#sir arthur conan doyle's the lost world

[acecroft]

THE LOST WORLD 1.08

[acecroft]

THE LOST WORLD 1.06

[jonroxton]

Lost World fans, I fucking love that you're all still around. I'm on my billionth rewatch, per usual.

[jonroxton]

Chaotic good for the ages

Truly unstoppable, zero fucks

She LITERALLY did it

[scifipinups]

Rachel Blakely The Lost World (1999)

[jonroxton]

day one idiots

[lanistas]

What I love most about Roxton and Marguerite's relationship is that at first you might think that John Roxton is going to be this macho man, this hunter who sees a beautiful woman as a prize to be won, a rare jewel for him to discover. And you might think "aha, so it's going to be this kind of dynamic, oh boy..."

But then it turns out he is the sweetest, the kindest and the most considerate man in existence, a man who falls head over heels for a woman who is not the easiest person to love - and day after day he teaches her what love and compassion is, he helps her open up, accepts all parts of her, loves her and protects her no matter what. To add to that, he is flirty and playful, but also pretty vulnerable at times.

Marguerite's character adds to the beauty of her relationship with Roxton as much as Roxton's does. When we are introduced to her, we see her as a self-serving, cunning and manipulative person, someone who is driven only by her own desires, who does everything for her own personal gain. However, as the story unfolds, we see that her cold and calculating nature is a carefully crafted façade that she hides behind, and she slowly learns to trust others, starts to share her insecurities with people who little by little become her family.

Make no mistake, at the end of the day Marguerite is still bold, snarky and as morally gray as can be, but she is also softer, kinder to herself and to others, and it adds volumes to the complexity of her character. And the fact that she finds a man who challenges her and argues with her when she is wrong, but who still loves her unconditionally, who helps her heal, who makes her understand that she deserves so much more that she allows herself to have is so utterly beautiful and so important to me.

[julieverne]

what are your rarepairs??? - miz

Oh so I more mean I grew up in Australia so the shows are obscure.

And I don't want to out myself, but probably the rarest pair is Finn/Veronica from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

And then (even though they did stuff in canon) Bron and Charlotte from All Saints.

Dash and Maggie from Blue Heelers.

There are more obscure ones, but these kept me alive.

[jonroxton]

Challenger's greatest ally and pseudo-adversary has always been Marguerite. Her ambition and recklessness has always matched his, and she is arguably the next smartest person in the expedition. She's a geologist, and bc of Summerlee and himself, an amateur botanist.

The mythology of the show is that Marguerite is a nihilistic wild card. She can choose to destroy the plateau and then the world. A lot of her luck, intelligence and guile seems to come from being protected by this dark force that encourages her darkness. This has been with her always, with the counterpoint to her destiny being the moments of interference. Sure, her destiny is to destroy the world, but that's simplifying it a bit. Her destiny is to choose to destroy the world, with the implication within the entire show being that she constantly has to choose to do good. Marguerite is the most overt manifestation of this theme, and they often get to overlap it with Challenger's perpetual megalomania (lol). It's strong writers who recognize that these greater than life characters become greater when they confront each other, and isn't afraid to put them in these situations.

So it works out that they are similar types, but also, we're watching Marguerite witness someone like herself choose good over evil. Choose everyone's lives over his passion and power in the future. SHE GETS TO BE THE BIGGER PERSON AND IT'S A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, which is a grander more sustainable kind of power that benefits all.

[jonroxton]

Love the amount of "the boys are being sluts and put us all in danger" plots that get solved with "the girls know the boys are being sluts and tell them for the full episode until they have to jump in and save everyone" resolution. BC there are A LOT. Like, waaaay too many women come out of the jungle half naked and waaaay too many times the boys just go, yeah totally no problem let's make out.

Silly plot tempered by the number of "the girls are being sluts and put us all in danger" that also happen where the boys have to fix everything.

The Lost World is equal opportunity slutville.

[lanistas]

I kinda forgot how Roxton is super protective of Marguerite from day one.

And not in "oh, the jungle is not a place for a woman" kind of way (even though he did say something like that in a deleted scene from the pilot). Or "I want to make you mine, so I'll be by your side blinding you with my manliness" kind of way either.

No, it's more like "you are a huge pain in my butt, but you're still a part of my team, so I'm not going to let you get eaten by a crocodile" kind of way.

And this is so wonderful to watch. He is just trying not to leave her out of sight, making sure she doesn't get herself into trouble. He is the protector of the group, and that includes protecting her, no matter how difficult she makes that. And yeah, you can already see that there's a certain attraction here and that he finds her intriguing, but mostly I think she just annoys him at this point?

My teenage self chose her first otp well haha.

[jonroxton]

Marguerite being the ultimate polyglot is hilarious because she’s a liar who hates people lol.

[starbabe569]

I'm hyper fixating on older shows I enjoy. So I'd really appreciate it if someone would please ask me questions about one or more of these three TV Shows.

REBOOT 1994 - 2001

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World 1999 - 2002

Siren 2018 - 2020

[jonroxton]

Challenger is a good person, sure, he has to try a little harder than most, but I honestly think he never goes full evil bc of the sheer number of other psychotic London explorer/inventors who ended up on the plateau and the plateau just fucked all their plans up. Not that Challenger is free of examples of his own fuck up and alternate universes where he's a vicious dictator lol.

[lanistas]

It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when Summerlee decided to adopt Marguerite as his granddaughter, but by 1x12 he is already acting like a protective grandpa, and this is so cute. Their relationship is so precious <3

[jonroxton]

Ppl get so mad when you sell them into sexual slavery to get off a mystical dinosaur ridden plateau :/