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Kyle XY

Proposed modification to Kyle XY article -- "Kyle XY and Myth." Garyfreedman 17:00, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Kyle XY is an American drama television series about Kyle, a boy who wakes up in the forest outside of Seattle, Washington with no memory of his life up until that point. The series follows Kyle as he tries to understand the mysteries of who he is, such as why he has no belly button or why he has no memory of being a child.

The show premiered June 26, 2006 on the ABC Family network; episodes are also broadcast on ABC and available for download from the iTunes Store.

After a 10-episode debut season on ABC Family during summer 2006, a total of 23 episodes have been ordered for the second season, set to start June 11, 2007, with rebroadcasts on ABC to begin on June 15, 2007.

Plot

Kyle is a sixteen-year-old teenager who wakes up in a forest on the edge of Seattle totally naked and without any memories of an earlier life. Kyle is like a newborn baby in his lack of knowledge of human social life: he doesn't know the simplest things, like how to eat or drink, and cannot communicate with others. When Kyle walks naked into a nearby town, he is picked up by the police. As they cannot find his records, he is taken to a childrens' home where it is discovered he doesn't have a belly button. Nicole Trager, a therapist, is interested in Kyle. She realizes Kyle doesn't belong at the home and brings him to her home while the police look for his family. The series follows Kyle and the Trager family as Kyle develops socially and searches for answers to his past.

Soon, Kyle develops a strong interest in his past and his abilities, which causes an organization simply called "The Company" to track him down. It is obvious that the organization is involved in his past.

Throughout the season Kyle realizes how human he is with his feelings toward his neighbor, Amanda Bloom. Toward the end of season 1, Kyle is hospitalized after suffering a seizure, due to over stress on his brain. While in the hospital Kyle meets a couple, the Petersons, who claim they are his parents. During this event Kyle refuses to go with the Petersons. He comes home changed and with "memories" of the family. At the end of season 1, Kyle leaves the Tragers and goes with his "parents." He leaves Declan McDunaugh clues about himself but Declan doesn't understand.

Season 2 will delve further into his past and introduce a new character, Jessi XX, first seen at the end of the last episode of Season 1.

At the beginning of season 2, Kyle recollects about his first few months with Adam Baylin. While the viewer also finds out that the Tragers are having somewhat of a meltdown at the loss of Kyle. Nicole has become obsessed with Kyle, feeling that she "lost one of her own children". She also has nightmares showing Kyle drowning in his tub. Kyle discovers from Adam Baylin that he was born in a artificial womb, and kept in it for approximately sixteen years in order to allow his brain more development. After Kyle is successfuly able to complete one of Adam's exercises, Adam is shot in the heart, most likely from an employer from Zzyzx. Kyle takes Adam Baylin's ashes and drops them in a nearby river, concerned about his future. Adam Baylin's guard, and now Kyle's, Foss sneaks into Zyzzx and plants a bomb to stop them from killing Kyle. While he is sneaking around, he sees Jessi XX in her artificial womb. He then looks at the security cameras and sees Kyle moving in the hallways, trying to stop him from bombing Zyzzx. Kyle walks up to the door to Jessi XX's womb and puts his ear to the door to listen. Jessi XX then starts to move her body, gaining consciousness. Kyle attempts to enter the room, but then Kyle's guard, Foss, knocks him out. He recovers seconds before the bomb goes off. They then return to Adam Baylin's mansion, where the guard says he'll try to teach Kyle from Adam's notes. Kyle then says he wants to return to the Tragers, as Phy-Tech isn't chasing him anymore. Foss eventually lets him, but only if he doesn't tell the Tragers about Zyzzx and Adam Baylin. The Tragers meanwhile are about to have their favorite meal, that Nicole made now that she lost her obsession with Kyle. Kyle walks into the Trager house, and they all embrace. Far off, probably in the same woods as Kyle, Jessi XX is standing in pink goo, similar to Kyle's first appearance on the show.

