Lost in Philosophy

Or should I say, philosophy in Lost.

A buddy of mine was just cited as an "expert opinion" in a USA Today article about the aforementioned television show. I've never watched it because I've been too busy killing monsters in FFXII to actually receive any incoming transmissions on my ol' rabbit ears...but, apparently, the whole show is an allegory in philosophy with each of the characters named after and more or less representing a particular philosophy.

Comments

[Thomas]

You mean in Lost some of the characters are actually surnamed Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and so forth? I've only watched the first episode and part of one other in the middle so I didn't notice.

That's a neat idea. It's kind of like the philosophy version of the joke theory people always tell about Gilligan's Island.

[PeterTerp]

Apparently.

Isabel and I are always playing car games like, "If you had to cast two Shakespeare characters in a buddy cop movie who would they be and why?" Maybe we'll have to do a desert island variation and pitch it to a major network.
Oh...wait...I guess that would be called The Tempest...