When we last left our Losties, Ben had informed Jack that ALL of the Oceanic Six have to get together in order for any of them to get back to the island.

But why?

Well, E! supposedly has the scoopety-scoop on that one—and do I really need to say, “Stop reading now if you don’t want to know more?”

But if you do, click through for the details:

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What’s that? Another mysterious gal added to the “Lost” cast?

Boring? Never! Can’t get enough of those, I say.

The latest news—courtesy of Entertainment Weekly’s Ausiello Files—is that the show has finally hired a gal for what they’re calling the pivotal role of a dangerous European woman named Ilana.

Snagging the role is British actress Zuleikha Robinson, who most recently appeared on FOX’s sadly short-lived detective series, “New Amsterdam.” (She was the one with the immortal NYPD partner. If you never saw the show, don’t ask, but in my opinion, FOX should have given that series a chance…)

Anyway, I suppose every black cloud has a silver lining, and in Robinson’s case, that lovely lining is “Lost.”

And for those thinking that this part is just another one-off for yet another elusive female—as in Elsa, the counter-spy killed by Sayid in last season’s jaw-dropping “The Economist” episode—never fear!

According to Ausiello, Ilana will be sticking around for awhile. Robinson’s deal is reportedly for a recurring role in Season 5, with the option of becoming a series regular in the show’s final season.

Until early next year, when “Lost” returns, we’ll just have to spend our time figuring out how Ilana factors into the Mystery Island puzzle…

(Cast photo courtesy of ABC)

Remote Access voters love their TV, but that adoration doesn’t necessarily extend to many shows on the new fall slate.

Asked “How many new TV series will you watch at least one episode of this fall?”, the answer that got the most responses was “1 or 2,” with seven tallies.

This was my vote, for what it’s worth, because it takes a lot for me to sacrifice another hour or two for new series, so the pitches have to be particularly impressive or unique.

The lone new series I’m making a point to watch this fall is “Fringe,” and that’s primarily due to Lance Reddick, the actor known to faithful viewers of “The Wire” as Cedric Daniels. Other than that, nothing new on network TV interests me and I have about eight active shows that I keep up with on a regular or semi-regular basis.

Besides, I spend plenty of time doing things other than watch TV. That doesn’t make me a snob; my frequent use of semicolons does.

That’s due in part to the writers’ strike limiting production on pilots, resulting in networks having fewer choices from which to pick.

However, five votes were tallied among those who plan to watch at least one ep of “3 or4″ new series, and an additional five were from RA readers who will watch “5 or more” series this fall. Hope you clear enough space on your DVRs, people.

A couple of voters said they’d watch no new series due to a lack of time and another voter said they’d watch none due to a lack of interest.

The next Remote Access poll is the brainchild of fellow Accessory Brian Howard: “What series from the last decade have you never seen but most want to catch up with?” My answer is “Lost,” because much like “The Wire,” which I have seen and love, the complex plots of the ABC drama and voluminous previous seasons are what keep me from tuning in.

Now, I know what some of you are thinking, and here’s my reply: This poll requires the honor code. We know how many of you RA readers watch “Jericho,” “The Wire” and “Deadwood,” so please don’t vote for your favorite show just to tilt the balance if you’ve seen one or more episodes. Play fair, kids.

Yup, you read that right: According to Michael Ausiello over at Entertainment Weekly, Michelle Rodriguez has been hired for one episode of “Lost” to resurrect the late, not-so-much lamented Ana-Lucia.

Given that we last saw Ana buried in the island boneyard with her fellow murdered-by-Michael-victim, Libby, I agree that she’ll likely return as a ghost—just as Libby did in last season’s final hours.

Ausiello speculates that she’ll be part of a Hurley-centric installment, since Cheech Marin (Hurley’s dad) is scheduled to be in the same episode.

And it’s definitely interesting that Ana, Libby and Mr. Eko—all deceased, but important, figures from the Tail section—are being worked back into the show.

I’m curious to see if the producers actually convince Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje to return as Eko—in the flesh, that is. (Hurley was playing chess with an invisible Eko in the May season finale.)

At the recent Comic-Con, the Lost bosses said that they were sorry to see Eko’s storyline cut short in Season 3, but the actor didn’t like shooting in Hawaii, and he’d asked to be written off the show. Could they have been hinting that they’ve persuaded him to take a short trip back for the upcoming season?

