Gary is a fan of LOST, an obsessed fan that at 22 years old has a lot on his plate. He currently is a post-graduate student in Lancashire, England and he manages the DarkUFO’s IRC channel as well as the DarkUFOlogy podcast. He also writes and creates unique bits for Glass of Orange. One of best pieces that he is a part of however is his After LOST web-comics that are always fun to read through. You can also follow Gary on Twitter @glassoforange. Thank you Gary for doing this interview and being a LOST fan!

1. How long have you been watching Lost? If you’ve been watching since the Pilot, can you remember your initial reaction to it?
My very first introduction to the show was accidental; I had downloaded an episode for the show while in search of (I think) a Cold Case episode. Much to my confusion, I saw Sayid trekking through the jungle, and I guess I had probably downloaded season one’s Solitary. I ignored this, and only about a year later did Lost appear on UK screens.

I remembered originally downloading the show, and I guess for some reason I had a negative association with it, however I found myself watching the pilot episode on TV, and I thought it was pretty cool. I then sought out the entire first season and watched the episodes in about the space of two or three days, quickly surpassing the rate at which they were being shown on TV over here. Each episode was better than the last, and it was probably the finest example of television I had ever seen.

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The following information was gathered from Lostpedia, a site dedicated to keeping track of everything you can possibly think of that happens on LOST.

Maybe ya’ll already know this, but it was news to me, so I’m posting it!

By now we all know the numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) correlate to our remaining, original losties (Locke, Reyes, Ford, Jarrah, Shephard, Kwon).  However, closer examination of the remaining names and numbers (by other very lovely, meticulous LOST fans) reveals a few blasts from the past.  [To see the entire list as currently posted, check out the complete comparative table at Lostpedia.]

#20 — Rousseau [Danielle]

#31 –  Rutherford [Shannon]

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[Editor's Note: I'm going through a bit of blogging-block, where none of my bazinga ideas had any actual words behind them, so I asked Stefani (aka @WhimsyAndQuirk) if she wanted to take a stab at flexing her LOST blogging muscles, and using her mad history skillz to come up with "veil-lifting" post for LOSTblog this week.  Stefani came through in spades, so read it through and give her some encouragement in the comments.  -- Jon]

Why Dr. Linus Loves Napoleon

During this week’s exceptional Lost episode entitled Dr. Linus, we saw the evil, scheming, conniving, and above all diabolical Ben Linus reduced to little more than a grave digger – literally. With his power gone, he was at the mercy of Ilana after she discovered the truth that HE killed Jacob, not FLocke. In the FlashSideways (hereafter known as X-time), we saw a mild mannered Benjamin Linus, PhD in Modern European History, a man obviously talented far beyond the high school class, stuck proctoring detention. This was a Ben who had never known the thrill of power in his life, a Ben who wanted to help children more than he wanted power. This is a Ben who taught about Napoleon and the lessons of Elba.

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Today’s post covers two days since yesterday was the Reactions to Dr Linus edition.  First up are some tweets from LOST production:

AdamHorowitzLA – Today Lost is being written to Ennio Morricone’s Untouchables soundtrack. At least in my office… 8:14 AM Mar 11th

gjacksbeard – #LOST Season 1 Inside Tidbit over at the GJB blog! http://geronimojacksbeard.blogspot.com/2010/03/inside-tidbit-season-1.html 10:19 AM Mar 11th

DamonLindelof – I think @nate_robinson just referred to Richard Alpert as “Stranger Danger.” My life is complete. 11:31 AM Mar 11th

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Stefani (@WhimsyAndQuirk) and I spent an hour just talking about LOST.  Listen here, and feed back is appreciated.
Direct Link

Thanks for checking it out!

I’m getting requests to put all of this in one place!  So – here you go!  Enjoy!

