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red_b_rackhamAs if I needed another reason to show everyone I way to obsessed with Lost. I have been so into it for years now (I have no idea what I'm going to do with myself when it finally ends forever) and my Lost fever has only reached new heights during this final season. And as if you need proof, I shall give you some anyway.
The other day I was checking out ABC's LOST website and came across this hilarious little set of videos called "Lost Slap Down" (see there HERE) They're clearly just for fun, but as I was watching them and laughing, I still found myself trying to analyze everything Damon and Carlton are saying, even when it's very clearly a joke, just in case it's a clue of some sort. The fact that I am even bothering is terrible, really, lol. In the second one, Paul the fan is trying to ask Darlton about another silly theory of his: "I think I've figured out the Man In Black. Johnny Cash? Man in Black? Johnny is dead - they're totally in Heaven, right? Am I right?" Damon gives a quick "Retard" shake of the head to the camera which Paul doesn't notice as he excitedly waits for an answer. Carlton then proceeds to tell Paul, in a serious tone, that if he takes the name Johnny, adds two vowels and 3 consonants, he'll get an anagram that is very big clue.
So like the obsessed (idiot) fan I am, I snatched up a piece of paper and jotted down: johnny + 2 vowels + 3 consonants = anagram - clue?? I paused the video and started madly trying to figure this out, slowly realizing that it was pretty much absolutely impossible. They didn't exactly narrow it down to which 3 consonants, so that gives just me what, like 21 to work with? And I don't even know if that includes doubles or not. Same with the vowels. While there are less choices, and without the consonants thing I might be able to figure out, I'd still have to somehow land on the right combination of consonants and vowels only to create an anagram for a clue. How many millions of words are there that are 11 letters long? And how many of them could seem like a clue, if in the impossiblity that I managed to come up with the right combination of vowels and consonants?
Then I started ot slowly realize that they were probably just messing with me. So I unpaused the video, and then as Paul gets excited by this revelation about this anagram, Damon adds, "In a foreign language." I threw my pen and laughed, now fully aware of obsessive I am that I actually spent a solid ten minutes trying. They are probably laughing their heads off at me.
So now if that wasn't bad enough, this one is probably worse on the scale of obsessiveness.
Remember Cindy? That stewardess chick who is now one of the Others? Yeah, well. A week or two ago, during "Lost Enhanced" (where they play the previous week's episode with lame little pop-ups), I left the room and when I came back, there was Cindy, hawking internet. I gasped and was like, "How did I miss this!?" (immediately thinking of those Comic Con "sponsors" Darlton showed us, with Hurley's Mr. Cluck's commercial, the Oceanic commercial and the America's Most Wanted on Kate). So I sat down and grabbed a pen, zealously hanging on Cindy's every word, searching the commercial for any sign of easter eggs (the numbers, Oceanic references, anything), jotting down the phone number for Hughes 3000 (Hughes? Hugo?!) internet or something. It wasn't until the commercial ended and went to another one that I smacked myself in the face, realizing it was an *actual* commercial and that Darlton has thoroughly wrecked my mind with their awesomeness.
Like actually. The actress is elsewhere getting another paycheck and I'm trying to figure out why Cindy the stewardess is advertising for Hughes internet with no Australian accent.
And so I ask: Oh Darlton, what have you done to me?
This is of course not even mentioning the fact that when the show starts, there is NO TALKING (except on commercials), phones are literally turned off, and I watch the opening credits like an absolute hawk to see who is guest starring, even if they barely even matter. I know that Jon Gries plays Roger Linus, Patrick Fischler is Phil, Eric Lange is Radzinsky, Anthony Azizi is Omar (who by the way appears in like 5 episodes and probably has about seven lines total), Reiko A-something is Amy. I watched an interview with the guys on Kimmel, who asks them rather jokingly if the fact that Jack spills his drink on the plane is significant and they actually said it was not coicidence. So I've spent some time trying to figure out why Jack spilling his drink could possibly be significant.
