EASTER SUNDAY STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Easter. Never the biggie of Catholic Holidays for LOST. Oh sure, there was candy, usually several pounds of it, waiting to be lathered over tooth enamel, all to the delight of dentists everywhere. Nobody decorates their house for Easter - nothing like Christmas, at least. No giant peeps on the lawn, or inflatable ones. Good lord, thank heaven for that. The ones people put on their lawns at Christmas look like - when deflated, some giant got a "safe" quickie and left the bag laying on the porch after staggering away . . .
But LOST digresses. There are no great Easter shows, either. S'pose you can count "Ben Hur" but it ain't Its a Wonderful Life, that's for sure. About 30 years ago (dang, THAT long?) Franco Zefferelli did "Jesus of Nazareth" as a mini-series, and it was pretty good, but it goes close to 8 hours by the time its done - and of course it covers Christmas in the beginning, too.
No, Easter is kind of a golf-clap Holiday, even if it comemorates the most amazing feat of the Namesake of the Christian faith. Perhaps its because of the timing - the whole weekend together is a roller coaster of emotions - the ugliness of "Good Friday" and its despair, followed two days later by the (okay, no lawsuit from Robert Schuller) Glory of Easter? Don't know for sure. Is it the universalist Christians and the liberal Christians who have recently reached the conclusion that the Resurrection was more metaphoric than realistic? Perhaps that is part of it too, who knows. Perhaps from the other end of the spectrum its the influence of fundamentalists who have equated Jesus with the GOP platform, and decided that the effigy of science should be burned at the stake wherever it diverges with Genesis et seq., right down to assuming that despite its literal truth, the Old Testament surely meant to mention that Triceratops and T-Rex were peacefully coexisting in Eden with Adam and Eve before the serpent showed up? Speaking of animals, maybe its because the secular myth sold to kids about Easter - the friendly candy-mongering Rabbit icon - is so implausible that even pre-schoolers can debunk it before 1st grade - at least the crimson suited fat guy looks and seems human, even if the deer DO fly?

Maybe growing up Easter is more about a Holiday that has to get out of the way of the kids who are striving to plunge headlong into Summer, and it needs to be enjoyed in a random, drive-through fashion on the way to June?

For whatever reason, Easter for LOST does not now, nor has it ever really captured the same brightness that its precedent Holiday, Christmas, does and has for LOST.