Warning: This post contains spoilers for both Lost and the Chronicles of Narnia.

While watching the series finale last night, I was struck by the similarities between the last book in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle and the final part of Lost.

As Christian Shepard tells Jack, they aren’t dead. They’ve just moved on. The Island wasn’t some type of purgatory, nor are they in heaven. They’re just in a special place they created through their relationships with each other.

Isn’t that similar to the new Narnia that is experienced after Puzzle the donkey and Shaft the gorilla cause the unlikely fall of Prince Tirian’s Narnia? Everyone is returned to Narnia for the final chapter: Digory, Polly, Edmund, Peter, Lucy, Eustace and Jane. (Susan stopped believing, so she was left behind.) Think about what Digory says:

“Listen Peter.  When Aslan said you would never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. But that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and an an end. It was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia, which has always been here and always will be here: just as our own world, England and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan’s real world. You need not mourn over Narnia, Lucy. All of the old Narnia that mattered, all the dear creatures, have been drawn into the real Narnia through the Door. And of course it is different; as different as a real thing is from a shadow or as waking life is from a dream.”

After everyone reaches the golden gates, they find all of their loved ones, and everyone cared about in Narnia from the time when Digory and Polly saw it created until its destruction. The Pevensies’ parents were even brought over.

Sounds a bit like the church in Lost, doesn’t it?

Sure, this is open to interpretation. Given the writers tendency to borrow from other epic stories (I loved it last night when Hurley said, “I have a bad feeling about this.” Great Star Wars reference!), both ancient and modern, why not take a concept from the Chronicles of Narnia?

Earlier today, I had a twitter debate whether or not Lost had a mythology. Jimmie, who admitted to not having ever watched an episode prior to the finale, which I have issues with*, argued that it wasn’t a mythology because the creators didn’t establish a lore until after the first season was written. He called it a soap opera.

I call it a character-driven myth. After all, isn’t the essence of a myth the evolution of a story?

It wasn’t until college, when I took a Greek and Roman mythology course, that I discovered why I enjoyed science fiction and fantasy. I’ve never participated in a role-playing game nor dressed up in costume at a convention, but I enjoy mythic stories. In our modern society, those are most often represented in the fantasy or science fiction genres.

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Have you ever watched an episode of Lost when someone comes in the room and says, “I’ve never watched an episode. Can you tell me what’s going on?”

After explaining that it is absolutely impossible to explain the plot line because nothing makes sense, it is generally best to give said person the first season on DVD and say, “See ya in a few days. You’ll be hooked.”

Now someone has come up with an eight minute recap of Lost seasons 1-5.

In case you don’t understand the addictive nature of this show, Lost prompted the one and only time that the Obama Administration has used common sense. Robert Gibbs announced that the State of the Union would not be on February 2, the date of the season 6 premiere. I know that I wasn’t the only person on Twitter freaking out when I heard that it was a possibility.

This does make me wonder what’s worse: living under an Obama Administration or living on a mysterious deadly island where nothing makes sense. Honestly, I really don’t know.

H/T Go Fug Yourself