We’ve watched all of season 6 together, and now it’s time to take a quick look back at the final season of one of the greatest shows on television.
Allison and I share our favorite episodes ever of LOST, and we also show you what was inside that weird box I received the day “The Package” aired (sideways universe?!?).
Then relive some of our favorite moments of the season!
We invite you to join us every Sunday here at SL-LOST.com to rewatch and debate about LOST’s top 10 episodes. The rewatch began six weeks ago and will end on January 31, two days before the premiere of LOST’s final season.
“The Constant”
Synopsis: Sayid and Desmond hit some turbulence on the way to the freighter, which causes Desmond to experience some unexpected side effects: his 1996 consciousness travels to 2004 and back multiple times. Written by: Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof. Directed by: Jack Bender. Original Airdate: February 28, 2008.
The nominees for the 2009 Hugo Awards were announced yesterday, and LOST got nominated!
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
* “The Constant” (Lost) Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof, writers; Jack Bender, director (Bad Robot, ABC studios)
* Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen , writers; Joss Whedon, director (Mutant Enemy)
* “Revelations” (Battlestar Galactica) Bradley Thompson & David Weddle, writers; Michael Rymer, director (NBC Universal)
* “Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead” (Doctor Who) Steven Moffat, writer; Euros Lyn, director (BBC Wales)
* “Turn Left” (Doctor Who) Russell T. Davies, writer; Graeme Harper, director (BBC Wales)
The winners will be announced next August at the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, which will be hosted in Montréal, Canada.
The Hugo Awards, given annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the current Worldcon which is also responsible for administering them.
EW’s Doc Jensen recommends us to re-watch the following episodes in preparation for next week’s premiere.
”THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME (PARTS 2 AND 3)”
Otherwise known as the Season 4 finale. Even if it’s still fresh in your mind, you might want to re-watch the Orientation Film for The Dharma Initiative’s time travel station, The Orchid, as well as the scene when Ben crawls down into the ice cavern and cranks the frozen donkey wheel — good context for the season premiere’s opening sequence. If you don’t feel like digging out the DVDs, ABC will re-broadcast the episode on Jan. 14.
LOST’s Director and Executive Producer Jack Bender has been nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series Night, for his work on “The Constant”.
This is Bender’s second DGA Award Nomination. He was previously nominated in this category for “Through the Looking Glass”in 2007.
Below are the most interesting excerpts from Lindelof and Cuse’s audio commentary of The Constant from the Season 4 DVD:
Carlton Cuse: This was one of the hardest story breaks on the show. It took us about 5 weeks, normally it takes 2 weeks to break an episode. It just was a really hard episode to figure out what was sort of above the water line. When we think about stories we use a metaphor of an iceberg. You have to construct the entire iceberg, but only 20% of the iceberg is ever actually seen. The same is true with a story. You have to make a lot more of the story up and you have to make it all make sense but then you just show the part on screen that you want to show. A lot of the challenge here was how much explanation goes on. We didn’t want to bog things down in a lot of esoteric conversation about time travel but we wanted to find an emotional through line. And that emotional through line became the essence of the show in “What is Desmond’s constant?” Yes he’s time traveling, yes he’s experiencing an existence in two different consciousnesses, but the emotional constant that was taking him through it was Penny.
Damon Lindelof: When he [Minkowski] just said “I was on a ferris wheel” I cannot wait to do a scene at some point in the next two seasons where in the background we just see Minkowski riding a ferris wheel and we realize “Oh, that’s where he leapt to.”
Carlton Cuse: The one thing we insidiously avoid when it comes to time travel on Lost is what is known as paradox. This whole notion that you show up and see your same self in another period of time.
At its best, Lost rips your heart out while it ties your brain in a knot. This season 4 episode did both expertly. Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) has been experiencing premonitions of the future since becoming “unstuck in time” (a la Slaughterhouse Five) earlier in the series. It turns out that he’s been time-traveling, or rather, his mind has: his consciousness is journeying between present, future and past. (It makes sense when you watch, trust me.) The unfortunate side effects of this condition are madness and death, avoidable only by focusing on a “constant”: a person or thing present in each time one’s consciousness visits. Desmond’s constant, he learns, is Penny (Sonya Walger), the girlfriend he left behind when he was stranded on Lost’s mysterious island. His journey into his own past to find her in the present is tear-jerking and mind-blowing.
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The Hugo Awards, given annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the current Worldcon which is also responsible for administering them.
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