Later on today we'll be reaching a little landmark here at DarkUFO.. when we pass the 10th Million Page hit for the first time in a single month. Despite Lost viewing figures dwindling our popularity due to all your visits, theories, polls, screencaps, videos etc keeps on increasing.
So a massive thanks to everyone involved in the site.. Kudos.
I thought I'd take this opportunity to share some stats with you about the site.
Site Content Stats As you can see we've posted over 25,000 items of content here at DarkUFO and have over 3/4 of a Million Comments on those items.
Shown below are the Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Stats since we started the site all those years ago.
UPDATE: The weekly character scores and episode totals charts have been added to the post. I wasn't able to insert them earlier when Google was having problems.
UPADTE: Google seems to be having issues with their image hosting right now. Charts and tables will be up when Google fixes the problem.
Our second Double-Points Episode is in the books and, for the second week in a row, the leader boards have been completely tossed about! With Richard's record-setting 920 points, our league leaders now look drastically different. Also, for what I believe is the first time ever, one of our celebrity contestants is leading the League! Way to go Pete!
NOTE: There were a number of point adjustments made heading into this post. This means that your weekly scores may look incorrect. Please check the Important Point Rulings section to see if these adjustments affect your team before emailing me about an incorrect score.
"Ab Aeterno" would have been a points giant without the double-points factor. With the DPF, it is now the highest-scoring episode this season and possibly of all time! Makes you wonder what will happen in our third and final DPE this year (6.13). Ah well, check out the Fantasy Update above (I've written off a few more people) and the lovely stats and data below.
1) Sawyer was retroactively given points for encountering a New Thing. In 6.09, we give Richard points for the white stone Jacob gives him. Therefore, Sawyer deserves points for the black and white stones.
POINTS ADJUSTMENTS FOR 6.06 "SUNDOWN"
1) Both the Smoke Monster and the Man In Black have had points retroactively removed. In "Sundown," we gave them points for encountering a new thing with the sword that Sayid attacked him with. We now know that MIB had seen this sword before, so those points have been stripped from each of them.
POINTS ADJUSTMENTS FOR 6.08 "RECON":
1) Sawyer and Jin each get DHARMA Logo points. Thanks to a sharp-eyed contestant, I was given a screencap that shows both men on screen with the generic DHARMA logo inside Claire's hut.
2) Charles Widmore gets credit for visiting a DHARMA location. Even though we didn't see him outside of the submarine, he gets credit for visiting Hydra Island.
If you have any questions about why something was or wasn't scored, leave a comment or use the email above!
IMPORTANT POINT RULINGS FOR 6.09 "AB AETERNO":
1) Ilana is credited with Centricity for the episode as well as Richard. Our rules state that a League Character needs to have a minimum of two Flash segments in order to qualify for centricity. Even though Ilana's second flashback lacked the WHOOSH! effect, it was a separate flashback.
2) Richard gets a Major Injury deduction for the shipwreck. It appears that he was knocked unconscious by it, which fits our definition for a major injury.
3) Smokey is charged with killing 5 people. As stated in our Important Points Rulings for 6.06 "Sundown," the rules do not require us to see all of the deaths occur in order to charge deductions. Whitfield stated that there were five officers left. We took this to mean five including himself. It is clear that Smokey killed everyone off before scanning Richard. Since we were given a number of surviving officers, we know how many people Smokey killed.
4) The Black Rock is not new for MIB/Smokey. The producers implied in their recent podcast that the Black Rock was the ship from the beginning of "The Incident."
5) Isabella appearing on the Black Rock was MIB/Smokey in disguise. We're taking Jacob at his word that Isabella was not Isabella and really the Smoke Monster. This gives Smokey/MIB an additional visit to the Black Rock and Richard an additional encounter with Smokey.
6) Jacob's pummeling of Richard is a major injury. The beating and the drowning together added up to a lot of physical trauma for Richard. While there was no actual blood shown, we've decided that any form of attempted drowning will count as a major injury.
7) The wine bottle counts for New Thing points. It's a pretty ordinary wine glass but because it was used to illustrate the purpose of Jacob and the Island, it gained importance.
8) MIB/Smokey has a flashback. The last scene where Jacob comes to visit MIB was actually a flashback for MIB/Smokey. Richard was not in it, so it cannot be attributed to him. Since it jumped from MIB-Locke to the FB, we're crediting MIB/Smokey with the FB.
