Watership Down (and more Lost!)

[thistlechaser]

I know lots of folks have read Watership Down (as Sawyer was reading in last night's ep). I'm pondering another connection between the ep's title "White Rabbit" and other stuff. Didn't Watership Down have a white rabbit in it? Wasn't that rabbit a god-figure? Like the thing they saw when they died or something like that?

The Alice in Wonderland connection is way too easy -- it was given to us by a character, and nothing on this show is as simple as that...

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Nope, in Watership Down, it's Inlerah, the Black Rabbit of Death.

By the way, I'd highly recommend getting a hold of the animated Watership Down. It's good stuff, and even if you don't like it, at least it's only a couple of hours of your life. :-) If you do like it, the book is just like the movie, only more of it.

White Rabbit is also a Jefferson Airplane song, and one of the most widely known 'drug reference' songs of the sixties. It could very easily be a drug reference.

(I'm not watching Lost yet, because I missed too many before I became intrigued, but I'm hoping to start when they go into reruns.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Nope, in Watership Down, it's Inlerah, the Black Rabbit of Death. ... animated Watership Down.

Ah! And I think that's where I got "white god-like rabbit" from. I saw the animated version maybe ten years ago, and it seems like I remember a rabbit with a white glow... but maybe it was the GarouMUSH wizard black rabbit I was thinking of.

White Rabbit is also a Jefferson Airplane song, and one of the most widely known 'drug reference' songs of the sixties. It could very easily be a drug reference.

*ponder*ponder* Interesting!

Thanks for the info, and I hope you love the series once you get to watch it!

[kwolfhard.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Oooh.

Info on the song tie-in, from TVtome.com

Whether by coincidence (or more likely not) all of the eight episodes listed so far seem to be named after songs. "House Of The Rising Sun" is a traditional song, meaning no one knows who wrote it, but it was popularized by the Animals in the 60s.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Very interesting!