Let's Get Ready To Rumble

Welcome back and what a good time it is that you have decided to come check us out. We have the first half of the Sweet 16 match ups that will decide which is the best episode ever of LOST. Let's see who we have in the first half of the Sweet 16.

First match up we have a number one seed, the two hour season finale from the first season, Exodus.

To get to the Sweet 16 Exodus first defeated The Other 48 Days on the opening round and then took care of The Life and Death Of Jeremy Bentham.

Versus:

A four seed from season two: Two For The Road.

To get here Two For The Road had to do away with Solitary

and ? In the first two rounds.

The next pairing brings us to season 3 with episode 13 titled The Man From Tallahassee a 2 seed.

The journey to the Sweet 16 has taken TMFT past Orientation and This Place Is Death.

Versus:

Cabin Fever, a 6 seed from season 4.

In the first round Cabin Fever faced One Of Them

and then Lockdown in the second round.

Moving on we have another number 1 seed The Constant from season 3.

The Constant made easy work of Some Like It Hoth in the first round and almost had just as easy of a time in the second round with The 23rd Psalm.

Versus:

Another episode that came around a little later in season 3, The Man Behind The Curtain, is a number 5 seed.

It had to get passed Three Minutes in the opening round

and then in a minor upset it squeaked passed Numbers in order to appear here in the Sweet 16.

Our final pairing in this half of the competition finds a number 7 seed from season four, The Economist.

In the first round it made it easily passed Raised By Another and then in a surprise upset made it through by beating The Shape Of Things To Come.

Versus:

Another contestant that some will say got here by way of an upset is an 11Th seed from the first season; Outlaws.

The sixteenth episode of the premier season had to get passed sixth seed Deus Ex Machina in the first round and then continued it’s underdog fight by upsetting There’s No Place Like Home Part 1 in the second round.

Can it do it again and make it’s was into the Elite 8? Which episodes will move on and which will have its journey end here? We shall find out and you have the deciding vote. Vote VOTE VOTE!!!

It's Not March But ...

It's time for another DAG Project Field of 64. This time we are going to find out which is

The Best

LOST Episode

EVER!

I have already cut the original 64 entrants into the sweet 16. Here they are separated by seasons but in no particular order:

How could we do a field of 64 for best episode without the one that started it all? The two hour pilot is of course in the sweet 16.

Also from the first season is "Outlaws"

"Walkabout"

and "Exodus" is presented in it's two hour entirety as one entry

Moving on to the second season we have "Two For The Road"

And the two hour season finale "Live Together, Die Alone"

Season 3 presents us with "The Man From Tallahassee"

"The Man Behind The Curtain"

"The Brig"

"Greatest Hits"

The Season 3 finale "Through The Looking Glass" another two hour episode that fills just one space in the brackets.

Season 4 offers up "Cabin Fever"

"The Constant"

"The Economist"

And the two hour finale "There's No Place Like Home" only parts 2 and 3 are considered here.

The only episode from season 5 to make it to the sweet 16 is the two hour finale "The Incident".

I will be giving them their seeds and putting the first group of combatants up in a few days. As it was the last time, I will also post polls at the top of the page for people to vote for their favorites. When I post the field of 64 pairings I will also list the episodes they beat to get to the sweet 16 so you can see if some of your favorites were also included in the 64 best episodes ever.

True Confessions

We're stuck in the summer doldrums, as far as LOST is concerned, during this off season hiatus (the last one we will have to sit through and I am not so sure how I feel about that) and with Comicon '09 a few more weeks away and my next idea for a field of 64 still to be sorted out, I felt I owed my readers something entertaining. So with that, I will treat you all to a story that is unfortunately true. It would have to be, I mean there is no reason to make up what you are about to read. Some of you know the story already and to you I ask that you either suffer through yet another retelling or simply go away and leave me with what dignity I still have. Those of you that do not know the story, please to enjoy as I tell you the story of "Chris and the self imposed Dirty Sanchez!"

A few winter seasons ago I found myself home alone with a day off from work and nothing much to do. I was lounging around the apartment while tooling around the information super highway. I was two cups of coffee into my day when I felt the first grumblings of a sweet AMS (Awesome Morning Shit) and I decided I would kill two birds with one stone and refill my coffee mug on the way back from the commode. I dropped off my coffee mug in the kitchen and took my normal position for a nice movement. It was quite uneventful and after a few moments my crap sausages were completely deposited into their watery grave. I then began the paperwork part and a little background info is needed here: I am usually a three wipe and done guy, unless there are extenuating circumstances i.e. the brown apple splatters - in which case it might just be easier to get in the shower and deal with than going through wipe after wipe to try and clean that up. But as I said this was an uneventful evacuation and after the first wipe I did the wipers version of "spell check" and inspected the paper and found that it was unmarred by the second wiping. Wow I almost had myself a "Walk Away" awesome indeed.

After I flushed the fetid tootsie turds I made for the kitchen to fetch myself a fresh cup of coffee. I added cream and sugar, stirred, sample taste, ahhh, perfect, and started back toward the computer. A few steps removed from the kitchen I found myself the recipient of a wriggling ass itch. You know the kind where it makes you do a little dance before you even get to dig in and it feels like something is borrowing its way into your rectum. Well, I got that approximately 10 seconds before I got one of those itches across the tip of my nose that is 49% painful and 51% itch. You know the kind that makes your eyes water in the few seconds it takes you to get there and scratch it. Well, I had one hand full with a hot cup of coffee so there was only one solution it would seem. Use my free hand to scratch both offending areas. Which I proceeded to do.





