tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8269024.post502909873650955034..comments2023-06-03T07:06:15.649-06:00Comments on All Things Pop Culture: I think I get it: My take on Lost’s Season Five Finale, "The Incident"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067228751302695929noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8269024.post-16123562468820155272009-05-25T21:37:44.574-06:002009-05-25T21:37:44.574-06:00Great post and great critique in the sense that it...Great post and great critique in the sense that it made look at the whole mythology from a different angle and suddenly simpler IS better! I'm just sad there were no BSG allusions in your post but maybe Lost and BSG fans don't overlap that much.<br /><br />ps I think Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader is the Jesus-like figure in Star Wars, the one who will bring balance to the force.Aaron Pressmanhttp://gravitationalpull.net/wp/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8269024.post-43551625916328655372009-05-19T21:33:37.771-06:002009-05-19T21:33:37.771-06:00Great post Paige. I'm with you on the show becomi...Great post Paige. I'm with you on the show becoming what we see it to be, that was the way it was in Season 1 and think that will be what it returns to in season 6.<br /><br />The good/evil, fate/free-will always are in tension, we shouldn't expect Darlton to answer that question, but more point out that the answer lies in living out the question. <br /><br />Or as Jacob quipped, "Everying thing else is just progress."<br /><br />Peace.Jon Stuevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02767683736921274881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8269024.post-1608082369972723312009-05-15T07:53:00.000-06:002009-05-15T07:53:00.000-06:00I meant Joseph Campbell not Conrad. The horror .....I meant Joseph Campbell not Conrad. The horror ...Kent Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8269024.post-56143585900298509482009-05-15T07:35:00.000-06:002009-05-15T07:35:00.000-06:00I love this! Can you add links to some of the ea...I love this! Can you add links to some of the earlier interviews and other Lostology referenced here? I'm always too exhausted at the end of the episode to watch it again and try to pick up the hidden clues, but happy to read about them. As an entertainment, the show needs more of the lightness that Hugo brings. But the Joseph Conrad stuff definitely enriches the experience -- provided one can read the signs.Kent Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8269024.post-63304755938210370992009-05-14T23:09:00.000-06:002009-05-14T23:09:00.000-06:00Wow! That's an awful lot of writing around a seaso...Wow! That's an awful lot of writing around a season finale, even a two-parter. <br /><br />Although I still watch LOST, I've found it less and less compelling over time. The writers have indulged in so many superficial, often silly references to philosophy and literature that the show sometimes plays like a college term paper. <br /><br />This was the same problem with JJ Abrams "Alias" whose action-adventure storyline was famously wrecked by the endless and tiresome "Rimbaldi" mythology. To really pull out of this morass, I think the LOST team needs to focus the final season on letting the main characters confront and overcome their personal flaws. <br /><br />That's what makes good shows great. I'm thinking of West Wing and Hill Street Blues just to name two where major characters emerge battered but wiser for their series-long Odyssey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8269024.post-59458121604799392382009-05-14T16:50:00.000-06:002009-05-14T16:50:00.000-06:00Not sure if I agree with you, but that's an intere...Not sure if I agree with you, but that's an interesting theory.Prashanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805761977761693082noreply@blogger.com