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chaniI watched screens yesterday.
I watched the episodes of Lost I got to tape while I was away (yes Trésor I made it!) and it was not too bad. I liked the Hurley episode about the numbers (Now I understand your icon, Lynn!). I even cried when Boones died, or rather when Shannon and Sayid came back from their romantic escapade. Locke is still one of my favourite characters along with Sawyer, Sun, Jin and Michael. A lost life for a life that is given (Claire's baby). Maybe the law is that their number must remain the same.
I also gave a look at my boards (the BC&S and the Naughty Board) and it was like looking at a world going on without you. It was bizarre, kind of a metaphysical experience.
When you're gone you usually can't see that the world you left behind, is going on because basically the only world that exists is the one built on your perceptions, so the world always follows you wherever you go, the world is always yours even though you know there's a life continuing apart from you (at least when you're only away....not gone as in dead), but you can't see it as a watcher, you have no evidence of it (unless there's a camera filming the places you used to be in and the people you used to go around with! Big Brother anyone?). As soon as your'e in touch with that life (phone call, news etc), you borrow it, you make it yours. You're always a player of the world, never a pure watcher.
But with the Internet life, on boards, there're always tracks, archives freezing that life for your look, and afterwards you can watch a world that you used to be part of but that didn't need you to keep going on, a world that wasn't yours at the end of the day.
I'm an atheist and I do believe that death will be the end of me as a person, that *I* won't be anywhere watching/knowing/feeling the living going on, but seeing those board windows of virtual life was like a post-death experience, and therefore a proof that I'm really mortal.
The show goes on anyway behind the screens.
This could have reassured me.
It did not.
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Date: 2005-08-20 10:48 am (UTC)I had a similar experience returning from Canada. I went shopping and it was strange: everything was the same, but not quite, you know. I couldn't really put my finger on it, but reading what you write here I understand it was the feeling that things go on without me, that everything doesn't stay where I left it.
My LJ otoh does do what I want it to and is at my command. It's my view on what a world can be -- on how I make the world. Atheist/agnostic... there's still the wish to give meaning, isn't there?
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Date: 2005-08-20 11:06 am (UTC)I think that man's purpose is mostly to give meanings to things, everything, or as Joss would say, to make connections! lol
As long as there's one man, there's meaning to give indeed.
I couldn't be agnostic, because the notion of the unkowable means nothing to me : )
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Date: 2005-08-20 01:14 pm (UTC)Still I want to give meaning. Being "faithless" doesn't equal leading a life without meaning. I give meaning by muddling on. Man is just a muddler trying to make connections. I'm very fond of that idea. (No wonder I'm fond of Joss...)
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Date: 2005-08-20 02:18 pm (UTC)Glad you're home safely, my dear. :-)
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Date: 2005-08-20 08:54 pm (UTC)Yeah, just one.... and at times it is a lonely world. It is the connections we make that enrich that world of ours. Better yet that the enrichment is mutually beneficial... *more~hugz*
Glad you liked the Hurley ep... he is in his own way the center of that show. But then just like you have said here we are all the centers of our own world.
;~)
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Date: 2005-08-21 09:47 am (UTC)As for Hugo "he is in his own way the center of the show"...I think you could say the same about ALL the regular characters actually. You focused on the fact that Hugo was connected to the numbers but the others have other connections to the island that might be as "important" as the numbers. As Sawyer said, it's a small world and there are many connections. Think of Walt and his polar bears, think of Charlie, the drug addict who was also a believer...and of course on the island they found that small plane full of heroin with its dead fake priests, and Charlie ends up with a Virgen statue providing artificial paradise (and tropical islands are also called tropical paradises!). Etc, etc...
I've seen the whole season now. I watched my tapes, downloaded 2 episodes I missed and watched the last 2 episodes that were aired yesterday. And yes I'm probably going to download season 2! See I'm hooked even though I still think Lost doesn't have the quality of Buffy, Ats or other very refreshing shows, but I can forget its weaknesses and conventional sides...and there's nothing else to watch these days. It's definitely entertaining!
*hugs*
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Date: 2005-08-21 09:56 am (UTC)http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwgl/
Oh and speaking of "Lost" I forgot to mention below that I liked the change of scales: there's the big airplane where our heroes were travelling to L.A, the smaller plane full of drug that crashed on the island and Kate's tiny plane...
Change of scales...I must be a little of a Geographer! LOL
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Date: 2005-08-21 09:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-22 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-22 04:59 am (UTC)I'll join up that Yahoo!Group too! See you there!
Big, beached galley-type boat... smaller catamaran.... even smaller power boat.....
Hurley (why did you call him Hugh? Oh! Probably the name in the French version... ok!)..... everyone else... LOL!
;~)
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Date: 2005-08-22 09:05 am (UTC)Chani
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Date: 2005-08-22 11:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, that family is (as is the actor) of Chicano descent.