(urth) Fringe

[David Stockhoff]

On 4/6/2012 1:43 PM, Matthew Knight wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:severiansola at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     I should mention that my suspicion that Jacob and his brother are
>     meant to symbolize
>     the eternal fraternal conflict between Judaism and Islam is
>     bolstered by the
>     significant amount of time the cast spends in that Church Of All
>     Faiths in the finale.
>     There isn't much else in the 6 year history of the show which
>     would explain that
>     religious emphasis.
>
>
> Au contraire--religious themes popped up time and time again: the 
> Virigin Mary statues, Charlie's altar-boy past, Eko as fake priest, 
> Desmond in the monastery, Jacob/Locke as martyrs, not to mention the 
> constant faith/science debate between Locke and Jack and the broader 
> issues of fate and destiny.
>
> Fraternal conflicts, yes; perhaps a reference to Judaism and Islam, 
> although I saw a lot more Christian imagery overall (Sayid's Muslim 
> heritage did not play a major role).  If we wanted to be slavishly 
> literal, of course, the fraternal religious split would actually be 
> one generation earlier, between Isaac and Ishmael rather than Jacob 
> and Esau.
>
> Somewhat embarrassing that I'm popping out of lurkerdom to discuss 
> Lost rather than Wolfe, but that's probably a sign of my true 
> intellectual acuity.

heh!

Yeah, there were so many heavy-handed references my wife and I 
practically made a drinking game out of characters saying "take a leap 
of faith." Then again, we also played a game of writing the dialogue 
moments before it was actually spoken. We were never wrong.

Good times ...