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Chandler Mike said:
Speaking of the premier...anyone having any Season Opener parties?

I know we're having some friends over to watch it...going to be fun!

Mike

I'm thinking about it, but not a lot of my friends watch the show, so it would be a small party.
 

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Chandler Mike said:
Speaking of the premier...anyone having any Season Opener parties?

I know we're having some friends over to watch it...going to be fun!

Mike

Cool! I need directions. What should I bring?
 
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I have to say, the Lost commercials for Season 2 are so great compared to others...

They have single commercials with one main character thinking to himself about the Island and themselves...it's genius.

Not giving anything away from the premier, but making you interested more anyways.

2 weeks from tomorrow!

Mike
 

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I hooked didn't watch the first season until now. I have been watching the reruns and have to say I am not going to miss the second season.
 

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Chandler Mike said:
I have to say, the Lost commercials for Season 2 are so great compared to others...

They have single commercials with one main character thinking to himself about the Island and themselves...it's genius.

Not giving anything away from the premier, but making you interested more anyways.

2 weeks from tomorrow!

Mike

I totally agree about the commercials. Everytime I see one, I get all excited and giddy. It's nuts!!!
 

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Lost Season 2 article

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'Lost' in the face of death
By William Keck, USA TODAY
OAHU, Hawaii — The stakes are rising. No doubt about it.
The Others are out there, and they mean harm: They blew up the escape raft and kidnapped young Walt. The French-speaking "mad"-moiselle took Claire's baby for a few heart-stopping hours. And that deafening, unseen monster is still rustling in the trees. (Related gallery: The Lost cast talks about what's to come in Season 2)

On the outskirts of Honolulu in a warehouse converted into what looks like a cheesy Hawaiian-themed restaurant with fake caves, lit tiki torches, wood-chip floors and plastic tropical plants, some of the stars of the hit ABC series Lost have assembled to shoot a scene for next week's second-season premiere (Sept. 21, 9 p.m. ET/PT). It promises to pick up the many threads left hanging by last season's two-hour finale, which repeats tonight at 9.

On the set, Matthew Fox (Jack) stands atop a mound of lava rocks to share disturbing news with the remaining survivors of Oceanic Flight 815: Another castaway, high school teacher Dr. Arzt, is dead, having exploded in the finale.

Mixed in with the crowd of extras are familiar faces from the series' freshman year: Naveen Andrews (Sayid), Maggie Grace (Shannon), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) and Emilie de Ravin (Claire), who is dangling Claire's infant son Aaron — actually, a disturbingly lifelike $8,000 replica — by one arm.

Director Jack Bender instructs the extras to do another take. This time, he kids, "with acting," as they respond to Jack's announcement that Arzt exploded while trying to transport dynamite.

"Be careful with your gasps; he's not the first (death)," Bender reminds them. "Was it that (expletive) noise out there? That monster? Let the panic bubble up. Think, 'Next time, it could be me.' "

Those words offer a particularly painful sting for the stars. The sudden dismissal late last season of series regular Ian Somerhalder (Boone) has made them all realize that the precarious nature of this dangerous island does not guarantee them the same job security as, say, the Desperate Housewives of the only slightly less dangerous Wisteria Lane.

"It's painful and nerve-racking," says Josh Holloway (Sawyer) of the producers' secret hit list. Holloway was about to purchase a boat with Somerhalder before Boone was killed. "It has changed the dynamic, and to say it hasn't is a lie. Before, it was all love and family, and now there's fear. It created a negative thing that wasn't there before. We're all watching our backs now."

Swimming for his life

When Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) decided over the summer that it was finally time to buy a home on the island — one of the last cast members to do so — he asked producers if he'd be around long enough to warrant such a purchase. His character was stranded in the middle of the ocean along with Holloway's Sawyer and Harold Perrineau's Michael in the finale.

All they would tell him — as they've told the others — was that the decision was up to him. "They have to be true to what they do," Kim says.

Perrineau went so far as to enroll in swimming lessons over his summer break in hopes of climbing back on that burning raft and saving his job. Growing up in Brooklyn, Perrineau had bad experiences in the city pool with aggressive cousins who prevented him from keeping his head above water. His daughter, Aurora, 10, had been teaching him a bit, but since early August he has been working with a professional coach.

"I can't stay afloat for a long time but enough to wade while they're setting up shots," Perrineau says. "Now, the only thing I have to worry about are the sharks."

