January 5th, 2010 | by AmyV | battlestar galactica, lost
Jan
05
Following in the hallowed footsteps of Battlestar Galactica, Lost‘s new promo photos are Last Supper-ish.
Coming Soon posted these two pics:
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Definitely click through, you can enlarge them quite a bit.
My initial thoughts, after the jump:
January 4th, 2010 | by AmyV | fringe
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04
I was quite happy to hear Fringe would be back this week and intrigued, to say the least, that the second episode, airing on Monday, Jan. 11, is an unaired one from Season 1. Thursday’s episode is called “Unearthed.”
(Note: Some blogs, including some linked to below, have said Fringe isn’t back until Jan. 11, Monday, but the Fox site itself says it’s this Thursday. I’m going with Fox.)
And to make things even more confusing, Charlie (who was killed twice kind of – once for real and once as his doppelganger) plays a major role in the episode.
Fringebloggers had the full text of the press release about Monday’s episode, and it seems that the powers that be don’t really want us to know at this point if this is an alternate universe Charlie or a flashback of some sort:
After a teenage girl is pronounced brain dead, her mother takes her off life support, but when doctors operate quickly to remove her organs, the deceased girl shockingly awakens screaming an alphanumeric code. Equally as perplexing as her resurrection is that she is now somehow able to speak Russian and possesses classified information only a high-ranking soldier would know. While the girl’s mind-bending condition intensifies, Walter dusts off some old lab videos and hypothesizes the unthinkable, sending Olivia and Peter to investigate the bewildering case in an original “Unearthed” episode of FRINGE and here’s another mystery: is it an unaired episode from Season One or is it from an alternate universe? airing Monday, Jan. 11 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FRINGE-121) (TV-14 L, V)
We think we know it is an unaired Season One episode, as that’s what Cinemablend and others seemed to have been told.
Of course, that doesn’t mean they were told correct information. That, or after letting the cat out of the bag, the powers that be decided to make it part of the alternate universe storyline. Either way … color me intrigued.
I am kind of ticked, however, that Fox is only putting Fringe back on the air for a few weeks, before yanking it off for midseason replacement Past Life, according to The Futon Critic. It doesn’t come back until April. This is especially wrong, because after moving Fringe to a pretty big night for genre TV (and thus more competition), it’s depriving the show of getting the boost a slot after American Idol could bring it. It doesn’t come back on the air until April 1.
January 2nd, 2010 | by AmyV | lost
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02
I initially sat down to write a post about how ABC is offering 815 (of course) fans the opportunity for a sneak peek at the Lost season premiere. But what I ended up with was something much more: A realization that no network has ever done as brilliant a job marketing one of its shows as ABC has done with Lost.
One could argue that the marketing of Lost has been the first to fully take advantage of all the tools available to keep fans interested and amped up in the off-season.
We had the Missing Pieces webisodes, which were devoured by fans, even as they disparaged them. The Hanso Foundation commercials and website, which had people calling 800 numbers and furiously trying to figure out where everything all fit in.
Remember the Oceanic Air website where you could click on a seating chart and occasionally get glimpses into who sat where and other tidbits?
Lost University accompanies the Season 5 Blu-Ray.
And, all along, there’s been full recognition that fan blogs were important to keeping the buzz going and ABC’s brought those bloggers to Hawaii for full-access trips.
Now, ABC has offered fans the chance to be among 815 who will get an advance peek at the Season 6 (otherwise known as the Last Season) premiere. There’s a short quiz to enter and I got five of the six answers right without blinking. I was allowed to change the final answer – heck, I couldn’t enter unless I had all six right, it waited until you got all six before giving you a “submit” button.
ABC rewards fans for knowing the minutae. They never came down on all the sites that used screen shots of the show to point out Easter eggs or even just illustrate blog posts. They knew that by letting fans use the show as they wanted, the fans would keep coming back.
