my TV pleasure: Lost

Above image by Edwin Ushiro from Lost Underground Art Show


I am just going to post my brief thoughts:

What occurred to me while thinking about the most recent episode, (episode 615 "Across the Sea")is how LOST mankind is. (If you are not a LOST fan and have never seen the show, DO NOT start on that episode!) When I began watching the series, all I could think about was the characters being mysteriously, yet simply lost. Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away. Just lost as in "off the map."

Then over the course of season 1, when more of the island and its other inhabitants were revealed, I thought, Is the island like that of Dr. Moreau? Or is this show something like "The Most Dangerous Game?" Then, many people thought the castaways were supernaturally Lost. That possibly the island is purgatory, or hell, or some kind of wormhole to a parallel universe?

Now I am beginning to see it as a morality tale of sorts. Mankind is seen as LOST, where even the seemingly good characters must do something bad, like the purges and such.

I can't help but think of aspects of the Old Testament Bible.

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Another LOST fan named Gracie wrote on Nikki Stafford's blog:

"Everyone, it seems has their own theory regarding Lost. Ok, so take your theory for just one second and set it aside. Within the first ten or fifteen minutes of Lost: Season Six, the writers wanted us to know that this island is underwater. They showed it to us. Everything as we last saw it, just now under the sea. Now can anyone pick back up their theory and apply it to an island that we know is underwater?
Anyone?"

I think she made an excellent point, that many of us LOST fans are forgetting.

Now it occurs to me as all the characters and threads are being woven together like the tapestry on Jacob's & his Mother's loom, weaving a bigger picture but I'm not sure how it will all turn out! But the ride has been fun and exciting. Only one more hour episode and then a 2.5 hour series finale to go.