LOST Reworked!

Since the beginning of any trendy show, crazy fans always tend to take aspects about the show they love out of context. The Matrix, the X Files, and many other movies and shows have certain tendencies in them that seem to mirror religions, especially Christianity. Books have been written, groups have been created, and people actually are beginning to truly believe in these supposed truths.

 
 LOST has become one of those shows. Since the first episode aired, LOST fanatics have been finding characteristics about the show that have deeper significance. It is the kind of show that has so many details that avid fans could basically find “meaning” in anything they put their mind to, but Christianity?

 
“I started watching LOST from the beginning, but I didn’t really get into it until about the third season,” said Sara Neiman, Fort Pierce. “It was then that I started reading about it on different blogs and stuff. I found different places where they were comparing LOST to the Bible and Christianity, and it kind of scared me because everything they were saying seemed like it could be true! They had so many details!”

 
The ideas about this aspect of the show have been taken so seriously that there are actually books written about it. There is a book called “The LOST Bible” which compares details about LOST to the Christian Bible starting all the way back into Genesis.

 
“When I first came to Southeastern, I started watching LOST with the group in Aventura second floor lobby. There was this one girl who brought the book ‘The LOST Bible’ to one of the shows, and it had some pretty fanatical things in it,” said Chad Ainsworth, Jr. “It even compared Jack to Jesus and Kate to Mary Magdalene. I laughed at it because I know that it is not true, but the weird thing is that many people actually might believe in it.”

 
However, the theories about the show don’t stop with just Christianity. From Muslim to Buddhism, and even branching out to Catholicism, each of these religions is supposedly represented in the show.

 
Things such as Virgin Mary statues and Mr. Ecko being a supposed priest could represent Catholicism. Also, Charlie, a character in the first few seasons of the show, says that he grew up Catholic.

 
Mr. Ecko also quotes much Scripture, and he insisted on baptizing baby Aaron after his mother Claire gave birth to him. “Aaron” is also another reference to a character in the Bible.

 
Sayid, a character that has been focused on numerous times in the show, is represented to be very Muslim. He is seen praying many times, and his past shows that he had been part of the army in his home of Iraq in support of their religion.

 
Also, a fact that people might not know is that the “Numbers,”-4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42- that the character Hurley is always finding in his path, all add up to 108. This is the sacred number in the religion Buddhism.

 
Are these just things that LOST fans are coming up with? Or are they things that should be checked out and have relevance to the storyline of LOST? Either way, for fans of this show around the globe, it sure is fun to read about things like this and speculate if they truly mean anything. Just be warned to not take these things seriously.

Ever need a recap about all the little things that are thrown into each LOST episode? This site gives a few extra tidbits about those!

       If you are a student at Southeastern University, you know how hard it is to find a room to watch TV in as a group. LOST fans here at Southeastern have discovered that this is almost an impossible task. The LOST fan club is searching for remedies to this dilemma.

      LOST is a show that cannot be missed, and the school does not aid in the process of trying to watch the show together as a fan club. They talk about the previous week’s show, and they discuss what is happening in the show during the commercials. It just is not the same when it is watched by one person.

 
               Southeastern University is a great school; however there are some things that frustrate many students on campus. One of these frustrations is their availability of any kind of a media room that can be used by the students. They have TV and internet in their rooms, but they are not allowed to have guys in the girls’ dorms and vice versa.

       This is fine with many of them, but if they have this rule, they should provide alternative places for the students to go instead of their dorms. However, their version of an “alternative” is to provide for the entire, 3,000 student body, three TV lobbies. They also have a café here, but it is a very loud environment, and LOST is a show that cannot be watched when every word is not audible.

 
 “I am always looking for a place to watch TV and to hang out with my girlfriend here on campus, but there are not really that many places. I work on campus, and up until recently I did not have a car. So I really didn’t have time to walk anywhere, and there aren’t any places close enough for it to be worth it to walk,” said Shea Doyle, a Jr. 

 
       Each of these three lobbies has one TV and currently two of them are broken. The LOST fan club always tried to get the one lobby that had the working TV, but sometimes they would get there too late and someone else had would have claimed it.

 
 “I love watching LOST with all of the other LOST fans, so I actually had to start reserving the lobby 24 hours in advance to make sure it would be available for us,” said Leah Corbett,  a Jr.

 
       This procedure of reserving the lobby each Tuesday has worked for the past few weeks. However, last week the LOST fans showed up to our lobby to find that TV also not working. They tried everything possible to figure out what was wrong, but ended up running out of time and they all had to go back to their rooms to watch the show separately. 

 
 “I plan on talking to one of the maintenance men here to see if they can possibly look at the TVs in time for Wednesday’s show,” said Josh Morway, a Jr. 

 Hopefully this plan of action will bring about working TV’s, but until then, LOST fans at Southeastern will be each watching their beloved show by themselves.

 As I have said in previous posts, LOST is much more than just a show that you sit and watch for an hour once a week. It is a complete interactive experience. Sites including the official LOST sites on Myspace and Facebook provide loads of extra information that fans love to hear. Most fan sites would only include things about how much the fans love the show or the show’s characters, but any site on LOST doesn’t just have these things, they have essays on the next week’s show, interviews with any person from the show they can get to maybe reveal a secret about the show, and much, much more. Many of this information are very relevant to the flow of the show series, but it is really necessary to the understanding of the show? Could a person just watch the show from week to week and still be an avid fan? I talked to a few of the fans from the show’s Myspace and a few of my own friends who are LOST extremists to see what they think about this concept.
 First I went to the show’s top fan sites to communicate with a few of the most extreme fans to get their “expert” opinions. The first I talked to from the Official LOST site was a woman who would not give me her real name but goes by the name of “SNLFanForever” on Myspace.
I asked SNLFanForever if she thought that all this LOST networking and discovering new information was essential to being a big fan of the show. She replied with, “It is very [extremely] necessary! Don’t get me wrong, I love watching the show, but I get even more excited to get all the LOST sites the next day t see what all the other fans are saying about that show. I end up understanding not only that show more, but also the next week’s show.”
 However I also talked to a fan here on campus, Josh Morway, who doesn’t always have the time to sit and talk to other fans online after the show. I also asked him if he believed it was necessary to network about LOST or whether just watching would be fine. He said, “I don’t think it’s necessary, it just makes it a lot more fun! A fan could be a good fan and just watch the show, but finding out more details online later makes it so much more interesting! I do it as much as I can, but when the many times come that I don’t have time, I wish that I could. So, no I don’t think it’s necessary, I just think it adds so much to just watching the show.”
 Whether you think that it is necessary or not, there are thousands of fans that flock to these websites to check out the “new updates” and to read the latest blogs on the next show. Many believe that LOST has these many fans because of these sites. Countless fans actually started liking this show because of all the fun they could have with it online. They love feeling apart of a group, and sharing in all the “secrets” that other fans find and share. Also, a lot of these fans became fans after the first couple seasons because they saw a few of their friends getting involved in it. They caught up online just so they could also feel apart of this group of people. I believe that networking is a huge reason for the show LOST becoming so famous, and that it is these devoted fans that have keep this confusing show going on as long as it has.