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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.

le nubian - Oct 25, 2004 8:53:49 am PDT #503 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

At its base, there needs to be an explanation for:

1) the "monster" that picked up the pilot's body (and probably killed the boar in Locke's ep;

2) the person/thing killing people 16 years ago in the French woman's plea for help;

3) Jack's dad walking/running around; 4) Locke walking

5) OMGWTFPOLARBEAR

Whatever the situation is (magical realism, I don't know)...it definitely is in the land of the fantastic.

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