LOST Season 4 Finale (Spoilers)

[triniroslin15]

Absolutely awesome!! Who was going to think that I would say this about this TV show? I hated it Season 1... LOL But I have to say that Lost was getting better since Season 1... no doubt. Surely It's Ben's fault.

¡Absolutamente estupendo! ¿Quién iba a pensar que yo diría esto sobre esta serie? Odié la 1ª temporada, pero tengo que decir qeu despues

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[boot_the_grime]

You hated season 1? Really? Why?

I liked it since season 1, but I really got hooked in season 2... maybe because I watched S1 on TV once a week... it's better to watch LOST on DVD.

Jeremy Bentham is a real-life famous English philosopher... just like the real John Locke... only he lived some 100 years later. Check his bio... Bentham's body was preserved in a really bizarre way, according to his will. His skeleton, dressed in his own clothes, and with a fake wax head, is being kept and displayed in a wooden cabinet in the University College Of London.

The cabinet contains Bentham's preserved skeleton, dressed in his own clothes, and surmounted by a wax head. Bentham requested that his body be preserved in this way in his will made shortly before his death on 6 June 1832. The cabinet was moved to UCL in 1850.

Not surprisingly, this peculiar relic has given rise to numerous legends and anecdotes. One of the most commonly recounted is that the Auto-Icon regularly attends meetings of the College Council, and that it is solemnly wheeled into the Council Room to take its place among the present-day members. Its presence, it is claimed, is always recorded in the minutes with the words Jeremy Bentham - present but not voting. Another version of the story asserts that the Auto-Icon does vote, but only on occasions when the votes of the other Council members are equally split. In these cases the Auto-Icon invariably votes for the motion.

Bentham had originally intended that his head should be part of the Auto-Icon, and for ten years before his death (so runs another story) carried around in his pocket the glass eyes which were to adorn it. Unfortunately when the time came to preserve it for posterity, the process went disastrously wrong, robbing the head of most of its facial expression, and leaving it decidedly unattractive. The wax head was therefore substituted, and for some years the real head, with its glass eyes, reposed on the floor of the Auto-Icon, between Bentham's legs. However, it proved an irresistible target for students, especially from King's College London, who stole the head in 1975 and demanded a ransome of £100 to be paid to the charity Shelter. UCL finally agreed to pay a ransome of £10 and the head was returned. On another occasion, according to legend, the head, again stolen by students, was eventually found in a luggage locker at a Scottish Station (possibly Aberdeen). The last straw (so runs yet another story) came when it was discovered in the front quadrangle being used for football practice, and the head was henceforth placed in secure storage.

Many people have speculated as to exactly why Bentham chose to have his body preserved in this way, with explanations ranging from a practical joke at the expense of posterity to a sense of overweening self-importance. Perhaps the Auto-Icon may be more plausibly regarded as an attempt to question religious sensibilities about life and death. Yet whatever Bentham's true motives, the Auto-Icon will always be a source of fascination and debate, and will serve as a perpetual reminder of the man whose ideals inspired the institution in which it stands.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/jb.htm

[triniroslin15]

I didn´t like Season 1 because made no sense... What about the monsters? What about the numbers? Who care about that right now?
Think about it: the most important characters around the island don´t appear until Season 2: Ben and Penelope's father.

[boot_the_grime]

But the monster and numbers played as much of a role in the next seasons (numbers even more so in season 2) and they still haven't resolved the mystery of the numbers.

I like the way the story about the island has been developing since season 2, and I like the mindfraks with flashbacks/flashforwards/time travel etc. But the main reason I love the series is because of the characters... just like BSG, the story may be interesting but the characters are what really hooked me to the show, if it was all about the plot I wouldn't love the show so much...I have to care about these people. Season 1 did a really great job of establishing the characters... that's what hooked me to the show in the first place - the way they used flashbacks to show that nobody was what they seemed to be... you start watching and they seem like stereotypes (heroic doctor, plucky girl, submissive Asian wife and domineering husband, etc.) and then you see people's backstories and realize that they're way more complex than that... I loved Locke's first centric episode, "Walkabout", it was the one that really convinced me this was a show to watch.

[triniroslin15]

I will read that about Bentham later... looks very intriguing, and interesting O_O