Well, it’s been a long break, and here is a post to celebrat return of LOST day. Apparently, a new LOST Experience fake site at www.mittelosbioscience.org has recently gone live.
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Here is an article from Buddytv about it.
Thanks to The Ferryman for bringing this to my attention.
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Whoa! Another of Kate’s houses goes up in flames. From the Honolulu Advertiser.
Neighbors said the fire that destroyed the Kailua home of “Lost” actress Evangeline Lilly spread quickly and engulfed the entire house.
Photo courtesy of Morgan Janus
Firefighters responded to the blaze within 20 minutes of the call. The fire started before 6:30 a.m. and was put out around 7 a.m. Nobody was at home at the time and nobody was injured in the fire.
Photo courtesy of Morgan Janus
Fire destroys Kailua home of ‘Lost’ actress Lilly
By Dave Dondoneau and Mary Kaye Ritz
Advertiser Staff WritersThe Kailua home that “Lost” actress Evangeline Lilly rents with two other women was engulfed in flames this morning and appears to be total loss.
Five fire trucks responded to the call around 6:45 a.m. Neighbors said the fire started at least by 6:30 and quickly spread. There was nobody home at the time. “Lost” was filming at a Waialua Beach this morning and one of Lilly’s roommates who works on the set returned home after the fire was out.She declined comment.
The early-morning fire at 684 Iana St. in Kailua brought quick response from neighbors, many who said they heard “popping” noises as the fire raged.
“I woke up to my dogs barking,” said Morgan Janus, a neighbor who lives across the street. “There were loud popping sounds, like something electrical.”
Janus said by the time she got outside, firefighters had already been called and were on the scene within 20 minutes.
By 7 a.m. the fire was doused and soon after firefighters were able to enter the home. Part of the problem slowing the firefighters were the bars on the house’s windows. Firefighters had to cut through the bars in order to get inside to check if anyone was home.
Nobody was, said fire department captain Kenison Tejada.
Jorge Duarte, a neighbor who lives across the street, was the first on the scene. He said when he saw the flames he ran across the street and broke the glass at the front door hoping to help anyone who may have been trapped inside.
However, when he broke the glass “smoke poured out,” so he said he knew he couldn’t go inside. He grabbed a hose and started to hose down the home and surrounding area until the fire department arrived.
Another neighbor, Jill Turner — a former firefighter — said she was in bed when she heard the popping.
When she got to the home smoke was pouring out, so she covered her mouth with her sweatshirt and started spraying water on the back and surrounding areas.
She said she heard popping glass.
“It was bad pretty quickly,” she said.
Another neighbor who helped was Dian Grant.
“I was wrapping Christmas presents. I thought it was someone throwing packages through that window (by her house).”
Grant said when she saw the flames, she went outside and grabbed a hose to water down the house. She only left it to bang on the window of her own home where her 19-year-old grandson was staying.
The cast of “Lost” was scheduled to break for Christmas tomorrow.
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Now that we are in the long hiatus until the 16 episode stretch, Ryan from the Transmission steped up to wet our collective appetites with this latest report. Warning, this clip does contain spoilers.
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Transmission Ryan has just posted these awesome pics that he took while Lost was shooting in downtown Honolulu. If you want to be sopiled, then you can view the pics here.
Those are great pictures, according to spoilerfix this is what is happening in the epi they are filming there, which all our spies say is 3X08! Anyway, this is what spoilerfix says….
11/08 - Lots of filming activity this past week. Last week on Nuuanu Avenue, a bar interior and a London street scene (featuring 1995 concert posters and a military recruiting office). On Sunday, filming inside the Hawaii State Supreme Court Building, with its pillars and marble and hardwood stairs. On Monday, an interior shoot at “Stanwyck’s Antiques” (using the same space as Locke’s “Walkabout” tour office). But the big shoot is Tuesday, Nov. 7. Fort Steet Mall, a major pedestrian thouroughfare downtown, was transformed into a busy London city street. A London Underground entrance, black taxi cabs, a newsstand and red phonebooth, palm trees turned into noble oaks… Desmond exits Widmore Industries, upset, yanking off his tie and throwing it to the ground. He then comes across Charlie, strumming “Wonderwall” on the corner and collecting change in his guitar case. Then the conversation gets surreal. Desmond is having an epiphany, and seems delirious. “Remember the rain? It happened before!” and “This is happening!” He seems to be having one of his spells of deja vu. Last scene of the day. Same London street, but perhaps a very different time. Desmond is no longer wearing his dapper suit, but rather, a drab coat and scarf, looking somewhat destitute. He’s wandering around the entrance to the London Underground, ranting like your typical neighborhood schitzo. He spots and sits next to an elegant, older, white-haired woman in a purple gown. They converse. Suddenly there’s a crash! People panic. It’s a construction accident nearby, and Desmond stands, distressed. The woman approaches calmly. She gives him a ring. He gives her money. She walks off. Source: The Transmission An Article from EW.com by Christine Fenno
The season 3 pattern continues: This episode, titled ‘’The Cost of Living,'’ answered a few questions (whose tumor?), raised a few questions (who’s the eye-patch guy?), and ignored many long-standing questions (how did Yemi and Eko crash on the same island?). When Juliet asked Jack to guess what she had brought him for lunch and he said, ‘’I'm not big on mysteries,'’ I wasn’t the only one who chuckled. We’ve digested a steady diet of them since the pilot aired.
