Lost, NBC Try to Rewrite History
Little time to blog this morning, but I'll start you off with some discussion topics:
* I'm still not sure how seriously to take all the videos at the Lost Comic-Con panel, but having seen some of it so far (the hotel wifi was not being entirely co-operative), they're at least thought-provoking. Several of the vids suggest that we're going to see an alternative universe in which the bomb blast did change time and avert the crash of Oceanic 815. Or maybe the producers just want us to imagine what that would be like, and talk about it. So please do.
* Ben Silverman ditched NBC, a not-entirely-surprising move considering how his two years at the top of the network were filled with bombs (My Own Worst Enemy, Knight Rider), blows to NBC's reputation (I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, Knight Rider) and PR disasters (news of wild partying, serially insulting the heads of almost every other network, Knight Rider).
Still I don't want to pile on Silverman. He's talented at developing shows and sensing TV trends (make fun of all of his "product integrations," but TV is going to have to pay for itself somehow), and we have, for instance, The Office and Ugly Betty. He was simply not good at programming NBC with original programming, so let's hope Jeff Zucker is installing people who are. Because Jay Leno can only work so much.
More assignment stuff this morning, then I should be blogging a bit more later in the week, from the Television Critics Association sessions here in Pasadena. Talk amongst yourselves.
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As we learned from last year, ComicCon is not canon. I take the videos as a warning against butterfly theory time travel: if they blow up the Island (and 70's Jacob???), so many other things can change (Hurley having nothing but good luck, Kate not actually killing her father) than just the plane landing.
I'll also point out that I haven't had a chance to watch all the actual panel videos, but I haven't heard or seen anything that makes me think that WHH is not the case.
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I am skeptical as to whether any of those videos actually mean anything. Seems to me it would be a pretty big reveal to show that the explosion actually did change the future. However, I hope they do go down that road because it would be a far more interesting path then simply saying "oops, you didn't change anything." A thought crossed my mind that perhaps the people in the past end up back on the Island in the present day, not as survivors of the crash of Oceanic 815, but as survivors of the crash of Ajira air.
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So I take it you were a fan of Knight Rider? I had a Knight Rider Big Wheel. I wish they would have brought those back too!
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That would have saved the series me thinks. I had the Knight Rider pedal car as a kid, which is apparently impossible to find a picture of online.
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@rhys1882 - So if they change everything and end up as survivors of the Ajira crash, do they have any recollection of the events that they undid? Does Jacob not die? Wouldn't that entirely invalidate everything we saw about every character, aside from nature-of-the-Island things (which all got changed with the introduction of Esau anyway)? If they really do come out and tell us they were lying about WHH, then at least the start of the sixth season has to be devoted to the characters meeting each other.
Then again, if most of the first 5 seasons does turn out to be useless, then they don't have to resolve most of the questions and conflicts that came up over that time.
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I was at the Lost panel in San Diego, and the take-away that I and the few people sitting near me got, is that IF the future is "changed" then we're going to see some sort of parallel dimension, Fringe type thing. Which we then discounted, because there already is a parallel dimension, Fringe type show. It's called Fringe.
So I guess all this is to say, the fake commercials were fun, the cagey answers were fun, the panel was fun-squared. But I wonder how many times they're going to answer the question about Nestor Carbonell's eyes.
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I should also add they emphatically did say that the last five years are NOT a wash... which is why we thought of the parallel dimension thing, with flashes separating them.
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Copy and paste from other thread:
The question is, how are things changed:
1) Option One: Timeline is completely changed, Losties have no knowledge of Island (unlikely).
2) Option Two: Timeline is completely changed, but our Losties consciousnesses jump into their new timeline's bodies. Still unlikely - the beginning of the Season Six plot is the Losties have to go back, again?
3) Option Three: Timeline is changed, but our timeline's Losties jump to the new timeline's Island (so there are now two Kates in the world, etc.) But how do the dead characters come back, if the B versions of them are living their normal lives? Or do they just show up in episode one, getting off 815?
I know I mentioned it a while back, but I still like Option Three, with the prevailing motif being Flash Sideways: We contrast the Island-less version of each person with the Island version (and again, who has any idea who/what is running the place now).
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That's just the thing: I don't like any of those options, least of all parallel dimensions. Because once you go to parallel dimensions, what do you do with the show? Oh hey, Biff owns a casino because he stole Marty's sports records magazine from the future. How do we fix it? We have to go baaaaaaack! Or do our dimension-skipping Losties just go about their lives, and now we have two different versions of the same show to resolve at once, one version with Jack, Sawyer, et. al. doubled and one version without them at all? "Hey look, it's Charlie!" "Who are you guys?" Oh, hey, now half the season involves everyone meeting everyone. Again. And then going back to the Island.
Anything aside from WHH opens up Pandora's Box, and that takes the show into scary places for trying to resolve things by the end of just one season.
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