LOST: what kind of story is it?
Jan. 23rd, 2007 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stefanie_beanTo me, the metaphysical aspects of LOST don't contradict the possibility of a science-fiction sub-story going on as well. CS Lewis did the same thing in his novel That Hideous Strength.
I didn't watch this show when it first started, partially because when friends described the scenario to me, I remember thinking, "Oh, they'll just turn it into some kind of gov't conspiracy like X-Files." LOST has held my interest so far *because* so far it is *metaphysically coherent.*
(I was going to say, "mythically coherent," but it seems that "mythology" in this fandom is being used to refer to the puzzles, unsolved mysteries on the island, rather than the overall good/evil/black/white and more "spiritual" concerns - as well as possible "mythic" analogues for the strange manifestations.)
So to me, so far, while the story has a lot of unanswered questions (who are the Others, what's the "security system," why do the Others take children, etc?) to me it's been pretty satisfying as a "mythical" or even religious story.
I didn't watch this show when it first started, partially because when friends described the scenario to me, I remember thinking, "Oh, they'll just turn it into some kind of gov't conspiracy like X-Files." LOST has held my interest so far *because* so far it is *metaphysically coherent.*
(I was going to say, "mythically coherent," but it seems that "mythology" in this fandom is being used to refer to the puzzles, unsolved mysteries on the island, rather than the overall good/evil/black/white and more "spiritual" concerns - as well as possible "mythic" analogues for the strange manifestations.)
So to me, so far, while the story has a lot of unanswered questions (who are the Others, what's the "security system," why do the Others take children, etc?) to me it's been pretty satisfying as a "mythical" or even religious story.