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Hey All,
Our good friends over at SpoilerTV Forums (which you can access by clicking the "Forum Tab" in the menu bar above) over the last two months have been counting down the Top 50 Most Unforgettable Moments in LOST so far.

I am sure with a little over more than a Season to go it will no doubt change, but it is a great list.

Well forum user DharmaFlashes has been counting down the moments and finally announced that the Most Unforgettable Moment is the Season 3 Finale Flash Forward reveal with Jack and Kate.

I know many spoiler fans had that scene ruined and unbelievably with all the spoilers I knew and post, I was spoiler-free and it was truly an amazing moment to watch!!

You can check out all 50 moments at the following link:

http://www.spoilertv.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6328

However, here is that unforgettable moment with a drunk broken down bearded Jack!!

Enjoy!

WE HAVE TO GO BAAACCCKKK!!!

Here is a an interesting picture from good ole' Jorge Garcia who plays Hurley on LOST.

This is an image of him at standing at Ben's Secret Door. This door quickly became one of the biggest mysteries of the show and many of us were trying to figure out what the Hieroglyphics and symbols actually meant.

Well like us, Garcia loved it and posted the following picture on his blog.

Thanks to DarkUFO for the heads up.



Source: Jorge's Blog

Here is an interview of Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse with G4's Attack of the Show. Apparently this aired before Episode 4x10 last week. They discuss a little about Episode 4x09 and 4x10, Smokey and again confirm that they are not planning a LOST movie.

Check it out and enjoy.

Hey Losties,
Well another week and another great episode of LOST!!

Yes, my man crush Michael Emerson was up to his tricks and he had a great episode jumping through time!!

This episode The Shape of Things to Come was one of the best episodes of the season and it definitely gives The Constant a run for it's money. With the appearance of Smokey, the shocking death of Alex, the appearance of hieroglyphics on the door Ben's Secret Secret room and the major reveal of him and Widmore playing a "game"!!

WOW OMG WTF was my initial reaction last Thursday night and that still stands!!

Well we discuss all of these points and more in our new LOST podcast this week.

Plus, don't forget the podcast is NOW available at iTunes where you can subscribe directly at the The ODI LOSTcast store.

As always we have separated the spoilers and for those of you that want to listen to the spoiler portion it is Part 2 of the podcast.

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ODI LOSTcast Part 1


ODI LOSTcast Part 2 (With Spoilers)


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ODI LOSTcast 11 - Part 1
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So last week's episode of LOST moved to a new time slot behind ABC's "powerhouse" show Grey's Anatomy and most of the industry was curious how the new ABC lineup would hold up!? Well ABC did win Thursday night's ratings war and LOST held it's own and actually saw an increase of an additional 1Million+ viewers this week for a total of 12 Million for Ben's flash forward.

Also, LOST held strong in the weekly TV Ratings for last week finishing in the Top 15 as seen in the Nielsen rankings chart (click to enlarge).

With fans raving about last week's time traveling adventures with Ben episode, hopefully LOST will get a slight jump for this week's episode.

NOTE: LOST usually adds about 3-4 million additional viewers, once time-adjusted or DVR/Online viewers are added into the numbers later.

**UPDATED** 4/28 5PM PST With translation and new images. As posted before, it seems like the symbols mean to call or summons someone/thing. However, here is a more detailed look.


Top Line - "to summon", "time to summon" or "to summon time"

In this instance, there is one word that can help us determine the way the hieroglyphic is meant to be read and unfortunately it is the only crystal clear word here.

nas - "to summon" or "to call"

Nas or "to summon" is represented by the man with the outstretched arm (see diagram above) and the reason why it is so clear is the simple fact that the word is a determinative. A determinative is the way that the Egyptians associated meaning and pronunciations to their words.

So, "to summon" by itself would appear as n (the squiggle) on top, with a and s underneath, followed by the picture of the man holding his arm over something. This may mean that the hieroglyphics here are meant to be read from right to left, but it is impossible to say which is the right direction.

ra - "time"

The word "time" is an ideograph (hieroglyphic meant to express an idea), and is represented by a circle with a dot in the middle of it. Since the hieroglyphic is somewhat obscured, we can only guess that this is what was meant to be shown.

