Lost - The Full Series Thread

[Goose]

There's a hell of a lot of people on that poster...

[Goose]

Weird and on-going Viral thing -

Last Week on the Lost Viral: Human Giant comedian Paul Scheer made an appearance during the Q&A of the Lost Comic-Con panel, presenting Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse with a velvet painting and announcing his new website DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com. After Con, we recieved a very strange FEDEX’ed letter from Paul, declaring his decision to become the Picasso of Pop Art, and devote his life to making Lost-inspired paintings. Soon after we recieved a FEDEX’d letter from Ronie Midfew Arts, declaring that “Mr. Scheer is creating this LOST-inspired artwork without authorization.” A couple people in the comments figured out that Ronie Midfew Arts is actually an anagram for Widmore Fine Arts. Yes, as in Charles Widmore. And last time we heard from Paul, he had just received a photo of his Velvet Polar Bear Painting in a trash can at the Lost production offices. Paul wrote on his blog, “I know Damon and Carlton would never do this. They loved my painting. They must also be getting harassed by Ronie Midfew Arts. I’m going to find out the truth. I think it’s time I paid Damon and Carlton a visit!”

As expected, Paul crashed the Lost production office in an attempt to confront Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse about his trashed velvet painting. The best part about it is that he video taped the entire thing (look out for easter eggs). For anyone who doubted that this wasn’t an official Lost viral, I think this will confirm it to be real, with brief appearances by Cuse and Lindelof. Scheer discovers possible clues while dumpster diving in the trash outside the Lost production offices, before he was discovered by the lot security. What did he discover? Information about the Season six premiere of Lost! Watch the video after the jump!

http://damoncarltonandapolarbear.com/dcpb/

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/2009/08/0...dapolarbearcom/

http://roniemidfewarts.com/i/

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/06/lost-v...uction-offices/

Latest Viral (potential episode title spoiler)

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/10/lost-v...tle-discovered/

[The Sarge]

Latest Viral (potential episode title spoiler)

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/10/lost-v...tle-discovered/

That

adds to the alt reality theory if we take it at face value. LAX - Los Angeles Airport, the destination of flight 815. But that's too easy, X is also 10 in Roman numerals. LA 10?

[oli]

I'm not sure how they're going to pull it off if they do have everyone landing safely at LA X - they'll have what 17 hours to tie everything together, so there can't be loads of time spent of the island surely?

[Boobni82]

That promo poster looks to have a way to many people on it. Wonder if they are going to try and start bringing back older characters through some crazy alternate universe. Was trying to see if anyone other than locke was looking the other direction but cant find a clear image - would make sense if the people looking the other way were all the dead ones.

Dont really care about any of the older characters apart from charlie an eko.

[Deeptone]

Latest Viral (potential episode title spoiler)

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/10/lost-v...tle-discovered/

Hmmmm, anybody else spot the soft drink cup in that video?

It's from Mr Kluck's, which is apparently a chain of fried chicken restaurants Hurley runs in an alternate reality. So is the video set in an alternate reality? If so, then the episode title may not be true. Or it might be.

My head hurts.

Seriously, don't read that if you don't want any spoilers, however small, for the new series.

[CGMF]

haha great

[hereticboy]

Fuck me, it seems now that everybody is going to be back in it. I think I'll avoid even pre-season spoilers this time just to be suprised at who pops up.

Everybody.

[Goose]

I knew of someone returning, and I've just seen that at least two more are potentially returning. I'm interested and intrigued and not a little bit worried about where this short final season could be going.

One potential returning character spoiler -

I speculate -

we ARE going to see this major alternate reality, given how many are coming back (I just read Eko, who was desperate to leave the show, is looking to return!) but somewhere along the line someone is going to cock it up and undo (and re-kill) all those we've seen return.

[dumpster]

My thought was that he flash at the end of series 5 was another time jump, this time, back to the point of the crash. They all wake up on the beach, with the crashed plane. They find the tail section survivors before any kids are stolen, they find Ben and tell him everything, they re-live all the events of the previous series, only this time, they know exactly where to go and what to do.

[hereticboy]

That sounds very good, Goose. That could be very very good.

[CGMF]

haha great

[CactuarBill]

But you can't change the CUNTING PAST!

