Some Lost geekery: mild spoilers

I feel like talking about Lost. I've never spoken about the show on my blog -- but I am a huge fan. And I mean that in a very special way, because I think this third season has largely sucked. It's becoming a soap opera, sometimes I find myself laughing at things that are supposed to be serious... but, nevertheless, the show has a special place in my heart for Seasons 1 & 2, for John Locke, and, hopefully, for seasons 4 and onward. Mike already knows about my daddy issue theory. Well, I guess it's not so much a theory as a simple observation. There is a major daddy issue thread going through this show. I was originally thinking that a character's place in the show was determined by the magnitude of his/her daddy issue, but that doesn't make sense because it rules out Sayid and Charlie as being important at all. (Although some think that Charlie isn't important, and Sayid's basically just been the tech guy ever since Shannon died, it seems.) See, we've got Claire, at the bottom of the importance barrel, who has a moderate oh-my-dad-isn't-who-I-thought-he-was daddy issue. Then Sun/Jin who are afraid/ashamed of their daddies. Then there's Hurley: typical he-wasn't-there daddy issue. Sawyer's daddy did some bad things to his mommy. Jack hated his daddy to the point of ruining his life. Kate, well, she blew up her daddy. And Locke... that's some fucked up shit right there (although if anyone mentions one more time how his dad stole his kidney, I will lose my self-composure and laugh out loud). I'm not sure of how I ordered these, because I don't actually think Kate is more important a character than Jack. I'm at least sure that Claire, Hurley, Sun, and Jin deserve to be on the bottom half; Sawyer, Kate, Jack, and Locke have got some major issues going on, therefore they are the principal characters. Does that make sense? So that rules out Charlie and Sayid (of the original crew). Of the newer characters, it rules out Desmond, Juliet, Mr. Eko... everyone who hasn't had a flashback involving a father. Although you could also include Desmond and Mr. Eko in my observation because of their religiosity (God the father). Oh yeah, and Ben Linus has a major daddy issue as well. Almost forgot about that. He's worse than Kate! As far as he's concerned, there's some weird Abraham-and-Isaac reversal going on: he killed his father and then made Locke "kill" his father, representing it as a sort of rite of passage. OK, I'm done rambling. But I wouldn't be surprised if more of these crop up. And considering everyone's going to die soon, I'm sure they'll have more characters next season whose fathers were utter bastards. Or something. --------