Kyle XY and Myth

The fictional television drama Kyle XY has close parallels to the actual case of Kaspar Hauser.

The case of Kaspar Hauser was a cause celebre in his time, the early nineteenth century. Imprisoned in a dark cellar, he had been cut off from all human contact except for an occasional glimpse of his jailer (whom he called "the Man who was always there"). When Kaspar was turned loose he was discovered wandering in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, at seventeen more a baby than a man.

Here are details of an eyewitness account: "He appeared neither to know or to suspect where he was. He betrayed neither fear, nor astonishment, nor confusion; he rather showed an almost brutish dullness . . . his tears and whimpering, while he was always pointing to his tottering feet , and his awkward, and, at the same time, childish demeanor, soon excited the compassion of all present . . . his whole conduct . . . seemed to be that of a child scarcely two or three years old, with the body of a young man."

Kaspar had to be taught to speak and walk properly, to learn the difference between the organic and the inorganic. He showed an intense, passionate wish to learn and displayed unusual powers (he could distinguish colors in the dark, for example). Kaspar seemed asexual and incapable of anger; he showed no indignation at "the Man who was always there." It was as if some instinctual energy had been extinguished. When his teacher and protector, Anselm von Feuerbach, expressed surprise that Kaspar "should wish to return to that abominably bad man, Kaspar replied with mild indignation, 'Man not bad, man me no bad done.'" There proved no way of making up for the emotional deficits, and after a period of wonderful intellectual promise (the observers talked of genius) Kaspar, his mind unprepared emotionally to grasp how much he had been deprived of, gradually regressed into a kind of obsessive-compulsive automaton. His pathetic story (which led to romantic speculation that he was of royal blood) and the excitement of his education and subsequent murder were followed by thousands of readers in the newspapers of Europe. Von Feuerbach, who befriended Kaspar and helped care for him, wrote indignantly about Kaspar's imprisonment and "the cruel withholding from him of . . . all the means of mental development and culture -- the unnatural detention of a human soul in a state of irrational animality."

Even after his release at Nuremberg, Kaspar was subject to states of hypnosis and stuporous sleep.

Von Feuerbach writes: "Having been sunk during the whole of the earlier part of his life in animal sleep, Kaspar has passed through this extensive and beautiful part of it, without having lived through it. His existence was, during all this time, similar to that of a person really dead: in having slept through his youthful years, they have been passed by him, without his having had them in his possession; because he was rendered unable to become conscious of their existence. This chasm, which crime has torn in his life, cannot any more be filled up; that time, in which he omitted to live, can never be brought back, that it may be lived through; that juvenility, which fled while his soul was asleep, can never be overtaken. How long soever he may live, he must for ever remain a man without childhood, and boyhood, a monstrous being, who, contrary to the usual course of nature, only began to live in the middle of his life. Inasmuch as all the earlier part of his life was thus taken from him, he may be said to have been the subject of a partial soul-murder . . . the life of a human soul was mutilated at its commencement."

Kaspar Hauser was eventually stabbed to death in a public park by a mysterious stranger, thought to be his jailer, or an agent in the jailer's employ. It is believed that his jailer wanted the facts of Kaspar's childhood imprisonment to remain secret.

Cast

Main Cast

• Matt Dallas as Kyle
• Marguerite MacIntyre as Nicole Trager
• Bruce Thomas as Stephen Trager
• April Matson as Lori Trager
• Jean-Luc Bilodeau as Josh Trager
• Chris Olivero as Declan McDunaugh
• Kirsten Prout as Amanda Bloom
• Jaimie Alexander as Jessi XX (1st Appeared Season 1 Finale)

