* In case you missed the earlier link, I have an interview with Gary Panter over at Marvel.com. Seriously!
* Lost creator Damon Lindelof talks to EW about whether the Numbers (4 8 15 61 23 42) will ever be explained on the show. My single biggest problem with Lost is that they relegated their only explanation of the Numbers so far–they’re values from a mathematical formula called the Valenzetti Equation, which was developed by Dharma scientists as a predictor of the date the world will end; all the experiments conducted on the Island are supposedly designed to change those values and thus save the world–to a stupid alternate reality game that virtually none of my Lost-watching friends even know existed. If I recall correctly, Lindelof has said that the reason they didn’t reveal this on the show was that the characters wouldn’t care, which makes less than no sense. Anyway, Lindelof gives me some hope that they’re going to rectify this silliness when he tells EW that there will be more on the Numbers (which have been largely ignored since the Hatch that used them as a computer code blew up) on the show, and that they predate their inclusion in the Valenzetti Equation, but there will be no explanation of why they have their special significance. Jim Treacher, who linked to the piece, says that this is proof that the Numbers are “horseshit,” but I don’t think so–at a certain point things are magical because they’re magical, and you can’t go any deeper than that. Like 23 in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (at least until the explain what would happen to the Law of Fives if we had eight fingers instead of 10).
* The cast of Battlestar Galactica will be reading the Top 10 list on Letterman on March 19th. I have no idea how they pulled that off, but I’m programming my TiVo as we speak.
* The trailer for The Incredible Hulk is out. Everyone’s bitching about it for some reason, but everyone’s an asshole. Ed Norton Hulk vs. Tim Roth Abomination in the middle of Manhattan? That’s gold, Jerry. Gold! (Via Heidi MacDonald.)
* A while back, I wondered how mainstream film critics would react to Michael Haneke’s English-language remake of his own Funny Games given how hostile they’ve been to domestic torture porn horror. Based on the reactions compiled by Jason Adams, it looks like they’re going to shit all over it. On the other hand, bona fide horror critic Stacie Ponder was completely blown away by it. It was never going to be anything but an extraordinarily divisive movie, but I still expected the likes of J. Hoberman to at least pretend to be down with it.