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It's raining or rather pouring, with rumbling, outside. Not upset about it. We need the rain.
But, I should have run my errands this morning as opposed to watching the BSG episodes that had stacked up on my DVR. What is it about Saturday mornings, that makes me feel so lazy? Maybe the fact that I'm used to getting up at 5:50 every day and hustling off to work...so that I treasure the ability to sleep until 7 or 8, eat a leisurely breakfast and do zip for a few hours.
It's dark too, not just gray, which means the sky is about to have a major temper tantrum. Oh, well, I can run the errands tomorrow - supposed to be pretty tomorrow. And to be honest? I'm really not in the mood to do much of anything today, but relax and be lazy. Am considering going horseback riding in Prospect Park on June 14 with one of my many social networking groups via meetups.com. So far the only social networking group I've done much with is lj, and that's been pretty spotty. I'm just not a group person. I join them, lots of them, stay a bit, long enough to notice cliques - which inevitably arise in groups, let's face it people are tribal by nature - get annoyed by the exclusive nature of them, and depart. It may be genetic, my parents are exactly same way. I come from a family of dilettents.
Saw the two-hour season finale of Lost last night. Nice of them to answer several of our questions as opposed to perpetually holding the audience in suspense. One of Lost's creators stated in an interview recently that the best way to keep people from seeking out spoilers, was to answer their questions and provide them with resolution. Yep. If you don't do it, you risk your audience wandering off in frustrated annoyance. And teasing is not tolerable. So kudos to Lost, for finally getting the point. Without giving anything away in this paragraph, I was satisfied with the finale and find myself once again engaged and actually caring where the show is going. I cared before, but found myself somewhat emotionally detached from the characters, who appeared to be going around and around in the same repetitive circles and not moving forward. Now? They are definitely moving forward.
Favorite scene was the one between Sawyer and Juliet towards the end, they are sitting on the beach, Sawyer is in a good mood, watching Juliet drink her rum, asking if she's celebrating, and she says, I'm not celebrating and points at the boat, which is now just smoke. This is before Ben moves the island on them. LOL! Poor Juliet and Sawyer, they just can't get off the damn thing, not that Sawyer appears to want to at this point, but he did want Kate to survive and as far as he knows - she's gone down with the boat.
How much you want to bet Jin survived? I don't think he's dead. He could have easily leapt off that frieghter and joined Dan and company on the raft. He could also just have easily made it back to the island. Even if he's dead? It's a sci-fantasy-horror series - no one stays dead in those things.
Was not surprised that it was Lock in the coffin. I had narrowed it down to Ben and Lock, decided it had to be Lock when it was apparent Ben was not a ghost and not dead. For a while I thought it was the scientist guy or the pilot, but that's only because I forgot their names. And I was mildly worried it was Desmond, which would suck. But Lock makes the most logical sense, not that this show is very logical.
How Ben moved the island didn't shock me - I knew the whole time/space conudrum was at the center of the story - that's the explanation they are using for all of this. I've seen it used a lot in comics, books, movies, and tv shows - 4400 used it, as did Dead Zone. Also the unstable magnetic field being at the heart of the time space dissonance is a common sci-fi bit. Figured that out five episodes back, when Faraday was doing his experiements, and Desmond had his weird mental trip back through time.
I do think Claire is dead - I think she died when the frieghter guys first attacked and the island healed her, but now she can't leave. She's part of it now, in much the same way as Jack's father, Lock, and Bernard's wife are.
I love 2007 Sun - who is vengenful and calculating and powerful. It works too, since she killed one of the others on board the sailboat way back in S2, and tried to poison Jin to keep him from escaping the island by raft with Sawyer and Michael. Speaking of which - it is highly ironic that Jin, Sawyer, and Michael end up back at the island and none leave with the Oceanic Six. Who is the other man that she blames for Jin's death? Jack? Widmore? or Ben? Jack believes it is him. But it would make more sense if it were Widmore or Ben.
Don't blame Kate and Claire for not wanting to put Aaron back on that island. If I were Kate, I'd have smacked Jack. When she and Sun were yelling for him to go back to the island or the freighter, he refused. But now, now, he wants to go back to the island? Jack appears to be the tragic anti-hero of the story, doesn't he?
And Desmond finally found his Penny. Wonder how long that lasts? After all, we know that Ben is gunning for her, as a means of getting back at Widmore. But I'm glad they finally resolved it. Unresolved star-crossed love relationships are becoming a tad cliche.
