So I feel like I should give some sort of commentary on the new season on Lost. I’m just happy to jump back into the story. I like following a mystery over a multi-year period as it just gets more and more complex. And this season has thrown in twists that question any assumptions we have made so far in the series. So a few things that have stood out to me this season –
So far the show has been a story of salvation/redemption. The characters face the demons of their past and generally reach some sort of healing. (well, then they die and “leave” the island…) So I found the language used in the recap episode which asked “will the survivors be saved” intriguing. They didn’t use the tern rescued, but saved. But as we now see flash-forwards into the future, the demons remain for some. I’m interested to see how this develops.
What is primary on my mind right now is the significance of the new character Charlotte Staples Lewis. The writers of this show do not make throw away literary references, so the blatant C.S. Lewis reference has to mean something. We already have a John Locke and a D. Hume. And when Ben showed up using the name Henry Gale, any Wizard of Oz fan knew him to be a fake (although I found Ben’s acceptance of Sawyer nicknaming him Yoda this past week amusing). So what’s the Lewis reference? Is it a Narnia alternate world reference? A Great Divorce purgatory reference? (which I know the producers have denied)? A Screwtape allusion? Or just a religious or academic idea?
Any ideas?