The big mystery that this episode confirmed was whose tumor was on the X-ray: Ben’s. I don’t get how that jibes with the physical prowess Ben demonstrated in the previous episode, but I’m hoping the answer is coming soon. Once the cancer was out of the bag, Ben played the straightforward card and appealed to Jack’s mercy: ‘’I want you to want to save my life….All I ask is that you consider it.'’ And he added: ‘’Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky.'’ If we take that line at face value (dare we?), it indicates that Ben and the Others played no role in the Oceanic crash, as some viewers have speculated.
On to the tantalizing mystery of Eye-Patch Man, who skulked into view on a Pearl station monitor. Is he an Other? Does the glass eye the Tailies found in the Arrow station (in season 2) belong to him? Nikki the newbie had the idea to fire up the additional monitors. Although she still hasn’t won me over (I kept wishing Sawyer would drop in and drawl, ‘’Pipe down, Daisy Duke'’) and Paulo’s pearl of wisdom about the Pearl’s john ('’The toilet still works'’) sounded random, the episode set them up to become more pivotal characters. Their couplehood definitely seems clearer now; my bet is they were on their honeymoon before 815 crashed.
Here’s a Pearl-related question I’ve had ever since the scene when we first peeked inside. (Cue it up, those of you who own season 2 on DVD.) Entering the Pearl station for the first time, Eko glanced at a ceiling panel that had been torn away to reveal a camera aimed into the hatch. Why was the Pearl, which was designed to monitor other stations, being monitored? (Is Ben’s voyeur studio inside Hydra the real spy hub?) There was visible debris — is that from when staffers abandoned the Pearl? Some theorize that the Others are a ‘’breakaway'’ group of Dharma folks — if so, did the breakaway begin when the observers realized they were the observed? Locke’s loss of faith inside the Pearl may have merely echoed theirs. Imagine two Dharma minions finding that camera and bailing from the project. (The Pearl T-shirt worn by a skeleton in the polar-bear cave means they might not have gotten far.)
Meanwhile, inside Hydra, Jack — after a field trip to Colleen’s funeral — learned that Juliet’s feminine wiles had been part of Ben’s plan to ‘’break'’ him. (I disagree with Ben that Juliet resembles Jack’s ex — Sarah is more physically angular and emotionally one-dimensional.) The episode’s best scene was when Juliet stood behind Jack’s glass wall and played a movie (To Kill a Mockingbird, she said) that was actually a videotape of silent messages for him. As she earnestly spoke of saving Ben’s life ('’He’s a great man'’), Jack glanced at Juliet on the tape, holding up ten handwritten placards instructing him to ignore her speech, informing him that Ben is a dangerous liar, and asking him to let Ben die on the operating table — and make it look like an accident. The most provocative of her cards read, ‘’Some of us want a change.'’ (I hadn’t seriously considered that Ben was a cult leader with disgruntled disciples, but I will now.) Stunned, Jack played along. Could it be the birth of an alliance that unites castaways and some of the Others for the greater good? It better not be a trick, if only because Jack is overdue for some momentum. Let’s get him out of that aquarium!
Time to don your mourning garb. (White pajamas are all the rage — comfy, if not practical.)
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to remember Mr. Eko, a Nigerian who spent his final days on earth marooned on a tropical island where he was fatally thrashed by a menacing, muscular entity made of black smoke. Eko was a passionate man. He will be remembered (okay, by me, anyway) for his perfect belly button and pretty eyelashes. His stature, and frequent silences, made him the most intimidating of Flight 815’s survivors. A formative milestone occurred when, as a young boy, he was kidnapped by gangsters who essentially baptized him into a life of crime (an event that spared his little brother, Yemi, that fate). On the island, Eko displayed a devout religious faith, but in the end, he was unrepentant for his so-called sins. Eko’s conscience haunted his final hours. Time and again, his primary survival tactic had been violence; he struggled to reconcile that with his (and others’) definition of goodness.
We already knew Eko was mistaken for a priest when soldiers tried stopping his small plane from taking off with smuggled heroin (and Yemi) on board. In new flashbacks, we learned that Eko continued acting on criminal urges — trying to sell the vaccines Yemi had procured and committing murder in Yemi’s church. Thanks to a preachy villager telling Eko, ‘’You owe Yemi one church,'’ we now understand why Eko tried building one on the island. I was moved when he knelt before the Yemi apparition and said, ‘’I did my best.'’ Whether we believe that or not, Eko believed it.
I’m ready for my own confession (it’s been over two decades since my last confession, yadda yadda): I have theories on just about everything on the island except the smoke monster. None of the explanations I’ve heard (psychic energy, a ‘’security'’ system) sit right with me. Locke hinted that the monster might be a devious shape shifter; he described ‘’a very bright light…beautiful'’ (to which Eko replied, ‘’That is not what I saw'’). Are certain castaways’ visions — Jack seeing his father, Hurley seeing Dave, Eko seeing Yemi — caused by a monster with shape-shifting and mind-reading powers? Are there good and bad monster twins (to fit my twin theme, introduced last week)? Any way you look at Smokey, the monster got Eko but good.
A final lament before I let Eko and his Jesus stick go: I’ll miss Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje — his acting was up there with Terry O’Quinn’s, Elizabeth Mitchell’s, and Michael Emerson’s. I guess he was the sacrifice the island demanded.
What do you think? Will Jack let Ben die on the operating table? Is Juliet trustworthy? Will the Pearl play a role in rescuing Kate, Sawyer, and Jack? And who’s the Eye-Patch Man?
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