I love Doc Jensen and all, but he’s starting to lose his shit
From yesterday’s recap:
«We should talk about the painting, shouldn’t we? On the wall of Widmore’s office there was a canvas featuring a balanced scale, one side holding a white rock and the other side holding a black rock. Assuming the painting means something (historically speaking, this has not always been the case), we could interpret it to mean that in the Sideways world, the opposing powers represented by Jacob and the Man In Black are balanced. I might argue that what the scale represents is the tension between the Dionysian and the Apollonian — the timeless conflict between chaos and order, passion and reason. Our aforementioned friend Nietzsche was a big fan of the Apollonian/Dionysian conflict; it formed the crux of The Birth of Tragedy, in which he suggested that effective, inspiring tragedy is one in which the hero of reason struggles to make sense of unreasonable fate — and loses. But in the process of the struggle, he affirms eternal values and stands as an inspiration to others. I would argue ”Happily Ever After” dramatized this idea by showing how Charlie’s seemingly meaningless tragic sacrifice three seasons ago provided an inspiring, redeeming moment for Desmond in the Sideways world. An even more on-the-nose application of the Apollonian/Dionysian concept was last week’s controversy over What Keamy Said. Did he really mention The Island to Jin — or was that our mind imposing order on formlessness? If you believe the latter, you are engaging in ”Apollonianism,” according to linguistics people. (Or so Wikipedia tells me.)»
To which I respond: Snuh? I liked it when the electromagnetic thingie went boom.
