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Hey All,
Just wanted to wish all you a safe, Happy and Prosperous New Year!!

Every year here at The ODI we do our best to bring you the latest spoilers and news and plan for another BIG year! Also, we do our best to add some new features to make the experience for each of you the best possible.

The new podcast page will be starting soon and so will the Fun Zone finally. Also, we are looking at adding a new commenting system.

See you all in the new year!

- Team ODI

Ben Linus, Lost
Portrayed By: Michael Emerson
Profile: Though he originally claimed to be a meek balloonist named Henry Gale when our heroes came upon him, Ben eventually revealed himself to be the mastermind behind the mysterious Others. There’s no one Ben won’t betray to come out ahead, even if it means sacrificing the very few people he actually cares about, like his daughter Alex.
Powers: A rather unexpected ability to continually fool his enemies into trusting him, mastery of several languages, a creepy stare
Weakness: Dinner dates with his crush, Juliet.
Leadership Experience: Gassed the entire Dharma Initiative so that he could move the Others in and become their leader.
Claim to Fame: Was the biggest cheese on Lost Island until Locke pulled that unfair trick and came back to life.
Teen Choice Award Nominations: 1 (“Choice TV Villain,” 2007)
Quote: “How many times do I have to tell you, John? I always have a plan.”

Source: Movieline

TV Guide Scans of Josh Holloway Interview

Thanks to B3rt4 for the heads up.

The interview itself has some MINOR SPOILERS so we will be adding the scans of the interview to the spoilers section for those of you that want to read the article.

http://lostspoilers-odi.blogspot.com/2009/12/scans-of-josh-holloway-tv-guide.html

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Thanks to all of you that sent this in and for the heads up about the new promo from ABC.

We already have a shorter version of this promo and it is focused on the quadrangle love stories.

Enjoy!

Matthew Fox Confirmed to Present at 67th Golden Globe Awards

Fox will join other presenters Hale Berry, Colin Ferrel, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Mickey Rourke. Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio will present the Cecil B. De Mille Award to Martin Scorsese.

The Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais, will air Sunday, Jan. 17 on NBC.

Source: Zap2it

Here are nine of the ABC LOST Season 6 promos in one compilation clip.

Enjoy!

Thanks to Alex for the clip

ABC is running a new contest where the 815 fans will win a chance to see the first few minutes of Season 6 and cool Message in a Bottle!

Here are screencaps of the contest. All you have to do is go to the ABC link below and answer the six trivia questions.

NOTE: I think this is for US residents only, sorry to our international friends and fans, but at least you get to see the questions below.

http://abc.go.com/shows/lost/final-season-sweepstakes

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94) Evangeline Lilly: Pint sized, powerful and unspeakably hot, Evangeline Lilly admits that the other girls auditioning for the part of Kate Austen in Lost probably wanted to kill her when they saw her CV. "They were thinking, 'I've done all this work and here you are at the audition with no experience," she says, still mystified as to how she managed to bypass the years of slog and land the TV gig of lifetime.

We think the knock-out smile and the smoldering sex appeal may have had something to so with it, but there's more to Evangeline Lilly than that: she's a bright, smart, free-spirited girl who has previously spent time working as a missionary and only got into modeling to help pay her university fees.

Source: FHM

UPDATE: 12/28 12PM PST As most of you suspected this indeed was a part of the Spanish April Fool's Joke via Lostzilla.net, sorry to any of you who stressed out a bit, but it was all in good fun. Hope you all have a Happy New Year!

Hey All,
There seems to be some rumor floating around the internet that Evangeline Lilly might be pregnant. Now I know this really has nothing to with LOST except how far along she is?

Currently LOST Filming is on break and they were filming episode 6x10 last we heard.

So no need to panic if she is pregnant because many shows have been able to work around pregnancies before.

However, some inside sources have said the writers seem to be concerned about Kate's future on the show, and one even mentioned that they have started considering the possibility of writing her off the final part of the season!? There are no confirmations or denials from Lilly, Carlton Cuse or Damon Lindelof.

Thanks to the Spanish site Lostzilla.net

Since this is a breaking story we hope to have more info later.

