column :: purpose
Posted by Paul | Filed under columns
Another column from 360 magazine. In fact, due to large overlap with the lead article, this one never got used. Nice to be able to get it out in some form before Lost vanishes from our screens…
There seems to be a current trend for TV shows in which no one has a clue what is going on.
Take the series ‘Lost’. If you haven’t seen it, it features a group of air crash survivors who are trapped on a desert island. For many, many episodes the characters discuss and explore without really getting closer to understanding their predicament.
Or how about ‘Heroes’, in which a number of ordinary people suddenly find they have developed super-human powers. They don’t understand why this has happened and most of them can’t quite figure out what to do about it.
Maybe these shows reflect something in our culture — a general feeling that we don’t really know ‘what on earth we are here for’. We find ourselves in this universe but we don’t know why, or what we are supposed to do.
But here’s the really interesting part: through it all we can’t seem to give up the idea that someone, somewhere knows where the stories are heading.
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