What I am interested here is the audience of forensic textual foragers that, like the true detectives themselves, followed the scattered bread crumbs that led towards, not the yellow brick road, but the yellow king and the city of Carcosa.
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Tags: HBO, interactive television, intertextuality, Lost, True Detective
Posted in Current Events, TV | 2 Comments »
When a showrunner chooses to remove themselves from Twitter, they are removing themselves from not only professional opportunity but also a space for self-expression.
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Tags: Damon Lindelof, Lost, Professional Identity, Prometheus, Showrunner, showrunners, social media, television, Twitter
Posted in Showrunners on Twitter | 5 Comments »
Is Ridley Scott’s Prometheus a half-baked pile of philosophical babble, or is it more seductively an early harbinger of a kind of post-television cinematic narrative—filmmaking in the age of television?
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Tags: Alien, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, post-television cinema, Prometheus, Ridley Scott
Posted in Current Events, Film | 4 Comments »
Three characters make fate-changing choices, as we're back in the contemporary timeline(s) to set-up the endgame.
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Tags: "What They Died For", Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 12 Comments »
It might be the most divisive, bold, and risky episode in series history. What can we make of it the morning after?
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Tags: Allison Janney, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Lost, mythology, Star Wars, The Stand, Twitterverse
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 56 Comments »
In the nearly three years since I joined the motherhood, I’ve noticed differences in the meanings I make and in what stays with me.
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Tags: Lost, media reception, motherhood, parenting, television, The Shield
Posted in Perspectives, TV | 4 Comments »
Returning from a week off, let's get right to the carnage.
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 10 Comments »
Are the final teams finally in place? Or are we moving the pieces toward another move?
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 14 Comments »
Explosions, vehicular manslaughter, and throwing someone down a well make for a satisfying hour - but the real fun is in true love's kiss.
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 22 Comments »
With only eight hours left, 24 dies as it lived--made up as it goes along.
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Tags: 24, Lost, seriality, television
Posted in Current Events, Perspectives, TV, TV | 6 Comments »
Will Desmond deliver the payoffs we've been hoping for? Or are we still searching for The One?
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 9 Comments »
Does the package contain a giant red V? And which will annoy fans more - the plot or the promotion?
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 4 Comments »
Can we find the answers we need in the island's backstory? And can Richard choose sides?
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 11 Comments »
What if Sawyer never got a pen? He would have become Starsky.
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 4 Comments »