The LOST Auction catalog (available at ProfilesinHistory.com) contains details about a deleted scene from the episode “Everybody Loves Hugo“. This missing scene, which might be included on the Season 6 DVDs, reveals that in the afterlife Hurley wins the lottery by playing the serial numbers of a dollar bill he finds on the street. As you can see on the pictures below, the numbers are different from THE Numbers
Last week, Damon and Carlton attended the Lost ‘Meet the Creator’ event at Apple Store Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. Team Darlton discussed many topics: their feelings about finishing LOST, the writing process, celebrity fans, favorite characters, the message of LOST, the Season 6 code word, the numbers, the Man in Black, the LOST Encyclopedia, etc.
You can listen to the one-hour conversation on the audio player below.
Holy crap, people, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover this week, what with the numbers reappearing, a mysterious Island boy playing havoc with MIB’s brain, another of Jacob’s “lists” and black and white stones that promise to take us alllll the way back to season one. So let’s get to it, shall we? I’ll warn you, though – this column is loooooooong.
This week’s all new episode of LOST, The Substitute, was chock full of surprise appearances and semi-revelations. Do we finally know what the numbers mean?!
Check out my live reaction video from last night’s episode, guest starring my good friend Allison. (And make sure you watch till the end for her dramatic re-enactment of one of LOST’s most iconic scenes.)
Magnificence
The Cultural Mythology of LOST 1.01 to 6.18
by Pearson Moore
His name is Kambei Shimada, a ronin who lived five hundred years ago. He is an aged, balding, unemployed swordsman, symbol of a dying breed of men useless in an age of muskets. His story required only two hundred seven minutes of celluloid. We think we know him: hero, defender of peasants, leader of men. But his story does not end with one year’s barley harvest, or even an entire nation’s movement into the modern age. Without Kambei Shimada, we understand neither sixteenth century Japan, nor even twenty-first century America. This single figure from the imagination of Akira Kurosawa holds the key to LOST.
For those fans of Lost who are invested in the romance on the show, will there be anything for them this year, or is this primarily a mythology season?
Damon Lindelof: “That’s an excellent question. Our focus remains where it’s always been: on the characters. And there are significant and emotional bonds, from both the friendship and the romantic angle, that we would be remiss in not exploring; we probably won’t be exploring them in the way that you think. That’s my official answer.”
All right, last night you tweeted about this event, and you said that you would address the numbers question.
Oh, well that was just to get people here. [Laughs.]
Are we going to get an answer on the numbers this season?
When someone asks what the numbers mean or are you going to answer the mystery of the numbers, it’s a very interesting phrasing of a question, because I would pose it back to them: Well, what does an answer to “what do the numbers mean” look like? The answer that I’m giving now, my political answer, is that we’ve made a lot of the numbers in this show, so the idea that in the final season of the show we are telling everybody that we’re in answer mode and you’re never going to see the numbers again, or you won’t understand a lot more about the numbers than you do now, would be a cop-out. You would legitimately tar and feather us. But the one question that I can’t answer is what someone’s own level of personal satisfaction is going to be when all is said and done. We’ve gotten a sense from some people that there’s no such thing as a definitive answer to a question, you know? You say that this is the definitive answer and sometimes fans do like, “No, it’s not, I still think that there’s more there.” So all we can do is basically tell the story that we want to tell and answer the questions that are relevant to that story and hope that the audience leaves with some degree of satisfaction. But Lost wouldn’t be Lost if there wasn’t an ongoing debate as to whether or not questions were answered satisfyingly or not.
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