"Lost" Ate My Brain

Subtitle: Mah dorkness. Let me show you it.

Confession: I've been spending a lot of time on "Lost" fan sites lately. No, I'm not exactly proud of this fact or anything, but I'm owning it, people. I will no longer live in shame! I CRIED WHEN CHARLIE DIED, AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO ADMIT IT! There, I said it, and I'm not sorry.

Those of you who are similarly willing to don your pocket protectors and join me in some fairly massive "Lost" geekdom, please to meet me on the other side of this here jump...

Okay, so my tour of "Lost" dorkdom really begins and ends with the Screencaps and Easter Eggs site, which is far and away the best site around in terms of digging down deep into the nuts-and-bolts of the show. It's a great place to break down episodes into their component parts for closer examination. For example, SC&EE posted this series of images captured from last night's episode, which you can enlarge and examine in more detail on the site:

Because as any fan of the show knows, there's a whole lot of hidden information shoved into the nooks and crannies of each episode. For example, regarding this image and its headlines from last night's show:

A SC&EE commenter posts the following potentially insightful nugget:

I think that the writers of this episode deliberately quoted Le Monde in that issue as a reference to the Dharma Initiative and its goal of globalization. Ran the following two headlines from the Tunisian paper through Bablefish:

"Contre le tout anglais" comes out as:
'Against the English whole' (i.e. "Against all-English", as in the influx of American or British culture in France and its colonies, or Globalization)
(source: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/08/CASSEN/15038 [Google translation])
This phrase:
"Le lavage de cerveaux en liberte" comes out as:
'The washing of brains in freedom'
which also is the title of a column in Le Monde Diplomatique blog from August 2007 (http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/08/CHOMSKY/14992) .".. the American intellectual Noam Chomsky analyse the mechanisms of domination and puts them in their historical context. He recalled, for example, that totalitarian regimes were based on the springs of advanced communication tools in the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. In addition, he stated that the prospects for social change in today's world, and what might look like utopia for those who, despite the pedagogy of impotence hammered by the media, have not renounced change the world ."

'The washing of brains in freedom'? Oh man, how awesome is it to have supergeeks on the intarwebs doing that kind of research for you?

There's also a hefty "spoiler" section, though with "Lost" the amount of truly spoilery information out there is fairly minimal. Still, if like me you're fascinated by the show and its intricate mythology, you could spend HOURS on this site (WARNING! TIME SUCK, AHOY! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!!). No seriously, you might wanna pack a lunch. And maybe a change of underwear.

A bounty of links to other good "Lost" fansites can be found here, though my money's on SC&EE keeping you busy for quite a while. Not that I know from personal experience or anything. cough.

And since you're now up to your ears in "Lost" geekdom anyway, you should take a minute and pop on over to ABC.com to get a nickname from Sawyer. FOR FUN! Mine is "Picasso." Which is, errm, better than "Puddin'", I guess.

Anybody here have any other good sources of "Lost" dish they'd like to share with the class, hmm?

Comments

[birdgal]

One site I like not listed at the link you provided is 'Lost....and Gone Forever' at:
http://lost-and-gone-forever.blogspot.com/
I CLAIM MY POCKET PROTECTOR DAMMIT! :)

[Tracy]

I played the find815 game, which is available for another few weeks I think. Start at It follows an Australian guy called Sam Thomas as he searches for his partner, who was a stewardess on flight 815, and ends with you piloting the ROV that finds 815 in the Sunda Trench. Cool game and very dramatic and TONS OF CLUES.

[april]

OOOH! I stayed up until 4 am playing the find815 game. I even had to search other fansites to get some help for a few of the games I couldn't finish alone. The story is pretty good, and it leads right into this season.

[amalah]

I LOVE the find815 game. Total timesuck but worth it.

(My Sawyer nickname is Frosty. I like to think he is referring to the chocolate version at Wendy's, as in delicious and lickable.)

[Keli]

My Sawyer nickname is Hawking. WTF?

I don't think it's that bad that you cried when Charlie died. I think it's bad that I cried all three times I watched that episode.

I like the DocArtz site:
http://www.docarzt.com/

[Mary]

Doc Jensen on EW.com does one or two weekly articles on the show, usually dissecting each episode and referencing a bunch of stuff i'd never think of. It's worth a look and you can have email updates sent to you whenever he posts!

[Kate]

My Sawyer nickname is Whitesnake. I love it.

[Katie Kat]

birdgal:
I SO agree! That site is THE BEST. I'm still not convinced Brian (who heads up the site) is not somehow tied into LOST as a writer or production dude of some sort.

Sweetney:
Just one more thing we have in common! I cried like a baby when Charlie died, and then when Hurley told Claire that he was dead. In fact, I have spent the better part of THIS VERY DAY on Lost and Gone Forever, and the SC&EE sites trying to figure out WHAT THE HELL went on in last night's episode.

Confusing as hell, and twice as addictive. And, considering we're being so honest, I'd personally crash any plane I was on with Sawyer just to get a little jungle boogie, IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN, and I think you do. I can has Sawyer secks!

SMOKIN!

[Robyn G]

My nickname is "Brainpan". I'm not sure I likey. And it makes me feel like maybe I wasn't honest enough in the quiz.

[Jaime]

I only just got into "Lost" last season, so I'm frantically trying to catch up. My Sawyer nickname is "Sweet Cheeks". Absolutely love it!!!!

[Her Bad Mother]

I'm Professor. I like to think, HOT Professor, but whatevs.

I wear my pocket protector with pride. And dude? You ever need more leads on geek links, just holla. I know them all.

[bd]

Hi. My name is Michelle and I am a LOST addict. And if being this far gone feels so good, then I don't wanna be right. Gimme my damn pocket protector.

[Suzy Q]

OMG, my name is Skeeter! Hm, not sure I like it. But, I would bite Sawyer in the ass ANY DAY if a mosquito I am.

Tracey, I almost hate you for posting all these delicious links to Losty goodness, but I know it's just ME reacting to what I know could be the end of my weekend, should I click. Must. Resist...

[Kristabella]

Mine is Huckleberry Pinhead. I don't like it. But I'd pretty much let Sawyer call me anything but late to bed.

Last year when I was unemployed for a month, I was on that Lost Easter Eggs site for HOURS at a time. It was how I knew about ahead of time about the flash forwards in last year's season finale.

[Faith]

So my Sawyer nickmame is Skeeter....not sure that I like it, but like Kristablla said, he can call me ANYTHING he wants as long as it isn't late to bed.

I will keep away from the sites for now. I got sucked in for DAYS last year and nearly got my computer taken away by hubs.

But maybe just a peek and he'll never know.