abstract
| - The game involved participants applying to join the new Dharma Initiative at Comic Con 2008 and the website DharmaWantsYou.com, where participants took part in various tests. At the conclusion of the game, each participant received a Volunteer Assessment Dossier which contained their results and allotted job. However, due to financial issues the Dharma Initiative was canceled. As a replacement, the Dharma Special Access website was opened as an exclusive to game participants. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated in an interview with Lostpedia that the purpose of the game was to foreshadow the arrival of Sawyer's group in DHARMA times in Season 5. Indeed, the only real direct canonical revelation was the Dharma booth video showing Pierre Chang being filmed. The unseen cameraman in the film is generally accepted to be Daniel Faraday. This scene has not been shown in the main show and, considering Daniel Faraday is now dead and Pierre Chang has now lost one hand, the video is outdated and does not fit in with the main show timeline. Chang also found out the truth arguably too late in the course of the Season to have filmed the video with Faraday, and fans would expect to have seen this being filmed on the show at any rate considering it seems like such an important scene. Consequently the canon of this video, and the ARG as a whole, is highly questionable.
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