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Re: The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

As an academic, I'm well

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 12:27 pm

As an academic, I'm well used to videos where fans cleverly select from the official text to support their own reading. But watching this, I found myself responding with mild outrage (even while I admired the execution) and mockery... as a Sawyer fan ...

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“You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

February 13, 2008

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gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...

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The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

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Stacey Abbott Roehampton University

February 13, 2008

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The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost Lost narrative cult fan videos character-driven plots Curator's Note Lost is a conundrum. Its phenomenal success positions it squarely within mainstream television while its enigmatic and seemingly s ...

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Re: Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale

Stacey asks "If the fans are

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Jason Mittell Middlebury College

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 3:20 am

creative possibilities. ...

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Re: Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale

Oh, one more note: Somehow,

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Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 12:09 am

he doesn't remember, in this moment, that his father is dead. Possible, and I'd bet ... that's how he was advised to play the line by the showrunners. But the last possibility, of course, is ... again. (After all, the show has given sufficient evidence to suggest that this is possible.) What ...

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Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale

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Will Brooker Kingston University

February 12, 2008

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Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale transmedia temporality puzzles narrative Lostpedia Lost games fandom collective intelligence brand communities ARG ABC Curator's Note It opens, of course, in medias res. We are thrown into the scene – thrown forw ...

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Re: Lost as TV3

I'm going to out myself as

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Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

Monday, February 11, 2008 — 11:34 pm

I'm going to out myself as quasi-obsessive here: I find it particularly interesting that while the advertisement is ostensibly for the "Missing Pieces" clips, so far as I can tell, little or none of the footage in this ad is FROM the mobiso ...

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Re: A Day in the Life: Using the Music - a Dead Zone vid by Shalott and Speranza

I'm another one who is

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008 — 9:25 pm

I'm another one who is compelled by this vid into wanting to see the show-- one more for the list of TV shows where I'm interested in canon mostly as a means to better appreciate fan production! I definitely found the familiarity and emotional h ...

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