'Lost': 'Orientation: Ryan Station' talks 'Everybody Loves Hugo' with special guest Melanie McFarland
Our weekly "Lost" podcast welcomes a new special guest this week! Alongside myself and The Chicago Tribune's Maureen "Mo" Ryan, IMDB.com's television editor Melanie McFarland stopped by to discuss this week's episode of "Lost." We talked for nearly an hour about all things Libby, Desmond, and curiously fake-looking wells. We had a great time, and absolutely no men in wheelchairs were harmed during the taping of this podcast.
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embed of "Everybody Loves Hugo" lies an MP3 player that you can use in-browser.
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it's easier than killing the Devil before he gets a chance to speak.
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Great podcast as always. The wait between eps is infinitely more bearable thanks to you and Mo and everyone else who blogs and podcasts.
Thanks for the podcast guys, i love hearing those discussions about Lost :)
Great cast, thanks.
I think Keamy might have had some knowledge of the other timeline. When he first sees Sun at the hotel, the first thing he says is, "do you know me?" Then he is very concerned when Jin's had is hit on the freezer. Almost like he knows trauma can cause the timelines to merge. Then, when he is talking to Jin he says, "you can't undrstand me, right?" It seems he ight be worried that Sun and Jin will remember him from the other timeline. Then, of course, it appears that Jin has a better understanding of English after his head was hit.
I enjoy your podcast a lot, Ryan, but you need to listen to one or two of them. You use the phrase, "sort of," about a dozen times in every episode . . . as in, "Melanie, how have you been feeling about the sideways stories in sort of season six in general?"
We all have our verbal tics, I realize, and here's your chance to do something about yours.
Another good one, Ryan, and thanks for getting it up before I had to go to work this morning. I took it with me on my drive. Made the time pass.
Just want to say that you and Mo, while you never have a problem pointing out what does not work for you, have not lost your joy for this show, and that makes it so much more enjoyable to listen to you guys go over each episode. I listen to another television podcast, and the two people on are interesting but jaded, so inevitably I get the feeling they just don't even really like even the shows they say they like. They pick nits to death, leeching fun from Lost in great heaping gobs, whereas you guys can point out, dissect, and then laugh about or shrug off anything you find flawed, allowing yourselves to spend most of your time talking about what it is that makes this show so addictive and fun. I get the sense that you guys still enjoy television, and specifically Lost.
Not everyone who writes or talks about TV makes me feel that way. In a world of cynical podcasts, you might not know how rare that quality is, but it's rare enough for me to come back her and scratch your back about it every week. I'm going to put in a weekly request that you guys keep going on TV in general, or whatever you want, once Lost ends.
I'm already losing Lost in six weeks. I don't want to have to lose my Orientation Station Ryan.
Excellent p-cast! A little surprised that Ryan didn't get into it more with the gals once they started yearning for the epilogue. But I digress. I'm thinking a little bit more of the Desmond/Locke speed-bump incident. Mayhap Desmond has the foreknowledge not just of what happened in both time-lines, but a future checklist of things that NEED to happen in this new time-line. Mayhap Desmond already knows that he doesn't kill Locke, maybe he doesn't think that Locke will die from the collision but knows that Locke was "on schedule" to meet (perhaps) Jack in the hospital or Frogurt in the ambulance. Just a thought that arose whilst watching the p-cast.
@Schmoker
Regarding your first sentence:
That's what she said.
You know, you're right. Because they omitted it in "Hugo," I thought I had just assumed Hurley's sideways lottery win in the way I had originally assumed Sun/Jin were married in the sideways timeline. But I just re-read the "LA X" transcript, and you're correct:
"I won the lottery and I like chicken, so I bought it."
So, yea, there's that! My bad.
I am confused I thought Hurley did win the lottery that was why Sawyer says to Hurley on the plane that he should be careful with that information that certain people would take advantage of him, to which Hurley replies that he is the luckiest guy in the world and doesn't need to worry. Hurley was being egged on by Arzt to do an Aussie accent
Brian, you are the first person to get that I always start my first post of the day with the first thing my wife says to me that morning.
Hey, Ryan, they didn't go out of there way to mention the lottery too much, so when you said on the cast that he wasn't a lottery winner, I was like, "Huh? Wha? Oh, I don't remember it either, so I guess he wasn't. I wonder what that means?"
But then Jorge also mentioned in his podcast that not only had Hugo won the lottery, but this time he won even more money. They cut it from the episode, but he won 187 million this time. So, I guess that counts as more luck.