Lost vs. Set Sjunde Inseglet (1957)

So it's the summer. Television thinks thats the perfect time to stop putting out new episodes of all the good shows. A friend told me I should start watching Lost. Well i watched the 1st part of the pilot and i liked it enough so i started the 2nd part. 

There is this one dude. My friend told me he's sorta like a seer. 

I liked him the first time i saw him because he was eating an orange and he put the whole thing in his mouth and smiled. 

It made him into a kind being despite his large scary eye scar. (eye scars are always bad. Look at Scar from the lion king!) 

Anyways.

The first time you see him in the 2nd part of the pilot, he is sitting in the sand with a backgammon set.

A little boy walks over and asks him about it. 

"What is it, like checkers?" he asks,

"Not really, it's a better game then checkers." the orange dude responds.

Orange dude gives me another reason to like him. As the youth asks him about the game he never turns around. These days we are all so accustomed to needing to know who we are talking to. Orange dude talks to the youth confidentily, either

A. he really is some sort os seer and he already has some notion of who he's talking too

or

B. he doesn't need to know. he places confidence in this perfect stranger.

I love that.

people are so critical and private.

more people need to be like Orange Seer Dude.

The youth tells Orange Seer Dude that his mother died a couple weeks ago.

OSD does not give his a "i'm sorry" look 

he just says.

"your having a bad month"

(with the whole mother dying and plane crashing and being trapped on a deserted island and all)

Then orange seer dude goes on to explain how backgammon is the oldest game ever because it was played in messopotamia.

"older then jesus christ"

but that is not the point!

he starts to explain how to play the game.

"two players. two sides. one is light. one is dark." 

NOW TO GET TO MY POINT!

THE

SEVENTH

SEAL.

(a.k.a. Set Sjunde Inseglet)

made by the famous Ingmar Bergman.

In the Seventh Seal, Death sits on the beach and challanges Jons (a squire) to a game.

If Jons wins, he keeps his life. 

Seventh Seal is such a widely known peice of filmiture. Everyone knows about all the light and dark symbolism.

well, when i saw Orange Seer Dude on the Lost beach with the dark and light backgammon peices thats what i saw. Ingmar Bergman folded into american T.V.

If you haven't seen The Seventh Seal i persuade you to watch it!

i love how all this assuming is coming from someone who has only seen 1 1/2 episodes total of lost. 

as i keep watching, if i see any more seventh seal i will report.

over and out-

allie