Here is a new banner by UK channel Sky 1 featuring Matthew Fox (Jack)

Thanks to our friends at SL-LOST for the pic

If you could have played any other character on Lost, who would it have been and why? —Christine
Good question! Terry O’Quinn’s character [Locke], but I don’t have the wisdom that his age naturally brings. That character’s so vulnerable and struggling off the island. But on the island, he’s such a badass. That dichotomy would be fun to play.

If you were a Lost writer, which characters would you have hooked up on the show because of the great chemistry the actors have with each other? —Chlo
Ana Lucia and Sawyer would have been a fun, volatile romance after their animalistic meeting out in the woods.

Out of all of Sawyer’s nicknames, which is your favorite? And have you ever ad-libbed any? —Robert
Stay Puff for Hurley. Mr. Clean for Locke. Slingshot Sally for Ben’s daughter, Alex. I came up with Sweet Cheeks for Shannon in the pilot. I also ad-libbed one they didn’t use. I called Ken Leung Ping-Pong when he had a grenade in his mouth!

Since playing Sawyer, have you had any nightmares about islands, being polar-bear food, bombs or time travel? —Yonomeaburro
Constantly! And I’ve had dreams of being with cast members on a boat that changes into a magic carpet.

Do you think that Sawyer will ever meet his daughter, Clementine? —Sally
Wow, I have no clue. That’s something I would like to see. Even if they don’t meet, his intention to meet her would be important to me. To see him off the island with her name and address on a piece of paper.

Please tell me you are not really going to shave off all that beautiful hair when the show is over. Are you? —D.J.
I did say I was going to shave a Mohawk in when we wrapped the last day, and I may still. Were it not for Lost, I would have changed it up by now.

Why did you let go of me and watch me fall to my death? That was not cool. I thought we had something. —Juliet
Oh, God! I prefer brunettes. Kidding! I did not let go of her. She let go of me!

Source: TV Guide Magazine

Just want to take this moment to wish all of you who celebrate it a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to All!!

Thanks for being loyal fans and checking out the site on a daily basis! The site would not exist with out you all!

Also thanks to my good friends that help contribute to the site, to the fans that submit scoops and of course to all of our sources!

We will continue to post any news and spoilers that happen during the holidays, but I am sure there will be less content!

From all of us here at The ODI, have a happy and safe holidays!

As we teased a short while ago, Vozzek, popular Lost Recapper (at DarkUFO), theorist and fellow ODI Podcast member has finally gotten off his ass after much prompting and written a book. I suspect this will be one of the must have books for Lost fans every where.

To go along with the book he has created a new website here: http://www.thingsinoticed.com/ which he hopes to update pretty regularly with thoughts, scene analysis, humor, and other stuff throughout the coming season...

You can also purchase the book through the above site and anyone who does, will, if they want, get it autographed.

You can also purchase through Amazon Here: Things You Never Noticed About LOST.

I've already ordered my copy!

For those new to Vozzek and his writing style, you can see his previous posts here.

You can also follow Vozzek on Twitter

I know there are awards and mentions, but I really think think that LOST being picked as the #1 Scripted show by the site Television Without Pity is a big honor for the show.

TWoP is one of the more well known TV sites and their forums are quite popular among TV fans.

So I really feel mentions like this are cool.



Source: TWoP

There are so many things I miss about "Lost" when we go into this eight-month inter-season drought. The complex storylines, the sonic boom that accompanies the shocking pre-commercial break smashes to black, the pretty people who populate the island.

Yes, more than "Gilligan's Island" or the first seven days of "Survivor," "Lost" features the most heart-quakingly gorgeous people to ever lay their soles to sand. Jin, Sun, Boone, Kate, Jack, Juliet and Sawyer lead the charge, but Eko, Libby, Sayid, Shannon and Vincent (yeah, what?) could easily be mentioned in the same breath.

To tease the launch of the show's final season Josh Holloway brought his cavernous dimples to TV Guide magazine's winter preview issue and they've been kind enough to give us two of the snaps that didn't make the mag.

I know, if these were left on the cutting room floor, how hot are the pics that actually made it inside the magazine? Find out for yourself when TV Guide's winter preview hits newsstands Monday!



Source: NY Post

Thanks to Congested for emailing these photos over.


Posted by DarkUFO

Thanks to Łukasz for the heads up on this new and much better, imho, 1 minute long promo.