It's not changing it, it's creating another reality.

[Wraith]

My thought was that he flash at the end of series 5 was another time jump, this time, back to the point of the crash. They all wake up on the beach, with the crashed plane. They find the tail section survivors before any kids are stolen, they find Ben and tell him everything, they re-live all the events of the previous series, only this time, they know exactly where to go and what to do.

its seemingly even bigger than this. a time jump with all the events from the finale/pilot being changed. the crash never happened, and neither did Jacob's interactions with the Losties(this is perhaps why the crash never happened). of course just how this will be brought into line with the progression of the first 5 series(be loathed if i'll call them seasons damn it!), will be one of the biggest mysteries of the final run.

i can see the first few episodes dealing with the lives of the Losties(or at least the O6) had the not crashed, as well as the fallout of their actions in the past on the present inhabitants of the island.

[dug]

My speculation based on nothing more than what I think would be cool:

The first couple of episodes will play out with the losties safely landing at LAX, with no memories of what happened on the island (because from their point of view, it didn't happen), and carrying on with their lives.

After a while (years, even?) they'll start having dreams and memories of the island, and some of them will seek out the others and eventually they'll realize they're all having memories of these things that "didn't happen".

As they're going through this wierdness and confusion, they'll start getting visits from Jacob (or the other guy, possibly?) who will tell them that this 'new' reality is wrong and shouldn't exist, and they must fix it or the conflicting realities will cause Teh End Of Teh World!!!

Then Hurley will say "duuude."

[oli]

The title of first episode is LA X, right? I've read a few bits and they're very specific about the use of the space in there. What it isn't meant to be LA X as in an airport but the writers saying LA? Wrong. You know the X to show something is incorrect as both those on the island and a lot of us the audience are sure they'll start season 6 landing in LA

[Goose]

After a while (years, even?) they'll start having dreams and memories of the island, and some of them will seek out the others and eventually they'll realize they're all having memories of these things that "didn't happen".

As they're going through this wierdness and confusion, they'll start getting visits from Jacob (or the other guy, possibly?) who will tell them that this 'new' reality is wrong and shouldn't exist, and they must fix it or the conflicting realities will cause Teh End Of Teh World!!!

I think that could be pretty close to what'll happen. I just hope we don't get 16 episodes of this alternate reality only for the show to undo itself in episode 17 and finish with Jack waking up in the jungle two minutes after our first plane crash, a la the opening episode.

The slightly worrying thing is that they CAN get away with anything because it's the last season, it's not like they show can be taken off the air - it'll have practically finished filming by the time the season actually starts screening.

Apparently ABC issued some kind of animated banner for season six but I've not seen it - anyway here's a short description with an interesting thing for one character -

The marketing graphic for Lost season six included all our favorite characters (heralding the return of many of them) but the important thing is that the last character added to the animation was Locke, and he was very obviously facing backward, while all the other characters were facing forward.

What if all the characters get rebooted into the new alternate reality, except Locke isn't Locke, because he died off the island? What if it's the "other Locke" who ends up in the alternate reality and it becomes him who ends up cocking everything up (or does it on purpose) and sends every back to the island and it's normal reality line?

[Kinketsu]

If the other Locke returned instead of the original John, why would he want to cock everything up and bring them back to the island? We know from the first scene of the finale episode that he doesn't want other people to come there. We also know that Jacob does, and he influences all the lives of the main castaways to lead them there eventually. At the end of the finale, he says 'They're coming' and it seems it is part of his plan that they return to tackle the bad Locke.

I honestly think this alternate reality thing is mostly a red herring, not only because Abrhams is already doing an alternate reality on Fringe. I agree with the idea that most likely everything from the Season 5 finale has been already refenced in previous episodes and therefore most likely happened as is all along (Chang losing his arm in the Incident etc). I felt the same as dumpster that the white flash was probably another time jump. There just hasn't been anything on the show to suggest that you can change the past or move into different dimensions. Daniel suddenly thought that he coud change the past but got shot in the head by his own mother just as planned to prove him wrong. Miles quite rightly pointed out in the finale that detonating the bomb could likely be what caused the incident in the first place.

