Act I of LOST’s final season ended this week with the glorious final sequence of “Sundown”. Before we get into Act II, I wanted to hear your thoughts, comments, rants, theories, etc. about the first six episodes of this season. Please keep your comments spoiler-free!
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Via ABC press release:
February 22, 2010
Primetime Ratings Report
For the week of February 2, 2010
(Live + 7 Day Program Ratings)
ABC’s “Lost” Season 6 Opener Delivers Big Increases in DVR Playback, the
Series’ Biggest-Ever Premiere Jump of 2.2 Million Viewers and 1.1 Rating Point
ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” is Once Again TV’ Biggest Gainer in the DVR
Numbers, while ABC’s “Modern Family” is the Top Freshman Gainer
“Grey’s,” “Lost” and “Modern Family” Each Surge by Over 2 Million Viewers
Week No. 20: Live + 7 Day Ratings:
Based on Nielsen’s Live + 7 Day information for the week of February 1, 2010, which included the first round of data for the Season 6 of “Lost,” the 6th-year ABC drama premiere picked up an additional 2.2 million viewers (12.1 million to 14.3 million) and 1.1 Adult 18-49 rating points (5.6 rating to 6.7 rating) through DVR playback from its first-reported overnight numbers. In fact in terms of actual gains and percentage gains, it was the biggest-ever increase for a “Lost” season opener through DVR playback. In the finalized numbers, “Lost” stood as the week’s No. 1 scripted TV show with Adults 18-49.
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Hey everybody, my name’s Adam Rucker, and I’m very excited to be a new contributor here! A little about me: I’m currently a student at the University of Texas at Austin, and I am a frequent video blogger on YouTube. I’ve also been a LOST mega-fan since S1. My excitement for the S6 premiere led me to create a live reaction/recap video while watching last week’s two hour premiere so I could share my excitement/confusion with all the people of YouTube, and this is that video!
Check back here every week for my latest reactions to new episodes!
And you can always find these and the rest of my videos on my YouTube channel: YouTube.com/ajruck and talk to me at Twitter.com/AdamRucker.
Can’t wait to see where this goes!
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Via Digital Spy:
The return of Lost for its final season was a ratings success for Sky1 last night, according to early figures. The first two episodes of season six, which revealed what happened after Juliet attempted to detonate the bomb, pulled in audiences of 830k (3.4%) and 728k (3.7%) from 9pm.
Tags: Episode 6.01, Episode 6.02, Ratings, Season 6, Sky One
[Campetin here: please give a warm welcome to our new recapper Erin!]
NOTE: we apologize for the delay of this recap. It was meant to be published a few hours after the premiere aired but several technical issues with WordPress and image hosting services caused this delay.
The beginning of the end has commenced. The final season of LOST is finally here and the feeling is bittersweet. The end means that we get answers. Definitely sweet. But the cost of those answers is the loss of the very real characters we tune in to every week. That’s totally bitter. But until the finale airs, I’m very much excited about joining LOST in this final chapter of our story.
First, a little about me. My name is Erin. I’m a wife, a mother and a full-time college student, majoring in Communication Studies. (My independent study is on the rhetorical potential of LOST.) I’m definitely addicted to the island and all its mysteries and can’t wait to see what this season has in store for us.
In the two-hour season premiere, we observe what appears to be two separate timelines, or dimensions. In one dimension, the bomb failed to prevent anything and, consequentially, our Losties are still on the island. And a little shell-shocked, might I add. In the other timeline/dimension, the detonating the bomb successfully prevented the crash of Flight 815 and our Losties never made it to the island.
Tags: Episode 6.01, Episode 6.02, Erin, recaps&reviews, Season 6
[Editor's note: head over to Hobotrashcan.com to read a detailed recap of "LA X"]
The X Factor – “LA X” Analysis
by Chris Kirkman
Whew. I’ll freely admit that I was a bit worried going into this season; there was such a wide-open playing field that I wasn’t sure which path Lost might travel down. At the end of last season, we talked a bit about the different scenarios that might play out, and in last week’s podcast of HoboTrashcan , I mention the possibility of a retcon or reboot of the story. I saw the series going down one of two fairly well-defined paths: the bomb doesn’t quite work and the survivors are stuck on the island but put back into their own time, or the bomb does work and everyone gets a do-over. Luckily for us the Lost creative team decided to give us a hybrid of both and, despite some extremely lazy writing on a couple of occasions, I think we’re in for quite a good ride.
So, as Sayid so eloquently put it: “What happened?” It all starts with a cat, really.
THE X FACTOR
I’ll assume that just about everyone out there has heard of Schrödinger’s Cat by now, even if they don’t understand all the details involved. Allow me to explain, as best and simply as I can. In this classic thought experiment, a cat is placed in a box (a steel chamber, actually), along with a Geiger counter, a little bit of a radioactive substance and a counter tube hooked up to a small hammer, poised above a flask of poison (or acid, in Schrödinger’s original hypothesis). The device is protected against interference from the cat. If the radioactive substance experiences atomic decay, the Geiger counter would detect it, releasing the hammer, which smashes the poison container, thereby killing the cat. The radioactive substance is so small, though, that there may be decay within an hour, or there may be no decay whatsoever. Hence, as long as the cat is in the box and there is no outside indication of the fate of the cat, we don’t know whether the cat is dead or alive. It theoretically exists in two quantum states – both dead AND alive. And there you have the Schrödinger’s Cat paradox.
In the example above, it doesn’t matter if you actually care whether the subject is dead or alive, it’s just important to contemplate the possibilities of both.
Tags: Chris Kirkman, Episode 6.01, Episode 6.02, LOST Theories, recaps&reviews, Season 6
Join Iain Lee, Paul Terry and Geeky in the Lost lab as they try to decipher the first two episodes of Lost season 6, LAX parts 1 and 2.
[Via Sky1]
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Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse discuss the season premiere of LOST.
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What is a flash-sideways? Who is Locke? The Creators & Cast provide some answers.
[Via ABC]
Tags: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Episode 6.01, Episode 6.02, interview, Official Podcast, Season 6, Videos
[Campetin here: please give a warm Namaste to our new contributor Pearson Moore!]
The Wounds That Heal Us
A Cultural Analysis of Lost 601/602
By Pearson Moore
Some will never experience redemption, but everyone on the Island will suffer. And it is in their wounds, in the very fact of their suffering, that they will find healing.
LOST is, at a level I believe to have immense utility, an engrossing study in culture clash, actively engaging faculties of thought, reason, fear, and wonder. Over the coming weeks, as we bring closure to this adventure of six years, I hope to convey thoughts on culture, collaboration, and the creative human spirit, relating these in ways relevant to the turbulence and calm, anguish and thrills, and life and loss on the Island.
Tags: Episode 6.01, Episode 6.02, Pearson Moore, recaps&reviews, Season 6
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