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Lost - the tv show ;)
- Thread starter dyingsun
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DamnDirtyApe
Skilled Investigator
what are you talking about?
Brian Now
Paranormal Pimp
I guess you're talking about the good/evil and Jacob/man-in-black conflicts? I don't mind it too much, as I know it's very much a network TV show so I'm happy whatever innovative storytelling I can get.
After the season premiere however, I started thinking it wasn't going to be a cut and dry, black and white dichotomy. The show is beginning to remind me a lot of Babylon 5 which also had two ancient, opposing forces with one (Vorlons) playing the "good" role and the other (Shadows) the "evil" one.
-The Vorlons were a mysterious, ancient and powerful race who had an aversion to showing their true form.
-They liked to choose a certain individual to teach and work through, rather than interact with everyone on the Babylon station (which could be likened to an island).
- They always ask the question "WHO ARE YOU?"
-Their philosophy is that introspection causes progress
-The Shadows are exposed well into the series, not from the beginning.
- They also like to work through specific individuals
- They ask "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
- Their philosophy is that conflict causes progress
By the end of the series we find out the Vorlons and Shadows were trying to do the exact same thing...make younger species progress and develop. They simply had opposing ideas of how to do that.
Am I the only one who sees the similarities between Lost and this?
After the season premiere however, I started thinking it wasn't going to be a cut and dry, black and white dichotomy. The show is beginning to remind me a lot of Babylon 5 which also had two ancient, opposing forces with one (Vorlons) playing the "good" role and the other (Shadows) the "evil" one.
-The Vorlons were a mysterious, ancient and powerful race who had an aversion to showing their true form.
-They liked to choose a certain individual to teach and work through, rather than interact with everyone on the Babylon station (which could be likened to an island).
- They always ask the question "WHO ARE YOU?"
-Their philosophy is that introspection causes progress
-The Shadows are exposed well into the series, not from the beginning.
- They also like to work through specific individuals
- They ask "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
- Their philosophy is that conflict causes progress
By the end of the series we find out the Vorlons and Shadows were trying to do the exact same thing...make younger species progress and develop. They simply had opposing ideas of how to do that.
Am I the only one who sees the similarities between Lost and this?
bobheck
Disco still sucks.
Jacob and Esau. Nuff said.
DamnDirtyApe
Skilled Investigator
So where's the problem? Are you are a devout atheist and anything with religion offends you? Or are you a devout Christian and anything non Christian offends you? I'm guessing the former...
bobheck
Disco still sucks.
Neither. You asked what are you talking about when someone said religious affiliation. I answered.