Comic Con Reports!!!
Details are beginning to trickle through about what's going down at Comic Con. I see DarkUFO has a number of cool pics courtesy of old fave Ryan Ozawa (he did the Transmission, v. v. popular fan podcast).
However, a special thanks to Lostpedia member Burncycle16, who has sent us a report of what happened. I summarize his story below (I took this from the Octagon Global Recruiting Lostpedia page:
Lostpedia has begun to get reports from Comic Con. Note that these are as of yet mostly unverified. At the Octagon Global Recruiting booth, fans are given a waiver form and an appointment time by DHARMA staff (all with Australian accents). At their appropriate time, they can enter the booth, which has cameras on the ceiling (these appear to feed outside the booth so observers can see what is going on). With a set of headphones and television equipment, participants are shown images or given a series of questions, and have to say what first pops into their heads. Some of the images in particular are reportedly very bizarre. Questions are then asked such as "You just took away a child's favorite toy. Why?" Reportedly, fans have an option of what type of test they can take by choosing a different name. One fan claimed that one of the test names was pronounced similar to "Europa" (a character in Greek mythology).
The test apparently lasts about five minutes, and upon completion you are told whether you passed or not (it's likely everyone will "pass" as part of the ARG). Participants are then told to make sure they see the Lost panel on Saturday, and have their test sheet with them (they apparently make a point of having your own sheet with you). They are also given an ID card, which includes special details which can, from July 28th, be entered on Dharmawantsyou.com to allow those who took the test to register for "phase 2" of the application process.
Pretty awesome stuff. There was apparently also a flyer of note, and the booth itself, sporting a funky more 21st Century DHARMA logo. I guess it really is getting revived. Also the attendees were troopers for staying in character - Diggler on our Forums reports overhearing the blonde lady "Yes. We're an actual REAL organization currently trying to recruit new members", when she was questioned by a fan in serious need of grasping the concept of ARG.
Other news - all the DHARMA staff have Australian accents. Ryan Ozawa also interviewed one of the attendees called Emma, who claimed she's been working with DHARMA now for the past five years (she's probably the blonde girl).
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This is awesome! I can't wait to see how all this will tie into Season 5.
Brilliant! Look forward to your updates!
It's interesting...
Rachel Blake said that DHARMA had vanished completely as a coherent project. So now it's been revived and been given a facelift. Can't wait to see how it develops!!
Simply awesome!!!
One thing I noticed that no one else seems to have mentioned. Diggler on the forums said he took the test called Io; Io is also the name of a woman that Zeus fell in love with. Long story short, he turned her into a cow to protect her from Hera, but it didn't work well and a few years later Zeus fixed it. I only mention this because "Europa" has a similar story. I wonder if there's a conection and if all the names are people Zeus fell in love with.
Awesome! I can't wait for the test to be available online!
Also, Europa is also the 6th moon of Jupiter. Not sure if that matters, but there was a "meterological" station listed on the blast door map, right? The moon, is, of course named for the Greek goddess mentioned above. :)
She bears a resemblance to the Tailies' Emma who was kidnapped by the Others:
http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Emma
From the screen shots I saw on DarkUFO all eight choices are moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Amalthea, Himalia, Elara, and Leda. What this means...no clue.
so cool >_< i wish i could go to Comic COn! I always wanted to go but it's thousands of kilometers away from me =P !!!
I am so pissed! I was only able to go to ComicCon on Thursday. I left home early (I live about 90 minutes north of SD) that morning to be sure that I'd make it for an appointment. But there was some huge car crash (no fatalities reported) earlier in the morning which had traffic backed up nearly 20 miles. I didn't make it to San Diego until around 1:30, and by that time, all Thursday appointments were booked. I guess it's no SO bad, since I wouldn't have been able to see the Lost panel on Saturday anyway.
Funny sidenote, Michael C. Hall (plays Dexter on Showtime) and the screenwriter of Red Sonja (among many others) were also stuck in the traffic
Yes, the tests are named after the moons of Jupiter. (I took Ganymede.) There were two people with me in the booth, and they appeared to be videotaping my test. I was all kinds of happy because I passed... but I didn't see if anyone actually failed.
After I registered for my "test" in the morning, they gave me a form which gathered my email and cell phone number, and asked whether I was planning to attend the LOST panel at Comic-Con tomorrow. (Of course, I wouldn't miss it.) The form also included a (real) photo waiver form to sign, so ABC can use my image "throughout the universe in perpetuity" for free. They told us to bring our Dharma cards with us to the panel, and that we "may or may not" be asked to do something with them at that time.
Great fun. Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow!
Anybody notice that the question about taking away a child's favorite toy is similar to the line of questioning used in the tests given to would-be Replicants in the movie Blade Runner? Questions involved giving participants hypothetical situations in which they did something cruel, and then asking why they would do such a thing.
You're right about the Blade Runner thing. I took the Europa test and one of the questions was "A turtle is stuck on its back and you won't turn it over. Why not?"
I answered "It's not my problem" and, yes, passed. :)
I took the Ganymede test, as well, and passed. On my waiver, the two interviewers scrawled a P with a circle (presumably for a passing score), there were some other numbers and letters on my waiver. I didn't have the good sense to take a picture of their notations, sorry gang.
I got the impression that the 2 interviewees were actually casting directors, and they were looking for specific reactions to questions. My sense is that the videos will be used for some sort of new programming or lost-related game.
Interesting to note that the handouts advertising the Dharma Initiative interviews had a Swan origami puzzle on the back.
my first time visiting the booth was blessed by the gods of timing as i got to stand outside and watch as Damon Lindeloff and Carlton Cuse took their "recruitment tests." i took mine the next day and, of course, passed.
when i was exiting the booth, one of the blonde girls (the one not pictured) asked me which test i chose. i told her Ganymede and she asked me why...did anyone else have a similar experience?
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