I am geek, hear me squeeee!

Dear Interweb,

I am now in Seattle for the summer (which most of you know) and though I miss London very much, I’m enjoying Seattle immensely. Since I arrived, Seattle has experienced a mini heat wave and luckily I got in that action and managed my second worse sunburn ever. Luckily now it is a beautiful tan, but dude….life was pretty rough for awhile.

Thanks to @sheesidd ,who nudged me to update, I will update….so…..pretty clear cut.

I had been working on a blog post about my first experience with Lost, but I never got it up because I was waiting for @SarahSamudre to get her Lost post up (which I will bug her about in a few minutes). So I will actually weave that into this post. Awesome.

Big news: I graduated on May 14 2009 with my BA in History! I start my MA in Historical Research in October.

Yea…that’s pretty much it. Oh wait….I’ve become addicted to Lost! Which in my opinion is more awesome than my degree!

Enter in my FIRST Lost post……

Ok, ok, ok! Everyone’s been writing and hypothesizing about Lost for the last 5 seasons, so why do we need another voice in the ocean? Well…one, you can’t hear voices in the ocean very well, so you do need a lot of them. So have-at-you logic! And here I go…

My family has been into Lost from the beginning, but I was always working on Lost nights and never got integrated. I then moved to London and had no TV.

… *but*…

After joining Twitter and meeting (reading & typing with) so many different people, I’ve learned a lot about Lost and why I should watch and be invested in its story.

First kudos to my sister, Sarah Samudre, who was always *always* nagging me to watch Lost. I always said no, because I didn’t want to “conform” with the trend. Silly me, for I have to catch up on 5 seasons now before the last season of the series. Second kudos go to John Cabrera ( @johncabrera on Twitter ), who is wholly invested into different theories about Lost. I came across his blog http://www.johncabrera.com/ and read many of his posts, especially his most recent.

Specifically his theories about time travel, alternate realities and possibly Atlantis are what have pulled me closer to watching the show and joining in with everyone’s discussions. His more recent posts about hieroglyphics ( with the aid of @edrafalko ) are amazing and entertaining! So thanks John for enticing me into *finally* watching the show!

I watched the episode Follow the Leader and the season 5 finale. We had to stop once or twice to answer my questions. What made it a bit easier was John’s post on the episode and especially his work on the significance of the compass (see his website above).

I was soooo totally blown away and wanted MORE. Luckily I can get into complex plots quite quickly (plus I’m sci fi geek, makes it even easier). I really don’t have any theories *yet* but what made it really easy for me to understand at first was to put into the context of Lord of the Rings; (yes….total geekery, but if I wasn’t a geek, then I’d be like….Tom Selleck…and I do NOT want the responsibilities of that mustache, wa-HAY too much commitment there…).

I’m not gonna go thru the list I made of who fits who between Lost and LOTR, but so far it’s spot on. I just love being a geek sometimes, and that was a true shining moment for me…*tear*

Sarah and I began talking about Jacob and The Island, and the connection I made with LOTR sparked some brilliance! I suggested that The Island and Jacob were in this similar situation of dark versus light (hence black vs. white/Island vs. Jacob). When I got back to Seattle I began plowing through Season 1 and the major significance of the pilot was Locke explaining Backgammon to Walt and the key struggle between the dark and light! Squeeee!!!!  [Now Sarah is going to write more about her theory of what the 6^th season will be about, so watch out for www.sarahsamudre.com for her to post some Lost theories; they will be epic!]

Locke explaining the oldest struggle

This last Saturday night I went thru 11 episodes in one sitting and went to bed at 4:30am Sunday….that’s how good this show is. I watched another 5 Monday night, and hopefully I’ll get thru the last disc of Season 1 tonight, perhaps, perhaps not.

I can’t wait to write about this more, and maybe to do some collaboration with Sarah about what we talked about the other tonight! EPIC! Seriously, the anticipation will attempt to kill me, but since it’s not really *real*; nothing to worry about.

But then again, after watching a show like Lost; what is really real in this reality?

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~ by Emily Kathryn Salcedo on June 3, 2009.