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[RPGgame]

ok you guys all missed it last night but i'll say it again in here.

I love the way the reality has been flipped. There was no disclaimer that hanso is a fake organization. They did not reffer to gary troupe as a fake character for the show lost. They actually went for something that makes perfect sense.

Ok first lets do our reality...
Lost is a show on tv
there is no hanso foundation
there is no gary troupe
there was never crash of oceanic 815
DJ Dan is a fake radio dj


In the ARG world...
Lost is a show on tv that is causing trouble for Hanso
Gary Troupe knows all about Hanso and its evil ways
DJ Dan is a real guy that shuts down the man.
Oceanic 815 really happened
Hanso is a real organization that is angry at Gary Troupe and ABC

This being said this means that the writers of lost our in game. They are either working for Hanso or our anti-hanso.

Now about the tv show, the tv show is in game as it is a tv show but not in game as if that is actually happening now to the arg characters in the stroy.

To explain Gary Troupe. Lets take an awful topic like United 93. An incident happened on 9/11 like the movie but don't tell me that most of that material was right on the button of what was said and done. Gary Troupe and his manuscript "Bad Twin" was known about by the writers of the show Lost.

Questions:
1.Is the tv show meant to brainwash the public on what they are involved in? Answer: Could be.
2. But even though you explained it I don't know how they would have gary troupe in both the show and the arg? Answer: the writers of Lost must know of him or his work personally perhaps they were in the same anti club together and met?

I hope this clears up any confusion of what this all means.

[rose]

[Jenna]

I'm going to reilliterate what was said above - it's like a tv show using a real life company.

For example;

A family in a show go to Walmart (Or some British equivilant)

The FAMILY is fictional.
The COMPANY is not.

Then, there is a plane crash, and a man (Gary) dies. His manuscript is recovered, published (possibly in memory of him?) and it has about Hanso in it, and Gary's theories about them. At the same time (or before), the creators of "Lost" hear about what Gary has to say about Hanso, and think "hey, this'd make a pretty good tv show!" hence Lost

It is confusing, and I've probably just confused you all again

[Gus Raja]

[Jenna]

Another point i'd like to add about them making the tv show "real" in the game, is that everyone is trying to link people in the show with people in the arg. Maybe they wanted to point out yet again that the two arent linked. After all, why would a member of a "real-life" company have something to do with a character in a tv show?

[theShaggy]

Just to throw in more "Lost is a TV show" info:

On the ABC podcast last week, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindlehof (the producers) played it in-game. They basically said that they had linked their show to real companies, i.e. Hanso and Widmore, but that it was irking those real life companies.

Their words were something to the effect of "We are now getting letters from Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation."

So clearly, they're playing TLE as both a part of LOST, and separate from it.

[curiouscat]

[Shawn David Struck]

[Strings]

Excellent! Thanks!

I don't think that was useless at all... It explains to us exactly which reality this game is being played in. Very cool.

[jw133]

[cnote1500]

Re: Did not air for me?!

[Perko]

[Jenna]

[Strings]

The way I see it is like this, there was no bad acting. The reason Hugh seemed so nervous and unconvincing is because he was lying on live TV.

I'm sure the creators of Lost could have afforded a convincing actor if they wanted/needed one but in this case it was meant to seem suspicious.

[cpasquini]