Not a fantasy universe != incoherent worldbuilding. I really don't see what the one has to do with the other.
The count of three isn't a plan. It's Sesame Street.
Buffy ,'First Date'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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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?
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.
Sean K - Oct 25, 2004 9:00:00 am PDT #504 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Not to speak for Jess, but I think I got what she was saying....
She's not saying she doesn't want it all to be rational reality goodness, or that there can't be sci fi/fantasy elements.
She just doesn't want there to be an overarching mythology. Explanations ! = mythology.