As promised LOST Spoilers Season officially opened this week!!
The latest comes from our good friend SecretAgentMan (SAM) who has provided us with some new casting information for Season 5 of LOST.
Two new characters will appear in the second and third episodes of the season, but both characters are British. Now the first thing that pops into mind are connections to possibly to the Desmond/Penny/Widmore storyline. Of course not necessarily, but I do hope we get more of that story.
What do you think!?
Thanks to LOST Perdidos for the heads up.
Appearing in #502 and #503 will be 'Nigel' and 'Sophie' (names likely will change). Nigel is British, in his late teens. Smart and mature for his age, if a little rough around the edges. Sophie is a British aristocrat in her late teens and appears quite innocent and a little prim, but underneath she is formidable.
Source: SAM
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Episode 5x02 and 5x03 - Casting Update
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23 Comments:
As long as they're as cool as the freighters, I'm fine...
Keep coming, spoilers! :D
I always thought the powers that be would reintroduce our British chums Lucy Heatherton and her father Francis-Pryce Heatherton, back into the story...perhaps this it it...
Older teen-agers (18-19); thats odd. Maybe related to Charlotte. Or maybe Dan's students at Oxford.
^ Webbsta
Lucy was great.
Young Widmore and Penny's Mom?
Yeah, maybe Charlotte's parents (real or adoptive)...
It's Desmond and Penny. Probably a flashback to both of them in their lives before each other.
As people have pointed out before, the casting peeps have been very cautious about posting real names and backgrounds. And the personalities definitely match to Desmond and Penny.
Aristocratic people have the same upbringing as people who's parents earnt their wealth (then again, Charles might be an aristocrat himself for all we know), so it's a sneaky way to simply hide that Penny was raised in a well-to-do family.
And Desmond has always been presented as being mature and an elder statesman type figure on the island, despite being quite young and rough around the edges.
I had posted that it might be Sun and Widmore but I missed the character break down. It does sound like Des and Penny ... maybe one of Desmond's brothers that he helped to raise? But then it also might be something to do with Charlotte. I'm hoping it has to do with Desmond (of course!).
Cool some new British character
Hopefully their not another steotypical Brit
think it would be widmore and his wife (that would explain how he could have got his wealth)
or charlotte's parents? though I'd say the first one
Sounds like a Charlotte flashback.
"Appearing in #502 and #503 will be 'Nigel' and 'Sophie' (names likely will change)"
"Nigel", that's brilliant! I hope they also have characters called Brian and Colin, while they're at it Ethel would be a cool name for a hot English female character. LMAO
Hopefully they'll cast some actors that have a decent English accent. Some of Charlie's and Desmond's flashbacks have been rife with toe-curlingly awful attempts at "british".
Ok, let's take the Des-Penny flashback idea a step further...
Some of you might remember when Naveen Andrews mentioned that the writers had once considered showing Sayid's childhood. Well what if it wasn't just his childhood, but couple of other interesting characters' as well?
We know, that the term "flash" is gonna become irrelevant (to put it in Carlton Cuse's words). Now what if the island jumped back in time by some 20-30 yrs and while on-island action picks up where we left it, it would be set in the 1980s, so will anything happening off-island. Thus, the back-story of any character can no longer be called a flashback.
Though in this case the story of the 06 would still count as a flash foward... :S
OMG...it's Des and Pen's children...could be, ya know!
Hm... but why would one of them be described as aristocratic?
Who do I contact to audition for the role of Nigel?
Being from the U.S., could someone tell me what has been wrong with the way the British characters have been portrayed on Lost. I'm not being scarcastic, i'm actually interested. I've seen similar posts and wondered why folks from GB have had complaints about this. TIA
@lostinnj
I think it's really just lots of little things in the show which are occasionally annoying to some British viewers (sometimes including myself). Desmond and Charlie are both great characters, but some lines like "England's an island", "You play golf?/I'm Scottish!", and "Bloody hell!" sound more like an American stereotype of a Brit than anything else.
Generally I think it's only the small things, not the characters themselves. One thing that always annoyed me a bit was how much Charlie's band was based on Oasis, as though they define British music or something.
Interesting, yet I never thought of Oasis as a band who defined British music as over the years there have been so many incredible British bands. I thought the choice of Oasis was because of "Wonderwall" having something to do with the words "maybe, you're gonna be the one who saves me" seemed appropriate at the time for Charlie to be singing this particular song when Desmond walked out of his meeting with Charles. I remember Charlie also singing music from The Kinks which was humorous since Jin had no idea what the hell he was doing.
Another thing i've heard people refer to is the use of the word "sodding" or "soddin", a word that Charlie used alot which seemed to annoy some from Great Britain. Haven't quite figured out what this means, but Charlie used it alot. Desmond used the term "Bloody Hell" alot, is this a British expression or a Scottish expression; I remember Des saying "i'm Scottish" when Paolo asked him if he golfed; I chuckled since I watch the PGA, there are quite a few Scottsmen on the PGA.
Sounds like there might be some writer stereotyping going on. I think maybe the writers have been guilty of this in quite a few areas.
Thank you for the info. I've realized since watching Lost that my knowledge of Great Britain is slim to none.
Kyla said: We know, that the term "flash" is gonna become irrelevant (to put it in Carlton Cuse's words). Now what if the island jumped back in time by some 20-30 yrs and while on-island action picks up where we left it, it would be set in the 1980s, so will anything happening off-island. Thus, the back-story of any character can no longer be called a flashback.
Though in this case the story of the 06 would still count as a flash foward... :S
Now, this is the kind of thinking that makes my brain start spinning around...and why I love Lost so much! :-)
Yeah, my first thought for Sophie was a young version of Penny -- we know next year will really mess with the time a lot, so that makes sense to go back to a young Widmore household.