Guri
Sr Member
I thought seeing more of Richard was the best part of season 5 the first time around, but I really loved all of it more the second time around. The first time around I was still bitter from lack of answers in season 4.
Seeing Dharma live normal lives as normal people was really cool and the second time around I took time to appreciate it more. The first time I was just wishing they would get on with it already.
Seeing Dharma live normal lives as normal people was really cool and the second time around I took time to appreciate it more. The first time I was just wishing they would get on with it already.
TheDoctor
Sr Member
Seeing Dharma live normal lives as normal people was really cool and the second time around I took time to appreciate it more. The first time I was just wishing they would get on with it already.
Ugh. I disagree. Seeing the "normal" Dharma took away all the mystery from the DI. I liked it when they were mysterious and nobody (including us) knew what they were about. In a sense, it made me realize that, behind every secret organization it seems like a normal day at the office to the people in it, but, like the Borg on Star Trek, the more you reveal about them the less powerful and interesting they become.
The DI was, literally, domesticated.
BTW - Micdavis - Did you get to the part where Ben starts building a giant computer to track terrorism?
Guri
Sr Member
I really don't get mysteries being all that so long as they remain mysteries. I like explanations and making it real. The Dharma being domesticated scientists who...
(Mic, don't read this next bit until after you finish Season 6. )
(Mic, don't read this next bit until after you finish Season 6.
)who were messing with stuff they shouldn't have been messing with, just like MIB was... and who were warned not to do it, but were driven to experiment at all costs (even willing to kill the natives). Their story explains what Fake Mother was worried about - when certain people get exposed to the power of the light they lose their perspective. It was very realistic, exemplified the 'it always ends the same' 'rule' and showed why the Other's decided they had to go. It was a brilliant way to humanize them and justify the purge as self-defense.
It was the main theme of Lost (and of Jacob's test) that anyone could go either way at any point depending on their free will decisions. It wasn't what side you were on that made you the 'good guys', it was the decisions you made individually. By humanizing everyone (except maybe Keemy) we get to see the individual battles are in the heart and head, not against some 'other side' evil.
Ben exemplifies this going back and forth the best... He was the most evil, but they humanized him which made it totally believable that he could come around in the end.
Same thing with MIB - they humanized him and made his story so much better by removing the idea of him always being evil. He made choices that led him that way and he befell circumstances beyond his control that pushed him that way. Could he have turned around and not been evil anymore like Ben? That is a serious question that only comes to light after Across the Sea.
If they left Dharma mysterious we wouldn't get that same dynamic that they gave us in the rest of the show with almost all the other characters (again, except Keemy *hehe*)
It was the main theme of Lost (and of Jacob's test) that anyone could go either way at any point depending on their free will decisions. It wasn't what side you were on that made you the 'good guys', it was the decisions you made individually. By humanizing everyone (except maybe Keemy) we get to see the individual battles are in the heart and head, not against some 'other side' evil.
Ben exemplifies this going back and forth the best... He was the most evil, but they humanized him which made it totally believable that he could come around in the end.
Same thing with MIB - they humanized him and made his story so much better by removing the idea of him always being evil. He made choices that led him that way and he befell circumstances beyond his control that pushed him that way. Could he have turned around and not been evil anymore like Ben? That is a serious question that only comes to light after Across the Sea.
If they left Dharma mysterious we wouldn't get that same dynamic that they gave us in the rest of the show with almost all the other characters (again, except Keemy *hehe*)
Sick or healthy....your rate has been IMPRESSIVE.
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