Buffistas

This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.

Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'

Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR

[NAFDA] This is where we talk about the show! Anything that's aired in the US (including promos) is fair game. No spoilers though -- if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it.

First Previous Next Last Recent

DavidS - Oct 25, 2004 8:30:03 am PDT #493 of 10000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Maybe purgatory isn't the proper analogy. It could be more like Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld.

In that scenario, everybody who ever lived - upon their death - gets cast up into a new world with exciting physical world problems.

But I don't think they're actually going for a post-life scenario with the show.

DavidS - Oct 25, 2004 8:31:59 am PDT #494 of 10000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't especially want a Lostverse mythology. I like that there's been a lot of weird unexplainable shit happening, but...I don't know. I want it to be real people dealing with real things that are really happening in the real world. I don't want it to be fantasy/horror universe. I would find that incredibly disappointing.

Over the long haul, though, the lack of coherent world-building will lead to narrative inconsistencies that will look like nothing so much as random asspulls and narrative jerkarounds. See, Chris Carter.

Jessica - Oct 25, 2004 8:34:32 am PDT #495 of 10000

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Not a fantasy universe != incoherent worldbuilding. I really don't see what the one has to do with the other.

DavidS - Oct 25, 2004 8:36:05 am PDT #496 of 10000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Not a fantasy universe != incoherent worldbuilding. I really don't see what the one has to do with the other.

Well, I thought it was already a given that something about the island is fantastical. Though that may be untrue. But it seems to operating extra-normally.

Consuela - Oct 25, 2004 8:43:45 am PDT #497 of 10000

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm with David: something is stinky in the state of Lost. Perhaps it is an enormous invisible cow!

Jessica - Oct 25, 2004 8:44:22 am PDT #498 of 10000

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I'm not explaining myself very well. Never mind.

Steph L. - Oct 25, 2004 8:44:37 am PDT #499 of 10000

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

something is stinky in the state of Lost.

Three words: Rotting. Polar. Bear.

Consuela - Oct 25, 2004 8:46:47 am PDT #500 of 10000

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Bwah, Steph!

And just think: they could have eaten it!

DavidS - Oct 25, 2004 8:52:22 am PDT #501 of 10000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And just think: they could have eaten it!

I've eaten bear meat. It doesn't taste like chicken.

Vonnie K - Oct 25, 2004 8:53:06 am PDT #502 of 10000

Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I think Lost has declared itself as a genre show. It could be a modern fantasy (all our wishes come true! But in a fuck-up unpredictable ways! Or, they are in a purgatory!) or it could be Sci-Fi (weird alien/goverment/big brother with some advanced technology, engineering the fall of the plane, then experimenting on the passengers--bringing on polar bears, giving Locke new legs, resurrecting/cloning Dr. Sheppard to observe Jack's emotional response, etc.) Mundane explanations based on our current level of science wouldn't do it.

First Previous Next Last Recent