This year’s LOST Weekend Fan Party is the 3rd
event of its nature to take place in LA. It is a gathering of
LOST fans consisting mostly of users of the J.J. Abrams sponsored web site:
The Fuselage. I’d like to
thank Fuselage poster ‘hijinx’ for letting me know about
this year’s event.

Arrival in LA

I arrived in LA on Aeroflot Airtran flight
41 at approximately midnight March 29. For a LOST fan with an active
imagination, it was an exciting flight. At one point, there was the
familiar calming ‘bong’ sound followed by the sort of turbulence that
prompted Jack to say to Rose: «It’s normal.» Then, it soon became the
sort of violent shaking experienced by Ben Linus’s bunny rabbit (
though I may have imagined this).

The Fire

Shortly after meeting some of the LOST fans
in the hospitality suite, someone mentioned a large fire in the Hollywood
hills (it was visible from the window). It was much like the fire that
Charlie set in the ‘Fire + Water’ episode, only it wasn’t set by
Charlie and it was about 2000 times bigger!

The Pre-Party

I don’t know what to say. The LOST fans here are truly very nice
people. Some are quite talented in that they are able to spoof
rap music in a way that makes it more enjoyable (and much funnier!) than
the original. Later, LOST writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach (I can spell his name!)
arrived and it is obvious why he is a fan favorite. He is very friendly
and gracious. Everyone likes Javi!

The Bowling

Lucky Strike Lanes is a classic Hollywood establishment: exotic, loud,
and colorful with bizarre images including what can only be called
an evil snarling Mickey Mouse. It is also the site of classic battles between
the Burky Babes (Bryan Burk fan club) and the Javi Minions (Javi fan club).
It’s not that the Minions are bad, but we were not off to a good start.

Most LOST fans are unaffected by the noise, but it was beginning to affect me
in the same way that the sonic fence affected Patchy. Day 2 would begin soon.

Javi has arrived!!

This year’s LOST Weekend Fan Party is the 3rd
event of its nature to take place in LA. It is a gathering of
LOST fans consisting mostly of users of the J.J. Abrams sponsored web site:
The Fuselage. I’d like to
thank Fuselage poster ‘hijinx’ for letting me know about
this year’s event.

Arrival in LA

I arrived in LA on Aeroflot Airtran flight
41 at approximately midnight March 29. For a LOST fan with an active
imagination, it was an exciting flight. At one point, there was the
familiar calming ‘bong’ sound followed by the sort of turbulence that
prompted Jack to say to Rose: «It’s normal.» Then, it soon became the
sort of violent shaking experienced by Ben Linus’s bunny rabbit (
though I may have imagined this).

The Fire

Shortly after meeting some of the LOST fans
in the hospitality suite, someone mentioned a large fire in the Hollywood
hills (it was visible from the window). It was much like the fire that
Charlie set in the ‘Fire + Water’ episode, only it wasn’t set by
Charlie and it was about 2000 times bigger!

The Pre-Party

I don’t know what to say. The LOST fans here are truly very nice
people. Some are quite talented in that they are able to spoof
rap music in a way that makes it more enjoyable (and much funnier!) than
the original. Later, LOST writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach (I can spell his name!)
arrived and it is obvious why he is a fan favorite. He is very friendly
and gracious. Everyone likes Javi!

The Bowling

Lucky Strike Lanes is a classic Hollywood establishment: exotic, loud,
and colorful with bizarre images including what can only be called
an evil snarling Mickey Mouse. It is also the site of classic battles between
the Burky Babes (Bryan Burk fan club) and the Javi Minions (Javi fan club).
It’s not that the Minions are bad, but we were not off to a good start.

Most LOST fans are unaffected by the noise, but it was beginning to affect me
in the same way that the sonic fence affected Patchy. Day 2 would begin soon.

Javi has arrived!!

