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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.
I'm with David: something is stinky in the state of Lost. Perhaps it is an enormous invisible cow!
I'm not explaining myself very well. Never mind.
something is stinky in the state of Lost.
Three words: Rotting. Polar. Bear.
Bwah, Steph!
And just think: they could have eaten it!
And just think: they could have eaten it!
I've eaten bear meat. It doesn't taste like chicken.
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.
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.
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.
Explanations ! = mythology.
I'm not sure I think the explanations are going to be every day ones, so when I used the word "mythology" I meant explanations+rules, working on the assumption that there is a fantastical element. Now if it turns out to be more along the Jurassic Park lines, where rich people/corporation/mad scientists have caused the fantastic through everyday means (dropping a polar bear off on a tropical island; breeding some ginormous animal), and if Locke's recovery was just a fluke ala getting amnesia from a bump on the head, and regaining one's memory from a bump on the head, then the rules behind it (and in my personal lexicon, the mythology) is realistic world happenings.
Oh my word. I just read that back to myself. If Jess thought she was going to win the not-explaining-myself-well award today, I've just ripped it from her hands.
When come back, bring articulation.