I think the survivors from 1977 will be sent back to the present or will arrive shortly after the crash with their present memories. This would allow all the dead characters to be featured again for a few episodes. They made a deal of showing that Juliett was not one of the ones whos life was touched by Jacob. So perhaps she survives the Incident (we know Radinksy and Chang also did, so the bomb probably doesn't kill anybody), but is stuck in 1977 / presumed dead on the show but will make a surprise appearence a few episodes in. Set up the Latin speaking cult people from Season 5 (just throwing that out there, as she can also speak Latin) maybe?

[roskelld]

Anyone seen this? Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative

http://news.tubefilter.tv/2009/08/03/abcs-...dharma-secrets/

[CGMF]

haha great

[JohnC]

WTF? You post that there are no spoilers in the link in spoiler tags? Some sort of reverse Xzibit?

[CGMF]

haha great

[squirtle]

So, I'm working my way through the seasons again and just finished season 2.

So, the hatch. It really had a point then, to disperse electromagnetic energy safely. But what the hell did the fail safe do? What exactly happens when Desmond turns that key? How do Locke, Desmond and Eko (and possibly Charlie) get out of there? I mean, a massive crater is formed, the hatch lid is blown clear off its hinges and about a mile away... And yet those stuckl inside wander off with barely a scratch. How did this happen? It's never been satisfactorily explained why the hatch was there. I mean, they were building it before there was any kind of incident, but now we can pretty much rule out that being Jughead going off or anything to do with that. So what was the incident? Will we ever find out? And why build the hatch station when the incident had never happened at that point?

And the Pearl station and the notebooks. What was the point in that, and why have them delivered to the middle of a clearing? What exactly happened to the Dharma Initiative post 1977 that led to all these crazy stations until they were all killed several years later by Ben and the Others? Knowing what we know now, the whole point behind the hatch and the other stations seems rather forgotten about. At least to me.

And Walt. What exactly was the deal with him? In the context of the plot, why did the others want him? What was with the birds? Why did they ask Michael if Walt had ever shown up somewhere he shouldn't be?

It bugs me a little to think that we might not get the answers to these questions in the next series, but does anyone have any theories on any of the above?

[Kinketsu]

I thought the Swan station is there initially to study the electromagnetic anomoly, it's just that it gets out of control and then we have the incident we see at the end of Season 5, the finale of whch is called The Incident and shows pretty much what happened, including the Dr losing his arm, the magnetic engergy pulling everything into the centre etc. After that I assume the Swan is finished to control the electromagnetism rather than monitor it.

Didn't they say in Season 3 that The Pearl was a psychological experiment? I think the purpose of all the stations have been explained by now in the previous series. I don't know if we'll ever find out exactly what happened to each of the Dharma members after the Incident, but we know many of them came back, finished the stations and carried on with their work for many years before they were killed.

We don't know much about Walt yet but hopefully some of that will be explained in the final season. Does he have Jacob like powers or something? Don't know if we'll find out about that one.

[Fireproofradiator]

I'm not *that* fussed about finding out answers to everything, personally. Can't wait to see how Hurley becomes the twenty first century's most amazing hero, as I predict he will do, whether Kate is gonna wear any more pencil skirts, or how Locke is gonna pan out, but stuff like 'how did character x survive event y four seasons ago' is always gonna be low on the writer's priorities (for better or worse), esp given we're entering endgame now...

It's fun to theorise tho!

When does it all start again, anyway? March?

[Pob]

I'm sure the failsafe issue will be addressed - everything surrounding the key being turned - the pulse, the effect it had on Desmond, how they survived etc was left unanswered. I'm sure they'll come back to that.

[hereticboy]

I'm not *that* fussed about finding out answers to everything, personally. Can't wait to see how Hurley becomes the twenty first century's most amazing hero, as I predict he will do, whether Kate is gonna wear any more pencil skirts, or how Locke is gonna pan out, but stuff like 'how did character x survive event y four seasons ago' is always gonna be low on the writer's priorities (for better or worse), esp given we're entering endgame now...

It's fun to theorise tho!

When does it all start again, anyway? March?

It usually kicks off again in February .

[lordcookie]

Limited Edition Season 5 box set:

No confirmation yet of what is in the set.

[Rayn]

I'm liking the looks of it, at least.

[JohnC]

Is that a real VHS tape or something made to look like one?