{"id":4681,"date":"2006-11-10T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/lost-forever.html"},"modified":"2006-11-10T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T14:48:11","slug":"lost-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/lost-forever.html","title":{"rendered":"Lost forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;It&#8217;s the Feast of the Ascension, and&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, <em>what <\/em>television show are you going to hear that phrase on, except for <em>Lost? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t get the point of it, but, it was an interesting hook.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, Losties&#8230;discuss. Have we made <em>any <\/em>progress since September? <\/p>\n<p>I do have one question, simply because I have such a hard time keeping these things straight: <\/p>\n<p>Is the Ben\/Juliette crew part of the Dharma initiative? Or do we just not know? How are they all tied into the woman who answered the phone in the last ep of last season, receiving the report that something happened&nbsp; &#8211; she&#8217;s connected to Desmond somehow. Who has some sort of ESP now. <\/p>\n<p>You know&#8230;I can&#8217;t even start to think about this without getting entirely confused. It&#8217;s like before every episode I have to go over summaries of the previous two seasons to remind myself of who was who and what was what.&nbsp; I&#8217;m fairly hopeless in seeing the big picture. I appreciate the little moments and really enjoy the character dynamic and the developments in the characters themselves, but I struggle to keep everything straight.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least I have 3 months to figure it all out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettnet.com\/blog\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/getting_lost_in_biblical_allusions\/\">Dom has a Lost post, musing on names and Biblical allusions..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;It&#8217;s the Feast of the Ascension, and&#8230;&quot; I mean, what television show are you going to hear that phrase on, except for Lost? I still don&#8217;t get the point of it, but, it was an interesting hook. Okay, Losties&#8230;discuss. Have we made any progress since September? I do have one question, simply because I have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lost forever? - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/lost-forever.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lost forever? - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;It&#8217;s the Feast of the Ascension, and&#8230;&quot; I mean, what television show are you going to hear that phrase on, except for Lost? 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