more lost stuff
So I headed over to the Oceanic Air website that Catherine just posted about. I have a nervous tic when I'm reading web pages, where I highlight and unhighlight text rapidly with my mouse. Well, doing this revealed that the DHTML on the page around the fake President's closure notice is (intentionally?) broken. Dragging your mouse around, you can find an image of a page of the show's script. A page of a (EDIT: presumably) upcoming episode's script. A page about the monster.
This page, in fact. Click on it for the full-size view.
Click here for an article about the Mapinguari. Short version: mythical deadly Amazonian bigfoot. The script appears to add "cyborg" to that list of adjectives.
Rockin'.
UPDATE: Needless to say, whether the DHTML was intentionally broken or not, fake-crumpled-up script pages don't magically photograph and upload themselves onto servers. It's clearly planted. But is it to throw us off or to tantalize the faithful? I think it's the latter -- the monster's not the punchline.
UPDATE 2: From the last post I see that Susan found it, too. A time-release easter egg, maybe? It's a little hard to believe that Whitney Matheson's Lost-obsessed acolytes couldn't find it, but we both did within the span of ten minutes.
UPDATE 3: This is hilariously plausible.
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Do we know the names of the other members of Driveshaft? Because it would be sweet if they were introduced in a new episode and these names were used.
As for your discovery, brava, and it goes without saying I'm sure that the cryptid hypothesis (even the cyborg take) does not necessarily rule out zombism, or the French. I'd personally like to see cyborg sloth paired with zombie pirates.
and unicorns!
EVIL unicorns.
Filthy and awesome:
"No one—not Dos Santos or any of the other villagers of Barra do São Manuel, a tiny settlement on the banks of the Tapajós River deep in the Brazilian Amazon, or anyone else in the vast rain forest—relishes facing it, with or without shotgun in hand. Covered in long red hair, standing more than 6 feet on its hind legs, emanating a stench so foul it disorients everyone in sniffing distance, the mapinguari is reputed to be the wildest, rarest, most mysterious and terrifying denizen of the rain forest. It is said to avoid water, to wander with roving herds of white-lipped peccaries and to protect them, to forage at night, to twist huge palm trees apart with its massive claws so it can feast on the soft insides, to have backward-turned feet, and to be generally immune to bullets. The mapinguari is also said to be another Bigfoot, a figment of the imagination of people like Dos Santos--and of a prominent scientist named David C. Oren, whose relentless quest to find one is growing as legendary as the beast itself."
I think we might have learned the names of Driveshaft. There was a DS-heavy episode. We definitely learned the name of Charlie's brother, the lead singer, although it escapes me at the moment. Liam maybe?
And yes, I'm on board for mechanical groundsloths in the thrall of zombie pirates. And of course they'll need some mode of transportation, opening the door to G's suggestion.
There's room for everybody. Mysterious island -> big tent.
rereading that script, I've gotta take issue with something.
"a massive, multi-tentacles robotic beast resembling a primordial mapinguari"
alright. 1) nobody's knows exactly what a mapinguari is supposed to look like 2) however, they definitely don't have tentacles and 3) what the hell would primordial mean in this context? just bigger and meaner?
I suppose I can see what they're getting at, and I imagine JJ Abrams has a big drawing of a mapinguari taped over the coffee machine in the writers' breakroom. But still.
I can't remember if anyone else mentioned it, but there's another message in the source code as well, if you go to "view"
yeah... what's the deal with these messages hiding beneath the "Important Announcement"?
"If anyone should find this message, please get word to Sandra Rafflethorpe of Palm Avenue in Lewiston, Idaho that her sister, Sally is alive and stranded on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Please send help soon. Things are bad. And they're getting worse..."
and
"Robert D. West, of Santa Barbara, California, USA survived a horrific plane crash and is stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to parents, Mr. and Mrs. John West, of Tucson Arizona. Thank you."
Can we assume one of the castaways has a Sidekick and is hacking Oceanic's website? Tommy, that's one of its special powers... right?
no, remember, a bunch of them sent off messages in a bottle - i presume those are the text of a couple of them.
the members of DriveShaft are- Charlie, Liam(Charlie's brother), Sinjin, and Patrick.
http://www.driveshaftband.com/
thats the website with all the info.
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