Lost

With Poppy Betts

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Lost, last years most awaited an anticipated show has just come to an end of its first season. But already people are excited for the 2^nd season. Over the next few weeks I will discuss the lost universe.

   Lost is a new drama about how a group of passengers bond together to help each other out on a mysteries island, after their plane flight from Sydney to Los Anglos crashes. From a total of 352 passengers only 48 survive. As they realise that no one is coming to rescue them, they begin to set up camp and explore the island. But the island has a defence mechanism “The Monster.”

Some Background

In Britain the pilot was aired on the 22^nd of September 2005. It was a straight away hit with several million viewers.  It was created by J.J. Abrams (the creator of Alias), Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof. There is numerous executive produces, Abrams Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender and Carlton Cuse. The show is mostly set in the rain forests of Hawaii.

   The show just after been released was nominated for 10 Emmy Nominations. Lost was the most-nominated drama series. Abrams other show Alias received 4 nominations.

Here are the categories:

ü      Outstanding Drama Series - Lost

·        Supporting actor in a drama series – Naveen Andrews (Sayid) & Terry O’Quinn (John Locke)

ü      Outstanding directing for a drama series – J.J. Abrams (Pilot)

·        Outstanding writing for a drama series – J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof (Pilot) and also David Fury (Walkabout)

·        Outstanding sound editing for a series – Pilot

ü      Outstanding special visual effects for a series – Pilot

ü      Outstanding single-camera picture editing for a drama series – Mary Jo Marky (Pilot)

ü      Outstanding music composition for a series – Michael Giacchino

·        Outstanding single-camera sound mixing – Michael Moore, Scott Weber and Frank Morrone (Outlaws)

ü      Outstanding casting for a drama series – April Webster, Mandy Sherman, Alyssa Weisberg and Veronica Collins

In the end Lost won six awards.

The categories with a tick instead of a bullet point won the award.

Cast

It’s now time to meet the characters that form up the great show. You’ll find out their character names, real names, which they are close to on the island and who they are not close to and a little bit of background.

JACK SHEPARD

Played by: Matthew Fox

Occupation: Surgeon

Strong Alliances: Kate, Charlie, Hurley and Sayid

Weak Alliances: Sawyer and Locke

Background: Travelled to find his missing and estranged father, only to discover that he had recently died. Once married to a former patient but now single.

KATE AUSTEN

Played by: Evangeline Lilly

Occupation: Fugitive

Strong Alliances: Jack, Sun and Sawyer

Weak Alliances: Everyone else

Background: A fugitive running from the law, Kate was finally caught by the Marshal in Australia. Her exact crime is still unknown, but she is partially responsible for the death of her childhood sweetheart.

Charlie Pace

Played by: Dominic Monaghan

Occupation:  Has-been Rock Star

Strong Alliances: Locke, Claire and Hurley

Weak Alliances: Sawyer

Background: Once devoted Catholic before he started a rock band with his brother. The band was a one hit wonder. He then became a heroin addict but while on the island Locke helped him quit.

SAYID JARRAH

Played by: Naveen Andrews

Occupation: Former member of the Iraqi Republican Guard

Strong Alliances: Jack and Shannon

Weak Alliances: Sawyer

Background: Member of the Iraqi Republican Guard until he sacrificed his career to save a woman that he loved. Then he was coerced into an operation by the Australian and US governments and was consequently banished from Australia.

JOHN LOCKE

Played by: Terry O’Quinn

Occupation: Collections manger at a box company

Strong Alliances: Walt, Boone and the Island

Weak Alliances: Shannon and Jack

Background: A lonely man. He donated a kidney to his father just after being reunited with him. He was also in a wheelchair before the crash but afterwards he could walk again.

SUN-SOO KWON

Played by: Yunjin Kim

Occupation: House wife

Strong Alliances: Kate and Michael

Weak Alliances: Jin (…big issues)

Background: Daughter of a powerful auto magnate. She married Jin, a servant at her family’s estate. As her marriage fell apart, she considered faking her own kidnapping in order to leave him. She even learnt English without her husband knowing. But as she was about to go ahead with the plan she released that she still loved him.

