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just go and read the blogs for speaker (US), other girl (UK) and lost ninja (AUS) (as per suggestion of manny and his photos that were just posted)

check in a few times a day and magically one or all of them will get some mail from “somebody” and have the code. that somebody being ABC. at least make the fake photos of the wristbands look more convincing!

this is another part where we’ve slipped into reality. these 3 main blog sites are just shills for the show. more of the spoonfed-ness. it takes the game out of the game-centered world, the escapism is gone.

i read on one blog recently that maybe disney (parent of BC) was not happy with the game, that they perhaps wanted it dumbed down for the masses. i would hate to think the lost producers caved in but maybe they did.

act one also felt like the show – mysterious, tangled, many threaded, had that zen stillness and drama of the show. it was like visiting an unspoiled foreign country.

act 2 i think can be summed up as “hey guys, trust me, please!!, please, please!”

act 3 has no mystery. its a cattle stampede of newbies all trying to get caught up and mucking about like tourists visiting a disneyland all prepared for them.

i say LESS DISNEY MORE MYSTERY!!

maybe we should go on strike?

Wow, I really agree with everything you have said. Maybe we come off as just cynical, but there really has been a shift in the cleverness of this ARG… where has all the brainpower and mystery gone in TLE?

In Act I for instance, we had Persephone give us secret coded messages that lead to the hole3 picture, with D2O behind the eye. You needed to look up scientific background (or look up someone with it) to find out that it stood for deuterium, which in turn was hard water. Not only did this end up being a password, but it ended up being a clue to nuclear waste dumping being tied into the story (which it later was). Even some of the dumb anagrams, while not using much heavy thought, needed some thought.

Now, we\’re reduced to searching LOST related promotional sites for glyphs and entering them in like automatons, alongside thousands of other people doing the same thing. It\’s totally mindless, and just based on luck, who finds them.

Sorry to rant, but that\’s jut the way I see it, too. I will still continue to follow it closely and post updates frequently, because I want to see the video also (and I think that will be a good one), but I do agree with todd. LOST (and specifically this blog, I think) attracts an intelligent crowd, and we deserve more. If you look at other ARGs that have run in the past, many will not surpass this one in scale, but they do in the quality of clues.

seemingly this glyph video might tell us something about the island. who knows.

i may be wrong about all this, perhaps there is a grand plan that will reveal itself and i’ll be amazed. for now i am just bored.