Comments on: Flannery O, LOST, and The Redemptive End http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Patrick http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-1133 Patrick Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:50:41 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-1133 I think the universalist ending hissed me off the most. Always enjoyed the pulpy sci-fi stuff and could even get behind the two demigods stomping around the island but when they all went to heaven, which was almost surely the writers writing themselves out of that impossible time travel corner, I couldn't believe how lazy and wrong it was considering nearly everything leading up to it. I think the universalist ending hissed me off the most. Always enjoyed the pulpy sci-fi stuff and could even get behind the two demigods stomping around the island but when they all went to heaven, which was almost surely the writers writing themselves out of that impossible time travel corner, I couldn’t believe how lazy and wrong it was considering nearly everything leading up to it.

]]> By: Dev Gangadean http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 Dev Gangadean Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:28:39 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-1132 BTW. Take a 4-oz can of tomatoe sauce, with the circular end facing you. Rotate the end away from you by 90 degrees and you'll see a square. BTW. Take a 4-oz can of tomatoe sauce, with the circular end facing you. Rotate the end away from you by 90 degrees and you’ll see a square.

]]> By: Dev Gangadean http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-1131 Dev Gangadean Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:24:26 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-1131 I was disappointed by the outcome of the 6th season. The first five seasons gave me the definite impression the island was a place of intervention by trial and accountability with the potential to restore a plane load of wrecked lives. Or, in the case of the incorrigible, dispose of lives. But it was the delivery that really drew me in, mysteries around every corner you turned, and no easy answers. And when answers did come, sometimes they were replaced by greater enigmas (the question over Ethan's identity replaced by the still-unanswered question about the death-sentence that came with conception) or else the answers were trivial (the shaft of light that emanated from the hatch in one of Locke's many dark and frustrated moments was just Desmond going to the bathroom - or something like that). That rang true to life in my book. But season six threw it all away. Some mysteries were resolved (the black monster), but some mysteries remained (the origin of the four-toed statue, and the temple). But that doesn't bother me too much since I expect to still be wondering about a lot of things when I kick the bucket. But some paradoxes escalated into contradictions in season six. I smelled a rat in episode one as I watched Flight 815 zoom over an island that had been submerged by a bomb that had been detonated because some of the passengers on that flight had survived a crash-landing on that island and motivated a conspiracy to detonate that bomb after time-traveling 25 years back to the past. I was hoping for some clever resolution for the whole mess introduced by time travel and didn't get it. The disregard for a coherent reality in season six was matched its abandonment of the message of accountability. Sayid's story is the most flagrant example of this. Ben was still an opportunistic conniver. Claire nearly gunned everybody down at the bitter end, then changed her mind, AGAIN, and got on board. But all three were at the universalist chapel enjoying a warm and fuzzy finale with a booze-hound whose only constructive words were either spoken as a post-mortem vision or else as a man-in-black zombie. It was never clear if Kate ever overcame her deceptive and evasive ways either, that definitely wasn't the case for the non-crash version of Kate. But the finale wouldn't have been as warm and fuzzy if there wasn't a recognizable replacement for the non-crash Jack's ex-wife that had fallen under the spell of the memories she and Sawyer shared from an island experience that may or may not have actually happened. If I'm ever stuck in the past on an island with lots of time to kill, I'll do what Hurley did. I'll write a better manuscript. Then I'll try to sell it to ABC if I can get back to LA before 2009. I was disappointed by the outcome of the 6th season. The first five seasons gave me the definite impression the island was a place of intervention by trial and accountability with the potential to restore a plane load of wrecked lives. Or, in the case of the incorrigible, dispose of lives. But it was the delivery that really drew me in, mysteries around every corner you turned, and no easy answers. And when answers did come, sometimes they were replaced by greater enigmas (the question over Ethan’s identity replaced by the still-unanswered question about the death-sentence that came with conception) or else the answers were trivial (the shaft of light that emanated from the hatch in one of Locke’s many dark and frustrated moments was just Desmond going to the bathroom – or something like that). That rang true to life in my book.

But season six threw it all away. Some mysteries were resolved (the black monster), but some mysteries remained (the origin of the four-toed statue, and the temple). But that doesn’t bother me too much since I expect to still be wondering about a lot of things when I kick the bucket. But some paradoxes escalated into contradictions in season six. I smelled a rat in episode one as I watched Flight 815 zoom over an island that had been submerged by a bomb that had been detonated because some of the passengers on that flight had survived a crash-landing on that island and motivated a conspiracy to detonate that bomb after time-traveling 25 years back to the past. I was hoping for some clever resolution for the whole mess introduced by time travel and didn’t get it.

