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This just seems silly.

I can show very strong similarities between Lost and Gabriel Garcia Marques' 100 Years of Solitude, or Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, or -- hell -- Transformers: The Movie. Anything is similiar to everything if you look hard enough.

• I would otherwise agree about the associations being many and unlimited, and possibly not all worth putting down as cultural references, except that this was very specifically confirmed as being a reference by Damon Lindelof at Comic Con. Adding. --PandoraX 21:30, 10 September 2006 (PDT)

Also, about Oz - the show is not about Beecher, it is about the entire Prison and its population. Oz has its Emerald City, just like in the book. This is also shows that shows starring these two actors usually have an allegory related to The Wizard of Oz. But you can also link Oz to Ozzy Osbourne and say he once ate a bat, which has hair, just like the boars that the people on the Lost island used to hunt when they first crashed! Get the point?

That being said, this theory should remain on the site - to make this site complete guide to everything and anything Lost.

Advance 14:37, 19 May 2006 (PDT)

Fanon'ed it.     Nusentinsaino     talk    contribs    email  

I'd just like to point out that, for what it's worth, at least two of the actors from HBO's "OZ" are on "Lost": Harold Perrineau (Michael) and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko). The show was also heavy on flashbacks, showing where the occupants had been prior to their "removal from society." Perrineau's character on "OZ" (Augustus Hill) was confined to a wheelchair shortly before his incarceration. Like with "Lost," analogies about past mistakes, life-changing decisions, connections with the outside world and "getting a second chance" were explored in the context of this enclosed, more or less self-governing society.

But yes, it is a stretch, unless it turns out that Tom Fontana (creator of "OZ") turns out to be the Damon Lindelof or something. In any case, the "Wizard of Oz" similarities are pretty clear, especially Henry Gale in the balloon. Seems like his driver's license said it expired in '03, though. Hmm...guess he just forgot to get it renewed. I have to wonder now if Jack, Kate and Sawyer will now go down their own "yellow brick road" and find brains, courage and a heart (Sawyer is likely the tinman in that li'l metaphor). afs123