He's not kidding. Just after midnight in the dark waters off Makaha Beach on Oahu's West Shore, Perrineau is among a second group of Lost stars shooting scenes from a different story thread. The still-flaming remnants of the escape raft harbor two of the three stranded characters; one fails to emerge.

The two men lucky enough to make it back onto the raft discover they are being attacked by a great white, as evidenced by three men in wet suits manipulating a 400-pound mechanical shark on the water's surface. But because of technical difficulties, the shark shot that ultimately was used came courtesy of a crewmember holding a fin on a stick. "It was ridiculous," Perrineau says with a laugh.

Although he was left on dry land in the finale, Monaghan remains confident in his job security based on the international following he brings to the show after appearing in the three Lord of the Rings films.

"England, Australia, New Zealand, everywhere I lived, the show's huge," he says matter-of-factly. "It's the biggest (U.S. import) show ever on England's Channel 4. Our agents can argue what we each bring to this show."

Yet he is cognizant that "they're going to have to start killing more of us." The next victim has, in fact, already been notified. Whispers of that unlucky actor's identity leaked to the mainland in early summer, inspiring a studio publicist to issue a stern warning to the cast and their representatives on the importance of remaining tight-lipped.

Down the hatch

But the biggest secret to date has been what's under the hatch, finally blown open in May's cliffhanger. The top-secret interior, to be explored in the season's first few episodes, was constructed in a Diamond Head soundstage about a half-hour from the caves, strictly off-limits to visitors.

"I've gone inside (the hatch) now, and I know to some extent what it's about," says the Emmy-nominated Terry O'Quinn, whose character, Locke, was fixated on the hatch for most of last season. "I'm afraid that people are going to be like, 'How can you possibly deliver on such a big promise?'

"But I think it's satisfying. I think it's as good as they could possibly do. They give you an answer within an enigma without giving away the whole balloon. There's a lot of new questions."

Standing near Fox at the base-camp set, O'Quinn is slicing a rope with a razor-sharp knife as his character tells the other survivors he's "going down" into the freshly opened hatch. O'Quinn accidentally cuts his finger, and a medic is called. But the unfazed actor insists on continuing the scene.

"I'm sick of waiting," his character gripes, "for the Others and the brave folks on the raft to come back with help."

Despite Lost's impressive ratings last season, many fans made clear they, too, were sick of waiting — for answers to the show's many mysteries. Why are they on this island? What is the monster that seemingly was revealed in the season finale to be a shadowy "security system" of sorts? Why did Locke regain his ability to walk after the crash, and why is he struggling again? What is the significance of the number sequence that won Hurley his lottery millions and is etched in the side of the hatch? And, of course, what's in the hatch?

Although that all-important last question will be revealed in the premiere, producer Damon Lindelof says the real revelation will come in Episode 3. Lindelof, along with executive producer Carlton Cuse, has been handed the reins now that Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams is off shooting Mission: Impossible 3 with Tom Cruise.

Lindelof says he sat Abrams down to go over an entire season's worth of stories, flashbacks and new characters leading all the way through May's season finale.

Love finds a way

Season 2 will find the characters beginning to adjust to their island home and exploring feelings of hope and even passion.

"We've been 40 days on this island dealing with very intense things and not a lot of room for romance," Fox says of the story line. "Anytime people are in extreme circumstances, there has to be moments where people need physical contact and a feeling of being safe."

For Fox's Jack, passion and physical contact likely will present itself through Michelle Rodriguez (The Fast and the Furious, SWAT), whose new regular character, Ana Lucia, was seen briefly last season in an airport flashback with Jack.

Producers hoped to keep Rodriguez's casting a secret to protect the "big reveal" that a set of new castaways would be discovered along with the rear half of the plane early into the season. But someone leaked the news to the press.

Lindelof confirms that Rodriguez's character will throw a wrench into the Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle, and Lilly expects obvious tension to develop between the female characters.

And don't expect a happy blending of the two groups. It will be more like a Survivor-esque battle between the tribes.

"Up to now, things have been relatively decent, if you ignore the episode where Sawyer was tortured," Andrews says. "But now things are going to get wild and a lot more violent for everybody. Life will become rather brutal."

And the body count will grow. "The Season 2 cliffhanger," Monaghan hints, "sets it up so that all of us could conceivably die."
 
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Congrats to Lost for it's Emmy win for Best Drama series...it won over Deadwood, "the best show on TV" according to some :)

Way to go, Season 2 is going to rock!

