So who’s been Lost in Hawaii lately?

I’ve heard reports of Evangeline Lilly at Don Quijote in Kailua, Daniel Dae Kim at a Kahala photo shoot (and at the Democratic National Convention!), and a large gathering of actors at Papa’iloa Beach on the North Shore. Heck, even Michelle Rodriguez is back!

Filming has been going on from Waikiki to Police Beach to the jungle in He’eia.

It’s also September, which narrows our wait for Season 5 to just 4 short months…that’s bearable, right?

DHARMA PROGRESS:

Test 2: a series of 10 multiple choice questions, all of which I completely guessed on. I’m with chadepp and H20. Definitely failed, but hey, at least we’ll get to take the VW out for a spin!

Test 3: Almost like a video game. You keep the Dharma logo from hitting a bunch of bouncing balls. If you can keep it untouched for 100 seconds, you get the highest score possible. Me? I only tried it twice, and didn’t make it past 31 seconds. Gonna have to try that one again.

AROUND THE WEB:

-If you’re a football fan, check out this NFL 2008 season prediction chart
-Who knew Jorge Garcia could sing?
-Here’s the scoop about a (gorgeous) new cast member being added this season

I got a 67% on the first ‘test’ at the Dharma recruiting site. Apparently, you get more points by ‘recruiting’ new people–ie inviting others to log in and beat your score. They also gave me my ‘ID card’:

I was hoping it would show the picture I uploaded onto my profile on it, but oh well

FILMING UPDATE: Check out Ryan’s blog for details on the first filming for Season 5, which started this week (only peek if you’re ok with knowing the locations before you see them on primetime!). As always, if you catch sight of filming and/or Lost actors in and around town, let me know. You can even snap a picture and send it to me-I’ll post it here on the blog!

Been missing Lost (and, uh, my postings on this blog…riiiight)? WELL, if you want a marathon, the Sci Fi channel will be airing four episodes of Season 4 every Monday starting September 15th. Cool! It’ll be especially valuable if the reruns are the ones with pop-up factoids, etc that showed before new episodes this past season.

Word is also out that filming/production is slated to begin again within the next couple of weeks. This means that if you see filming in progress, let us all know here on the the blog! Better yet, take a few pictures and email them to me so I can post them. It’s always fun seeing the places we visit every day here transformed on primetime television.

Some other news: sources say that we can expect 2 new characters this season. As if we don’t already have enough characters, right? They do sound interesting, though, so I don’t mind–as long as they live up to their hype…

Last thing: I got another email from Octagon Global Recruiting. I am no internet whiz, and the link they originally sent led to an ‘error’ page that was just beyond me. HOWEVER, I thought I’d try the link again to put it on this post, and viola! we have a real site now…a pretty cool one, too. After the intro, if you click ‘new recruit’, you are prompted to take a sometimes-amusing, sometimes-creepy ‘Eligibility Test’.

I ‘passed’. Anyone else try it and ‘fail’?

Any Lost star sightings recently? Keep your eyes peeled–production starts up again Monday, so most of them should be arriving this week. We’ve seen Henry Ian Cusick already, and apparently Yunjin Kim (Sun) appeared for an impromptu photo shoot on a random boat this weekend in Hawai’i Kai.

The front section prop of the plane is back in He’eia Kea. It was missing during the filming for first half of this season, so I’m thinking we’re going to get yet another version of the initial crash to introduce a new character (think Nikki and Paolo from last season).

And speaking of the plane, I came across this game someone invented–the object is to keep the Oceanic Flight 815 plane from crashing. I admit, I’m pretty horrible at it, but it was strangely addicting…

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Also, as chawan_cut reminds us, don’t forget to check out the new Lost video game (for PS3, XBox 360, and PC)!