Into the Woods and LOST: A Comparative Study

May 14, 2009 10:14

I haven't used the English major lobe of my brain in a while, and I should probably warm it up a little before grad school gets here. Also, I couldn't find work today and I've already done the dishes. So here we go (CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOTH).

First the basics. Into the Woods, for those of you who may not know, is a 1987 Stephen Sondheim ( Read more... )

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caipirinhas May 14 2009, 23:16:06 UTC
This is my favorite post ever.

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spatulalemur May 15 2009, 14:44:28 UTC
hey, awesome, thanks for writing this!

I saw your status post of lj post or something about ITW = LOST and I was curious if that was what you meant.

<3 archetypes

I was highly addicted to Lost because of all of the <3 archetype stuff, + everything thing else that I'm sure you are aware of. But I finally gave up this season. It's just gotten too stupid. Meh.

Alllso <3 Ben Linus / Michael Emerson (at least when the character was originally introduced; he's not as great any more). I love ambiguous, lying baddies. And Michael Emerson used to teach at Flagler and one of my professors is one of his best friends so he let me talk to him on the phone once and had him send me an autograph as a surprise. :D So <3 Flagler, too.

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spatulalemur May 15 2009, 18:15:26 UTC
oh, hm, this reminded me of you:
http://www.robertpopper.com/?p=1221

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