Link Tank: TV Blog Coalition Roundup for May 9-11

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"We have to move the island." This week, I was once again obsessed with Lost, but paused from my island-induced stupor to remember why I love Battlestar Galactica (offering another season of religious, political, moral, and emotional conflict amid amazing special effects and a kick-ass plot), and ponder whether Gossip Girl was burning through too much story too quickly.

I also celebrated the far-too-delayed elimination of Dominique on America's Next Top Model AND that a certain cheftestant on Top Chef, and offered a rundown of what series the networks might be announcing next week at the Upfronts.

Oh, and I am still saddened that 30 Rock's second season is already over, especially when faced with a funny if slightly disappointing season ender.

Elsewhere in the sophisticated TV-obsessed section of the blogosphere, members of the TV Blog Coalition were discussing the following items...

With her mind fully blown by a Wire actor joining the 90210 spinoff, Buzz asks which actors you'll always associate with particular characters. (BuzzSugar)
Amie shared her thoughts on MTV's The Hills' latest episode "No Place Like Home." (Daemon's TV)
Marcia worried about starlet stunt-casting on How I Met Your Mother and Ugly Betty. (Pop Vultures)
Facial Hair or Facial Scare: What do you think of this growing trend and which TV star who wears his facial hair best? (RTVW)
Come see why Scooter will be saying "What up Mustafa?" ad nausea for the next couple months. And if that doesn't wet your appetite, it has to do with something on PBS not named Bob Ross. (Scooter McGavin's 9th Green)
"Fame, I'dols going to live forever, I'dols going to learn how to fly, high!". Vance notes how this weeks American Idol fit into the lyrics of "Fame" eerily well. (Tapeworthy)
Once again, TiFaux's kinky side reared its ugly head as Dan discussed which TV star tattoos were the hottest. Vote on who you think is the hottest! (TiFaux)
Tube Talk vents its frustration at ABC for cancelling Men in Trees. (Tube Talk)
With the rumblings in the press that SMALLVILLE'S Allison Mack is getting ready to jump ship, this TV Addict thought he'd offer up a word of caution. (the TV Addict)
Kate broke down who will be in and who will be out when Project Runway makes its move to Lifetime. (TV Filter)

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Have a Burning Question for Team Darlton, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, or Michael Emerson?

Lost fans: you don't have to make your way to the island via Ajira Airways in order to ask a question of the creative team or the series' stars. Televisionary is taking questions from fans to put to Lost 's executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and stars Matthew Fox ("Jack Shephard"), Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen"), and Michael Emerson ("Benjamin Linus") for a series of on-camera interviews taking place this weekend. If you have a specific question for any of the above producers or actors from Lost , please leave it in the comments section below . I'll be accepting questions until midnight PT tonight and, while I can't promise I'll be able to ask any specific inquiry due to the brevity of these on-camera interviews, I am looking for some insightful and thought-provoking questions to add to the mix. So who knows: your burning question might get asked after all.

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What's Done is Done: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil on the Season Finale of "Lost"

Every story begins with thread. It's up to the storyteller to determine just how much they need to parcel out, what pattern they're making, and when to cut it short and tie it off. With last night's penultimate season finale of Lost ("The Incident, Parts One and Two"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, we began to see the pattern that Lindelof and Cuse have been designing towards the last five seasons of this serpentine series. And it was only fitting that the two-hour finale, which pushes us on the road to the final season of Lost , should begin with thread, a loom, and a tapestry. Would Jack follow through on his plan to detonate the island and therefore reset their lives aboard Oceanic Flight 815 ? Why did Locke want to kill Jacob? What caused The Incident? What was in the box and just what lies in the shadow of the statue? We got the answers to these in a two-hour season finale that didn't quite pack the same emotional wallop of previous season ...

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See You in Another Life: Thoughts on The Series Finale of Lost

"No one can tell you why you're here." I'm of two minds (and two hearts) about the two-and-a-half hour series finale of Lost ("The End"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender, which brought a finality to the story of the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 and the characters with which we've spent six years. At its heart, Lost has been about the two bookends of the human existence, birth and death, and the choices we make in between. Do we choose to live together or die alone? Can we let go of our past traumas to become better people? When we have nothing else left to give, can we make the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good? In that sense, the series finale of Lost brought to a close the stories of the crash survivors and those who joined them among the wreckage over the course of more than 100 days on the island (and their return), offering up a coda to their lives and their deaths, a sort of purgatory for found, r...

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