Second Line - "Protection", "Power" or "Strength"

The second line does not have anything that could determine direction and is a combination of ideographs and phonetics. There are an infinite amount of possibilities as to what this line means, so I'll give the phonetic and idea of each hieroglyphic and let you theorize away!

hen - "master" or "priest"

Hen as a noun would translate roughly into master, but could be easily be seen as priest. This could mean the chamber is for holy men only or could be referring to the one who is control of this island?

"man with weapon" - "power", "strength", or "protection"

The second line would seem to be anchored by this hieroglyphic, because the phrase "to summon protection" would make the most sense. After Ben left the door covered in soot, smokey was right behind him. Is the chambers purpose to summon smokey?

"container" or "stone container"

This hieroglyphic is the most confusing, could this mean that summoning smokey involves some kind of container?

anx - "life"

This symbol is not an hieroglyphic, but there is a hieroglyphic extremely similar to it. The anx hieroglyphic is a cross much like the one here, but has a looped top. Again this seems to be referring to the ritual that would summon smokey, maybe giving him life or a sacrifice of life is needed to summon him?

The Whole Enchilada - "To summon protection"

The simplest translation of these hieroglyphics is "to summon protection", but there are almost endless ways they can be translated. Here are a few to get those theories flowing:

"Time to summon strength"

"To summon time protection" or "To summon time power"

"Time summons the power of life"

Source: DocAzrt.



**UPDATED** Just added a chart with what looks like the glyphs that look like Determinative Signs In Egyptian. Also here is here is a great link to Wikipedia where several of the symbols can be found and it seems like they mean something about trying to call or summons something or someone. In this case perhaps smokey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hieroglyphs/german-Gardiner-list-translated

Here is Ben's Secret door with what seem like Hieroglyphics from tonight's episode of LOST. Were the left by an ancient culture or the natives of the island!?

Thanks to Madera for the heads up on an additional image of the door as posted below:

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Determinative Signs In Egyptian

Last night's episode of LOST was amazing all around and definitely filled with several great moments!! So many great moments that one of the more dramatic moments during the episode could lost among all the other scenes.

Of course Sawyer fangirls will never let that happen because not only was it a Ben Centric episode, but also one of Sawyer's shining moments as a hero. Yes, to some it might be stupid for him to try to save Claire and perhaps it also might not seem to fit his character. However, Sawyer's character from hated bad guy to lovable leader has been great. His care for both Claire and Hurley have shown how much his character has developed and it seems like he might be ready to become the leader of the Losties with the Oceanic 6 off the island.

Will we now have Team Sawyer v. Team Locke...!?

Well that we will have to wait and see, but in the mean time voice your opinions about Sawyer's heroics in this poll:

Here are two recap videos for last night's episode of LOST Season 4 Episode 9 The Shape of Things to Come. This episode was ana amazing episode and had several key moments during the Ben (Michael Emerson) centric episode.

The first clip focuses on Ben's Off-Island adventures in the future, the second clip focuses on the on-island events, the third one is Smokey going to town on Keamy and crew, and the last clip focuses on Sawyer's heroics.

Thanks to Sawyer840 for the videos

In tonight's episode of LOST Season 4 Episode 9 we learn that Ben controls Smokey and he sends them after Keamy and company.





Thanks to The Spoiler Hunter for the original screencap

Here are the first screencaps of Sayid (Naveen Andrews) in Ben's flash forward from tonight's episode (4x09) The Shape of Things to Come.



Thanks to The Spoiler Hunter for the original screencap

During tonight's episode of LOST Ben is wearing a Dharma Parka with the name Halliwax and a Dharma Logo. Halliwax is an alias of Dr. Marvin Candle from the Orchid Video

So is this the Orchid Logo!?

Thanks to The Spoiler Hunter for the original screencap

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Here is a screencap of Doc Ray dead or is he!?

Thanks to The Spoiler Hunter for the original screencap

OMG!? WOW WTF!? So you just watched the Ben (Micheal Emerson) centric flash forward The Shape of Things to Come (Episode 4x09). We see Ben in the Sahara dessert in a Dharka (Dharma Parka) and he was a bad ass!? Could A shoot out at Othersville!? Ben in Tunisia, Ben in Iraq at Nadia's funeral!? Ben in London to see Widmore!? Keamy is who shot Karl and Rousseau and THEN Alex also!? Ben summons Smokey and it goes to town on Keamy and crew!!!

What an amazing episode!! What did you think!? Let us know here....