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The last of 'Lost': Complex drama with ties to Ann Arbor starts its final season

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

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Fans of the wildly popular TV show "Lost" are becoming less so now that series is coming to a conclusion and number of ties to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan are coming to light.

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In a show known for its elaborate mythology, one of the smaller details has always been special to local fans: the Ann Arbor mentions.

Viewers learned in the second season that two University of Michigan doctoral candidates, Gerald and Karen DeGroot, founded the Dharma Initiative. It was described as a communal research compound for experiments in meteorology, electromagnetism and more -- and seemingly one of the keys to the weird things that happen on the island.

Last season, there were fresh references to Ann Arbor in scenes showing Dharma members living on the island in the mid-1970s. One character, Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies), returned to the island from the college town, where he had been doing research at the Dharma Initiative headquarters.

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