The prequels were such an amazing disappointment, i feel like their existence is more of a bad dream than reality.

Anyway, well said, i’m on board with pretty much everything you said up there. Except I feel that what’s done is done. I’d almost rather let the memory of those prequels fade away and die than trust Lucas to try it again. I feel like it’s a lost cause.

cheers

And let’s get real: Star Wars caused 9/11? Let’s just think about that one for a minute.

LOST too, warns us about trusting too much in others which is why characters are constantly given a certain degree of freedom. Ben was given the chance to act on his own and choose not to stab Jacob. Jack and Hurley had to choose freely to return to the Island. Ben wanted Jack to want to save his life. LOST is not endorsing slavery under Palpatine / Obama, but freedom!

PM was a horrible, horrible movie. And perhaps it did change the world for the worst, but my version would go something like:

PM is released and millions are disappointed. First, whereas Luke Skywalker had to overcome obstacles and earn his path as a Jedi to the Force, and his generation set forth to earn their way in the world through hard work, perseverence and productivity, millions were taught by PM that if you are lucky enough to be born with midochondrians – don’t worry, you will be taken care of. A new generation was raised with no respet for liberty and responsibility (as Yoda counseled Luke during his teaining), but rather a fetishism for special effects and the academic elitism of the Jedi class – a whiny, pseudo-mystical, collectivist impressed with its own relevance and intelligence.

This new myth and message leads to its fictional progeny – Harry Potter, another boy who is “special” for no reason. Indeed, all Harry needs is his special book and all will be taken care of. There is no responsibility, no freedom, no hard work and no earned reward, just the welfare of a magic book and its power.

These two elementary and childish myths pervade pop culture and the political class. Congress tries to provide Americans with their own magic book of midochlorians in the form of cheap mortgages, more welfare, and now health insurance. As a result, people become lazier, less enamored with their own freedom, and more eager to accept the instructions of a leadership class committed to perpetuating its own power.

This also leads to 9-11 – an instance when evil, savage, primitive, hateful warmongers attacked the freeist, wealthiest, happiest, strongest nation on earth. In response many Americans blame themselves and lack the desire to fight for their own survival and instead desire to send our wealth to more people who never earned it.

This also leads to the leadership class’ invention of the greatest fraud in history, Global Warming. The only way to stop global warming is of course, to surrender more freedom and give more power to the Emporer Obama and his minions at the UN.

Why are we getting anti-Bush tirades posted as frontpage Lost articles all of a sudden? IFtP’s comments are just as appropriate as this article.

Locke Fool Fool Locke!

Locke killed Naomi because she was a threat to the people on the island. She knew full well what the folks on the freighter intended to do and was willing to go along with it.

And Locke didn’t exactly murder Boone. And if I remember correctly he pleaded with Boone to leave the plane before it went over the edge. None of his actions were in the least bit malicious.

Ben on the other hand has displayed cold blooded murderous behavior on several occasions.

Myth is something that comes from fiction and rises above the plateau of its original existance. Star Wars is 40 years old, it is not Myth. The MAIN property of a myth is the loss of any ties to its creation. We KNOW who created Star Wars and who creates LOST, therefore, these stories are NOT Myth. Maybe thousands of years from now, humans will believe otherwise.

As far as John Locke’s redemption leaving us “Royally Fucked”; this is a bold and poorly backed up claim. LOST has created, in itself, a reality where things do not always work in the favor of the protagonists. It is in this trait that LOST has blossomed into a huge success. There are literally millions of stories where good triumphs over evil, but it is the stories where it’s not so “clean-cut” that resonate the most.

The world we live in consists of over 9 billion people. When we are born, the doctor does not stamp our foreheads with a “good” or “evil” insignia. We have to discover that path for ourselves. These entertaining stories can help to shape how we go about walking that path but to be completely ironic:

“There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.”

No story can inspire us entirely, not even the greatest ever told. No matter how the writers of LOST decide to conclude John Locke’s story, our lives will move on. Our imagination and feelings may be tweaked, but there is NO WAY that a fictional character’s life being ended can cause world demolition.

It is inspiring in itself that I have “lost” myself in this post but I had to get across these things:

-Star Wars and Lost are NOT Myths (yet….maybe)

-Good and Evil is NOT “clean-cut” in our world

-Our world can inspire fiction completely but fiction can NEVER inspire our world completely.

Thanks.