."
11.02.2006
Ausiello Talks with Carlton and Damon about Eko's Death
The Ausiello Report features an interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof about why Eko kicked the bucket. Apparently it was in the plans that his arc would only last a certain amount of time.
Episode 3.05 The Cost of Living
First, a moment of silence for Eko, the best character to come out of the tail section.
Alright, now that's taken care of...what a great episode. It had a little bit of everything we have come to love about Lost. Trust issues, psychological issues, moral choices, a quest through the jungle, a white rabbit, and the Monster. Oh yeah, and the flashback was first rate. The flashback was right up there with Eko's from the 23rd Psalm. He was right, they had no idea who he was.
So Eko experiences a white rabbit much like Jack (his father), Hurley (Dave), Kate (the black horse), and Shannon (Walt). The white rabbit led the follower into harm's way with Hurley (suicide) and Shannon (to Ana Lucia's gun). It is becoming increasingly bad news to follow the white rabbit into the jungle. The white rabbits must be real because otherwise how would Eko's tent have caught fire? Also, the whole "You're talking to me as if I was your brother" line made me wonder who is behind the white rabbits. Ben? Some other group? Someone out there is making people believe they see something from their past. If the end game is just killing people, that is sort of an odd way to go about it. Is the Monster a greater threat than the Others? If it is, great, how are you supposed to kill a moving tower of smoke? Jack even tried dynamite and that didn't do anything. At least he's having better luck with his current captors.
How did Jack figure out that it was Ben that had the spinal tumor? Can he figure out the height or age of a person by looking at a spine. I'd be interested to hear from a spinal surgeon on that one. Anyway, Jack is getting ahead of the Others now. His psychological gamesmanship and the ability to see those x-rays for what they were has helped him gain control despite being imprisoned. Good old Jack.
They burnt the body instead of burial. I guess they didn't want the bears to dig it up.
So Desmond did think/know that the computer could be used for something else. That would have been nice to know at the beginning of season two so that Michael didn't get tricked so bad. Since it didn't end up working I'm assuming that it was not Desmond's ability to see the future that made him tell Locke and Sayid about the computer.
Ben believes in God because two days after being diagnosed with a tumor a spinal surgeon fell from the sky. Interesting.
Yemi's body was missing from the plane, Christian Shepard's body was missing from his coffin. Why does the Monster or whoever is behind the Monster need or want the remains of people connected to others on the island? At least we are seeing a pattern.
I am starting to like Nikki and Paulo. They just want to part of the in crowd. Good thing Locke lets them. I also like Paulo's indifference to a lot of what is happening. Going the bathroom in the Pearl Station. Classic moment. Nikki is good because we need a new female character that doesn't have quite the outlaw back story of Kate or the mystery of Juliet. Plus, she's hot, that's always a plus.
So Juliet does think Ben is bad. She wants Jack to purposely screw up the surgery to kill Ben. Can he trust her? She is good looking. But I doubt Jack will be able to kill, even if he does want her. He is too bent on saving people. I think he would need to know more about Ben and how "bad" he really was in order to kill him.
And now the Monster wants to kill the rest of the group? Great. Why did it discriminate before? Did blowing up the Hatch piss the Monster off? Apart from that nothing has really changed. Darn you black smoke!
Alright, now that's taken care of...what a great episode. It had a little bit of everything we have come to love about Lost. Trust issues, psychological issues, moral choices, a quest through the jungle, a white rabbit, and the Monster. Oh yeah, and the flashback was first rate. The flashback was right up there with Eko's from the 23rd Psalm. He was right, they had no idea who he was.
So Eko experiences a white rabbit much like Jack (his father), Hurley (Dave), Kate (the black horse), and Shannon (Walt). The white rabbit led the follower into harm's way with Hurley (suicide) and Shannon (to Ana Lucia's gun). It is becoming increasingly bad news to follow the white rabbit into the jungle. The white rabbits must be real because otherwise how would Eko's tent have caught fire? Also, the whole "You're talking to me as if I was your brother" line made me wonder who is behind the white rabbits. Ben? Some other group? Someone out there is making people believe they see something from their past. If the end game is just killing people, that is sort of an odd way to go about it. Is the Monster a greater threat than the Others? If it is, great, how are you supposed to kill a moving tower of smoke? Jack even tried dynamite and that didn't do anything. At least he's having better luck with his current captors.
