Friday, May 05, 2006
Lost Dharma
I'm really starting to get into the second season of Lost(sad, I know).
Things are now becoming reely strange with the discovery of the first bunker (Station 3 - The Swan) of the Dharma Initiative.
I like the way that the writers chose to adopt elements of chinese mythology into the whole thing (though the name, DHARMA, is a bit obvious [1]).
The station logo (The Swan)
is a very clever take on the i Ching Bagua
The other stations have similar reworkings of the same logo[2].
The downside is that all this mysterio/loco writing is fertile ground for the over-active imaginings of schizo types as evidenced at the Lost Forum.
[1] Egyptian hieroglyphs also feature which gives the whole thing a bit of a mystic shopping-basket feel :-[2] I can only find mention of 6 stations on the internext , though I suspect that there are 8 since this is an auspicious number in the i Ching and I doubt whether the writers would have been able to resist such juicy symmetry.
Things are now becoming reely strange with the discovery of the first bunker (Station 3 - The Swan) of the Dharma Initiative.
I like the way that the writers chose to adopt elements of chinese mythology into the whole thing (though the name, DHARMA, is a bit obvious [1]).
The station logo (The Swan)
is a very clever take on the i Ching Bagua
The other stations have similar reworkings of the same logo[2].
The downside is that all this mysterio/loco writing is fertile ground for the over-active imaginings of schizo types as evidenced at the Lost Forum.
[1] Egyptian hieroglyphs also feature which gives the whole thing a bit of a mystic shopping-basket feel :-[2] I can only find mention of 6 stations on the internext , though I suspect that there are 8 since this is an auspicious number in the i Ching and I doubt whether the writers would have been able to resist such juicy symmetry.
// posted by werner @ 12:10:00 pm 
