Lost as a metaphor for sex (adult content - see the OP)

[USincognito]

I have been thinking about this for a long time and chose a relatively provocative thread title, but I don't want the focus to be on sex, but on the concept of anticipation and the payoff that waiting for something regardless of how you feel about it.

Another analogy would be waiting for Christmas expecting a new car and a new X-box and getting money for your college fund and clothes. Those are still great things that should be enjoyed because they are gifts that bring good things to life. The same applies to so-so episodes* of Lost, or good episodes with back-stories that don't do much for you.

Which leads me back to Episode 3:1. I'd waited nearly 5 months to have the release of enjoying new episodes of Lost with the new season and as I've stated in other threads Jack's back story just doesn't interest me. It really hasn't since after "White Rabbit" aired (which was a good episode, his story just went downhill for me after that), but I was so thrilled after that long wait to finally get a new episode I was enraptured by the airing and my rewatch the next morning.

I guess my basic point is that getting a new tie for your birthday beats getting nothing at all after wating all that time and I feel the same way with Lost. So while I mourn the haitus, I am sooooo looking forward to the spring regardless of how good (relatively speaking) the episodes are.

* and by "so-so" I mean compared to what we have come to expect since the storytelling is better than 95% of what else is on television.

 

[BigToe]

Are you saying some Lost is better than none? hehe

 

[USincognito]

Are you saying some Lost is better than none? hehe

Ha! Yeah, but I'm trying to give it a larger focus. That the anticipation is sometimes worth the wait even if the payoff for the wait isn't as great as you expected. I'm also not saying the season opener wasn't great, just that with a Jack back-story it had less emotional impact than another cast member might have.

 

[MtDoraAngel]

I think the season opener gave us another side of Jack we hadn't seen . But I don know what you mean.

The taunting, the anticipation.
Not being able to sleep without thinking about it.
Your every waking hour it's on your mind.
You get a little glimps of what is to come.
The time is coming.
One more week.
One day.
One hour.
One minute.
AND
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.
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It's finally here!

 

[LovesToRead]

This is exactly what great story telling is ALL about!

Keep up the anticipation, keep us looking for the answers to our questions. I STILL am waiting to find out how Locke ended up in that wheelchair, among other things.

Man the beginning of the first episode was unreal!

 

[snoochface]

Yeah I totally agree with this, and I'll add my own analogy:

I'm diabetic and need to avoid eating too many carbs because they make my blood sugar spike. I also love and adore pizza, but I only allow myself to have it maybe once a month. And sometimes when the pizza craving hits, all we have is cardboard-crusted frozen crap and I don't want to call for Papa John's because I'll have way too much left over. So I eat the cardboard-crusted frozen crap. And it's goooood. Really good. And it reminds me that there is no such thing as "bad" pizza. Even spaghetti sauce and cheddar cheese on top of an english muffin and nuked for 30 seconds is good.

That's Lost.

 

[AirPo]

Can't you just see Hurley getting a Papa John's delivered to the beach! "Thanks dude."

 

[LovesToRead]

Can't you just see Hurley getting a Papa John's delivered to the beach! "Thanks dude."

Hey, he can afford it!

 

[USincognito]

Can't you just see Hurley getting a Papa John's delivered to the beach! "Thanks dude."

You know, I wonder if I should have started with a food analogy (like Snooch mentioned) and alluded to sex.

I think Hurley and his first view of the pantry in the Hatch is exactly what I'm talking about. I can't imagine that Dharma brand corn flakes and ranch dressing is as tasty as that from Kellogs or Kraft, but when you've been deprived for so long it's such an endorphin release to get what you've been craving. Be it knocking boots with a loved (or not so loved) one or an Apollo bar.

Hurley on the beach getting a pizza makes me think of how grateful the casts of Survivor are to get something other than the gruel, tepid water and other flavorless sustinance they have been on for days or weeks. I mean beer and Pringles is a "reward?" Come on man!

 

[BigToe]

Hey, any glimpse of Sayid or Sawyer is more than satisfying!


*swoon*

 

[cat1]

may i just ask what has sex got to do with this? i dont follow

 

[snoochface]

Heh, this thread is more than a year old.

may i just ask what has sex got to do with this? i dont follow

He explains in his opening post that it's not about sex - it's a metaphor.

I have been thinking about this for a long time and chose a relatively provocative thread title, but I don't want the focus to be on sex, but on the concept of anticipation and the payoff that waiting for something regardless of how you feel about it.

Another analogy would be waiting for Christmas expecting a new car and a new X-box and getting money for your college fund and clothes. Those are still great things that should be enjoyed because they are gifts that bring good things to life. The same applies to so-so episodes* of Lost, or good episodes with back-stories that don't do much for you.

Which leads me back to Episode 3:1. I'd waited nearly 5 months to have the release of enjoying new episodes of Lost with the new season and as I've stated in other threads Jack's back story just doesn't interest me. It really hasn't since after "White Rabbit" aired (which was a good episode, his story just went downhill for me after that), but I was so thrilled after that long wait to finally get a new episode I was enraptured by the airing and my rewatch the next morning.

I guess my basic point is that getting a new tie for your birthday beats getting nothing at all after wating all that time and I feel the same way with Lost. So while I mourn the haitus, I am sooooo looking forward to the spring regardless of how good (relatively speaking) the episodes are.

* and by "so-so" I mean compared to what we have come to expect since the storytelling is better than 95% of what else is on television.

 

[USincognito]

may i just ask what has sex got to do with this? i dont follow

Snooch covered it by quoting my OP, which, obviously, didn't generate much heat or responses. I was just wondering if others, like I did, sheesh, over a year ago, saw some metaphorical connections to certain events in the series and the way the series itself way playing itself out with scheduling.

As a non-Christian, I suppose it was my personal take on the "True Love Waits" campaign by suggesting that I was fine, precluding cancer or a car accident, waiting for Lost to play out for the final "payoff" rather than wanting all of my questions answered at the end of every season.

But it's been over a year since the OP and I'm in Lost withdrawl so I might not be thinking clearly.

 

[AirPo]

I'm not sure how on topic tis is, but has anyone read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series? It's a huge fantasy series, 11 books published so far. He recently passed away while working on the 12th book, leaving his fans wondering will we ever know how it ends?

 

[cat1]

Ok sorry i was just asking i just didnt understand properly...

 

[snoochface]

I'm not sure how on topic tis is, but has anyone read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series? It's a huge fantasy series, 11 books published so far. He recently passed away while working on the 12th book, leaving his fans wondering will we ever know how it ends?

I thought I heard that his family was going to use his notes and outlines to finish the final book. But yeah.

 

[AirPo]

I read that he told his wife and brother the rest of the story, so it didn't die with him.