I just received the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly in the mail (May 19th issue). Lost is on the cover. Actually it looks like there are four different covers, subscribers get all of them. I’m not sure about on the newstand. Multiple spoilers for the finale but it doesn’t reveal all. For those not allergic to spoilers:
[spoiler] “Executive Producer David Lindelof vows a darker and more revealing finale than last years… This time we’ll see Walt again, learn what caused Oceanic Flight 815 to crash, find out what the mysterious button does (if anything), and more…Brutal is how Naveen Andrews describes the finale…At the beach, long lost button pusher Desmond chugs from a bottle of booze and spills a secret (Hint: It’s sick).”
There is also speculation that Desmond will be a regular next year. [/spoiler]
There is also a rehash of the top 5 theories, none of which I like. Lots of info and all the principals have comments.
I’ve been spending a little time picking over Lost episodes for samples to throw together in a crude remix of the Chemical Brothers’ Galvanize (Push the Button.) Mostly just crazy talk about pushing the button and the numbers, etc – but I’ve found a few sound effects that work out nice, too: The mechanical timer, of course, but the most perfect thing is that eerie klaxon sound of the TCM – which is serendipitously very similar to a sample in the original, making for a very cool substitution.
Was I the only one who thought Locke should send a poop through the tube after viewing that orientation video? Here, have a little taste of lab monkey justice.
Or maybe it was just a Wednesday night South Park juvenalia bleedover.
Suppose it’s the Pearl station that is the psychological experiment! Think about it… Candle/Wickman/Whatever his name is said that the people they would be watching would be thinking they are doing something very important and they need to note down everything they do.
But the Pearl station itself is also under observation (the camera Eko saw). The comment could also apply to them; the people in the Pearl station are doing something they think is very important just because they have been told it is.
So, maybe the activity at Swan is legitimate and the activity at Pearl is the experiment. Eko’s brother comes back from the beyond because Locke is wavering in pushing the button and they need him to continue. But, they have had the opposite effect. It’s all misdirection on the writer’s part.
Sorry to resurrect, but I’m a DVD-only viewer, so I just got up to watching this episode.
Until now, there was a lot of theorizing that the names of the stations somehow related to the mythology surrounding Apollo. Does a pearl relate to any Apollo myths at all?
