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Reworking
as you can see i have reworked this article, i am sorry if this upsets anyone, but i will explain and then maybe you would agree. Basically i thought that an article such as "Animals" was simply a list of animals as a theme, or motif, not an actual article per se. So i have moved all the pages to, for example: "List_of_Recurring_Themes:HERE", this frees up pages for more open articles as opposed to lists etc.
i have also:
- alphabetised the list
- moved some of the longer lists to their own categories
- tidied these longer lists up as much as possible
- added comment to keep alphabetisation
i am sorry if i have moved any ongoing discussions, please feel free to move them back
- Mikey - "so emo, it hurts"© I Have a question. Why is there nothing written about the psychology theme? It seems to be pretty apparent and important. Also there should probably even be a subtheme of social psychology too. It is literally everywhere on the show. For instance, the social psychology stuff is obvious in the max candle tapes and his mention that the island is a social psychology experiment. It is also in the less obvious instances. The others are seen as an out group and fit perfectly into that schema. Not to mention the group dynamics within the groups in lost. The fact that jack fits in as a leader much in the way defined by social psychology. The torture by Sayid is all social psych. Sawyer as a con man employs alot of social psych. Furthermore the grander scheme of psychology in general seems important to ask, such as the allusion to multiple experiments. The obedience experiment of Milgram parrallels somewhat to the pushing of the button. The polar bear experiment. The memory game that was a clue on THF. The suggestion that DHARMA is an anagram for Department of Heuristics. To be honest the main reason I enjoy this show so much is because there is so much psychology in it and I am a psych major!
Locke's Scar
Just thought it was worth mentioning that Locke's scar is visible in his flashbacks (i.e before the crash) although I only noticed in the episode where he meets Rose in the airport. It may be that it is a real scar of the actor, though. --LostCat 04:54, 2 June 2006 (PDT)
Red
- In the beginning of "Three Minutes" the Hatch floor is covered in the blood of the murdered Ana Lucia and Libby
- John Locke's shirt is almost completely red with blood after he carries Boone back from the fallen Beechcraft.
These are rediculous. Seeing red because there is blood present is not a recurring theme. --Keyes 01:34, 17 June 2006 (PDT)
If you were referring to every time someone say cut a finger I would agree but these are both instances where there's large amount of the substances. Furthermore there's an inherent psychological link between the color red and the substance blood. the first often brings the latter to mind.--Tricksterson 09:03, 17 June 2006 (PDT)
But they're such trivial things. Blood was on the floor of the hatch because someone had been shot with a gun. It's not a recurring theme. If there wasn't blood on the floor something would be very wrong with the universe. --Keyes 15:20, 17 June 2006 (PDT)
- I completely agree. I've been itching to remove it, but I think more people should decide than just two.--Miss Mary Mack 09:45, 22 June 2006 (PDT)
- Well, I'll happily make it three. "Blood is red" doesn't really count as a theme. --Wintermute 09:44, 20 July 2006 (PDT)
- The colour Red is just not prominant enough to be considered a theme (like say Black and White). Also, I would consider Scotland to be about as much a theme as Australia or the United States or any other nation that features regularly in Lost. Cull them both I say. --Kivipat