I’m Going to Destroy Your City
November 19, 2007 – 9:23 pm
A lot has been happening in the Lost world in the past several weeks, and for the most part I’ve been trying not to think about those things, because the main issue surrounding the Lost hype, and television in general is the on going writer’s strike. Why are they on strike you may ask. In the youtube video below our close friend, one of the writers and producers of Lost, Damon Lindeloff, explains the issues at hand.
While I completely agree that the writers should be compensated for new media presentations of their work, I find a great fog of uncertainty around me concerning the future of our favorite shows. Last I heard, 8 episodes of Lost for the upcoming season have been written and ABC plans to air those as scheduled. With then new season structure that is essentially half a season of Lost. (For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, the new contract for Lost specified that there would be 3 more seaons of 16 episodes each.)
So with this shortened season who knows what the future of the show will look like or when it will arrive. Some other shows have already canceled their season due to the strike (that show being 24) and nearly all others will soon run out of new material forcing us to watch reality television (of which I reccommend Kid Naiton and Kitchen Nightmares). I wish there was something we could do, but the networks don’t seem to want to find a solution. I guess we will just have to wait and see, something Lost fans know all to well.
In other more positive news the long talked about Lost mobisodes have finally arrived. Verizon wireless customers get to see them first on vCast while the rest of the world can check out a new 2 minute episode every Monday. They are called Lost: Missing Pieces and they can be found here:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/missingpieces/index.
And finally, there’s something else we can look forward to and it’s coming on January 18th 2008. It’s the new and mysterious J.J. Abrams film, and it has an official name: Cloverfield. A new trailer was posted on apple.com today, it doesn’t give us much information but that’s another thing Lost fans have gotten used to. The lask of information is also refreshing because promos for movies these days usually spoil the whole experience. You can check it out here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/.
So there’s a bit of a recap of Lost news. Please discuss these things in the comments below, I’m interested to hear your thoughts on these matters.
One Response to “I’m Going to Destroy Your City”
I very much agree soon your home computer and your t.v will be one in the same. I mean Apple and there hole ilife is already moving that way, who knows howlong it will be when you can just come home open your laptop and download what ever you want then just view it right on your t.v but that will kill all dvds dvrs and cds. All that you would need is your t.v a ex harddrive and your pc/laptop then just beam away. So yes the writers should get a cut of this but how long will we the fans of all their work have to suffer so that the big guys at the networks can add a littel more to there already massive bank accounts???
By Kip Lutu on Dec 9, 2007