Sorry, I didn't mean to be pedantic. I compose in Open Office and it points that stuff out; I just automatically correct it w/o thinking.
You might really enjoy it, or most of it. The producers stretched the show out to six seasons; in reality it could have been done in three. There's a LOT of filler, and some dropped plot threads.
You would have two advantages as I see. First, you're a scholar of mythology, and so you'd get a lot of the fun references (which really are as much a part of the narrative as the dialogue and action) off the bat.
Second, you'd (most likely) be seeing it free of a lot of fan drama, the biggest of which was "is LOST an afterlife story?" If you ignore what the viewers (including me!) and the creators said about the epic during its airing, and just look at it "fresh," you might find it productive and interesting.
But fannish interpretation has a way of becoming very didactic, very quickly. (Anyone interested in the anthropological evolution of religions should study fandom!) It's not possible to completely detach oneself from that, but IMO LOST is a kind of story in which everyone kind of writes their own interpretation, based on what they need, find useful, etc. So watching it *after* it's been concluded can be more helpful, I think.
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Date: 2011-11-08 05:14 pm (UTC)You might really enjoy it, or most of it. The producers stretched the show out to six seasons; in reality it could have been done in three. There's a LOT of filler, and some dropped plot threads.
You would have two advantages as I see. First, you're a scholar of mythology, and so you'd get a lot of the fun references (which really are as much a part of the narrative as the dialogue and action) off the bat.
Second, you'd (most likely) be seeing it free of a lot of fan drama, the biggest of which was "is LOST an afterlife story?" If you ignore what the viewers (including me!) and the creators said about the epic during its airing, and just look at it "fresh," you might find it productive and interesting.
But fannish interpretation has a way of becoming very didactic, very quickly. (Anyone interested in the anthropological evolution of religions should study fandom!) It's not possible to completely detach oneself from that, but IMO LOST is a kind of story in which everyone kind of writes their own interpretation, based on what they need, find useful, etc. So watching it *after* it's been concluded can be more helpful, I think.
And yeah, Tarawet is important to the story.