Into the World of LOST: Jack and John Locke

As I am watching the series again for the forth or fifth time, I am catching on to things that I just never understood before. John Locke was always looking for approval, always wanted to be accepted for his faith and what he believed was going to happen. But no one would give him that satisfaction. His father or co-workers, and he even reached out to a lady on a call service. He always said "Don't tell me what I can't do" . He truly believed that your limitations was just a excuse not to live, even when he was confined to a wheel chair before the crash.

Jack believed there was nothing you could not fix, but he was never able to fix what mattered most. He worked on a patient in the hospital that his father started but was not able to finish because he was under the influence. I truly believe the only reason he turned his father in was he wanted to fix the problem for the hospital. He could not fix the patient, but he could make this right. He did not give up on the patient because he wanted to fix his fathers mistake. He wanted to move to the caves because there was water and it seemed safe and everyone was closer together, he wanted to fix the discord among the people. He did not want to be the leader, but everyone went to him to lead

Jack and Locke worked together but while Locke may have trusted Jack, Jack never listened to Locke and fought him every step of the way. Jack wanted to fix and Locke wanted to have faith and let the problem fix it's self. It makes sense how the series ended, in Locke becoming the smoke monster and Jack knowing the soul of the monster. They killed each other if you think about it. You could almost say that the destiny that Locke always talked about was about the end story for Jack and Locke.

Locke was always wanting Jack acceptance from season one, he gave up and attempted to hang himself, but he failed, when he decided to live Ben Linus killed him because he knew what John would become if he got Jack to take the body back to the island. It was the way life worked on the island, it was part of the secret of the island, and Ben knew a lot of secrets.

But it was meant for Locke to die and and face off against Jack, In the end Jack was the one that had to leave science behind and have faith, other wise he would not have beaten Locke. But my question is did Jack find faith to late and because he waited so long  he died on the island? According to what his father said in the final episode , not everyone died on the island, some did make it home to live out their lives. I think the story of Lost is about Destiny and getting it right. Would it not be interesting if your destiny was wrong and you crash on a island? Every character on the show had their issues with destiny

I Like Both 2006 "Superman Returns" and 2013 "Man of of Steel. Is That a Problem?

I must not look at movies the way the most harshest of critics does, cause I can just about find something good with any movie. it depends on what I am expecting at the theater that can make or kill a movie for me. I have went to theaters and been completely disappointed in a movie. It has happen a few times that I would miss a movie at the theater and it would get great reviews and have a strong box office showing and I would rush out to buy the DVD because of hype and expectations and get the movie home and think to myself why did I want this movie so bad, it sucked.

In 2006 the long awaited movie "Superman Returns" came out, I thought it was a great entertaining movie but Critics, friends was not as thrilled as I was with the movie. Ok I will give you that some parts where over done. I thought that Kevin Spacey role as Lex Luthor was just a tad strained, but over all still good. Come to think of it I feel as if I just blasphemed for suggesting that Kevin Spacey ever had a bad acting role. It could be that I hate the Lex character, he just pisses me off. Maybe I just don't like the ideal of Kevin Spacey doing anything wrong. I have no problem with Kevin Spacey playing a bad guy, but I always want to join him on the dark side. I just did not like the ideal of him beating up on Superman. So maybe it was just the perception that I did not want to join him this time. I love the video game series Call of Duty, Spacey was the voice of the bad guy Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare , again I wanted to join Atlas.

But on to the movie, Bryan Singer of X-Men fame, directed the movie , Brandon Routh played a convincing Superman. I had no problem with his role as Superman. I guess people had a problem with the story line being to much of a love story with Lois Lane played by Kate Bosworth and the possibility of Superman being a father. I am not sure , but I like the story, I thought it was well crafted and very imaginative.

But moving on to 2013 Man of Steel, all you can say is WOW, Freaking awesome, yes I did like it much better then Superman Returns, but it was a different story line altogether, more action and less story but I will not kick the 2006 movie to the curb. Its just a Superman story that I like. Man of Steel was directed by Zack Snyder who has a long awesome movie list in Hollywood. Again they pick a great actor to play Superman in Henry Cavill who has a nice acting resume himself, Amy Adams plays Lois Lane. And there was no Lex Luthor this time around and I missed him. WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!?....

I don't think you can go wrong with any Superman movie or TV Show including Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993-1997 on ABC staring Dean Cain as Superman and the 2001-2001 series Smallville, staring Tom Welling as Clark Kent. Both very different series. I guess the worst ever Superman movie had to be  1983 Superman III Staring the late Christopher Reeve and Richard Pryor, it was a horrible movie. The first two movies where the best, Reeve's made a comeback in Superman IV, it was not the greatest but much improved. So I guess you can go wrong with Superman.

We can never forget George Reeves in the 1952-1958 classic series Adventures of Superman.

However , with all that said I only have two Superman movies in my collection of 400 DVD's. the 2006 Superman Returns and 2013 Man of Steel, both great Superman stories. And that is what it is all about, the story. Am I right?