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I found it ineffectual to attempt to have a conversation with my husband about otherness, colonialism, and surveillance in the TV show LOST while he was trying to fall asleep. Then I realized, I owe it to him to vent properly onto the internet, despite being fifteen years late to the conversation.And, yes, spoilers. ![]() In the last episode I saw, Jack, Sawyer, and Kate are being kept hostage by The Others. Sayid begins a rescue attempt which results in the loss of the boat. My husband has given me many spoilers about the show---the time travel, the different eras the show suddenly goes into, possible interpretations of the ending. At the end of season two, I gave him my interpretation of the show and he was shocked. He said I was spot on The show has flashbacks, time travel, electromagnetic sources, polar bears, a missing corpse, ridiculously meaningful coincidences, a button that has to be pushed every 108 minutes or the world will end, magical numbers that seem to be cursed and first uttered by a man in a mental hospital, and, of course, the black smoke that moves through the jungle accompanied by a metallic roaring. There's more, of course.
It all makes sense. Are the numbers magical? It's not important. Why a polar bear? It's not important (though will be explained, I'm told). Some things aren't explained and that has pissed off many viewers, but it doesn't matter. This is why.
Next time, I'll talk about what it means to be lost, how the opening of the show represents one of our most ancient, referenced metaphors and symbols, and how the show is all about Jack.
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