So what’s the theory here, Lost-philes? Why are these Tailies coming back to the island?

And will you be glad to see Ana-Lucia again? I know there are lots of Ana haters out there, but I personally thought she was just a tough cookie with a lot more story to tell.

Don’t forget, she’s got connections to Jack and Christian Shephard, not to mention Hurley. (Her old LAPD partner, Big Mike, questioned Hurley after he returned home and got spooked by Ghost Charlie.)

So what unfinished business could she have with our Losties?

(Photo courtesy of the Associated Press)

I gave you the scoop last week that Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly were asking ABC to bump up their “Lost” paychecks.

Well, there’s no word on Lilly’s salary yet—or on whether the rest of the renegotiating ensemble cast will get a raise, too—but Fox must be one happy castaway.

The Hollywood Reporter says that the actor will now get about $225,000 per episode, up from the $150,000 he was making.

According to THR, that’s what the leading ladies of “Desperate Housewives”—also on ABC—are raking in.

Jack-haters may wonder if Fox is worth that much—or that much more than the rest of the Losties.

But is he worth significantly less than Zach Braff?

Last year, NBC promised the “Scrubs” star a reported $350,000-an-episode to bring the show back for another season—then the network dumped it because of low ratings.

ABC picked it up for its eighth year—presumably agreeing to Braff’s insane salary—and then buried the sitcom in mid-season.

Go figure.

(Photo courtesy of ABC)

Here’s an even better question: Are Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly worth A LOT MORE than $150,000 an episode?

The Hollywood Reporter says that ABC has quietly (until now, that is) started to re-negotiate contracts with our beloved show’s Jack and Kate to seriously bump up their paychecks.

Let’s do the math: At their CURRENT $150k hourly rate and 32 episodes to go before the series ends, the two actors would rake in $4.8 million.

There’s no telling what that number will go up to after their agents hustle for their 10 percent.

This is nothing new in Hollywood: Actors on shows that become big hits do this all the time. So Fox and Lilly aren’t really being greedy. It’s just show business as usual.

And spare me the whining about how they get paid more for a week’s work than most Americans earn in a few years: I know, life is unfair.

But in their wonderfully rich world, is it fair that Fox and Lilly get paid almost DOUBLE the salary of their co-stars? (THR puts the majority of the cast in the range of $80-90k per episode.)

That’s likely because Fox and Lilly are considered lead actors: That’s the category they get put in when it comes time to consider awards like the Emmys.

The rest of the ensemble are technically supporting players, even if Locke, Desmond, Sayid and Ben seemed to get just as much screen time as Jack and Kate last season. (Terry O’Quinn won last year’s Emmy in the supporting category, and Michael Emerson is nominated in the same group this year.)

Not surprisingly, THR says that once word of these talks leaked out, reps for a bunch of the other Losties started giving ABC a ringy-dingy about their own clients.

I’m guessing O’Quinn’s agent will be waving around that little gold statuette a lot and saying things like, “Dudes. Fox and Lilly haven’t ever even been NOMINATED.”

And Emerson’s might be overheard mumbling something like, “OK, so the other two are hot. Big deal. My man is freakin’ BEN! He’s eeevil. Or is he? Pay up.”

One more thing to put all this in perspective: Whatever they end up paying Fox and Lilly, it wonn’t compare to what the highest paid actor on TV is getting.

Who’s that, you ask? Click here and tell me if this doofus is worth $850,000 a week for basically playing himself?

And yes, that works out to just under $20 MILLION A YEAR.

That’s a hard one to swallow, so I’ll cleanse everyone’s palate with a little “Lost” scoop straight from Entertainment Weekly’s Doc Jensen: The name of Season 5’s premiere episode is “Because You Left.”

You’ve got about five months to dissect that one.

(Photos courtesy of ABC)

We all knew the “Lost” cast had to be some kind of gorgeous to make blood, sweat and general jungle grime look really, really good.

But damn, once those crazy island kids shower and put on some new clothes, they’re the sexiest castaways ever.

What the heck am I talking about? Well, even though “Lost” won’t be back for another six months, ABC just released a gallery of new photos of the individual actors. And in addition to shots in their usual island garb of jeans and T-shirts, there’s a second set of them all glammed up.

