Look out. IGN Published a few up-close shots of the LOST season 6 poster, and set off an explosion of apophenia in the famished fandom. LOST fans have turned their finely tuned theorizing skills to the poster looking for clues to the sixth seasons meaning, and we have a few insider tid-bits to add to the discussion. Ready? Lets go.
First, here is our analysis: the people who put together the parade of favored losties have some decent photoshop skills, because every last image comes either from a screen cap or a promo pic from previous seasons. We have not been able to find a single image of a character on the poster that was shot for the poster specifically, even the image of Locke with his back turned. So folks looking for hand signals or other hidden messages in the poster may be disappointed as it looks like a collection of cut and pasted promo pics.
As far as what we have heard from people in the know, we have two things to pass on that may be helpful to LOST fans looking for meaning. The first bit goes back a ways, to just after ComicCon. We tapped the wire to our super secret sources within the hallowed halls of ABC in an attempt to get a copy of the graphic. The response? We were told that the image was not official season 6 art and had been created only for Comic Con. The folks we spoke to at that time pointed out they were surprised it had caused as big a stir as it had.
Next, a person close to the current LOST viral marketing told us that the hieroglyphics inside the typeset on the poster definitely contain a message. What is the message? Is it a note to the fans? A revealing bit of info regarding the nature of season 6? The recipe for fish biscuits? We don't know, as we do not read Egyptian, but certainly one of your super smart guys out there have a friend who swallowed the Rosetta stone so the answer can't be far down the road.