The disregard for a coherent reality in season six was matched its abandonment of the message of accountability. Sayid’s story is the most flagrant example of this. Ben was still an opportunistic conniver. Claire nearly gunned everybody down at the bitter end, then changed her mind, AGAIN, and got on board. But all three were at the universalist chapel enjoying a warm and fuzzy finale with a booze-hound whose only constructive words were either spoken as a post-mortem vision or else as a man-in-black zombie. It was never clear if Kate ever overcame her deceptive and evasive ways either, that definitely wasn’t the case for the non-crash version of Kate. But the finale wouldn’t have been as warm and fuzzy if there wasn’t a recognizable replacement for the non-crash Jack’s ex-wife that had fallen under the spell of the memories she and Sawyer shared from an island experience that may or may not have actually happened.

If I’m ever stuck in the past on an island with lots of time to kill, I’ll do what Hurley did. I’ll write a better manuscript. Then I’ll try to sell it to ABC if I can get back to LA before 2009.

]]> By: PANK Blog / July Is Almost As Hot As PANK Writers http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-468 PANK Blog / July Is Almost As Hot As PANK Writers Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:05:04 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-468 [...] the July issue of Emprise Review, you will find Reynard Seifert. He is joined by Jennifer Spiegel, and the featured writer is Anne Valente who has not one, not two, but three stories and she is [...] [...] the July issue of Emprise Review, you will find Reynard Seifert. He is joined by Jennifer Spiegel, and the featured writer is Anne Valente who has not one, not two, but three stories and she is [...]

]]> By: Volume 15 – Available NowEmprise Review | Emprise Review http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Volume 15 – Available NowEmprise Review | Emprise Review Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:46:10 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-465 [...] Wiewiora has a list sure to ring true for those in the indie publishing trenches, Jennifer Spiegel ponders the end of Lost, and Erin Pennington reviews the graphic novel [...] [...] Wiewiora has a list sure to ring true for those in the indie publishing trenches, Jennifer Spiegel ponders the end of Lost, and Erin Pennington reviews the graphic novel [...]

]]> By: jennifer spiegel http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-378 jennifer spiegel Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:03:09 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-378 Amber, thanks for the blog plug--so very nice. Amber, thanks for the blog plug–so very nice.

]]> By: I Have So Many Things to Tell You « Amber Sparks http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-375 I Have So Many Things to Tell You « Amber Sparks Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:59:57 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-375 [...] you love Lost? Throw things at your teevee during the last episode? You MUST read this fabulous essay, doubtless the most literary thing ever written about Lost, by Jennifer Spiegel. It’s more [...] [...] you love Lost? Throw things at your teevee during the last episode? You MUST read this fabulous essay, doubtless the most literary thing ever written about Lost, by Jennifer Spiegel. It’s more [...]

]]> By: jennifer spiegel http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-366 jennifer spiegel Fri, 28 May 2010 22:16:27 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-366 Thank you, Chuck--that means a lot to me! Jennifer Thank you, Chuck–that means a lot to me!
Jennifer

]]> By: Emprise Review // Flannery O, Lost, and The Redemptive End http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Emprise Review // Flannery O, Lost, and The Redemptive End Fri, 28 May 2010 20:03:09 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-365 [...] Continued at Flannery O, Lost, and The Redemptive End… [...] [...] Continued at Flannery O, Lost, and The Redemptive End… [...]

]]> By: Chuck Sorensen http://emprisereview.com/2010/blog/lost/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Chuck Sorensen Fri, 28 May 2010 16:53:24 +0000 http://emprisereview.com/?p=6046#comment-363 Dear Jennifer: I like your style. Your thoughts flow effortlessly, and make a subject like "Lost" interesting even though I did not watch the show. I am anxious to get a copy of your short stories. As an old friend of your father's I know he would be very proud of you! All the best, Chuck Sorensen Dear Jennifer:

I like your style. Your thoughts flow effortlessly, and make a subject like “Lost” interesting even though I did not watch the show. I am anxious to get a copy of your short stories. As an old friend of your father’s I know he would be very proud of you!

All the best,

Chuck Sorensen

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