Alright Lost, you've wrangled me into your fifth season of smoke monsters, mystery islands, and Sawyer's muffin top (whoops, spoiler!), but over the course of these five years you've continued to neglect a rather blatant and irritating glitch:
Since day one of your opening sequence I've noticed the sudden crunch of pixels at the bottom border of the S in Lost, as captured above by Noscope. This is undoubtedly a glitch, one that can't be particularly hard to fix since one of Noscope's commenters actually recreated and fixed it for your convenience. So what's the deal? Am I missing something? Or will the crusty S somehow reveal all the deepest, darkest secrets of the island?
Somehow I don't think that's the case, so please, Lost, fix your pixels!
That gap in the dimensional type may be why I stopped watching... besides the profusion of The Wire actors, the solid dimensional type is the next best thing going for Fringe.
Posted by: nicholas Felton | February 06, 2009 at 10:26 AM
If you take the ASCII indexes of each of the letters in lost, and multiply them by a power of each of the numbers, you get the exact pixel coordinates on the outline of the S that are glitched.
Posted by: Steve Calderon | February 06, 2009 at 11:28 AM
4x8x15x16x23x42 = S Glitches?
Also, whatever happened to those numbers? I haven't seen hide nor hair of them in ages...
Posted by: .tiff | February 06, 2009 at 11:37 AM
THANK YOU THIS HAS BOTHERED ME SO MUCH SINCE EPISODE ONE. Seriously I can't not focus on it. It almsot makes it MORE SCARY (i mean that sound IS scary) by giving the whole thing a "not-quite-working-oh-shit" feel. like my brain or tv is breaking each time.
Posted by: brilliam | February 06, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Every time I see it I think to myself, "Really? Still? Am I the only one who notices this everytime the show is on??". It would be cool if they made the rest of the lettering sort of crumble away in dislodged pixels, but for now it's a glitch that gives me a bad itch ><
Posted by: .tiff | February 06, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Yeah, it was weird to see The Wire actors suddenly appear when started to watch it. How's Fringe? I heard it wasn't too hot... so I never gave it a chance.
Posted by: .tiff | February 06, 2009 at 02:47 PM
I can't believe I never noticed that and/or can't believe you noticed that!
I believe the pixels contain the names of every person who's been on the island and the secret to why they are there.
Posted by: Capn Manta | February 07, 2009 at 02:04 PM
There's a few things that were such major mysteries to the show that have seemingly been forgotten about. One of my few pet peeves of the show, but I have a feeling there's an ultimate purpose to what they choose to focus on.
Posted by: Capn Manta | February 07, 2009 at 02:06 PM
Fringe is pretty cool. Of course my sister and I have been JJ Abram fans since Alias which....sort of tanked the last couple of seasons. But this show is good. Has a "Lost" sort of feel without being as hardcore or nearly as taxing on the brain. Of course there's a giant conspiracy, but the episodes are more contained so you can pick up somewhere, sit back and enjoy.
Posted by: Capn Manta | February 07, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Oh My GOD! Now I know I'm not the only one that notices that, I noticed it on the first episode and now I can't unsee it. It glitches in the midsection of the "S" also. I really want them to fix it because it bugs the hell out of me.
Posted by: Austin DuBois | July 13, 2009 at 04:55 PM