Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
Hulu doesn't re-direct to ABC.com, they already have a deal to show ABC shows on their site.
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
I'm wondering if the "Last Supper"-style pic is intended to reveal Sayid or Kate as the "Judas" of the bunch. Hard to tell since they are not positioned nearly the same as in the original painting.
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
DAMMIT! My selfish brother and sister-in-law just HAD to have their new kid this morning. It's about a 2-hour drive to see them and now I'm torn on what to do. If I run down there and back real quick, I get lots of brownie points amongst the family and I'll be off the hook from visiting for a while. I could make it back "early" enough to watch the show before going to sleep.
If I don't go for a quick trip to the hospital today, I'll be guilted into a much longer trip by my mother at a later date. Ugh, I need parallel timelines
If I don't go for a quick trip to the hospital today, I'll be guilted into a much longer trip by my mother at a later date. Ugh, I need parallel timelines
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Now the Oscar noms are done we can all get hysterically worked up about how they fucked it up with Lost!
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DAMMIT! My selfish brother and sister-in-law just HAD to have their new kid this morning. It's about a 2-hour drive to see them and now I'm torn on what to do. If I run down there and back real quick, I get lots of brownie points amongst the family and I'll be off the hook from visiting for a while. I could make it back "early" enough to watch the show before going to sleep.
If I don't go for a quick trip to the hospital today, I'll be guilted into a much longer trip by my mother at a later date. Ugh, I need parallel timelines
If I don't go for a quick trip to the hospital today, I'll be guilted into a much longer trip by my mother at a later date. Ugh, I need parallel timelines
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
That's noble, but there's no reason you should wait on me. I know that even if I get back at midnight, I'll be watching Lost as soon as possible
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
The worst part of these threads are the unnecessary "real time" comments that make no sense when you go back and read them back.
"OMG"
"I can't believe Jack did that"
"Oh, Sayid"
"Breakfast burritos? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Wait, I think that's a commercial"
"OMG"
"I can't believe Jack did that"
"Oh, Sayid"
"Breakfast burritos? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Wait, I think that's a commercial"
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
You know it's good times when the clue notebook returns.
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Plan on joining in the thread festivities this year if that's cool...so I'll start with the obligatory "can't wait!" Clue notebook at the ready.
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Those drive me nuts. I mean how can you concentrate on the show when your constantly looking back and forth on your PC and typing those real time comments.
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...02571951bff9d3
(No spoilers within!) The first hour of the final season of ABC's "Lost" has leaked online, and the reaction is not what industry insiders expected.
Though preview content for heavily serialized dramas such as "Lost" is typically frantically consumed online, the sixth season of the ABC hit has managed to build to such an epic level of anticipation that many fans are doing the unthinkable: refusing to watch the leaks.
When the opening scene from the premiere popped up online after a fan promotion Friday, users of one popular social network site voted to "bury" the video.
"Why spoil it now?" wrote one fan with the moniker MyWhiteNoise. "I'd rather watch it in hi-def and surround sound than ruin the surprise and watch some (low-quality) video."
To TV executives, such statements are like something from an alternative universe, the polar-bear opposite of how young, Web-savvy viewers typically respond to content. Fans usually embrace any short cut that skips the linear TV and advertiser-supported experience.
"We never had a show like 'Lost' before that had these kind of fans that love it so much that they don't want to know what happens before the premiere," said Michael Benson, co-executive vp marketing at ABC. "Fans feel like they own this thing, just like we do."
On Monday, fan commitment was given an even greater test when the entire premiere appeared on YouTube. The video was taken from hand-held cameras discreetly shooting during a fan screening on Oahu. The Hawaii event itself was a revelation -- can any other TV drama rally 12,000 fans to an island in the South Pacific? Some flew in to see just the 44 minutes of video that ABC will air Tuesday night.
Yet when the inevitable YouTube copies appeared on Sunday, many videos only received a few hundred hits as online fans registered their disinterest in crummy bootlegs.
"Are people so impatient that they would rather watch a cell phone camera version of the 'Lost' premiere than wait one day?" Kyool wrote on Twitter.
Indeed, the lavishly shot "Lost" is the original Must-See HD drama. Yet for its final bow, ABC's marketing effort has emphasized showing, well, nothing (at least, no new footage, which producers wanted to keep under wraps). Until last week, all trailers used material from previous seasons, which the ABC marketing team tried to turn into an advantage.
"We wanted to go back and retell the stories of the characters and the larger situation that they're in," said Marla Provencio, co-executive vp marketing at ABC.