Posted by DarkUFO

Hey All,
So finally a Facebook fanpage for The ODI has been created.

Content will slowly be posted there, but it is a wide open fanpage for all of you Facebookers, so feel free to make posts, create topics and anything else!

You can use the widget below to join the page and check out the fan page at the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-ODI/218568113366

NOTE: If you are interested in possibly being an admin please submit some details of yourself via the Submit a Scoop button.

Former LOST Actress Maggie Grace can briefly be seen in the new sneak peek of the upcoming Tom Cruise and Cmeron Diaz movie Knight and Day.

Below is a screencap of Grace and link to the video.

NOTE: Don't forget you can always access the Movies page by click the Movies Tab at the top of the site

http://www.movies.spoilertv.com/2009/12/knight-and-day-first-official-footage.html

Hey All,
Here is a cool looking new Season 6 Cast Promo Pic that was sent in.

Thanks to LostieLover for the heads up

NOTE: This is fanmade and initially posted here on DarkUFO:

http://lostfanfic.blogspot.com/2009/12/lost-season-6-promo-poster-by.html

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Thanks to DerAndre from lostpedia-blog.de for the heads
up.
ABC Official Video Podcast on LOST Art Gallery

Source: TV Overmind

Josh Holloway, Lost

What a pleasant surprise to find out that a few years trapped in the 1970s Dharma Initiative transformed shifty con man James "Sawyer" Ford" into heroic leader Jim LaFleur. Holloway's delicate shift in character retained Sawyer's rakish charm, but imbued him with a welcome sense of gravitas.

Full List: TV Guide

Thanks to Łukasz for the heads up on this collection of new short Lost Promo's.






Posted by DarkUFO

This interview was for her new movie Avatar, but she discusses LOST briefly.

No Spoilers, so enjoy!

LOST Recaps to Air on DirectTV's 101 Network

GET “LOST” ON THE 101 NETWORK WITH RECAP SPECIALS OF SEASONS ONE THROUGH FIVE, BEGINNING DECEMBER 26

In Anticipation of the Sixth and Final Season on ABC, Re-Experience the Mysteries of “Lost” and Catch Up with the Survivors of Flight 815 on DirecTV.

In anticipation of the sixth and final season of “Lost” on ABC, DIRECTV is offering fans the opportunity to re-live the excitement of the epic series when The 101 Network begins airing recap specials covering the first five seasons on Saturday, December 26 at 9:00 p.m., ET. Beginning with “Destination: LOST,” the six recap specials will air commercial-free on The 101 Network for the first time since they were originally presented on ABC. The specials examine the stories of the survivors of Oceanic 815 and explore the mythology that has made “Lost” one of the most compelling series of the decade.

Each of the recap specials, which previously aired before the series’ season premieres and finales, will feature exclusive interstitial elements such as DVD extras not previously seen on television, including behind-the-scenes footage and unaired scenes, as well as music videos that were created with the show. The airing of the specials is the first significant promotional partnership between ABC and DIRECTV’s The 101 Network. The culmination of The 101 Network’s “Lost” event on February 2 will directly lead into the premiere of the sixth and final season of the series on
Tuesday, February 2 at 9:00 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.

“LOST” On The 101 Network – Descriptions of the six recap specials follow below:

Destination: LOST
Airs Saturday, December 26 at 9:00 p.m., ET
Relive the incredible first season of “Lost,” the stories of the survivors of Oceanic 815 and the mysteries of the island that captivated audiences everywhere.

“LOST: A Tale of Survival”
Airs Saturday, January 2 at 9:00 p.m., ET
What price would you pay for honor? For faith? For love? Journey back through the first two seasons with the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 as they search for answers and struggle for survival on “LOST: A Tale of Survival.”

“The LOST Survivor Guide”
Airs Saturday, January 9 at 9:00 p.m., ET
Get an exclusive look at the first two and a half seasons of the most-talked about drama on television when “Lost” Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse share their insights on the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 and explore the powers of this mysterious island.

“LOST: Past, Present & Future”
Airs Saturday, January 16 at 9:00 p.m., ET
Re-experience the first three seasons of “Lost” as the survivors of Oceanic 815 stand at the verge of rescue from the island and examine whether the people coming to save them are friends or foes.