Now, let me tell you what really happened in the bathroom: When I wiped the first time, two entire squares of TP remained in my colon and formed a barrier between the second wiping attempt and the horrid mess that so needed that second (and a third) wipes attention. I dug between my cheeks with a vengeance attempting to rectify the dreaded crack crickets that already had me doing the St. Vida's' Dance across the living room. So much so that on the way back towards my face I didn't notice that through my boxers I had managed to get a finger full of fecal matter and proceeded to try and clear up the nose itch that had me ready to sneeze, spit, and spill my coffee all over the living room.

I immediately began to wretch and had to make my way back to the kitchen and I will leave the rest to your imagination!

U2 Tribute

U2 paid tribute to the passing of Michael Jackson during their first concert on the 360 degree tour which took place in Barcelona on June 30Th. Not the greatest of quality but it it is kinda memorable nonetheless. If you want to skip the "Angel of Harlem" part fast forward to around the 3:25 mark when the MJ part begins.

Goodbye

The Newest Lostaway

We here at the DAG Project want to welcome the newest member of the extended family. Josh Holloway's wife Yessica gave birth to the couples daughter Java Kumalah on April 9th. New Papa Josh is still trying to catch up on his sleep and here we see that his speep deprived mind took his newborn baby for a walk but the dog was still at home crying to go out. He looks like a very worried but proud papa.

Marshall, Will, and Holly

On a routine expedition ... yes I am just back from seeing The Land Of The Lost and I have to say I was surprised how well the show adapted to the big screen. I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Now, how does TLOTL and LOST compare? Well, read on and I will try and enlighten you:

Will and Holly find a message written on a rock warning them about the local inhabitants called Sleestack (Others?), nobody knows who wrote the message, but it would seem to infer that someone had been there before (like Adam and Eve were in the caves) our family of Land of the Lost-aways arrived.

In the episode Album, Holly and Will see a ghostly image of their dead mother (like little Ben did) who isn't really there. It is only after they deny what they are seeing (like Hurley seeing Dave) that they break the spell and the images disappear.

In Elsewhen, Holly meets a woman named "Ronnie" who came through a "Time Door" that are located all over TLOTL.

Holly notices that the woman has a scar on her wrist.

Ronnie gives Holly a locket, sort of like Locke giving Richard the compass.





Later, Holly cuts her wrist in the same spot that Ronnie had the scar. Holly realizes she was talking to a future version of herself.




An episode titled Hurricane a parachutist becomes entangled in a tree in TLOTL much like Naomi did.

The Marshalls decide to build a raft and sail away. After they end up back where they began, Rick Marshall declares that TLOTL is in a "closed reality" and that there is no way out. This part of the episode called Downstream reminds me of the raft that Michael built in order to sail off of the island but it also is similar to Desmond's declaration that the island is a "bloody snow globe" and there is no getting away from it.

In an episode titled Possession, Holly is taken over by an evil being who is "trapped" in a pylon (Jacob?). After Rick destroys the matrix table inside of the pylon (the thing seen here in the lower right corner) Holly (Claire?) is released by the being and is back to her normal self.

Here we see a mirrored version of Will and Rick in the episode titled Split Personality. The mirror copy of Rick and Will who are seen here wearing shirts that our Rick and Will had packed for their original trip but didn't wear, are trapped in a wall. Rick says that they can see them because their realities are "grinding against each other". In order to free their duplicates, they must take crystals that their doubles have and put them back into the control panel.

As Will goes to take a crystal from his fathers doppelgangers hand, Rick warns Will not to touch him. Rick tells him that they can't touch because something cataclysmic could happen if matter was allowed to touch antimatter. This sound anything like Chang and the rabbits in the Orchid station video to anyone?

An episode titled The Flying Dutchman, a landlocked ship is found in TLOTL which looks like the Black Rock. The captain of the ship later speaks about visiting "strange islands".

A hot air balloon crash lands into TLOTL in an episode titled Hot-Air Artist. Unfortunately the man who piloted the balloon was not named Henry Gale.

The odd magnetic properties of the island are discussed in the episode Time Stop, as Will talks about the compass Uncle Jack has made that doesn't point to true north in TLOTL like it should.

Jon Locke stars in TLOTL

An episode titled Ancient Guardian shows a statue that was placed in TLOTL as a protector of the Sleestack race. Know anything about statues and LOST?

And that's not all I still got more to come later!

ABC Promo Update Bringing Someone Back To LOST?

Well it is fairly well known that Claire (Emily De Raven) was going to be back for season 6 of LOST but could the following ABC promo video (they are already pushing the fall season over on their website) mean someone else is back as well, and from the dead may I add?



After the doctor from Gray's Anatomy (yeah I don't know his name but it's Patrick Dempsey, right?) says "You are so dead." Dom says "Well, I was." Are they pushing a "back from the dead" scenario for the final season? Could it have been one big reset button? Are we indeed going back to the start? Only time will tell.

Destiny

A nice video to help get through the long wait!

Weekly Musical Interlude

This has nothing to do with LOST but it is just so epic that I had to post it here!