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HDTV: The plane that most Lost viewers never saw
Our peeps over at TV Squad alerted us to something that the SD viewers of "Lost" didn't see this week. In a dream sequence that Charlie has, there is a plane crashing on the left side of the screen; it takes a 16:9 screen to see it, so you 4:3 viewers, here's the plane that you heard but never saw. Isn't it time to get rid of that squarish, clunker of an analog set? Without HD, all of the super-cool widescreen effects are just "Lost" on you!Read (via TV Squad)
Is Lost challenging My Name is Earl for king of the easter eggs?
While we were watching last weeks Earl for Easter Eggs (I didn't notice any), maybe we should have been checking another one of our favorite high definition shows more closely, Lost. Luckily TV Squad is more than willing to dissect each frame looking for clues about the survivors, the mysterious island they are on and the Dharma Initiative. After careful (re)viewing they noticed a date in the future on an X-ray shown during Jack's flashback. A mistake/red herring or something more? Additionally, during that episode some viewers could see the makeup covering Jack's tattoo, wonder why that is. Maybe they should have called our friends at Numeric Proof or they wanted us to notice. I can't call it, but rest assured, I'll be going over Grey's Anatomy tonight with a fine toothed comb.
Does Lost owe its soul to video games?
Jennifer Buckendorff writes in the Seattle Times, "Unlike traditionally passive television shows, which expect viewers to zone out in a couch-potato haze, Lost, which returns with new episodes Wednesday night, has embedded clues throughout. It's these recurring tidbits — and the patterns they form — that make Lost the first show to resemble a video game."She makes a strong case, drawing analogies between consumers of both falling into casual and hardcore camps. The community involvement, in forums and podcasts, strongly resembles the ad-hoc communities that developed around popular alternate reality games. Think of The Cloudmakers group that deciphered the A.I. promotion The Beast, or the groups that worked together on Microsoft's i love bees.As television viewership decreases because popular demographics (that's you guys) spend more of their entertainment time reading blogs (that's us) and playing video games, it's encouraging to see that at least one show has created a formula to attract viewers back to the often dull network television.Is it only one show though? I've always thought 24 encouraged the same kind of critical attention; with dozens of characters and more backstabbing than a daytime soap, it's one of the few shows on television that can match the excitement of a video game. [Via Cathode Tan]
You saw Lost right? (spoilers)
Did you catch the images in the "monster" as it faced down Eko? I don't have any screen grabs but Kevin might later, the'yre talking about it over on TV Squad also. Thanks to the high definition DVR I was able to make out the images as they flashed by, this wasn't so much of an HDTV easter egg as a Tivo-egg, because there's no way you would be able to see all the images without frame-by-frame. Church Eko as a child a woman the man he shot his brother and the gun an upside down picture of Eko coming out of the water after the plane crash the man who pushed him off of the missionary plane the woman who sold the figurines two flashes of Eko holding his dying brother Jesus on the cross All they need is a subplot about how Eko used to be in a wheelchair and he and Locke will officially be the exact same person. One of the best shows in HD is back and it should be an interesting rest of the season.
