Comments on: LOST Does the Metafiction Mambo

By: Hi Fat of Man

Hi Fat of Man — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:59:02 +0000

Grant Morrison explored this epically in the DC comic series Animal Man to the point of even appearing in the comic as “The writer” of the comic. Starting in issue #5 appropriately named “The Gospel of Coyote”, Animal Man in which a Cartoon Coyote shows up and through a book explains his existential existence. Animal Man then begins an adventure through time and space only to be a witness to the very reason he went back in time, but powerless to stop the events from unfolding. During which the 4th wall is not only broken but completely shattered and used to further the storyline. The series ending stint by Morrison concludes the run with Animal Man and Morrison actually meeting a discussing the meaning and implications of existence.

J. J.(acob) Abrams….Hmmm

By: Kevin JJ

Kevin JJ — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:23:30 +0000

maybe not JJ Abrams, but what about if Jacob was actually Stephen King?
Jacob is Ves-Ka Gan.
Ves-Ka Gan is Stephen King.
Stephen King is Jacob.
Think about it, Nozz-A-La is on Henry Gales Balloon.
Richard (Randall) is the Ageless Stranger.
The Island would therefore represent the Tower in the Lost-verse, just as the Rose did in Keystone Earth.
The Island is the tower.
Richard is Flagg.
Jacob is Stephen King.
The smoke monster could represent a manifestation of the Crimson King or even Mordred Deschain, or even the spirit that had sex with Roland and impregnated Susannah (Just throwing it out there).
If the Island truly is this Earth’s representation of the Tower, then it would explain why the Other’s are so bound on protecting it, just as the Tet Corporation would do anything to protect the Rose from harm. The Rose in Keystone earth had healing abilities. For example, the man who had really bad acne was healed.

My two cents, and I’m sticking to it. The Island, is the Lost-world’s Tower.

By: Yonko

Yonko — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:13:40 +0000

What about the shoutout of Jack, Hurley (two men) and Kate (one pregnant woman) getting back to the island?

By: Faramir

Faramir — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:14:18 +0000

And what about the metafictional casting that brought Said Taghmaoui (Caesar), who was a Said in *La Haine* and an Iraqi torturer in *Three kings*, to become a proxy for – who else? – Sayid?
Not to mention the fact that Ben and Locke share a mother called Emily, while the other special boy of Lost, Aaron, has a mother who’s portrayed by another Emilie (de Ravin)…
F-

By: Masheen

Masheen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:05:55 +0000

Get the fcuk outta here… I will burn my LOST Blue-ray discs in front of Disneyland if that happens.

By: izikavazo

izikavazo — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:41:06 +0000

I think this is more of a shout-out than meta-fiction. Lost meta-fiction would be fun but I doubt 10 million Lost viewers would agree with me.
- izi

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:38:55 +0000

If flight 316 didn’t land on the runway that Sawyer and Kate helped build, I’ll throw in my decoder pin too…

By: Mandeville

Mandeville — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:29:33 +0000

oops! Fourth wall. And bent, not broken.

I think the “Y” wink speaks more to the upcoming film adaptation and the coincidental suits on the back cover. I think that story line dealt with astronauts, 2 men and 1 pregnant woman, landing on a 1 man planet earth.

If “Jacob” turns out to be J. Jacob Abrams I’m returning my LOST decoder pin…

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:22:16 +0000

How do you know this isn’t just one of those patented LOST coincidences? Maybe there is another Brian Vaughan in the LOST universe that is completely unrelated to our BK, other than the fact that they share a name and just happened to both write a comic book with the same name.

THINK ABOUT IT!!

By: docarzt

docarzt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:06:49 +0000

Yeah, that is a ‘wink’ not metafictional. This pulls one of the writers into the LOST universe.

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:02:59 +0000

I wouldn’t call that breaking the fourth wall so much as bending it a little.

By: Mandeville

Mandeville — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:44:17 +0000

Hurley has always represented the audience, especially the nerdier element. He regularly breaks the third wall by voicing concerns expressed in blogs.