{"id":2999,"date":"2015-06-21T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T09:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2015-06-21T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T09:02:18","slug":"lost-tv-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/06\/lost-tv-show-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost (TV Show)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been re-watching\u00a0Lost, the TV show which ran for 6 seasons from 2004 – 2010. The show was\u00a0unfortunately a victim of its own unsatisfactory ending and has never been remembered fondly\u00a0since. It is also known for\u00a0having too many unanswered mysteries, despite the fact that nearly all of them were resolved by the end! However I’m finding the re-watch to be absolutely gripping. To get the most out of it, I’d recommend shifting your focus from the sci fi\/fantasy aspect of the show and enjoying it as a strong character drama. Some of the themes that run throughout\u00a0involve\u00a0love, loss, loneliness, friendship, family conflict (especially absent, cruel, and\u00a0dead parents), survival, good v evil, science v faith, free will v fate, and the question of what happens to us when we die. I find the show a really interesting fictional format to explore all of these issues.<\/p>\n

I was 18 when it started, and a decade\u00a0later I see the show in a different way than before. I’m only on the second series at the time of writing this, but\u00a0the female characters are not being written very well in my opinion. Whilst they are many in number they don’t have many storylines outside of their relationships to a man or outside of motherhood. (E.g. Rose, Claire, Sun…) One exception is Kate, a\u00a0very strong and independent woman who \u00a0can rescue herself and others as well as any male character. However, even whilst she’s off roaming the island to move the plot forward with the men she’s caught up in a whirl of sexual tension love triangle. Most of her angst and character motivation comes from the fact that\u00a0she unintentionally got the man she loved killed. I’m looking forward to seeing how the female characters are written throughout the rest of the series. I hope it gets better, but I don’t think it does! Sigh.<\/p>\n

I realised this morning that I couldn’t remember seeing any LGBT characters in the show. It’s always a great shame in any sci fi\/fantasy show when this happens. It subconsciously conveys\u00a0the idea that things such as smoke monsters, seeing\u00a0dead people, and tropical islands that travel through space and time are all more normal and easier to understand than the fact that someone isn’t straight. Double sigh. This is an especially big fail in Lost’s case when you consider the sheer number of characters that must\u00a0total up to several hundred<\/a>. Surely more of them could by gay, lesbian, bi or trans? Surely there could be more same-sex characters and couples as background extras and minor characters? WRITERS, IT’S NOT THAT HARD TO DO!!<\/p>\n

What makes me doubly sad is that a decade on, they still haven’t changed. A lot of the same producers and writers for Lost went on to work on the show Once Upon a Time. Sadly it’s still a case of creating a world where murder, mass murder, dragons, magic, torture, children being the same age as their parents, being able to travel between worlds… etc etc. all regularly occur\u00a0BUT GOD FORBID WE HAVE AN LGBT CHARACTER! Once is also just as bad for not casting BME people in anything other than small supporting roles. Though oddly the show does a lot better than most shows in terms of awesome female feminist characters…BUT IT SHOULD NEVER BE EITHER\/OR IN THESE CASES. A SHOW SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A DIVERSE CAST, DIVERSE CHARACTERS *AND*<\/strong> WELL WRITTEN FEMALE ROLES!!<\/p>\n

And breathe.<\/p>\n

So how many LGBT chracters are there in Lost? According to this website<\/a> there are two gay males and one assumed bisexual (Hurley’s sister in law). Who leaves Hurley’s brother for another woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*throws laptop out the window*<\/p>\n

Please excuse me whilst I go and sulk in the Swan Station\u00a0with a poler bear and dream of representation in the media.<\/p>\n

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Lately I’ve been re-watching Lost, the TV show which ran for 6 seasons from 2004 – 2010. The show was unfortunately a victim of its own unsatisfactory ending and has never been remembered fondly since. It is also known for having too many unanswered mysteries, despite the fact that nearly all of them were resolved by the end! However … Continue reading Lost (TV Show)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bisexuality-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}