I mean, Kate, Sun and Juliet are seriously va-va-voom. Sawyer and Sayid are more smokin’ than usual. Even Hurley and Ben clean up impressively.

But there’s a lot more going on with these pictures than just looking at the pretty people. (Although that’s fun, too: I’m considering using the one of Jin as my screensaver.)

Now, seriously, what do these photos say about the upcoming Season 5? Because as any Lost-phile knows, there’s always hidden messages in anything the show puts out there.

Remember last year’s poster of the island’s reflection in the ocean? Sharp-eyed fans noticed that the image wasn’t of the island, but of a city skyline—hinting at Season 4’s main story arc of the Oceanic Six going home.

So what could a photo of Claire dressed in black mean for upcoming episodes? Are the producers acknowledging that she is indeed dead—or undead, kind of like Christian?

Here’s another one to ponder: Why is there a new picture of Michael? Why is actor Harold Perrineau listed with the other series regulars?

Michael obviously died in the finale’s freighter explosion—and it would seem that Perrineau’s rant about how the handling of his death had racist implications wouldn’t exactly encourage the producers to bring him back. Was it all an elaborate ruse to throw us off track?

Click through to check out the rest of the cast photos—and start wondering how they figure into the “Lost” world…

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Just when I thought I’d buried my “Lost” obsession (at least until February, when Season 5 kicks in), a little July event called Comic-Con has to happen.

The show’s producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (a.k.a. Darlton), have been breaking radio silence at the convention for a few years now. And while they didn’t deliver any earth-shattering island news, there were some definite points of interest.

Mainly, that we haven’t seen the last of Locke or Jin!

We last saw Locke in the coffin during the finale’s last moments, and we haven’t learned the fate of Jin on the exploding freighter. But dead or not, don’t worry: Terry O’Quinn and Daniel Dae Kim aren’t unemployed.

Darlton confirmed that the two will be back in some capacity, and that death is a “relative term” on the show.

Same goes for Rousseau, who bit the bullet last season with Karl. We’ll be getting more info on her—FINALLY!—though the producers said it won’t necessarily be in a flashback.

In fact, speaking of flashbacks, that’s SOOO Season 4. We’re done with those—and flash-forwards, too.

The show will be time-hopping like Bunny  No. 15 on and off the island, and you’re not going to know where or WHEN you are. (The guy who makes the whooshing sound effect gets to keep his job, too—YAY!)

And who else will we be seeing more of?

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Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and the good news: Comedies like “30 Rock” and “The Office” are in the mix for best series, as well they should.

The bad: I swear the only reason “The Wire” isn’t among the best drama nominees is because lazy Emmy voters—i.e. most of them—never saw the show. Despite a phenomenal fifth and final season, it’s only up for one writing award. Its only other nomination, also for writing, was back in 2005.

Geez. Where’s the acting love for Lance Riddick (Daniels), Clarke Johnson (Gus), Michael K. Williams (Omar) or Sonja Sohn (Kima)? The only rationale for no acting nominations I can think of is that so many talented “Wire” actors have split the vote over the last five seasons.

“John Adams” led the Emmy nomination pack with 23, and “Mad Men” (17) and “Damages” (16) were the first basic-cable series to be up for top drama.

I’m sure you’ll hear more Emmy commentary from many of us in the weeks to come before the Sept. 21 broadcast, but here’s the crucial info you need to know.

Drama: “Boston Legal,” “Damages,” “Dexter,” “House,” “Lost” and “Mad Men.”

Comedy: “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Entourage,” “The Office,” “30 Rock” and “Two and a Half Men.”

Best actor—drama: Gabriel Byrne (”In Treatment”), Bryan Cranston (”Breaking Bad”), Michael C. Hall (”Dexter”), Jon Hamm (”Mad Men”), Hugh Laurie (”House”) and James Spader (”Boston Legal”).

Best actress—drama: Glenn Close (”Damages”), Sally Field (”Brothers and Sisters”), Mariska Hargitay (”Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Holly Hunter (”Saving Grace”) and Kyra Sedgwick (”The Closer”).

Best actor—comedy: Alec Baldwin (”30 Rock”), Steve Carell (”The Office”), Lee Pace (”Pushing Daisies”), Tony Shalhoub (”Monk”) and Charlie Sheen (”Two and a Half Men”).

