{"id":197,"date":"2005-05-26T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=197"},"modified":"2024-01-26T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:01:41","slug":"is-lost-an-alternate-reality-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Is “Lost” An Alternate Reality Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early on I was thinking that the premise behind the popular television show “Lost<\/a>” was that the survivors were in Purgatory. I guess enough people came to that conclusion that the show’s creators openly discounted the theory. Since then I’ve been in a conspiracy-theorist frame of mind thinking that maybe they’ve been drugged enroute to the U.S. and some diabolical government agency has them hooked into a hyper-real virtual simulation to toy with their minds. Very “X-Files<\/a>“. But then, after watching the season finale last night it hit me: maybe “Lost” is actually an ARG<\/a> of some sort, or an MMORPG<\/a>. It could really be nothing more than a documentary of a group of players engaged in a game not unlike Majestic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Imagine if you, the viewer, stumbled upon a group of people on an island (or maybe a virtual<\/em> island) acting out their “roles” (as these RL actors are doing), witnessed inexplicable events occur, and heard\/saw things you couldn’t explain. Sure sounds like the viewer might be the uninformed outsider in an ARG\/MMORPG game world. And the “Others” are perhaps NPC’s against which the actors\/clan\/team is competing. Heck, maybe the French lady is an NPC (non-player character).<\/p>\n

If that’s not the explanation, I’ll be a little<\/em> bummed because I can only imagine how most people might feel if they’re told something along the lines: “This show is about the future of online gaming and virtual worlds”. The word “mindbending” comes to mind now as it did in an earlier post<\/a> of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early on I was thinking that the premise behind the popular television show “Lost” was that the survivors were in Purgatory. I guess enough people came to that conclusion that the show’s creators openly discounted the theory. Since then I’ve … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}