A Long Overdue Update

I apologize for not posting for so long. I know it seems like the show ended and I just walked away. But in actuality, my family and I moved from Tennessee to Georgia shortly after the finale. I really was thankful I was able to stay in Tennessee long enough to have my finale party. But I was super busy once it ended. If you've ever moved, you know you spend a long time packing then a longer time unpacking. So I have been very busy getting my family settled into our new home.

Anyway, as you might imagine, there has not been much Lost news to report. Over the summer, fans continued to discuss their opinions of the finale. Most of them, like me, hold onto the same feelings they had the night it aired. But some have jumped to the opposite side of the fence. Some fans who didn't like it the first night, didn't like it because they were confused by it or were upset to learn that all the characters had been dead all season. But after having discussions with friends, many understand it better and decided they like where it landed . Some fans who loved it on the first night, have decided it left them with too many unanswered questions. But those people should be pleasantly surprised by the epilogue which came out this month. (More on that in my next post.)

Comic Con
July 22-25 was the annual Comic Con in San Diego. We were warned last year that there would not be a Lost panel this year and Darlton would not be making an appearance. They were true to their word. Fans of the show rooted for Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) who will be starring in the new Hawaii Five-0 reboot. At the Hawaii Five-0 panel Daniel was asked what he thought of the show's new theme song. He replied that he was just happy to be on a show that has a theme song! He also shared he was very satisfied with how Lost ended. He claimed he had always felt Jin and Sun would have some sort of tragic ending because it seemed to fit with their journey. And he felt it was very poetic how they gave their lives for one another.

The Auction
August 21-23 there was an online auction of Lost memorabilia. The items were a collection of just about every significant prop from the show plus more. The money went to charity but I don't know which one. The top selling item was the Dharma VW bus. It went for $47,500!

Here is a short list of the 1,100 items and what they sold for:
the frozen donkey wheel $22,500
a pilot script signed by JJ Abrams and Damon Lindeloff $15,000
the wheel from The Lighthouse $27,500
Sawyer's copy of Watership Down $2,750
Desmond's Dharma fail-safe key $11,000
Jack's outfit from the finale (blue t-shirt and jeans he died in) $9,000
Locke's wheelchair $3,250
Daniel Faraday's journal (the one with notes) $20,000
Jin's wedding ring $4,750
Hurley's lottery ticket $5,500
two crates of Virgin Mary statues $5,000
12 cans of Dharma beer $5,000
Dharma Jeep $20,000
Hurley's Camero $20,000
Swan Station computer $16,000
large section of the Oceanic wreckage $9,000
Charlie's Driveshaft ring $9,000
Locke's compass $8,000
baby Aaron's crib $8,000
section of Jacob's tapestry $6,500
Jack's suit from the pilot $3,000
Sawyer's improvised reading glasses $2250
the key to the gun case Jack wore around his neck in Season 1 $2,000
Set chair for Matthew Fox $1,200

One of the most talked about items was this chair back for Titus Welliver who played "The Man in Black."
On the chair back you can see under the actor's name is the character name "Samuel." So it caused a little bit of a stir that the Man in Black's name was finally revealed. Most diehard fans, myself definitely included, feel that if it never made it into the show it is not considered canon of the show. And we feel the fact that he was never given a name adds to his persona. But a few days after this news broke there was a statement made by a supposed inside source explaining that the name "Samuel" was only an alias used for casting the actor. When the show has a casting call, those roles and their descriptions are made public. Since the show's creators don't always want the fans to know spoilers about the show the make alias names for those characters. A good example would be when they decided to cast Jacob and Young Jacob. They used other names (Jason and Teenage Boy) so we would know who they were until we were supposed to. Samuel was the name used when casting this role. It is unclear how that name ended up on the chair. But according to that inside source, Titus Welliver himself never knew the name of his character and his lines in the scripts were labeled "Man In Black."

The Emmys
Lost received 12 Emmy nominations including Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Matthew Fox (Jack), and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Michael Emerson (Ben) AND Terry O'Quinn (Locke/UnLocke) But on August 29th, it was heart breaking to watch all those Emmys go to someone else. Lost went home empty-handed.

The Final Season on DVD
The 6th Season of Lost was released on Aug 23rd. Since this post is already long I will have to save it for the next post which I promise will be in the next few days.

Namaste!