BOONE CARLYLE

'Boone Carlyle' is a fictional character played by Ian Somerhalder on the ABC drama television series ''Lost'', which chronicles the lives of the survivors of a plane crash in the south Pacific. Boone is introduced as the in the pilot episode as the step-brother of fellow crash survivor Shannon Rutherford. Boone tries to contribute as much as he can to the safety of the castaways and eventually becomes John Locke's . Boone was described by ''USA Today'' as a "callow, privileged young man striving for maturity."^[1]

Appearances

Before the crash

Boone "rescues" Shannon from Australia.

Boone is born in October, 1981, the son of wealthy Sabrina Carlyle, the head of a wedding company.Cuse, Carlton (writer), Grillo-Marxuach, Javier (writer) & Holcomb, Rod (director). "Hearts and Minds." ''Lost'', ABC. January 12, 2005. Episode 13, season 1. When Boone is ten years old, Sabrina marries Adam Rutherford, who has a nine year old daughter named Shannon. When Boone is twenty years old, he becomes the chief operating officer of his mother's business in New York City. Boone harbors a fondness for his step-sister, which develops into a romantic attraction. When Boone learns of Shannon’s financial difficulties after her father’s death he offers to give her money, but she does not accept.Sarnoff, Elizabeth (writer) & Davidson, Adam (director). "Abandoned." ''Lost'', ABC. November 9, 2005. Episode 6, season 2. Boone "rescues" Shannon several times from abusive relationships by paying the boyfriends to leave her. One such rescue attempt leads Boone to Sydney, Australia in September 2004, where he learns that the relationships are actually scams concocted by Shannon to get his money and attention. Boone is deeply hurt by the deception. Boone and Shannon have sex after her Australian boyfriend runs away with her money. The next day, they board Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 to return to the United States.^[2]

After the crash

Boone unsuccessfully tries to perform CPR on an unconscious Rose Henderson, which he claims to have learnt from when he was a lifeguard, but Jack Shephard convinces him to retrieve a pen, unnecessarily.^[3] Boone maintains a generally helpful attitude and remains protective of Shannon (although he criticizes her for her affectedness). His protective attitude combines with jealousy when she develops feelings for Sayid Jarrah, and Boone unsuccessfully attempts to discourage the relationship.^[4]^[5]

Boone becomes Locke's protégé.

Boone is drawn to the hunting and survival skills of Locke, a fellow castaway. He becomes Locke’s apprentice and begins to distance himself from the other survivors.^[6] Boone and Locke find a metal hatch while tracking the kidnapped Claire Littleton and Charlie Pace.^[7] The two excavate the hatch, keeping its existence a secret from the other survivors. Locke subjects Boone to a hallucinatory exercise on their twenty-fourth day on the island that allows Boone to resolve his feelings for Shannon, in which Boone sees Shannon after she is killed by the monster. Forty-one days after the crash, Boone and Locke discover a heroin runner's Beechcraft stuck high in a tree canopy.^[8] Boone climbs up into the aircraft and finds a working radio in the cockpit, which he uses to transmit a Mayday signal. He receives a response to his message by a man, later revealed to be Bernard Nadler of the tail-section survivors, but the aircraft unbalances and falls nose-first to the ground.^[9] Boone sustains severe injuries and, despite Jack’s attempts to treat him, dies on November 2, 2004.^[10]
Almost four weeks later, Locke experiences a self-induced hallucination, where a longer-haired Boone appears and pushes Locke around in a wheelchair in an imaginary Sydney International Airport, where the other survivors are present but acting in different roles. At the end of the hallucination, Boone appears bloody and injured, and tells Locke to clean up his mess.Cuse, Carlton (writer), Sarnoff, Elizabeth (writer) & Williams, Stephen (director). "Further Instructions." ''Lost'', ABC. October 18, 2006. Episode 3, season 3.