“LOST: Destiny Calls”
Airs Saturday, January 23 at 9:00 p.m., ET
48 people survived the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. After 108 days on a mysterious island, only six were rescued. The friends they left behind vanished with the island. Catch up with the first four seasons of “Lost,” relive the survivors fight to survive and re-discover why the Oceanic 6 were forced to go back to the island. “Lost” producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are your guides on “LOST: Destiny Calls.”

“LOST: A Journey in Time”
Airs Saturday, January 30 at 9:00 p.m., ET
Re-examine how the Oceanic 6 got back to the island when producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse take a look back at the first five seasons.

Here is the first part of GQ Magazine's Interview with the Bad Robot team, including JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Bryan Burke, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci.

It is a great read and I love this promo pic as well!

GQ: JJ, is there anything in particular that you learned from the Lost experience that you brought to Fringe?

Roberto Orci [writer/executive producer, Alias; co-creator/executive producer, Fringe; executive producer/co-writer, Star Trek]: We needed Damon and Carlton.

JJ Abrams [co-creator/executive producer/director, Lost, Fringe and Alias; director/co-writer/executive producer, Star Trek]: And they weren’t available. No—my involvement with Lost really ended within the first season. And so a lot of what I learned from Lost was what people watching the show learned, which is what great characters and story looked like. I think the work that Damon and Carlton do on that show is obviously a high-water mark for TV, and the ambition. In terms of this show, it’s a very different show. Every show’s a different show. It’s easy, in retrospect, to make comparisons, but when you’re in the thick of it, when you’re working on something, even if it’s the same people, it’s suddenly a whole new nightmare challenge. And you scramble the best you can to do your best work, and it’s especially difficult when you’re doing a mythology show that’s also aspiring to be a standalone show. Lost was very lucky early on to get really good ratings. So the network was okay with mythology, and the show’s never apologized for it. Fringe, up front, said, “Hey, it’s a standalone show, and every week you’re going to get your own little separate mystery.” But the fans who come back to watch the show– and tonight, fingers crossed, that happens again– are the people who typically like the mythology. So there’s a weird dynamic that goes on that I still haven’t learned, from Alias to Lost to Fringe, how to necessarily solve.

GQ: How to please those two audiences simultaneously, you mean.

Abrams: Yeah. This group dealt with that with Star Trek. How do we do something that’s wholly original, while also doing something that’s wholly reverent of what’s come before? And how do you do a show that’s a week to week closed story and still tell a larger overarching story? It’s hard to please both sides of that all the time. It can be done in some instances, and other times, y’know, we fail miserably. But that’s definitely one of the challenges that we face, doing the show.

GQ: Was that always your intention, that Fringe would be more of a one-and-done show that didn’t depend as much on people following the mythology over a season-long arc, the way Lost does?

Orci: We always thought it would be both. That we’d have a little clue in each episode, but then every few episodes, you can have a highly mythological serialized episode. But in general, we always try to have that right balance.

Kurtzman: Which is a challenge, because I think our collective instincts veer toward serialization.

Orci: From watching Lost, I learned characters. That characters are key. The smallest character moment can be a gigantic revelation, as a viewer.

Damon Lindelof [co-creator/executive producer, Lost]: From the outside looking in, though, as a fan, and someone who had nothing at all to do with the development of Fringe, I felt the pilot clearly signified both shows. And the show that was more interesting to me as a viewer was the mythology, because of Nina Sharp and the mysterious and elusive William Bell. There’s a moment in the pilot where Walter looks into Peter’s eye, and I’m like, “What was that all about?” The problem with mystery of the week shows is, at the end of the episodes it’s just like that [brushes his hands off] and that’s not compelling television to me.

Bryan Burk [co-producer, Alias; executive producer, Lost/Fringe/Star Trek]: [On Fringe] I found us, referencing Alias more often than Lost, in the sense that that was a serialized show, and then in the middle of the series we started dabbling with making them self-contained.

Abrams: Well, ABC insisted on it.

Burk: Yeah. And it was hard to go there. Particularly when it’s such a serialized show. So from the beginning, the idea was, is it possible, how can we do it—how do we service two different audiences, those who just pop in for the individual episodes and doing what we all love, which is the mythology.

Kurtzman [to Carlton Cuse]: You and Damon have both worked on shows that were standalone, procedural shows. Do you feel that that can be as satisfying, storytelling wise?

