Browsing the archives for the lost category

25 May 10

LOST Finale Reflections Part 3: Some Cultural Parallels (SPOILERS)

As you can see from my two earlier posts, I’m not crazy about the way the LOST storytellers handled the “solution” to the sideways reality question. On the other hand, I would not have been opposed to having the show consider the afterlife in some way. I think they could have done what they did [...]

0 Comments Posted in Albert Brooks, C.S. Lewis, Matrix, afterlife, intertextuality, lost by Patrick George McCullough
24 May 10

LOST Finale Reflections Part 2: Nauseating Religious Soup (SPOILERS)

[ . . .  continued from part 1]
In addition to the shallow switcharoo (IMHO) ending, to me the reunion at the interfaith church was just so eerily and obnoxiously warm and fuzzy, that it made me think that the LOST gang was some sort of creepy suicide cult. I liked it better when the show [...]

7 Comments Posted in lost, pluralism, religion, religious diversity by Patrick George McCullough
24 May 10

LOST Finale Reflections Part 1: Who invited Shyamalan? (SPOILERS!)

While I generally enjoyed watching the finale with a good friend, with plenty of commercial time analysis, I was completely disappointed with the final ending and twist. At the moment, my reason for disliking the final “answer” provided to us is twofold. First, it was a cheap and hokey trick. Second, it was too forced [...]

9 Comments Posted in Shyamalan, Television, lost by Patrick George McCullough
21 May 10

Entering the Mystery: “The ‘Lost’ Decade” and My Brain

I often wonder why it is that I am so drawn to apocalyptic thought in my research, not to mention why people seem to be paying more and more attention to the topic generally speaking (e.g., see this upcoming conference). What I consider my “bad romance” with apocalyptic  thought began in the summer of 2006 [...]

1 Comment Posted in 1 Enoch, apocalyptic, career, culture, lost, research by Patrick George McCullough