Darlton are my heroes for this show and continue to be so as they blow my mind. This is the one show where I trust the writers implicitly, where even if something happens I don't like, I accept it as part of the show, where I actually go out of my way on a practically daily basis to analyze clues or talk about theories with someone, where I have been obsessed with something like I have never been obsessed before. I subscribe to the magazine (where some cast member will make some ultra vague comment like, "his path may or may not head in the same direction this season" and I'm all, "His path changes? Or doesn't? What does that meeeean!?" or I read that Cynthia Watros (Libby) is gues starring in episode - this was back in season 4 - and I immediately got all fired up that every single question about her was finally going to be answered and all they did was flash her to haunt Micheal), I've got posters on my wall, I printed off the three "Lost Supper" promo pictures that were released and actually have taken an hour or two twice since the premiere to analyze them and decide what clues are possibly in there.
Yup, THAT obsessed. Oh Darlton, look what you've done to me! :P
Top 5 Burning Questions I Am Dying to See Answered (and trying not to hold out hope that they WILL be answered):
1. What the crap is Libby's deal? In FULL, please!
- She's the *only* original(ish) castaway who never had a flashback epi (even Rose and Bernard had one). Why was she in the mental institution? Why does she pop up in Eko, Desmond AND Hurley's past? What's her secret? (I've had piles of side theories to explain her, and especially her connection to Desmond, but I won't bother wasting your time any more than I have already! Haha!!)
2. Who the crap is the MIB? In FULL, please?
- Who is this guy? Where did he come from? What's up with him and Jacob? Why the rivalry? Why do we not know his name - does he not have one? Why did he want to kill Jacob? Why does he want to go home and where IS home for him? Why did he use Locke's image? Why is he still parading around as Locke? Is he trapped? Why is he "recruiting" and why Sawyer first? What is he recruiting for? HOW is he Smokey? Can he take on anyone's form (as I assume he can) or is there restrcitions to his body-image-stuff? Why is Richard so deeply terrified of him? Why can't he cross a line/enter a circle made of ash? Does he have anything to do with The Infection?
3. What did Juliet mean by "It Worked"?
- Did she mean "the reset" worked? Could she see or was she somehow in the altverse? Or is she talking about something else entirely?
4. What's the deal with Walt? In FULL, please!
- I really hate Walt, so I'm gonna lie, I wouldn't be heart broken if I never saw him again. However, I am still wondering what his deal is. Why did the Others take him? What did they want with him? What did they do with him while they had him? Why is "special"? How come he made a bird hit the window as a kid (the bird he was studying in a text book at that moment)? Why did the polar bear appear at him and Michael right after he stared at the burning polar bear comic? Why did he appear covered in water to Shannon, more than once, saying "Sssh"? Why did Bea make the comment about Walt showing up in places he wasn't supposed to be? When he "appeared" to Locke who was dying in the Dharma ditch, was he really there or was it a vision/dream like Locke claimed? Why did he show up to Locke at all? Why was he so much older? Why was even older when Locke visited him in the real world a few years later? (I know the actor aged, but I heard rumors that Darlton was going to explain his aging).
5. And speaking of Aging and Others, what's the deal with Richard and the Others!? In FULL, please!
- Why doesn't Richard age? What did MIB mean when he said to Richard that it was "good to see" him "out of chains"? Why has Richard seemed so omnipresent until just recently (or, mid s5, I guess)? Why is he so deeply terrified of MIB? Why is the go-between for Jacob and the sort of "advisor" but not ever the leader or official decision-maker? What's with the lists of names? Does it have something to do with the candidate thing? Why do the Others live in the temple? Why do most of them seem myserterious and rag-tag (Temple crew) while a bunch of them seemed so civilized back in New Otherton, with book clubs and muffins? And if they're all civilized, why the charade with the arrows and motley clothes? What is Cindy's deal? She got grabbed by the Others early s2, became an Other apparently, as we saw in s3, coming to "watch" Jack. What exactly was she planning to "watch" and why? Why was she so vague and cryptic?
Ok, there are so many more, and I technically jammed about a thouand into my 5, but those are the five that are most often on my mind as of late, aside from the weekly episode to episode questions - what's Dogen's deal? What's The Infection? Why does Claire think the Others have Aaron? Why was she so pissed at the idea that Kate cared for Aaron? What happened to her exactly, those three years after she disappeared in the cabin? Why did Dogen and Lennon torture Sayid and apparently Claire too? What was that proving? Why did they want to poison him?
