Thoughts on "The Lost"

[tokentales]

"Changeling is a game of beauty and cruelty, of passion and loss, of dreams and madness. You have struggled your way back through the thorns only to find your life had been stolen from you. Now you make your way the best you can, attempting to piece together the fragments of your lost life or to forge a new one, chasing your ambition through the

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[moonpanther]

Part of the way I see things is that while there are physical changes and mystical changes, the psychological changes will likely be a great way to explore the characters. I was speaking about Lost with somebody at SERE and suggested that a couple of films that might (I stressed the "might") fit the inspirational mold are "Apocolypse Now" or "The Deer Hunter." Why, you might ask? Because the Vietnam War provided plenty of examples of people who went someplace one way and came back to their lives back home unable to cope or fit in. Colonel Kurtz, in Lost terms, might be equated to somebody who was taken to the land of Faerie and has no desire to escape because he has no place in the mortal world any more, for example. Even if there's nobody to take your place, if you only Lost a day, if it should be easy to fit right back into your life, it should be difficult for characters to break the habits they learned and acclimate to their own lives.

Now that I think about it, the Star Trek: DS9 episode "Hard Time" might also work, with Chief O'Brian's hallucinations of Ee'char substituting for his Keeper, always there, always reminding him of what he'd done, what he'd become. It's the same reason that recovering alcoholics are told that if there is a place or an item that they associated with drinking (like a favorite chair), they should avoid it. Remembering pulls us back in, when the Lost likely want to forget their experiences. But how can you do that, knowing your Keeper might be just around the corner?

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