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After a record-breaking run of seven weeks when Avatar surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing film domestically and worldwide, James Cameron’s sci fi epic finally ceded the top spot at the Box Office to another movie. The romantic drama Dear John pushed Avatar out this week which slipped one notch to Number 2 and earned “only” $23.6 million bringing its domestic total to over $630 million. We actually expected Avatar to get the boot from the Number 1 slot this weekend, but figured that John Travolta’s action flick From Paris with Love would take top honors. That movie only managed to scrape its way to the Number 3 slot, though, with an underwhelming tally of $8 million.  You can see the full Box Office results from the weekend at Box Office Mojo.

Gizmodo’s Rosa Golijan has seen Panelfly’s comic book reader app for Apple’s new iPad tablet computer and believes this will change the way we read comics. The app would be a free download for the iPad and then the user could add comics to the library via in-app purchases. This app is developed specifically for the iPad and is based on the one that Panelfly created for the iPhone. Golijan was impressed with how comics looked with this app and provided some sample images in the article. The comic book industry in general has been in decline and previous attempts at eComics have failed to jump-start sales. Fans may find comics on the larger, more reader-friendly iPad more appealing, though, with this and other eReading devices possibly changing the direction of that industry.

Also, following are some highlights of Science Fiction and Fantasy related stories from our reddit.com page The Sci Fi Scroll (sign up and submit your own stories):

Neil Gaiman Confirms That He’s Written An Upcoming Episode Of Doctor Who
io9.com 2/6/2010
At last addressing the long-bubbling rumor that he would be writing for Doctor Who, award-winning author Neil Gaiman has confirmed that he’s penned an episode for the second season with new Doctor Matt Smith. (Read the Full Article)

Uh-oh—FlashForward loses another show runner
Sci Fi Wire 2/5/2010
You don’t have to have a FlashForward to know this can’t be good news, but the ABC series is facing yet another new show runner in its future. Co-creator and executive producer David Goyer is exiting as show runner of the sci-fi thriller just months after he took over for former show runner Mark Guggenheim. (Read the Full Article)

More Watchmen on the Way
Sci Fi Mafia 2/4/2010
DC’s senior vice president Dan Didio has made an expanded Watchmen universe his very own pet project, and is looking at a new series of comic prequels, sequels and spin-offs, and, possibly more films. (Read the Full Article)

Do You Need To Be A Trekkie To Understand The LOST S6 Premiere? (maybe not, but it will help)
trekmovie.com 2/3/2010
Last night was the highly-anticipated premiere of the sixth and final season of Lost, with the two part episode “LA X”. As usual with the show, it was very mysterious and at times possibly even confusing. But any fan of Star Trek might have had an advantage in trying to figure it all out. (Read the Full Article)

How Reaper would have ended, straight from the creators
Clique Clack 2/3/2010
So, how forthcoming were Michele and Tara in spilling how Reaper would have continued? Very. In fact, the only reason they hadn’t told the world of how things would have gone down on the show was simple: nobody ever asked. (Read the Full Article)

Transformers, Land of the Lost lead Razzies
Hollywood Reporter 2/1/2010
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen made a fortune. Land of the Lost tanked.  Both films are equal earners at the Razzies, though, grabbing seven nominations each (Read the Full Article)

By John J. Joex

The audience for Lost may have been dwindling over its past few seasons, but quite a number returned for the debut of the show’s sixth and final season. The two hour premiere in its new Tuesday night timeslot pulled a 5.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and over twelve million viewers. That’s up from the last year’s premiere by 10%. Even the recap show that preceded the season premiere this year pulled over a 4.0 rating and close to ten million viewers. This suggests that the series will go out on a ratings high-note, though I wouldn’t be surprised to see these numbers tapper off some after those fans who have been away for a while decide it will take too much brain matter to get up to speed.

FOX’s Human Target received some bad news this week as it settled into what I guess will be its regular timeslot at 8 PM EST on Wednesdays (I thought it was slated for the 9 PM slot). The series only pulled a 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic and under eight million viewers. That’s considerably down from the 3.2 rating and around 10 million viewers it has enjoyed so far this season. You can blame FOX’s schedule juggling to some extent because the show has not been in the same timeslot two weeks in a row so far. But a 25% drop in its ratings score? That show needs to turn things around real quickly, otherwise Christopher Chance will have to find some way of protecting himself from the network executioners.

