I love Lost.
OK, that’s no shocker, but it’s not just because of how awesome the show is.
The show creators have been so, well, creative, in their efforts to keep the buzz alive between seasons. Their marketing, frankly, is brilliant.
Lost fans are like no others in their desire to learn every little tidbit they possibly can about the universe of Lost. But not silly stuff. Intellectual stuff. I read Mystery Island by Jules Verne solely because it was mentioned by Shannon in Season 1.
Cuse and Lindelof created the Dharma Initiative, giving fans apoplexy a couple of years ago, trying to decipher hints left online, in telephone messages and in commercials. And no matter how many times we swear off the message boards and the activities, we get sucked back in.
So here we are with the Dharma Initiative series, which is far better than the mobisodes from a couple years ago, which were a little puzzling.
But the first segment connects the Dharma Initiative with Area 51.
“Why should a veterinarian be profiled in the same manner as a psychotic killer?” the narrator asks, after talking about the psychological tests given to all Dharma job applicants.
I had trouble loading Segment 2 and watching it (it was released yesterday), so I won’t be able to report on it until I get to see it. But it looks great. Done like an old-style documentary.
