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rose_griffes) wrote2010-02-03 08:04 pm
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'Lost' thought (before I go collapse in a heap)
eta: (mostly) not related to Lost--I just found out there is a new Connie Willis book! And it's another time-travel book!
*digs out Amazon.com gift certificate*
I don't have enough coherence in my thoughts about last night's Lost to make a post yet, and I don't have time to rewatch. So I'll do a couple of links and a brief moment of musing.
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lizardbeth_j wrote about timelines and selenak wrote a thoughtful entry about the whole two-hour premiere.
I'm not sure when it happened but somewhere over the last few years I lost my concern for most of the individual characters on Lost. Not that I had a huge amount of concern to begin with, come to think of it.
The roles are played by attractive actors and there's a decent (though not stellar) amount of character continuity, but I don't identify with any particular person from the show* and I don't find myself particularly attracted to them either. I can look at Sawyer and think, "Blonde hair, dimples, blue eyes, he's exactly my type (minus the slopey shoulders)," but it's all theoretical. Sawyer was moderately attractive when he was with Juliet, just because I liked their dynamic. I don't worry about what's going to happen to him, though.
Maybe that's because it's going to be something bad. Also, Sawyer and the others are not very deserving of wonderful fates anyway. If only bad things happen, and they generally happen to 'bad' people, it's not going to elicit compassion from me as a viewer.
However, I do find myself caring very much about what's going to happen to the characters, because it's interesting. Parallel universes, time travel, special destiny versus free will, polar bears on tropical islands?!--all of these concepts are fascinating to think about, and seeing them put into action in someone's (fictional) life is compelling.
*Juliet became a favorite character of mine during her time on the show. Characters who are (initially) enigmatic, like her and Ben, are automatically more interesting. Then the show pushed the family button--she loved her sister and wanted to go home to meet her baby niece--and I started to care about her. But even then... it's just a matter of time before someone else dies on this show, so I didn't get very attached. I didn't like the season five finale for the motivations it gave to her for detonating the bomb, but I still liked Juliet. I'm not surprised she died in this premiere; at least she got to tell Sawyer that she did it so he would never be brought to the island. That's a better reason than what she said before.**
**She knew Sawyer before. I wonder if she thought the whole thing through if she'd still think that way. He's one of the characters who was changed for the better by his time on the island, and without any memory of that time, he'll revert back to who he was before. (Or did revert back. Or will have reverted back. See, this whole thing gets tricky with verb tenses. Hee!)
*digs out Amazon.com gift certificate*
I don't have enough coherence in my thoughts about last night's Lost to make a post yet, and I don't have time to rewatch. So I'll do a couple of links and a brief moment of musing.
lizardbeth_j wrote about timelines and selenak wrote a thoughtful entry about the whole two-hour premiere.I'm not sure when it happened but somewhere over the last few years I lost my concern for most of the individual characters on Lost. Not that I had a huge amount of concern to begin with, come to think of it.
The roles are played by attractive actors and there's a decent (though not stellar) amount of character continuity, but I don't identify with any particular person from the show* and I don't find myself particularly attracted to them either. I can look at Sawyer and think, "Blonde hair, dimples, blue eyes, he's exactly my type (minus the slopey shoulders)," but it's all theoretical. Sawyer was moderately attractive when he was with Juliet, just because I liked their dynamic. I don't worry about what's going to happen to him, though.
Maybe that's because it's going to be something bad. Also, Sawyer and the others are not very deserving of wonderful fates anyway. If only bad things happen, and they generally happen to 'bad' people, it's not going to elicit compassion from me as a viewer.
However, I do find myself caring very much about what's going to happen to the characters, because it's interesting. Parallel universes, time travel, special destiny versus free will, polar bears on tropical islands?!--all of these concepts are fascinating to think about, and seeing them put into action in someone's (fictional) life is compelling.
*Juliet became a favorite character of mine during her time on the show. Characters who are (initially) enigmatic, like her and Ben, are automatically more interesting. Then the show pushed the family button--she loved her sister and wanted to go home to meet her baby niece--and I started to care about her. But even then... it's just a matter of time before someone else dies on this show, so I didn't get very attached. I didn't like the season five finale for the motivations it gave to her for detonating the bomb, but I still liked Juliet. I'm not surprised she died in this premiere; at least she got to tell Sawyer that she did it so he would never be brought to the island. That's a better reason than what she said before.**
**She knew Sawyer before. I wonder if she thought the whole thing through if she'd still think that way. He's one of the characters who was changed for the better by his time on the island, and without any memory of that time, he'll revert back to who he was before. (Or did revert back. Or will have reverted back. See, this whole thing gets tricky with verb tenses. Hee!)