Why is it that the next episode isn’t until next February? Does it take that long to produce the shows, or is it just to build the suspense or what? I’m one of those people who just watch the series and read the SDMB thread, so I’m not really in on what’s going on.
Also, has any other series ever had this kind of a humongous break and still remained successful? Man, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years come before next February.
The break is because they’re only making sixteen episodes per season from now on for this show, and also they apparently suspect some of th loss in viewership was due to the break in the middle of the season in past years. So they want to run all the episodes within a season back to back. And that means a long time in between seasons. (I just thought of a bonus to the shorter seasons–cheaper DVD box sets, at least I hope!)
I don’t know if any series has done this in the US, but I understand that in other countries (including the UK) this is standard operating procedure for many shows.
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Did you guys catch the “Best Week Ever” interview with Michael Emerson?
Especially the last fifteen seconds or so (starting wtih “how many fingers am I holding up?”) is hi larious. The rest is not bad, as well.
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This is the format that “24” went to in season 4. Showing all episodes in successive back-to-back weeks, no breaks.
It was season 2 of Lost that it was hard to tell when there was going to be a new episode and when the next week would be a repeat (or American Idol instead, for instance). And some people got frustrated over the sporadic schedule for new shows.
Great clip – thanks! Loved it! Michael Emerson does creepy so well. 
WTF is Hanso??? 
**Baldwin **1) “If you only think Mikhail’s dead, put two in his head, okay?”
No, no, no. Cut off his head, drive a stake through his heart, immerse the body in holy water, then burn it. I actually said that when we saw Mikhail go down, before we knew he was back up.
Alvar Hanso. Started the Hanso Foundation. That’s the organization that funds (funded?) the Dharma Initiative.
Not to make too big a deal about it, but if you watch this show, and esp. if you follow these threads, then how on Earth did you miss this? :smack: 
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This format is the next big thing in network tv. Here’s a link to an '04 article from the NYT:
Edit to add that scheduling production with a really long hiatus each year allows premium actors the freedom to accept other significant roles without bailing mid-series, something that used to happen quite frequently in tv.
Much like Claire is Jack’s half sister, because of this post I now suspect that Anthony Cooper’s son, Locke’s half brother, is Anderson Cooper!
That means…the REAL villain in this show must be…THE LIBERAL MEDIA!
My god. Dick Cheney was right!
See my post #355. I suspect Naomi got it from the snow-bound listening post we saw at the end of season 2. I’m guessing Penny gave it to the Portuguese guys (or people they were associated with) whom she hired to track down Desmond. It would help them identify him, and might also help prove to Desmond that the searchers were associated with Penny.
Even if Penny didn’t know about Naomi, she surely would have known about the ship. If memory serves, she was baffled about both.
I think that is a reasonable assumption. She didn’t explicitly say she didn’t know about the boat, she just said she wasn’t on any boat when Charlie asked her. But surely she would have understood why he asked her that if she did know about the boat, and she seemed very confused.
I certainly wouldn’t trust any random stranger I met on that Island, and I think it’s more likely that type of person is going to be lying than telling the truth. Naomi is an anagram for “I am no”. Also for “I moan”. 
And “No ami.” 
Bilingual anagrams? Non!
From Lostpedia:
I just assumed the last name “Dorrit” was a Dickens reference of some kind.
Here’s a thought I had today. Given that Jack winds up a substance abuser, perhaps that kind of irony will apply to all the survivors post-island life. Then Kate was probably headed back to Sawyer where the two of them have given up their illegal ways and are now working for the law. Thus setting up the big “Lost” spin-off - “Kate and Sawyer: To Catch a Thief”.
I was just joking, and I don’t put much stock in that anagram stuff. I have a sneaking suspicion that 99% of the name reference stuff has no real meaning and the writers are, at most, just setting up a vague philosophical/religious/historical theme. But remember, we have to keep this thread going until February!
How many times has Hanso been mentioned on the show? I only remember one, a quick mention of Hanso as the founder of DHARMA in the first orientation film we saw. I checked Lostpedia to see if there were other mentions of Hanso, and apparently the only other mention was in un-subtitled Korean. If someone watches the show but didn’t follow the internet riddle games, it’d be real easy to forget about the name.
Right, exactly.
Question - has it been absolutely confirmed that Charlie is dead, and won’t be returning? (except for occasional flashbacks and visions, obviously) The last shot of him was underwater, but it has been pointed out that there are ways he could survive. I am reminded of the end of *Alias *season 1, where the CIA guy was seemingly drowned in a similar way. I thought he was dead, but he came back in season 2.
Prediction: the vision of Waaaalt will be highly significant. If it was just throwaway, they wouldn’t have used a rapidly aging child actor, they would have used Boone, or Eko. They must have had a reason.