Slog - Comments on Best Lost Theory Yet http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet Hannes Alfvén=the key to Lost? A few hours before the season premier of Lost this week, my boyfriend began theorizing that the island and the Dharma Initiative were actually secure incubators for regenerating the human race after a nuclear war or some sort of cataclysmic disaster. This immediately made sense to me--much more than any of the other theories I've heard posited. Apparently he's not the only one to stumble upon this train of thought. Here's a link to an analysis by someone who's done an impressive amount of research on the theory, complete with historical reference points. Does... Copyright 2008 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:38:23 -0800 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:05:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Diana Does anyone have a theory on the awful LOST title graphic?

I will watch the series with fascination until the end, but that diagonally looming monstrosity is always going to bother me.

]]> Diana http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473291 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473291 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:04:11 -0800 Comment by giantladysquirrels Lost, Lost, Lost, blah blah blah. When can we start talking about how The Nine was the best fucking pilot in television history?

]]> giantladysquirrels http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473325 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473325 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:57:38 -0800 Comment by donte Heroes > Lost

]]> donte http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473336 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473336 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:12:45 -0800 Comment by Episodic Television Knows Nothing Of Resolution Are any of you Lost dorks familiar with The Prisoner?

If you're expecting this story to go anywhere I pity you and your wasted hours.

Your time would be better spent reading Finnegan's Wake from the middle outward in both directions.

]]> Episodic Television Knows Nothing Of Resolution http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473342 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473342 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:23:09 -0800 Comment by Number Six Don't be hatin on tha Prisona!!! I bet you didn't like Waking Life, either. Seriously, I'd like to think Damon & Carlton learned something from The X-Files and Twin Peaks...can't blow your wad too soon, can't let the network milk you forever.

Be seeing you.

]]> Number Six http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473351 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473351 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:35:22 -0800 Comment by Dougsf I have really enjoyed Lost but wish it had ended at the end of last season. Based on this seasons premier, they coasting... downhill.

And yeah, it reminds me a bit of the Prisoner of course (which was great), but the first season was probably more The Tempest than anything.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473388 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473388 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:06:18 -0800 Comment by elenchos No, it's not to regenerate the human race after a nuclear war or some sort of cataclysmic disaster.

The Dharma Initiative is a MacGuffin incubator for the regeneration of the human MacGuffin after a MacGuffin war or some sort of MacGuffin disaster.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473396 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473396 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:31:12 -0800 Comment by pgreyy If I may, I'd like to quote the lyrics to the theme song of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (at least during the Joel and early Mike years.)

If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
and other science facts...la la la...
Then repeat to yourself, "It's just a show,
I should really just relax..."

Good advice for Lost fans, methinks...
pg

]]> pgreyy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473415 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473415 TV Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:12:58 -0800 Comment by Aexia Close.

You should read up on the Lost Experience game that was running over the summer. One of the themes was an equation that predicted the end of humanity. The numbers are constants in that equation.

Apparently, the purpose of the Dharma initiative was change one of those constants and thus stave off the end of the world.

]]> Aexia http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473451 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c473451 TV Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:30:03 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Skinner Box. I mean did NONE of you take any Anthropology or Psychology classes in university?

They practically GIVE away the answers ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c474001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/best_lost_theory_yet#c474001 TV Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:05:34 -0800