This is my favorite image from the insert. Sawyer and Juliet are pictured back to back, Juliet staring into the clouds...Heaven?, and water behind Sawyer.
The final photo of brochure depicts Richard and "dearly departed" characters, Charlie, Faraday,Boone and Jacob, posed on steps of ruins, in the shadow of a city.
All of the photos will require further study.
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There's definitely lots of stuff, especially in that last image.
ReplyDelete1) There are heirographics on the old-looking stone brick walls in the mid-ground. They can be seen more clearly on the left side of the central staircase, but about two-thirds are blocked by that stair railing. The same glyphs (apparently) are repeated on the right, but you have to look closer as they are partly hidden by mist and by the whitish Verizon add box. Compare the hieroglyphics to those catalogued on lostpedia.wikia.org, under "Heiroglyphics", and they seem to match a set that that page says mean "who is the leader?" But I am very doubtful about that translation, just based on the translations given for each individual symbol. (Note: the hiroglyphics that appear on the Hatch Countdown Timer supposedly were translated by the producers as "Underworld," but if you check the individual symbols' meanings for yourself it comes out to be "Who is not safe and an enemy?" or maybe even "Who is not safe and is a dead enemy?"
Back to the insert, last image, hidden info #2:
2) In the windows of the blackish sky-scraper on the right side of the spread, there are words reflected. They are backwards, as they would be in a true reflection, and it's a lot easier to read them if you use a mirror and a very bright light (as the contrast is so bad and the letters so small that it's hard to pick out what they say). We stared at it a long time and we could read almost all the lines, except one. I don't have it in front of me right now, but it says something like:
"WASHINGTON T***[illegible] HIGH SCHOOL
History Club
Builds important skills that make you better citizens and leaders
Meets every Wednesday in Classroom 23
This Week: Studying for AP exams
Napoleonic Wars and his exile to Elba
****[line illegible, because partly obscured by bright line of windows on the building]
"By studying history now you help prepare for the future." - Former President Bill Clinton
Seems pretty random, right? Except that the Napoleon reference is VERY interesting, since LOST has dropped the "exile" idea twice now (Ben exiled, Widmore exiled) but we've been led to think always of being exiled AWAY from the island, never someone being exiled TO the island---and that Napoleon was the one who invaded Egypt in the early 1800s with a very Dharma-like team of scientists, geographers, geologists, and mathematicians (check Wikipedia on "Napoleon" and look for "The Egyptian Expedition") and brought a lot of Egyptian artifacts back to Europe--and that the snippets we saw of Jacob and Mr. Black in the 1700s?1800s? at the beginning of the Season 5 finale, when they see the ship (the Black Rock) from the beach, would possibly set the Black-Rock period as around the time of Napoleon's exile--and that Ben's dad on the show, Roger Linus, is played by the guy who played Napoleon's uncle on "Napoleon Dynamite", and the Black Rock is where everyone on the show goes to get dynamite . . . ok, that last one's really a stretch.
Happy theorizing everyone, until Feb. 2!