Lost Season 5
How did this start?
Well, I was hanging with @james_gunn earlier this year… actually it was a bunch of the Gunns and several others… and we were all talking about Lost. At a certain point, I took the stage, and over the course of an hour flew this small band of Losties on a magical journey through “nerd”… Seriously… at least two people walked away from the conversation. I remember one person saying, “okay, this has gotten a little too dorky for me” and another later saying, “Is JP still talking about Lost?”
BTW, a lot of my friends call me JP… did you know that? You can call me JP too, if you’d like. Or not. There are plenty of friends who call me both.
Anyway, I laid down my “Lost is Atlantis” Theory going into much of the same detail I have here with you… and by the end of the monologue, the few that still remained (James included) were like, “dude.”
That week, James surprised me with a tweet to his twitter followers saying I had a Lost Theory that needed to be shared. Suddenly, dozens of people were tweeting me to give it up.
I was like… “wow… okay.”
So I shared.
And the response was so overwhelmingly positive, that I shared some more. And the next thing I knew, these Lost posts had become, not only a big part of the writing here at my blog, my proudest writing actually… but a new way to engage with my you, my readers. To really get to know you. Collaborate with you.
Anyway, I thought it might be nice if my last post of the Marathon was an easy list of all my posts this season… along with a small bit of commentary on each.
So let’s do it.
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