Recurring Cast

• Nicholas Lea as Tom Foss
• Leah Cairns as Emily Hollander
• Conrad Coates as Ballantine
• Cory Monteith as Charlie Tanner
• Chelan Simmons as Hillary
• Teryl Rothery as Carol Bloom
• Martin Cummins as Brian Taylor
• J. Eddie Peck as Adam Baylin
• Sarah-Jane Redmond as Rebecca Thatcher
• Kurt Max Runte as Detective Jason Breen
• Magda Apanowicz as Andy Jensen
• Andrew Jackson as Cyrus Reynolds
• Bill Dow as Professor William Kern

Ratings

The premiere episode of Kyle XY was ABC Family channel's highest rated original series premiere, according to their press release (as of June 2006). According to the same press release, the show received a household rating of 2.1 and reached 2.6 million viewers. The repeat showing of the first episode on sister broadcast network ABC had more than 5.2 million viewers.

Episode list

Soundtrack

On May 22, 2007 a soundtrack for Kyle XY was released. It was released on the same day as the release of the first season onto dvd. Track listing is as follows:

• 1. Hide Another Mistake - The 88
• 2. Nevermind the Phonecalls - Earlimart
• 3. Surround - In-Flight Safety
• 4. I'll Write the Song, You Sing For Me - Irving
• 5. Wonderful Day - O.A.R.
• 6. Bug Bear - Climber
• 7. Honestly - Cary Brothers
• 8. So Many Ways - Mates Of State
• 9. Middle Of the Night - Sherwood
• 10. Alibi - Mariana's Trench
• 11. It's Only Life - Kate Voegele
• 12. 3 A.M. - Sean Hayes
• 13. Born On the Cusp - American Analog Set
• 14. Will You Remember Me (Lori's Song) - April Matson

The music supervisor for the show is Chris Mollere. Michael Suby wrote the opening theme, and most of the score and cues. Neither the theme nor any of the score appear on the soundtrack CD.

DVD release

Alternate reality game

Kyle XY as a series also features an alternate reality game where the players are "invited" to help solve the mystery of who Kyle really is. The Mada Corporation website is the game's rabbit hole — the introduction to the game universe. By clicking on "Our Jobs" in the menu, the gamer is taken to an anti-Madacorp Blog, where clues are left for revealing the truth about Kyle. This part of the series is a lot like Lost's DHARMA Initiative. It has been removed since the premiere of Season 2 and the Mada Corporation Website has been completely re-done to act as a real working website.

Show facts

• In the first episode a TV report on the appearance of a girl, who washed up on the beach with no memory, is shown. It has not been referenced since.

• The premise of Kyle XY is similar to John Doe, although it was supposedly created before the latter became a series. Also Kyle was given the name John Doe, a common alias given to patients in hospitals that have no identification, by the mental institution who took him in after he was discovered nude roaming in the city.

• Declan's surname, McDunaugh, is not revealed until the sixth episode ("Blame It on the Rain"), when Declan meets Stephen Trager. The show's website originally mentioned it as being "McMannus" (Declan MacManus is the real name of Elvis Costello), while closed captioning for the show identified it as "McDunaugh". The alternate reality game mistakenly indicated that it was "Tanner," which was actually the last name of Charlie, Amanda's boyfriend.

• When Kyle speaks for the first time, Josh exclaims, "He's like that Indian from Cuckoo's Nest!" This is a reference to Chief Bromden from the 1962 Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

• Even though the series takes place in Seattle, it is actually filmed in the Vancouver, British Columbia area.

• Throughout most episodes, Sour Patch Kids candies are mentioned or shown in the background as they are the show's main sponsor.

• When the character of Adam Baylin is mentioned for the first time in the eighth episode ("Memory Serves"), his last name was spelled "Bailen" in the closed-captioning. However, it is spelled "Baylin" on ABC Family's official website, and so the latter spelling is considered canonical.

