Dr. Linus, tell me what’s wrong
You’re enchained by your own sorrow
In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow
You were always sure of yourself
Now I’ve seen you’ve broken a feather
–Chiquitita by Abba
Ah, how the mighty have fallen. Ben Linus, former ruthless Leader of the Others, has broken more than a feather; Big Bird has been plucked and is digging his own grave.
In the Sideways story, we’re thrown to a scent with S/Ben Linus, PhD, resplendent in tacky sweater vests and a Napoleonic hairstyle, teaching that Napoleon would have been better off dead than stripped of his power. Yet Dr. Linus is a kind man who runs a history club and longs for better priorities in his school. After gazing at himself in the mirror of his microwave door, he patiently listens while his old man Roger moans about their brief Island Dharma Days and how Ben missed his potential (how I hate to see you like this). Ben just stuffs his dad with organic Big Bird, er, turkey, and fills his lungs with oxygen instead of poison. [click to continue…]
Alice is Harry Potter, and Absalom is Dumbledore. Whatever else is going on in this film, and whatever complaints one might have about lack of faithfulness to Carroll’s story, this is a great film for Harry Potter lovers for a simple reason. The entire movie is centered around one question: “Is this real, or is this only happening in my head?”
This is the story of Alice wrestling with the King’s Cross question. Burton set this up nicely by showing us Alice as a young girl, repeatedly having the dream that we all know as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This, of course, means that the whole thing is “not real.” Well, if you listened the last Hog’s Head PubCast, you’ll know to be a bit skeptical about the assertion that the imaginary world of dreams cannot tap into reality.
Alice, who is faced with something of an arranged engagement, leaves her suitor at the gazebo to follow the rabbit down the hole, and she’s immediately faced with many of the characters from her dreams. She is brought before Absalom, who must tell them whether or not she is “the right Alice.” He concludes that she is “hardly Alice,” and everyone takes this to mean she’s the wrong one. [click to continue…]
Our own Araballa Figg had an article on LOST and fantasy published at The Spokesman Review! She’s very kind and quoted me in the article as well.
Read it here!
Sundown, you better take care
If you find Locke’s been creepin’ ’round your backstairs
Fake Locke is on a roll. Sayid’s story gets crazier. The temple becomes a veritable Temple of Doom. All on episode 6 of the final Season of LOST. Spoilers below! [click to continue…]
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