From Damon Lindelof, the executive producer of Lost comes the news:
OBAMA BACKED DOWN!!!! Groundhog Day is OURS!!!!!!! (God Bless America)
Okay. So Obama didn't technically "back down." He leveraged Carlton and I to do something on the show. Two words. MORE FROGURT.
I thought that the real Damon Lindelof twitter was this one
twitter.com/TheRealDamon
cool,
you seem to be right, but I saw the report in multiple locations, I will link to a more legit one.Actually, reading his other Twitter account indicates that both are “really” him now. I am switching the post back.
The Huffington Post has the story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/gibbs-state-of-the-union_n_416538.html
woo Obama’s first good decision as President… give the man the Nobel Peace Prize!! oh wait, he already got that before doing ANYTHING
oh well LOST is safe
Well thank goodness some pesky world leader isn’t going to interfere with the Lost premier, after all we have to keep our priorities straight.
LOST, more powerful than the President of the United States
@cimmer, yes we do and if you think listening to Obama spout more worthless agree-or-take-a-hike-speeches is more important than the final season of a tv show, you have your priorities wrong.
Still, how did the viewers of Lost ever get past the whole polar bear thing? Seriously, polar bears on a tropical island and Lost is still “amazing” but Heroes rips off “the Fly” a little bit and is suddenly considered trash. That’s fair. (sarcasm)
The SOTU has been on Tuesdays as long as I can remember. If they’re not going to pre-empt LOST, then they need to do it in January, because LOST will be on every Tuesday from Feb. 2 until the end of May. The quote from the WH official doesn’t seem to take that into account.
Devdog, January 26 was the other date bandied about earlier. It just became a lot more likely.
Thanks, Bill. That makes more sense.
[Lost spoiler I guess:]
@Johnthemon
The polar bears weren’t naturally there, they were brought there… Does that make a difference?
Does anyone really care what Obama says anymore? I sure don’t. I’d watch Sesame Street before I’d watch the State of the Union.
It’s the civic duty of all stations to preempt their programming in favor of the state of the Union address. Every citizen glued to the TV should know what’s up with their country.
Having said that, this year’s speech should be short and sweet: “The state of the union IS an unprecendented train wreck. My administration’s systematic failure to address issues by priority had nothing to do with it. There’s enough blame to go around and I take full responsibility.”
If I ran a Network, knowing the President was making a Television Appearence, and I also knew that the other Networks were pre-empting their Programming. I would NOT JOIN THEM! Oh, what about “Civic Duty” or being “Un American”? Guess what? I’d be using ANOTHER woek, written by our Founding Fathers, to defend my Decision. Namely the BILL OF RIGHTS FIRST AMENDMENT!
“Mr. Obama, you can’t preempt the premiere of LOST!”
“Don’t tell me what I can’t do!!”
Good Lord @Johnthemon take a chill pill and smile a little.
However, it would be nice if people got as excited about the State of the Union as about a TV show, but, this is America, TV looms large in our national psyche and the government (regardless of who is in charge) is not foolish enough to compete with a popular TV show. It’s a Max Headroom world. LOL
That’s the beauty of democracy; large segments of the population will always believed we’re doomed based on who’s in control.
LOST: Yes we can!!! lol.
@Johnthemon: The polar bears were brought to the island by the Dharma Initiative. Is that so hard to believe? lol.
I think an alternate solution would have been for ABC to announce they were going to run the SOTU but with a one hour broadcast delay. When pressed for explanation, they would claim it would be to comply with FCC rules and avoid any Adam Lambert-style shenanigans from being aired.
Awesome more Frogurt. I’ve been missing him since he got killed last season.
Johnthemon, ya polar bears were brought to the island for science experiments, as some people already stated.
Also as a fellow Heroes fan, Mohinder’s whole channeling of “the Fly” was only but a taste of some of the stupid choices the writers have done (loving this season though!)
How can they bring back the frogurt guy? Wasn’t he killed by a flaming arrow last season?