(urth) Fringe

[Ryan Dunn]

Man, what a lively LOST debate we have going on here. I wonder if Gene has watched the show.

Is it not possible, however, that the purgatory thing still has legs and that Jack was their shepherd to the after life?

I guess I don't like the myopic nature of It Was All a Dream, and want the window to have a wider opening than that.

The Others, Dharma, Black Rock, Jacob, etc. lose a lot of weight when they simply become figments of a dying man's imagination. Unless that dying man is some seasoned mystery novelist, I guess.

...ryan

On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:40 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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 ...
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