The Lost Room (New Sci-Fi Show) ComicCon Review (Spoilers)

[Mistwell]

The Lost Room is an upcoming show on Sci-Fi. A short clip and panel were revealed in between the two Stargate panels.

First impressions, it looks quite good. The Lost Room concerns 100 magic items scattered in our world. They tend to be simple things, like a key or a pen or a ticket or watch. Each item has a special power. For example, the key opens a door into a specific hotel room. The Ticket teleports you to a location on Route 66. The pen microwaves whatever it writes on (unclear if you write on a picture of someone or something and it melts that actual person or thing, or not). The watch (I think it was a watch, I looked away for a second here) stops time for 5 seconds. Etc...

The myth is that, if you were to assemble all 100 items, you could locate a special "Lost Room". Some people want to find this room, while others are working to prevent it. Some people think the room is heaven. Others think it's an evil thing.

Peter Krause (Six Feet Under's Nate Fisher) and Elle Fanning, the sister of Dakota Fanning (Steven Spielberg Presents Taken) are the lead actors in the show.

Overall, it looked pretty good, and I am looking forward to watching this show later this year. Right now it is listed as a limited series, but as always if the show gets good ratings they will probably go to a regular season show.

 

[Crothian]

Huh sounds a bit like the old Friday the 13th series.

 

[Mistwell]

Huh sounds a bit like the old Friday the 13th series.

I thought the same thing, though at face value this looked more compelling to me. Then again, we didn't see a full episode.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

The trouble with any 'you need to get all the items and others want to stop you' ideas is that the others only need one. Destroy it. End of problem. (So, of course, thay are always indestructible. Blah.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The trouble with any 'you need to get all the items and others want to stop you' ideas is that the others only need one. Destroy it. End of problem. (So, of course, thay are always indestructible. Blah.)

Nah, they don't need to be indestructable. They just have to be too valuable to destroy and, at worst, cursed atop that.

I'm actually thinking of running a Buffy campaign where the magic bullet that killed JFK is the big McGuffin and the magic bus from the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the main mode of transportation for the series' NPC spellcasters, so this is something I've been looking at from a lot of angles.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I saw an ad for it on sci-fi and I did not rush to add it to my list of viewings. The ad showed none of the actors or clips and was just voiceover work. With Sci-Fi's reputation however unless I can see actual clips I can't say one way or another as they have destroyed my willingness to trust them.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Nah, they don't need to be indestructable. They just have to be too valuable to destroy and, at worst, cursed atop that.

I'm actually thinking of running a Buffy campaign where the magic bullet that killed JFK is the big McGuffin and the magic bus from the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the main mode of transportation for the series' NPC spellcasters, so this is something I've been looking at from a lot of angles.

There's no such thing as too valuable. Puts the world at risk? STOMP!

 

[sniffles]

It sounds like an interesting concept. Sci Fi's movies may all be crap but at least some of their series are decent. But I'm always worried when they set up a series with a number of somethings attached to it. If it does well and gets to 100 episodes, how do they continue the story? And if it gets cancelled then we never get to find out what the other 87 objects are.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's no such thing as too valuable. Puts the world at risk? STOMP!

And if it can be used to cure cancer? Or grant immortality? Or feed millions?

There's always such a thing as too valuable. It's just a matter of figuring out the exact price tag.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It sounds like an interesting concept. Sci Fi's movies may all be crap but at least some of their series are decent. But I'm always worried when they set up a series with a number of somethings attached to it. If it does well and gets to 100 episodes, how do they continue the story? And if it gets cancelled then we never get to find out what the other 87 objects are.

My Name is Earl has done well with this sort of dilemma. Stuff gets added to the list that Earl is crossing off in that series, and in this one, items could get stolen back or it could turn out an item they recovered was a fake, or whatever.

And, of course, since something big does happen when all the items are together, they could do at least one season showing what happens once they're all together.

Hopefully, if it gets canceled, the show's Web site will include the planned list of items, in so far as they're all sketched out.