CHARACTER SCORES FOR EPISODE 6.09:
SEASON 6 EPISODE TOTALS:
GROUP 1
HURLEY (+70 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (2- Isabelle, MIB's Camp)
BEN (+10 points): Attendance
JACK (+10 points): Attendance
GROUP 2
MAN IN BLACK (+180 points): Appears in Someone Else's Misc. FB (Richard's); Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (4- the Black Rock crew, Richard, Isabella's Necklace, the Wine Bottle); Encounters Jacob; Kills Someone (5 members of the Black Rock crew); Last Line; Last on Screen; On-Island Flashback; Visits the Black Rock (3 times)
SUN (+20 points): Attendance; Says the Title of an Episode ("One of Them")
MILES (+10 points): Attendance
GROUP 3
RICHARD (+920 points): Attendance; Character has an Eye Close-Up; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (16- The Doctor's House, The Doctor, The Medicine, The Jail, The Priest, Whitfield, The Black Rock, The other slaves, The Island, The Statue, The Smoke Monster, MIB's Camp, The Sword, Jacob, The Wine Bottle, the White Stone); Encounters Jacob; Encounters the Smoke Monster (4 times); Episode Centricity; Gets a Major Injury (3- Shipwreck, the Chanins, Jacob's beat-down); Goes in the Water; Kills Someone (The Doctor); Kisses Someone or Gets Kissed (4 times with Isabella); Miscellaneous FB; Says the Title of an Episode (2- "I Do" and "One of Us"); Visits the Black Rock; Visits the Statue (twice)
ILANA (220 points): Attendance; Character Has an Eye Close-up; Encounters Jacob; Episode Centricity; First on Screen; Off-Island Flashback; Says the Title of an Episode ("I Do")
GROUP 4
JACOB (+220 points): Appears in Someone Else's Flashback (2- Ilana's and MIB's); Appears in Someone Else's Misc. FB (Richard's); Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (2- Richard, Sword); Encounters the Smoke Monster; First Line; Goes in the Water; Inflicts a Major Injury (Beats up Richard); Visits the Statue
FRANK (+10 points): Attendance
GROUP 6
SMOKE MONSTER (+180 points): Appears in Someone Else's Misc. FB (Richard's); Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (4- the Black Rock crew, Richard, Isabella's Necklace, the Wine Bottle); Encounters Jacob; Kills Someone (5 members of the Black Rock crew); Last Line; Last on Screen; On-Island Flashback; Visits the Black Rock (3 times)
The combination of MIB and Smokey finally paid off big for people! And of course, having Richard didn't hurt either! ;-)
We had 11 Fantasy Geniuses of the Week this week and all 11 of them are true geniuses because they all gained the maximum points possible: an astounding 1,570! Here are the lucky dogs and their teams:
4815162342Laurens: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Charlie P.
Damned I Win: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Charlie P.
G.I.R.U.Y.: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Charlie P.
HeavyLost: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Charlie H., Smokey, Charlie P.
Justin'sJam: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Charlie P.
Locke Lives!: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Charlie H., Smokey, Daniel
pinky'slosties: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Charlie H., Smokey, Charlie P.
probably lost: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Walt, Smokey, Charlie P.
Team DFTBA: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Daniel
Team Potolo: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Walt, Smokey, Daniel
Theatrum Mundi is Back: Hurley, MIB, Richard, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Daniel
Hey All, I know a few of you did not think this past week's episode of LOST was as good as others thought, but you were in a big minority as most fans felt that it was amazing and one of the better episodes we have seen.
The fan polls ranked this episode very high and just slightly below the The Constant making it the second highest ranked episode.
The blogger/media sites agreed with the majority as several of them gave A++++!
As always the additional "+" symbols are to show how they really felt but only count for one "+".
What more can I say, I loved seeing Richard's flashback, Nestor Carbonell's acting was awesome and and any Jacob and MiB interaction is always a plus. Of course the writers gave us several answers including killing two birds with one Black Rock, explaining how the ship got to the center of the island and what destroyed the 4-toed statue.
Quote of the Week via Anna (FourToedFoot.com): Can I do A to the 15th power? It was as emotional as the Constant, as mythical as Cabin Fever, as shocking as The Man Behind the Curtain…I could go on through all of the BIG episodes we have of the series. There are not many who seem to have NOT added this to their “top-episodes of all times” lists. Especially when we have been given NOTHING about this character but little spurts and hints…the fan buildup was phenomenal and I have to agree it met and surpassed my expectations.
Honorable Mention - Best Use of the Letter "A": 'A' is for Admirable Amazing Astonishing Awesome Ab Aeterno Alpert.
Once again thanks to all that are participating and don't forget to check out their sites and recaps at the following links:
2) At some point before 10AM GMT on Sunday, March 28, tweet:
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3) That's it.
Note: - Anyone can enter from anywhere, as long as we can mail to you from the U.K. - You must have a Twitter account in order to follow someone. - You must be following both of us in order to be eligible to win. - We will only accept one entry per Twitter ID - EIGHT winners will be selected at random on Sunday March 28th.
Later on today we'll be reaching a little landmark here at DarkUFO.. when we pass the 10th Million Page hit for the first time in a single month. Despite Lost viewing figures dwindling our popularity due to all your visits, theories, polls, screencaps, videos etc keeps on increasing.
As you can see we've posted over 25,000 items of content here at DarkUFO and have over 3/4 of a Million Comments on those items.
