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Lost Season 6 Preview: Phish Style

The sixth season of Lost starts tonight so we wanted to re-run Ryan’s Phish Style preview of the upcoming final season of the show.

This is it, folks. After five amazing seasons filled with countless characters, twists, love interests, and sci-fi mind benders, Lost fans finally get to answer those burning questions, put the harebrained theories to bed and close an important chapter in their TV viewing careers.

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[Image From the Coventry Blog]

Having watched Lost since the onset and obsessed over it with endless email debates – a topic that perhaps poses the only email subject line rival to that of Phish – my buddy Sean Lalley and I (whom some of you may remember from our short lived Story of the Ghosts days ages ago here on HT), decided to devise a little bloggy preview for the final season. And we figured what better way than to run through the long list of characters with their Phish song counterparts – a job made easy by the fact that roughly 40% of all Phish lyrics reference time.

The Smoke Monster – Walls of a Cave

“It might have been an etching on a marker of a grave, or maybe on the walls of the cave.”

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Etched on an underground blast door of one of the Dharma stations existed a map which revealed the other remaining Dharma stations as well as four iterations of the letters “CV.” Later, at some comic book convention, the producers of Lost admitted “CV” stands for “Cerberus Vents” and that they actually refer to the Smoke Monster by the name Cerberus.

In ancient Roman mythology, Cerberus was a three headed watchdog who permitted spirits to enter or leave the underworld. In the case of Lost, the Cerberus seems to act as the watchdog of pointless randoms who don’t belong on the show like Shannon and Nadine, both of both since got waxed by the Smoke Monster. This secret represents arguably the biggest question mark to be answered in Season 6.

READ ON for the rest of our Lost Season 6 Preview…

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