From the looks of it, “Lost University” is several things at once: pure fun (I love the mascot: a polar bear, of course); elaborate promotion for the Season 5 DVD (in stores later this year); and (possibly) a nifty alternate reality game designed to keep Lost top-of-mind in the months leading up to its sixth and final season. Visitors to Comic-Con this week are already finding clues (including a phone number for a “Professor Nusedorf:” 818-824-6300) suggesting that a major component to “Lost University” begins on September 22, a date of significance in Lost lore. (9/22/04: Oceanic 815 crashed on The Island. But you didn’t need a college course to know that, right?) While I’m down at Comic-Con this weekend, I’ll see if I can dig up any more info. Feel free to follow me on Twitter for updates: @ewdocjensen. Also: keep coming back to PopWatch all weekend long for updates about all of Comic-Con.
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I found that this morning! I’m all signed up to enroll in September. The polar bear logo is priceless. Nice to see ABC going all out for the final year of LOST.
I’m a fan of LOST, but this is ridiculous. Some people must truly have too much time on their hands, and they’re most likely not even “a jet fuel genius.”
Lost goes to college ??? – go ahead people go ….. they will do anything to get you to watch, won’t they….
Watching Lost and participating in all things Lost beats wasting your life commenting on topics you dont have any interest in.
ABC knows LOST is one of the most talked about shows among online Forums, so it only makes sense for them to do this. Smart marketing move.
Kinda reminds me of when CSI had a site going for people to discuss the Miniature Killer. There were some crazy theories! lol
http://tvdonewright.com/
If you don’t get LOST by now you never are going to.
Check out the shot where the voice over says “…join a study group with students around the world.” Recognize the professor pontificating?
Love Love LOve LOST. Best Quality and imaginative show ever. I f they were really doing this for ratings they would have done this long ago. Lost is intriguing to the mind and I love going to forums to find out what people think of this show. If it were any other show I would say ridiulous since shows are no longer original, yet LOST keeps me there every week. I dont even tivo it because im there.
I love that the greek rush is E.K.O!!
@Rush:
Yeah, I noticed that, too. Dr. DeGroot! A Season Six role, perhaps?
Actually, it seems like it could be a new ARG. Or at least it’s replacement. Great idea.
To those who would say they will do anything to watch, Anybody who will participate already watches and usually follows the annual hiatus ARG. So, your point is a bit asinine.
I’m totally geeking out right now. I loved the Dharma Initiative thing they did before season 5 and I’m looking forward to participating in Lost University!
Oh you are so wrong “To Robert” I have interest .. as a finite entertainment moment in my life – Don’t need to or want to surround myself in a television program based on characters … remember these are ACTORS reading lines from a SCRIPT written by SOMEONE ELSE..
do you remember Shannon Rutherford?
watch her phone stolen vids on – http://adulthd-video.blogbugs.org
Ignore the couple of trolls who comment and they’ll go away. While I most likely won’t sign up for this site I think it’s great for the fans and the show. It’s not hurting anyone so why rag on it haters?
I LOVE the LU hoodie. I might have to buy one haha..
Well, if last year, they had Dharma Recruiting Stations at Comic Con, and then we saw our Losties go through the Dharma welcome wagon, my guess is that season 6 will have eps about Ann Arbor, and the academics behind Dharma, and that Faraday will be one of them (during his 3 missing years, at least).
Could it be another clue that the language courses offered are Korean and French, but not Latin? We wouldn’t need to know more Korean (now that Jin has had 3 years with Dharma to learn English), unless either Jin and Sun will be reunited and feel a need to speak privately, or we’ll have more flashbacks, or, the Jughead strategy worked and Jin’s back to a time when he only spoke Korean. French–are we looping back to Rousseau’s arrival again? The glaring absence of Latin–they want to maintain more sense of mystery around what is uttered amongst Others?
I’ve already requested by Hieroglyphics textbooks from the library!!!
This is awesome. Sign me up….but where’s the sorority? I love this show and am extremely sad that it has to end. I doubt there will be anything good like this in the future.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this translated into part of next year’s storyline. Last year’s ARG was Dharma-themed, where the year before was Freighter-themed. On podcasts, the producers have implied that we’d learn more about the DeGroots and “what was going on back in Ann Arbor” before the series was up. So this sounds like a handy way to introduce an academic arc – which does seem a good way to answer questions.
Maybe someone already commented on this, but did you notice the watermark on the articles is a Dharma station logo? Books and an apple. Love it!
I’m still waiting for a real university offering course work on Lost as part of a film study class or some other media related course.
Never thought I’d be heading back to college at age 40, but if there was ever a school I’d want to go to, this one is it! Thanks ABC, and thanks Doc for the heads up!
To Judy B,
During my undergrad studies at the University of Pittsburgh, I was a film studies minor and I took a class called “Topics in Film Genre and Theme: Fan Cultures”
It was a really great class and, of course, LOST was discussed in depth more than several times… LOST, Twin Peaks, Buffy, Trekkies, etc.
For my final presentation, I utilized a clip from LOST (i.e., the opening scenes of the Season 3 Premiere, with Juliet listening to Petula Clark’s ‘Downtown’ and accidentally burning her muffins. Then we arrive at the bookclub scenario, rumble rumble, Oceanic 815 breaks apart in the sky and—LOST.
My presentation was a hit though.
To Judy B,
During my undergrad studies at the University of Pittsburgh, I was a film studies minor and I took a class called “Topics in Film Genre and Theme: Fan Cultures”
It was a really great class and, of course, LOST was discussed in depth more than several times… LOST, Twin Peaks, Buffy, Trekkies, etc.
For my final presentation, I utilized a clip from LOST (i.e., the opening scenes of the Season 3 Premiere, with Juliet listening to Petula Clark’s ‘Downtown’ and accidentally burning her muffins. Then we arrive at the bookclub scenario, rumble rumble, Oceanic 815 breaks apart in the sky and—LOST.
My presentation was a hit though.
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