Women, Daddy Issues, Deja Vu & Golden Jesus

Not too long ago, Michael posted an entry about the Lost women. And I have to admit, on the island, the men are the ones with the power. Sure, Juliet saves Jack life, but he's the hero.

But over at EW.com, there's a rather intriguing observation: Off the island, opposite appears to be true.

Anyone else noticing that in the flash-forward future (soon to become ''the present''), the gender politics are dramatically reversed? On the Island, the men have the power. Jack. Locke. Ben. But off the Island, sisters are doing it for themselves. In her relationship with Jack, Kate is firmly in control; she sets the boundaries and terms of engagement. Meanwhile, Sun has staged a coup in her family culture, overthrowing her father in a hostile takeover of his company. The men? Weak, leveraged, spiritually neutered. Jack is on pills. Hurley is convinced he's dead. Sayid is stuck playing Ben's bitch. More on this next week when I give you my final Big Theory of the season.

There are some other fascinating interpretations of post-island life as well. First of all, that children are becoming their fathers:

It's ironic that Kate is now a fraudulent parent when she herself was raised amid confusing ''Who's my Daddy?'' circumstances. Sun seems set to morph into the same kind of ruthless godfather her father is — just call her Sunny Corleone. Jack is doing a pretty good imitation of his own boozy pop. Hurley? Last week, the lovably unlucky lug had a bonding moment with Cheech, but then abruptly sprinted away after seeing the Numbers on the speedometer of the rehabbed Camaro. But this mirrors the Camaro-set scene in ''Tricia Tanaka Is Dead,'' which ended with Hurley's troubled padre running away, albeit more figuratively. The show has never delved deeply into Sayid's childhood, so we can't pull him into this trend — but we can place him in another:

And secondly, that the characters are really just living new versions of their old lives, still as self-destructive and miserable as they were pre-crash. An analogy of addiction psychology, if you will:

JACK: workaholic surgeon; drives away woman he loves; father issues

SAYID: loses true love Nadia during war; manipulated into becoming a hideous kind of soldier by his former enemy

HURLEY: food; Numbers; mental institution; dead people guilt; seeing people who shouldn't exist

Head on over to check out the rest of the article. And then think about the golden Jesus statue. Not unlike the Mary statues full of heroin. And then Google "Golden Jesus." It's street slang for heroin. Mind blown yet?

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