Around 100 people turned up at the start of the Lost marathon at the Prince Charles Cinema in London, and at the end there were 21 left who survived four days of baffling sci-fi fantasy drama. Donna Lalek from Chester was one of the survivors and she told the BBC ”Before Lost I was perfectly normal, so I’ve never done anything quite like this before – most people think I’m absolutely insane.” She also said that she had lost all concept of time and had taken a week off work to be part of the fun. You can have your own Lost marathon at home with the complete series now available in shiny DVD and Blu-Ray boxsets. Now can we have an X-Files one, and will anyone stick around when the series falls apart without Mulder and Scully at the forefront?
Fans queued up outside the Prince Charles Cinema in London lat night to be the have first pick od the seats for the Lost Marathon – all six seasons of the show shown back to back all week long – thats 80 hours of twists, turns and polar bears! Many turned up in costume dressed as their favourite characters and were clutching their homemade survival packs with sleeping bags, pillows and packed lunches.
Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse said: “For those of you watching all six seasons of the show in one long marathon, we applaud you, we admire you and we thank you for your fandom. But we take no legal responsibility for you!” There will be regulated breaks throughout the marathon and paramedics on standby. Check back with us later in the week to see who survived the marathon. If you want to watch the show at your own pace pick up the complete collection on DVD and Blu-Ray from today.
If you have never seen an episode of Lost, but quite fancy watching it now it has finally finished you should scoot along to the Prince Charles Cinema in London on Monday 12th Spetember for a special screening of every episode. Fancy spending 80 hours in the cinema? I went to a Bourne film marathon one night and after three films in quick succession I was ready to go mad so I can’t wait to see the faces of people after this one. The screening starts on the same day that the complete collections of Lost are released on Blu-Ray and DVD – so if you want to watch at more sane pace you can. The Lost Marathon will commence at 10am on Monday 13th September 2010 and will continue constantly over 24-hour periods. If successfully completed, the final episode will air on the afternoon of Thursday 16th September 2010. There will be regulated breaks and helpfully paramedics on the scene incase it all goes a bit wrong.
To pre-register for the event, scoot an email over to lostmarathon@taylorherring.com. Pre-registration does not guarantee admittance, the first 280 to turn up on the day will get in and will also get a goody bag. You can also leave at any time!
While playing Just Cause 2 I noticed a little island to the North West that had no missions open yet, it just seemed to be an island full of nothing. I gave it no further thought and got on with stringing up people with my grappling hook, but after a few hours of that my curiosity got the better of me and I jumped into a plane and flew to the island. During the trip I gazed at the blue sky and thought that Panau would be a rather nice place to visit, if it existed and wasn’t full of guns, then the weather changed. The sky became dark, rain poured down. Spooky.
