Random Thought

I've been meaning to write two short prose pieces, one about Carlos Beltran striking out looking and another about repetitive beggars on the F train. That was all inspired by reading Chuck Klosterman III: Killing Yourself to Live. (Some people have Sedaris. I have CHUCK.)

Instead though, as usual, I've been writing at the Fuselage. I am actually trying to wean myself off of it because I KNOW something's going to happen later this season that will fry a lot of people's brains and turn many, many people against the show. I don't even know what it is yet, but if Damon Lindelof himself says it'll cause people to cry "Jumped the Shark" then something wicked this way comes. I don't want to be in its way. I'm already wasting too much time defending the damn thing to people who are supposed to be fans. (Sounds like the comic industry, huh?)

Anywho I just had to respond to this comment:

Here is the sad fact though guys. I do not believe there is any grand theory. This show is becoming "The Lost World". All of the things that happened on this Island have happened in other such movies and shows. Time events, monsters, others, ancient civilizations, weird animals, phenonenon that escape science as we know it. If anyone has seen the TV "Lost World" series you know how this cheesy stuff is just being presented in million dollar form with a few new idea's mixed with some Pop culture drama

And I responded with this:

I do not believe there is a grand theory, but I do believe there is a grand message or theme that Damon and Carlton and JJ are trying (albeit in their own way) to impart. Incorporating all the world's "Time events, monsters, others, ancient civilizations, weird animals, phenonenon" has long been a storytelling device in genre fiction as you point out. But I believe here it's more than a gimmick... here they're trying to say that the Island is a locus of the world's imaginary phenomenon. (Much as, say, the Dreaming was in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.) On the surface that just drives the Losties crazy or scares the pants off of them. Below the surface though, the Losties are being forced to face concrete manifestations of universal human fears. Just as they were running away from these things in the "real world" they now have to confront them on the Island in the form of polar bears, smoke monsters and The Others. What happens when the real and the imaginary collide? What do the Losties become then? How do they adapt? How do they change? How do they evolve from traumatized people to people who come face-to-face with their traumas?