It's the final countdown...

Nothing more needs to be said.

Do a Little Dance!

ABC has apparently announced that the final season of LOST will begin airing on February 2, 2010, with a one hour catch-up / clip show at 8pm, followed by a two-hour season premier at 9pm.

Okay, so it means we have more than two months to wait, but with only seventeen hours of NEW programming left, I think the wait will be okay.

Can I hear a collective YAAAA-HOOOO?!

Not LOST, but it will do for the moment...

In the interest of keeping our interest... I am creating a FlashForward thread. We can still talk about LOST (and most likely we will talk about LOST and how it relates to FlashForward).

So here it is...

: ) P

EMMY!

Order has been restored to the world today, as LOST finally receives a nomination for Best Series (after being shut out since the first season).

Emmy nominations were also extended to

Best Supporting Actor for Michael Emerson
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series (for the Incident)
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) (for the Incident)
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for Damon and Carlton (for the Incident)

(Do you get the feeling they only submitted the Incident for consideration?)

Where's the Emmy love for Elizabeth Mitchell? For Josh Holloway (who did his best work ever this year)? For Jorge Garcia (who finally got to show some real range)?

Who else was robbed?

Tillie Trivia Time!

To help kick out the hiatus-blues, we will resurrect Tillie Trivia, just as Beach Guy resurrected John Locke!

The game is fairly simple... if you know the answer, share it and then ask your own question. If you are not sure you have the correct answer, then you can wait for it to be confirmed before you ask your own. You can still post theories, links, suggestions, and non-trivia questions of course, the trivia is just an added feature to make the hiatus down-time a little more fun.

Questions from last hiatus are bound to be repeated, and that is just fine.

: ) P

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

The LOST withdrawal (and family visiting) got the better of me and my days are all out of whack. I missed the Tuesday night post update! Yikes.

Withdrawal - week two

We're heading around the corner and easing into week two. Can we REALLY say we're through the LOST withdrawal? I know that as much as I would love to deny it, I am still in the throes. While thoughts of LOST don't creep into my every waking moment, I do consider different plot points now and then.

It is generally an accepted theory that there are seven stages of grief. While I can't pretend that living without a television show is comparable to losing a loved one, I think that perhaps we might find we have our own list.

So as we continue with our numbers game, and discussing theories (because the numbers game is really just part distraction from our "loss"), consider what might make the list of "seven stages of LOST withdrawal" and add them in the comments.

Thanks.

Withdrawal - week one

For a brief moment this morning, I thought, "Oh it is LOST day!" Then I realized, that while Wednesday might forever be called LOST day, there is no new LOST today. *sigh*

I plan to spend tonight watching The Incident again tonight.

How are YOU dealing with the withdrawal?

The Incident

It's here. The final LOST day of 2009. It is bittersweet, really. It will be exciting to see the season finale, to get a few more answers, to set the stage for the final season.

But at the same time, the episode marks the end of the light that makes Wednesdays almost better than Fridays - a time when pretty much anything can be shaken off with the knowledge that a new episode of LOST will be on. Thursday marks the first day of the dark time. A time when life's luster is just a little less brilliant; when one week becomes another with nothing special to mark the midweek bump; the first day of about 250 LOSTless days.

Still, we'll have DVD's, maybe a Tillie game or two, some trivia, and each other to help us through the bleak period known as the final hiatus.

But let's look on the bright side... we have THREE HOURS OF LOST tonight! Whoo hoo! Bring it ON! Oh Mylanta! Go Jack! Go Sawyer! Go Ben!

Go Damon!
Go Carlton!

Let's get...
LOST

Follow the Leader

It will take quite a lot to live up to last week's episode, but with only three hours of original programming left in the season, it is possible.

Follow the Leader likely deals with Jack leading the LOSTies to safety and / or Locke fulfilling his destiny by leading the Others. However, in the interest of discovering some other possibility, here is what I found on online:

Follow the Leader is, of course, a children's activity game

Follow the Leader was the name of a number of films
~~ a comedy short filmed in 1901
~~ a comedy short filmed in 1928
~~ a romantic musical comedy filmed in 1930
~~ a musical short from 1951
~~ a film starring Barbara Jo Allen released in 1953
~~ a drama released in 2001

Follow the leader, a type of participation dance

Follow-the-leader, a drill used by marching bands

Follow the Leader was the name of a song and 1988 album by hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim

Follow the Leader was the name of a 1998 album by rock band Korn

"Follow the Leader" was a song in the 1953 film Peter Pan

These are not much help, I'm thinking! LOL