lost music videos: the abc promo department gets creative!
As they did several years ago, ABC is releasing a set of promotional music videos related to Lost–one for each major character. I particularly love these videos, because they demonstrate how the network–or at least the promotional department–feels about the characters and their relationships to each other. Take this one for example:
I’m sorry, who’s all she’s known of love?
Anyway, the one at the top of the page is the most recently released and focuses on Sawyer. Now, while I am not a fan of most things that involve Mr. Ford, I am a big fan of anything featuring Carrie Underwood. And of course I’ll tolerate anyone or anything that calls Sawyer “candy-coated misery.” Because seriously.
I’m more interested, actually, in how these videos correspond to centricity for the rest of the season. Spoilers are after the cut.
The first video, released last week, was about Ben (set to Michael Jackson’s “Ben,” no less). This week’s was about Sawyer. Already, we’re seeing a pattern–the video releases correspond to the previous episode’s centric character.
In an article about the videos, TV Guide Magazine apparently used a press release to list the other characters who’ll be getting videos: Richard Alpert, Sun & Jin, Desmond, Hurley, Kate, Jack, Sayid and Locke.
We know, obviously, that tonight’s episode, “Ab Aeterno,” is Alpert-centric; next week’s “The Package” focuses on Sun and Jin. That’s followed by “Happily Ever After” (Desmond) and “Everybody Loves Hugo” (Hurley). This would definitely suggest that the following episodes, “The Last Recruit” and “The Candidate,” are Kate- and Jack-centric, respectively.
It’s been rumored that “The Candidate” would be Jack-centric for some time now, but most have thought that “The Last Recruit” wouldn’t focus on any single character. It’s possible, of course, that Kate doesn’t have another centric episode in the season, so they stuck her video in to correspond with a multi-centric; this is what appears to be happening with Sayid, whose video will likely correspond with “Across the Sea,” which features few or no main characters.
That said, it could also mean that Kate’s role in the mythology is about to become very clear.
