Update February, 2010: Nope. No break for the Olympics. LOST is plowing right through.
Original post:
Mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics
A Harvard blogger writes that Carlton Cuse (Harvard Class of ’81) dropped in unexpectedly. The blogger, though too excited to breathe, did ask when the show would start again:
Mr Cuse graciously explained that the show would begin again in January then stop for the Olympics and then start back again in February.
The Olympics will run from February 12 to 28, 2010.
UPDATE 12/19/09: Hulu will put up all the Season 5 episodes starting on January 1, 2010. Netflix has the whole season available now, for Netflix subscribers.
UPDATE 11/18/09: Early this morning, Hulu and ABC posted Season 5 Episodes 10 (He’s Our You) through Episode 17 (the finale The Incident). They took down Episodes 1 through 9.
Until recently, they had all the episodes from Seasons 1 to 4, but only the last few episodes of Season 5. Now they’ve added the first 9 episodes of Season 5, but taken the later episodes down. I guess it must be some kind of marketing ploy, a way to get people to buy the Season 5 DVD set when it becomes available, but it’s awfully confusing.
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.
After you register, you get a 23-question multiple-choice placement exam which consists of interesting trivia questions about the show.
Some are easy:
Which of the following LOST characters shares their name with a famous philosopher? A. Kate Austen B. John Locke C. Hugo Reyes D. Ben Linus
But many are hard:
There is a picture in Widmore’s office which depicts a polar bear and what? A. A Buddha B. An Ankh C. A pyramid D. The Virgin Mary
I got 16 points out of 23.
How did you do?
Along with my score, I got the message “Sorry, looks like you need a little LOST refresher,” and was shown the video for LOST University’s first course, LOST 101.
Those of you who don’t want to get up early and slog through the rain to the lecture hall are in luck. An industrious student smuggled out a copy of the lecture and made it available for all his dorm mates all over the world — at least until the campus police track it down:
I enrolled in LOST U. under the name SawyersShirt, so wave if you see me in the hall.
Editing to add: Some people received an email that said “the first 108 graduates will receive a hand-signed diploma from LOST University Presidents Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.”
Editing again to add: All the answers to the placement test questions have been posted on DarkUFO.
