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It's that time... LOST Season 5 Thread!
I resisted posting a thread all summer, even though there is currently the Lost ARG going on, and there was the interesting Dharma Footage from Comic Con. But the first trailer for the new season has hit YouTube, which means it is probably time this thread be started...
If you have not seen all of season 4, do not watch this trailer...
thoughts??
edit: switched to a new youtube link,, old one was disabled...
I am pretty stoked. The trailer seems to imply a lot of the action of the story will be one the O6 getting back to the Island, which leaves me wondering what timeline will be our "present," especially with the dissolution of linear time that happened last season. There is a possibility that we will start off the Island, with flashforwards (maybe of island, maybe of post-island,) but the weeks will be interspersed with O6 stories and Island stories, presenting them as if they were concurrent... but then sometime near the end of the season the O6 will get back to the Island, only to realize that they have been off for so long that the amount of time that has occurred for them and the amount that has occurred for folk on the Island will be different... not sure which will have lasted longer (ie the O6 lived 1 year off island but only 2 weeks had passed on-Island, or vice versa).... when you are only off Island for a few days, such differences in temporality are minimal and non obtrusive, but when you have been off as long as they have it becomes a big deal.
I dunno. I'm kind of excited for the new season but it's not like that christmas eve kind of excitement where I can't wait for it to get here.
never really felt compelled to bother looking at any of the comic-con stuff or the ARG, what's it about this time then?
anyways, that being said, i'll still watch each episode as soon as they're on. it's just one of those "meh, when it gets here; it get's here."
The ARG this time around is a Dharma Initiative Recruitment thing, which they started at COmic COn. You had to go to this site, DharmaWantsYou, and you filled out a survey, and basically every week they released a new test, hypothetically your results from all of the tests would determine whether you are or are not a suitable new recruit for new Dharma Initiative missions. However, as soon as the tests started, people realized there were clues as to how to cheat on all of the tests, supposedly hacked into the tests by someone named Black Swan, unknown to be a disgruntled Dharma employee or an outsider. Then, a few tests in, the guy who was leading you through this posted a video saying that it had come to their attention that folk were gaining unfair advantages on tests and that Black Swan was to be avoided, but the tests kept coming and there were still cheats available. Then, the final test revealed that Black Swan was never real, but rather it was the final test, as to whether or not you were honest. After every test they put you into a group, "based on your test results," and the final test put you either in the group "Black Swan" (if you had cheated) or "White Swan" (if you had not cheated.) As of now, thats it. Testing is over, they said they would contact us in December, after "all of the test data is analyzed thoroughly."
There is a cool video with our friend from all of the other Dharma videos... if you head to www.dharmawantsyou.com you can check it out...
Did not know that show was still on.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. ---Napoleon Bonaparte
Wake early
if you want
another man's life or land.
No lamb
for the lazy wolf.
No battle's won in bed.
- The Havamal
Lost returns to its old time slot, Wednesday 9pm, with a two hour premier on Jan 21!
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/abc-sets-lost-p.html
Also, Reiko Aylesworth is in negotiations for a recurring role:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i798ea20fcf86...
So, in a kind of weird and disappointing ending to this summer's alternate reality game, I just received this message from the Dharma Initiative Recruiting folk:
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Namaste.
I am pleased to announce that registered recruits can now log in and download your personalized Volunteer Assessment Dossier outlining your full test results as well as your position within the Dharma Initiative.
I want to personally congratulate you on behalf of everyone at the Dharma Initiative for your hard work and diligence during our testing process.
We hope that you are happy with your results. We certainly are. The tests were extremely challenging and the aptitude and excellence displayed far exceeded our expectations.
Now that you are in possession of your results I am sure you are asking the obvious question: what's next?
Our plan was that together we would commence a glorious adventure: the revival of the Dharma Initiative using the myriad talents of all our amazing new recruits. We imagined not just fulfilling long abandoned goals but taking the Dharma Initiative to a new level of greatness as an organization promoting the peaceful social and technological advancement of all humankind.
Then the financial crisis struck.
Sadly, our benefactors were not immune to this crisis. In fact, unconfirmed reports suggest that much of the money designated for the work of the new Dharma Initiative was tied up in highly leveraged mortgage derivatives. This, however, cannot be confirmed because, I am sorry to report, the principals representing the benefactors - my employers - have gone missing. Based on bills still coming into our office we believe they are somewhere in South America.
This stunning reversal of fortune has forced us to abandon our ambitious plans. In fact, absent this funding, the Dharma Initiative was forced to make the only sensible decision we had available: we sold the Dharma Initiative to the television show LOST.
While this might strike some of you as a shock, the reason for this was not simply that they were the only bidder. As the only remaining Dharma Initiative employee who had not fled the country, I felt that at the very least the show would be able to keep the spirit of the Dharma Initiative alive and in the public consciousness until such time as a reversal of the reversal of our economic fortunes occurs.
It is with a heavy heart that I must bid you farewell. Despite my fervent commitment to the mission of the Dharma Initiative, the realities of a broken marriage, heavy casino debt and some unfounded police charges have required that I change my present circumstances. It is with great excitement that I can inform you of my pending senior sales management job at a large multi-brand auto dealership in Dubai. I have enjoyed our brief association more than I can ever express, and if you are ever in the Middle East and need a car, please e-mail me for a special "Dharma rate".
In the meantime, you will hear shortly from LOST showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. They will explain to you their future plans for the Dharma Initiative and how these plans might affect you.
Thank you again, personally, for your unflagging commitment and support. I hope our paths will one day cross again. In the meantime may the spirit of the island guide you.
Namaste.
Hans Van Eeghen
Head of Recruiting
The Dharma Initiative
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Weird. However, if you look through the newsletter source code, this email address is found: DSAqanda@gmail.com
So if you send an email to this address, you get the auto-reply:
"Got a question for the creators of LOST? Submit your question along with your name and hometown, and if selected, Damon and Carlton will answer it in a DSA announcement… that is, if you haven't been a bad Black Swan." (A Black Swan is someone who cheated on the recruitment tests).
Dont know if I am going to email them a question or not. They did assign me, as the result of my "test scores," to be a Psychologist.
Sweet Season 5 poster just released:
http://www.docarzt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/lost_y5_adart_vert_noa...
It is kind of interesting that on the Island side the only original Losties on there are Locke and Sawyer... the other four are newcomers... while on the city side it is almost all Losties...
New trailer - Disregarding the "music video" style, actualy really good, and a good song for a Lost promo video... Plus, it has an easter egg!
Read about Easter Egg here:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=50735
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So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historically and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby-Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
jack+kate=the LEAST interesting thing about this show.
It's a Jack/Kate/Sawyer love triangle.
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