Lost Update – I Am An Island

 

Season III

Lost Update 06/06/2007

I am a rock,
I am an island.
Ive built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
Its laughter and its loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

It was announced several weeks ago that ABC’s Lost was being extended for three more seasons for a total of six. And you cannot blame the producers and writers because once we all got a good look at the size of the island the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on, it’s going to take that long to explore and explain it.

Giant uncharted islands hidden from the world are hard to come by. While watching Lost over the past three seasons, I noticed some similarities of the Lost island to another famous island. Like the Crosby, Stills, Nash, And Young hippy update, I am asking you to read the entire update with an open mind. Embrace both islands, both sets of characters, both stories.

I liken the Lost island to Skull island. Skull island was the island inhabited by King Kong and assorted other giant creatures such as dinosaurs and giant snakes. It was an island that time forgot. An island that was not on any mariners map, and the only hint that an island even existed was rumors from the local fishermen spinning tales of a mythical island where a great beast lives and anyone who traveled to explore the island never returned.

Skull island also had a native tribe of people that lived there. They worshiped the beast, the great Kong, the great King Kong, a giant ape that towered over the tree’s. The tribe feared the monster, (King Kong) more than worshiped him but being trapped on the island, a rudimentary religion was formed and Kong became the God. They would sacrifice a young woman to appease Kong. And Kong likes blondes.

Sound like any island we know? The similarities are striking.
First of all, both islands are huge. skull island was miles long and wide with huge mountains, gigantic waterfalls, and a jungle that went on for miles and miles. Pretty much ditto for the Lost island. I could understand back in 1933, when King Kong was released, (The movie, not the ape) that an island the size of Texas could stay hidden if it were so far out of the shipping lanes. But in todays age of GPS, NASA spy satellites, and world mapping, there is no way an island bigger than Hawaii can be hidden, regardless of where it is located.

Now that we established the size of both islands, lets analyze the monsters on both. For Skull island, there was of course King Kong, the giant ape with a temper and thing for blondes. Also plenty of ferocious dinosaurs and giant snakes.

The Lost island also has monsters. As in the invisible giant monster, and the smoke monster, and another monster, a sheep in wolves clothing, also known as Ben. King Kong ripped all it’s enemies to threads and brutally killed them. Same can be said for Ben. Any enemy that challenged Ben, he killed them.

Another similarity with Kong and Ben is that both were captured and escaped. Kong was taken to New York in shackles and put on display for all the world to see. Ben was also captured, shackled and marched back to camp. Kong escaped, killed many more people, and sought sanctuary with the closest thing he could find to his own surroundings, where he was King to everything he saw. You guessed it. Same goes for Ben. Ben escaped and returned to his camp and began to formulate his plan for total dominance.

And did anyone notice that Kong had a thing for blondes? Kong went Ape when he saw Fay Wray, a blonde actress strapped to his sacrificial post. Looking at Ben, he was in love with Anne, and again with Juliet. Both blondes.

Sidenote: Ann Darrow was Fay Wray’s character’s name, the blonde. Ann is also the name of the girl Ben loved.

Does everyone remember the great wall the native islanders built to keep Kong away from them? Doesn’t it remind you of the big electric poles that surround the compound. And it’s purpose, you guessed it, to keep the black smoke monster away.

Speaking of the native islanders on Skull Island, perhaps we can match them up to the original “Others” on the Lost island. More people arrived to Skull island just as more people arrived on Lost island.

In the end, King Kong plummeted to his death defending himself and his blonde captive. The end tag line was, the army didn’t kill Kong. Beauty killed the beast. Perhaps Ben has the same fate in store.

In essence, Lost is a remake of the 1933 movie, King Kong. Ben is Kong incarnate. Juliet is Fay Wray. Jack is Jack Driscoll. Jack Driscoll was the man in love with Ann Darrow and went searching for her when the others returned to the safety of the beach. Jack on Lost has a love interest with Juliet. It is all so obvious.

Let’s open this first Lost Summer installment discussion for debate. I’m listening.

The next installment takes us back to the very beginning right up to the season three finale. The working title for this update is aptly named “Beyond The Sea.”

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