There is a very good article on LATimes.com about LOST, John Locke and the actor who plays
him: Terry O’Quinn. Many LOST fans have always suspected that John Locke is very important
to the LOST story, but in this article we get confirmation from executive producer Carlton Cuse
that the character of John Locke is just the very heart of the show.

Locke sees the content of the box and it’s…

  
According to OgMog.com, the casting department is still looking for
someone to play the young Ben Linus in what may possibly be a flashback
on the island. Interesting- Ben claims to have grown up on the island. Was he telling the
truth?

  In LOST, major revelations are usually preceded by hints, so certainly there
must be some good clues concerning Locke’s secret (the event that caused his paralysis). We know from the 1st
Season that John Locke worked for a box company and that Hurley actually owned a box company after he won the
lottery. In this weeks episode, Par Avion, Patchy almost
said something about Locke’s previous paralysis, but he was interrupted
by the French Lady. (How do the Others know so much about the survivors? That is another mystery!)
In another recent episode, Tricia Tanaka is Dead we hear
the following conversation between Tricia Tanaka and Hurley:

TRICIA: It’s everyone’s fantasy — winning the lottery — untold millions falling into your lap overnight. What would you do with all that money? Well, one such lucky winner recently bought a chicken shack. I’m Tricia Tanaka with Hugo Reyes, winner of a record 114 million dollars, outside Mr. Clucks Chicken in Diamond Bar which will be having its grand re-opening tomorrow. So, Hugo, I think the question on everyone’s mind is: why did you buy Mr. Clucks?

HURLEY [nervous]: Uh, I like chicken.

TRICIA: Um, also with us is Hugo’s former boss, and now employee, Randy Nation. That’s probably every working stiff’s fantasy, isn’t it, Mr. Reyes? [Hurley just shrugs] Um, okay, so, Hugo, tell us what else you’ve done since you got on your lucky streak?

HURLEY: Actually, I’ve kind of had some bad luck, too. My grandpa Tito died of a heart attack and the first house I bought my mom burnt down. My friend Johnny ran off with my girlfriend, Starla. Oh, and this guy jumped off my accountant’s roof.

  
A guy jumped off a roof? Locke paralyzed? Box company connection? Coincidence?
Nooo! Not on LOST! Of course, back in Season One, we remember the actual Hurley/ Accountant
scene and we saw the guy fly by the window.

From Numbers:

KEN: Hugo, you are not the first lottery winner to believe the money’s brought them nothing but trouble. It’s all in your head.

HURLEY: What, you don’t believe in jinxes? You know, curses?

KEN: I’m an accountant, I believe in numbers. Hey, where’d you get them, anyway?

HURLEY: What?

KEN: The winning numbers. What’d you use somebody’s birthday, phone number?

HURLEY: No, it’s nothing, it’s something that I…

KEN: What?

HURLEY: That’s it. It’s not the money, it’s the numbers. The numbers are cursed. Dude, don’t look at me like that, I’m not crazy. This is real.

KEN: Hugo, the numbers aren’t cursed. You know there is no such thing as a…

[A man is seen falling in the window behind the accountant.]

  Could the falling man be Locke? It certainly
didn’t occur to me when I saw the scene in Numbers. However,
when Hurley mentioned it again so recently in the Tricia Tanaka is Dead
episode, I had to think that maybe the writers were giving us a clue. Of course,
we don’t know the circumstances. Did Locke jump? Was he pushed?
We may find out very soon. Next week’s episode is Locke-centric.

references: LOST transcripts on LOST-TV

  In LOST, major revelations are usually preceded by hints, so certainly there
must be some good clues concerning Locke’s secret (the event that caused his paralysis). We know from the 1st
Season that John Locke worked for a box company and that Hurley actually owned a box company after he won the
lottery. In this weeks episode, Par Avion, Patchy almost
said something about Locke’s previous paralysis, but he was interrupted
by the French Lady. (How do the Others know so much about the survivors? That is another mystery!)
In another recent episode, Tricia Tanaka is Dead we hear
the following conversation between Tricia Tanaka and Hurley:

TRICIA: It’s everyone’s fantasy — winning the lottery — untold millions falling into your lap overnight. What would you do with all that money? Well, one such lucky winner recently bought a chicken shack. I’m Tricia Tanaka with Hugo Reyes, winner of a record 114 million dollars, outside Mr. Clucks Chicken in Diamond Bar which will be having its grand re-opening tomorrow. So, Hugo, I think the question on everyone’s mind is: why did you buy Mr. Clucks?

