Doc lets it all hang out this time... and lets slip a couple of near-spoilers regarding "Greatest Hits." Now, I don't consider this to be real spoiler material, as nothing concrete gets spilled....
Tonight, you will visit a new Dharma station. You will see the
terrifying revival of Jack, Bad-ass King of the Castaways. You will see Charlie â?? destined-to-die ex-druggie; happily reconstructed one-hit-wonder rocker; Claire-smitten surrogate Aaron daddy â?? make an extraordinarily courageous choice that in many ways sums up what Lost is all about for me. So perhaps we can let those bits stand as a tantalizing preview.
*Drool* New DHARMA Station! Rock on! Does anyone have any speculation on what it might entail? This sounds like it might come "out of the blue" and I can't imagine they'd do anything else but set up things for next season with it... but still. Wooo!
Is Charlie gonna finally succumb to fate? I've purposely not gone a-spoiler-seekin for these last two, just because (from all the buzz) it sounds like too much is spelled out. On the other hand, it seems to be an all-or-nothing deal with respect to season three's final two episodes. Either you know nothing, or you know everything! So I'm going the "I know nothing!" route, in case you were wondering where the "Look Ahead" posts are....
I also gotta stand up and applaud the Doc on his viewpoint regarding LOST and the analysis nay-sayers. I got a couple comments on the "Alice" post from yesterday, and I think what the Doc says sums it up best for me too!
What's so awesome about this show is that it's one seriously big-ass
tent of madcap mental fun â?? and I want to revel in it all! Moreover, we're talking about a show that namechecks John Locke, David Hume, and Mikhail frakkin' Bakunin. Do I think the producers are seriously inviting debate of philosophical ideas? YES! Do I think it's necessary to do hours and hours of homework in order to understand the show? Heavenly sunshine, NO! A thousand times: NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! I've always believed that all you need to understand Lost is the show itself and nothing more. But the AWESOME beauty of the show is that if you WANT something more out of the show, it's there, in the subtext, waiting to be mined, refined, and shared. Now, I'm not always right in identifying the gems in Lost's subtextual soil â?? but the digging and the finding is part of the fun, too. And that's what Doc Jensen is all about: Fun. But fun can be smart, or pseudo-smart, or just plain pseudo.
That's what I'm talking about!
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