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Rewatching LOST, and I gotta say, I don’t think this show gets enough credit for how socially aware it is (in some ways, and considering the time it was created!) Take Sayid for example. Sayid is a man originally from Iraq, who served in the Republican Guard. LOST started in 2004, just a few years after 9/11, and, considering it’s a show about a plane crash, it was bold for LOST to tackle the discrimination that anyone of middle eastern descent might face in the U.S.A. The majority of the survivors are white people with English as their native language. Some of them are wary initially about Sayid after learning about his time in the Republican Guard. Sawyer even accuses him of being a terrorist, and cites how Sayid was pulled aside by TSA (his intention is to use this as evidence to back up his claim, but he’s really just proving the discrimination against people from the Middle East). However, Sayid proves to be one of the most caring, patient, and genuine characters on the show. Like many citizens of any nation who join any military force, Sayid had good intentions, and got more and more tangled in the complicated, morally questionable (to say the least) web of war. He escaped, and felt immense guilt for his involvement in both sides of the war (he ended up also helping the Americans, after they convinced his to interrogate and torture his own commanding officer). During his time on the island, he is generally a helpful, benevolent man. Ultimately, his past doesn’t matter - and neither does anyone else’s. They’re all on the same team once they crash on the island. And then there’s the other bold choice - to have him romantically involved with a blonde, white woman (Shannon). Having an Iraqi man and a white, American woman as a couple on TV in 2004 was groundbreaking. I don’t think Sayid as a character, or Naveen Andrews as an actor, gets enough credit.
love how voyeuristic early spn is filmed. shots partly obstructed by doorways, plants, crowds, furniture, shelves. filmed from high and low and angles, creeping in on characters from a distance. shot like someones hiding behind the trees or on the staircase with the characters only visible through the railing. watching in on someone through half open doors and windows
"[to Isabel, her baby girl] I have no honeyed words to speak. It is fierce out there, but you are fiercer. Bly belongs to you, and they will try to take it from you as they did me. But I will not let them. Instead we shall move mountains, my girl. It is you. It is me. It is us"
something I really admire about Lost is how they gave us an absolute punching bag of a villain. So often stories want to give us villains that are so powerful and so dangerous that the heroes are constantly getting their asses handed to them, and the bad guys seem undefeatable and untouchable.
Ben isn’t like that. He’s constantly getting the absolute shit kicked out of him. He’s still capable of so much evil and destruction and manipulation. He’s still so powerful and he hurts so many people, and he’s able to do it specifically because the heroes keep sparing his sorry ass. But anytime someone decides they wanna rock his shit he barely even physically fights back. Always bruised and bloodied. Most punchable face that always gets punched, and it’s so goddamn satisfying every time.
anyways I love him A++++ bad guy handling, good job Lost <333
The golden pass that they gave us. I… I've been using it. Every friday night, I fly from L.A. to Tokyo or… Singapore or… Sydney. And then I get off, and I have a drink, and then I fly home. Because I want it to crash, Kate. I don't care about anybody else on board. Every little bump we hit or… turbulence, I mean… I actually close my eyes, and I pray that I can get back.
LOST ✈️ September 22, 2004 - May 23, 2010.
thinking about how sawyer went from fighting kate for a spot on the raft in s1 to jumping out of a helicopter to make sure she would be rescued in s4