Things are looking up for FOX’s other genre entry Fringe, though. That show managed to hold its own against new episodes of CSI and Grey’s Anatomy as it pulled a 2.7 rating and 7.4 million viewers. That’s down from the 3.0 rating it had last week, but it only had repeats as competition then. Of course the good news comes with bad news as now Fringe takes a second hiatus and will not return until April (Past Life will sub-lease its timeslot in the meantime). So just as the show starts to pick up some momentum, FOX slams it back down with their scheduling tomfoolery.

On Friday, Smallville pulled its best numbers of the season with a special two hour episode “Absolute Justice” which introduced the Justice Society into that show’s mythology and acted as a pilot for a potential series as well.

Here is the full breakdown of the numbers for all of the Science Fiction and Fantasy shows that aired on the broadcast networks this past week:

Source: TV by the Numbers

Previous Results: Fringe Gets a Win

For more on the Cancellation Alert for each show, see our Cancellation Watch column

The first book in a Zombie Trilogy written by Rhiannon Frater

Reviewed by Sam Christopher

Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars

Let me say for the record here that I’m not a fan of running zombies. I’m not saying there can’t be any interesting story that employs them, just that I see no way for anyone to ever get away if there are sprinting creatures who never get tired chasing them. Even if the protagonists are in a car, it always seemed to me that at least one zombie would see them and give chase, and even when they lost him another would almost inevitably pick up the trail, and so on and so forth until they ran out of gas. And on foot… forget it. How do you outrun something that never slows down? Hell, in most horror films people can’t even outrun the knife-wielding maniac who isn’t running, even when the prey is in a car!

Funny thing in this book is that none of the characters in it are fans of the “running dead” either. There are constant references to Romero’s work by characters here, with it being mentioned several times that the zombies of this novel aren’t “following the rules”. Two characters in particular, Jenni, who’s seen every zombie movie with her abusive husband—who was even so probably a real sweetheart before as compared to the last time she sees him here—and Juan, a guy described as having a “zombie handbook”, are driven almost to distraction by what they perceive as breaches in conduct on the part of the reanimated dead. And while I can see someone saying that’s not a very realistic reaction to the situation, my only defense of it would be that people in fantastic situations often come up with fantastic methods of coping. The author’s note at the beginning of the novel reminds us that this is a story of a zombie apocalypse set in Texas, and that she’d always been told to write about what you know and love. “Well,” she says, “I know Texans and I love the zombie genre.” I can’t argue with that.

The story begins with Jenni hiding out on her front porch from her hungry family. Just as she’s about to give up hope—they have found her and are working hard to get to her—Katie pulls up in a pickup truck. Katie, we’ll soon learn, is a district attorney who inherited the truck from a man murdered while trying to help her, and this after Katie had been attacked by the love of her life, Lydia. The two women go on the run, trying to get away from population centers while also dealing with the situation they find themselves in. Along the way they meet up with an older couple who live in the back of their hunting store (which is a very good profession to be in if zombies attack, I would think) before eventually rescuing one of Jenni’s other children, Jason, who had been camping when all the stuff started, and finding a town of survivors who have built walls to keep out the dead.

As with all the best sf tales, this one is all about how this situation affects the people involved, with Frater doing a masterful job of making us care about these very real characters. She tells us it began as a short story on the web that she came to realize could be expanded into a much longer tale. We can only be happy she made the effort.

See also Sam Christopher’s review of Brian Keene’s Zombie novel The Rising

Buy all three books in the As the World Dies trilogy from Amazon.com:

Brian Keene’s The Rising gives us a different kind of Zombie novel

By Sam Christopher

Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars

I don’t know anything about Brian Keene—although I guess I should since the cover of this book trumpets him as a “Winner of the Bram Stoker Award”, which I learned after reading it was for this novel (he’s won another one, too)—but after reading this I can say that he is one hell of a writer. I really thought going in that this was just going to be another zombie story, and while I do enjoy a zombie story about as well as anything else I’ll be the first to admit they can be monotonous, even the very good ones. I mean, really, how much can you do with dead people walking around eating live people? I know, I know, the best of these stories isn’t about the blood or the zombies, the best horror stories, indeed the best sf stories period, are those that focus more on how the situation affects all the “normal” people than just cataloguing atrocities or wonders. Somehow, though, Keene took a very simple idea and changed it completely around, adding several layers of complexity to the central idea of most zombie tales by adding two elements most authors and filmmakers who explore the genre skirt but mostly eschew.

