You LOST me

Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Jennifer and currently 6 commenting.

Okay, I’ve posted before about my LOST addiction.  In fact, I’m currently re-watching the entire series in preparation for the upcoming season 4 premiere (January 31… I will be taking no calls).  So yeah.  I’m a big LOST freak.  But I’m not the only one around here.  I just mentioned that I’m blogging about LOST, and half the office piped in about the premiere, what could happen, how it could all end, blah blah blah.  It’s a disease.

About a year and a half ago, I blogged about The Lost Experience, a multi-media game that the creators of LOST used to fill the summer months between seasons 2 and 3.  Beginning with fake commercials that ran during the last couple episodes of the season, it was a series of online clues and puzzles that followed the adventures of a young truth seeker named Rachel who was looking to expose Alvar Hanso and the Dharma Initiative.  They had done a teaser sight for Oceanic Air between seasons 1 and 2, but the 2-3 Lost Experience ramped things up to an 11 and did a wonderful job of whetting my appetite for island goodness over what was a pretty long summer break (May to October).  Of course, since then, we’ve experienced more LOST droughts.  There was the mid-season break in Season 3, and then the excruciatingly long hiatus between 3 and 4.  And for those droughts… we had only ourselves and our memories. {sigh}

But at long last… December 31st began a new chapter of The Lost Experience.  Our good friend Virginia Miracle blogged on it over at Marketing Environmentalism, which is how I stumbled upon it.  So I’m certainly behind the times, but frankly, so is LOST.  I spent some time in the last couple of days catching up… and I’ve gotta say, I’m a little disappointed.  First of all, isn’t this a little late in the game?  By December 31st, we already had what we wanted – a light at the end of the tunnel.  We knew January 31st was just around the corner.  So why wait?  Why leave us hanging since May 23rd with absolutely no contact, no excitement, no nothing… and then decide to chime in one measly month before we’re about to get it all back?

So far the story and the elements of this new Lost Experience seem a little less interesting and urgent than the last time around, but I’ll be willing to give it a try.  Perhaps, since they didn’t finish filming the season, and the writers’ strike might force an unplanned mid-season hiatus, they’re setting up something now that might have to continue later.  Frankly, I hope that’s the case.  Because otherwise, this last minute engagement feels like too little too late to me.  Give me creepy commercials during the season finale to let me know that you’re going to stay a part of my life for the next six months.  Don’t give me six months of silence and then creep in when the excitement over the premier will overshadow you anyway.  I sincerely hope they’ve got greater plans for this chapter of the Lost Experience, not that any of this will cheapen the show for me, mind you.  But for a show that has made such a point of creating an experience outside of the time slot, I  just hope it doesn’t turn out to be just another Bad Twin.

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