OK, even I think my posts are a wee bit long sometimes …. so ….. I can’t recall if I printed this or not, but I did say a few weeks ago that rumors were circulating that Sawyer was going to find a 16 year old girl out in the jungle but nothing was confirmed “who she was,” meaning would she be the ill-fated Alex? See the press release below as it looks like this week we meet the new girl, but her character’s name (for now) will be Jessica (played by Tania Raymonde).

Oh yeah, and Ethan is reappearing this week.
ABC Television Network

PRESS RELEASE - ENTERTAINMENT - LOST (3/1) CLAIRE RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF HER KIDNAPPING WITH HOPES OF FINDING A CURE TO BABY AARON’S MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS, AND JACK AND LOCKE KEEP THEIR PRISONER A SECRET FROM THE OTHER SURVIVORS, ON ABC’S “LOST”

“Maternity Leave” - A desperate Claire, along with Kate and Rousseau, attempts a return to the scene of her kidnapping where she believes she might find the cure for Baby Aaron’s mysterious illness.

Meanwhile, Jack and Locke must keep their prisoner a secret from the rest of the survivors, on “Lost,” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

“Lost” stars Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Mr. Eko, Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie, Terry O’Quinn as Locke, Harold Perrineau as Michael, Michelle Rodriguez as Ana Lucia and Cynthia Watros as Libby.

Guest starring are M.C. Gainey as Mr. Friendly, Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau, Michael Emerson as Henry Gale, Tania Raymonde as young girl and William Mapother as Ethan. “Maternity Leave” was written by Dawn Lambertsen Kelly & Matt Ragghianti and directed by Jack Bender.

Last season, there were widespread rumors that Ian Somerhalder (Boone) had been complaining on the set of Lost. It was said that he had taken issue with the fact that he wasn’t getting enough screen time! Imagine! You’re on the #1 show on TV and complaining about your part! I predicted then, amongst much flack from my co-workers, that he was going to go. The writers were not making a secret that “someone” was going to go and why not chose the squeakiest wheel.

“There will definitely be death before the end of the year, and it won’t be a dream,” JJ Abrams says of Lost. “And it’s not going to be a new character that comes on and all of a sudden dies in that episode. We’re aware it’s not realistic to have all 14 make it, and this is a very hard thing to do for us, because when you know you’re going to do a story where someone’s gonna have to bite it, you don’t want to like any of the actors–because you don’t want to have to say goodbye to any of them. And this cast, they’re just like family. They’re amazing. They’re all wonderful.”

So, JJ says last season that they don’t want to *kill* any of the characters, or fire one of the actors, because they like them. Let’s consider this when we look into the crystal ball for season two. Hm *rubs hands over smoking ball* it’s becoming clear.

I see images of a girl on-set complaining about not just her lines, not just her screen time, but is just overall grouchy and unapproachable. She’s a newer character on the show and the fans don’t like her story anyway. I see an actress who reportedly tells the cast and crew every night before she leaves what she is going to have for *dinner* by saying, “Good night, everyone. I’m off to bleep some bleep!” (Use your imaginations, pervs, there are children reading this!)

Yes, it’s Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia). The same actress who was arrested not too long ago for a DUI and still has to go back to court for that offense. The same actress that *forgot* to tell the producers that she had a few other traffic offenses prior to joining the cast - and not just for tickets, my friends! She has even, as I have read, taken some time off of the show for recovery (or rehab, as we non-Hollywood types would call it). You haven’t seen her in a few episodes, have you?

Read from The Awful Truth, 1-25-06, “‘Michelle is offending the cast and crew,” blabs my on-set insider. “With the goodbye thing, she also wags her tongue between her split fingers. It’s just, you know, gross’“ The article goes on to say, “‘I’m just gonna say that Michelle is not working out so well for any of them,” blabbed my source. “Why does she have to do that thing with her tongue and talk about her sex life all the time?’”