When The Film That’s Very Good but I Wish They Would Call It Something Else—otherwise known as the Dawn of the Dead remake—was being written there was an idea floated around that other animals besides man would be shown to be coming back from the dead. There was specifically a scene involving “zombie dogs” that would be shown to only attack living dogs that I read was originally supposed to be in the script—remember how surprised everyone was that Chips had survived in the underground garage with the zombies that were there?—but it was evidently taken out at some point. In this book, not only does virtually every animal come back, every animal attacks living people. This leads to some harrowing situations for our would-be survivors but also stretches credibility to the breaking point on occasion. It is a very interesting idea, and I really did like it for the most part, but there were several places where it seemed that if all animals really were coming back and had the cunning these “Risen” all seemed to have there would just be no way anyone could really get away from them. It was kind of like the situation with sprinting zombies in other places; it was always hard for me to believe that anyone could really get away from them for any length of time. But that’s really a minor gripe here because of how well the idea is handled.

Which brings us to the other thing that’s so very different about this story than others of this genre: Here, the dead—whether man or beast—are unremittingly, irredeemably evil. They are smart and cunning, reminding one of the Black Lanterns in DC’s Blackest Night event (it wouldn’t be a surprise to me, in fact, if Geoff Johns hadn’t patterned some of the event after the situations here in this book). They are other entities that use the bodies of the dead—again, in much the same way DC’s Black Lanterns do—for their own evil ends, in this case to escape a place of torment. Fact is, Keene basically says they are demons escaping from Hell without actually saying it. This is a pretty Christian zombie novel in many ways and I found that kind of refreshing, probably because it’s not something most story-tellers seem to want to bring into their visions of this particular apocalypse.

I know I haven’t really said much about the specific situations or characters. Just take my word: If you read this you’ll thank me for not spoiling anything. I especially loved the ending. I know there’s at least one sequel to this book and I look forward to reading it. I just need to get through several hundred other things first.

See also Sam Christopher’s review of Rhiannon Frater’s Zombie novel As the World Dies: The First Days

Buy The Rising and Other Zombie Books from Amazon.com:

Human Target avoids lengthy story arcs and multi-layered plots and just delivers some good action/adventure fun

By John J. Joex

FOX, Wednesday 9 PM (8 PM?) EST

Rating: 3 ½ out of 5 Stars (After 4 Episodes)

Christopher Chance is a man who puts himself in harm’s way in order to protect his clients, thus becoming the Human Target. This idea first saw life in DC Comics way back in 1972 in a piece created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino. The character showed up mostly in backup stories and in a supporting role across various DC titles before getting the chance to headline his own series under the Vertigo imprint in 1999. The character also showed up on a television series on ABC in the Summer of 1992 that starred pop idol Rick Springfield and ran for only a handful of episodes. Now, FOX is taking a Chance on the character again and has updated him for the 21st century in an all-new series which bowed this past month.

I never followed the Human Target in comics, though I’m sure I encountered him from time to time because I picked up the Batman titles regularly through the 80’s and he had several encounters with the Caped Crusader. So I can’t say just how faithful FOX’s adaptation is to the source material, but I can say that they have given us a rather enjoyable television show. In each of the first four episodes, Christopher Chance has hooked up with a client in need of protection and stepped in to avert the danger from the person who hired him and to eliminate the threat.

And that’s it. That’s all there is to the series.

No complex, multi-layered plots. No ongoing story arcs (though the most recent episode did suggest a side-story of sorts). No menacing government conspiracies or over-arching threats to the planet. Just straightforward, tightly-scripted, and well-paced action/adventures stories with a few spy and espionage elements thrown into the mix as well. And that’s not a bad thing because a good action romp that does not demand too much brain matter (though also avoids descending into mind-numbing depths, a la last season’s Knight Rider reboot) can provide just the right amount of distraction amidst such demanding genre shows as Lost, Heroes (speaking of mind-numbing, and Caprica. In fact, with Legend of the Seeker straying a bit in quality of late, Human Target goes right to the top of my list of guilty pleasures this season (next to Chuck which makes a good companion to this one).

