Comments on: First look : Lost

By: ImOnlySleeping

ImOnlySleeping — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:57:12 +0000

More importantly, what are they looking at?

By: graham

graham — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:15:47 +0000

What about Rousseau’s team???
Didn’t she has a similar military uniform?
It could be a good chance to see a little bit of her back story.

By: docarzt

docarzt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:43:01 +0000

You’re as wrong as they are. If the promo pics and trailers and sneek peeks are spoilers, why does abc present them without warning – sometimes on the front of their sites? They are not spoilers unless they reveal a substantial bit of story. In my opinion, those guys are pandering to the extreme spoiler phobes – personally, I choose to stick with the text-book definition of a spoiler: something that absolutely ruins the effect of a scene. This one picture gives away nothing, therefore it is not a spoiler. But again, anyone that sensitive to think that promotional materials are spoilers needs to stay far far away from the internet and fan sites period.

By: professorstotch

professorstotch — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:19:42 +0000

For some reason, when I see their uniforms, I’m reminded of three things.

1) Widmore’s henchmen from season 4.

2) Sam Austen. Probably just because they’re soldiers, but I think it’d be cool if Kate’s dad turned out to have some sort of connection to Dharma/the island.

3) Kelvin Inman. Now imagine this…at one point in time, Kelvin had been sent by Widmore just as Keamy had. What if instead of dying, like Keamy, Kelvin had managed to strike a deal with the DI by agreeing to live in one of their hatches and push their button? Or perhaps he got to the island, was told by Widmore to kill everyone, but then had a change of heart after seeing some of the things DI were doing? So what if these guys were apart of these crew that came with Kelvin? Hmmm…

By: professorstotch

professorstotch — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:45:38 +0000

I would find it hilarious if during season 6, ABC started releasing on TV promos with spoiler warnings, and then a 20 second delay between the warning and the actual promo.

By: 23G

23G — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:35:45 +0000

I agree with Philoceanic & numbersarebad – who the heck are the soldiers that have Sawyer & Juliet..? Might be more of Widmore’s goons – but thought all the ones on the island were killed off? Hmmmm…

Can’t believe we are coming into the final stretch before 5.01 & 02 are aired – the drought is soon to be over.

By: numbersarebad

numbersarebad — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:57:43 +0000

These spoiler-phobes are crying more than Jack! If they are that sensitive they must not watch any commercials or look at magazines. I wish more people would be honest and admit that they do want some spoilers. I for one, am far too impatient and can’t resist a little bit of spoilers. I am not ashamed of it. I do not feel like the show is ruined for me, in fact, I want to see those things i read about that much more. Spoilers to me are a taste of whats to come, something to get me hooked. This doesn’t mean that I want a full episode synopsis, which I call a ruiner. I respect other people’s wishes enough that I won’t discuss spoilers in the wrong place. I wish people would keep comments related to the article instead of discussing what is or isn’t ok to talk about. That being said, I would like to speculate who the soldiers are. More of Widmore’s mercenaries, Dharma security, or a new group?

By: Philoceanic

Philoceanic — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:49:26 +0000

for the love of god, shut up. if youve been spoiled and feel bad about it, were all sorry but QUIT BITCHING.

Those of us who arent spoiled by this but instead are burning with anticipation, how about we start some speculation here?!

HELLO?! who are those people?!! and is that a SWORD in the hand of the Sawyer guy??

interesting…

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:35:20 +0000

Wow. Doc Arzt really tries harder than any other main stream fan site for LOST to keep away from spoiling anything substantial or even if he does slip out something small, it’s always with warning.

If you really don’t want to spoil the show before airing, no one might as well talk about it until it’s aired in every country, months after the US/UK premiere.

By: docarzt

docarzt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:53:45 +0000

Lol – never. besides you an adult about the whole thing.

By: docarzt

docarzt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:47:59 +0000

The truth is, neoloki, I leave it up more than other sites would. I’m not one to prune out the hate mail, I’d rather try to settle it like an adult. I’m sure other sites get as much hate-mail, but they sweep it in a corner somewhere. Heck, on a lot of these sites you can’t even post without an account. Unfortunately, we might be moving towards that.

By: neoloki

neoloki — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:46:11 +0000

I feel that some people want to come on a web-site and find something to bitch about. For some reason this site attracts it more than other; which for the life of me I can’t understand. This person who initially complained about the promo pic was obviously being belligerent. He refused to engage in a productive conversation about the image and it’s purpose. This makes me think that he had no other purpose than to complain and deride the content of this web-site. These people are no longer necessary for the health of this community of Lost fans.

By: W. Axel Foley

W. Axel Foley — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:34:10 +0000

Man, we really all love this show! Maybe I was being a bit too spoiler phobic. It is hard this season because so much will be shot before it airs! It is a fine line though. I don’t consider promos to spoilers either. After thinking about it, I agree with you Doc that this isn’t a “spoiler” per se, and I’ve got to say that Professor Bith has a great point.. I officially retract my first post.. but I was nice about it so please don’t ban me!

By: docarzt

docarzt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:33:39 +0000

The commercials are far more ’spoilerish’ than this, and they are aired on open TV with no warning. God forbid.

By: professorstotch

professorstotch — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:12:44 +0000

And also, this picture is on the same level as the one released late 2008 that showed Sawyer and Juliet hanging out together. How is that one not a spoiler, but this one is? This one that tells us absolutely nothing, except that there may be a conflict that features Sawyer and Juliet with two people we don’t even know. It’s not like the names of those two people have been revealed here. It’s not like Lyly is revealing who these two guys are. It just says they’re soldiers.

We know NOTHING about the context of this pic, other than the fact that it features a conflict. I personally can’t believe that anyone could be silly enough to walk away from this site, because a picture was posted that absolutely contains no spoilers.

And as Varrn said a few posts up, this is much less of a spoiler than what we’ve seen in the promos thus far. Think about some of the stuff we’ve seen in the promos, and then compare it to the pic above.