How did Jack figure out that it was Ben that had the spinal tumor? Can he figure out the height or age of a person by looking at a spine. I'd be interested to hear from a spinal surgeon on that one. Anyway, Jack is getting ahead of the Others now. His psychological gamesmanship and the ability to see those x-rays for what they were has helped him gain control despite being imprisoned. Good old Jack.
They burnt the body instead of burial. I guess they didn't want the bears to dig it up.
So Desmond did think/know that the computer could be used for something else. That would have been nice to know at the beginning of season two so that Michael didn't get tricked so bad. Since it didn't end up working I'm assuming that it was not Desmond's ability to see the future that made him tell Locke and Sayid about the computer.
Ben believes in God because two days after being diagnosed with a tumor a spinal surgeon fell from the sky. Interesting.
Yemi's body was missing from the plane, Christian Shepard's body was missing from his coffin. Why does the Monster or whoever is behind the Monster need or want the remains of people connected to others on the island? At least we are seeing a pattern.
I am starting to like Nikki and Paulo. They just want to part of the in crowd. Good thing Locke lets them. I also like Paulo's indifference to a lot of what is happening. Going the bathroom in the Pearl Station. Classic moment. Nikki is good because we need a new female character that doesn't have quite the outlaw back story of Kate or the mystery of Juliet. Plus, she's hot, that's always a plus.
So Juliet does think Ben is bad. She wants Jack to purposely screw up the surgery to kill Ben. Can he trust her? She is good looking. But I doubt Jack will be able to kill, even if he does want her. He is too bent on saving people. I think he would need to know more about Ben and how "bad" he really was in order to kill him.
And now the Monster wants to kill the rest of the group? Great. Why did it discriminate before? Did blowing up the Hatch piss the Monster off? Apart from that nothing has really changed. Darn you black smoke!
10.31.2006
Official Lost Podcast Summary 10-31-06
Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof returned to the podcast, this time with exclusive revelations and spoilers. Enjoy.
1. There is a special Stephen King reference hidden in Every Man for Himself (they didn't say but my money is on the bunny).
2. As for implications of the second island, they said only that escape would not be as easy as originally thought.
3. In the Glass Ballerina, Jae did commit suicide. They said the mystery surrounding Jae's death was unintentional.
4. They mentioned Sawyer's daughter Clementine but said nothing definitive about her.
5. There are two major outcomes of Colleen's death: the x-ray picture that Jack noticed and that Pickett, Colleen's husband, might seek some vengeance.
6. Cost of Living is an Eko story and someone significant will die.
7. They plan to do the break in the middle of the season thing next year as well.
8. The polar bears escaped during the collapse of Dharma like the lions at the Baghdad zoo that escaped during the fall of Baghdad.
9. The bears have eaten 20 people so far (said in a we might be joking but you don't know type of way)
10. No, Ben is not "evil because the polar bear stole his toy truck when he was little."
11. As the hatch began to implode a vacuum was created which heated the particles of air and created a subsequent explosion.
12. Charlie was not directly involved in the explosion.
13. Eko will not wake up blind.
14. Yes, Kate does love Sawyer.
15. There is a good possibility of discovering a gay character on the show. 4 to 1 odds.
16. They are currently writing episode 10, which will be a Hurley flashback.
17. When characters don't know who died, Scott or Steve, it is just an extension of the same old gag. There is no large significance to the Scott/Steve thing.
18. The turbine man from the pilot was Gary Troupe, the author of Bad Twin.
19. Paulo and Nikki will be in episode 3.05.
20. The show will eventually answer the question of what all the other survivors are doing while Jack and company are going off on their adventures. It would "make a good episode."
1. There is a special Stephen King reference hidden in Every Man for Himself (they didn't say but my money is on the bunny).
2. As for implications of the second island, they said only that escape would not be as easy as originally thought.
3. In the Glass Ballerina, Jae did commit suicide. They said the mystery surrounding Jae's death was unintentional.
4. They mentioned Sawyer's daughter Clementine but said nothing definitive about her.
5. There are two major outcomes of Colleen's death: the x-ray picture that Jack noticed and that Pickett, Colleen's husband, might seek some vengeance.
