'Lost': Living in clip

Well, it's not quite Christmas Eve, but it's not the next best thing. Why? Because the Lost video-game comes out tomorrow, that's why! Sure, it's non-canon, and sure, it looks like barely any of the actual actors in the show bothered to do voice-work for it, but c'mon, it's called "Via Domus," people. And if Latin phrases don't get your adrenaline pumping, man, I just don't know what will.

If you don't know a thing about the game, this clip will help explain the premise for you.

An action-survival game sounds dandy, although I would have preferred it if they'd gone completely off the map and just created a Tekken-like game with 1-1 fighting between members of the Lost universe. I'd easily pay $60 to play as Jack pummeling the heck out of Ben while the Mortal Kombat theme plays in the background. You're telling me you wouldn't play a game in which Hurley busts out some E.Honda-esque moves? You know you would. (Incidentally, should this game ever come out? No way I'm ever not Sayid. Although for beginners, it might be best to play as Mikhail, in that he's insanely difficult to actually kill.)

But it's an action-survival game, which more than likely means I'll be absolutely terrible at it. You think it took the Lostaways a long time to break into the hatch? I'll be lucky to enter it by Labor Day. I'll probably have my character poke at it with a stick for three hours before looking at an online walkthrough for aide. That all being said, I'll be periodically updating you all on my progress, combining my love of Lost and my ineptitude in videogames into a scintillating mix never seen on the interwebs before. Should be interesting to say the least.

Since I have to leave soon to be the first in line to buy this game (I'm anticipating a Halo-like crush to ensue for "Via Domus"...ok, not so much), I will leave you with a few other Lost-centric clips I've dug up. The first makes me glad I purchased a Playstation 3, since I'll have much better luck playing the game on that system versus an XBOX360.

If you're a fan of The O.C., or Saturday Night Live, you'll see the gag coming a mile away in this next clip. But it's definitely the best version of this gag on YouTube. (Feel free to peruse the other 4,000 variations on this gag yourself at your own pace.)

I usually find "mixing two things together for comedic value" clips to generally be uninspired, but this one's absolutely brilliant: the theme music from Battlestar: Galactica mashed up with clips from Lost. I especially love everything once the drums kick in halfway through the clip. That's some seriously exciting stuff.

(That being said? Battlestar: Buffy kicks that clips' booty. But both are fantastic.)

There are an alarming, and I do mean ALARMING, number of fan-made clips in which the creator of sad clip edits together 3+ years of footage of their favorite pair on the show set to the cruddiest song in their iTunes playlist. A lot are show-sanctioned pairings (Jack/Kate, Charlie/Claire), and some are not (combinations I dare not even mention, and trust me, this is for your own protection, innocent readers o' mine). I'm all about free speech, but when I'm elected president, my first act of business will be to ban any videos that feature some combination of Ben, Juliet, Mikhail, Frogurt, and Hoobastank. That's change you can believe in, people.

This next clip, however, chooses to focus only on one person, and through clever editing and inspired song choice, had me watching through the very end. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But given my aversion to these types of clips, that's nothing short of a miracle.

Ryan also posts every 108 minutes over at Boob Tube Dude.

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