I know it's a little late, ...
Elizabeth Mitchell, Lost
Question: I know it's a little late, but I'd like to address the Emmy nominations. I think that
Elizabeth Mitchell definitely was robbed of a Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nod for
Lost. Her work has been top-notch, and Juliet emerged as my favorite character this
Lost season. Cheers for
Michael Emerson and
Terry O'Quinn on their nominations. They — especially Emerson as the enigmatic and chilling Ben — deserve it. But the person who perhaps deserves an Emmy nomination most of all, and who never gets noticed, is
John Terry. Terry is such a fantastic (and underrated) actor, he actually makes you feel empathetic for Jack's father when you know you should be rooting for Jack.
Lost definitely should've been nominated as a series, because the writing, directing and acting were excellent this past season (let's just forget about the prehiatus episodes and "Stranger in a Strange Land"). Once again, though, the Emmy nominations were utterly predictable. On another
Lost topic, many people cite
The Twilight Zone,
The X-Files and other shows as inspiration for it, but I think the series
was most inspired by the cult show
The Prisoner.
Do you agree?
One last (unrelated) thing: What's your opinion on a second
X-Files movie? Are you glad that the writers plan to go the stand-alone (no mythology) route for the sequel? And, most importantly, do you think it will happen, with
David Duchovny,
Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter all on board? Let's face it: Duchovny and Anderson were the show, and Carter really needs to be involved since he was the series' writer, director, executive producer and creator.
Answer: The closer we get to the Emmys, the more aggravated I get about the various
Lost snubs. If John Terry had been nominated, it would have been in the "guest actor" category, I'd think, which tends to get lost in the shuffle, and he's probably just not recognizable enough a name to make the cut during nominations. Good idea, though. And
The Prisoner as an inspiration? Why not. We know the
Lost boys are TV babies, and that was certainly an influential cult series. But
Lost is that rare bird that has gone beyond cultdom to mass-appeal phenom, though not without paying a price for its own mystical weirdnesses. As for
The X-Files as a movie franchise: At the time the first
X-Files movie came out, I said that if they ever made a sequel, it should be a stand-alone thriller, ignoring all that mythology nonsense. If that's the case, I'm all for it. And I agree there's no sense in doing a movie without all of the original players involved.
