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So no one, including me, has added to this LOST TV show thread since the program went off the air. Similarly, the last time I blogged about LOST was also 2010. I've thought about doing a rewatch, but it has always seemed too daunting. I wonder if others here, who got something out of the show (albeit maybe not total satisfaction) have ever done partial rewatches (as I have), or if it's just too much trouble.
Today I had the notion that the only way to approach LOST, lo these 15 years later, would be to go in armed with two instruments: (1) a profundity detector, and (2) a BS detector. Because whenever I think of the show, I think of some ideas that were incredibly profound, ad others that-- were just thrown into the narrative "fire" to keep the pot boiling.
Now, I've done series-rewatches for whole shows before-- Classic TREK, BATMAN, KUNG FU. But in traditional episodic shows, it's usually easy to separate the good episodes from the bad episodes. In a show with a soap opera structure, it's a lot harder to separate good from bad, because everything in the narrative flows together.
Maybe before attempting the monster that is LOST, I need to find something roughly similar, but not as overwhelming in terms of the sheer number of characters and incidents.
ADDENDUM: Here's a quickie example of detected BS. Many LOST characters are named for famed philosophers or scientists, but how often did the names signify anything beyond intriguing nerd-viewers. The "immortal man" Richard Alpert was given the birth-name of the 20th-century yoga popularizer Ram Dass. Why? Possibly just because the Hindu name "Ram Dass" means "servant of God," and that's what fictional Alpert was to Jacob. But did the name mean anything else in Alpert's overall story-arc. No, so what small meaning it might have devolves to relative bullshit.
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