According to one of the writers for Lost (Matt Raggs), it will be shown before the end of the season why Ana was in Australia in the first place, this could wrap up her back-story enough for the viewers satisfaction (hello, Shannon!!??). I’ve also read that she will be somehow linked to Sayid this season. Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if he *accidentally* is the one that kills her? We don’t know that Sayid didn’t (oopsies) hang on to the gun that Danielle handed him two weeks ago, so he has the means.

“The producers are fed up with the fact that she barely shows up on the set and is always in a bad mood,” Us Weekly quoted an “insider” as saying.

“They said she was getting killed off as soon as they could write it in.”

So, let’s recap:

1. Rodriguez is a nightmare on the set.

2. Her character is not central enough to the story that she can’t be written out.

3. In “The Hunting Party ” Ana-Lucia was shown at the end of the episode petting Vincent, which if you remember the last person who looked after the dog was Shannon who is now deceased. (The dog is baaaaad news).

4. The fans do not like Ana. Most of them, OK? So don’t write angry notes to me that YOU like her.

5. Someone needs to die. OK, maybe no one needs to die, but you know as well as I do it makes good TV.

6. Maybe the Others are mad at her for killing Goodwin. I would think that this doesn’t put her on their “nice” list.

7. She killed the man that killed her baby (remember ole what’s his face?) so wouldn’t it be an eye-for-an-eye if Sayid in turn kills her? Especially if he was to find out that Shannon was preggers.

8. OR maybe since the fans are starting to assume she is the next to go, they are throwing us off and Jack will die. Hm.I say, Sayonara Senorita!

This job-hunting stuff is really getting in the way of my blogging. Geesh! Here it is over a week since this epi and I am just now collecting my thoughts.

1. Seems like the writers are leading the characters back to their personalities prior to the crash. Sayid is the torturer. Sawyer is the con man. Charlie, well, I think that he is going to come back around to the nice, family man that he was (albeit heroin addict, but hey, who doesn’t have problems!?) but I think we are going to see more of his dark side first. Locke was passive. However, I think Locke is sneaky, sneaky and is up to something. Jack is the hero. Kate is the runner. She is in a really bad situation, as far as she sees it, so will she run away from the camp? Eko was the drug smuggler, murderer but now he is a priest again? I don’t think we know enough yet about his back-story to predict where his character will go. Vincent, well, he’s just the damn trouble sniffing dog. I do hear, however, at some point that Vincent will have a back-story epi. Interesting! But, check out the last paragraph of the epi recap from abc.com:

“But, you see…that’s the thing about human nature. We all have a dark side. And if we need something badly enough, there is almost no limit to what we will do, or who we will become in order to get it.”

2. Symbols on the counter. I was wondering “why” would they use these? I have done some research and found some theories and then coupled them with my thoughts. There are five symbols, or numbers normally, on the counter. There are six hatches. What if each symbol represented one of the hatches and they would not need one for the Swan because that is where they are. Maybe it was a status symbol - whether the station was occupied and/or active at the time. The fifth symbol never did appear and that could be why Locke could still punch in the numbers because the final hatch had not responded yet.

3. The power up. When the symbols are flipping you can hear a “power up” noise in the background. What is this? Why did the doors that Michael found not come down if there was impending doom?

4. Black and white. Numbers are normally black and white. Suddenly we see them turn black and red. B&W is a running theme in show.

5. Could Locke have possibly been imagining these symbols? Another possibility is that Locke has been in the hatch when the counter ran out and nothing did happen. Maybe he is in a panic to type in the right numbers because he doesn’t want anyone to know that Jack is right and nothing happens. If the survivors know that they are safe, Locke would lose a large amount of control that he has over everyone. He does keep mistyping the numbers so maybe he found out the truth by accident but wants to maintain his control and keep it his secret.

6. Ranch dressing. What is up with this? First they shoot it now Hurley is confiscating it. And what is up with the seven-year shelf life? Is this the term for the “tour of duty” so to speak?

