A strange side-note to this new ARG - what's going on with the weird beard trend? First off, we saw some hierogylphs on the advert for Mysteries Of The Universe, which roughly translated as "Who is the leader?"Then we saw during the Mysteries Of The Universe Segment 1 video a reference to the original and legendary WAKY radio station, which ran from the 50s to the 70s.
On a tribute website to the original WAKY, there's images about Weird Beard, one of their famed DJs. One of the images shows a pledge card, as part of WB's 'rebellion' promotion for his show, that says "The Weird Beard is my leader". There's also an image of a DJ by the name of John Locke floating around.
Finally, Paul Scheer's blog recently ran a segment entitled "beardo or weirdo", judging the beards on characters on LOST.
So what's going on here? The WAKY site may have been recently updated, but archive.org tells me that those images have been there on that site for YEARS. So the John Locke thing is a mere coincidence, and from their end so is the weird beard thing. So is all this a big coincidence, or is someone TPTB-related using this old time WAKY stuff to just mess with the heads of the die-hard investigators among our community? Or could something important later show up? Seems like this little mystery won't be answered anytime soon though.
My new theory is the Beardo or Weirdo thing is meant to draw attention to the one male on Lost who has never grown a beard: John Locke.
ReplyDeleteCoincidence?
It's probably the producers messing with us.
ReplyDeletejin has not had one either
ReplyDeleteThe "Weird Beard" guy also kinda reminds me of the small picture of Justin Barber (from the Lost University video)(About 13s in). ?? Anyone else? Or just me and too much coffee? ;) (Apologies if so).
ReplyDeletewait a minute bench coach, neither has kate!? the plot thickens...
ReplyDelete--Mage
ot sure if this has bean mentioned but I just watched 'The Beginning of the End' and during the scene where Jack is playing horse with Hurley there is a point in the conversation where Hurley remarks:
ReplyDelete"You look weird with beard dude".
Coincidence? Or not?
Someone else has noted that Locke is one of the few characters who has not grown a beard.
Probably a bit far fetched but I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of the 'Who is the leader?' hieroglyphics along with the 'Beardo or Weirdo' DCPB blog post being an indicator of how in the 6th season the conflict between Jack and Locke to become the leader of the losties will be significant. If 'Weird Beard' is the leader, as indicated by the WAKY link then perhaps they are trying to tell us that Jack is the true leader? As much as I'd hate this to be the case :P