LOST: the tragedy of the Tailies
Sep. 5th, 2021 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stefanie_beanThe Tailies seem to me like a funhouse-mirror inversion of the beach camp, with Ana as "Jack;" Libby as "Kate" (i.e. Jack's lieutenant); Eko as "Locke," Bernard as "Hurley," and Cindy as "Claire" (mothering children who were kidnapped, and then kidnapped herself.) They have an "Ethan" in the form of Goodwin. Nathan in a way is their "Sawyer," and it ultimately leads to his death.
The Tailies are everything the beach camp could have devolved into; the "Lord of the Flies" shadow to the society which Jack & co. built.
While "The other 48 Days" is highly compressed, to me it seems as if Ana and Libby have a similar dynamic to Jack & Kate in Season 1. They meet shortly after the crash, and work as a team. Ana seems to respect Libby, and they consult on what to do (like about Nathan.) Like Kate, who delivers Claire's baby, Libby acts as a healer (she cares for Sawyer's wound.) Jack & Kate's interactions are rocky, and so are Ana's and Libby's - Ana even pulls a gun on Libby at one point.
The Tailies have so little, though; their resources are limited to a found knife and the clothes on their backs. It's amazing any of them survive at all. In a sense they're a "damned" society, whereas FSW "salvation" comes from what Jack and co. have built at the beach.
The Tailies are everything the beach camp could have devolved into; the "Lord of the Flies" shadow to the society which Jack & co. built.
While "The other 48 Days" is highly compressed, to me it seems as if Ana and Libby have a similar dynamic to Jack & Kate in Season 1. They meet shortly after the crash, and work as a team. Ana seems to respect Libby, and they consult on what to do (like about Nathan.) Like Kate, who delivers Claire's baby, Libby acts as a healer (she cares for Sawyer's wound.) Jack & Kate's interactions are rocky, and so are Ana's and Libby's - Ana even pulls a gun on Libby at one point.
The Tailies have so little, though; their resources are limited to a found knife and the clothes on their backs. It's amazing any of them survive at all. In a sense they're a "damned" society, whereas FSW "salvation" comes from what Jack and co. have built at the beach.