Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Just eight days until Thanksgiving. Thirty-two days until Hanukkah. Thirty-six days until Christmas. And 63 days until the season premiere of Lost. Freakin’ Lost! Whoo-hoo! Can’t you feel the butterflies of excited anticipation flittering in your gut in that mildly uncomfortable way that kinda makes you wanna go poop? I sure do!
Of course, there are other, potentially less flatulent ways to express your Lost enthusiasm. Tonight, for example, if you live in the Lost Angeles area, you could head over to Meltdown Comics (7522 West Sunset Blvd.) at 7 p.m. and meet executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof as well as several of their writing staff cohorts. They’ll be there to pick up their weekly allotment of new comics, no doubt (I hear Carlton is a huge Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers fan) (if you don’t get the reference, you must be 18 or older to Google it), as well as sign autographs to mark the release of a new line of Lost toys marketed by Kubrick, the super-cool Japanese company that specializes in small, blocky collectible figurines. (Google search for images. I like ‘em all, especially the sad-faced Hurley…though Kate looks a little Fabio to me.) Feel free to scream and faint with I just met the Jonas Brothers and I’ll never wash my eyeballs again! hysterical glee — I hear Damon and CC totally love that.
In the meantime, here’s a new Lost mystery to puzzle over. Have you guys seen this?
It’s a series of short video clips for…well, no one quite knows for sure. In fact, my emails to certain peeps in the Lost camp were returned with equally baffled reactions. The assumption is that these clips are merely promotional spots touting Lost broadcastsin Britain. But the content — Sayid bursting through the doors of whatappears to be a new Dharma station and then being seized by variousmorphing substances shaped like the numerals 1, 2, and 3 — has fansbuzzing and mulling the significance, if any. My theory? Smokey livesin a Dharma lab when he isn’t hunting castaways — and he has siblings.Yep: the crazy season is upon us!
Yet where God opens a Lost door, he must close one, althoughmaybe not all the way. There has been an intriguing — and possiblydisappointing — new development in the show’s latest between-seasons,reality-blurring, Internet-based alternate reality game. Since July,the Dharma Initiative has been recruiting Lost fans viadharmawantsyou.com to volunteer for a new version of the weird scienceoutfit. The game/narrative has been moving rather slowly for some, butthe expectation of all has been that it’ll begin to pick up and startpaying off the closer we get to the new season. But yesterday,participants received an email from Hans Van Eeghen, head of Dharmarecruiting, announcing that due to the current financial crisis, Dharmahas gone bust. Writes Van Eeghen: “This stunning reversal of fortunehas forced us to abandon our ambitious plans. In fact, absent thisfunding, the Dharma Initiative was forced to make the only sensibledecision we had available: we sold the Dharma Initiative to thetelevision show LOST.” The email goes onto to indicate thatparticipants can expect to soon hear from Cuse and Lindelof about whatwill happen next. My sources declined to comment, but I fear that thisemail is ABC’s coy way of announcing that the ARG is being revised,curtailed, or canceled altogether due to the economic downturn thathas mandated budget cuts throughout all of Hollywood. When we know forcertain, we’ll let you know. Post your insanity below.
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They’re ads for Sky 1, 2 and 3. They have them for “Bones,” too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNwBsbO7Y8o
Thanks for the explanation, Elizabeth, and the link to the Bones video. My first thought was, “Look, Smokey has siblings: Crystal, Splash and Sparkle.”
I have to admit to not being very diligent about playing the Dharma Initiative game, but I’m curious now to see what Cuse/Lindelof have to say. On the bright side, any Lostie who goes to Dubai can get a special deal on a new car.
So are these just fancy commercials?
Elizabeth–thanks for the illumination! Funny how Lost folks stateside didn’t even know that… but I suppose they have other things on their mind. Like, actually making the show.
And for the record, we know, know… “Hurley.” NOT “Hurkey.” It’s too early for proper typing.
