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I Got LOST This Month.

3/20/2010

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About a month and a half ago, roughly, Kristi and I began watching LOST. We started with the DVDs from Season 1, and have just caught up with the most recent episode of Season 6. It was quite the winter marathon. But extremely rewarding.

I can't recommend enough watching LOST in this way. The storyline plays not like a soap opera, but rather more like a Greek Epic, like the Orestia (my theatre degree coming in handy once again)... It doesn't try to "catch you up" each week, but rather, simply continues to tell the epic story. And because I watched each episode back-to-back, sometimes 3 in one evening, I didn't spend any time hypothesizing about the many mysteries of the show - I just watched, took it all in.

I won't spend any time in this post going over all the cool spiritual symbolism that exists in the storyline, many others have done that much better than me... (I mean, come on, Jack SHEPHERD has a son named DAVID who is a musical genius and his significant number is 23.)

Let's just say that I'm enjoying it, and I am glad that I caught up to the pop culture epic before the series finale.

Do you watch LOST?

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Marlene
3/20/2010 05:32:33 am

No. Or not yet. I don't know if I will. It's not really my kind of thing, but almost everyone I know has watched, so maybe someday...

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Bethany link
3/20/2010 06:14:08 am

I also watched the first 4 seasons on DVD (and then have watched it week to week), and it is definitely a great way to go through the series. While I am interested to see where the story goes, my favorite part of the show is the characters.

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ellie link
3/20/2010 07:19:52 am

It sounds to highbrow for the likes of me.

Orestia? Huh?

Sigh.

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ellie link
3/20/2010 07:20:34 am

See, I can't even spell too correctly.

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pam
3/27/2010 02:23:23 am

I just happened to catch LOST on the night it premiered, years ago. I was channel surfing & it was just starting. I was hooked from the 1st episode. It was a different kind of storytelling in TV back then (now there have been several copycats). I am eager to see a lot of questions answered, mysteries solved. As of right now, seems the majority of the writing staff just might be Catholic ... ;)

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