i started looking idly at properties for sale in hawaii the last couple of nights, thinking about the possibility of whether i could afford to move there and find a bit of land where i could live as if i were 'living LOST". that's not such a farfetched idea. i could picture how it could be done.
but then when i woke up this morning, i had a bigger idea. one that i couldn't do alone. but if enough people, the world over, wanted to do it, i bet we could:
what would it take to recreate the world of LOST on one of the islands of hawaii and make it a real, living community where you could move to and live as if you--we--really were 'on the island' and living like the Losties???
i posted this in this topic rather than somewhere else, because if such a place actually came into being, then whoever moved there to live in it really WOULD be living in An Aleternate Reality Game. think of it as something like what the rennaissance Faire members do. the SCA.[ society for creative anachronism].
I'm talking here about a tract of land, somewhere in hawaii, where you could come and live or just come to on vacation like a timeshare for a couple of weeks, where the layout would take pains to recreate the beach and camp where the plane came down, the swan hatch, yemi's beechcraft, New Otherton, the cages of the Hydra, the Caves, and the Dharma Initiative for _real_. By that, i mean an actual dedicated community for the present times, working on Green Alternatives of all sorts, a kind of self-confessed or intentionally knowing 'cult' that unlike most cults, is fully aware beforehand that it -is- one, and formed with sincere intent to save the world , without being snowed by some charismatic leader who's in it for purely selfish gratification [ your name here].
here's my further idea: whoever you identify with in the cast of LOST, you can take that character's name as your moniker while you live in the community. you can use your own name or yours plus the character's or whatever works for you. it's perfectly alright if there is more than one; it's understood that each character in LOST is an archetype, and everyone who comes is working out a personal thing they feel, in parallel to the character they identify with.
[ myself, i think i'd identify with rousseau and live like her].
i see this ARG as a place people could move to and live, every day, or come to for a visit, on vacation, or also operate it like a bit of a theme park to make some money, amuse ourselves and have some work leading the day guests around like tour guides, but naturally, as ourselves, for the reasons we came to live there.
it's ok for curiosity seekers and true beleivers alike. we'd be open to all of them.
the place could have personal projects people want to build, to recreate such recognizable landmarks as the Black Rock, the Temple, the Orchid, Locke's well, Eko's church he never finished, the Raft, versions one and two--and further iterations that haven't been tried yet...do you guys see what i'm picturing?
it WOULD be an alternate reality. it would be Living LOST. you could focus on whatever it is about the world of LOST and the Island and the story or characters that draws you in and makes you keep coming back. if you were disappointed that the story arc took a turn away from what you wanted it to be, for yourself, you could stop time at the point you last liked most, and take it in your own direction from there. in this world, desmond doesn't blow up the swan hatch. arzt doesn't vaporize himself with old dynamite. nikki and paolo don't get buried alive and die. the smoke monster is your personal fun to try to recreate, if you can. if you're a Juliet, no doubt real babies will be conceived and born in the community, and can be birthed like aaron was, outdoors in nature, with a midwife, or more modernly in the Medical Hatch, with real medical care with real doctors.
members might very well think they act like one character, and the community might come to decide the person acts more like another. a manipulative sort might get called 'Ben', a fickle, nervous girl might be tagged 'Kate', a know-it- all who always has to take over and take control would be quickly called for being a Jack. a girl who was snobby and bratty, spoiled and vain would be treated as a Shannon-- you get the idea. it would be one way to nail people on their crap and not let them get away with it--or to humor them and go along with it, in full acceptance and common knowledge of how they are, openly.
you could live however you like. anywhere on the continuum, from beach camp primitive to New Otherton Modern
or somewhere in between.
"no, we would not have a giant wheel powered by hamsters running on it"--not unless you wanted to build something and try it, as an alternative energy source. having the
Dharma Initiative leaves room for men of Science, the Temple is for men of Faith. and all the shades in between.
so what do you guys think? would you come live or vacation there, if there was such a place? does this concept have legs?
i could see actually doing this.even doing it with ABC's permission, once the show finishes filming .
i'm gonna go on, adding my ideas as they come to me, but don't let that stop any of you from putting yours in.
i could see why someone might want to reclassify this topic as fan fiction--but i really do think we could make such a place in the real world. there IS land in hawaii. it COULD be done.
