What I Found On "Lost"

What We Lose With The End Of ‘Lost’
by MeCaitlin Kelly
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I loved seeing Koreans, an Iraqi, a fat guy and an inter-racial couple play integral roles, becoming leaders and well-loved by their community. “Lost” began six years ago, long before anyone else was casting such diversity. It never felt faux-diverse, as so many of these efforts do, just real.

I’ll miss that community. Many of us now live alone, work at home or are looking for work. We hunger for a lively, funny, quirky posse of our own. We don’t want to run from the smoke monster or shoot a polar bear or have to suffer a plane crash to find one, but the hard-won interdependence of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 speaks to a powerful longing.”

http://trueslant.com/caitlinkelly/2010/05/23/what-we-lose-with-the-end-of-lost/

I loved Ms Kelly’s article, in fact, much more than I did the TV series “Lost”. To be honest, it was in its third or fourth season by the time I tried to watch it, but it never made a bit of sense to me. I found it interesting and well done but unfathomable, like the plot to “The Big Sleep”.

By the time a “Lost” series devotee offered to loan me season one on DVD, my mind kept replaying the criticisms about how this series went on and on becoming more & more convoluted as it went. Life is hard, TV shouldn’t have to be.

What I did appreciate about the episodes I watched, and Ms. Kelly’s article was finding believable “average” people in extraordinary circumstances. This makes for good entertainment. I was inspired to see people overcome common obstacles we all have “just getting along”, in situations where their lives depended upon it.

Also, since IMHO today, television is more like a mentor for society than a mirror reflecting society, it’s nice to see positive role models who look like us, along with the obligatory fashion model types (who to be fair, were very good in their roles). They had strengths and weaknesses and didn’t fit well into ‘stereotypes’, just like us.

What more can I say than, Ok society, get busy and start reflecting.