Trung’s family left
Growing up in Baltimore Trung has spent countless hours watching any TV shows. As a kid he has consumed hundreds hours worth of cartoons. There was no such thing as watching too much TV, in fact he and his older brother sharing a bedroom with a TV since he was eight or nine years old. When his brother is around he watched what ever his brother is watching. They watched TV while doing home works, folding cloth and doing any house chores.
His favorite shows are mostly comedy. Friends, everybody loves Raymond and Seinfeld are few of the comedy shows he loved. So my question was that how he ended up watching and attracted to LOST. I was wondering if he stumbled to it while surfing the channels. That is really what he does when he is watching TV by himself. He gets easily board. He does not remember how he stumble to the show, but it capture his attention, likes the suspense at first and to his surprise he did not even change the channel during commercial break, though he does not remember the commercial.
As Trung puts it perceptively the show is about survival. Survival and taking control in a situation that you have found yourself. The situation that challenges your instinct and the animal that is in you. It is a fact that people from different background take a plane each day. It is also a fact plans crashed a lot less than cars, but they do crash time to time. The thing is that we do not think about them. The ABC drama LOST captures that angle and that is why Trung is so drawn to the show.
He used to watch the show religiously, but since he does not like to watch serious shows with his wife he slowly changing his habit to something that is neutral for both of them and this time movies became the tie breakers. He still tape and watch the show when he is alone, the same night it airs even if it means staying up late. He considers his accommodation of his wife as the biggest sacrifice he ever made in his life. He does not even want to think about kids. Not at this moment.
The one thing he still likes about the show though that he predict some of the outcomes before the show begins and most of the times his predictions seems to hit the target. He does not know if that is one of the reasons that he loves show, but certainly LOST is the only drama based show with the reality twist that fascinated him each time
2 comments:
I thought that this topic was very interesting. I think some of your theories as to why your friend likes this show are really interesting as well. The fact that he does not want kids right now (which is a big commitment) tells a lot about someone; their control habits and such. It is cool how that connects with the show in the sense that the characters have no control of their situation (opposite him) and he likes to pretend he has control by guessing the answers to the plot line. I would have liked to read a little bit more about some theories as to why he likes the show so much by delving into his personal life a little bit more. But, for the most part, very interesting interview.
I agree with alex. I think that the answers that Trung gave to your questions, while not closely related to LOST at all times, still provides a means of understanding his habits.
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