A Lostie lives among us.

She is Elizabeth Mitchell, evil — or is she? — Juliet. That “Other”/fertility doc who kept Jack captive, torturing him with her knowledge of his past, and feeding him grilled sandwiches. She ends up helping Kate and Sawyer escape, gets this close to being executed (she’s branded instead) and appears to be Jack’s newest best friend. Then last week we saw her expelled from Other-land, unconscious and then, out-of-sorts in the jungle, cuffed to none other than Kate. A muddy messy fight ensued.

“Lost” is shot in Hawaii, which is where Mitchell recently telephoned from during a day off. At her house on Oahu, her 1 ½-year-old-son C.J. had just been put down for a nap and she was looking forward to watching an episode of the show at the house of cast member Jorge Garcia (who plays Hurley) later that evening.

Q: Your acting roots are in soaps?

A: Actually, my roots are in theater. I did a soap for maybe three months. And then I got fired from a TV job (”L.A. Firefighters”). I don’t think they liked me. I didn’t realize what a blessing it was. At the time it’s horrific and you think, “I shouldn’t be doing this.” Rejection just builds you up. And then you build up your own ego. And you build up your own way of getting back in and you just do it. When I got fired I booked “Gia.” The right door opened.

Q: How did playing Angelina Jolie’s lover, or Mrs. Kris Kringle, or Teresa Earnhardt (in “The Dale Earnhardt Story”) help you with the role of Juliet?

A: Everybody really pretty much helped me. Having a baby helped me. It’s about getting to a place where I am unafraid as an actress. I don’t think I would have been able to play her (Juliet) if I were in my twenties. They wrote me a humdinger of a role and she continues to be that way.

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SyFy Portal Reports:

“Lost” has seen better days. But how bad is it?

“Lost” earned a 7.1 rating/12 share Wednesday — identical to what it did last week — according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research. However, when compared to the rest of television Wednesday night, “Lost” didn’t do half bad in the overnight numbers.

In fact, having Jack (Matthew Fox) return to the beach for the first time this season made “Lost” the fourth most-watched program of the night, behind the “American Idol” results show on Fox (which earned a 16.2/25) and a new episode of “CSI: NY,” which had an 8.5/14 in the same hour as “Lost” and “Criminal Minds” — both on CBS — which had an 8.3/13. The closest any other show came to “Lost’s” ratings was “Jericho” on CBS, which won the 8 p.m. hour with a 5.3/9, Zap2it reported.

“Lost” also apparently is on late enough to where people prefer to have the DVR record it and watch it later. TV Squad reports that when Nielsen includes 7-day time shifted ratings numbers, “Lost” actually gains 2 million viewers, virtually more than any other show on television (with “Heroes” close behind).

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Matthew Fox will light his last cigarette this year – and this time he means it. The Lost star says his New Year Resolution every year is to quit smoking, which never happens, but he’s determined to do it this year because he wants to set a good example for his children, daughter Kyle, 9, and son Byron, 6, with wife Margherita Ronchi.

I make the same one every year and I never keep it, but I’ve vowed that this will be the year when I quit smoking. I go through periods when I smoke a lot depending on how stressed I am. I feel terrible about it because I have kids and I try to hide it from them – but this is the year it’s going to stop.

Source: Teen Hollywood

Buddy TV Reports:

Lost fans should prepare for big reveals in every single episode leading up to the finale, according to the buzz. Everyone from E!Online’s spoiler queen Kristin, to the LOST producers themselves are claiming that huge answers are on the way as LOST picks up its down hill momentum towards it’s May 23rd finale. What mysteries will be explained? What character meets up can we look forward to? Read on for some exclusive spoilers and hints.

*Spoiler Alert* Read more only if you wish to read the spoilers.

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TV Week reports:

ABC’s “Lost” continued its downward trend Wednesday, with the show hitting new season lows.

ABC was second with two episodes of “George Lopez” (2.0 and 2.4), “According to Jim” (2.1) and “In Case of Emergency” (1.9). At 10 p.m., “Lost” earned a 4.8, marking its seventh straight week of decline.

