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Friday, February 22, 2008

My Own Purple Rose of Cairo

My own life sucks right now and I'm not going to discuss the particulars here, yet I have this great urge to discuss one of the few fun things (besides my pets, and that gets redundant) that I have to look forward to every week, and that is LOST. It's like during the Great Depression, people escaped to silly movies in theatres (wonderfully captured in Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo") and got caught up in the adventure which diverted the attention from their own lives and difficulties and the stupid economy.

Look, I am not a typical TV watcher. Although I watch lots of news (a LOT of news, I'm a news junkie lately) and I love nature shows and documentaries and of course the food guys, I don't watch scripted shows. There is no current drama or sitcom or any kind of prime time show I watch, or one that I could even NAME. Except, of course, for LOST. So for a scripted TV drama to pull a serious intellectually-inclined news/documentary/nature person like myself in to view it religiously every week, it has to be damn good. There are only 2 other dramas that did that for me in the past 20 years, 3 if you count a sitcom, Seinfeld, and that was the X-Files and Twin Peaks. The latter was the best, and probably most similar to LOST in terms of the variety of character types and mysterious settings. I even see parallels with certain characters between the two shows, which I might discuss later.

It seems that each episode gets more intense, and this last one just blew me away. I had suspected future Kate's "he" to be her child (that she has yet to have), but WTH...it's Claire's child, Aaron!!!! What happened to Claire? Did/will she die? Is she still on the island? And what about Locke...is he completely turning Colonel Kurtz or what? "This is not a democracy?" Who appointed him ruler, anyway? If Ben gets off the island, will Locke become Ben v. 2.0? I originally thought Locke was just a strange, unusually naive and gullible (for his age) man, but it's like the classic case of megalomaniacal dictators with inferiority complexes that then try to rule the world, or island as the case may be. I used to think Ben was oh so creepy, but Locke's got him beat now.

Stan and I have discussed which "path" we would take at the beginning of this season...would we follow Jack or John? Supposedly Jack's pack would get rescued, John Locke's bunch would stay on the island because the rescue ship is not what it seems..."not Penny's boat" as dying Charlie wrote on his palm. But how does Desmond interpret that? He gets on the helicopter, despite that warning! The preview of next week's episode shows a disturbing image of the helicopter ride...well, we know Sayid survives, but I hope Desmond does too. Of course, Desmond wouldn't be one of the "Oceanic 6" because he wasn't in the crash, so we don't know what happens to him...or Juliette, for that matter. Originally I thought I would go with Jack, but then I thought maybe it's best to stay on the island, especially after having to endure this miserable Upper Peninsula winter here in Southern Wisconsin. I mean, there's always food, albeit Dharma food (wine in a box!), but there's also island fruit and Jin could catch me some sea urchin which I would be grateful for, unlike many of the other castaways. But honestly, I liked it when they had the hatch the best (it had this cool 70s basement apartment bachelor pad groove), and "New Otherton" is a bit creepy, mostly because it's turned into Lockeville lately. IRL, they filmed "New Otherton" at a YMCA camp...maybe that's why it creeps me a bit. Camp-like atmospheres, be it a strange cabin-lined street at Mammoth hot springs in Yellowstone, or the strange old Parkitecture buildings at Lake Mendota Mental Health center that have that "camp quality" are just bloody freaky. But that's just me. I could probably cope with New Otherton as long as Ben or Locke weren't around. Or if Locke was just relegated to killing boar in the jungle with his large collection or knives, that would be ok.

"You've got blood on you."
"I just killed a chicken."
Yeah, right.

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Blogger Stan said...

Lock is taking over for Ben in so many ways.

9:54 AM  

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