Comments on: Mysteries of the Universe – Episode 2 Appears on ABC.com

By: Ament

Ament — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:32:33 +0000

I’m with you, I really hope it’s not the case. Except the smoke monster. It may be native to the island but it’s alien to the people on the island. The Swan’s timer contains Heiroglyphs, why? Why on Earth would DI place Egyptian symbols (that are found throughout the oldest parts of the island)in the Swan during it’s doomsday countdown, so they can confuse the person who is about to die or communicate to someone/thing that may be present? Makes no sense, unless the DI knows some origin of the island. Heiroglyphs were found on Ben’s secret door, the Temple, the Donkey Wheel room, and on Lostpedia…very interesting… on the classroom chalkboard in Dharmaville as if being taught to the kids. If you can believe that there is some kind of alien ties to ancient Egypt…then who knows. I still think RA is more Egyptian looking (eyeliner) then a Black Rock sailor.

Sorry for the long rsponse, I just wouldn’t put money on it.

By: Annebeth

Annebeth — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:06:53 +0000

oh yeah, that could be the case

By: The Magician

The Magician — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:04:28 +0000

No way will they introduce aliens. In fact, I’d quite happily put money on it.

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:29:25 +0000

I think Damon and Carlton are lying through their teeth. At least, I hope they are.

Way back, they claimed time travel had nothing to do with the show. Last year’s comic-con video turned out to be a red herring too.

Way I figure it, it’s the last chance they have to completely surprise us. Total radio silence doesn’t work, because stuff gets leaked. All-out lying would really preserve the surprise.

I’m hoping their claims of being “done with time travel” and “not focusing on the DI” are lies, because it’d be nice to get some resolution on these Swan matters.

We’re rewatching Season 2 right now, and I really want to know more info. The time has come, for Eris’ sake!

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:26:00 +0000

The “deterioration” was not natural. Keamy & Co. attacked Otherton and blew it all to hell.

By: bps

bps — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:48:46 +0000

Perhaps the reason that the DI plays a much smaller role in S6 is because the future of the alternate reality/timeline that was created at the end of S5 is Dharma free. Just maybe this “new” incident sent the DI crew packing, making them therefore irrelevant to the post 70’s story. Couple of clues that would back up that theory would be the “more than expected” deterioration of the Dharma camp, and the picture of Dharma 815′ers hanging on the wall. If Dharma leaves willingly post incident, perhaps the others never take over their camp, thus explaining the deterioration and also explaining why that picture was never taken down a long time ago by Ben in the reality/timeline that we know so far? The Ajira flight is already in the future of the alternate reality/timeline. Just a thought.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:24:55 +0000

I hope so too… I’ve always been much more interested in the DI than I have been with the Others. Pressing the button to save the world. The Fail Safe. The Blast Door Map. The Lockdown Food Drops. The de Groots. Alvar Hanso. Radzinksy’s edits to the orientation film.

Right now it seems like they’re abandoning all the unresolved bits of Season 2 and are yet again going off on a new tangent with their rebooted timeline. Sigh.

By: JacobsLather

JacobsLather — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:38:48 +0000

Thanks, Zonker.

I’m not sure that Valenzetti or his math will show up in the final season, but I’d like to think that the numbers will be further explained by way of a little explanation about the purpose of the DI. According to the Lost Experience, the numbers represented how humans were going to destroy themselves, and the DI was commissioned to change the numbers and thus our fate. I think this has to be discussed at least somewhat next season. Darlton have said that one doesn’t need to know all the peripheral stuff to understand the show, but so far that’s the only place such an explanation has showed up.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:35:00 +0000

Re: the numbers… Damon has said revealing too much about the power of the numbers would be akin to pulling together the pseudo-science explanation for the power of the Force in Star Wars– it would rob the idea of its mystery. I’m thinking the Valenzetti Equation from the Lost Experience is about the last word we’ll get on the subject, especially since Damon & Carlton indicated that in S6 Dharma will play a relatively minor role.

Re: figuring it out. On their final S5 podcast, Damon said that after both the S5 finale and the S6 opener, he hoped the audience would have enough information to potentially see where the writers are taking us. Carlton piped up and said that he hoped that by the *final* S6 episode, the audience would have enough information to potentially see where the writers were taking us!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:10:09 +0000

This is off the topic from the Mysteries of the Universe videos (well, sort of off topic because it relates to what is canon and not canon for the actual show) but I was wondering if anybody has any idea if the theory behind the Valenzetti Equation and the numbers is canon to the actual show. It came about in the Lost Experience and I am trying to figure out if this will play a big role in the final season/the end game of the show since the equation relates to the numbers bringing about the end of human mankind…interesting to ponder right?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:46:09 +0000

By the way, Doc, every time I visit your site, pop-up ads flood my system. My settings are set to repel them, and no other site I visit does this. Any idea why?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:45:23 +0000

Here’s a mystery of the universe: What happened at TheTailSection.com? Every story beyond January 2009 has vanished. I wonder if they’re being hidden away at Area 51.

By: Handsome Smitty

Handsome Smitty — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:23:23 +0000

I think what The Darlton calls “electromagnetic energy” or what I call zero-point energy does not necessarily lead down the road to magic, but rather science. We don’t really know the source of mass or even gravity, but we (edumacated peoples) don’t consider it magic, or maybe – maybe – not even supernatural. Science in essence is the constant questioning of a subject until it can be fully explained.

Now, some might argue that spirituality is by nature based on the supernatural, but I won’t. It’s just something else that hasn’t been explained “scientifically” enough to qualify or quantify any scientific legitimacy to it. (Okay, that’s arguable for some – just don’t involve me in that argument.)

Because we don’t understand the science behind something doesn’t mean we’re talking magic.

As for “mythological concepts,” there’s a whole lot of that definitely going on. Most fiction by definition is based on such concepts. At the same time, Lost is creating its own myth as well.

By: Wally

Wally — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:46:10 +0000

I agree if this were real they would easily make the jump between Dharma and area 51 even though no connection could be established

By: Wally

Wally — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:44:52 +0000

you don’t know how long ago that was shot. Documentaries such as this (if it were real) would often take years to make and often use footage shot for other things. They could have shot it in 1975