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The Official LOST Audio Podcast — rehash “LA X” and prehash “What Kate Does”

Damon and Carlton

First audio podcast of the season. Damon and Carlton discuss:

— The space in the title “LA-space-X.” They’re not telling us what it means.

— What are the flash sideways? They’re not telling us what they mean either. Hah.

— Why they are not calling the flash sideways “alternate realties.” Or Bizarro World, for that matter.

— What are we to make of the differences between what happened on the plane in the flash sideways, and what happened when we originally saw it in the flashbacks?

They sort of answered this one! Detonating a bomb might have created changes other than the ones that Faraday anticipated. After all, if stepping on a butterfly can cause all sorts of unanticipated effects, then dropping a nuclear bomb on that butterfly could cause even more.

— Why does Jack seem to recognize Desmond on the plane? Was Sun lying when she said she didn’t know English? Carlton says he doesn’t know. 😉

Oh, here’s something very interesting –> Damon says:

You think that not that many things have changed, but a lot more things have changed than you probably think. And that’s going to be the exploration of the season.

Hmmmm.

Then they do a tiny bit of prehashing of 6×03 “What Kate Does”:

— The episode title corresponds to a previous one, What Kate Did (2×09).

And they answer fan questions. You can send your own to lostfanquestions@abc.com.

You can listen to the whole podcast here: LOST Podcasts (it’s the one dated Feb. 4, 2010), or on iTunes.

Lost Untangled 6×01-02 “LA X”

Lost Untangled is back, now with a cute new Dr. Chang puppet. Enjoy!

LOST University sneak peek — wormholes

Here’s a little excerpt from Lost University PHY101.2 “The Physics of Time Travel.” The professor explains how you might be able to travel through time and space via “wormholes.”

This almost makes sense to me, which is spooky!

Courtesy of Buena Vista Home Entertainment. ©ABC Studios

Mysteries of the Universe parts 5 and 6

LOST Mysteries of the Universe part 5

Screenshot from Mysteries of the Universe part 5

More fun with conspiracy theories as the Mysteries of the Universe series continues:

Dharma Chicken Soup goes astray. Alvar Hanso is rich. Gerald de Groot conducts strange experiments in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Octogonal logos show a Communist Chinese influence. Olivia does not wish to be contacted. Mysteries of the Universe receives nefarious phone calls. Church staff members are missing. Eloise Hawking refuses requests for an interview. Daniel has a different last name.

“Has another organization secretly taken over the Dharma Initiative?”

Mysteries of the Universe Part 4

Alvar Hanso, in Mysteries of the Universe Part 4

Alvar Hanso, in Mysteries of the Universe Part 4

The latest episode of Mysteries of the Universe is about Alvar Hanso and Gerald DeGroot. DeGroot was the founder of the DHARMA Initiative, which Hanso funded through his foundation.

Much of what we know about Hanso comes from an earlier alternate reality game, The LOST Experience. Now we’ve got the new internet-only video referring back to that previous internet-based ARG, making a self-referential loop of things going on outside of the show itself.

The Yankees are coming! (LOST parody)

The numbers! They're bad!

The numbers! They're bad!

Here’s another video that was featured in the montage of fan-made videos shown in this summer’s Comic-Con. While some of the humor here is too violent for my tastes, I’m glad the video was honored at Comic-Con. It’s part of a popular long-running series, LOST: What Will Happen Next?, and many people believe that the fan-made series, with its shaking action figures spouting snarky dialogue, was the inspiration for the official ABC LOST Untangled series. So it’s nice to see ABC turn around and give it a nod.

Video made by the Fine Brothers

Will we need the Blu-ray discs to watch LOST University lectures?

Update 2/10/10 — I posted the first two lecture videos (and a link where you can view more of them) here –> LOST University class videos on Egyptian hieroglyphics

Lost University logoUpdate 9/24/09:  The “Carlton” and “Damon” posting on the LOST University forums (saying they would find alternate solutions to make LOST University available to fans without Blu-ray) turned out to be just forum users fooling around, not the actual producers. So I deleted my original post here that quoted what “Carlton” and “Damon” had written.

The question, whether the Blu-ray discs will be necessary to participate in the LOST University lectures, still remains. I’ve seen conflicting answers. In fact, the answer has been unclear since Disney first issued a press release, early in August, which was ambiguous, saying on the one hand that the whole experience was “powered” by the BD-Live technology on the Blu-ray discs, and on the other hand that the discs contained only bonus material.

I hope they make the lectures available for everyone online. I don’t mind if the Blu-ray discs have extra bells and whistles not available elsewhere, but after all the publicity and teasing ABC has done about LOST University, it seems unfair to leave people who don’t have Blu-ray players, or who for whatever reason don’t want to buy the discs, completely out in the cold.

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