Carlton Cuse [creator, Nash Bridges; executive producer, Lost]: I think they’re apples and oranges. A lot of people like the satisfaction that comes with seeing that case resolved every week. There’s a certain artificiality to it, but there’s also kind of a wish-fulfillment quality—a dead body falls at the beginning, and by the end of the episode you know who did it. The puzzle’s solved. I think those shows—I did Nash Bridges for six years, and that show had a little bit of ongoing sort of character mythology, but it was just a case every week. And there’s a certain satisfaction in doing that. And obviously the audience can just drop in whenever they want to that kind of a show.

Lindelof: There’s a difference between serialization and mythology, though. Like Grey’s Anatomy is heavily serialized, in terms of the character relationships—who’s sleeping with who, who’s angry at who, who’s just been fired. And you have to watch every episode to understand the depth of it.

GQ: Once it was clear there was going to be some kind of mythology in Fringe, was there pressure from the network to bring in the payoffs more quickly than you might have in the past?

Kurtzman: Yeah. For sure, there was.

Orci: Yes and no. I think they were confused about it.

Abrams: They don’t want mythology, but when you have a [recurring, mysterious] character like The Observer, they want to make a big deal about The Observer. They want it, and then they don’t want it, at the same time.

Kurtzman: I think the core story has to be the mystery of the week. It has to be set up in the teaser and resolved by the last act. But there are things like the Observer that don’t. And as we’ve been talking about, with all these shows, there’s also the deeper backstory of these characters, and that goes on forever and ever, and that’s the serialized element of the show.

Thanks to Jenette for the heads up.


Posted by DarkUFO

Thanks to Lyly for the heads up!

Here is the LOST Season 6 Official Promotional Logo

Enjoy!

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Here is an interview from TV Guide with new Golden Globe Nominee Michael Emerson. It is nice little read and he mentions that both Terry O'Quinn and Josh hollway's performances in Season 6 have impressed so far.

Enjoy!

How did you find out you were nominated?
"I'd turned the phone off when I went to bed last night here in Hawaii, so I woke up this morning to a whole lot of messages and texts."

Have you heard from any of your co-stars yet?
"I see here on my computer screen a message from Jorge [Garcia, who plays Hurley] just popped up. He's always very sweet. It says, 'Nice job. We'll be rooting for you.'"

How many Globe nominations is this for you?
"This is my first. That's an award that usually doesn't include Lost. I can't remember anything since Season 1, so I'm flabbergasted."

You're shooting your tenth episode of the new season now. Are you hopeful that your final season will award the show more award recognition?
"I think next year, after the conclusion of the final season, when people see the strength and style of how we go out, I expect Lost to have more recognition."

Whose performances so far in the new season have impressed you most?
Terry O'Quinn [Locke] is continuing to turn in his staggering work. And it's a great year for Josh Holloway [Sawyer]. He just continues to get
better and better. His storylines are turning out to be gripping and very moving at the same time."

Your wife, Carrie Preston, is on True Blood, which also got lots of nominations. So she should get to go to the ceremony too.
"Oh yeah. We'll be there together. I think she might be shooting today, or taking care of our ongoing plumbing nightmare at our home. She might be up to her neck in water."

How are you going to celebrate today?
"Sometimes the best thing to do is counterbalance it with some really mundane domestic pursuits. I might actually do some ironing today. I have to start getting ready for the awards!"

Hey All,
I was one of the lucky few who got a chance to go to the special reveal of Poster 16 for the LOST Underground Art Project in Hollywood, CA at Gallery 1988.

Thanks to several of you who convinced me to go including my podcast partner Karen who called me throughout the day and a special thanks to SNLFanForever for letting me join her and her friend Jessica in line to get in.

It was a really cool event with tons of LOST fans, the Writer/Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and several other members of the producing team and staff.

The art was amazing and I was able to get several autographs on my Season 6 Poster.

NOTE: Poster 16 that was revealed tonight apparently has two clues for Season 6 and Damon Lindelof confirmed one of them when he signed the poster.

You can find the post in the spoilers section here:

http://lostspoilers-odi.blogspot.com/2009/12/season-6-clues-revealed-on-new-lost-arg.html

Check out all the pics I took here:

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