Catching up viewers on the complicated drama has always a big part of the network's strategy with "Lost," but never more so than this year. After a serialized drama peaks, its ratings usually fall in a downward trajectory as infrequent viewers perceive themselves as being further and further behind the story. The season premiere of "Lost" has fallen each year since Season Two. Reversing that trend is a major challenge, and ABC has aired repeats (complete with on-screen pop-up information) and has circulated various forms of recap videos online.
Though viewers tend to tune in for a show's last episode, the final season as a whole typically isn't as fortunate. Industry estimates have "Lost" tracking about the same as last year, which would be a victory if the show manages to maintain its previous rating. But -- like with the online reaction to the video leaks -- ABC is hopeful that the "Lost" will surprise.
" 'Lost' is like 'American Idol,' it's not your everyday show," Benson said. "From the buzz we're seeing right now, there's an obsession with this show. So who knows?"
Though preview content for heavily serialized dramas such as "Lost" is typically frantically consumed online, the sixth season of the ABC hit has managed to build to such an epic level of anticipation that many fans are doing the unthinkable: refusing to watch the leaks.
When the opening scene from the premiere popped up online after a fan promotion Friday, users of one popular social network site voted to "bury" the video.
"Why spoil it now?" wrote one fan with the moniker MyWhiteNoise. "I'd rather watch it in hi-def and surround sound than ruin the surprise and watch some (low-quality) video."
To TV executives, such statements are like something from an alternative universe, the polar-bear opposite of how young, Web-savvy viewers typically respond to content. Fans usually embrace any short cut that skips the linear TV and advertiser-supported experience.
"We never had a show like 'Lost' before that had these kind of fans that love it so much that they don't want to know what happens before the premiere," said Michael Benson, co-executive vp marketing at ABC. "Fans feel like they own this thing, just like we do."
On Monday, fan commitment was given an even greater test when the entire premiere appeared on YouTube. The video was taken from hand-held cameras discreetly shooting during a fan screening on Oahu. The Hawaii event itself was a revelation -- can any other TV drama rally 12,000 fans to an island in the South Pacific? Some flew in to see just the 44 minutes of video that ABC will air Tuesday night.
Yet when the inevitable YouTube copies appeared on Sunday, many videos only received a few hundred hits as online fans registered their disinterest in crummy bootlegs.
"Are people so impatient that they would rather watch a cell phone camera version of the 'Lost' premiere than wait one day?" Kyool wrote on Twitter.
Indeed, the lavishly shot "Lost" is the original Must-See HD drama. Yet for its final bow, ABC's marketing effort has emphasized showing, well, nothing (at least, no new footage, which producers wanted to keep under wraps). Until last week, all trailers used material from previous seasons, which the ABC marketing team tried to turn into an advantage.
"We wanted to go back and retell the stories of the characters and the larger situation that they're in," said Marla Provencio, co-executive vp marketing at ABC.
Catching up viewers on the complicated drama has always a big part of the network's strategy with "Lost," but never more so than this year. After a serialized drama peaks, its ratings usually fall in a downward trajectory as infrequent viewers perceive themselves as being further and further behind the story. The season premiere of "Lost" has fallen each year since Season Two. Reversing that trend is a major challenge, and ABC has aired repeats (complete with on-screen pop-up information) and has circulated various forms of recap videos online.
Though viewers tend to tune in for a show's last episode, the final season as a whole typically isn't as fortunate. Industry estimates have "Lost" tracking about the same as last year, which would be a victory if the show manages to maintain its previous rating. But -- like with the online reaction to the video leaks -- ABC is hopeful that the "Lost" will surprise.
" 'Lost' is like 'American Idol,' it's not your everyday show," Benson said. "From the buzz we're seeing right now, there's an obsession with this show. So who knows?"
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
I bet it is the same people who when watching a DVD do the same thing. They put the DVD on pause... post that they are 45 minutes and so far it is better/worse/ than they thought or comment on a scene they just saw and expect eveyone to remember that exact one; and then after it is over feel the need to comment again.
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
FOX News just had a news story about LOST...and it's hilarious because the anchors clearly have never seen it. Funniest is the final quote from the guy:
http://tv.gawker.com/5462302/fox-new...rting-and-lost
http://tv.gawker.com/5462302/fox-new...rting-and-lost
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
I think this thread will be at least 25 pages by midnight tonight.
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Re: Lost: The Final Season -- Season Premiere -- "LA X Part 1&2" -- 02/02/10
in my best twickoff impersonation
Start the damn season already!!!!! Three hours!
Start the damn season already!!!!! Three hours!