Wait For It

My last blog was complaining about lost and to be honest that’s really all I’ve done this week is watch lost so I’m going to complain about how the creators of lost crush peoples hopes and dreams or really TV shows in general. People love to watch a buildup. Who is the murderer? What is that thing? But when the answer isn’t satisfying it can be a little disappointing. This made me think of lost because there were a lot of questions but I didn’t like a lot of the answers. In season one they find two ancient skeletons in the cave. People speculated who they were and since time travel it was always an option that it was some of the main characters. My favorites were always the couples Jack and Kate or Sawyer and Juliet. It ended up being characters essential to the plot but we didn’t really get to know them they were only in one episode. It’s like someone killed a tiger and everyone was all excited to find out how and they guy was just like I shot it….. That’s it. A small let down was in the finale of Season 6 Supernatural where you find out Bobby recognizes the beast who escaped purgatory. I wanted it to be someone really close to them but it ended up being the random dragon lady. This wasn’t too much of a letdown because you found out she slept with bobby but I’m still angry we never learned what kind of creature she was. Another build up let down I can think of is How I Met Your Mother. The shows is finally at the end and were supposed to find out who the mother is but we won’t really have an attachment to her and I think whoever it is we will be disappointed. I'm not sure if this will be a letdown I think I’m just being pessimistic about it and it probably will be awesome but either way I probably will cry.

Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon

I started rewatching Lost. I forgot how amazing this show was. The fact that most of the characters changed drastically, I guess they didn’t really change but the more we found out about characters the more they seemed to change. Take the character Sun. In the beginning she seems like this tortured wife with the bad husband. Her husband Jin seems volatile and controlling. This idea stays until you learn that Sun secretly learned English. At first you’re kind of rooting for Sun because you’re like yea go against your evil husband. Then Jin starts interacting with the other survivors and learns that he’s not a bad guy he’s just defensive because he can’t understand what’s going on around him. By season two or three you learn the real story that Jin was poor and Sun was unhappy so she volunteers her husband to work for something like the Korean Mafia. He then becomes upset that his new job is to beat people and goes a little lax on the husbandly duties. Give the guy a break you forced him to do this why are you getting so pissed Sun you knew what would happen. Instead Sun decides to start sleeping around, great way to work out issues. Jin becomes angrier. This was a great plan Sun let your new volatile husband find your new fling that will really fix your marital status. Eventually after some time apart and getting stranded on a mysterious island they work out their issues. These facts do change your opinion of Sun forever so that instead of being the poor wife she seems like a selfish (insert work I’m not sure I’m allowed to say in a blog for school). A bunch of other things happen in lost like polar bears and giant statues with four toes but that’s not important right now.

The un-climactic ending

In world religion we just finished learning the story of the Buddha or Siddhartha. Long story short is a prince gives it up and starves himself only to realize the way to salvation or nirvana is through moderation. The big climax is when he wins against the god Mara touches the earth and is enlightened but the ending of the story is when he dies of food poisoning. Food poisoning people! I’m sorry but I feel like the story just should have ended with enlightenment. Plus it wasn’t like he was attacked and poisoned he knew the food was bad and his friend accidentally fed it to him. He didn’t tell his friend because he wanted to be polite I feel like the friend would have felt a lot better if you had just told him instead leaving him with the memory that you killed the Buddha. If I was the friend I would have drowned myself in the Ganges, to live with the fact you killed Buddha would have been too much. If Buddha felt it was his time to go he should have just walked off into the sunset instead of letting his friend take the blame for the final blow. That ending would have been acceptable, it would be like Gilgamesh who did not die climactically but had a rather poetic ending after following his destiny to the end and dying of old age. I guess it’s not that Buddha’s ending wasn’t climactic it is that his ending was just lame. Gilgamesh did something great before he died so he was essentially allowed to die of old age. If he died for a lame reason like a bolder fell on him I would be writing about a post about him too. My perfect Buddha ending after leading many people for years he realized that he was no longer needed so at sunset he went off to meditate alone but did not return. Later his robes were found under a fig tree and his people realized he had died. See that’s a good ending filled with symbolism of sunset being the end of days and the fig tree as a reference to when he reached enlightenment.