Lost, debate...
Oct. 14th, 2004 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothI saw about two minutes of the debate last night before I turned it off. Someone asked Bush 'How does your faith affect your policies?' and Bush basically said 'It determines every move I make as president.'
And then Kerry tried to one-up him in the rebuttal.
ANYWAY, the reason I accidentally turned to the debates in the first place was that I wanted to watch 'Lost', which some of the testers I eat lunch with had been raving about, and sounded interesting. I probably still wouldn't have been interested enough to tune it in, except that I'm tired of sitting there at lunch having *not* watched the show that everyone's talking about (usually, The Amazing Race).
It's... weird. The premise is a bunch of people crashed a plane on a deserted island, 1000 miles off course, but that's sort of beside the point, since the entire island is majorly f***ed up. The general plotline seems to go 'people do normal stranded-on-an-island things, but then various things that can't possibly be explained happen.'
In this episode, for instance, this old man volunteers to take people on a boar hunt, using a bunch of knives he had checked in his luggage. Initial hints -- and his bearing, and the way people react to him -- suggest he's some sort of ex-military type, but you quickly discover (through flashbacks) that he's really just a war gamer, who's picked on by his boss and his friends, who all mock him for wanting to go on a 'Genuine Australian Walkabout'. He gets even more pathetic when you find out his 'girlfriend' is a phone-sex operative, who dumps him when it gets obvious that he wants a real relationship. "Don't tell me what I can't do!" is his battle cry.
So, it's no big surprise when the boar hunt goes horribly wrong, and he ends up lost in the woods by himself, and the Mysterious Big Tree-Rustling Thing comes to eat him. Everyone assumes he's dead, including you, the viewer.
But then, at the very end (other things are happening in the meantime) he walks out of the forest, more or less unharmed, dragging a dead boar. And in a final flashback (about the walkabout tour rejecting him for insurance reasons, and sending him home on the doomed plane), you see that he was CRIPPLED before he crashed on the island, and confined to a wheelchair -- which is why everyone was so leery of his plans to take a 'walkabout'.
And then Kerry tried to one-up him in the rebuttal.
ANYWAY, the reason I accidentally turned to the debates in the first place was that I wanted to watch 'Lost', which some of the testers I eat lunch with had been raving about, and sounded interesting. I probably still wouldn't have been interested enough to tune it in, except that I'm tired of sitting there at lunch having *not* watched the show that everyone's talking about (usually, The Amazing Race).
It's... weird. The premise is a bunch of people crashed a plane on a deserted island, 1000 miles off course, but that's sort of beside the point, since the entire island is majorly f***ed up. The general plotline seems to go 'people do normal stranded-on-an-island things, but then various things that can't possibly be explained happen.'
In this episode, for instance, this old man volunteers to take people on a boar hunt, using a bunch of knives he had checked in his luggage. Initial hints -- and his bearing, and the way people react to him -- suggest he's some sort of ex-military type, but you quickly discover (through flashbacks) that he's really just a war gamer, who's picked on by his boss and his friends, who all mock him for wanting to go on a 'Genuine Australian Walkabout'. He gets even more pathetic when you find out his 'girlfriend' is a phone-sex operative, who dumps him when it gets obvious that he wants a real relationship. "Don't tell me what I can't do!" is his battle cry.
So, it's no big surprise when the boar hunt goes horribly wrong, and he ends up lost in the woods by himself, and the Mysterious Big Tree-Rustling Thing comes to eat him. Everyone assumes he's dead, including you, the viewer.
But then, at the very end (other things are happening in the meantime) he walks out of the forest, more or less unharmed, dragging a dead boar. And in a final flashback (about the walkabout tour rejecting him for insurance reasons, and sending him home on the doomed plane), you see that he was CRIPPLED before he crashed on the island, and confined to a wheelchair -- which is why everyone was so leery of his plans to take a 'walkabout'.
