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I had a basic understanding of the characters, but I didn't realize how much all of the stories kinda connected and mattered and it was all a unified thing. As someone who watched Lost for 6 years, my mind had been re-wired to think that storytelling was a big disconnected slog that didn't need to have a proper ending because the creators could dupe the audience into thinking that the story was about the characters they love, and not about all of those pesky points that they specifically encouraged us to think about. (LOSSSSSSST!!!) Additionally, as someone who watched the Star Wars prequels, I thought that if you had a couple of decent installments, you could turn the rest of the story into toy commercials and WHO CARES ABOUT STORY LOOK AT THE ROBOT BLOW UP YAYYYYYYY!
Harry Potter did something radically interesting with its structure that I found fascinating: It used a complex bunch of mythological hullabaloo to elaborate on its themes, using the lessons learned in previous installments to create richer characters, and at the end, all that crap you read was for a purpose, and it even made sense! WOWEE WOW WOW WOW! What kind of strange future is this, where complete stories are told?
I haven't read the books, but while re-watching the Cliff Notes-like movies, a lot of the stuff that I zoned out on in theaters actually had a specific purpose other than to sell action figures. I cared about the British kid and his British friends and all of those British actors and that big white owl and the approximately 385 dragons. I don't know when I'll read the books, but I can take comfort in the fact that J.K. Rowling's last book isn't a completely terrible, wheel-spinning, poorly thought-out pile of crap which dumps on the 5 installments and wraps things up with a BS "All you need is love" ending and what the hell was that stupid "infection" all about and LOSSSSSSTTTTTTTT!!!!!!
2 comments:
I haven't seen the last one yet, but I have the same vague recollection of the previous movies being fun and entertaining and shiny and stuff. Watching them all back to back over a weekend seems like the way to do it. As far as LOST goes, I just watched a random 15 minute chunk of one show in the second season and the last 15 minutes of the last episode and I think I pretty much saw all I want to see
I recommend watching at least the first couple before you see the last one. Since the first movie lays everything out, it probably would have helped to watch that in the intervening 8 years since it came out.
I have Lost on DVD, festering on my shelf. I thought about doing a re-watch for the blog. I can end each episode with "DON'T WORRY. NONE OF THIS MATTERS."
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