7. Sawyer and Hurley. I don’t think that Sawyer was going to kill the frog. He is petting it and seems to change his expression when he sees that Hurley is watching him. Sawyer has an image to uphold and if he let the frog go that would completely go against the image that he is working to create and maintain. Sawyer is comfortable in the bad guy role.

8. I don’t believe that Sawyer is the bad guy he wants us to think that he is. I think that he is planning a rescue for Walt and again I have to put out there that he may even attempt to join the “Others” in order to find him. It has been shown again and again that he feels remorse and guilt over Walt’s kidnapping and he is the ultimate con man so I could see him duping the survivors because if they don’t believe that he is bad, why would the Others believe that he wanted to join them? Plus, Sawyer tells “Zeke” that “This aint over,” so this could be another way to get at him. Join them and then destroy them.

9. Henry Gale. Hello? Name sound familiar? Like Dorothy’s uncle? Also, Zeke is also the “real” name of the tin man when she gets back to Kansas. But Henry in a balloon? Next Auntie Em will come to the island. How ironic. Smoke and mirrors. Hm, already have put my reflection theory out there and this would go along with it.

10. The army man “is” Kate’s dad. Scott, you were right. He caught this right away, especially once he looks at the picture of Kate.

11. Check out the numbers 23-108-42 on the video of Sayid’s hometown and the “Property Of DIA.” Dharma Initiative?

12. Sayid is the son of a great hero. Was he educated, therefore, in good schools maybe in America and that explains why his English is so good? This presents the possibility of more crossovers. Who was the hero and what did he do?

13. Numbers. Henry crashed 4 months ago. Sayid was 23 when America came to his country. It took Sayid 6 years to erase it from his memory. Hurley was 6 when he got is turtle Stewart. Henry’s balloon was 140 x 60 wide. It is a 2-day walk to the site when Henry crashed. Counter was on 27 when Jack let Locke go.

14. Info about Henry. Wife was Jennifer and her maiden name was Murphy. They met at the University of Minnesota. Balloon has a big smiley face on top of it if you were to look down on it. He “was” rich from mining non-metallic minerals. Henry’s company was named Widmore Mining.

15. Was Henry an Other or not?

Why we could say yes: His name and story are suspicious. Sayid seems to think he is and we were shown that Sayid has a special way of extracting the truth. The look on Henry’s face when Jack pulls Sayid off of him seems like “Ha, ha couldn’t get me.” Henry’s answers all seem too staged and come to him too quickly. Danielle thinks he is, too.

Reasons why Henry might “not” be an Other: There could be lots of survivors of crashes on this island. Sayid was angry and may have misinterpreted Henry’s answers. The look on Henry’s face could just have been relief.

16. I’ve read that the actor that plays Henry is on for 6 more episodes so we should find out the truth! I can handle it!! lol

17. Far out theory. I have contended that there is some type of mining going on here at the island. There are lots of clues: blasts from underground, the dynamite found at the Black Rock, the security system. What if Henry’s mining company was hired to mine the island? Maybe he didn’t know who he was selling to, but the Dharma group bought him out (it’s top secret, after all). Remember the fresh concrete Jack found in the hatch? Maybe they mined into something that they don’t know how to fix (some type of geo thermal valve) and “they” had to get Henry to the island to fix it. Maybe his balloon accidentally on purpose crashed there. Every 108 minutes the makeshift release valve must be managed or there would be a pressure build up and explosion and that is why the button must be pressed to release this pressure. We don’t know how long ago Henry sold his company but maybe Dharma has been trying to get him to the island and he refused so they just brought him there themselves. I would think that whatever they are mining is important enough to have a security system in place that rips apart pilots.

18. Danielle. How long must she have had Henry in the net? She warned Sayid not to listen to him no matter how long he contends that he is innocent. Plus, she insists that he is an Other, how does she know? Why does she hand him over to Sayid? I think that she has caught other “Others” especially if she has been on the island for 16 years! This is probably how she knows that he will lie and lie.

