"Lost" observations

While a friend of most of my friends is one of the hot and heavies on "Lost" - the second best show on TV right now * (and has a really keen trophy to prove it now... YAY!), all of the aforementioned friends have been unable to extract a single bit of anything close to a 'clue' from him. Bastards. They clearly aren't working him over hard enough. It's time to stop playing 'good cop' and get out the hoses and alchohol. Oh, and strippers. Alan and Earl like the strippers, they can ply him with hoses, strippers and liquors. Especially hoses.

So, since I have been watching the show from the start, I have noticed a trend in the books that the characters read and display... I have also realized that I am a girly little fan boy when it comes to this show.

Season 1 included "Time Tunnel" and "Watership Down".

From Season 2, Episode 3, I recognized the following books (both were clearly blocked in-frame intentionally, so hell, I'll bite).

Namely:

"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. It's a story about alleged hauntings and all kerfuckity control and horror shiznit.

http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/turn_screw/

The other is "The Third Policeman", by Flann O'Brien. Apparently, we are led to believe that there has either been a murder committed on the island with a shovel, OR... that eternity is just up the road a piece.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156478214X/103-3835952-0967849?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance

You decide.

Personally? I have lots of good theories. It's no coincidence that there is an experimental arcology of sorts on the island, and there was a picture of an arcology in Walt's comic book (the page just before the polar bear - fear me, I am HELL with a remote control and a Tivo). Also, the guy in the hatch was named Desmond - the middle name of a famous arcology dude who not only wanted to perform experiments on what would happen if people lived in an arcology, but also was one hell of a commie.

Oh, and nice one about the think tank coming from The University of Michigan. Props to Ann Arbor. :-)

- Hans

* sorry - Battlestar Galactica on SciFi holds top spot in my heart... But I cheat on the Colonial Fleet every wednesday night at 9:40pm (after the Tivo has gotten to the point where I can skip through the commercials - shhhhhh)