[iup=3497646]Irene Demova[/iup] wrote:Lindelof's "next venture" after Lost was Prometheus, then the Star Trek sequel, then World War Z. I think at this point it's fair to just call him a gooseberry fool writer rather than one who made mistakes.
And no the psychological coping isn't the main plotline of the show; the main plotlines of the show are "what's up with this spooky cult" "what made the cop go crazy" "what's up with those twins" that's all mystery; not some psychological drama about grief
I was referring to TV when I said next venture work but yeah sure, his movie stuff is less than stellar.
I don't know about that, depends how you define mystery I suppose. Those things you mention are all very much tied into traumatic scarring and pretty much every character we've seen so far is trying to go about their lives but being held back by the grief of the past, whether that be by being unable to go forward in the way they'd like or not wanting to at all. There are things we don't know about the characters and their back stories but that's most shows. Don Draper is a man shrouded in mystery but I wouldn't call Mad Men a show about mystery.
It's early days anyway, obviously hard to get a really good sense of where the show will go based only on the pilot but I would be disappointed if it opted for a big mythology directly related to the disappearance itself.
[iup=3497655]Photek[/iup] wrote:It IS lazy though to just not even attempt to explain what is effectivley going to be (for me and many others) the rather massive strawberry floating elephant in the room. Surely the biggest question of all is Why? The writers could have come up numerous real world events to simulate the pain of loss or at least a spin on them, but no, they comfortably (and in my mind) ridiculously end up with - "people dissapeared, deal with it". Well im not watching that im sorry.
So you're base argument for this is, its a series about how people will cope with loss and a life changing event, and that in its self is a 'very good reason' to not provide answers. I strongly disagree. The fact you admit the the main plotline is nonsense makes me want to watch it even less.
At no point have I said the main plotline is nonsense. Trying to provide a 100% logical reason for a supernatural event would in and of itself lead to a nonsense answer of some degree because it can't by definition be explained in rational terms and I think to try to do would undercut the show's manifesto.
The entire basis of the show, and the point that the pilot drove home in my mind, is that there is no reason why; ""people dissapeared, deal with it" - exactly. The characters are trying to find meaning where there is none, trying to order the chaos around them into something manageable they can live with. I can't say why exactly but thematically that really appeals to me. I guess I can understand why it wouldn't for some, it depends on which type of storytelling approach works for you.