Statistical upset #2 has occurred as the hobbit beats the smoke monster! The Man in Black was predicted to win this round in just over 51% of all brackets. Here's how that and yesterday's other matchup turned out:
Charlie 56.18% - Man in Black 43.82%
Desmond Hume 90.26% - Mr. Eko 9.74%
This leaves us with just one perfect bracket in the tournament. Congrats to Jonathan "spruce-moose" Dowkes for being the last bracket standing. All eyes are upon you now. We'll see if you can go the distance.
Today our matchups feature some very interesting Island-dwellers. Up first is the new keeper of the Island taking on a man who surprised many with his win in Round 2. Does Daniel have another surprise win in the tank or will Hurley rule the day? Second is a battle between the former keeper of the Island and his right hand man. Will it be Jacob or Richard?
Cast your votes and we'll find out! :-)
DarkUFO Character Cup: Round 3, Matches 3-4
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2010 Character Competition - Jack Shephard vs. Kate Austen - Round 3.3 - Day 19
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It's Jack vs Kate in the SpoilerTV Character Cup.
Vote and comments HERE
2010 Character Cup: Round 3, Matches 1-2
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Well, the Kate Hate seems to be alive and well here at DarkUFO months after the series' end but would you believe that Daniel's win was NOT a statistical upset? Roughly 54.4% of our bracketeers picked him to win. Here's yesterday's results:
Man in Black 84.59% - Walt 15.41%
Daniel 57.71% - Kate 42.29%
Miles 63.14% - Claire 36.86%
Jacob 94.44% - Paulo 5.56%
So Bernard over Pierre remains the only statistical upset thus far. And, thanks to victories by Daniel and Miles, we're down to just 2 perfect brackets! Congrats to our leaders but today one of you will fall!
As we head into Round 3, we're cutting down to two matchups a day. Our first matchup is a battle of polar opposites. Both characters first showed up is Season 1. One is a fan favorite for being a good guy. The other is a fan favorite for being delightfully evil. Our second matchup pits two Season 2 favorites against each other. Will it be the Jesus Stick or the Hatch Man?
Get those votes in!
Josh Holloway joins Mission: Impossible 4
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“Lost” star Josh Holloway is joining the “Mission: Impossible” team.
In his first major screen role since wrapping the ABC show, Holloway is in final negotiations to act as a member of the Impossible Mission Force, the secret agent task force headed by Tom Cruise in Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible 4.”
Holloway boards the ever-growing Brad Bird-directed pic, whose cast, in addition to Cruise, already includes Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Vladimir Mashkov as well as franchise vets Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg.
Story details are being kept in a self-destructable vault thus no information on Holloway’s character was available.
J.J. Abrams, who is producing with Cruise and Paula Wagner, worked on the story with scribes Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, who have written the screenplay.
The production is scouting locations in Vancouver, Prague and Dubai for a fall shoot with an eye towards a December 2011 release.
“Impossible” will be the first studio picture for Holloway, who spent six seasons as heartthrob anti-hero Sawyer on “Lost,” which was exec produced by Abrams. He has appeared in a couple of indies, including “Stay Cool” and “Whisper,” although he had to pass on larger opportunities that tended to overlap the TV show, which shot in Hawaii.
Holloway is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
2010 Character Cup: Round 2, Matches 13-16
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Alright! Another close match to add a little excitement to the tournament. Here's how the matches ended up:
Jack 90.04% - Rousseau 9.96%
Juliet 89.53% - Eloise 10.47%
Sun 80.48% - Bernard 19.52%
Mr. Eko 51.52% - Frank 48.48%
Mr. Eko's win brought the Jesus Stick down on a few of our bracketeers. We're now down to just 11 perfect brackets. Today's matchups are sure to cause a few more of them plenty of grief.
Today matches include a nearly ageless man taking on a youth, a fugitive going head to head with a scientist, a man with a knack for the supernatural and a Lostie who took a year off, and a battle between two men known only by one name.
Get those votes in and hang on for dear life! Round 2 is ending with a bang!
Ben vs Juliet in the SpoilerTV Character Cup
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Ben and Juliet have been drawn together in the latest SpoilerTV Character Cup.
2010 Character Cup: Round 2, Matches 9-12
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Welcome back for another week of carnage! Here are the results from Friday:
Sayid 66.2% - Jin 33.8%
Hurley 95.87% - Shannon 4.13%
Locke 91.95% - Alex 8.05%
Desmond 94.12% - Penny 5.88%
We're down to just 17 perfect brackets now. Will any more crumble today?
Today's matches feature two Season 1 characters going head to head, two ladies from Season 3 going at it, an original Lostie going against the last remaining Tailie, and a likable Season 4 character taking on one of Season 2's most popular newcomers.
Get out the vote and see who wins tomorrow!
Historia Insulae: The Cultural History of the Island in Lost by Pearson Moore
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Historia Insulae:
The Cultural History of the Island in Lost
by Pearson Moore
LOST was the story of a struggle to control the Island.
