The LOST ARG

[bapenguin]

It looks like ABC is trying to get into the ARG scene....sort of. Fans of the show LOST just saw the season finale, and it left them with a ton of questions. Now, if you go to Oceanic-Air.com (http://www.oceanic-air.com/seatingchart.htm) you can start a game of sorts to bring up MORE questions!

Some of the things found so far are a preview of season 2, a piece of the script for the final episode that was cut, as well as a few other goodies.

[bapenguin]

hint: use the numbers

[zyzyx]

Charlie's band driveshaft also have an interesting blog here:

http://www.driveshaftband.com/

The finale was just awful, arrogant television unfortunately, not least the amount of sodding adverts. Hopefully they can pick it up a bit during the summer.

[Heretic Machine]

Awesome x10. And the finale pwned your soul.

[goc_sin]

Very cool.

[Cubfan]

I loved the finale.

[Rafer]

No mapinguari! NOT YET!

[Deadend]

holy crap, there is too much content for that show... insane, totally insane. And awesome.

[eatme]

Who the fuck still watches ads? Get out of the stone age, dude.

[ÜberJumper]

driveshaftband.com has this bit....

"According to the passenger list, Charlie Pace was sitting in seat 68G"

I'm only seeing rows 1-42 on this page...

http://www.oceanic-air.com/seatingchart.htm

SOMETHING STRANGE?

[GrinR]

It's the best show on network television by a wide margin.

Deadwood is the best cable show (although this season is not nearly as good as the first season).

[KarmaGhost]

The finale was just awful, arrogant television unfortunately, not least the amount of sodding adverts. Hopefully they can pick it up a bit during the summer.Replay TV = teh g00d
It's the best show on network television...Agreed.

[yNot]

I've found the following thus far:

Robert D. West, of Santa Barbara, California, USA survived a horrific plane crash and is stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to parents, Mr. and Mrs. John West, of Tucson Arizona. Thank you.

Robert

I've also found the script piece, which mentions a "mapinguari"

The seating chart has all sorts of stuff on it,

including a link to an entirely different flash site with it's own new forum.

[AbeLincoln]

Is there are co-ordinating wiki for all this stuff anywhere?

[VirgoBlu]

I guess I'll need to wait for the DVD in September to catch up. I've been addicted to The Contender for the last couple of weeks.

My co-worker, who is a Lost fanatic, wants to know if you guys noticed that it was the "Black smoke" that caused the engine to blow up in the first episode? He's babbling about seeing the "black smoke" swoop down from the sky and it blew up.

Didn't somebody get sucked into it, that's what I thought at least?

[CapnBob]

I'm fairly certain that cut page from the script is just to throw us completely off. None of the things on that page bore any resemblance to what happened in the episode. I think it guarantees that there is no cyborg Mapinguari on the show.

Edit: Virgo, there was an animated gif image circulating online last year that showed an amorphous black thing swoop down from the sky and blow up the engine, but it was not in the broadcast version. I suspect that it may have been in an earlier draft and later changed to be a guy getting sucked into the engine.

[Royal Fool]

If you find the seating chart, one word of advice:

DO NOT HAVE YOUR HEADPHONES ON OR HAVE THE SPEAKER VOLUME SET HIGH WHEN YOU CLICK LOCKE'S SEAT.

That is all. You'll thank me later.

[dr_qwandry]

LOST makes me miss Twin Peaks.
either way at least it's interesting

[KarmaGhost]

If you find the seating chart, one word of advice:

DO NOT HAVE YOUR HEADPHONES ON OR HAVE THE SPEAKER VOLUME SET HIGH WHEN YOU CLICK LOCKE'S SEAT.

That is all. You'll thank me later.Goddamn it that was loud and annoying!! I'm glad I had my speakers down low.

[Royal Fool]

Yeah, I'd agree with dr_qwandry. This is almost like Twin Peaks in many ways. So awesome. :)

[GrinR]

LOL! Twin Peaks what 100% unadulterated gibbershit. The "reveals" in TP only made sense in because Lynch said so. There was no internal logic to it at all.

LOST at least makes sense.

[WileE.Coyte]

I wonder if the actor who play's Sawyer, was trying to hold out on some more cash for next season. "(Writer), yeah, we'll talk about that".

[doubtingthomas]

LOL! Twin Peaks what 100% unadulterated gibbershit. The "reveals" in TP only made sense in because Lynch said so. There was no internal logic to it at all.

LOST at least makes sense.

I like both Lost and Twin Peaks, but children manifesting polar bears, Jack's dead father wandering around the island, some evil set of numbers that causes bad luck? Oh yeah, all that makes total sense.

