Here continued are my observations about this hit American TV show.
2. Characters and Connections
Current movies and TV shows tend to substitute any number of things for Character development. If you don't care about the people in a movie or a tv show, they haven't done a good job.
- George Lucas replaced this with CGI.
- Quinton Tarantino replaced this with violence.
- Napoleon Dynamite replaced this with stupidity.
- Jerry Seinfeld replaced this with humor.
As the story continues, we find out more and more background on each of the characters. We find out that though the characters didn't realize it, many if not all of them are interconnected in one way or another.
As they discover these loose coincidental connections they have, they help each other. Jack the doctor, for example, had a horrible relationship with his father. His father was a drunk, in a bar in Sydney with Sawyer shortly before flight 815. He told Sawyer how he wished he could be reconciled with his son but was too ashamed. Sawyer carried one of the pieces of information that Jack needs to be reconciled with his (apparently dead) father.
Each character carries secrets they hope no one finds out about who they are, what they've done.
- Kate was a fugitive
- Sawyer a con-artist and murderer
- Ana-Lucia a bad cop
- Hurley a mental institution patient
Somehow I find this so easy to miss in real life - the value of relationships, bearing each others' burdens, and helping each other live.
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