But, I should have run my errands this morning as opposed to watching the BSG episodes that had stacked up on my DVR. What is it about Saturday mornings, that makes me feel so lazy? Maybe the fact that I'm used to getting up at 5:50 every day and hustling off to work...so that I treasure the ability to sleep until 7 or 8, eat a leisurely breakfast and do zip for a few hours.
It's dark too, not just gray, which means the sky is about to have a major temper tantrum. Oh, well, I can run the errands tomorrow - supposed to be pretty tomorrow. And to be honest? I'm really not in the mood to do much of anything today, but relax and be lazy. Am considering going horseback riding in Prospect Park on June 14 with one of my many social networking groups via meetups.com. So far the only social networking group I've done much with is lj, and that's been pretty spotty. I'm just not a group person. I join them, lots of them, stay a bit, long enough to notice cliques - which inevitably arise in groups, let's face it people are tribal by nature - get annoyed by the exclusive nature of them, and depart. It may be genetic, my parents are exactly same way. I come from a family of dilettents.
Saw the two-hour season finale of Lost last night. Nice of them to answer several of our questions as opposed to perpetually holding the audience in suspense. One of Lost's creators stated in an interview recently that the best way to keep people from seeking out spoilers, was to answer their questions and provide them with resolution. Yep. If you don't do it, you risk your audience wandering off in frustrated annoyance. And teasing is not tolerable. So kudos to Lost, for finally getting the point. Without giving anything away in this paragraph, I was satisfied with the finale and find myself once again engaged and actually caring where the show is going. I cared before, but found myself somewhat emotionally detached from the characters, who appeared to be going around and around in the same repetitive circles and not moving forward. Now? They are definitely moving forward.
Favorite scene was the one between Sawyer and Juliet towards the end, they are sitting on the beach, Sawyer is in a good mood, watching Juliet drink her rum, asking if she's celebrating, and she says, I'm not celebrating and points at the boat, which is now just smoke. This is before Ben moves the island on them. LOL! Poor Juliet and Sawyer, they just can't get off the damn thing, not that Sawyer appears to want to at this point, but he did want Kate to survive and as far as he knows - she's gone down with the boat.
How much you want to bet Jin survived? I don't think he's dead. He could have easily leapt off that frieghter and joined Dan and company on the raft. He could also just have easily made it back to the island. Even if he's dead? It's a sci-fantasy-horror series - no one stays dead in those things.
Was not surprised that it was Lock in the coffin. I had narrowed it down to Ben and Lock, decided it had to be Lock when it was apparent Ben was not a ghost and not dead. For a while I thought it was the scientist guy or the pilot, but that's only because I forgot their names. And I was mildly worried it was Desmond, which would suck. But Lock makes the most logical sense, not that this show is very logical.
How Ben moved the island didn't shock me - I knew the whole time/space conudrum was at the center of the story - that's the explanation they are using for all of this. I've seen it used a lot in comics, books, movies, and tv shows - 4400 used it, as did Dead Zone. Also the unstable magnetic field being at the heart of the time space dissonance is a common sci-fi bit. Figured that out five episodes back, when Faraday was doing his experiements, and Desmond had his weird mental trip back through time.
I do think Claire is dead - I think she died when the frieghter guys first attacked and the island healed her, but now she can't leave. She's part of it now, in much the same way as Jack's father, Lock, and Bernard's wife are.
I love 2007 Sun - who is vengenful and calculating and powerful. It works too, since she killed one of the others on board the sailboat way back in S2, and tried to poison Jin to keep him from escaping the island by raft with Sawyer and Michael. Speaking of which - it is highly ironic that Jin, Sawyer, and Michael end up back at the island and none leave with the Oceanic Six. Who is the other man that she blames for Jin's death? Jack? Widmore? or Ben? Jack believes it is him. But it would make more sense if it were Widmore or Ben.
Don't blame Kate and Claire for not wanting to put Aaron back on that island. If I were Kate, I'd have smacked Jack. When she and Sun were yelling for him to go back to the island or the freighter, he refused. But now, now, he wants to go back to the island? Jack appears to be the tragic anti-hero of the story, doesn't he?
And Desmond finally found his Penny. Wonder how long that lasts? After all, we know that Ben is gunning for her, as a means of getting back at Widmore. But I'm glad they finally resolved it. Unresolved star-crossed love relationships are becoming a tad cliche.
