LOST. I am a total addict. It’s true. I can’t really say I spend too much time on the message boards (I have too much else to do), but I look forward to Thursdays nights all week long. Friday mornings are spent discussing the episode with some of my colleagues at work who are also completely hooked.
Now in the 4th season, the plot is certainly thickening. The writers have made it clear in recent episodes that the space-time continuum is not on a linear plane (no pun intended). Since I have always had such a great love of science fiction and fantasy, I am even more pleased to see these two genres mixed with reality. LOST is also lousy with symbolism and, as a literature fan, I just love symbolism (I believe God does as well - the Bible is absolutely riddled with it and, as those of us who watch LOST know, the writers certainly pull a lot from there as well).
One such symbolic piece was dropped last night as a “new” character was introduced named Charlotte. Charlotte Staples Lewis to be exact. Raised in England with a degree from Oxford. Hm. Charlotte Staples Lewis - more than a little close to Clive Staples Lewis (better known as C.S. Lewis - former aethist, Christian apologist, and author of The Narnia Chronicles). He was also from England and he also attended (and taught at) Oxford. The significance of these paralells, we have not yet been told, but I’m tempted to go back and have a look through C.S. Lewis’ science fiction books (The Space Trilogy).
Another thought I had is perhaps there is something to be learned from a look at the space-time continuum within Narnia and LOST. In the Chronicles of Narnia, when visitors from this world would enter Narnia, time there did not run at the same pace. One could spend hours, days, or even years in Narnia, and it would be as if no (or very little) time had passed here. Perhaps there is something to be drawn from that? A similar idea between those on the Island and those not might explain Walt’s having grown up so much in only 90-some days. And then there’s the curious discovery of Charlotte (in the future…?) of the skeleton of one of the polar bears with a Dharma collar (from the Hyrda station). If that was indeed the future, a change in the way that time moves in each place might explain how something like that could be possible… Of course, the beauty of it is I could be way off but I love having something to think about.
Man, I love this show!
Hmm… Ian and I hadn’t realized the pull from C.S. Lewis when we watched it last week. I heard Charlotte’s name, but it didn’t click. This opens up a whole other realm of possibilities!