International Broadcasters

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States	ABC Family (first run); ABC (re-runs) (High Definition)	June 26 2006	ABC Family: Mondays 8 pm ABC: Fridays 8 pm
Canada	SPACE: The Imagination Station & A-Channel	2007
Malaysia	TV3	February 1 2007	Thursdays 9.30 pm
Bulgaria	Fox Crime	April 12 2007	Monday to Friday 10.00 pm and 2.00 pm
South Africa	DStv	April 3 2007
Spain	Sci-fi and Cuatro TV	March 14 2007 in Sci-fi Soon in Cuatro	Sci-fi: Wednesdays 10 pm
United Kingdom	Trouble	February 20 2007
Türkiye	Dizimax	2007
Sweden	Kanal 5	April 19 2007	Thursdays 8 pm

References

1. "ABC Family Sells Kyle XY on iTunes". Multichannel News. 2006-06-16. Retrieved 2006-07-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. "Extended second season for 'Kyle XY'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2007-05-09. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
3. "Millions of viewers tune-in to discover who is 'Kyle XY'" (PDF). ABC FamilyNet. 2006-06-27. Retrieved 2006-07-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
4. Becker, Anne (2006-07-03). "Kyle XY Scores High in Double Play". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-07-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. Mada Corporation website (fictional)
6. Mitovich, Matt Webb (2006-06-26). "Who / what / from where is 'Kyle XY?'". TV.com. Retrieved 2006-07-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

• Kyle XY Official Site
• Kyle XY on TV Squad
• Madacorp Website
• The Latnok Society Website

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External Links

I've gotten mixed messages on external links to blogs. Yanksox said that external links to blogs are fine. While Trainer4 says that personal sites are not notable external links.

Blogs are fine if they can relate heavily to the subject matter or are used as somesort of a proof. Yanksox 19:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Revision as of 16:53, 23 June 2007 (edit) TRAiNER4 (Talk | contribs) (for the last time, personal sites are not noteable external links, per WP:EL) ← Older edit

COULD SOMEONE RESOLVE THIS DISCREPANCY PLEASE? Garyfreedman 16:24, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

From the links to be avoided section of the external links guideline:

• "Links to blogs and personal web pages, except those written by a recognized authority."

In general, blogs shouldn't be used as sources and rarely belong as external links.

There appears to also be a conflict of interest issue here. You shouldn't be inserting links to your own site even if the link would normally be appropriate for the article. Try starting a discussion on the article's talk page. --OnoremDil 16:42, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Kyle XY

I added the following external link. Is this vandalization? If so, I'm sorry.

• Kyle XY: A Modern Kaspar Hauser Garyfreedman 16:51, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Stanley R. Palombo

My stub about Palombo is based on first-hand information. I'm a former patient of his. Garyfreedman 16:26, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your contribution. Please read Misplaced Pages's guideline on creating articles based on first-hand information. Information in Misplaced Pages must be supported by verifiable, published, external sources. I think both of these will pass the notability test, but they do need external references. Tlesher 16:59, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Alexandra Zapruder

My stub about Zapruder is based on first-hand knowledge. I'm a personal friend of Zapruder's husband, Craig Dye. Garyfreedman 16:26, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Skeet Ulrich

The TV show "Jericho" was renewed for the 2007-2008 season. CBS ordered seven new episodes to be broadcast in 2008. Thus, "Skeet Ulrich stars in Jericho" not "starred in."(~~~~)

Waterlase -- Dentistry

You need to add material on the waterlase machine in the article on dentistry. The Waterlase is a laser technology that replaces the dentist's drill and is enjoying increasing popularity. It offers painless procedures on hard and soft tissue.

WHAT IS WATERLASE TECHNOLOGY?

Waterlase uses the Hydrokinetic process which gently washes away decay with YSGG laser-energized water droplets. Hydrokinetic energy is produced by combining a spray of atomized water with laser energy. The resulting Waterlase (HydroKinetic) energy gently and precisely removes a wide range of human tissue including tooth enamel (the hardest substance in the body), and soft tissue (gum tissue) with no heat or discomfort in most cases.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THE WATERLASE?