Best actress—comedy: Christina Applegate (”Samantha Who?”), America Ferrera (”Ugly Betty”), Tina Fey (”30 Rock”), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (”The New Adventures of Old Christine”) and Mary-Louise Parker (”Weeds”).

And here’s the complete list of 2008 Emmy nominees.

UPDATE: More good news/bad news, this time in the category of best supporting actress in a comedy series. A long-overdue and well-deserved nod has been given to “Saturday Night Live’s” Amy Poehler, but how in the world is Jenna Fischer snubbed for her work on “The Office”? Instead, the category includes Jean Smart for “Samantha Who?” and Holland Taylor on “Two and a Half Men.” As Poehler herself on Weekend Update would say, “Really?!”

(Photo courtesy of Fox.)

I’ll admit it. I’ve never seen an episode of “Lost.”

I know, people tell me it’s amazing. I’m also fiercely intimidated by joining a complicated show so late in its run, which is why it took me so long to give “Deadwood” a try—and wow, I’m glad I did. But I’m also unmotivated to catch up on a series with season after season on DVD, especially when that honor is currently bestowed on “The Wire.” I just finished the fourth episode of Season 2, when Freamon looks 10 years younger than he does in Season 5 and Daniels is slowly working his way up the po-lice ladder. And it’s fantastic, obviously.

But there’s no disputing the powerful, almost cult-like fan base of “Lost.” One friend of mine only watches one show with any regularity and it’s “Lost.” And even people who feel like the show has lost its footing still watch it every week, much like fans of “The Sopranos” would complain that it would never live up to the quality of its first two seasons, but watched all the way through to the end for fear they’d miss something groundbreaking. (Insert joke about that series finale here.)

For a cliffhanger show like “Lost,” the stakes for season finales are much higher than, say, “30 Rock” (which I love, by the way). So when crazy things happened and new twists were revealed—can you tell I didn’t see it?—a heckuva lot of you (31 percent of voters) seemed to like what happened and voted accordingly in the latest Remote Access poll, deeming it the best season finale among fall series we regularly cover on this blog.

Placing second with 26 percent of the vote was “Jericho,” which filmed two endings and wound up using the one that worked more as a series finale.

Placing third (too low!) with 8 percent of the vote was the finale of “The Office,” which was by far the best episode of Season 4 and featured a command performance by “Wire” veteran Amy Ryan, as evidenced by this classic one-minute snippet when she endears herself to Michael and millions of “Office” fans:

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For the first time ever, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is announcing the 10 finalists for the Best Comedy and Best Drama categories.

My personal choices for the top 5 in each are in bold. The top 10s are:

Top 10 Comedy Series Finalists

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords (I’d love to see this win)
The Office
Pushing Daisies
30 Rock (I expect to win, as it did last year)
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty
Weeds

Top 10 Drama Series Finalists

Boston Legal
Damages (Probably will win)
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Lost
Mad Men
The Tudors
The Wire (If this doesn’t win, there is no justice.)

Jin’s fate may be up in the air, but “Lost” fans know that one castaway definitely went bye-bye when the freighter went boom in Thursday’s season finale: Michael.

The sad dad tried to make up for killing Ana-Lucia and Libby by helping the 815ers as Ben’s spy on the boat, and he did help (most of) them in the end. Michael’s idea to freeze the battery connected to the explosives worked long enough to allow the getaway of the Oceanic 6 (plus, Desmond and Frank) in the chopper.

Unfortunately, he got the “you can die now” call from Christian Shephard, too.

But having Michael finally killed off “Lost” isn’t what’s eating at actor Harold Perrineau (though I’m guessing that he’s not happy about losing that regular paycheck).

In an exit interview with TV Guide, Perrineau says he’s upset that the writers got rid of Michael before he was able to reunite with Walt, his estranged son (and fellow crash survivor).

Perrineau even hinted that the way the show treated the storyline of Michael and Walt was racist, pointing out that the characters of Sayid and Nadia (who are Iraqi) and Desmond and Penny (both white and from the U.K.) were allowed to get together at the end of the season.