ABC pointed out that “Lost” has recently been the most recorded broadcast show on television, gaining more than 22 percent more viewers in the demo due to time-shifted viewing.

Was it the odd scheduling of episodes, or the change in start time to 10 p.m., the reason ratings have dropped for “Lost“?

Naveen Andrews, who plays Sayid on ABC’s hit series, told SciFi Wire that he believes the network may be considering a later start for the fourth season, which would begin in January and run straight without a break, as has been done with “Alias” in the past, and Fox’s “24.”

“I believe that’s the plan,” Andrews said in a new interview.

In the current season, “Lost” premiered in the fall, but then ran for only six weeks before taking a 13-week hiatus and finally returning with new episodes in February. While the show continues to draw in viewers, it lost a significant chunk of its audience in that time.

“Lost” also moved to a later timeslot, Wednesdays at 10 p.m., which may have been a factor in losing a significant portion of its audience.

“I think they should make it sort of like what it was before,” Andrews said. “I liked it when it started a little bit earlier, because a lot of the audience are kids, aren’t they? I thought, ‘Hmm.’”

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Lost stars Naveen Andrews and Dominic Monaghan are bemoaning the lack of screen time they have in the third season of the desert island show.

The British actors earn a reported $78,000 a week playing Sayid Jarrah (Andrews) and Charlie Pace (Monaghan), but admit they spend a lot of time sitting around with nothing to do.

Andrews says, “Even though I like getting paid for doing nothing, it is nice occasionally to work.”

Monaghan adds, “As one person works more, work is being taken away from another. You have to make your peace with that.

Executive producer Carlton Cuse explains, “The actors are frustrated. They’re all really good at what they do and it’s difficult when they don’t get a chance to do it.”

Source: Hollywood.com

Even in death, Lost’s most reviled castaways can’t get any peace. In the March 28th episode, Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) and Paolo (Rodrigo Santoro) — who were clumsily introduced at the beginning of season three and never forgiven for it — were revealed to be diamond-grubbing murderers who, in one of the series’ darkest twists to date, were paralyzed by spider bites and unwittingly buried alive by show heroes Sawyer and Hurley. Response to the episode proved bitterly divided, with viewers and online bloggers falling into two distinctly polarized camps: Those who felt the episode was an unwelcome disruption to the show’s main storyline; and those who felt it was a clever acknowledgment of fan frustration that amounted to, as Hurley said, “one of the most awesome hours of television ever.” (Among the episode’s many inside jokes: Sawyer’s “Who the hell’s Nikki?” crack, and Nikki’s plea to Paolo upon seeing dead step-siblings Shannon and Boone: “Promise me we’ll never end up like them.)

For their part, producers say they expected the episode to be “good watercooler” fodder. “People hated the characters before they even opened their mouths because it felt like they were crashing the party,” says executive producer Damon Lindelof. “The easiest thing would’ve been to forget they ever happened, like the cougar on [the second season of] 24. But that’s not Lost.”

Instead, he and fellow show-runner Carlton Cuse decided to craft an episode that would serve as a rejoinder to the character criticism. “The audience rebelled against Nikki and Paolo [because] we introduced them in a way that they were supposed to believe they had been there all along,” Lindelof says. “So our response was, ‘Well, let’s show the audience that they have been there all along.’” The producers also felt that Sanchez and Santoro deserved a shot at redeeming themselves. “Rodrigo and Kiele are talented actors who were being underutilized,” Lindelof says. “They deserved their chance at bat.”

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In the two most recent episodes of “Lost,” John Locke told a few lies, killed an “Other,” blew up a hatch full of communication devices and then set off more explosives in the Others’ submarine to prevent anyone from leaving or arriving on the island. It’s a far cry from the weeks he spent in a hole in the ground last season, punching computer buttons, only to emerge feeling like he wasted his time.

“Lost” mythology has cast Locke, played by Emmy-nominated Terry O’Quinn, as the show’s most enigmatic character. When Locke has his mojo, it seems, so does “Lost.” In fact, the arc of Locke, and even O’Quinn’s own story, closely parallel the highs and lows of the ABC serialized ensemble drama that changed television three years ago. Now, 80 days into the journey of the plane-crash survivors, what most viewers intuited from the beginning seems to hold true: Locke is one important dude.

