I hate you, JJ Abrams.
Jul. 30th, 2007 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
40cakesOh JJ.
I don't like Lost. In fact, I was ecstatic to hear that everyone thought this season started out terribly dumb and realized you had no idea where you were going. That's what I've been saying since the first year. I'm so happy when your show is on summer hiatus or fall hiatus or whatever you and ABC are doing this year to jerk your fans around, because then I don't have to hear the speculation and discussion and "They found a hatch, and Richard Hatch was the winner of the first Survivor, and that was a reality show where people were stranded on an island, so this is in the future, and the airplane is really a time machine where they bring people from our time to a future abandoned island and watch them fight to the death on television."
"No way! If you dial 'HATCH' on a phone, you hit the numbers 4-2-7-2-4, and that's a palindrome, which means that this is all part of a man, a plan, a canal - IN PANAMA!"
And I stand by my belief that none of it matters, and the writers are going to pull some bullshit explanation out of their asses that has nothing to do with Dharma or the others or the hatch or invisible polar bears or John Locke.
And that's why I feel really dumb for getting caught up in this 1-18-08 nonsense yesterday. We watched the trailer with our friend Vin, and then he showed us the websites (1-18-08.com, and slusho.jp). We spent the next few hours poring over the pictures, trying to see hidden meanings (If you turn the picture of the group giving Rob a shot upside down, you see the numbers 6551773, and that's a patent for nuclear hormones or something!) I noticed that the header of the page is just "--", and that's morse code for "m", so maybe there's morse code disguised in the pictures! Hey, those four reflective dots on his red cup don't look natural, I wonder if that's more code! If you flip the pictures over, there's messages on the back of the party pictures! That message from Jamie seems awfully verbose for someone who dots her I's with hearts...I wonder if it's an anagram for what the Cthulu cult chants about the Elder God! The names on the back are "Lascano, Platt, and Robbie," but it's signed Jamie, so that means one of them has to be her! Search to see if the name Jamie Lascano or Jamie Platt means anything! The Slusho site talks about whales! What does this Japanese mean? Lascano doesn't mean anything, but Lusca kind of sounds like it, and it was a giant octopus monster!
And then I found out that the main characters all have studio-created myspace pages, and their names aren't meant to be mysterious or have double-meanings. And the "J" character who signed the other photo is JJ. JJ Hawkins. Which totally isn't JJ Abrams self-insertion into his own geeky monster movie.
So internet, I implore you: let it pass. Numbers in the timestamp and screenshots aren't really a "pattern" if you keep changing the rules to make them fit with whatever theory you have. We're in the world of the internets, and nothing is kept secret for long. We'll find out what the monster is in another two weeks, and if it's anything like American Godzilla, we'll feel really embarrassed for getting worked up about it in the first place. I know we need something to take up our "crazy theory" time now that Harry Potter's done, but let's just take a time out and enjoy our summer till then, okay?
I don't like Lost. In fact, I was ecstatic to hear that everyone thought this season started out terribly dumb and realized you had no idea where you were going. That's what I've been saying since the first year. I'm so happy when your show is on summer hiatus or fall hiatus or whatever you and ABC are doing this year to jerk your fans around, because then I don't have to hear the speculation and discussion and "They found a hatch, and Richard Hatch was the winner of the first Survivor, and that was a reality show where people were stranded on an island, so this is in the future, and the airplane is really a time machine where they bring people from our time to a future abandoned island and watch them fight to the death on television."
"No way! If you dial 'HATCH' on a phone, you hit the numbers 4-2-7-2-4, and that's a palindrome, which means that this is all part of a man, a plan, a canal - IN PANAMA!"
And I stand by my belief that none of it matters, and the writers are going to pull some bullshit explanation out of their asses that has nothing to do with Dharma or the others or the hatch or invisible polar bears or John Locke.
And that's why I feel really dumb for getting caught up in this 1-18-08 nonsense yesterday. We watched the trailer with our friend Vin, and then he showed us the websites (1-18-08.com, and slusho.jp). We spent the next few hours poring over the pictures, trying to see hidden meanings (If you turn the picture of the group giving Rob a shot upside down, you see the numbers 6551773, and that's a patent for nuclear hormones or something!) I noticed that the header of the page is just "--", and that's morse code for "m", so maybe there's morse code disguised in the pictures! Hey, those four reflective dots on his red cup don't look natural, I wonder if that's more code! If you flip the pictures over, there's messages on the back of the party pictures! That message from Jamie seems awfully verbose for someone who dots her I's with hearts...I wonder if it's an anagram for what the Cthulu cult chants about the Elder God! The names on the back are "Lascano, Platt, and Robbie," but it's signed Jamie, so that means one of them has to be her! Search to see if the name Jamie Lascano or Jamie Platt means anything! The Slusho site talks about whales! What does this Japanese mean? Lascano doesn't mean anything, but Lusca kind of sounds like it, and it was a giant octopus monster!
And then I found out that the main characters all have studio-created myspace pages, and their names aren't meant to be mysterious or have double-meanings. And the "J" character who signed the other photo is JJ. JJ Hawkins. Which totally isn't JJ Abrams self-insertion into his own geeky monster movie.
So internet, I implore you: let it pass. Numbers in the timestamp and screenshots aren't really a "pattern" if you keep changing the rules to make them fit with whatever theory you have. We're in the world of the internets, and nothing is kept secret for long. We'll find out what the monster is in another two weeks, and if it's anything like American Godzilla, we'll feel really embarrassed for getting worked up about it in the first place. I know we need something to take up our "crazy theory" time now that Harry Potter's done, but let's just take a time out and enjoy our summer till then, okay?
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Date: 2007-07-31 12:33 am (UTC)Totally unrelated to the subject of your post, but...
Date: 2007-07-31 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-31 05:43 am (UTC)I don't know if that alleviates your JJ guilt or not. I'm not much of a fan of his, either. But other than it being a Bad Robot production, I just don't think of 1-18-08 as really being HIS so much as he's just riding on the coattails of it.