6. Cost of Living is an Eko story and someone significant will die.
7. They plan to do the break in the middle of the season thing next year as well.
8. The polar bears escaped during the collapse of Dharma like the lions at the Baghdad zoo that escaped during the fall of Baghdad.
9. The bears have eaten 20 people so far (said in a we might be joking but you don't know type of way)
10. No, Ben is not "evil because the polar bear stole his toy truck when he was little."
11. As the hatch began to implode a vacuum was created which heated the particles of air and created a subsequent explosion.
12. Charlie was not directly involved in the explosion.
13. Eko will not wake up blind.
14. Yes, Kate does love Sawyer.
15. There is a good possibility of discovering a gay character on the show. 4 to 1 odds.
16. They are currently writing episode 10, which will be a Hurley flashback.
17. When characters don't know who died, Scott or Steve, it is just an extension of the same old gag. There is no large significance to the Scott/Steve thing.
18. The turbine man from the pilot was Gary Troupe, the author of Bad Twin.
19. Paulo and Nikki will be in episode 3.05.
20. The show will eventually answer the question of what all the other survivors are doing while Jack and company are going off on their adventures. It would "make a good episode."
10.25.2006
Official Lost Podcast Summary 10-25-06
This week's official podcast was pretty short due to Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof's absence. Apparently, they were too busy making the actual TV show to be able to record the podcast. In their absence there was an interview with AAA.
AAA said what he liked most about his character, Eko, is that he fits no stereotype. He is a mass murderer with devotion who has a "redemptive quality" that makes him accessible to the viewers.
AAA also stated that the sort of kidnapping and murder by gangsters and warlords that was depicted in "The 23rd Psalm" does not really happen in Nigeria. However, he said that it was still an extremely well-received episode in his home country.
What AAA thinks that makes Lost so interesting is the dynamic that appears because no character is safe. He believes it adds to the tension and the overall arc of each character. "Week to week you have no idea if a character will be able to overcome a nemesis". He also ominously hinted that more of that would be appearing in season 3 "for sure"!!
AAA said what he liked most about his character, Eko, is that he fits no stereotype. He is a mass murderer with devotion who has a "redemptive quality" that makes him accessible to the viewers.
AAA also stated that the sort of kidnapping and murder by gangsters and warlords that was depicted in "The 23rd Psalm" does not really happen in Nigeria. However, he said that it was still an extremely well-received episode in his home country.
What AAA thinks that makes Lost so interesting is the dynamic that appears because no character is safe. He believes it adds to the tension and the overall arc of each character. "Week to week you have no idea if a character will be able to overcome a nemesis". He also ominously hinted that more of that would be appearing in season 3 "for sure"!!
10.19.2006
Episode 3.03 Further Instructions
Well, that was a pretty good ep. Locke flashbacks are always cool. We are definitely seeing a pattern with him trusting the wrong people again and again. First, the weed growing "family" then the under cover sheriff. I like how at the end of the flashback he himself realizes it is a big time pattern and is disgusted with himself for allowing it to happen. I can't believe the polar bear just dragged Eko away. The polar bear was absent all of season 2 and returns to take someone. Somebody needs to kill that bear, or at least point him in the direction of the Others. From the bones in the bear cave, he has apparently eaten quite a few islanders. Who were the people that got eaten? We learned where Locke got his experience with guns. Still waiting for the "what happened to put him in a wheelchair" flashback. Why couldn't Locke talk when he woke up? How did the hatch implode and the three of them make it out alive? I guess that will be the subject of a flashback later on. So, from the smoke house scene, I understood that John can get messages from the island whenever he wants. That could come in handy. He couldn't do anything for Kate, Sawyer, and Jack right then and Claire and Charlie were ok "for now". Very interesting. I thought Ian Somerhalder did a good job with his return performance. Another thing, even he referred to himself in John's terms as a "sacrifice the island demanded". On to Desmond. The hatch blew his clothes off and gave him the ability to see the future? Crazy. And only Hurley knows about it. Someone that can see the future will always come in handy. Take Heroes for example, that's the only way they are going to be able to beat the bad guys this season. Nikki and Paulo didn't come across as the most lovable new castaways in their first appearance, but maybe they never will be very loved. Will their appearance be good or bad news for our current set of castaways. I guess Desmond could always own them with his powers though, so they don't stand a chance of launching a coup and him not knowing.
