LOST - The Statue - Sobek? Anubis? Tawaret?
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I think it's fairly obvious now that the statue is of Sobek, or possibly Anubis, or Tawaret. They're all fairly similar. Assuming it is (either one) what's the significance? Does it have any significance to the story, or is it simply a sign for 'look at the egyptian statue, that's how long the island has been here'? Were there once other statues on the island, or just this one? Was it to warn people away, or bring people to the island? Does Ben know how it was destroyed?
I think it's fairly obvious now that the statue is of Sobek, or possibly Anubis, or Tawaret. They're all fairly similar. Assuming it is (either one) what's the significance? Does it have any significance to the story, or is it simply a sign for 'look at the egyptian statue, that's how long the island has been here'? Were there once other statues on the island, or just this one? Was it to warn people away, or bring people to the island? Does Ben know how it was destroyed?
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After all, they have no normal reason for being in the middle of the Pacific. So they cannot be just seen as set decoration...
So they must have some very specific reference to the events that will unfold in series 6.
One thing I really wish with Lost is that the story truly had been written from the start of the show. It would mean we would've gotten so many other cool little refrences everywhere. Perhaps Jacob in the background in some scenes, just cool stuff like that.
Interesting bit of info - perhaps the absence of the statue is linked to no woman being able to carry a pregnancy to term?
Hmmm, childbirth eh? Perhaps someone angered the gods which is why no kids could be born on the island.
I got the impression that Ben does know how it was destroyed.
I am also presuming the nuke going off is what destroyed it
I think it's the bomb that destroys the statue as well.
Heh.
Wonder if Tawaret was a vengeful God after his statue got knocked down, meaning no babies could be born on the island.
I assume the statue was destroyed before then, as it could be clearly seen from the Orchid station during the time skips. Surely if it was still around in the 70's, someone would have mentioned it?
I wonder where the rest of the statue went?
2010 can't come quickly enough!
Nowadays, Lost is like a farce that bumps into a charade at a party, dances the night away and then drunkenly falls into a vat of ridiculous at the end of the night.
Clearly it is, based on the overwhelmingly positive response to the season five finale
And after the toxic stupidity of the vat is deemed unsalvageable, it's poured into a lake of WTF?
So as somebody who I've never even seen comment on it, do you watch the show or is this just random trolling?
***SPOILERS(season 3)***
You, sir, are entitled to know that I was a bit of an obsessive for three seasons, but at the end of the third run my BS detector was on unsustainable overdrive.
I feel the need to dispense the truth on this issue, which is that Lost as a well-structured series was lost upon the crest of some hysterical popularity. Did you see Monaghan's interview on Jonathan Ross shortly before his character's death? Even he admitted that the creators had an ending (excuse me whilst I GUFFAW!!), but that they were stretching it out due to the show's startlingly high ratings.
And so it has proven. Episodes now play out like the collective stream-of-consciousness of a sleep-deprived staff of writers who chuckle as they pepper each instalment with yet more vacuous enigmas. Season three insulted the show's viewers' intelligence on so many levels.
Can you really say that you're oblivious to the number of fans who've jumped ship because they feel they're being strung along by a confounded farrago of pseudo-mystery?
I'm assuming this is an opinion rather than a fact. After all, I'm not sure there are exact figures on how many have 'jumped ship because they feel they're being strung along by a confounded farrago of pseudo-mystery'.
Unless you can provide them, of course.
I can't accept lower audience figures as an answer, as you've already played the 'startling high ratings' argument for its lack of quality as well as narrowed down the demographic you've mentioned into a rather small category.
Good luck, sir.
The line was cut because apperently ABC didn't want to Alienate viewers who wouldn't be interested in the sci-fi elements of the show. Also the statue was only supposed to have 6 toes, but ABC decided that 4 toes was less weird and pressured them to use 4.
You act as if Darlton haven't admitted that. They also went out of their way to get an end date during Season 3 so they didn't have to stretch out the story anymore.
I think it's a strong condender for the reason babies aren't born on the island. You are right in that we did see the statue whole in the time skips but that was in the time skips so it was several time frames perhaps before the 70's. I don't think we know 100% that it was or wasn't whole in the 70's yet.
Other possibilities IMO are also:
leaking radiation from the EM pocket
a semi contained H bomb detonation
something to do with Jacob's 2nd wife being barren (in the stories from the Bible)
I prefer a show that lets me think, if you don't there are plenty of alternatives.
Well said. Lost's greatest attribute is the fact its gets ou thinking and talking. No other show minus reality TV nonsense gets people chatting about their theories on the outcome.
Its the best show I have seen and 2010 can't come soon enough.
What, do you propose some tit-for-tat series of posts whereby I boast, "But I've seen Heimat-through-to-Heimat 3", and you rejoinder, "Oh yeah? Well I've seen the complete series of Dekalog and everything ever written by Stephen Poliakoff"?
Let's not. I've written a dissertation on television, and whilst I don't think it makes me especially qualified to talk about it, it does prove that I stop and think before allowing a show like Lost to pull the wool over my eyes. There is no grand design anymore, it's just 80% arbitrary absurdity and 20% recycled ideas from when the series had anything resembling a coherent thread.
I'm surprised anyone could be so presumptuous as to assume that everyone who's given up on Lost has done so because they can't keep pace with its cast-iron complexity. The show's integrity these days is the opposite of water-tight, and whenever a teaboy happens upon a staff writing session they're as likely as not to see the scenarists plunging their hands into a magician's hat and producing the next unmotivated, unplanned tangent of mystery scribbled on a piece of paper minutes ago.