“Chessboard” – LOST Season 6 Spanish Promo

I bet some of you might have already seen this on the Internet, but still, sharing it justifies my break of “bimonthly posts” streak.

SPOILERS AHOY

Oh hey guys, look what I got

Gave myself a little expensive treat after the crazy week.
From left to right: Modern Warfare 2 for PS3, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season Two and Lost Season Five (both having just been shipped), and also Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End. Rug not included. Almost completely wiped my savings, but it was worth it.
I’ve actually had Modern Warfare 2 for a couple days now, beat the Campaign and all, and I can tell you it’s amazing. Try it out if you haven’t, you owe yourself at least that much.

LOST Analysis Tomorrow (or Later)

I didn’t have time today (Easter break’s over, school’s back), so I’ll try to write the LOST Analysis for episode “Some Like it Hoth” tomorrow.

Personal note: loved it. Go Miles!

LOST Analysis 5×12: “Dead is Dead”

I know, I know, I haven’t released one of these in a month. I just didn’t know what to talk about – I could point out the obvious things that everyone else noticed, but I prefer to come to my own conclusions. This time, all I have is my own knowledge of Lost; I haven’t read anything from anyone else. I hope you enjoy.

LOST Analysis – 5×08: “LaFleur”

My apologies for the very late LOST Analysis. Stuff got in the way, but even a week late it’s still gonna show ya some interesting details.

LOST Analysis – 5×07: “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham″

LOST Analysis – 5×06: “316″

So I decided that one good way of spicing this place up is by putting my only obsession besides Tsu, i.e. Lost, to work. Since I’m such a crazed fan and know so much of its trivia, why not start writing my own thoughts about each new episode? Not too shabby, I know.
So, without further ado and a week late, here’s the analysis for episode six of Season Five of Lost: “316″.

“We have to go BACK!”

Lost is back!

I was just getting done with some study for tomorrow’s Economy test and I turned on my TV… to find a very familiar scene going on.
Jack on his truck. Kate arriving on car.

I didn’t have to even think twice before knowing what it was.
It’s back! I checked today’s programming and it’s an all-Lost afternoon. First “Through the Looking-Glass”, which has just ended, then the clip show “Past, Present and Future”, and next “The Beginning of the End”, kickstarting Season 4 here on Portugal!

So guess what? I don’t need to keep checking Lostpedia or YouTube now, because Lost is back. And we’re going back.

EDIT:

That’s just… hilarious.

What Via Domus Taught Us: A Theory on LOST

 SPOILERS ON LOST: VIA DOMUS AHEAD.

Hey there. I just got LOST Season 1 on DVD (the only season that I was missing in DVD) and I’m halfway through Pilot, Part 1. As I watched Jack and Rose hitting hard turbulence, my mind fast-forwarded to the moment Desmond discovers he crashed the plane – and then, to the ending of Lost: Via Domus.

Via Domus has been deemed “non-canon” by Damon and Carlton, but even so, the ending is too intriguing to be put aside. At least a couple of writers from the show were involved in the creation of the game, and while we may assume it was the final twist that deemed the game non-canonical, we must also take into account that the producers surely knew what they were releasing and how it ended.

Back to the topic at hand, I thought of Via Domus. As you might know already, the game ends with the main character, Elliot, leaving the Island on boat, only to hear the familiar sound of the Swan’s Discharge and look up to see Oceanic Flight 815 break up in mid-air. Right in the next moment, he wakes up back on the beach, but a familiar face that was supposed to be dead comes up to him from the debris.
Now, we’re finding out through Season 4 that Lost’s mythology relies heavily on time travel – and, from watching the first episode of Season 1 again, I think we can connect the phenomenon to the very genesis of the show.

According to the logs from the Pearl, Desmond caused the fall of Flight 815 – but, from the ending of Lost: Via Domus, we might assume it was the fail-safe Discharge that actually caused it. After all, that’s what we see.
Now think with me. Before the Discharge, we saw people enter and leave the Island without side-effects. Ben Linus has apparently travelled often to the outside world and many people were recruited. Plus, the Flight 815 survivors felt no effects after the crash. Yet, after the Discharge, we’ve seen such bizarre events such as a mysterious storm and time-travelling consciousnesses, not to mention the overall effects the freighter’s crew is feeling.

