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Sunday, June 04, 2006
Stray Lost thoughts
Talking with my friend about the second season closer of Lost and the philosophies of the different characters (a universe with reasons or "destiny" vs. a chaotic universe or "free will") I realized a problem the show has.
The characters on the show can argue all they want about how the world works but we all know how the world of Lost works. This is a show with producers, directors, writers and actors. All the situation are created and players act them out. This is a world where indeed there is a guiding hand, more than one. So how does the show contemplate whether there is a "guiding hand" in real life or not. Perhaps that's why the show can sometimes feel aimless or unreasonable. The creators want to reflect the boredom and mundaneness of real life, a world that often times feels where there is no meaning in what we do. Pushing a button in a hatch may not be the most exciting plot conceit in the world but it recalls the boring office life Locke once led, one many still lead. Maybe that's why Locke and Eko are my favorite characters. I can't relate to their view of the world as compared to Jack's but since Locke and Eko belive in a world with a "plot" (or at least Locke did) they are more of their fictional world.
Even if that is the intent of Lost I'm not so sure that excuses some of the poorer episodes that started the second season (and the creators of the show should be congratulated on taking this season from "blah" to "yowza" by the end). It may just because The Sopranos portrayed boredom so much better. Lost has nothing on Tony and Michael's pathetic recalling of The Vipers hijacking in Tony's basement or Vito's "don't check your watch" voiceover.
Another quick thought: we learn in the second season closer that those in "The Pearl" watch the people in other hatches, record their actions on notebooks, send them though a tube and it goes nowhere. It means nothing. Watch the people in the hatch, go over it but it leads to nothing. Watch the people on Lost, write about or discuss it but it all means nothing. It means nothing...
Do you think that might have been a meta-commentary there?
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