Amy’s Season 6 Recaps –   [ 6.01/6.02 - 6.03 - 6.04 - 6.05 - 6.06 - 6.07]

Amy Smashes Through the Looking Glass (LOSTblog Published Theory) -

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Recap, Weirdness Alerts and Analysis by Amy: #LOST 6.07 “Dr. Linus”

Previously on LOST:   [6.06 - "Sundown" Recap Here] Oh my — things were not so good when we last left our losties.  LA_X:  Sayid visited Nadia.  Turns out she’s his sister-in-law (whoops!).  He flip-flopped around before finally crossing over to the dark side and killing Martin Keamy (for extorting/beating up his brother, Omar). He finds/rescues “No English” Jin.  TEMPLE:  Sayid flip-flopped around before finally crossing over to the dark side killing Dogen and Uber-Hippie (dumping them in the spring).  Clairuso crossed the line with Mock Locke’s message: “Join me or die.”  Kate returned to the temple and confessed to Clairuso.  Smokey attacked at sundown. Illana and Co. appeared outta nowhere, retrieved Miles and escaped just in the nick of time.  When the dust settled, Sayid, Clairuso and Kate stepped over the dead (who chose not to “join”) and followed Mock Locke away from the temple.

EXTREME WEIRDNESS TO WATCH FOR:  Okay, remember those patterns of white lights I’ve mentioned before?  I said they almost look like constellations? I didn’t mention that? Well, there have been instances of unusual and repeating patterns of STATIC dots or white, star-like dots, or whatever’s handy: manhole covers at an LA intersection, Ana Lucia’s shooting practice pattern – stuff like that.  So far in Season 6, these patterns are 1) becoming more and more frequent and obvious and 2) clearly mean something important.  Why? BECAUSE, with VERY few exceptions, THEY ARE ALL CREATED DIGITALLY and INSERTED POST-PRODUCTION.

I’m mentioning this now because these patterns/”constellations” occur a LOT during this episode (LA_X and On-Island), and I’ll be noting when and where I see them.  Sometimes they are hidden (like at night in the jungle) and sometimes they are NOT hidden.  And NO. I do not think these patterns actually represent constellations – that’s just what they LOOK like.  My best guess is that they are some kind of code because, although I’ve seen more than one pattern, the same pattern seems to repeat around certain characters.  The best name I could come up with them was Dot Code (because I KNOW if I stay “constellation,” everyone will start freaking out.  FYI:  The ONLY stars we EVER see on the island are in the sky at the Oceanic 815 CRASH SITE—and guess what? Even those stars are oddly and carefully manipulated).

New term to remember:  DOT CODE

Okay. Let’s go.

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Begin Episode 6.07

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JUNGLE

[NOTE: The last time we saw Ben he was fleeing the pool room.]

A terrified Ben barrels through the dark.  He looks back and runs faster. He trips and lands spread-eagle. He raises up and gasps, looking even MORE terrified for a moment.

Weirdness alert: camera movement here could be interpreted as something unseen, low to the ground closing in on him OR as if HE is moving closer to where the POV of the camera (“us”) originates.  What I think has happened here is that Ben has hit a “barrier,” and, after falling down, crosses through it, like moving from one bubble to another.  It works like this: one moment he’s on THAT side of the barrier – whoosh move by camera (with appropriate gasp and terrified expression on Ben’s face during the transition)  — then he’s on THIS side of the barrier – where Illana and co. are.  Ask yourself: Illana and co. are walking PARALLEL to Ben with LOTS of firelight.  Why couldn’t he see them until after this moment? Why couldn’t they hear him before this moment?