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you were definitely describing my feelings there, and this finale went a long way to winning me back! The 'magic island' explanation is convenient, but not unreasonable: they have had comic book references from the very first season, so giving comic book explanations seem perfectly reasonable to me! Why else hire Brian K. Vaughan?
I hope you are right about Jin, and I also really loved Sun's strength and thirst for vengeance: I'll tune in next season just to see her!
It isn't raining here, but it is dull and cloudy, enough of an excuse for me to stay in to watch the Democratic Rules committee all day long (I have Hacking Democracy to watch tonight from netflix, a movie about the unreliability of voting machines.... It is funny that I've gone back to my interest in politics so late in life! ).
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Have to admit though, it is quite funny. The rest of the world not to mention the Republicans must be laughing their heads off.
What happened with Michigan and Florida is fodder for political comedians. The stupidity of that situation is mind-boggling. Okay maybe not. I've come to realize over time that a lot of people really don't use their brains most of the time, how they get by I've no idea...but they do. ;-)
Lost reminds me a lot of a comic book sometimes. Also a bit of a Stephen King novel, which may explain why he's such a huge fan. Also may explain why I like it. Like, not love, I don't watch the episodes live most of the time - usually DVR them, and I feel no need to collect the DVD's or rewatch old episodes.
My favorite seasons remain the first two - which sort of puts me in the minority, I guess. But I found those two seasons more character centric and less plotty and thematic and comic booky.
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The horror genre as a rule does not tend to lead to happy endings. (That's why Buffy and Angel always tended towards the tragic...again, horror.) And Lost is most definitely in the horror genre,with bits of sci-fantasy thrown in.
Not that it's characters really deserve happiness. Some have done some really nasty things. Desmond has had it better than most, because of all the characters - he's the only one who is not an anti-hero, he hasn't done something horrendous off or on island. For a while, I was nicknaming the island purgatory or limbo, because every character on it, with the possible exception of Bernard and his wife, had done something horrendous. Also, ironically those who hadn't done horrendous things off island, did them on island.
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If you ever get the chance to rewatch it - you'll see what I'm talking about.
At the end of that episode - we learn that Jin is remembering when he was first married to Sun, and rushing a teddy to a dignitary's wife who had just had a kid. He is remembering mentioning how one day, he too will have one. Sun on the other hand has flashforwarded.
That episode was a clue to what is going on with the island - or the weird time/space dissonance of the island. The island is not in our time-line, it exists outside of it. When anyone from the freighter came to the island and did not follow the correct coordinates, they got physically or mentally lost. The island is "lost" in the time-space continuum. Those who directly interact with the magnetic field of the island either time travel or get dislodged in time - Desmond could mentally time travel after he came in direct contact with the magnetic field that stabilizes the island and prevents the temporal anomaly within it from destroying the earth. Ben traveled a year into the future when he moved the island.
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BTW, your explanation of the nature of the island is one of the most logical and coherent I've heard to date-- thanks! So do you think it's reasonable to assume it' s extraterrestrial in origin?
And along those lines, are you familiar at all with an old series of science-fiction novels by author James Blish, the "Cities in Flight" series? If you haven't heard of or read any of them, I can give a quick basic plot outline.
( After Ben moved the island, I got a certain vibe in Blish's direction. )
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No, I don't think it is aliens. I think it's connected to the electro-magnetic field in the earth. A natural phenomena, that has to be kept in balance, and the Dharma initiative in conducting their scientific experiments may have thrown off balance. That's one theory. The other is that island itself is sentient and alive - sort of like in the comic book the X-men. Which is a bit more ludicrious but possible. I wouldn't be shocked if they threw aliens in there, but my guess is it is more likely natural or human constructed. Aliens just doesn't seem to track with the logical thread of the story, that of course doesn't mean they won't do it.
Logic and tv plotlines don't usually go hand in hand.
No, haven't read Cities of Flight. First I've heard of the series.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish#Cities_in_Flight_2
And wow, I wasn't aware Blish had passed away so long ago-- back in 1975, at the age of 54. (Acck! That's my age!)
Interesting idea anyway-- instead of the conventional spaceship(s) to the stars everybody else was writing about, Blish got the idea to place a immense force field bubble around entire Terran cities-- city, air, ground and all-- and then using an anti-gravity device literally take the city on spacefaring voyages.
So, the reason Lost sent me thinking this direction was the idea that the island was brought here by an alien civilization that actually executed this concept. The "magnetic field" could be a residual or ultra low power version of the spacefaring field.