Mark Valley (Olivia’s late beau from the early episodes of Fringe) steps into the title role and has shown a deft grasp on the character thus far. He exudes just the right amount of confidence, intelligence, and bravado and tacks on perfect doses of wit. And Chance he gets a bang-up support staff as well with the somewhat menacing, rogue-like Guerrero (Jackie Earle Haley who played Rorschach in Watchmen and will be the new Freddy Krueger in this year’s Nightmare on Elm Street) and the more down to earth Winston (Chi McBride, ex of Pushing Daisies). Now I do have to admit that I don’t feel they have fully utilized the talents of McBride so far as they have cast him in role of the person who screens Chance’s clients and given him a mother-hen demeanor. They need to let his character branch out more and they also need to take better advantage of his perfect comic timing (which he demonstrated so well in Pushing Daisies). McBride does still get some good lines, though (“Did the hooker just punch you in the face?” “Did you just flip a coin?”). Haley, on the other hand, nearly steals the show with his malicious performance as Guerrero (looking like a grown-up Danny Partridge gone bad), and he and Winston regularly deliver some enjoyable Spock-and-McCoy type banter.

And not only do each of the main cast members have some genre cred, the series has also peppered its episodes with a fair share of familiar faces in guest star roles. Actors from other recent Science Fiction and Fantasy entries have popped in such as Battlestar Galactica vets Tricia Helfer and Donnelly Rhodes in the pilot along with William Mapother (Ethan from Lost) and Sam Huntington (Superman Returns, Fanboys) in the most recent episode, “Sanctuary”.

So the question many will ask is whether Human Target really counts in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genre. Maybe yes, maybe no, but I’m counting it. It’s really more of an action/adventure show with some spy and espionage elements. But it’s also done in a very over-the-top, comic book style, thus harkening back to its source material. So did you count MacGyver as a genre entry? If so, you will welcome Human Target as a kindred spirit. If not? Get over it and just enjoy the show. It’s great fun, and worth tuning in for.

Ratings-wise, Human Target has done well for FOX though I would not count it as a breakout hit (despite the fact that they advertise it as such). The show has maintained a rating in the 3.2 range and around nine to ten million viewers. Not spectacular numbers, but enough to get it into a second season. Of course FOX has also juggled the show around on the schedule a fair amount. It premiered on a Sunday (originally intended to benefit from the NFL Playoff lead-in, but FOX instead got the early game that day). Then it aired on Wednesday at 9 PM EST, then it aired on Tuesday at 9 PM EST (because the State of the Union address would preempt on its normal night), then most recently it aired at 8 PM on Wednesday. So I’m not certain where FOX will final land the show, but if it has maintained it numbers through all of that scheduling tomfoolery, it should be okay. Which is a good thing because this is one I would like to see stick around.

Watch Full Episodes of the Human Target Online at Hulu.com

Go to TV.com for more info on the Human Target including Episode guides and Cast bios

Pickup the first issue of the all-new Human Target comic book series as well as the collections of his previous adventures at TFAW.com:

By John J. Joex

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse has ended its run. After two short seasons and perennially low ratings (that actually went from bad to worse), the series wrapped up last Friday with its final episode: “Epitaph Two: Return”. But what a finale it was! Those who did not see the DVD only episode “Epitaph One” from the Season 1 set, had to catch up on the run, but those of us who did see that episode were right there with Joss as he ushered out his series about people who could be implanted with different personalities. And you had to think that the ending suggested a vast set of possibilities for a whole new series in a very different vein.

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW

In “Epitaph Two: Return”, we jump ten years in the future where rampant misuse of the implant technology has had an apocalyptic impact on the planet. A few people control the technology and can mind-wipe people at will and place their minds in younger, more-fit bodies if they wish. This has led to the collapse of society and anarchy reigns over much of the planet. A few “actuals” (people whose minds have not been tampered with) still exist, though, and act as a resistance against Rossum and the others who control the implant technology. One such group lead by Echo rescues Topher from Rossum and he reveals that he could set off an explosion that would cause a chain-reaction and reset everybody across the planet to their original personalities. They decide to try this, though, Echo and several others will stay underground for a year because they want to retain the knowledge in their heads and the mind-wipe signal could affect them if they come out before then.

Topher’s plan is a success, though he has to sacrifice himself to pull it off. But as the episode ends, it leaves open the question of what’s next. And that’s where I see the possibility of a completely new series. Already, the final episode had some Road Warrior stylings about it with the tech-heads lead by Victor along with their fortress on wheels. We could imagine that the global mind-wipe Topher set off was only partially successful or that its effects were only temporary. And what’s to stop the Rossum people from starting up their implant activities once again after the effects of the signal have faded? So now, the group that reversed Rossum’s actions from the past ten years would start the process of rebuilding society, but would still have fight against the remnants of Rossum and also contend with any other side-effects from Topher’s bomb.

