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Lost Exegesis (Pilot Part 2)
One would think, given they pretty much share the same title, that Pilot Part 1 and Pilot Part 2 would be rather similar, that the two parts would fit together as a functional whole. It’s true that...
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Lost Exegesis (Tabula Rasa)
One of the problems with Pilot episodes is that they’re made specifically in order to hook people (almost like fish) not just into watching a TV show, but to actually sign off on it being produced. As...
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Lost Exegesis (Walkabout)
So I guess we were right, back in the Tabula Rasa entry, about Locke’s first name being John, an invocation of the historical John Locke. We must be, like, psychic or something.A brief history, then....
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Lost Exegesis (White Rabbit) -- Part 1
White Rabbit really does represent a rabbit hole for the series. The Pilot was, well, the pilot, the story to get you hooked. Tabula Rasa was what an ordinary episode of Lost television might look...
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Lost Exegesis (White Rabbit) -- Part 2
Part 1 of the essay can be found here. Unlike that part, this one will have spoilers of future episodes.Alice in WonderlandNext up in the Intermission is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by...
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Lost Exegesis (House of the Rising Sun) -- Part 1
It’s been a while since we had one of these LOST Exegesis posts! So sorry for the delay. It couldn’t be helped. And not just the nearly two months since the last one of these -- I had trouble accessing...
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Lost Exegesis (House of the Rising Sun) -- Part 2
Part 1 of the essay can be found here. Unlike that part, this one will have spoilers of future episodes.Watership DownI have to admit, I was wrong. In the White Rabbit entry I claimed that Watership...
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Lost Exegesis (The Moth) -- Part 1
The moth is the obvious symbol of this story, so let’s start there. Both moths and butterflies are of the same family, Lepidoptera. The species, like many insects, goes through several developmental...
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Lost Exegesis (The Moth) -- Part 2
You can find Part 1 of the essay here. Usually, the essay is spoiler-free until we get to the “Looking Glass” portion after an intertextual intermission. In this case our selected cultural artifacts...
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Lost Exegesis (Solitary) -- Part 1
We now begin what I consider to be the second act of LOST's first season. The basic tenor of the show has now been laid out – our principal characters have been introduced in some detail, as has the...
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Lost Exegesis (Solitary) -- Part 2
In the first part of our Exegesis of Solitary, we explored the mirror-twinning of Sayid and Danielle, the meaning of do-overs or “mulligans” in golf, and the principle that “names are important” when...
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Lost Exegesis (Confidence Man)
Sometimes everything you need to know about an episode of LOST comes from the title. That’s surely the case here. Confidence Man is an episode about the art of the con, and the different confidence...
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Lost Exegesis (Pilot Part 1)
Hello, I’m Jane, your stewardess for the Lost Exegesis, a flight of fancy that explores the esoteric mysteries of LOST, an American TV show that ran on ABC from 2004 until 2010. It’s a show that had a...
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