May 09
Articles of Faith: The Culture of Trust in LOST 6.14 “The Candidate” by Pearson Moore
LOST Theories, Recaps/Reviews, Season 6
“Trust me.”
We’ve heard the statement dozens of times over the last fourteen episodes. These words are at the core of LOST.
LOST is about the elements of our humanity that precede and supersede life itself. Our common humanity has a value greater than life. LOST argues that there must be a fertile ground into which we place the fragile seeds of our human existence. This ground is rich in trust, empathy, compassion, respect, and the desire to serve the needs of others. This is our perfection.
Tonight we learned the basis for trust, the foundation that will lead to that perfection.
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May 07
The Official LOST Audio Podcast: May 7th, 2010
Cast and Crew of Lost, Official Podcast, Season 6
Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse discuss the rules & why Sawyer didn’t know who Anakin was.
[audio:http://ll.media.abc.com/podcast/audio/itunes/LOST_615_audio_podcast_55d80edf-b6b4-4b0a-b7e2-9df63693cef3_2944555.mp3]
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May 06
The Day the Music Died: LOST 6.14 “The Candidate” Recap and Analysis by Chris Kirkman
Recaps/Reviews, Season 6
Previously, on Lost: I have no idea, because Christian Shephard didn’t say those magical words and fill me in. It’s okay, though, I’ve been paying attention. Mostly.
This week, on Lost: Everybody dies. Well, not everybody. I’m sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself. Oh, and did I give something away? Well, if you haven’t seen the episode yet, why are you reading? You can’t blame me for that.
Anyway, before we can get on with the death and dismemberment, we have to start with an eye – Locke’s to be exact. AlternaLocke, to be even more exact. We’re in LA X, and AlternaJack is there, waking Locke up and making sure he’s okay. Jack tells Locke that he got mangled by a rented sedan and that his dural sac was all shot to shit, but Jack rooted around in there and now Locke is all better. Jack says that while he was taking a peek under the hood, he saw the damage that had been done to Locke before and wants to know how it all happened. Locke asks why, and Jack explains that Locke is a candidate – a candidate for a new experimental surgery that could restore feeling to Locke’s lower extremities. Hell, Locke might even be able to walk again, all without the aid of the Island.
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May 05
Daniel Dae Kim Talks About Last Night’s Episode
Cast and Crew of Lost, Interviews, Season 6
WARNING: stop reading this if you haven’t watched last night’s episosde.
Kristin Dos Santos: Thank you. And damn you. That was the most heartbreaking death scene we’ve ever had on Lost.
DDK: [Laughs.] I’ll take that as a huge compliment. I thought it was done in a way that was really poetic. The thing I loved most about it for Jin is that he actually chose to die, for the love of his life, and that to me shows how far he’s come as a character from the pilot.
And yet I have to ask about Jin’s motivations. Obviously he really loved Sun, but how do you justify in your own mind that Jin would stay with Sun, knowing that he was orphaning his daughter Ji Yeon?
That’s an excellent point. I can tell you that we received [new script] pages as we were shooting the episode that added a scene in the bear cages where Jin asks what happened to Ji Yeon. And you hear Jin asking Sun who’s taking care of the girl. And so that was deliberately put in there so that he would know that she wasn’t completely an orphan. Also, in the sub, there’s a moment that’s not scripted where I looked away from Sun toward the door and I wondered, “Should I go?” That was my moment for Ji Yeon. I thought to myself, “Can I do this?” But the decision I made at that point was that even if I tried to leave I wouldn’t have made it, because I had no oxygen and the submarine was so far under water. All I can say is that I’m sure Damon and Carlton took the concern of Ji Yeon to heart when they wrote the episode.
Can you confirm that that was you (Jin) walking behind Jack and Locke in the hospital? And that we’ll see Jin and Sun again on the show somehow?
Yes and yes.
How did you feel when you found out Jin would die? Obviously given that Sun and Jin just reunited, this really put the fans through the ringer.
It was a two-step process for us. I was told that my character was dying a week before the script came out. So I didn’t know any of the details of how he was going to die. When I read the script, I was relieved that it was given its proper weight, and I really appreciated that other characters took the time to mourn their deaths. That to me was very important. I didn’t want their deaths to exist in a vacuum. And to show Kate, Hurley and Jack breaking down, that was a big factor in making sure our deaths meant something. And for people who were unsatisfied with how Jin and Sun were reunited, they now know why it wasn’t as momentous as they’d hoped, because the writers wanted to give more weight to this scene.
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May 05
LOST Actors & Creators Discuss Last Night’s Shocking Episode
Season 6
WARNING: Do NOT read this article if you haven’t watched last night’s episode.
To be clear, the producers are not heartless bastards. They’re only semi-heartless bastards. They knew fans would be devastated (and angry) about the deaths and were pretty broken up themselves about offing three beloved creations. “When we watched the death scenes ourselves, it was brutal,” says Cuse. “[But] the story always comes first.” Lindelof elaborates: “In many ways, the season was structured as a long con on behalf of the Man In Black. Once we revealed that Locke was the Monster, we knew the audience would immediately mistrust him, and we would have to spend at least a dozen episodes of Locke trying to convince the audience that he did not have malevolent intention, that all he wanted to do was get off The Island. But everything he was doing was leading up to one moment, which was [trying to] get the candidates in one fell swoop. He knew if he killed just one of them, everyone would know what he was up to.’”
Says Cuse: “There will be very little debate at the end of this episode that [Fake Locke] is evil and bad and has to be stopped. The main narrative reason for him killing our main characters is to establish how much of a bad guy he is and to clearly identify him as the antagonist rolling into the end of the series.”
Lindelof recognizes that there’s something “brutal” about killing Jin and Sun just one episode after their long-awaited reunion — which, he says, is exactly what made the lovers such an apt choice for making a statement about Fake Locke’s malevolence. “At least they got to die in each other’s arms, so they’d have some sense of victory,” he says. And Sayid? Lindelof explains: “Sayid’s entire season-long arc has basically been, if you tell him that he is evil, you can convince him he is evil. But if you tell him he is good, maybe you can convince him he is good. We basically decided that in a moment of pure instinct, if he did something, if he sacrificed his own life in favor of saving the other people’s lives, that would convey to the audience, ‘This guy was actually a good guy.’”
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May 04
LOST Episode 6.14 “The Candidate” [Open Thread]
Episode Threads, Season 6
Synopsis: Jack must decide whether or not to trust Locke after he is asked to follow through on a difficult task.
Written by: Elizabeth Sarnoff & Jim Galasso.
Directed by: Jack Bender.
Wow, that was a shocking episode! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts in comments below!
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