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.
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Jon Lachonis is perhaps best known as DocArzt, the LOST blogger behind such sites as DocArzt.com and formerly TheTailsection. As an arm-chair pundit of the TV scene, Jon's writing has appeared on BuddyTV, CraveOnline, and UGO. His book, co-written with Amy J. Johnston, LOST Ate My Life is available on Amazon.
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according to lostpidia the hieroglyphics say "Who is the leader"… interesting…
Wow, nice find…I also see the Hatch Countdown Timer glyphs in there as well.
Kinda reminds me of the Abbey Road poster with Paul out of step with everyone else and barefoot, or the Sgt. Pepper art with the hand over Paul's head and him with the black clarinet. My initial thought is that with Locke facing the other direction, the implication is that he is leading them, either b/c he would be facing them, or b/c he is going in a different direction from them. Not sure if that's supposed to be a "7″ in the sky or more hieroglyphs, but definitely interesting. Thanks for posting.
I think the "7″ is just a result of a flash, no pun intended, on a glossy poster
Where's Walt?!!??
and vincent…
And Nikki and Paolo. You may not like 'em, but they were one-time lead characters (unlike Frank, Bernard and Rose who have never been leads but appear on this poster), so their non-appearance here seems a bit odd. It's one thing to kill off the characters because the audience didn't like 'em, but it's another thing entirely to pretend they were never there to begin with.
If Season 6 opens with an alternate reality where the flight lands safely in LA and we see how some of the characters' lives would have panned out without crashing on the island, I for one would have liked to see which one of the pair would have outlived the other in their greedy fight to keep those stolen diamonds for themselves.
I actually didn't mind the characters – I liked how the writers weaved their story into arcs we'd already seen, and even showed how their greed got in the way of helping out the other survivors. If they'd spoken up about what they'd seen, some of the other characters' deaths would have been avoided. It was clever writing, and I'll always wonder what the original storyarc for those two would have been, if audience demand hadn't hastened their demise.
It's gotta be an alien mathematics language – a code that they will all be restored but in different timezones – okay, I admit, I'm just guessing.
With the restoration, they will not ever be the same. They become a new higly developed group of others – then a cruise ship crashes and LOST starts all over – different others different monsters different lives. Who's on the ship? Unfortunately, J.J. Abrams, Lindeof, Cuse, DocArtz, S. King, Burke, and others will be running from smokey. Running, hiding or dying, brutha.
tada !
I'm wondering why Locke is facing backwards. And the fact that everyone from past seasons is on it, does that mean everyone is coming back? or are they just paying a tribute/trying to trick us or anything this that.
no walt, vincent, nicky, paulo, rousseau, or penny
You're just naming any old character, now? Rousseau and Penny have never been lead characters. If you're gonna name them, then you might as well include Aaron, Alex, Widmore, Tom (Mr Friendly), Christian, Eloise, Roger, Horace, Ethan and Mikhail!