DOMINIC IS GRUMPY, LOST LOST OMG????

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Paradise Lost?
October 6, 2006 at 0300 PM

As Dominic Monaghan complains to press and ratings stumble, some see cloudy skies ahead for ABC mystery-drama.

Dominic Monaghan, the Lord of the Rings actor who plays former rock star and heroin addict Charlie Pace on ABC's hit show Lost, is grumpy. He told reporters this week that he sometimes gets fed up with working on a show with such a large ensemble cast, because it makes getting screen time a political process.

"It's tough being involved in a shoot with a large cast," he told Bang Showbiz. "Just the sheer politics can drag you down. It's like, 'So-and-so is not getting screen time. So-and-so is not showing up on time. So-and-so isn't behaving well on set.'"

Meanwhile, several news outlets have made note of the fact that the Lost season-three premiere was down 25 percent from its season two debut. The episode, which aired Wednesday, October 4, was watched by 18.9 million compared to 23.5 million in September of last year.

E! Online columnist Joal Ryan wrote yesterday that the show is "in recovery mode after an unpopular resolution to the series' first-season cliffhanger."

Brett Love on TV blog TVSquad.com writes today that if Lost's ratings don't improve, CBS might sneak up on it.

"If this season trends anything like the last, and the show starts from a base with 4 million less viewers, there could be a challenger to that Wednesday at 9:00 throne. And that challenger would be Criminal Minds."

Show creator J.J. Abrams recently told the presshttp://www.tv.com/story/story.html&story_id=6604?tag=news_features;img;2 what he thought about Lost's third season.

DOMINIC WANTS MORE CLOSE-UPS OF HIS HOBBITSES FEET????

 

[Mentalist]

He should be damn happy to have landed such a choice role in the first place. From total obscurity to a main cast spot in the Lord of the Rings and a main cast spot on Lost?

Jesus wept, I'm having trouble feeling sorry for him.

I find it difficult to believe that the cast has much say so in their screen time anyway. Lost has a very technical writing process behind it, they don't have many minutes to fill each week with the whims of the cast.

 

[whisky]

Charlie would be very easy to kill off, and I for one dont notice his absence in weeks where he dosnt appear

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I only notice that nobody's been annoying or used the word "bollocks". I used to think Dominic Thingyham was cute back in the days of Hetty Wainthrop Investigates(he had a shower scene!), but now he's just an annoying little hairy ball. The only reason to keep him on the island is so we have one British person there(and from somewhere that isn't London), even if he does constantly come out with clichés.

 

[whisky]

There are four british actors, but only two of them play brits

 

[Tisiphone]

What a little bitch he's turned out to be.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I take it the season premiere didn't explain Charlie acting weird at the end of the season two finale?

 

[whisky]

He wasnt in it at all, just Jack, Sawyer, Kate, the others, and Christian, via flashbacks

 

[Fuddlemiff]

There are four british actors, but only two of them play brits

It's not much good them being British unless they utter clichés, although I'm sure Desmond will come out with some "she cannae take ne more!" type lines before the season is out.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I've seen better. But he's a GHEY HOBBIT so I must support him in his choices.

 

[Gagh]

OMG HOBBITSES ALL OVER THE ISLAND!!!! I WILL Bppass the ring to the others!

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I WILL UNLEASH MY MONSTER ON ELIJAH!!! RAWR!!!!

 

[Gagh]

what's that coming over the hill is it a hoobbit!

 

[Dr Dave]

DOMINIC WANTS MORE CLOSE-UPS OF HIS HOBBITSES FEET????

The git !

 

[CaptainWacky]

It would be funny if they fired him and Evangeline Lilly dumped him for Mr Eko and he killed himself and nobody came to the funeral.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

And then ELIJAH WOOD washed ashore and was eaten by Hurley.

 

[CaptainWacky]

OH SAM!

 

[Dr Dave]

Oh Ham !

 

[Mentalist]

Gagh is going to 'ave a headache today.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

And then ELIJAH WOOD washed ashore and was eaten by Hurley.

And then, in a thrilling climax, Justin Berfield and his 17,000 Myspace gay minions come out of the closet in the Swan and reveal that they'd been trapped there as part of the research into curing gayness.