"Lost"

So, if you read this, you know that I'm obsessed with the tv show Lost. I have to post some thoughts here for lack of a better place. This is a bit of a blurb on the general path of the show up to now.  Please feel free to read a different blog today :)

I think a Wrinkle in Time & Alice in Wonderland are big clues (they are referenced so often in the show). In both, awkward "anti-hero" young women unwittingly become saviors of mythical societies. They both have morally ambiguous helpers from magical places who only offer suggestions on how to help. But in the end, both heroines are forced to decide if they will make the necessary sacrifices to save themselves and the mythical worlds (thereby ultimately affecting their own worlds). In A Wrinkle in Time, there is a "formless black shape" spreading over worlds and consuming them in darkness. It controls minds and takes over the Will of average people. At the core, both stories are "good versus evil." In both stories, love wins - and in both, selfless love is associated with good. Sounds corny, but love seems to be the undercurrent of every character's actions in Lost. The show keeps asking "what will this person give for the sake of love?" and "what is love, really?" It's such a good show. Can't wait to buy the entire thing and spend a weekend watching it next year.