#queering lost

[lost-inanotherlife]

middle aged, gay and married. who does it like them?

MEANWHILE JACK:

[emxcrt]

ok geeking on how great it is to be able to discuss lost in a woke (please, kill this term but 'kay ill use it) way. like yes, this show in itself is already something to appreciate, a true gem of its time. great to (re)discover. but to be able to come on this app and just queer every fucking one of these characters and storylines is a whole new level of fun.

[lost-inanotherlife]

biggest lie ever told on that damn crazy island.

[lost-inanotherlife]

we need more shows like Lost.

[lost-inanotherlife]

bow down to the queen, beeetcheees

[lost-inanotherlife]

Imo, you don't understand Jack/Kate/Sawyer relationship if you don't acknowledge Jack as the apex of the love triangle. I know, I know, the show does its best to make you think that's Kate the apex but, really, it's Jack.

Everybody on that island is a little in love with Jack but Jack. Jack hates himself lol.

[lost-inanotherlife]

Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.

“Confidence-Man” is a novel by Herman Melville that “follows a succession of confidence men who, as suggested by the book's title, may be the same man in disguise”. Interestingly, in LOST something very similar happens since we have at least two main characters, Sawyer and Ben, who are con-men deeply connected, although in different ways, to the Original Confidence Man, aka Anthony Cooper.

Grant you, as I’ve explained here, Anthony Cooper is not a “real” character. He’s a fiction other people, notably John and Sawyer, have created to make sense of their respective parental traumas. In a way, Anthony is nothing but a mask we’re not interested in, but that nevertheless conditions the actions and the lives of some of our main characters. Therefore, we’re interested in Anthony in so far as he tells us something about other characters.

I want to continue to parallel John and Sawyer but today I want to focus on the latter. You see, there’s something about Sawyer that I can’t stop thinking about and that I need to get out in the open. This something pertains to how sex and sexuality play a central role in Sawyer’s story while the narrative itself doesn’t really want to explicitly tell us what role they play exactly. And it doesn’t want to tell us because it doesn’t want to reveal the extent to which sex is a fundamental component in Sawyer’s job. A job that he has “learnt”, so to speak, from Anthony Cooper. It’s not that Sawyer can be considered a sex worker per se but he does “willingly” use his own body to advance in his “line of work”, so to speak. But there’s something more to that because even on a meta level Sawyer-as-character is used by the narrative in a highly sexualized way.

I want to see if there is a narrative link connecting the “I never kissed a man” scene to the Botticelli’s Venus scene. In other words, I want to discover how LOST sexualized Sawyer and did its best to cover it because god forbid we question virility in this house. Cowboys are only used to represent daddy issues, not queer issues. “Midnight Cowboy” is a movie that doesn’t exist in the LOST universe. And yet, it does in our universe. And in our universe the cowboys imagery has been claimed by queer media. So let’s find out.

[lost-inanotherlife]

this is how these two have sex on that island.