The Tail Section

The sixth test in the DharmaWantsYou ARG has now gone live.  An e-mail was sent out this morning announcing the test, which you can see below.  According to the e-mail, this series of questions "is a multiple-choice exam and aims to determine your suitability for a number of departments within the Dharma Initiative."

The e-mail goes on to announce that certain Dharma recruits have been promoted to instructor status, and will be receiving their very own Dharma Instructor t-shirt for their efforts.  I’m jealous.  Those recruits are:  Bboepple, DanyWho, Ellenh, Iseibert, Lost4evr, Mattabramson, Orangemoonbeam, Sawyer78, Wrinkledogs.

Seeing the name "Wrinkledogs" in an otherwise serious e-mail amuses me greatly.

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Submitted by Tom Nahas

It is widely speculated that Season 5 of Lost will spend some time exploring The Dharma Initiative.  This is reinforced by the ARG at dharmawantsyou.com.  So now it is time for one of my reckless and wild speculations of what we may see in the final two seasons.
 
These are the pieces I used to develop the theory:

Adam and Eve Skeletons (season 1)
You can’t change the future and course correction (Season 3)
Faraday in the Past (Comic Con Video)
Oceanic Six Getting Back to the Island (Season 5?)

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I wouldn’t exactly consider any of the information about Lost in Michael Ausiello’s new spoiler column to be spoilers, but I guess Lost scoops aren’t easy to come by these days.  Ausiello’s latest write up over at EW.com reveals two things that I’m pretty sure we all already knew.  One is the possible location for the island in season 5, and the other involves whether Emilie de Ravin will return for the show’s sixth season.  Read on only at your own risk.

The first thing Ausiello reveals are four possibilities for the location of the island, only one of which is correct.  They are:

A. The Island moved forward in time.
B. The Island moved backward in time.
C. The Island did not move in time, but it did move in space — to another location on the planet.
D. The Island did not move in time or space — it’s still there, but Dharma tech renders it invisible to the naked eye.

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How does Ben plan to get everyone back to the island in season 5, and exactly who does "everyone" consist of anyway?  Those are some of the big questions that Lost will likely answer in its season premiere.  Kristin from E!Online spoke to Evangeline Lilly and Michael Emerson about Ben’s master plan, and here’s her write up about it:

"I asked Evangeline Lilly yesterday at the Emmys, and she told me, ‘Hmmm? Is Ben’s plan’s coming together? Is Ben’s plan comprehensible is the question? Can anyone make sense of Benjamin Linus?’ Ah, sounds like a classic Lost brainteaser! I also ran into Michael Emerson at the HBO party (he and his wife Carrie Preston are an adorable couple BTW) and asked him how Ben was going to get everyone to go along, and he said, ‘Oh, it’s not a question of why they should go along, it’s a question of do they want to survive.’"

Do they want to survive?  Interesting.  Either the island has bad things in store for those not willing to return, or Ben has some malicious tricks up his sleeve.  I’m guessing it’s the latter, since the island seems intent on keeping certain people alive.

Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello landed some interesting red carpet interviews at the Emmys last night.  You can see Emilie de Ravin confirm her limited involvement in season 5 here, while Ausiello talks to Daniel Dae Kim here.  TV Guide also spoke to some Lost actors to get some scoop.  You can see their interviews with Michael Emerson and de Ravin below.

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Korbi Ghosh from Zap2It.com got some scoop about Lost’s upcoming season straight from the red carpet of the Emmys.  Read on for scoops straight from Jorge Garcia, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Emerson, but beware that they’re slightly spoilery:

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I can’t be mad at the Emmys this year.  The notoriously inconsistent awards show handed out trophies to Mad Men, 30 Rock, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Bryan Cranston, among others.  They got a lot of things right, but unfortunately they didn’t give Lost a single award.  The series was up for 8 trophies and left empty handed.  I think the most egregious snub was passing over Michael Emerson in the Best Supporting Actor category.  Zeljko Ivanek from Damages walked away with the award instead.

What did you think of the Emmys this year?  Wouldn’t it have been much better if Ricky Gervais had hosted?  Let’s hope that Lost’s fifth season is fantastic enough to garner some nominations.  Maybe next year will be the one for Emerson.

Lost’s amazing fourth season was nominated for 8 Emmy Awards this year, but unfortunately it’s already lost 6 of them.  The Creative Arts Emmys were held last weekend in Los Angeles, and Lost was beaten out by shows such as Mad Men and Battlestar Galactica in the smaller categories.  However, it’s still up for two huge prizes this Sunday: Best Drama Series and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Emerson.  I don’t think it has a shot at the former (Mad Men is a lock), but I do think Emerson has a strong chance of winning.

Kristin from E!Online recently landed an interview with the actor where they talked about the Emmys and all things Lost.  The highlights are below, or you can head over to E!Online for the full interview.

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For those of you keeping up with the DharmaWantsYou ARG, you’ll be happy to know that a fifth test has gone live.  You can see the e-mail announcing the test below.  This one is a Numeric Projection Evaluation that will "assess a recruit’s ability to recognize a variety of patterns in numeric series."  Most of the questions are simple math equations, but one of them may require a cheat.  This video released by Hans Van Eeghen contains a morse code sequence that should help with that:

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My colleague cousinwalter may not have enjoyed the pilot of Fringe, but I’ve been loving the show so far.  It’s not as instantly compelling as previous J.J. Abrams shows like Lost and Alias, but I’m happy to see a well made, wonderfully acted monster of the week show back on FOX.  I thought last night’s episode, which featured a rapidly aging killer who accidentally impregnated a woman with a swiftly growing fetus, was extremely creepy and fun.

The heavily hyped pilot of Fringe pulled in just under 10 million viewers, but last night’s second episode, which followed the season premiere of House, did much better.  Fringe was seen by 13.36 million people, which is a 48 percent increase from last week.  It also held on to many of the 14.4 million viewers who tuned into House.

Can Fringe keep up its ratings surge next week?  We’ll have to wait and see.  What did you think of last night’s episode?