But is he the most significant castaway? The creators of “Lost” would never say anything that definitively, but they were willing to offer a glimpse of the way they’ve embedded some of the series’ most telling elements in his story from the beginning. Co-creator Damon Lindelof confirms that in the end, Locke will be among the ones who matter most. Executive producer Carlton Cuse added this, with all the finality he could muster: “The character of John Locke is just the very heart of the show.”

When Locke boarded Oceanic Flight 815, he was in a wheelchair. But when the plane crashed, he could mysteriously walk, and that seemed to bond him to the island forever. Wednesday’s episode finally revealed to viewers how he became paralyzed: His con artist of a father, who years ago manipulated Locke into giving him a kidney, pushed him out a high-rise window, hoping to kill him. Then it did what “Lost” does. It delivered another whopper: Locke’s father is tied up and gagged on “Other” territory.

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Expose

So, ‘Expose’ — 1 hour of pure torture or the best friggin’ episode ever? A little bit of both, I’d say. When the episode begins, you see Nikki, running through the jungle, and my first reaction was “damn it, I knew this was coming, an episode entirely about Nikki.” I was no longer excited about seeing the episode, and was quite disappointed. I had secretly been hoping the writers would forget about Paulo and Nikki, pretend they never existed and move on. But no, they decided to make a whole episode just about them – eek!

What?

In one of the first scenes, Nikki is seen coming out from the jungle, onto the beach, where Hurley and Sawyer are. Something is wrong and she falls on the sand, whispers a few words, which at the time didn’t make any sense (but Hurley believes she said “Paulo lies”), and then…well she looks dead. A confused and shocked looking Hurley, looks up at Sawyer and says “she’s dead.” At this point I am in denial, I am smiling at the thought of Nikki’s character being written out of the show, but I am not jumping up and down because I don’t believe that she is actually dead – that would just be too good to be true. Sawyer and Hurley take off to find Paulo, only to find him lying in the jungle looking dead. WHAT? They’re both dead? No way!

Flashbacks

The flashbacks begin, and we get to see what these two new characters (who most Lost fans already hate) are all about — murder! We learn that, in Australia, Paulo and Nikki pretended to be people they’re not, in order to get close to a rich man, who they then kill. Once the man is dead, they steal a bag of diamonds, and leave the country, on the doomed flight 815, and that’s how they end up on the island. Yep, these new people, who we have to learn to love, are murderers! That doesn’t make it any easier. I now hate them even more, and can see no reason whatsoever for them to be on the show. We already have a murderer, in fact there’s a few of them.

The Diamonds

As the episode unfolds, we learn that Paulo and Nikki lost the diamonds in the crash, but eventually Paulo finds them, only, he doesn’t tell Nikki. Once Nikki finds out he has been hiding them from her, she is furious. She comes up with a screwed up way to get them back — she throws a poisonous spider at him, that bites him. More spiders then come along and Nikki gets bitten, causing her to panic and run. She hides the diamonds, and then run towards the beach where she then finds Hurley and Sawyer. At this point we realize they have both been bitten and are paralyzed, but only for a few hours. The other people on the island do not know that, and assume they are dead.

Is this really happening?

The rest of the people on the island start to dig holes, for Nikki and Paulo’s bodies. As they start to bury them, I expect Paulo and/or Nikki to wake up and stop the great thing from happening, but they don’t. More and more dirt is thrown on them, we see very little of their bodies, and then as the last little bit of dirt is about to cover Nikki’s face, she opens her eyes! She’s not dead, she is very much still alive and has heard everything people have been saying. She knows people think she is dead, but by the time she “wakes up”, it is too late. They have been buried alive, they’re gone, out of the picture – no longer part of Lost! I am now laughing and thanking the writers for listening to the fans. I’m surprised, but very appreciative! How awesome is Lost? The writers actually re-wrote the story to please us angry (and hard to please) fans.

I LOVE LOST!