Lost at ComicCon: Dribs, Drabs and Bunnies

@ James - I'll continue the discussion started on the last Lost post over here.

I think the fact that the scene with Jack and Kate was not the end of the story IS very significant. Some people thought (not me, but some) that what we saw was the end, and that the last 3 seasons would tell the story of how we got there. Not a great theory (I can't imagine killing Jack's spirit like that could be the point of the show/story), but one that was floated.

I'm also glad we'll be learning more about the skeletons...always seemed like an interesting question/mystery.

@CD: Maybe it's just me -- I never saw that as a possibility. To me the question always was (and is): Do the flash-forwards then move forward in time from the airport scene (moving toward a return to the island)? Or do the off-the-island scenes eventually become the "present" of the show (i.e., is there a BSG-style jump forward in time)? But, I will grant you that for Cuse & Lindelof to say something definitive about *anything* is, well, something.

But the skeletons... see this is where wording is so important, and why there's a fine line between news and teasing. Because what Lindelof evidently said was that we should be *asking* about the skeletons--not that anything would be revealed about them next season. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.

I followed your Casimir Effect link. Boy, are they going to have to dumb that down for the audience or what?

The Casimir Effect? Seriously? Honestly, the Lost showrunners have a better shot of explaining everything on the show in a logical, non-contradictory way than having a shot of explaining virtual particles and free-energy on national TV.

As to the Lost Experience: I can't return a verdict. I don't have the free time to dig through the source code on their web pages, but there is all kinds of stuff that goes on in the show that is far more interesting if you've reviewed the Lost Experience. My final answer will depend on how the showrunners handle the existing Lost Experience material: if, for example, Ben launches into a five minute speech on who Jacob is, then who cares about the Lost Experience. If all we are told is that he's some explorer that got hosed, then the fact that he's (probably) Magnus Hanso, owner of the Black Rock, and Alvar looking for his body is the whole reason Dharma ever came to the Island in the first place, adds a lot to what we are seeing on the show.

Libby was working for someone? Again, if she hadn't given Desmond the boat, 815 would never have crashed. If she was working for someone, then it is even more likely the 815 crash was intentional. Also, what does Hurley do when he "finds out" her interest in him was just part of her cover (though in the end we'll find out it was at least partially authentic).

I heard (back when they were written out of the show) that Michael and Walt were always supposed to return, just the exact duration of their time away was based on contractual issues.

And seriously, even a single person thought that was the (timewise) end of the story? Jack (and some number of compatriots) have to get back and foil the Hanso plans. I think it's less helpful to view the future episodes as being all flashbacks from the future and more that Island time is the anchor, and some episodes they go earlier (though mainly with the backstory on non-Losties), and sometimes they go later, allowing us to wonder how future-Losties are so different from Island-Losties (much like we all wondered how Box-company Locke turned into Island Locke).

In any case, they only have 48 episodes to cover everything. It should be on hell of a ride.

@Tom: yeah, I didn't mean to suggest the Lost Experience is worthless -- just that that's the point where I personally have to throw my hands up. I'm happy to let the die-hards sleuth through it and read their reports later.

By the way, as I added in the update, I have no idea whether the Orchid video is anything more than a joke. But for funsies, let's assume it's serious. Click on that Lostpedia link and look at the transcript.

Now. Despite what the blog reports have said, I see nothing in that transcript that proves that it's about cloning. What if it is, instead, about somehow warping space-time? (We know that "the context of time" is, somehow, very significant on the Island.)

In other words, what if that second white rabbit that appears is not a cloned rabbit? What if it's--THE SAME RABBIT! [Thundering sound. The words "LOST" appear in white on a black background.]

Plus, dude -- a *white rabbit*? *Through the looking glass*? That so has to be real, right?

Nikolai Tesla is working for the Dharma Foundation?!? (Sorry, have to get my "The Prestige" references in somehow.) Although Tesla was born in 1856, and Alvar Hanso is supposed to be well over 100 - has anyone ever seen the two of them together? How deep does this rabbit hole go?!?

Personally, at first glance, this Orchid video strikes me as the showrunners just playing with the audience. Although why would ABC host a joke on their website? Hrrm.

I could see this video for The Orchid being the first clue for the next run of the Lost Experience. I didn't play at all (wasn't a Lost fan at the time) but greatly enjoyed reading about what all the die-hard fans unearthed from the first one.

@Tom Shaw, others
It's not that hard to explain the Casimir effect on TV. Is it not, in very layman's terms, a scientific definition for the 'vibe' we get from people, or, love at first sight?

About the skeletons, I want to point out again that the crystals that they had on their bodies were very similar, if not the same, to the crystals on Desmond's table in his and Penny's flat in Flashes Before Your Eyes. Worth noting.

PS. Bring on more bunnies!