I wrote a while back about the alternate reality game (ARG), as they call it, that Lost is doing this off-season. It began at Comic Con back in July and has been chugging along, ever so slowly, since then. The big theme of this year’s ARG is the Dharma Initiative, who actually had a booth at Comic Con and were “recruiting” people to join the organization. Luckily for those Lost obsessors, like myself, who were unable to make it to San Diego, we were able to sign up online as well.
After a series of tests and quizzes on the “Dharma Wants You” website, we were finally given our fancy Dharma Initiative assignments this week. What, do you ask, is my recommended profession within the mysterious Dharma Initiative? Proof Reader. Awesome. Did anyone else participate? Let me know if you got a fancier job than me in the comments.
I’m hoping this next step in the ARG will mean that there will be some actual action coming up. The previous ARGs (there have been two others) were a lot more fast paced and story driven than this lame-ass one.
Now on to some interesting spoilers that came out this week. If you’re averse to that kind of thing, don’t jump….
This week, Michael Ausiello over at Entertainment Weekly was able to dig up some more info on the “Amy” character that I mentioned in last week’s Lost in Lost who is being played by Reiko Aylesworth. Seems that Amy is going to be connected with the Dharma Initiative, but it gets more interesting than that. Apparently, and this is not a sure thing as far as I can tell, she is going to be a part of the Dharma Initiative before they were all gassed to death by Ben. Rumor has it that when the island disappeared at the end of last season, it didn’t exactly “move.” In fact, it was relocated back into the 70s, during the height of the Dharma Initiative’s activity on the island.
What could this mean? Well, I have a few thoughts. First of all, I bet that “Amy” is going to, in fact, turn out to be an adult Annie. If you don’t recall, Annie was the young childhood friend of Ben on the island. She gave him that ugly old homemade doll that we saw him cherishing during the events of “The Man Behind the Curtain.” This would certainly be a very interesting turn of events, and raises even more questions. If the left-behinders do find themselves in the past, will a younger Ben be there? Will there be a younger Danielle Rousseau as well? How the hell are the Oceanic 6 going to find their way back to the island if it’s 30 years in the past?
All these little tidbits starting to come out make me even more excited for the upcoming season.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on Nov 20, 2008 @ 09:00 EST5EDT
I am REALLY psyched for the new season to start. Two months! It feels like it might as well be two years.
I think transporting the island into the 70s would be an interesting turn to the story, but it would make for a lot of complicated explaining on the writers’ part. We saw the island vanish, so, wouldn’t that island land on top of the island thats still in the 70s? Does that make sense? Because it’s not your usual time travel story where people go into the past, they’re taking an entire huge piece of land. Wouldn’t that mess things up a little bit? Wouldn’t there be two islands, the one in the past with the Dharma people, and the one from the future with the left-behinders?
Also, I don’t think Rousseau was on the island in the 70s yet. Alex was a baby at the time of the shipwreck and she was just a teenager wasn’t she? That would put them on the island only in the early 80s…I think.
I’m a cinematographer
So much better than proofreader…
Don’t know if it’s any better, but I’m a cook. Which…I hate, ’cause it reminds me of my current job – working in the kitchen at McDonald’s. *blech*
You aren’t a cook. I had that job, in order to be a cook you need to serve food and you know cook it. All your job is to warm the shit. :)
Quit before you lose your mind!