If you put THIS 10 sec sequence together with other pieces of the puzzle, like:

• “Smokey’s POV island tour” sequence in “The Substitute” (right before Mock Locke cuts Richard down from the tree),
• How Jack and Hurley end up at the caves and find the lighthouse in “the Lighthouse”

with

• Jin’s fainting spell,
• The “red shirts,”
• The “constants” (like Shannon’s inhaler),
• The underground temple wall weirdness (when they carry Sayid in on a stretcher),
• The temple’s layout weirdness and
• Clairuso’s crossing the line of ash action for Mock Locke –

Put all of those things together and maybe toss in, say, the island weirdness we’ve seen since Jacob died, and the more extensive island weirdness now that Dogen is dead, you’ll soon see that Season 6 has already spelled out EXACTLY:

• What the island is,
• How it works “geographically,”
• Jacob’s and Dogen’s JOBS on the island,
• What Mock Locke is up to,
• What Jacob and Dogen are up to,
• Why NO ONE’S gonna end up replacing Jacob, and
• Why Mock Locke’s plan won’t work in the end.

[Cool, right?]

This would be why I’m so irked when fans bitch and moan about Season 6.  Team LOST just told us what the ISLAND IS!  Why are they complaining about it?!! ACK!

WHOA!  We got way off track there!  Let’s try that again.  [RESET!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]

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Hooray!  It’s finally time for this week’s Reaction Edition of Tweets O’ the Day!  What an amazing episode!  This week I’m going to start off with one person’s tweets posted while she was watching, near the end of the episode, in the X verse.  My very good friend and (I promise, entirely coincidentally) Birthday Woman @YaGottaBKiddnMe has hoped for a long time that Ben is actually good, but he always disappoints.  This week her hopes were once again up…

YaGottaBKiddnMe – Tell me he didn’t. Tell me he didn’t. Tell me he didn’t!!!!!! Tell me he didn’t!!!!!! BEN!!!! #lost 6:55 PM Mar 9th

YaGottaBKiddnMe  – Ohhh thank goodness. I’m gonna have a heart attack with this episode!! Up down fear terror don’t YES holy frak I need a doctor. #lost 6:55 PM Mar 9th

YaGottaBKiddnMe – *Clear!!* 6:56 PM Mar 9th

YaGottaBKiddnMe – I can’t stop grinning, or laughing!!! Oh wait what the hell!!!! WHAT???????? #lost 6:59 PM Mar 9th

Yes, quite the nice little surprise at the end for those of us who are spoiler free!  Now on to the post-episode reactions, in (mostly) no particular order:

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Hey, I’m finally back!  Breaking in the new computer.  Like last week, I’m busily marking all sorts of great tweets that were posted in reaction to this week’s episode.  Also like last week, I’m saving those until Friday at 2 pm Pacific time, which is when the UK broadcast ends.  Most of the LOST tweets over the past couple of days have been reaction tweets, but I found a few non-spoiler gems:

Benjamin__Linus – I should have won best actor for playing the role as Henry Gale. 8:41 PM Mar 7th

Here’s a great comment about the LOSTblog editor’s prehash post:

imablonde21 – @LOST_BOSS The last paragraph makes me think…It’s all smoke and mirrors on the Island…literally. 7:15 AM Mar 8th

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No spoiler’s in either video, except for the episode title for 6×08.

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Evi has awesome hair. 

Thanks @DarkUFO

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Hi folks. Juliet’s Smokin’ Muffins here again. This time I’m interviewing the undisputed star of Sundown, the frying pan Keamy used to make his eggs in the sideways timeline.

Keamy’s Frying Pan, glad you could make it.

Eggs-cuse my lateness. Frank Lapidus lent me his alarm clock. Stupid thing doesn’t work at all.

That’s all right.  How did–

These questions aren’t going to be too tough, are they? I’m totally fried.

Big night last night?

Boy, you said it. I’m eggs-hausted. Ever since Keamy was eggs-ecuted by Sayid in Sundown, I’ve been trying to keep the kitchen from getting too scrambled. It’s eggs-asperating dealing with some of those utensils. You know what they’re like, Muffins. You try to set a good egg-sample, you egg-spect the others to follow your lead. And then the cheese grater and the meat tenderizer egg-schange blows over the waffle iron. I’m not eggs-aggerating. Frankly, I feel a little eggs-ploited.

Um… you’re not going to keep doing this through the interview, are you?

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