I Am DB

One of our own, Jen W., alerted me to some kind of new Lost trailer wrapped into a music video for a song by The Fray. The video shows clips from Season Four with new, Season Five clips interspersed. The song is generic, cheesy crap, so I suggest turning your sound off and just watching the picture. I have no idea what the song has to do with the show anyway; it’s probably some bullshit synergy marketing gimmick from ABC.

From what I can make out, and from what looked unfamiliar to me, I think the new footage consists of the following:

• A guy in a yellow Hazmad suit coming out of a hatch door, pointing a gun at Faraday.
• Hurley by a banister with a gun.
• Sayid fighting somebody intensely (it looks like he’s fighting Jack, but these might be two different fights cut together, since the first guy looks to be wearing a purple shirt, and Jack is wearing white).
• Ben and Jack at Bentham’s coffin. This must be a new scene that takes place right after the one we already saw in the last finale. There is new dialogue (yes, the very beginning of the video and this moment have dialogue; the rest is just that god-awful song). Jack says, “Why did this happen?” Ben replies, “It happened because you left, Jack.” Oh, and the name of the first episode of Season Five? Because You Left.
• Armed mystery men find Charlotte and Faraday in the jungle, and in what might be a different scene, Miles leaps to the ground to avoid something shadowy leaping toward him that I think, based on a freeze-frame, is the Black Smoke.
• A clean-shaven, suit-wearing Jack following Ben through a doorway.
• Locke picking up a white and blue device. I can’t tell what it is.
• Hurley standing by a closed door, looking from an unconscious Sayid on the ground to a small window in the door with stained-glass trim.

The piece concludes with a string of quick-cut Season Five clips:

• Locke on the ground with a gun pointed at him
• Locke on the ground, with a compass in his bloody hand (The same compass that doesn’t point north? The same compass that was laid before him, along with other objects, in a test from his childhood?)
• Juliet and Sawyer running together as the beach falls under attack from….goodness gracious…great balls of fire!
• Richard Alpert carrying a torch and finding Locke
• Sun in what looks like an office kitchen
• Rose, Juliet and Sawyer on the beach
• Locke and Juliet staring off into the distance

TV Guide.com, where I found the video, also points out two subliminal flashes of a logo for Ajira Airways (around the 1:34 and 2:25 marks). The name and the image have an obvious Asian tilt. Is this an existing airline that’s been around for awhile? One that perhaps Sun’s father Mr. Paik has a stake in? Or could it be a new airline, the front for some kind of mysterious, oh I don’t know…maybe island-seeking operation put together by Sun herself, in conjunction with Charles Widmore? Don’t forget their meeting from last season’s finale…

What does it all mean?? It means January 21st can’t come soon enough.

Happy Thanksgiving, all.