Wednesday, September 06, 2006

POST 09 - LOST SEASON 3 – BUGS IN A BOX

Didn’t Manny wonder lately about a head in a box? And weren’t those ROT boys screaming “WHAT’S IN THE BOX?” The Season Three promo poster contains lots of boxes and plenty of stuff coming out of them that we believe will metamorphose (or metastasize) into a major theme in Season 3 of Lost. A bit of tweaking to the contrast of the image above reveals that the island is getting ready for a battle.

Here is what we see: the leaves in Said's box morphed into a pretty nasty looking bug, but the real fun is in Hurley's box where he is apparently stung. In one of the images, a stinger is evident on his neck. Then his face gets a boil on it, which expands and bursts with green stuff coming out. There is an image of what looks like a green cocoon-ish thing to his upper right. And half of what looks like a white spider leaving the frame or, applying a bit more contrast, it could be a fuzzy caterpillar between the green blob and the white legs. Use the largest image size on Flickr (see link below) to see the details, but they're unmistakable. We didn't play with scale or anything fancy, just contrast and brightness.

We wonder now if the lavender light and electromagnetic pulse didn't bring the bugs out of their cocoons or hibernation. This buggy theme is one of many that we’ve found buried in the images used in TLE and in LOST promotions. There are even images that suggest that people have been cocooned and others that show ravenous green caterpillar-type bugs, one of which appears to have surfaced on poor Hurley. Rev up your Gimp or Photoshop and play along!

It looks to us like the castaways are going to have a new war on their hands this season. The battle of the bugs? As we’ve said in previous posts, there are heaps of clues to be found within the images, but it’s hard to know what all the clowns are leading to. This is, at least, one of those bits of evidence that looks like the real thing: Hurley gets bit, his face swells and the boil bursts. Coming out in Season Three!

The six images that show the progression have been posted here for closer review or research purposes.

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