LOST Fan

Producer/writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse made another short video for the Dharma Special Access site. They take us behind the scenes to the writers’ offices.

There’s a wall where the writers have taped up photographs of the characters so they can keep them all straight. There are sections for the characters who are still living and for those who are dead – and a section for the characters who are “undead”!

The password to enter the Special Access site this week is holma. Whoever makes up the passwords likes to play games with them. They are changed weekly and often spell out something meaningful when read backwards. But this time, when I ran the backwards password – “amloh” — through Google, I didn’t see anything interesting.

I then tried “holma” — the password itself — and found that according to Wikipedia, “Holma (also known as Da Holmaci, Bali Holma) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State.”

Hmmm … that might fit. Mr Eko was from Nigeria. I wonder if this is a hint that his story line might be picked up again? Although the actor who played Mr. Eko presumably would not want to come back (having quit the show in the first place), Carlton mentions in passing on the “Writers’ Room” video that Eko’s brother is on the “Undead” wall. So the storyline of Mr. Eko’s family (if not of Mr. Eko himself) conceivably could be revived.