Basically we had the seeds of a potentially great post-apocalyptic series in the “Epitaph: One & Two” epiosdes. Personally, I see any of a number of directions they could go with the show, all of which could deliver some strong storylines. Of course I would want them to alter what happened in “Epitaph Two” just a bit so that Topher survived, because you have to have him around (and who knows, he could have had a spare body stashed somewhere). But I would think that a series along these lines would surpass the rather uneven (though still enjoyable) Dollhouse and potentially attract a larger audience. I don’t see it really happening, though, because Joss Whedon has already said that he is done with this one and that he will not carry it on into another medium like he did with Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. But still, we can dream, right? And maybe some fan fiction will realize the potential of the bigger post-apocalyptic story that Dollhouse suggested with its two best episodes.

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Legion gives us a semi-interesting cross between The Prophecy and Terminator

By Sam Christopher

Rating: 2 ½ out of 5 Stars

What do you get when you cross The Prophecy with The Terminator? If your answer was, “An unruly mess”, you’re half-right. The other half would be this semi-interesting, if shallow, film. Credit where it’s due: I at least had some unease about where this one was going, unlike a certain much more celebrated film currently taking the world by storm I could name. Not that I was on the edge of my seat or anything, and this isn’t a film that just has to be watched on a big screen to get its full effect, but it was all right for an afternoon matinee. One thing I don’t understand after seeing the film is what I heard it was about before watching it, but I’ll get to that in a little bit.

The story starts with Michael the Angel (played by Paul Bettany) crash landing on Earth and hacking his own wings off. I didn’t really understand that but he does also pull a collar off at the same time so maybe there’s a significance there I missed—somehow, I find it hard to believe that the wings and collar made it somehow easier for God to track or control him. Anyway, he then breaks into a weapons store and, in breaking out, is accosted by two police officers, one of whom having been shown—sort of—to be a racist (it’s kind of hazy, really, but that is the general gist I think), and the encounter ends up with both of the cops dead. Then the scene switches to the desert, where Bob Hanson (Dennis Quaid) runs a little out of the way diner named Paradise Falls (and if you don’t get that pun just stop reading now) with his son, Jeep (Lucas Black), who’s sweet on a very pregnant chick named Charlie (Adrienne Palicki). Charlie works as a waitress in the diner, along with Percy Walker (played by the stellar Charles S. Dutton), the cook. Add to this mix a suburban couple on their way somewhere else with their young daughter when their car broke down—I will refer to them here as The Coopers, although I know that wasn’t their name (NOTLD reference)—and the urban black guy with the handgun everyone whines about (more on that in a few), and we have the makings of… well, a movie, anyway.

It’s not long before the possessed folks start showing up trying to whack the unborn baby of Charlie, a baby Michael describes as humanity’s last hope. Luckily for us, guns will stop them, even though frying pans won’t. This happens and that happens, then Michael shows up to tell us everything we know about the situation is wrong. I won’t give the whole thing away here but I will say that I liked the story better than I thought I would going in. Honestly, I had come to think of this film as being just The Prophecy with a bigger F/X budget, and that is pretty close to the truth. But there is more to it than just that; not much more, but a little more.

Two things more. First, I had heard and read going in that this film was all about Armageddon, God’s Final Judgment on Mankind, and that Charlie was carrying the Anti-Christ. One, it doesn’t appear to be about Armageddon; Michael himself likens it all more to the Great Flood of Noah’s time—although he does also speak a few times as though it is the end of all things here, too. Two, the only mention of anything that could be thought of as a Final Judgment is the one that God’s already made about us, according to Michael. And finally, the only thing Michael ever says about Charlie’s kid is that it’s the last hope for us—he never mentions anywhere that it has anything to do with Satan—Satan is never mentioned anywhere in the film at all, in fact, which I admit I found strange.

Second, there is a part of the film early on where the urban black man (Tyrese Gibson) pulls his 9MM (I’m guessing, really didn’t get that good a look at it) and stops everyone in the diner from being murdered. Later, after Michael shows up and hands everyone an “assault weapon” (a designation we use to differentiate the really scary-looking firearms from those other cute and cuddly ones that could never be used to assault anyone), a couple folks take the guy to task for having a handgun. “Wha…?!?” was the only thing I could think in watching that. I guess it would have been much better if the old lady from the trailer had just slaughtered everyone in the joint right off the bat.

