(In case ABC removes the video, you can watch it here instead.)
The word “destiny” occurs twice — first, spoken by Locke, and later, written on the screen. I think (hope) this is significant. The question of the character’s destiny is the major theme of the show, and I’m hoping we get some resolution, in the end, and find out what the characters’ destiny was that had pulled them all to the island.
There was also the chilling shot, from last season’s finale, of Locke in his coffin. I’m going to assume that either Locke is not really dead, or that by some time-space-whatever warp-bend-fold-etc., he will manage to be present in most, if not all, of the episodes. It’s hard to imagine the final season without him!
It was interesting to see that Aaron in the promo was old enough to walk. Does that mean more vertigo-inducing time leaps ahead?
Here’s an unofficial promo, nicely made by fan MarKisLosT:
Earlier, I posted videos of Josh Holloway (Sawyer) and Lance Reddick (Season Four’s creepy Matthew Abaddon) without their shirts. (To get a shirtless Reddick video, I had to use a clip from The Wire, another show he was on, because in his Abaddon role he always appears in a suit and tie.)
Now, for some gender balance, here’s a clip, from Season One, of Kate taking off her shirt to take a dip in the ocean.
And, because you can never have too much Skate (Sawyer & Kate), here is a clip from Season Three of Sawyer watching Kate take off her shirt (some music was added by the person who put this up on YouTube):
Back on the mainland, here is Lilly after she has put on some clothes. It’s from the red carpet at the 2008 Emmy’s:
The Dharma Initiative is recruiting new workers on the website DharmaWantsYou.com. Better hurry, though — the site says that recruitment is closing on October 7.
This is one of the tie-in sites that ABC puts up to keep viewers amused during LOST’s off-season. Many of the sites have been known only to hard-core fans who hang out on LOST forums. But the Dharma Initiative site was advertised on a commercial, that at first glance appeared real, for “Octagon Global Recruiting,” which aired during last season’s LOST finale.
The Dharma Wants You site gives you a series of tests, including personality, knowledge, and IQ-type tests. If you like quizzes and puzzles, you’ll enjoy these.
Aside from the personality-test questions in the initial “eligibility” test, most of the questions are similar to ones you’d see on real tests. They did throw in a few curve balls, though, and my favorite question was one that asked “What is the answer to this question?” with the answer choices being:
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Have fun, if you do it. Be prepared to be patient, though, as results won’t be revealed until December 15.
One of the things I most enjoy about LOST is that it is like a novel. Most TV shows are like short stories, where all is revealed at the end of an hour. The mysteries of LOST, though, will take years to resolve. That gives them a complexity and depth far greater than what’s possible in an episodic show.
I’m willing to wait years for questions to be answered. The longer the wait, the greater the reward.
That is, assuming that there will be a pay-off in the end.
But what if there’s not?
Some people think that the writers are making it all up as they go along. I would like to think the opposite – that the writers started with the ending, and then worked backwards from there, so that every aspect of the show relates directly to the ending, and every question was formed out of a pre-existing answer.
The truth appears to be somewhere in-between. There’s evidence that the writers are working back from the ending, at times, and at other times improvising, putting in material that may lead to dead ends.
I hope they have something really spectacular up their sleeves at the end. If they don’t, it will still have been quite a ride. But how much better it will be if the ending ties up all the major loose ends, in a way that thoroughly scratches the five-year-long itch.