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Chandler Mike said:
Congrats to Lost for it's Emmy win for Best Drama series...it won over Deadwood, "the best show on TV" according to some :)

Way to go, Season 2 is going to rock!

Mike

That was awesome - especially seeing the entire cast up there, all scruffy looking, but in Tuxes...
 

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Dback Jon said:
That was awesome - especially seeing the entire cast up there, all scruffy looking, but in Tuxes...

Yup! :thumbup:

Man, I cannot wait until Wednesday. WOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
 

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I can't believe Charlie get killed when he falls down the hatch and I think that Boone being brought back to life, channeling through the old French lady is just plain stupid.
 
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jkf296 said:
I can't believe Charlie get killed when he falls and I think that Boone being brought back to life through the old French lady is just plain stupid.


That was too stupid for anyone to really fall for it :)

Mike
 
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We're having 5 friends over to watch it, with a little Season 2 prediction contest we came up with.

Also have a coconut, pineapple and some mango bars :)

Goind to be fun!

Mike
 

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I'll pass on the mango bars. but dbaxj may want one.
 

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Chandler Mike said:
We're having 5 friends over to watch it, with a little Season 2 prediction contest we came up with.

Also have a coconut, pineapple and some mango bars :)

Goind to be fun!

Mike

What time do you want me and Gee! to come over? Should I bring bud light or coors?

Can't wait to watch it at your party!

Woo Hoo!
 

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Just watched the premiere. It was great. Can't wait until next week. Lots of questions answered, lots more remaining.

[spoilers]
Is that guy actually one of the others? He has lots of stuff in there but he seemed to be the only one in there. I guess that stuff he injected might be the same substance that gave Ethan enhanced strength. What's the significance of the music that was playing?
Why were they quarantined?
When are the other survivors (Michelle Rodriguez, etc.) going to appear (maybe Michael/Jin/Sawyer will end up there)?
Has Walt succumed to the "dark side?"

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Look at the numbers on the vials the guy was injecting.

The Shark

PS And why was the comic book cover Walt was reading blurred out on the recap show?
 

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OK, I'm a total loser. I had a meeting tonight & SPACED tivoing the freaking season premier. I am now officially "LOST". :doofus:

Thank goodness a friend at the meeting recorded it. Whew!
 
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So I have LOTS of tidbits...

First off, I don't think he's with the others...

Numbers were on the injections he took, on the walls, and also, he TYPED IN THE NUMBERS in the opening scene on the computer like he does it everyday.

More:

The Mural has 108 painted on it…that’s the sum of all the numbers…

The song:
MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC
(Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil)
Mama Cass Elliot

Interesting lyric portion of it:
You're gonna be nowhere
The loneliest kind of lonely
It may be rough going
Just to do your thing's the hardest thing to do

The word Quarantine was printed on the INSIDE of the hatch we all know...so was the guy inside being quarantined from the outside??

Someone posted this, but I don't know how true it is:
I can't believe that no one mentioned this, but when the crash victims first came into the ER, and Jack was working on Sarah...he told the other guy to intubate "Mr. Rutherford." SHANNON's FATHER! Boone's stepfather. We know that Shannon's father is dead, and now we know HOW.

The first season began with the camera coming out of Jack's eye...just like season two started...

Also, in the first season, someone's compass didn't work right...now with the magnet in the hatch, we appear to know why.

More if I find any :)

Mike
 
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I just have to say...one of the greatest second season premiers of any show ever...I mean, unbelievable...

Who would have figured you were looking at the guy in the hatch in the opening scene? Not until the explosion did I piece it together.

Unfreakingbelievable...

Great episode, good to see Jack throw away his responsibility and go after Kate and Locke...

We knew it was Desmond in the hatch when we saw him in the stadium....

Hurley is going to play big into this later since he knows the numbers so well...and this guy has to type them in.

Anyways, just unbelievable...wife and I already watched it again :)

Mike
 

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Chandler Mike said:
I just have to say...one of the greatest second season premiers of any show ever...I mean, unbelievable...

Who would have figured you were looking at the guy in the hatch in the opening scene? Not until the explosion did I piece it together.

Unfreakingbelievable...

Great episode, good to see Jack throw away his responsibility and go after Kate and Locke...

We knew it was Desmond in the hatch when we saw him in the stadium....

Hurley is going to play big into this later since he knows the numbers so well...and this guy has to type them in.

Anyways, just unbelievable...wife and I already watched it again :)

Mike
MM is running away from this thread as not to spoil her viewing tomorrow. I can't believe I did that. UGH!
 

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