Lost – Daddy issues revisited

Lost – Daddy issues revisited

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Warning: This post contains explicit SPOILERS about the ending to the television show Lost. If you haven't seen it and intend to watch it one day, do not read this. Last July, I ruminated on a subject many others had touched upon many times: The cast members of Lost sure do have daddy issues! When you look at the things that made these people who they were, the sins of the father were inextricably tied into their trials and tribulations. At the end of that post, I posed the following: "So what's the deal with Lost's immense stack of father-troubled…

Lost – Faith in one another is an enduring theme

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Warning: This post contains explicit SPOILERS about the ending to the television show Lost. If you haven't seen it and intend to watch it one day, do not read this. I'm not going to go into my detailed thoughts on the finale, the series, or any of that. Not yet. EVERYONE is doing that right now so I'd just get lost in the mix, and frankly, there is just too much to say in one post, anyway. But I do want to revisit something I posted about last year. Last year, after the finale to the fifth season of Lost,…
Thank you, HBO, for making TV awesome

Thank you, HBO, for making TV awesome

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I recently finished watching all five seasons of HBO's The Wire, a critical darling that pretty much no one saw. The show has been lauded by some as the best drama in television history, a level of hyperbole that at first I did not easily swallow but which I've come to completely understand. What began as a cop show with profanity became one of the most powerful pieces of social commentary of the last 40 years. And that's the truth. When it comes to my relationship with HBO programming, these revelations are beginning to become routine. I'm one of those…
Lost – On daddy issues

Lost – On daddy issues

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WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for the television show Lost. If you have not caught up through season 5, do not read this. It will spoil your enjoyment of the show. Lost makes no great attempt to hide its recurring themes. Faith versus reason (as I've already discussed), free will versus fate, and redemption and rebirth are not just subtle thematic elements of the show, they are right up front and center. These aspects of the show's thematic heart are oft discussed, but a common element more infrequently discussed is the sins of the father; trying to rise above deep…
Lost – On Locke and faith

Lost – On Locke and faith

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WARNING: The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the television show Lost. If you have not caught up through season 5, do not read this. It will spoil your enjoyment of the show. Indulge me for a moment while I write about Lost, in my estimation one of television's greatest dramas and something with which I am currently obsessed. Of all the overriding themes of Lost, one of the most powerful is that of faith. Or more accurately, the struggle between faith and reason. The belief in fate and external forces beyond our comprehension, and the disregard of those concepts in…