These were posted and explained a while ago over at DarkUFO
http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2008/11/sky-one-promo-featuring-naveen.html
Have you seen the new Lost Season 5 Poster?
http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-official-season-5-poster.html
it’s awesome
I don’t know if it was the theater that I was in or if it’s all over, but me and my friend went to the new James Bond movie over the weekend and out of the many many previews they had a sneek peak of the new season of Lost. It was a 530pm showing so not many people were there but I think we were the only two people in there that we excited about it.
Ta for that Sara – that’s now my desktop, replacing my Jay & Jack iPod station one…
katie: Was the promo you saw the same one as mentioned here?
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2008/11/details-of-new-lost-promo.html
Yeah, matie 1980, I went to see Role Models last weekend and the trailer for Lost season5 ran in front of that too. I was so vocally excited to see it, my boyfriend got embarassed in the theater
sorry **katie1980
I was pretty surprised all around by von Eeghen’s e-mail. I’ve been very diligent about the Dharma game, and I wasn’t expecting to hear anything at all for another month. Was very pleased with my test results–I was assigned to role of psychologist, so I guess that makes me Harper Stanhope lol. Anyway, I’m looking forward to hearing from Darlton and hope that it hasn’t all been in vain.
to james yes that is the one. my friend Brian is mad since he works nights he won’t be able to see it.
These are just the Britih Sky One Channel ad they have been comeing on for some time
… the real evil corporation behind all this is Nickelodeon?
“Lost” Angeles? If that’s not a typo, then it’s actually kind of vaguely clever, in a highly dorky way, of course.
I think the creators of lost finally upgraded to crystal meth. after all, grass will only get you so far.
The video could be a lot more simple that everyone is making it out to be. It could be a special effects breakdown. If you take the 1 2 3 literally, its the 3 layers that make up the final image of “Smokey”. The fact that Sayid happens to be there makes me think its a test for a scene.
I go to USC and was ecstatic when I read the producers were going to be just downtown at Meltdown.
Unfortunately, I was convinced there would be too many fans to get a good chance to chat with the producers.
Not only did J.J. Abrams show up (my creative idol!) – apparently only 20 fans did, too. I missed a huge opportunity to chat with the Lost creators and will beat myself up for the rest of my Lost-obsessed life.
Thanks for the heads up, though, Jeff Jensen. Always appreciated – and welcome!
I want to THANK YOU so much, Jeff. I found your article at 5:15 p.m., and then I booked it to the subway, and made it the location in time to see all of the writers. It’s an amazing experience — one I’ll never forget. THANK YOU for the heads up!
And if you want to see my pics from the event, go here:
http://www.myspace.com/marcusjamesdixon
Hi Doc Jensen,
While I pee my pants waiting for LOST to return, is there anyway you or one of the other PopWatchers could recap FRINGE? It is helping to fill the emotional/mental/psychological/physical void that I have whenever LOST is off the air; plus I hope it’s still around after LOST concludes next year. Thanks!
Have the videos been taken down?
I wish Lost still did full seasons which began in the fall, but at least the jan/feb premiers give us secular humanists a winter holiday worth celebrating.
They are simply UK Sky adverts. Sky 1 currently has blue, Sky 2 has green and Sky 3 has purple
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Sky1_logo_%282008%29.png/200px-Sky1_logo_%282008%29.png[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Sky_2_logo.png/200px-Sky_2_logo.png[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Sky3_logo.png/200px-Sky3_logo.png[/img]
The new trailer for Lost featuring the Fray has easter eggs at 1:35 and 2:25. Advertisements for Ajira Airways. Check out the site at: http://ajiraairways.com/
I wonder…
crystal, liquid, smoke…could it be ‘plasma’??? Maybe the station is called, The Valcano lol!
and maybe by going through 3 we get a clue as to how many times something happens or three stages like gas, solid, liquid…or 3 past present future???
These are really wierd…maybe another video game????
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