Heat and vibration are the causes of most of the discomfort associated with the drill. Since Hydrokinetic cutting does not transmit heat or vibration, MANY DENTAL PROCEDURES CAN BE PERFORMED WITHOUT ANESTHESIA, IN MOST CASES.

The laser's pinpoint accuracy is precise enough that your dentist can leave in place as much healthy tooth structure as possible, allowing you to keep your own teeth longer.

Gently performs numerous soft tissue (gums) procedures with little or no bleeding. The laser gives your dentist a new high-tech tool for many procedures that previously required referral to a specialist. Now you can have them performed during your scheduled appointment and feel better afterwards!

The Waterlase prepares your teeth in a way that maximizes the bonding of tooth colored fillings, allowing them to last longer. Garyfreedman 16:27, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Kyle XY - link to a blog

I understand that it is generally bad form to create a link to a blog. Is that Misplaced Pages policy? I had created a link to a blog in the article on Kyle XY, but it was deleted. I want to advise Misplaced Pages that there were in fact a lot of hits to the link--about 8 per day. So there was reader interest in the link. Can I reinstate the link?(~~~~);

Gary Freedman - nom for deletion

It is proposed that your artice, Gary freedman, be deleted, as there is no reference given as to why he is someone who is included in an encyclopaedia. Also, it is generally considered bad form to author an article on yourself.--File Éireann 21:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I have started a process in motion in which votes will be taken over the coming week as to the suitiability of your article for this encyclopaedia. You are free to comment on the relevant talk page. It may be that you can show by editing the article how it is notable. See Misplaced Pages:notability. Good luck, and thanks for contributing to the 'pedia!--File Éireann 21:40, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Do not pose as other users

Don't pose as other users like you did here. Yanksox 21:47, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't think you should assume that Mr Freedman is necessarily posing as someone else. Don't forget he is a lawyer. We can all read his signature on history. Remember to assume good faith. --File Éireann 21:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

The statement is written in the third person. I will assume good faith, though and apologize. Yanksox 22:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe I should clarify

Here are some helpful links to explain how Misplaced Pages really decides between notability and the non-notability: WP:NOT, WP:BIO, WP:AUTO. If you do need anything, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks! Yanksox 22:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

About this comment, "The Central High School of Philadelphia is a Misplaced Pages entry and should have a link." Yes, it actually does have a link and yes, you have a point ciatations should be asked for. I actually added the page to my watchlist, thanks! It is really a tough call, Mr. Freedman, but it sort of makes sense if you read this. If you need anything, you know who to call. Yanksox 22:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I really, really, really think you need to read WP:AUTO and WP:BIO. Yanksox 17:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Your article

It's better, but I think notability, isn't there still. Yanksox 16:16, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Yanksox, If I write an article on Melitzah should it go in Wiktionary or Misplaced Pages? Any ideas?

user: Gary Freedman--Garyfreedman 16:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Um, well, I guess it could go in both. It just depends on how you right the article. Yanksox 17:20, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for bearing with me. I revised the entry again to state expressly that the blog is a "notable modern example of the medieval Hebrew literary device known as melitzah." The blog is notable not because it is well known, it is notable as one of the few axamples of an existing literary device.--Garyfreedman 18:49, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I submitted a second entry specifically on the term melitzah. Perhaps it is more appropriate than the "Gary Freedman" article.--Garyfreedman 15:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Yanksox and the other editors: Thanks for your patience with me. I knew I had a worthwhile idea lurking somewhere in the article "Gary Freedman." Thanks again.--Garyfreedman 17:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Blogs

Blogs are fine if they can relate heavily to the subject matter or are used as somesort of a proof. Yanksox 19:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Category: Science Fiction Television Series

User talk:Garyfreedman is not a science fiction television series. It has no business appearing there, or in most of the other categories you've got it in. If you're confused about what belongs on a category page, see the FAQ or read Misplaced Pages:Categorization. Do the right thing. 75.153.202.25 05:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)