Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello confirms that Dexter alum Mark Pellegrino will appear in an upcoming episode. In ‘unconfirmed scuttlebutt’ he says that Pellegrino will play Jacob in an 1970s scene that takes place off the island, where he meets “some very familiar faces.” In a second piece of unconfirmed scuttlebutt, “One of those familiar faces is *a****!”
Jacob has a face? Who’s off the island in the 1970s? Must… know… more…. but doesn’t… want… to know…
In a new slideshow BuddyTV recounts the ABCs of Lost, exploring one artifact or theme for each letter of the alphabet. Can you think of what stands for X? Y? Z?
Entertainment news blog On No They Didn’t went to a Lost writers event to see what they could prod out of executive producer Eddy Kitsis. He obviously didn’t say anything to set off spoiler red alerts beyond what’s been known for some time. But he did have an interesting comment.
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TV Guide has been running an ongoing coverage of a contest they’re holding where fans submit their code names for this season’s “shocking final moment.” Since none of the people entering have, obviously, actually seen the final moment they’re naming it’s sort of a blind game of darts, with fans throwing out funny phrases in the hopes of accidentally hitting the bullseye. Lindelof and Cuse apparently narrowed it down to 13 finalists, which range from the amusing but plausible - The Fifth Toe - to the completely absurd - The Exploding Pretzel Jar. Whether any of these thirteen will ever be a “Hey, that’s funny!” or whether they’ll all stray miles from the eventual ending remains to be seen. Lindelof and Cuse claim one of them is surprisingly close.
There’s a new slideshow up at BuddyTV focusing on the many looks of Kate, with a lot of unusual pictures from all of the flashbacks and some of the nice character moments (with her gambling, playing golf, cutting hair, sleeping). Pretty much it’s a chance to look at cute pictures of Kate.
According to Variety Ian Somerhalder (Boone, for those half asleep) has been cast in the lead of the CW pilot The Vampire Diaries, exec produced by Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawson’s Creek). He’ll play Damon, “a smug vampire who can go from playful to evil in a split second.” The part sounds a little gimmicky but I’m keen to see the 90s king of intertextual references get another go, so of course I’m rooting for them both.
Of course this was going to happen and of course Young Ben isn’t dead. I’m not sure what Sayid expected. At best he was shooting blanks. No one dies, least of all Young Ben, because as Faraday says time is unchangeable. And honestly Faraday is as close to an authority as they have. But he must also realize that worst case scenario Faraday doesn’t know what he’s talking about. If that’s the case Sayid may get his wish that Young Ben die but he may - to quote Christopher Lloyd - “risk unraveling the entire fabric of the space time continuum.” Put another way, in deleting the Ben file he might accidentally delete the universe directory. Ben’s done some terrible things but obviously that would be a little extreme.
Sayid clearly wants to have his cake and eat it too. To right what once went wrong. But hypothetically supposing you could change the past for the better I only see one way it would work. You would basically have to leave the time space continuum and exist outside of it so that you’re not effected by the results of your actions in the past. If you were from another dimension, for example, you would be changing someone’s past but not your own. There might be other hypothetical scenarios under this would seem to make sense. But even if you said that the island had its own reality - that it could move freely in space and time without changing what you or I would think of as history - that still wouldn’t be good enough. This all just gets impossibly messy.
So I’m not sure what result Sayid was visualizing or hoping for. But I will say this: The real twist would be if Young Ben really is dead but Older Ben is still alive. If Older Ben could stand over Younger Ben’s dead body casual viewers may throw their hands up and say “Oh for gosh sakes. I have no idea what’s going on. This is ridiculous and there’s no possible way they can make this all make sense later.” Or it’ll be really cool and the theories about time travel will get poached by SF writers for years. Or both.
What significance does MacCutcheon have? Who is in Ann Arbor? Can you read backwards Russian? This week’s Easter Eggs have answers to help you find out why Ilana might be secretly working for Charles Widmore.
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A third and final video clip coming out of ABC before tonight’s new episode reveals the answer to the riddle of who the he, the our and the you are.
