Monday, February 11, 2008

A few thoughts about LOST...

OK, I have just a few minutes and I want to say how much I am loving LOST. Once again, this show has got to be the smartest, most original, best written show on television. I absolutely love all the connections to literature and philosophy and religion and everything else imaginable.

I have given up trying to figure out what is going on... I feel sure it is beyond me. I am hopeful that I will feel satisfied with the ending, whatever it turns out to be. All I know is that I have finally resigned myself to the fact that the plot is to complex to "figure out" and that I should just enjoy the ride as I go along.

More interesting to me than the overall plot are the characters. I am so intrigued by who is good and who is bad in this show. I used to think Locke and Jack were both good, but in different ways. As of now, I am thinking less and less of Jack and more of Locke (although Hurley said he should've gone with Jack in the last flashback, which makes me think of changing my mind yet again).

Some questions I would like to see answered soon...
1. What the hell is the monster?
2. Who is in the coffin at the funeral home?
3. Is Jack's dad dead or not?
4. Who in the world is Jacob?

That isn't everything, but you know how sometimes you have so many thoughts about a subject and you just can't seem to narrow them down to one or two major points... well, that's me. Having trouble organizing my thoughts about this. I will say I recently read a blog Carmen referred me to about the four horsemen of the apocalypse... very interesting. It also referred to a theory about a hollow earth that was very neat. Also, I've been readin a bit about Jeremy Bentham and his panoptic prison that my buddy Carmen also put me on the trail of... thanks, Carm. All of these topics, if you have a few minutes to investigate, are wonderful food for thought.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't ever want Lost to end, I love it so much. I want to know the answers to the questions you posted too, but I have a feeling that it is going to be one of those shows that does not answer every little thing, just to let you make up your own mind. Will we ever know what the four-toed statue was? We need to talk about it in person, there's just way too much to say on here.