Listen, if I’m being really candid, there are all these questions about how they respond to black people on the show. Sayid gets to meet Nadia again, and Desmond and Penny hook up again, but a little black boy and his father hooking up, that wasn’t interesting? Instead, Walt just winds up being another fatherless child. It plays into a really big, weird stereotype and, being a black person myself, that wasn’t so interesting.

Yikes.

TV Guide then asked Perrineau if he’d ever return to the show: After all, dead characters have a habit of popping up. The actor replied that he’d need to know what was happening with his story before he agreed.

Something tells me that the producers won’t be beating down Perrineau’s door after that outburst.

Then again, Perrineau’s interview hasn’t seemed to bother ABC. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news today that he’ll join the pilot of a new ABC dramedy, “The Unusuals.” He’ll play a cop who’s so worried that he’ll die, he always wears his bullet-proof vest.

So maybe, just maybe, there will be room for that Michael-Walt reunion. Even if it’s in the afterlife.

UPDATE: Perrineau’s TV Guide interview caught the attention of Entertainment Weekly, which got him to “clarify” his previous comments. He didn’t retract a single word, though he seemed more upbeat about the possibility of returning to the show in the future.

(Photos courtesy of ABC)

If you watched the 8 p.m. replay of the May 15 installment of “Lost”—the first hour of the “There’s No Place Like Home” finale—you probably sat up on the sofa at the same time I did. (At the 13-minute mark, to be exact.)

That’s when the show neatly inserted a re-edited version of the Oceanic 6 press conference into the episode.

In the rebroadcast, Jack answers a question that’s been really bugging me since we first saw him give the official Oceanic 6 cover story in Kate’s trial.

Who are the other three 815 passengers who supposedly survived the crash, then died before they all could be rescued?

Well, Jack finally identified all three by name, and all three did indeed die, but not in the way that Jack describes:

• Boone Carlyle, who Jack says died of internal injuries shortly after they made it to the island. (Boone really died in Season 1 from injuries sustained in a fall while trying to contact help from a wrecked drug smugglers’ plane.)

• “A woman, Libby” who died in the first week after the crash. (We all know Libby was shot by Michael in Season 2 , along with Ana-Lucia.)

• Charlie Pace, who drowned a few weeks before they left the island. (Of course, Charlie drowned in the Looking Glass to save the survivors by turning off the Others’ jamming signal.)

We’ve yet to learn why it’s so crucial for the Sixers to lie about having these particular three passengers survive for awhile.

Another line that wasn’t in the original May 15 episode involved Sayid.

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I’ll be honest: Given how “Lost” has given us the best season since the first, I was prepared to be a wee bit disappointed in last night’s finale. How on earth could it live up to the hype, the speculation, the fans’ mountain-high expectations?

And I’m thrilled to be able to say that the last two hours of Season 4 totally, freakin’ rocked!!! (Whew!)

It was a pure representation of everything that makes “Lost” one of the best shows on TV: intricate storytelling (Ben moved the island!), complicated character development (formerly selfish Sawyer makes a huge sacrifice), heartfelt emotion (Sun’s screams for Jin) and nail-biting suspense (the money shot of who was in the coffin).

I mean, what other show could tell viewers who the Oceanic 6 are up front, and still keep everyone wondering about their fates?

Other series would kept the identities of the Sixers secret until the last minutes of the finale. We KNEW who was getting off the island (well, for the most part), so we were more riveted by the how and why they got off instead.

The finale delivered, too, by answering loads of questions—while offering up lots more, of course. And for once in my “Lost” life, my theories were actually correct on two counts! (More or less, anyway…) We found out which couple shared what the producers called a “spectacular” kiss and got the explanation for the “frozen donkey wheel.”

(Crack. That was me patting myself on the back, sorry!)

Anyway, let’s dive into the boiling-over pot of questions that the finale covered, shall we?

And check back with me later today for another “Lost”clue that was cleverly dropped last night—except it wasn’t hidden in the last two hours, it was in the 8 p.m. replay of the May 15 episode!

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Every Lost addict knows what the term “frozen donkey wheel” means. It’s the code name producers have given to this season’s OMG moment in the finale.

Last year, the Jack-Kate flash-forward encounter at the airport was nicknamed “the snake in the mailbox.” (And it was so top-secret that no cast members besides Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly got to see the last pages of the script.)