Except the antagonist didn't want any part of the Island; he'd have been happiest returning to Rome, never again to see his tropical prison. Okay, then, LOST must have been the story of the struggle to replace Jacob. Except we know two events carried greater importance: the destruction of the Smoke Monster and the replacement of the Cork Stone. Hmm... no matter how we look at LOST, ferreting out the purpose seems impossible.
If we approach LOST in a conventional manner we will never understand the series. The story was presented in non-linear fashion, and understanding any single piece of the puzzle requires intimate knowledge of every other piece. But we need to know much more than this. We have to understand the most important character in the series.
The story focussed on a single character, present in every one of the 121 episodes. This character had a back story and a culture all her own. She was strong-willed, always on the move, responsible for not one but several murders. No one could control her. This character made her own rules, and everyone, even the Protector of the Island, was obliged to obey her.
The most important character in LOST, the one whom all obeyed, was the Island. LOST was not the story of a struggle to control the Island. It was the story of a struggle to surrender control, to work toward a common destiny. LOST was the story of the survivors' relationship with a living, breathing Island.
2010 Character Cup: Round 2, Matches 5-8
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It only took until Round 2 but we've finally had a day without cutting any perfect brackets. Here's the results:
Charlie 88.86% - Charles 11.14%
Ben 91.96% - Boone 8.04%
Sawyer 94.57% - Tom 5.43%
Richard 84.61% - Christian 15.39%
Today just might present us with more drama as two of Lost's main characters through all six seasons go head to head. We've also got a former main character going against a Lostie who made it all the way to the end, two characters who turned up dead during Season 4, and a heart-breaker as one of Lost's greatest couples turn on each other for our tournament.
Get those votes in and come back on Monday for the next matchups!
2010 Character Cup: Round 2, Matches 1-4
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Wow! How about a heart-stopper to close out Round 1? Bernard and Pierre were separated by single digits at times but only one of them came out on top. Here are yesterday's winners:
Jin 95.39% - Helen 4.61%
Juliet 94.59% - George 5.41%
Bernard 51.75% - Pierre 48.25%
Jacob 84.44% - Charlotte 15.56%
Bernard's victory marks our first statistical upset of the tournament. Only 45.1% of our bracket contestants picked Bernard to win, with Pierre snagging 54.8% of predictions. So was this a bracket buster? Yes and no. We're down to just 18 perfect brackets and I'm now 30 for 32. How are your brackets looking?
Now we're on to Round 2!
Mega Post - LOST - Complete Series - Cast Promotional Photos (UHQ)
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We've recently been posting some of the Cast Promotional Photos.
I'm currently uploading the complete set of photos in UHQ format for you all to enjoy. These are ALL the cast promotional photos that I have for ALL the seasons in the largest possible resolution. So please don't ask for any more, I don't have them.
Keep checking back here to see the photos as they get added by Season. There is over 1GB of photos so obviously it's taking a while to process.
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NBC lands J.J. Abrams' Project With Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn
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Thanks to everyone for the heads up.
What do you know -- the Lost castaways have found new primetime land. A fresh hourlong project starring Lost alums Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn and executive produced by Lost co-creator/exec producer JJ Abrams has landed at NBC with a big put pilot commitment. Lost's home network, ABC, did bid aggressively on the the show and came close to locking it in. But, after the show went down to the wire with ABC, NBC ultimately snagged it. Life on Mars co-creators/exec producers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, who worked with Abrams on his ABC spy drama Alias, are writing the pilot for Warner Bros TV and Abrams' Bad Robot. Appelbaum and Nemec are executive producing with Abrams and Bryan Burk. Like with all JJ Abrams projects, the premise for the show, called for now Odd Jobs, is being kept under wraps. But Emerson and O'Quinn are expected to play former special ops agents.
After having done no projects with Abrams until last year, NBC has now picked up 2 in a row: last year's Undercovers and the now untitled Appelbaum/Nemec drama. NBC landed both after a bidding war with ABC. This marks the first sale for Appelbaum and Nemec under their overall deal with Warner Bros TV signed earlier this year. On the feature side, they are writing Mission Impossible: 4 for Abrams. It's been a strong selling season for Bad Robot with 3 production-size commitments. Its drama Alcatraz has already been officially greenlighted to pilot at Fox. The Appelbaum/Nemec one at NBC and another one with Jonah Nolan at CBS are both looking good to get to the pilot stage.
Source: NBC
Complete LOST Promotional Photo Set - Season 1
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Well, I say complete, I think this is pretty much the lot that I have.
2010 Character Cup: Day 8, Matches 29-32
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The end is near, Lost fans! Well, the end of Round 1. Today is the last day of our opening round. Beginning tomorrow, we begin Round 2. Congrats to yesterday's winners, who we'll be seeing again:
Walt 67.73% - Libby 32.27%
Daniel 97.85% - Roger 2.15%
Locke 94.26% - 5.74%
Richard 96.14% - Nikki 3.86%
Now it's time to close out Round 1. Today we've got a man and a woman that were each a part of tragic romances, an Other going against a member of the freighter crew, a dentist going head to head with a scientist, and a time traveling woman taking on the guardian of the Island.
There's just 38 perfect brackets left. How many more will we lose today? Vote and we'll see!
