Lost Fathers: Locke: All For A Kidney!
A plane crashes on a remote, unknown island. The survivors must make do in this new world. Most of the characters have major father issues. There is a Hatch/hidden world that they have to uncover, open up, and dare to explore: what we call the "hard core" in hard-core people - the center of The Hoberman Sphere when it is closed tight! The island is like a prison: there is no obvious way out, no reprieve, no rescue. You are forced to deal with yourself and your connections to others. All that you have hidden away comes out into the open at some point - there is no escape from yourself! Obviously, there is a plethora of things to explore in this small group of characters:
Locke: Locke was in a wheelchair, but after the crash he is able to walk again! He was estranged from his father for years when the father suddenly showed up, generous and loving as hell, and reluctantly revealed at some point that he needed a kidney. Locke was like: "Of course - why would I not!!" However, the second the kidney was donated, the father was gone before Locke could even shake off the anesthesia. Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds. It was a non-loving, take-advantage-of set-up!
Fathers can be cruel! I think of some of the dialogue in SHOOTING STARS, the biographic movie about Labron James. One of the Fab Four’s fathers explains to the boys’ coach and others how the boys are used to disappointment: no one to depend on, and now their new coach is already leaving them. The boys are used to disappearing fathers and father figures and it hits them hard because every time they trust or depend on someone, they disappear. It’s clearly a hard cycle to break. And of course, in this anti-DEI era, we’re not supposed to talk about how the treatment of African-Americans and Native Americans impacted their capacity to father or keep families together, but that prohibition doesn’t do away with the questions or the need for discussion and understanding.
These LOST character toys all have major father issues which they've locked away, leaving the dilemma of how to open the hatch and deal with what is inside of it: both the literal hatch in the show and the metaphorical locked hatch that hides the emotional and psychological wounds in one’s core. These toys are transitional objects that provide major fodder for therapists trying to moderate father issues clinically. The toys can get people talking, imagining, telling their stories and their heartbreaks rather than keeping it all locked up inside with shame, anger, rage, abandonment and disappointment galore. We don’t need more GFUs - we need people with connections to their core and spiritual center and the capacity to navigate and manage the wounds and damage that has been done to them - personally and generationally.
LOST is currently on NETFLIX. Track down and watch the Locke episodes and see how happy he is when his father shows up and appears to care about him. Locke is so touched and moved he would literally do anything for his new-found father. And you can also watch Locke as he is befuddled when he can’t get in touch with his father, when he won’t be let into his Father’s compound, and when he begins to realize what has actually happened, and that he is back on his own again! Crest-fallen, betrayed, left out in the cold - persona non grata!
A plane crashes on a remote, unknown island. The survivors must make do in this new world. Most of the characters have major father issues. There is a Hatch/hidden world that they have to uncover, open up, and dare to explore: what we call the "hard core" in hard-core people - the center of The Hoberman Sphere when it is closed tight! The island is like a prison: there is no obvious way out, no reprieve, no rescue. You are forced to deal with yourself and your connections to others. All that you have hidden away comes out into the open at some point - there is no escape from yourself! Obviously, there is a plethora of things to explore in this small group of characters:
Locke: Locke was in a wheelchair, but after the crash he is able to walk again! He was estranged from his father for years when the father suddenly showed up, generous and loving as hell, and reluctantly revealed at some point that he needed a kidney. Locke was like: "Of course - why would I not!!" However, the second the kidney was donated, the father was gone before Locke could even shake off the anesthesia. Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds. It was a non-loving, take-advantage-of set-up!
Fathers can be cruel! I think of some of the dialogue in SHOOTING STARS, the biographic movie about Labron James. One of the Fab Four’s fathers explains to the boys’ coach and others how the boys are used to disappointment: no one to depend on, and now their new coach is already leaving them. The boys are used to disappearing fathers and father figures and it hits them hard because every time they trust or depend on someone, they disappear. It’s clearly a hard cycle to break. And of course, in this anti-DEI era, we’re not supposed to talk about how the treatment of African-Americans and Native Americans impacted their capacity to father or keep families together, but that prohibition doesn’t do away with the questions or the need for discussion and understanding.
These LOST character toys all have major father issues which they've locked away, leaving the dilemma of how to open the hatch and deal with what is inside of it: both the literal hatch in the show and the metaphorical locked hatch that hides the emotional and psychological wounds in one’s core. These toys are transitional objects that provide major fodder for therapists trying to moderate father issues clinically. The toys can get people talking, imagining, telling their stories and their heartbreaks rather than keeping it all locked up inside with shame, anger, rage, abandonment and disappointment galore. We don’t need more GFUs - we need people with connections to their core and spiritual center and the capacity to navigate and manage the wounds and damage that has been done to them - personally and generationally.
LOST is currently on NETFLIX. Track down and watch the Locke episodes and see how happy he is when his father shows up and appears to care about him. Locke is so touched and moved he would literally do anything for his new-found father. And you can also watch Locke as he is befuddled when he can’t get in touch with his father, when he won’t be let into his Father’s compound, and when he begins to realize what has actually happened, and that he is back on his own again! Crest-fallen, betrayed, left out in the cold - persona non grata!
A plane crashes on a remote, unknown island. The survivors must make do in this new world. Most of the characters have major father issues. There is a Hatch/hidden world that they have to uncover, open up, and dare to explore: what we call the "hard core" in hard-core people - the center of The Hoberman Sphere when it is closed tight! The island is like a prison: there is no obvious way out, no reprieve, no rescue. You are forced to deal with yourself and your connections to others. All that you have hidden away comes out into the open at some point - there is no escape from yourself! Obviously, there is a plethora of things to explore in this small group of characters:
Locke: Locke was in a wheelchair, but after the crash he is able to walk again! He was estranged from his father for years when the father suddenly showed up, generous and loving as hell, and reluctantly revealed at some point that he needed a kidney. Locke was like: "Of course - why would I not!!" However, the second the kidney was donated, the father was gone before Locke could even shake off the anesthesia. Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds. It was a non-loving, take-advantage-of set-up!
Fathers can be cruel! I think of some of the dialogue in SHOOTING STARS, the biographic movie about Labron James. One of the Fab Four’s fathers explains to the boys’ coach and others how the boys are used to disappointment: no one to depend on, and now their new coach is already leaving them. The boys are used to disappearing fathers and father figures and it hits them hard because every time they trust or depend on someone, they disappear. It’s clearly a hard cycle to break. And of course, in this anti-DEI era, we’re not supposed to talk about how the treatment of African-Americans and Native Americans impacted their capacity to father or keep families together, but that prohibition doesn’t do away with the questions or the need for discussion and understanding.
These LOST character toys all have major father issues which they've locked away, leaving the dilemma of how to open the hatch and deal with what is inside of it: both the literal hatch in the show and the metaphorical locked hatch that hides the emotional and psychological wounds in one’s core. These toys are transitional objects that provide major fodder for therapists trying to moderate father issues clinically. The toys can get people talking, imagining, telling their stories and their heartbreaks rather than keeping it all locked up inside with shame, anger, rage, abandonment and disappointment galore. We don’t need more GFUs - we need people with connections to their core and spiritual center and the capacity to navigate and manage the wounds and damage that has been done to them - personally and generationally.
LOST is currently on NETFLIX. Track down and watch the Locke episodes and see how happy he is when his father shows up and appears to care about him. Locke is so touched and moved he would literally do anything for his new-found father. And you can also watch Locke as he is befuddled when he can’t get in touch with his father, when he won’t be let into his Father’s compound, and when he begins to realize what has actually happened, and that he is back on his own again! Crest-fallen, betrayed, left out in the cold - persona non grata!