lost season six: solely for the fans?

January 7th, 2010 • posts i've written

Lost season 6 begins Tuesday, February 6th.

Gawker posted the video with the following text,

A good refresher for devotees, but novices will be, well, completely lost. Good, this final season is only for full-fledged fans! Is it February 2 yet?

Which reminded me of this extract from my post, fans: lead users,

In Fanning the Audience’s Flame, (Ford, Jenkins, and others) the team writes that fans are often lead users for media properties and that “lead users are valuable to understand because their tastes anticipate untapped potentials within the marketplace.” (p 23) The team explains how fans and their efforts have helped science fiction programs like Lost which work on long and complex narrative threads sustain themselves when sci-fi was once entirely episodic.

As we ramp up for the sixth and final season, the activities of the Lost fan community (of which I consider myself a member) will either demonstrate an incredible ability at amplifying conversation, tune-in, ancillary revenue, and recruitment… or not. It’s an important time to be watching and studying fan behaviors and their affect on cult media properties.

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1. obama to postpone state of the union for lost season premiere
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Tags: Fandom, fans, lost

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