Lost returns tonight with the first of eighteen new episodes which will act as a swansong for the series that has taken the world by storm since it debuted in 2004.  And what better time to get caught up on previous seasons of the show while you watch it wrap up with its sixth and final season?  Amazon.com currently has seasons 1 through 5 of the show on sale for up to 61% off.  In fact, you can own all five season for just over $100.  But hurry and place your order today, because Amazon won’t keep these DVDs at this price for long!

Click below to place your order today and go to this link to find even more deals on Science Fiction and Fantasy DVDs like Farscape: the Complete Series, Heroes, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many more:

Following are some of the new and upcoming releases in Science Fiction and Fantasy on DVD:

Zombieland: Did you miss this post-apocalyptic zombie-romp starring Woody Harrelson when it hit the theaters last Fall?  If so, then do yourself a favor and pick it up on DVD!  And if you did catch it in the theaters, you’re still going to want to grab a copy because this one is a keeper!  Co-Star Jesse Eisenberg recites his rules for surviving the Zombie-Apocalypse throughout the movie as he and Tallahassee (Harrelson) form an uneasy alliance and take a road trip through the Zombified States of America.  This one is a must-have for Zombie lover along with any Science Fiction and Fantasy fan who likes a good fun post-apocalyptic romp.  (Read Johnny Jay’s review of the movie)

More New Releases:

She-Wolf of London – Complete Series: This little-known series ran for one season in syndication (and was retitled to Love & Curses late in its run) back in 1990-91 but now gets a chance to find a new audience with its DVD release.  American graduate student Randi Wallace (Kate Hodge) travels to London to study but gets bitten by a werewolf.  Now she and her mythology professor (Neil Dickson) must find a way to break the curse.

Man from Earth: The script for this movie was the last thing that Jerome Bixby (Star Trek, Twilight Zone) wrote before passing away and was completed on his death bed in 1998.  It follows a man who claims to be of Cro-Magnon origin and who has lived for 14,000 years, and the entire movie centers on the discussions between him and his colleagues at the university after he reveals the truth of his longevity.

Dante’s Inferno: This animated DVD is a companion to the EA game of the same name and stars the voice talent of Mark Hamill.  Six different directors, including Shuko Murase (Ergo Proxy) and Yasoumi Umetsu (Kite: Liberator), team up to bring us the tale of Dante’s journey through Hell to save his love, based on Dante Alighieri’s infamous epic poem.

The Time Traveler’s Wife: This movie mixes romance and science fiction as it brings us the story of a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to travel through time.  The movie stars Eric Bana as Henry DeTamble and is based on Audrey Niffenegger’s novel of the same name.

Also, check out the Top 100 new and upcoming releases on DVD in Science Fiction and Fantasy at Amazon.com

This is it!  The countdown for the series finale of ABC’s iconic Lost begins this week.  With eighteen episodes left, the producers will get started with wrapping up the storylines and giving us (we hope) one of the greatest series swansongs of all time.  There has been plenty of buzz about the final season across the internet, and to get you fully prepped for the show’s return, below are some recent Lost headlines from the our reddit.com Sci Fi Scroll page.  Also, you can catch up on past seasons of Lost at Hulu.com.

io9.com: Finally Lost Gives Us Some New Questions To Freak Out About

Sci Fi Wire: Travel site lets you book flight on Lost’s Oceanic Airlines

Sci Fi Wire: 15 weird roles Lost’s actors had before they became stars

TV.com: Five Questions Lost Doesn’t Need to Answer

TV.com: Which Season of Lost was the Best?

Hollywood Reporter: Jacob’s nemesis returning to Lost

Sci Fi Wire: 20 crazy things that nearly happened on Lost (but fortunately didn’t)

Sci Fi Wire: 7 things we CAN tell you about Lost’s final season

io9.com: Lost: The Next Generation Could Be On Its Way

Slice of Sci Fi: Will We Like How Lost Ends?

Sci Fi Wire: Everything you need to know about Lost’s final season

Axiom’s Edge: The 5 Must-See Science Fiction and Fantasy Shows For the Second Half of the 2009-10 Season

TV.com: Let the Lost Head Games Begin

Axiom’s Edge: TV Guide Interview with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse About Lost

Buy Past Seasons of Lost on DVD from Amazon.com: