[meme] an attempt to prove that lj isn't dead
I would love to prove singlehandedly that lj isn't dead... but the overwhelming amount of unanswered comments in my inbox would beg to differ. This isn't about lj at all - this is about me needing a distraction because I am seriously losing it.
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Well your LOST watching experience is either worse or better than mine. I marathoned the entire show, season by season, after it had been completed. I can't imagine watching it episode by episode.
And Jacob, lol. I have this weird love/hate relationship with him and his character. Like, I feel for him getting stabbed to death by Ben, but I always get the idea that he's supposed to be the misguided god that we're supposed to side-eye for manipulating everyone. That the people who trust in Jacob are tragic characters because he frankly doesn't deserve it. NGL though, I love the last three seasons a lot because I like the Others and the general insanity being answered by more insanity.
Also she is practically perfect in every way.
Preach. Maybe it was because I watched s6 first and was emotionally attached to her, so didn't have the problems everyone else did? Teenagers acting like teenagers is also my favourite thing ever so I was in love with her from the end of Real Me onward ( ... )
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but I always get the idea that he's supposed to be the misguided god that we're supposed to side-eye for manipulating everyone
My dislike of Jacob is eternal and all-encompassing.
I have this ~thing where I read LOST in many ways as a cautionary tale against Judeo-Christian monotheism? Or Western monotheism? The false dichotomy between Jacob and Brother wreaks of a corrupt system - and as someone who is decidedly on the side of pagan - I see the whole Brother/Jacob/Potentials fiasco as a testament to how damaging dividing our Reality into a black/white dichotomy can be. With Mother (and arguably Hugo - though I take minor issue with that) the Island seems to be more of a holistic space, rather than a divided one... which is a potentially positive message - if you are paying attention. Because half of the last three seasons is so focused on "inner darkness" being ultimately corruptible, it's easy to lose track of the fact that - that ( ... )
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I think so? I wondered whether the push-pull between the brothers was supposed to represent the god/devil divide, but given Jacob killed his brother and therefore set the whole chain of events off wherein he drags in more and more people, I never thought we were supposed to take his ~grievances at face value. And every single them-versus-us mindset that was constructed was destroyed later when we got the other side of the story.
NO, BABBLE MOAR.
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There is - from the beginning - a break-down of Us/Them or Insiders/Outsiders. Which the characters are aware of, even as they keep trying to push up boundaries - they talk about it so much that it is obviously on their minds in a variety of interesting ways. But In S5/6 the "inner darkness" and "needing to be saved" and "keep all those with darkness out" stuff is taken SO SERIOUSLY by all the characters that come into contact with it - that it just gets kind of gross, I thought. Even though the audience isn't necessarily "supposed" to think that the black/white Brother/Jacob dichotomy is supposed to be taken at face-value, the characters do in many ways (or are presented with that mindset) and... quite frankly I don't trust the majority of the audience to see the commentary.
Like... in Supernatural - at face value (and according to Sam) - Dean is a chauvinist pig who only thinks of women as objects. Now I'm only in S6 - but even from the beginning, that isn't ( ... )
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