And... SO ON.
~Red
The other day I was checking out ABC's LOST website and came across this hilarious little set of videos called "Lost Slap Down" (see there HERE) They're clearly just for fun, but as I was watching them and laughing, I still found myself trying to analyze everything Damon and Carlton are saying, even when it's very clearly a joke, just in case it's a clue of some sort. The fact that I am even bothering is terrible, really, lol. In the second one, Paul the fan is trying to ask Darlton about another silly theory of his: "I think I've figured out the Man In Black. Johnny Cash? Man in Black? Johnny is dead - they're totally in Heaven, right? Am I right?" Damon gives a quick "Retard" shake of the head to the camera which Paul doesn't notice as he excitedly waits for an answer. Carlton then proceeds to tell Paul, in a serious tone, that if he takes the name Johnny, adds two vowels and 3 consonants, he'll get an anagram that is very big clue.
So like the obsessed (idiot) fan I am, I snatched up a piece of paper and jotted down: johnny + 2 vowels + 3 consonants = anagram - clue?? I paused the video and started madly trying to figure this out, slowly realizing that it was pretty much absolutely impossible. They didn't exactly narrow it down to which 3 consonants, so that gives just me what, like 21 to work with? And I don't even know if that includes doubles or not. Same with the vowels. While there are less choices, and without the consonants thing I might be able to figure out, I'd still have to somehow land on the right combination of consonants and vowels only to create an anagram for a clue. How many millions of words are there that are 11 letters long? And how many of them could seem like a clue, if in the impossiblity that I managed to come up with the right combination of vowels and consonants?
Then I started ot slowly realize that they were probably just messing with me. So I unpaused the video, and then as Paul gets excited by this revelation about this anagram, Damon adds, "In a foreign language." I threw my pen and laughed, now fully aware of obsessive I am that I actually spent a solid ten minutes trying. They are probably laughing their heads off at me.
So now if that wasn't bad enough, this one is probably worse on the scale of obsessiveness.
Remember Cindy? That stewardess chick who is now one of the Others? Yeah, well. A week or two ago, during "Lost Enhanced" (where they play the previous week's episode with lame little pop-ups), I left the room and when I came back, there was Cindy, hawking internet. I gasped and was like, "How did I miss this!?" (immediately thinking of those Comic Con "sponsors" Darlton showed us, with Hurley's Mr. Cluck's commercial, the Oceanic commercial and the America's Most Wanted on Kate). So I sat down and grabbed a pen, zealously hanging on Cindy's every word, searching the commercial for any sign of easter eggs (the numbers, Oceanic references, anything), jotting down the phone number for Hughes 3000 (Hughes? Hugo?!) internet or something. It wasn't until the commercial ended and went to another one that I smacked myself in the face, realizing it was an *actual* commercial and that Darlton has thoroughly wrecked my mind with their awesomeness.
Like actually. The actress is elsewhere getting another paycheck and I'm trying to figure out why Cindy the stewardess is advertising for Hughes internet with no Australian accent.
And so I ask: Oh Darlton, what have you done to me?
This is of course not even mentioning the fact that when the show starts, there is NO TALKING (except on commercials), phones are literally turned off, and I watch the opening credits like an absolute hawk to see who is guest starring, even if they barely even matter. I know that Jon Gries plays Roger Linus, Patrick Fischler is Phil, Eric Lange is Radzinsky, Anthony Azizi is Omar (who by the way appears in like 5 episodes and probably has about seven lines total), Reiko A-something is Amy. I watched an interview with the guys on Kimmel, who asks them rather jokingly if the fact that Jack spills his drink on the plane is significant and they actually said it was not coicidence. So I've spent some time trying to figure out why Jack spilling his drink could possibly be significant.
