Team Darlton offers serious answers! A new viral video is shown! We must restart the Dharma Initiative and change the past! Ahh!
By Kevin Mahadeo
Posted 7/26/2008
[SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE SEASON FOUR FINALE!]
Hey there Wizard fans! Kevin M. here, and I just managed to sneak my way into the Lost panel here at San Diego!
Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof took questions from the audience and handed out prizes. Here's a rundown of some of the highlights:
• Jin and Locke, both presumably dead in the Season Four finale, will both remain on the show in some form.
• Carlton's favorite episode is "The Constant," and his favorite season is Season One. Damon's favorite is "Exodus" and Season Four.
• We'll still see Rousseau's story but it may not be a flashback, as they are steering away from the flashes.
• Vincent the dog is fine and will show up in the fifth season. He's likely to survive through the show's finale. The real concern should be what happened to Sawyer, Juliet and the rest of the Island.
• Matthew Fox showed up as a surprise guest!
• A fan dressed as Hurley received a Dharma jar of Ranch Dressing as a prize. Another fan asked a Richard Alpert question and received a "I Asked a Richard Alpert Question and all I Got was this Stupid T-Shirt" shirt.
Near the end of the panel, a person ran on stage claiming to have important footage he received from the Dharma Booth. The footage then played on the screen.
The video started with the fan being escorted to the Dharma booth on the show floor, where he is shown a Darma video:
The video showed Dr. Marvin Candle, who said his real name was Peter Chang.
A baby started crying and he told someone off screen to stop it.
Chang/Candle said, "I'm a professor of Theoretchical physics" and that on the island they were looking for a "solution of Einstein Field equations."
He said we should be receiving the message in about 30 years and told us who the President is in our time: George W. Bush and that we'll share messages instantaneously on the Internet.
He also said he and his collegues are all dead. "A violent purge. One we are powerless to escape."
He begins to say he got his info from a creditble source, but a voice off camera (sounding like Faraday) says none of it matters. Just get one with it.
"This place has extraordinary properties," Chang said, and he asked for the restart the Dharma Initiative. "This isn't of the essence. It is the essence. Find a way to change the past."
The fan runs out after being caught with a camera in the Dharma booth.
The Dharma rep from the video who escorted the fan came out after the video and declared the panel over.