HURLEY [nervous]: Uh, I like chicken.

TRICIA: Um, also with us is Hugo’s former boss, and now employee, Randy Nation. That’s probably every working stiff’s fantasy, isn’t it, Mr. Reyes? [Hurley just shrugs] Um, okay, so, Hugo, tell us what else you’ve done since you got on your lucky streak?

HURLEY: Actually, I’ve kind of had some bad luck, too. My grandpa Tito died of a heart attack and the first house I bought my mom burnt down. My friend Johnny ran off with my girlfriend, Starla. Oh, and this guy jumped off my accountant’s roof.

  
A guy jumped off a roof? Locke paralyzed? Box company connection? Coincidence?
Nooo! Not on LOST! Of course, back in Season One, we remember the actual Hurley/ Accountant
scene and we saw the guy fly by the window.

From Numbers:

KEN: Hugo, you are not the first lottery winner to believe the money’s brought them nothing but trouble. It’s all in your head.

HURLEY: What, you don’t believe in jinxes? You know, curses?

KEN: I’m an accountant, I believe in numbers. Hey, where’d you get them, anyway?

HURLEY: What?

KEN: The winning numbers. What’d you use somebody’s birthday, phone number?

HURLEY: No, it’s nothing, it’s something that I…

KEN: What?

HURLEY: That’s it. It’s not the money, it’s the numbers. The numbers are cursed. Dude, don’t look at me like that, I’m not crazy. This is real.

KEN: Hugo, the numbers aren’t cursed. You know there is no such thing as a…

[A man is seen falling in the window behind the accountant.]

  Could the falling man be Locke? It certainly
didn’t occur to me when I saw the scene in Numbers. However,
when Hurley mentioned it again so recently in the Tricia Tanaka is Dead
episode, I had to think that maybe the writers were giving us a clue. Of course,
we don’t know the circumstances. Did Locke jump? Was he pushed?
We may find out very soon. Next week’s episode is Locke-centric.

references: LOST transcripts on LOST-TV

(1) Some people believe that that the true
nature of LOST is discovered when it is seen as an adventure game. Allgames at www.lostisagame.com
believes that LOST IS a game! Is she right? This episode featured a ping pong game and a chess game
that gets very interesting if you win. Could they be hints? How
do you win the game? In a recent interview, Damon Lindelof referred
to the Flashes Before Your Eyes episode and suggested that a LOST flashback
may not be as simple as we had been led to believe: that the flashback devices might not just be the sort of simple thing that we’ve been presenting you before – that some of these bad decisions that people have made in their lives are potentially reversible in some way, shape or form…
So, if LOST really is a game, can someone replay a move?

(2) I’ve played a lot of computers and I’m pretty sure they don’t know how to cheat.
That’s what makes being human so dictinctly wonderful. – John Locke in Enter 77

(3) Why are we continuing to play this little game when we all know it has moved to the next stage – Mikhail from Enter 77

(4) Sayid is not from France!

(5) Sawyer wants to know from whence Nikki came and why she is pestering him.

(6) Sawyer is worried about Kate and now he is forbidden from using
nicknames – Sawyer is having a rough time!

(7) Yes – that is the same cat – or is the smoke monster appearing to Sayid as a cat??

(8) What is the alarm system in the next episode?

(9) Locke + computer = bad news

(10) In the next episode, someone says «Oh my God!!!!»

(11) The French Lady is back!