It's all about the Lost premiere, baby
This weekend, I finally installed my coat hanger antenna in my attic for better reception, in time for the Lost premiere tonight. If I were any more excited, I'd be getting fitted for a Dharma jumpsuit and preparing Dharma snacks.
Lost might be the most complicated tv show ever, but rest easy: anything you've forgotten, anything you never noticed, and even connections I don't doubt were a surprise to the creators is likely to be found in the Lostpedia.
Mild spoilers for the already broadcast five seasons below.
They've finally run low on redshirts -- of the 71 survivors of the plane crash, only a handful of anonymous characters survive.
Check this exhaustive list of books referenced on the show, including lists of everything Sawyer's been seen reading and the contents of bookshelves visible in specific scenes.
See the annotated blast door map.
What were the contents of the comic Richard Alpert presented to young John Locke?
A timeline. of all the events
Transcripts of the whispers (even when audio channels had to be isolated to make sense of them.)
For each episode, see what chronological errors have been caught, however inconsequential. At the beginning of the flashback (likely set in 2000 or 2001) Sun is wearing a blue and green halter dress from Catherine Malandrino's 2007 Spring/Summer collection..
Anagrams in names in Lost, some of which are clearly intentional; others, I have my doubts about.
In a discussion at Metafilter in 2006, I said "It's seeming more and more like there's nothing that could explain it all that doesn't involve a functionally omnipotent, capricious agent (or more than one.)"
At the end of Season 5, we seem to finally have two capricious agents on hand, maybe not functionally omnipotent, but whatever limits may exist on their power are so undefined so far that their machinations could explain almost anything.
I have my doubts they'll be able both to make sense of the various extranormal events and retroactively justify all the characters' actions given what the characters knew (or thought they knew) and wanted at the time. (I suspect that one of the things we'll learn this season is that Ben and Richard and Widmore and Eloise and anyone else who thinks they understand a lot are actually mistaken.)
But I remain optimistic and will be there all season to see if they can pull it off.
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