As for my theories, I think the saying on Eko's Jesus stick may have been telling Locke where to look for Jack, Kate, and Sawyer. We shall see.
In the previews for next week, it appears Sawyer is going to be tortured until Kate confesses her undying love for him. It also seems that they will make Jack watch and in that way drive him to Juliet. I'm hoping when Locke comes to get them that Juliet escapes with them. I wonder when that escape will happen. Episode 6? Episode 7 and 8 are probably more likely alternatives so that we have to come back after the hiatus.
As for my theories, I think the saying on Eko's Jesus stick may have been telling Locke where to look for Jack, Kate, and Sawyer. We shall see.
In the previews for next week, it appears Sawyer is going to be tortured until Kate confesses her undying love for him. It also seems that they will make Jack watch and in that way drive him to Juliet. I'm hoping when Locke comes to get them that Juliet escapes with them. I wonder when that escape will happen. Episode 6? Episode 7 and 8 are probably more likely alternatives so that we have to come back after the hiatus.
10.15.2006
Lost S3E2
Now that the site has been redone and reposted, let's get down to business.
Another great episode. I've not usually a fan of Sun and Jin flashback episodes. That being said, I actually liked the flashbacks in this epsiode better than the first episode of the season. Maybe I just don't like the episodes that feature the dark side of the characters I like. I like Jack and think Sun is passable. So, it's ok that Sun has a dark side but not so ok that Jack has one. Or maybe I'm overanalyzing this whole thing. Anyway, I like the episode. I thought Sawyer analyzing his captors and trying to figure out their weaknesses was right in line with his character. He is no doubt trying to figure out a way to con them. I saw a post on the The Fuselage where the person posting thought that Kate had turned a little wussy recently. I agree with that. Where is the bravado she showed early on in the series. Maybe she's breaking from all the stress. I like the Red Sox cameo and the effect it had on Jack. Every Sox fan was stunned by the victory and the dramatic fashion of it, but to have it be the first tv you have watched in 66 days, or better yet, the first contact you had with the outside world for 66 days, it would be absolutely stunning. Now hopefully Jack will pretend to be a pawn in the Other's plans and then betray them in order to be the one who "fixes" the situation with the other castaways. I am interested to see the effect that Sun shooting the new other has on her standing with them. I want to see how Sayid reacts to the failure of his plan, I can't wait to see Hurley again and just see how he handles the whole ordeal, and most of all, I am excited to see what happened with Locke, Desmond, and Eko. They are such a great part of the show, it was hard to go 2 episodes without them.
Another great episode. I've not usually a fan of Sun and Jin flashback episodes. That being said, I actually liked the flashbacks in this epsiode better than the first episode of the season. Maybe I just don't like the episodes that feature the dark side of the characters I like. I like Jack and think Sun is passable. So, it's ok that Sun has a dark side but not so ok that Jack has one. Or maybe I'm overanalyzing this whole thing. Anyway, I like the episode. I thought Sawyer analyzing his captors and trying to figure out their weaknesses was right in line with his character. He is no doubt trying to figure out a way to con them. I saw a post on the The Fuselage where the person posting thought that Kate had turned a little wussy recently. I agree with that. Where is the bravado she showed early on in the series. Maybe she's breaking from all the stress. I like the Red Sox cameo and the effect it had on Jack. Every Sox fan was stunned by the victory and the dramatic fashion of it, but to have it be the first tv you have watched in 66 days, or better yet, the first contact you had with the outside world for 66 days, it would be absolutely stunning. Now hopefully Jack will pretend to be a pawn in the Other's plans and then betray them in order to be the one who "fixes" the situation with the other castaways. I am interested to see the effect that Sun shooting the new other has on her standing with them. I want to see how Sayid reacts to the failure of his plan, I can't wait to see Hurley again and just see how he handles the whole ordeal, and most of all, I am excited to see what happened with Locke, Desmond, and Eko. They are such a great part of the show, it was hard to go 2 episodes without them.
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