Darlton are my heroes for this show and continue to be so as they blow my mind. This is the one show where I trust the writers implicitly, where even if something happens I don't like, I accept it as part of the show, where I actually go out of my way on a practically daily basis to analyze clues or talk about theories with someone, where I have been obsessed with something like I have never been obsessed before. I subscribe to the magazine (where some cast member will make some ultra vague comment like, "his path may or may not head in the same direction this season" and I'm all, "His path changes? Or doesn't? What does that meeeean!?" or I read that Cynthia Watros (Libby) is gues starring in episode - this was back in season 4 - and I immediately got all fired up that every single question about her was finally going to be answered and all they did was flash her to haunt Micheal), I've got posters on my wall, I printed off the three "Lost Supper" promo pictures that were released and actually have taken an hour or two twice since the premiere to analyze them and decide what clues are possibly in there.
Yup, THAT obsessed. Oh Darlton, look what you've done to me! :P
Top 5 Burning Questions I Am Dying to See Answered (and trying not to hold out hope that they WILL be answered):
1. What the crap is Libby's deal? In FULL, please!
- She's the *only* original(ish) castaway who never had a flashback epi (even Rose and Bernard had one). Why was she in the mental institution? Why does she pop up in Eko, Desmond AND Hurley's past? What's her secret? (I've had piles of side theories to explain her, and especially her connection to Desmond, but I won't bother wasting your time any more than I have already! Haha!!)
2. Who the crap is the MIB? In FULL, please?
- Who is this guy? Where did he come from? What's up with him and Jacob? Why the rivalry? Why do we not know his name - does he not have one? Why did he want to kill Jacob? Why does he want to go home and where IS home for him? Why did he use Locke's image? Why is he still parading around as Locke? Is he trapped? Why is he "recruiting" and why Sawyer first? What is he recruiting for? HOW is he Smokey? Can he take on anyone's form (as I assume he can) or is there restrcitions to his body-image-stuff? Why is Richard so deeply terrified of him? Why can't he cross a line/enter a circle made of ash? Does he have anything to do with The Infection?
3. What did Juliet mean by "It Worked"?
- Did she mean "the reset" worked? Could she see or was she somehow in the altverse? Or is she talking about something else entirely?
4. What's the deal with Walt? In FULL, please!
- I really hate Walt, so I'm gonna lie, I wouldn't be heart broken if I never saw him again. However, I am still wondering what his deal is. Why did the Others take him? What did they want with him? What did they do with him while they had him? Why is "special"? How come he made a bird hit the window as a kid (the bird he was studying in a text book at that moment)? Why did the polar bear appear at him and Michael right after he stared at the burning polar bear comic? Why did he appear covered in water to Shannon, more than once, saying "Sssh"? Why did Bea make the comment about Walt showing up in places he wasn't supposed to be? When he "appeared" to Locke who was dying in the Dharma ditch, was he really there or was it a vision/dream like Locke claimed? Why did he show up to Locke at all? Why was he so much older? Why was even older when Locke visited him in the real world a few years later? (I know the actor aged, but I heard rumors that Darlton was going to explain his aging).
5. And speaking of Aging and Others, what's the deal with Richard and the Others!? In FULL, please!
- Why doesn't Richard age? What did MIB mean when he said to Richard that it was "good to see" him "out of chains"? Why has Richard seemed so omnipresent until just recently (or, mid s5, I guess)? Why is he so deeply terrified of MIB? Why is the go-between for Jacob and the sort of "advisor" but not ever the leader or official decision-maker? What's with the lists of names? Does it have something to do with the candidate thing? Why do the Others live in the temple? Why do most of them seem myserterious and rag-tag (Temple crew) while a bunch of them seemed so civilized back in New Otherton, with book clubs and muffins? And if they're all civilized, why the charade with the arrows and motley clothes? What is Cindy's deal? She got grabbed by the Others early s2, became an Other apparently, as we saw in s3, coming to "watch" Jack. What exactly was she planning to "watch" and why? Why was she so vague and cryptic?
Ok, there are so many more, and I technically jammed about a thouand into my 5, but those are the five that are most often on my mind as of late, aside from the weekly episode to episode questions - what's Dogen's deal? What's The Infection? Why does Claire think the Others have Aaron? Why was she so pissed at the idea that Kate cared for Aaron? What happened to her exactly, those three years after she disappeared in the cabin? Why did Dogen and Lennon torture Sayid and apparently Claire too? What was that proving? Why did they want to poison him?
And... SO ON.
~Red
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