Sunday, August 17, 2008
 With filming for the 5th season of LOST beginning now, the spoilers have begun to explode from the islands of Hawaii. Check out Blade and Jim's Spoiler Thread: SEASON FIVE for a few of the most exclusive and important spoilers to rise to the surface yet—including the confirmed title of the Season 5 premiere episode. Additionally, the Lost on the Web forum features a funny and comprehensive look at one of our favorite actors, Jorge Garcia. Mr. Garcia took a European vacation during the off-season and has put together a great blog with dozens of pictures. One of the pictures even features a possible (unlikely) Dharma connection that Jorge comments on. The LOST Alternate Reality Game OCTAGON GLOBAL RECRUITING is inching along, doling out small clues and steps at a painfully slow pace. This week's highlights include the DharmaWantsYou menu changing a few times (with apparently little significance) and a yet another mass email from Hans Van Eeghen. The date August 19th has been posted on the main menu, leading to when activity might soon resume. Check out all the thread under Octagon Global Recruiting to catch up on the action!  Battle for the Island (BFTI) is going strong and action-packed, and it continues to thrill its players and spectators. Contents, item prizes and of course gruesome mob-style slaughter is but a small part of the intricacies of the role-playing game. Anything can happen on BFTI Island, including a well-known helicopter pilot named Frank getting turned into a mouse. Because of the massive emphasis currently on BFTI, the posts at Stationzer0 have dramatically slowed down. Although it seems as though we are experiencing about the same amount of traffic on the site, our users' fingers are apparently worn raw keeping their BFTI characters alive and happy. On the other hand, there have been some awesome conversations going on in our chat room. Because our membership is worldwide, large, spontaneous groups often gather suddenly and enjoy talk on both LOST and non-LOST related topics.  This week's theory is in regard to the Octagon Global Recruiting ARG. While the actual activity from Dharma has been somewhat limited, the users of Stationzer0 are trying their hardest to crack the game. Spoon03331 posted this in regard to the complex character sets that appeared within the Dharmawantsyou.com menu several days ago: [[That these ARE  anagrams.... The first set of letters I posted this morning- "nnieoshiatemdi" anagrams to "I am on the inside" which was said to be found in the source code.... Some of these can't be anagrams cuz there's not enough vowels for some of them to make sensible words.]] See the Dharmawantsyou.com thread to view all of the character strings in their entirety. Last week we published a link to a great on-camera interview with Matthew Fox at Comic-Con. This week's interview is not on tape but is nearly as great! Find the transcripts for an interview with Francois Chau, a.k.a. Dr. Pierre Chang, a.k.a. Dr. Marvin Candle, a.k.a. Dr. Mark Wickmund, a.k.a. Dr. Edgar Haliwax, in Blade and Jim's Spoiler Thread: SEASON FIVE. The popular topic of the fake arm is approached and dealt with in a very "LOST" manner.  August is almost halfway through. Soon, the leaves will be changing, and more and more of LOST's fifth season will be in the can and ready for our enjoyment in early 2009. While I can't wait for the new episodes, I've been enjoying the old ones via the Stationzer0 Lost Rewind. ABC.com provides every past episode in streaming HD—a very high quality PC picture and great sound! If I can somehow get through EVERY episode by the time season 5 begins, I'm hoping I can actually post a theory or two that makes sense.  I'm also required by law to pimp the Stationzer0 sister site Bacon Donut. As with everything else, BFTI has clearly taken its toll on that site's post count, but we'll be coming back strong this week as well.  |
Posted by jimpbblmk on 17 Aug 2008 at 00:00 | Newsletter
