So...Lost? Random thoughts..

[shadowkat]

Works slow which is making me edgy. I don't do slow well. I like to be crazy busy. Most people just wander about and chat with folks, which I can do a little of...before feeling quilty for distracting them from their work and running out of stuff to talk about. This will be fast since at work.

Anywho...Lost?

Is that a cliff-hanger or what? And now we have to wait eight frigging months?
Also...



Please not Juliet. Just when I was beginning to love the character to pieces.
Also, she appears to be the only one that Jacob did not visit, along with Benjamin Linus. (Yes, I'm a Juliet/Sawyer fan. Also a Bernard/Rose fan. The only two romantic relationships I've seen depicted on a sci-fantasy series that actually are healthy/supportive and work for the long-term.)

Jacob and Conrad or God and the Devil playing Chess in the book of Job - at least that's what came to mind. Seems Conrad finally found his loop-hole to kill Jacob, question is - will what Jack and his companions do in the past undo it all?

This thing can go down two ways - one they reset the dang clock and cause a parrallel universe or two they cause what actually happened.

Kudos to Miles for the best line of the night - "so, has it occurred to any of you that the bomb may actually set off the incident that you are attempting to avoid or change? That by setting off this bomb you may actually set everything in motion? And the best thing to have done would have been nothing at all? Glad to see you guys have thought this through."

So the writers deliberately tell us the two options. 1) they reset the button
2.) they kill everyone on the island and cause the events that happened in the future, ie the plane crash

We may be given a clue by the state that the statue is in - it is destroyed with just a foot. The question is when did it get destroyed? Not sure. May have been before the 1970s.

This season has been really good. Lots to ponder. And last night's episode rocked.

More thoughts later.

Comments

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

Regarding Juliet, my response to that scene was "DAMN THEM!!" (meaning the writers).

Bernard and Rose always remind me of the older couples on soap operas back when they had older long-established couples that seemed to form the bedrock on which all the other drama took place.

And Juliet had evolved into my favorite character, the one I might actually want to know and be friends with. And I enjoyed the relationship she and Sawyer had developed, much the way I'd loved the one between Giles and Jenny on Buffy. And this is why I don't really ever have 'ships. They always kill them off.

I have to admit, I'm totally wondering which way the story will go, and given the way it's gone up to now I wouldn't be surprised if it goes toward option 3, which no one thought about. Of course, it's also crossed my mind that it would be hilariously evil to end it with a Victoria Principle voice-over: "Bobby? I had the oddest dream..."

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Bernard and Rose always remind me of the older couples on soap operas back when they had older long-established couples that seemed to form the bedrock on which all the other drama took place.

Yep. And like in the soap operas they remain safe. Never be killed, never broken up. If you want to ship a couple? Always go for this one. Of course they also get relatively no screentime. (Still appear in soaps by the way, just less often.
Because writers are evil and like conflict, so do fans apparently. )

And Juliet had evolved into my favorite character, the one I might actually want to know and be friends with. And I enjoyed the relationship she and Sawyer had developed, much the way I'd loved the one between Giles and Jenny on Buffy. And this is why I don't really ever have 'ships. They always kill them off.

Me too. Dang writers. Speculation was either they'd kill her off or let her and Sawyer get married on the beach. (I was sort of hoping for option 2, but Lost is a psychological horror series - sort of like Fringe is..so option 2, so not going to happen.) Sawyer and Juliet were in some respects the counter to Jack/Kate. Just as Giles/Jenny were the counter to Buffy/Angel.
(Actually Jack reminds me a lot Angel as a character..same Daddy issues.) In horror shows - the happy couple is always torn apart by a tragic death, while the not-so-happy/passionate/but angsty couple - lives on to torment one another as well as tease the audience endlessly.

Sigh. This is why I don't do ships or don't allow myself to become too emotionally invested in ships. (I don't, I may read fanfic on them, and analyze them, but if they end - c'est la vie.) Much simpler to get invested in characters, although that is also disastorous in ensemble serial horror tv shows - where writers like to kill people off. Although with Lost, I tend be generally ambivalent...except dang, Juliet. I was right there with Sawyer trying to get her to hold on. Thing of it is, if she'd died last season - I wouldn't have cared. This season - she really grew on me. Sawyer and her brought out the best in each other.

I have to admit, I'm totally wondering which way the story will go, and given the way it's gone up to now I wouldn't be surprised if it goes toward option 3, which no one thought about. Of course, it's also crossed my mind that it would be hilariously evil to end it with a Victoria Principle voice-over: "Bobby? I had the oddest dream..."

I doubt we'll get the dream bit - been way overdone, to the point of becoming a cliche, and they'd get skewered. It just about killed Dallas. The only shows it worked in was Newhart and St. Elsewhere.

Option 3 is a possibility. It's hard to do well though. Option 3 is where you don't change everything, just certain odd bits, which causes the time line to be well different, as seen in the Back to the Future flick. It's the same, but not. (ie. They still end up on the island, there's still a plane crash, but Boone doesn't die, Locke is killed instead or something like that.) Very hard to pull off without confusing your audience.

Am curious though - there's more than one possibility. They've teased us with at least two.