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Post by Lola m on Mar 7, 2006 17:20:18 GMT -5
It's odd. There are LOST fans on other forums who seemed upset by my suggestion that many of them may have taken up the "us vs. them" mentality of the Lostaways. Hmmmm. Well, maybe it's just how they are understading or thinking about the idea that is difficult for them. But when it comes to creating audience loyaties, I tend to think that all stories do this to some extent. They make you feel more sympathetic to some charaters than to others, etc. Now, I also think the writers of Lost are deliberately playing with those ideas even more than usual because it fits so well with the theme of the show. I mean, we were introduced to the fronties at first and were led to suspect (as the fronties did initially) that the tailies were "the Others" - so the situation was ripe to explore how we felt about "our" survivors versus the new ones. Then, as we learned more about the tailies we started seeing them in all the complex and human ways that we saw the fronties and so they become "ours" too. Come to think of it, now they're starting to sort of do this with the "Others" as well. Giving us little glimpses into them so we'll see them more as "people". I mean, I don't know if there are enough flashbacks in the world to make me "like" Ethan after seeing him hang Charlie by the neck and leave him to die, but . . . And very few of them are all good or all bad once we learn about them. Plus, just when you think you've got someone pegged, they'll do something different or reveal a bit more flashback that gives one a whole different perspective on them. Oooooh! I wonder if we'll someday get pre-island flashbacks for the Others? Wouldn't that be intriguing? Um. Presuming they were an Other that has ever been off the island. ;D
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Post by Karen on Mar 8, 2006 8:33:04 GMT -5
It's odd. There are LOST fans on other forums who seemed upset by my suggestion that many of them may have taken up the "us vs. them" mentality of the Lostaways. Hmmmm. Well, maybe it's just how they are understading or thinking about the idea that is difficult for them. But when it comes to creating audience loyaties, I tend to think that all stories do this to some extent. They make you feel more sympathetic to some charaters than to others, etc. Now, I also think the writers of Lost are deliberately playing with those ideas even more than usual because it fits so well with the theme of the show. I mean, we were introduced to the fronties at first and were led to suspect (as the fronties did initially) that the tailies were "the Others" - so the situation was ripe to explore how we felt about "our" survivors versus the new ones. Then, as we learned more about the tailies we started seeing them in all the complex and human ways that we saw the fronties and so they become "ours" too. Come to think of it, now they're starting to sort of do this with the "Others" as well. Giving us little glimpses into them so we'll see them more as "people". I mean, I don't know if there are enough flashbacks in the world to make me "like" Ethan after seeing him hang Charlie by the neck and leave him to die, but . . . And very few of them are all good or all bad once we learn about them. Plus, just when you think you've got someone pegged, they'll do something different or reveal a bit more flashback that gives one a whole different perspective on them. Oooooh! I wonder if we'll someday get pre-island flashbacks for the Others? Wouldn't that be intriguing? Um. Presuming they were an Other that has ever been off the island. ;D That would be intriguing! There must be two types of fans. Those that identify so personally with the characters that they begin to feel that they 'own' them, and those that love surprises and love to watch the story unfolds.
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