June 5th, 2009 (10:00 am)
Last... winter? Summer? Anyway, sometime before Season 4 of LOST started, my friend Emily decided it was my job to explain the whole series thus far to her, and so I made this massive character guide that was accurate for about a minute and then season 5 happened and rendered most of it moot. (Incidentally, the guide, lecture, and youtube playlist together took roughly 8 and a half hours to get through.)
I'm updating the character guide now. (Not NOW now. When I get home.) Adding the newly important characters (I've come up with Lapidus, Ilana, Ricardus &hearts, and Jacob--should I add Pierre Chang? Or anyone else?) is not that hard. Updating the other characters' biographies will be nothing short of laborious. (LABORIOUS OKAY.)
But that's not the problem. I've got something like 3 months if I want it done by the end of the summer, 7-8 if I just need it done before LOST starts again. No, the problem is just two words long:
CURRENT. LOCATION.
One of the fields I have on every character bio is Current Location. Last season, that wasn't so bad. A few "unknown"s, but mostly "on the Island," "off the Island," "deceased".
This season, not so simple. We know where Walt is. We know where the dead people are. But everyone else?
Two possibilities I've thought of: replace "Current Location" with "Last Known Location" or "Last Seen," or else assume all the people in 2007 are still on the Island in 2007, and then do something else with the 1977 people. (What about Juliet? Do I mark her "deceased" or give her the benefit of the doubt?)
I'm actually supposed to be working on my financial aid, you know.
anyway thanks for bearing with me. to make this post a little prettier, here:



