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Was I supposed to know Faraday was Widmore's son before Widmore said that he lost a son to the island?

(Speaking of which, I'm surprised we haven't seen them in the flash-sideways world).

I started thinking about it and couldn't understand how in the world the DI managed to get all the stuff they needed to the island. The VW vans, all the concrete/etc. for building the swan, the big drill thingy that the blew up....they couldn't have brought it all on the sub.

Yeah, we found that out in season 5. It was after Desmond got shot by Ben and Eloise showed up at the hospital. When she was leaving Charles showed up. Eloise was talking about having to send her son back to the island and Charles said he's his son too.

ETA link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88k-25FlNCg

We saw Boone on the plane in the season premiere (he had a conversation with Locke)...the actress that plays Shannon was busy with another project at the time of filming, so they wrote her out of that episode. Boone might yet make another appearance this season, I think we're still due to see Libby and Michael so there's still room for some other people to make an unexpected cameo.

I'm pretty sure all of Lost is filmed in Hawaii, even the "LA" portions. Exterior shots they might take in LA but the actors don't go there.

I find that hard to believe b/c much of the shots look like they're filmed on a mainland city (not necessarily LA, but not HI). I thought they filmed everything in LA first (since they know the script for the rest of the series) and then came onto the island to do the rest.

We never know if ABC would've allowed incest like that since it'd only be half real incest (1 parent) and not the West Virginian kind of incest (both parents).

Maybe they moved the island into the middle of a shopping complex, loaded it up with stuff, then moved it somewhere else.

From wiki:

Filming locations
A local dock in Hawaii, as seen in "Live Together, Die Alone".

Lost is filmed on Panavision 35 mm cameras almost entirely on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The original island scenes for the pilot were filmed at Mokulē'ia Beach, near the northwest tip of the island. Later beach scenes take place in secluded spots of the famous North Shore. Cave scenes in the first season were filmed on a sound stage built at a Xerox parts warehouse, which had been empty since an employee mass shooting took place there in 1999.[30] The sound-stage and production offices have since moved to the Hawaii Film Office-operated Hawaii Film Studio,[31] where the sets depicting Season 2's "Swan Station" and Season 3's "Hydra Station" interiors were built.[32] Various urban areas in and around Honolulu are used as stand-ins for locations around the world, including California, New York, Iowa, Miami, South Korea, Iraq, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Paris, Thailand, Berlin and Australia. For example, scenes set in a Sydney Airport were filmed at the Hawaii Convention Center, while a World War II-era bunker was used as an Iraqi Republican Guard installation. Also, scenes set in Germany during the winter were filmed in a relatively ordinary Hawaiian neighborhood, with crushed ice scattered everywhere to create snow and German automobile signs on the street.[33] Several scenes in the Season 3 finale, "Through the Looking Glass," were shot in Los Angeles, including a hospital set borrowed from Grey's Anatomy. Two scenes during season four were filmed in London because Alan Dale who portrays Widmore was at the time performing in the musical Spamalot and was unable to travel to Hawaii.[34] Extensive archives of filming locations are tracked at a repository at the Lost Virtual Tour.

I'm from WVa and I'm not inbreed although I do have a half brother that's older than my mom

But if ABC wanted to, couldn't they have shot Shannon's stuff near her location (such as LA), and then through the magic of CGI, show her interacting w/ the current cast who are in HI? Or even a quick trip for a few days from the mainland to HI?

I just hope that the script wasn't changed b/c of the supposed lack of availability of Shannon.

I wouldn't really consider Shannon or Boone to be essential characters to the plot at this point...their storylines were pretty much resolved by the time of their respective deaths. If it were somebody like Daniel/Libby/Michael, who left a lot of lingering questions when they died, I could see the producers going a bit more out of their way to make sure they can get the actors in the show somehow, but not Boone or Shannon.

I see, so it's a mini-Hollywood that they have in HI w/ all the resources they poured into various spots of the island state.

But if ABC wanted to, couldn't they have shot Shannon's stuff near her location (such as LA), and then through the magic of CGI, show her interacting w/ the current cast who are in HI? Or even a quick trip for a few days from the mainland to HI?

I just hope that the script wasn't changed b/c of the supposed lack of availability of Shannon.


I figured my statement would've offended someone (I assume you know I meant it in good fun), but that's funny how your half-bro is older than his stepmother.

I wouldn't really consider Shannon or Boone to be essential characters to the plot at this point...their storylines were pretty much resolved by the time of their respective deaths. If it were somebody like Daniel/Libby/Michael, who left a lot of lingering questions when they died, I could see the producers going a bit more out of their way to make sure they can get the actors in the show somehow, but not Boone or Shannon.