SPOILERS AHEAD!
'Lost' may have ended nearly two years ago, but there will
always be people who have yet to see the end of the series.......
Come to think 'pon it, you better avoid this post if you
haven't seen 'Life On Mars' (the original version from the UK) and its sequel
'Ashes To Ashes'. Perhaps the finale of "Homicide: The Movie" as
well.......
Okay. Are we ready to proceed with another Toobworld Central look
at the dogs of the Super Bowl blipverts?
Then let's begin.....
Remember this scene from the end of 'Lost'?
The souls of many of the main characters from the show were
gathered with those who had played an integral part in their lives because of
the crash of Oceanic 815. They were in a facsimile of a church in the dimension
of "Limbo" to finally move on to the next stage, whatever might come. This
happened many years after the events of the series, once everybody had finally
shuffled off the mortal coil back in the dimension of Earth Prime-Time. Until
such time, each new arrival in Limbo lived out an alternate life with different
memories of their past; and some of them even had fictional relationships to
buttress the believability of that life (like Jack's "son" David.)
Finally, with Jack's father Dr. Christian Shephard acting as
their guide, they knew it was time to go into the light.
Only to be reincarnated as dogs.
That's a major premise in Toobworld - when a human character
dies, it most likely will come back to Earth Prime-Time in the guise of a dog
(if it doesn't go straight to Heaven or Hell upon death). There are so many TV
commercials that support this claim, and this year's Super Bowl offered up at
least four of them.
'Lost' shared the same premise of Limbo as a gathering place
with the original UK version of 'Life On Mars', its sequel 'Ashes To Ashes', the
TV adaptation of the movie "Madigan", and the final moments of the sequel movie
to 'Homicide: Life On The Street'. But we never got to see what happened once
they left that ethereal waiting room to see what awaited them on the other
side.
If they did come back as canines, would they still have shared
such a destiny, remaining in close contact with each other?
The teaser to VW's Super Bowl commercial seems to suggest that
they might....
No, I'm not saying these are the character from 'Lost'. Like
I said earlier, many of them - like Claire Littleton and Desmond Hume - still
have long lives ahead of them.
But I think these dogs are the reincarnation of a subset of
nameless TV characters - sci-fi nerds. And in particular, "Star Wars"
enthusiasts.
The "Star Wars" franchise has been around for thirty-five
years and has been absorbed into the TV Universe. (And yes, that sadly includes
the "Turdogy" of prequel movies.) In that time, there must have been many
citizens of Toobworld who were O'Bsessed with the films and who have since gone
on to meet their maker.
Who knows? Maybe Neal Schweiber of 'Freaks & Geeks' is
dead. I certainly can see Neal's friend Bill Haverchuck as that AT-AT Whippet
who arrives by the end of the ad.
Reincarnated humans as dogs retain their human skills and
memories, so it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, that these "Star Wars" geeks found
each other in their new life and reignited their passion for the magnum opus of
LucasFilms in a new way.
Maybe.
The first part of the official Super Bowl blipvert for VW -
"The Dog Strikes Back" - continues the theme of a human reincarnated as a dog.
The way I see it, in his past life as a human he was a car enthusiast. But
because he can remember that past life he's let himself go physically -
depressed that he can remember that life and believes he can no longer drive
because he's a dog. (Saturday's Video Weekend will prove him
wrong.)
Still, the new VW inspires him to get back in shape and so he
calls upon past memories of how to go about developing an exercise
regimen.
As for the second part of the commercial, set in the Mos
Eisley cantina?
First off, "Star Wars" has been absorbed (or abducted) into
the TV Universe, thanks to all the blipverts over the years which featured its
characters... plus the Ewoks TV movie and an episode of 'The Muppet
Show'.
But those movies took place "a long time ago in a galaxy far,
far away". So all of the habitués in this bar should be long dead. We know definitely that
these two must be:
So what we have here is a similar situation found in 'Lost',
'Ashes To Ashes', and "Homicide: The Movie" - deceased TV characters gathered in
their own version of Limbo (in this case, the Mos Eisley cantina) as they await
the time when they can move on as one to the next stage.
(I have no idea what form of reincarnation would apply to
non-humans or to humans not born on Earth Prime-Time.)
Meanwhile, as they wait, they're able to view life on
Earth.......
Two for Tuesday! (Although with that added scene in the
cantina, you get a bonus splainin!)
BCnU!
1 comment:
Question for you: The actor who played Hurley appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother as a completely different character, who was cursed with bad luck in that whenever he left some place, something cool would happen that he would miss out on. This character went to college with the main characters and apparently hangs out with them often, though he's never shown in other episodes. In his one appearance, he mentions also though in one line about that time he was stranded on that island for all those years. So my question is, can this be the same character, or do we have to ignore this line? I've never seen any of Lost, so I'm very vague on the ending and the overall plot.
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