meta on Lost 6.16

[cynthia_arrow]

I had planned on a full month of hiatus, to get my head screwed on straight about what I wanted this LJ to be (and I will definitely be posting about that soon!), but I couldn't resist some thinky meta on last night's episode. Lengthy, too

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[birch_tree]

ok, first of all let me tell you how I happy I am to find this post. A bit late, but finally, here you are: someone who didn't hate this episode!!
I just want to hug you.
Maybe I wouldn't say that I loved it, but I did enjoy and appreciated it a lot, for the same reasons you explained in one of your comments above, when you say: I have a brain that just won't allow me to focus on the negative of things I'm interested in. There's always something positive if you're looking for it, and I'd rather enjoy my viewing experience than complain about it.
That's exactly how I feel. I love to enjoy my viewing experience! ^_^
We haven't talked much in the past, so I apologize if I am intruding, but I find your post (and comments) just brilliant.
Funny thing is, I posted my ideas in another community, and they were basically something you mention too: Jacob and his brother not as Abel and Cain (nor Jacob and Esau), but as "Adam before the Fall" and "Adam after the Fall". I think your "final thoughts" are absolutely spot-on. Eve is the woman that tempts the boys by showing them not an apple tree but a beautiful source of light, forbidding them to go into it. One of them is not exactly "good" but rather...dull. Unable to lie, to really see/imagine things, to wish for something different than what he already has. On the other hand, his brother does make a choice: he chooses knowledge -as you said. The Knowledge of Good and Evil, the loss of pure innocence in exchange of Free Will. And therefore he is forever banned from the Garden of Eden: he has to share a life of hard physical labor with a race -the humans- he actually despises, but that has come to become his people, since he fell from his privileged status.

[cynthia_arrow]

I don't care how much we have or haven't talked. I always like hearing other people's opinions...especially if they agree with mine. ;)

I think I'm gonna do a daily post everyday between now and the finale just for people to celebrate what they like about the show. Seems like we're keeping quiet because we're in the minority, and that's just silly.

Thanks for adding your thoughts on the knowledge idea!