The theory that I’m proposing is that it was the Discharge, which released the electromagnetism beneath the Swan, that actually crashed Oceanic Flight 815 and provoked the time discrepancies. It may sound paradoxal that the very survivors of Flight 815 caused their own arrival on the Island, but then again, nothing on the Island is what it seems.
I’m not suggesting that we have two separate beaches, each with their own survivors, nor two Swan stations or anything like that. I’m saying that the Discharge somehow disrupted the space-time continuum of the entire Island, which affected the past and led to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. After all, how could such a large event not affect anyone on the beach, so close to the Swan, when the same event on a smaller scale is believed to have caused the plane crash?
Simply put, I’m theorizing that the “system failure” that Desmond prevented was nothing, and that the actual fail-safe Discharge in the future was what led to the crash.

Now, I think this ties well with Seat42f’s theory on the Oceanic Six. The ones that left the Island are the same that were far from the Discharge, with the single exception of Aaron (who may or may not have had some kind of side-effect, but we don’t know yet). Basically, they would be the ones less affected by the Discharge, and so the ones that are not “unstuck” in time and, as such, are capable or most likely able to leave the Island.
From what I’ve heard, Michael (who will be the focus of tonight’s episode, “Meet Kevin Johnson”) also time travels somehow – probably out of the wrong coordinates given by Ben. Perhaps the Oceanic Six are who they are because they were not only not affected by the Discharge, but also by following the right coordinates, while Michael was eventually able to escape, but felt the effects of the continuum disruption.

Also, the discrepancy between the outside world and the Island would have been caused by the Discharge, and affected the whole Island on different scales and ages. The effects would range from bringing the Black Rock from half the world and centuries away to some decades before the crash (I believe Richard Alpert is one of the original crew members of Magnus Hanso’s ship), to the already mentioned crash months prior to the Discharge, and possibly to Adam and Eve, the two corpses found early on. Like many, I think those are Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Frank, who have been mentioned often before.
Therefore, all the mystery of the Island would come from the fail-safe Discharge – with, I presume, Jacob having manipulated the events to cause Locke to lose faith on the Swan and Desmond to use the fail-safe, thereby putting things into motion.

Comments, as always, would be appreciated.

LOST Via Domus – Secret Images

You’ve probably heard of LOST: Via Domus – the videogame spin-off of our good old series Lost. The newest trailer had some hidden messages, one of which had appeared in other trailer, and I went as far as screencap them. I’m going to analyze them here, as well as show them to all you Lost fanatics like me.
Sorry, but I had to use Photobucket and it resized the images – so they’re not as big as they should be.

This one is the least interesting, but it’s still noteworthy to point. For a second, the DHARMA Swan logo flashes, right before a transition – which I guess means this scenario is part of some DHARMA Station, presumably the Hydra (even though I doubt we’ll get to see the Hydra in the game… maybe it’s the Orchid?). What I find curious is that we see the Swan logo instead of the usual DHARMA logo… this can’t be the secret Swan room, can it? The producers have been talking about it… but it can’t be. A shark hidden within the Swan?
I’d better not start talking about it.

This one’s more interesting, but pretty much obvious. In Season 2 we saw Walt (who had been captured by the Others) and Michael communicate over the Swan’s computer – and since we know the character from the game will be in charge of the button for some time, we can pretty much predict that we receive these messages during our stay on the Swan, from the Others.
Why are they interested in the character? Ben Linus, in the trailer, mentions that they think “[the character] might be the one”. What that means, and how the fans will react when they all find out this new “Paulo” (in case you don’t know – which you should if you’re reading this post -, Paulo and Nikki were two characters introduced in Season 3 as part of the castaways – but the fans hated them, as they showed up from nowhere and were soon inserted in the main cast with no good explanation) is considered so important by the Others, we’ll find out with time.
And now, onto the big revelation:

This one, taken after I download the WMV version and managed to easily stop the video (goddamned QuickTime), is simply fabulous. The show creators had hinted that Kelvin and Radzinsky had been working on two maps, seen under different spectrums (and obviously under different circumstances), and the trailer lets us see it. Click on the image to see an higher-resolution version.
From what I can gather, it points to the presumed location of the Orchid (which is apparently the Crossed-Out Station), places the DHARMA Barracks right next to the Arrow (which doesn’t make much sense to me…), and has written in large letters “QUID EST VERITUS?”, which I believe means “What is true?” or “What is the truth?” (from associations between Portuguese’s “verdade” – truth – and “veritus”). The rest I can’t really understand.

Well, here it is. Since my blog isn’t really famous, I doubt major Lost fans will stumble onto this and allow me to share my findings, but at least Delirium can see it.
If you wish to discuss, please comment!

But remember…

JACOB SEES YOU!