[ÜberJumper]

Evil set of numbers causing bad luck? Dude his bad luck practically kept him off the plane! Only through ignoring his bad luck did he actually get ON the plane! The numbers, I wager, will actually turn out to be lucky rather than unlucky!

[bapenguin]

if you click the numbers in order at the bottom, you can see a preview for season 2.

[CapnBob]

doubtingthomas, Walt is not manifesting polar bears. The bears were on the island long before Oceanic 815 crashed. He is merely attracting them. The fact that the comic book contained polar bears has a lot more to do with the fact that Hurley used the numbers than the fact that Walt was reading it right before a polar bear showed up.

[PIPBoy3000]

bapenguin - nope. Didn't happen to me. Do you mean the seating chart?

I've tried the magic numbers or randomly clicking around and gotten some interesting results. It's too bad you can't reverse-engineer a Flash file easily.

[PIPBoy3000]

Ah - just found it:
Visit the link pasted below and click the numbers *below* the seating chart in this order: 4 - 8- 15 - 16 - 23 - 42
http://www.oceanic-air.com/seatingchart.htm
You'll get a teaser trailer that that implies they're all dead.

Here's another interesting easter egg:
http://www.oceanic-air.com/images/oa_front-letter1a.jpg

Personally I think they're toying with us and neither is true.

[ÜberJumper]

It seems this show is all about mis-reading the clues you see and deriving the incorrect meaning from them.

Jack thinking Locke killed Boone.

Thinking they wanted Aaron when they really wanted Walt.

Thinking Kate poisoned Michael.

Thinking Jin's watch was his.

etc


My theory is that they did die in the crash, but something on the island healed them/brought them back to life. The mention of nanotechnology in the driveshaft.com site is helpful for that line of reasoning. Whatever it was healed lockes injuries... ALL of his injuries/sicknesses. They're not the survivors they think they are, because they didn't really survive the crash.


CapnBob:

Did you see that Hurley was reading the comic on the plane (opened to the page with the polar bear) in the season closer?

[Spigot]

Did anyone else notice what happens if you type in flight 815 on the flight tracker page?

Rather than saying "Landed" it says "Alert". Not only that, it shows that the plane actually did land in LA and only 7 minutes late.

I'm wondering if that is what the "They're not the survivors they think they are," means.

As for the smoke blowing in and destroying the engine, that definately did not happen on the broadcast version. Some guy wanders too close to the engine, gets sucked in and it explodes. There's smoke AFTERWARDS, but it's not the cause.

The show is more about coincidences than about magic powers. I think that this season has been more about the survivors and their relationships to each other and the circumstances that brought them to the island. Next season will be more of a 'Survivors vs. The Island' spin as opposed to 'Survivors vs. Each Other'.

And the finale rocked. Answered a lot of the lingering questions linking people to the plane, opened up a crapload of new ones with regards to their present circumstances. I agree it's the best drama on network TV, hands down.

[Gitaroomaan]

This show rock in so many ways I would have a brain hemorage trying to count them.

[Amithraldur]

I'm still waiting for them to go all Lord Of The Flies by splitting up into two camps. I thought it was going to happen earlier with the cave and the beach, but that seperation didn't have quite the hostility necessary.

[bapenguin]

My theory is that they did die in the crash, but something on the island healed them/brought them back to life. The mention of nanotechnology in the driveshaft.com site is helpful for that line of reasoning. Whatever it was healed lockes injuries... ALL of his injuries/sicknesses. They're not the survivors they think they are, because they didn't really survive the crash.


I think people are reading into it too literally. They are not the survivors they think they are. I think this basically hints at the other survivors on the island. They THINK they are the only survivors, but they aren't. Remember Boone's radio transmission?

Boone: "Hello? We're the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815"
Radio: "No...we're the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815..."

[Oblivion]

maybe they are survivors of flight 777. who knows...

[TacRod]

SPOILER STUFF


In the copy I have you can see the black thing swoop down and toast the engine. It looks different from the smoke in the finale though.

I want to love this series so bad, but I can't help feeling that it's going to be all questions and no answers and then get canned. The season finale was OK, but they really need to throw the fans a bone. I'd love to just ignore the next season and watch it all on DVD at a later date. Seriously, answering one or two of the big questions isn't going to cripple the mystery. The supposed "cliffhanger" in the last episode was pretty lame. Note to writers: I'm watching this show because I want answers to the weird questions. If I want shitty human drama there are a million alternatives.



/END SPOILER STUFF

I really hope season 2 delivers much more.

[Mason]

In the name of all that is good and pure, this is the wrong time to be making Twin Peaks comparisons. Twin Peaks really went to hell in its second season, and I'm hoping really hard that the same doesn't happen to Lost.