April 20th, 2007
by Michael Swanberg
Okay, so I’ve been catching up on Lost. I was about a full season or more behind but am now, thanks to an iTunes season pass, only about 4 or 5 weeks behind. Is it just me, or is this entire show about “daddy issues?”
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It seems that just about every one of the castaways from Oceanic Flight 815 are in the midst of serious daddy issues. A few are the victims of maternal conflicts, but it just seems like an inordinate number of the characters are having serious problems with their fathers. Let’s look at the list.
John Locke most of all. His dad tried to kill him and put him in the dreaded wheelchair that he hates so much.
Sawyer, or James Ford, had a father figure that turned out to be a con-man. So he killed him and then turned into a con-man himself.
Jack Shephard’s dad was a drunken international womanizer with multiple families.
Claire’s father seems to be the same as Jack’s. I guess they’re half-siblings. She also seemed to have issues with her mom.
Hugo Hurley’s dad went to take a job in Vegas and didn’t return for 17 years, and then only to try and get at Hurley’s lottery winnings.
Desmond couldn’t impress Pen’s father enough to get permission for marriage, which led him to join the armed forces. But he wasn’t on Flight 815, so he might not count.
Jin had issues working for Sun’s father who had issues with the fact that Jin’s father is a fisherman.
Kate Austen blew up her stepdad and has been on-the-run ever since.
Michael Dawson had problems being a father and Walt was having problems with not having a father until now.
Mr. Eko had issues with his little brother, who was a priest (Father Yemi). Okay, that’s reaching, I know.
Anna-Lucia had issues with her mom.
And those without parental problems had problems with siblings. Boone and Shannon basically had problems with each other. Charlie had issues with his brother.
The only one that didn’t seem to have any parental issues is Sayid. Oh, and perhaps Libby, but she didn’t live long enough for us to find out much about her, why she was in the institution with Hurley or why she married a dude with a sailboat and went by Elizabeth. My guess is that her hubby’s death put her in the institution, but I guess her character wasn’t popular enough not to die. Which is too bad because Cynthia Watros is HOT!
Well, there’s Rose and Bernard too. No daddy issues there, that we know of. But we haven’t seen much of them.
Is that it? Did I name everyone? Can anyone answer why this is such a prevalent theme in the show?
I, for one, am going to keep watching. At least until I figure this out.
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