JIN-SOO KWON

Played by: Daniel Dae Kim

Occupation: Executive Assistant

Strong Alliances: Michael and Sun

Weak Alliances: Sun (…big issues)

Background: Initially a loving husband to Sun, Jin’s personality changed for the worse when he was coerced into working for her unscrupulous father.

JAMES “SAWYER” FORD

Played by: Josh Holloway

Occupation: Con man

Strong Alliances: Kate

Weak Alliances: Everyone else especially Sayid

Background: He took on the persona of the man who destroyed his family. Has killed one man before. Is an expert at coming up with nicknames.

HUGO “HURLEY” REYES

Played by: Jorge Garcia

Occupation: Fast food employee turned lottery winner

Strong Alliances: Charlie and Jack

Weak Alliances: Kate

Background: Lottery winner and former mental patient. Hurley’s astonishing run of bad luck leads him to believe that his winning lottery numbers were cursed.

MICHAEL DAWSON

Played by: Harold Perrineau

Occupation: Construction

Strong Alliances: Sun, Jin and Walt

Weak Alliances: Walt (pre-teens)

Background: Recently attained custody of his son after the death of his ex-wife. Passionate about art and design. His background in construction has helped the survivors on numerous occasions.

WALT LLOYD

Played by: Malcolm David Kelley

Occupation: Student

Strong Alliances: Locke, Michael and Vincent

Weak Alliances: Michael

Background: Did not take immediately to living with his dad, but has recently grown fond of him. Lived in Australia until his mother passed away.

BOONE CARYLE

Occupation: Deceased

Strong Alliances: Locke

Weak Alliances: Shannon (sibling rivalry)

Background: Had a love/hate relationship with his step-sister Shannon. They had one night of passion but it was never repeated (don’t worry their not blood related, that would be gross...)

SHANNON RUTHERFORD

Played by: Maggie Grace

Occupation: None (but she's great at shopping)

Strong Alliances: Sayid

Weak Alliances: Boone, Locke and Sawyer

Background: A rich spoilt kid that got everything that she wanted by using her looks.

CLAIRE LITTLETON

Played by: Emilie de Ravin

Occupation: Mother

Strong Alliances: Charlie, Kate and Sun

Weak Alliances: Danielle (“the French Chick”) and Jack

Background: Her boyfriend left her a while after finding out that Claire was pregnant. She at first was going to give the baby up for adoption but then a psychic warned Claire that she must raise her child.

VINCENT

Played by: Madison

Occupation: Man's best friend

Strong Alliances: Walt and Shannon

Weak Alliances: Michael, Boar, Polar Bears and “the Monster”

Background: Was Walt's stepfather's dog but he was given to Walt when he had to go and live with his father Michael. In turn Walt gave Vincent to Shannon for company after Boone died.

If you have liked learning about the very basics of the characters you'll probably end up loving the show like me. Finally i'm going to run over the first part of the pilot episode of Lost.

Pilot Episode (Part 1)

The first episode of Lost is really just the setting of the scene and the meeting of the characters. At the beginning everyone is shock from the crash. Jack (a doctor) is the first person we meet; he is one of the main characters. By nightfall a signal fire is light. You begin to see the characters more, and then suddenly there is noises coming from the jungle. It’s like there is something large in there and the people begin to get scared. Jack decides to go and look for the cockpit which would have a radio and a transceiver in it, so Jack, Kate and Charlie leave to find it. After a while they find the cockpit and to their surprise the captain is still alive. He tells them that 6 hours into the flight the radio had gone out so they had turned around to make an emergency landing in Fiji. Jack and Kate knew what that meant; they were thousands of miles of course so the search parties were looking for them in the wrong places. There was then worse new the transceiver wasn't working. Suddenly they heard the noises again and the pilot is yanked through the cockpit window by the thing in the jungle. Jack grabs the transceiver and everyone scrambled out of the cockpit and they started to run. They find the bloody corpse of the pilot high up in the trees.

   “Guy’s how does something like that happen?” asks Charlie and the shows first ever episode ends...

To find out more about Lost and its episodes, watch season 2 in spring when it comes back to C4, buy “or try some of these great websites