Anyone feel that this show is going too far in exploiting its fans? I know this might seem like nothing new since movies do this all the time when selling books and other commercial items. But by playing this game of hiding clues on websites and such, I think they've made some fans feel as though they must buy stuff like this in order to solve the mystery. What do you guys think?
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...t/14501961.htm
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In Wednesday night's episode of the ABC hit show about plane crash survivors on a remote island, the con man Sawyer, played by Josh Holloway, is seen reading an advance copy of fellow passenger Gary Troup's "Bad Twin." Sawyer, an odd bookworm, describes it as a whodunit he's anxious to finish.
Troup has been missing since the plane went down, but a copy of his book just happened to land a while back in the offices of Hyperion Books, which, like ABC, is owned by the Walt Disney Company. "Bad Twin," billed as Troup's "final novel before disappearing Oceanic Flight 815," was published this week.
"We got this manuscript from this guy and we couldn't reach him. He apparently got on this plane in Australia and has been lost at sea," says Hyperion president Bob Miller, trying his best to play it straight.
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