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 +7Posted on Jul 19th, 2010 | re: The Videogum Movie Club: Inception (305 comments)

i think i actually found mal (it’s not moll? really? what is it short for?) one of the more interesting characters precisely because she was just a construction of leo d’s psyche–she’s the place he’s created for his guilt/anger/whatever, and she (he) always ends up sabotaging him(self).

 +1Posted on May 26th, 2010 | re: Lost S06E18: Series Finale. R.I.P. (388 comments)

i have to disagree–maybe i’m seeing everything through jesus-colored glasses, but the show has had strong allusions to christianity the whole time, and i felt that it became kind of heavy-handed during the finale. i’m not saying the writers and creators of the show were trying to convert us all, but the inclusion of the multi-culti window felt like more like tokenism than anything else.

i mean, you’ve got (working backwards): at least two shots of the jesus statue outside the church, hurley telling ben “i forgive you”, jack getting stabbed in the ribs, jack dying to save everyone else, jack meeting his dead/ghostly father in the church (….christian shepard), the drinking water/wine ceremony, jacob & esau, the light inside all of us (maybe the show was about quakerism?), adam and eve in the cave…i’m sure there’s more