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We proudly bring you the Lost Forum, a home away from home for fans of ABC Television's Lost around the world. |
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"Now sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale that goes like this! It started from this tropic porrr--"
Okay, so this isn't Gillgan's Island. What, exactly, is ABC Television's hit show, Lost? It's got a little bit of everything for everyone: drama, intrigue, sexy women, sexy men, mystery, exploding airplanes, gaffes, goofs, gamma radiation...okay, maybe it's more ultra-violate than gamma. Things heated up when Matthew Fox (formerly of the hit show Party of Five) woke up on an island he didn't know existed before. 48 survivors began their struggle to keep their contracts going, their careers on track, and win the network television ratings game. Some of them have made the cut, some have not. Aside from a remotely vague similarity to Gilligan's Island (substitute a crumby airplane for a holey boat), Lost shares connections with a couple of other famous (or infamous) icons of long-lost people (and things). For starters, Mr. Fox co-starred in Party of Five with Lacey Chabert, who went on to play Penny Robinson in the not-so-successful big screen remake of "Lost In Space". Another Party of Five alumnus (but not co-star) was Ben Browder, who starred in Farscape and is about to join the cast of Stargate-SG1. Browder's Farscape character, John Crichton, was lost through a wormhole -- and his SG1 character will be working with wormholes. Dominic Monaghan is probably best known as Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck from Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" movies, which are based on J.R.R. Tolkien's book by the same name. The premise of both book and movies is that Sauron, the Dark Lord, has lost his powerful talisman, the One Ring, and he wants it back. The Ring keeps trying to get back to Sauron. "Get back". Might be just the kind of song a fading rock star would sing.... Emilie de Ravin plays Claire Littleton, but she may be better known to many fans as Tess Harding from Roswell or as the demon Curupira on The Beastmaster. Roswell lost the ratings race to Smallvile, and The Beastmaster lost all resemblance to the original Andre Norton stories about a space veteran who ended up righting wrongs on an alien planet. One of the Beastmaster co-stars, Monika Schnarre, lost her true love, who was cursed and transformed into an eagle. Monika also guest-starred twice on Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, in which Captain Dylan Hunt struggled to revive the lost civilization of the Systems Commonwealth. All of which really has nothing to do with the fact that ABC Television is producing a show called Lost, except that, just as we could play the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, so we can probably play the "Six Degrees of Lost" game. That is, just about every show or movie you can think of probably has some vague, tenuous connection to this show. The connections just get lost in the transformation. But, seriously. If it were not for ABC Television and Lost, where would Evangeline Lilly (Kate) be now? Lost in some sub-genre B-rate movie? Singing on American Idol. She is probably grateful for the work, but we believe her fans are even more grateful. We can drop other names here: like Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley, Naveen Andrews (Sayid, the Middle Eastern hunk), Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim, who play the Korean couple Jin and Sun, Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Harold Perrineau (Michael), Malcolm David Kelley (Walt), Terry O'Quinn (Locke), Maggie Grace (Shannon), Ian Somerhalder (Boone) and guests Madison (Vincent), Dustin Watchman (Scott), William Mapother (Ethan Rom), Christian Bowman (Steve), and John Terry (Dr. Christian Shephard). But, to be honest, what makes this show most interesting (in our opinion) are the fans themselves. The theories about what is happening on the island, the discussions about the complex stories behind the characters, the attention to details -- that is what online fandom focuses on, when people are not asking about pedicures and the contents of suitcases. Seriously, your thoughts on the show are as worthwhile as anyone else's. We'd really like to know what your interpretation is.... So what are you waiting for?
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