Characteristics

''USA Today'' described Boone as "a callow young man who had been toughened by island challenges."Keveney, Bill, (April 7, 2006) "Death for Boone, Birth for Claire on ''Lost''," ''USA Today''. Retrieved on August 5, 2007. ''Variety'' called him "hot-headed."^[11] ''Entertainment Weekly'' wrote that he was "even-tempered."^[12] Boone's quick decisions with good intentions are often rash. On his sixth day on the island, Joanna Miller drowns. As soon as he finds out that she is drowning, he immediately tries to save her, although he doesn't succeed and becomes a casualty himself. While trying to take on a leadership role, Boone steals the camp's water; however, his plan backfires and the survivors turn on him.^[13] When Boone suspects that Sawyer has Shannon's medicine he attempts to steal it, when he could have just asked and not been beaten up by Sawyer.^[14]
Boone always offers to help his fellow survivors, joining the party trying to send a radio distress call on the second day, helping Sayid triangulate Danielle Rousseau's distress signal on the eighth day, searching for the abducted Claire Littleton on the sixteenth day and standing guard for the return of Ethan Rom on the twenty-eighth day.^[15]^[16]^[17] ''IGN'' wrote that "he appeared to be both integral and counterproductive to their survival" and that "Boone appeared to be a pure and honest guy who tried to help people on the island and attempted to carry his own weight among the seemingly-unscathed survivors of Oceanic Flight 815."Carabott, Chris & Goldman, Eric & Iverson, Dan & Moriarty, Colin & Zoromski, Brian, (February 9, 2007) "Top 10 ''Lost'' Characters," ''IGN''. Retrieved on August 6, 2007.

Development

Boone appears in Locke's hallucination.

Unlike many other characters of the first season, who were rewritten based on their actors, Boone was largely the same through production."Before They Were Lost." ''Lost: The Complete First Season'', Buena Vista Home Entertainment. September 6, 2005. Featurette, disc 7. He was originally going to be named Boone Anthony Markham V, going by the nickname, "Five." In the script for the pilot, the writers ran a search and replace to change Boone's name so that when Jack counted to five, the script read, "One, two, three, four, Boone."^[18]
Somerhalder did not want to shoot a pilot; however, he jumped at the opportunity once he found out he would be working with co-creator/ executive producer J.J. Abrams. Somerhalder was paid between $20 000 and $40 000 an episode,^[19] initailly received the third highest billing in the credits, before the producers decided to list the main cast alphabetically.^[20]
Boone has appeared in a total of twenty-five episodes, and his voice has been heard in a twenty-sixth episode. Boone has physically appeared in three episodes since the first season with the credit of "special guest star." He returned for the flashbacks of Shannon, Nikki Fernandez and Paulo and Locke's hallucination.^[21] In Nikki's third season flashback, the producers did not ask Somerhalder to cut his hair for two days of work and had him wear a wig, making his hair noticeably longer than it should have been.^[22]
There is some confusion over the spelling of Boone's last name. While "Carlyle" appears on Boone's checkbook and grave, "Carlisle" appears on the subtitles for "Hearts and Minds."^[23]^[24]
While the executive producers have stated that Somerhalder took the news professionally, Somerhalder found it "pretty devastating."^[25] Boone's death is notable as the first death of a major character on the show. Boone's death made sense from a story perspective to fuel the rivalry between Jack and Locke and lead to the events in the season finale, according to executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Following Somerhalder's departure from the show, ABC signed him to another one year contract.^[26] Somerhalder stated that being a part of ''Lost'' was "the greatest experience of [his] life" of "the greatest year of his life."^[27]^[28]

Reception

''BuddyTV'' called Boone a fan "favorite."^[29] After three episodes had aired, an article in ''USA Today'' called Somerhalder "camera-friendly."^[30] A poll was run by ''ComingSoon.net'' in spring 2005 on the favorite of the fourteen main ''Lost'' characters, in which Boone placed seventh with 4.3% of over 2000 votes.^[31] After his death, a ''TV Guide'' critic wrote that she misses Boone's "very pretty eyes."^[32] ''IGN'' ranked Boone as the tenth best character of the first three seasons of ''Lost''.
Somerhalder co-won the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for "Best Ensemble - Drama Series.^[33] He was also nominated in the category of "TV: Choice Breakout Performance – Male" in the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, but lost to ''Desperate Housewives''' Jesse Metcalfe, who plays John Rowland.^[34]
While starring on ''Lost'', Somerhalder was voted one of "20 Teens Who Will Change the World" by ''Teen People'', despite being 26 years old at the time. ''Teen People'' also called him "the next Johnny Depp."^[35] He placed ninth on ''TV Guide'''s "Top Ten Hunks" list.^[36]

References

External links

★ Boone's biography at the Official ''Lost'' Wiki

★ Boone Carlyle at the Lost Wiki

★ Seasonal promotional photographs for Boone at Lost-Media

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