19. I thought it was odd that Sayid marched right over and cut down Henry. Maybe he was using it as a test to Danielle to see if she really thought he was an Other. Once she shot him, Sayid was sure at that moment that Danielle was right.

20. Sayid and Charlie have a connection. Back in Season One when Charlie kills Ethan, Sayid comes to Charlie to console him. Charlie goes with Sayid to find Aaron when Danielle had taken him. They both now have losses (Shannon and Claire) and are outcasts on their own on the island. So I don’t think that Sayid only went to Charlie because he was taken by the Others, but also because Sayid feels a certain connection to Charlie.

21. The sickness. This is now being talked about more and if Henry starts telling the survivors about his wife, will they begin to “feel” the symptoms? Remember that there are immunizations in the hatch that could lead to some interesting debate about who should and shouldn’t receive them. Also, they find the medical hatch this week and there could be all sorts of goodies there!

My boyfriend is going to nominate me for Most Obsessed Lost Fan. I think I have a good chance!

I was in an interview today and we were wrapping it up when my potential new boss asks me the age old question, “What are your weaknesses?” Well, after going through the usual politically correct answer she said, “Wow, you don’t have many weaknesses.” Which I followed by telling her that I watch Lost and have my own website dedicated to it. Turns out she is a fan. Think I’ll get hired? More importantly, will she visit my site?!?!

If you go to The Fuselage and scroll down to almost the bottom of the front page, there is an icon on the right side of the screen and you will see an “Execute” button.  When you press this button a timer will install on your computer and a pop up counter for 108 minutes will appear.  Then you get to play along and punch in the numbers every 108 minutes.  Fun, huh?

Here is the kicker, since this program installs itself, what will happen at 108 if you don’t punch in the numbers? 

I found this link to a video someone made of Jack put to one of my favorite Coldplay songs. You just can’t go wrong when you take two of my favorites and put them together!!

Here is another video and it is also very well done. This one makes the island look almost romantic.

This is a link for a Locke Video. Again, extremely well done. This one reminds me of why I like this character.

Avid readers (all 3 of you) a few posts ago I put out there that Cassidy is “not” the same girl from the photo of Desmond and his chicky. However, my ever lovin’ Lost boyfriend sends me a link to someone’s post stating they think that the lady that was going to adopt Claire’s baby is perhaps the woman from the photo:

Let me take it one more step, the adoption lady also looks like the person that Jack’s dad killed in surgery, especially look at her nose:

Gotta love Weird Al! Check this out (my favorite parts are the Flashback Dance Party and Locke playing the tuba - OK the animals chasing Charlie is great too)!

HDTV.  Why must they torture us? First, we know that HDTV owners get special surprises in their cereal box (aka episodes) each week and then I find out last night anyone with an HDTV set could watch Lost at 9. 

Conversation with my boyfriend this morning:

Me: Honey, did Ana Lucia get shot last night?

Scott: No, why?

Me: I remember her getting shot by Jack. 

Scott: (silence, pats my shoulder)

Me: Guess I shouldn’t watch Lost in the middle of the night.  It’s infiltrating my psyche.

I have digital cable so I thought what the heck, might as well call the cable company and see what channel Lost is going to be on.  Was thinking maybe they would have some kind of special deal that I could sign up for, watch my Lost, let my daughter enjoy some Pokemon on WB and then cancel.

The customer service rep was kind in listening to my woes about BASKETBALL preempting my Lost tonight - on a night that the epi is new of all things! She checked with her manager and lo and behold, the ticker was wrong last week and not in a good way.  No Lost on any channel at 9:00.  So I guess we are all screwed here in the Fort my friends.

I told her, then, that I wanted to file a complaint.  Silence.  She was not amused. 

But, I will be getting up at 2 to watch providing that wasn’t a mistake too. Could get up an hour early and watch on TiVo but it hasn’t made it yet to my house so I guess this will have to do.