Codes for other secret scenes include “the bagel” (Walt’s abduction in Season 1) and “the challah” (Penny’s discovery of the island in Season 2).

Of course, none of those twists actually involved serpents or bread products.

But what if this year, for the first time, the code name was literal?

Could it be that “the frozen donkey wheel” is, well, a frozen donkey wheel?

For awhile now, I’ve been on board with the popular theory that Ben has a time machine (which explains how he seems to know everything, and be everywhere). And we’ve been told that Ben, Locke and Hurley are going to try to “move the island” at the Orchid station to save it from Charles Widmore, Keamy and his band of merry mercenaries.

And I’m guessing that they can do that by sending the island to another moment in time. That could be why Widmore can’t find the island now: Maybe Ben “reset” the island’s coordinates at some point. (The compass bearing that gets Michael and Walt off the island, and the freighter folks to and fro, could be a wormhole.)

But how would such a time machine be powered?

Perhaps by a donkey wheel?

I looked up “donkey wheel” and it’s pretty much what it sounds like—a primitive power source. You hook up a donkey to a wheel, and as it walks in a circle, it produces power that pumps water, grinds grain, etc.

Check out what one looks like in the picture below.

Image details: Donkey Work served by picapp.com

This particular photo, taken in 1929, even has an interesting “Lost” link: It was shot on a street in Tunis.

As in Tunisia, the place where Charlotte found the bones of a Dharma polar bear and Ben showed up in a Dharma parka. (More on that later.)

So just maybe, there’s an actual donkey wheel located inside the Orchid that somehow harnesses the island’s unique electromagnetic properties to allow its inhabitants to time-travel.

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There’s no “Lost” tonight, and we have to wait until next week for the season’s final two hours, but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue our weekly debate of one of the show’s hot topics.

So let’s revisit a question that’s supposed to be answered next Thursday: Who’s in the coffin?

We’ve discussed this one before, of course.  It’s been on everyone’s minds since Jack visited that funeral parlor in last year’s flash-forward season ender. (And if you need a refresher on exactly what Jack and Kate said about the dead person at the airport, go here. That scene is said to be key—no suprise—to next week’s finale.)

Anyway, now we’ve got almost an entire season’s worth of clues to that person’s identity, though it doesn’t seem to have helped fans settle on a single candidate.

There’s also word out there that the obituary that Jack read last season —which Lost-philes screen-capped and analyzed to death, of course—shouldn’t be taken as canon; it may be rewritten.  So if that’s true, we can toss out those hints, which include: the dead person’s first name begins with “Jo;” he’s from New York; he’s survived by a teen-age son; and he committed suicide.

So let’s break down the theories of who the dead Lostie could be:

JOHN LOCKE

WHY IT’S HIM: In last season’s finale, Jack was clearly upset by the person’s death—which seemed to be tied to his realization that they never should have left the island. And who had been telling him all along that leaving is a mistake? Plus, Kate’s not a big Locke fan, so that would fit with her not wanting to go to his funeral.

WHY IT’S NOT: The man of mystery would die before leaving the island. Even if he did, how would he end up at a funeral home in California? And with no press or mourners? He was an Oceanic survivor! Then again, fans of this theory point out that Locke had no family, and he could have been using an alias.

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This week’s So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival has posted at Athens Exchange.

To whet your whistle, I figured I’d toss together all these bits of news and vids and the like that I’ve been gathering over the past week.

This YouTube video is amazing, splicing together Gaeta’s Lament, the song he sang in snatches throughout the episode.

Which brings us to Bear McCreary’s Battlestar blog entry about “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner.” He has the whole story about how the song was developed, from writer Michael Angeli’s wife, Karen, having written the melody as a gift to him, to Alessandro Juliani (Felix Gaeta) and McCreary (BSG’s composer) involvement in the story sessions for the episode.

Who knew that Juliani had such a gorgeous voice (he studied opera at McGill University in Montreal!)? I liked how they even commented on that in the episode.

McCreary’s blog also contains the entire lyrics for the song and even the sheet music for it:

Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man
With my three wishes clutched in her hand
The first that she be spared the pain
That comes from a dark and laughing rain
When she finds love may it always stay true
This I beg for the second wish I made too
But wish no more
My life you can take
To have her please just one day wake

Lost more bloggy BSG goodness after the jump.

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