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Notes From The Island In The Stream

Posted Feb 1, 2010 by James Johnston

Updated Feb 2, 2010 at 01:49 AM

I am weak. I just couldn’t wait until Tuesday. 

While, many of you were fast asleep Saturday after midnight, this Lost spoiler hound was one of thousands on the internet watching the first hour of Lost’s Final Season at Hawaii’s “Sunset on the Beach Premiere.”

Before you run away from this Blog, no worries - I will not reveal anything I saw during the episode, except only to say it was amazing and it felt more like a season or series finale. I can’t wait to watch it again (plus the second hour for the first time) tomorrow night.

This premiere has been somewhat a tradition on the beach (there wasn’t one last season), and there are many fans crazier than I am who who have flown to Hawaii to catch a glimpse of the stars on the red carpet. As far as I know, this was the first time that someone (a fan named Bruce) was able to stream the entire proceedings from a hotel window. 

I thought for sure the stream was going to crash before the episode aired due to increasing numbers hitting the server, but once the show started the quality of the video was surprisingly good. If it wasn’t for the sound problems, it would have been near perfect.

The sound of police sirens or motorcyles zipping by the drive-in like theater made it difficult if not impossible to pick up the dialogue in certain scenes. As a result, there are unconfirmed rumours on many Lost forum sites right now of what was indeed said. You may want to avoid such sites until after the premiere aires tomorrow night.