LOST and Tommy Westphall
What with Desmond's comment in "Live Together, Die Alone" about the whole island being a "bloody snowglobe" (which was nicely recalled in one of the final scenes), it seemed only natural to read up on the origins of the snowglobe idea. It comes from the old series St. Elsewhere, where the series finale revealed that the whole show had taken place within the mind of an autistic child, who owned a snowglobe with the St. Elsewhere hospital inside.
I discovered there's actually a whole Tommy Westphall Hypothesis (found via the wikipedia entry) which links over 200 shows (think six degrees of separation) with St. Elsewhere, and thus speculates that they must ALL be taking place in Tommy's mind. I was surprised to discover that Lost, Alias, and Veronica Mars (all shows liked by many members of this community) are among those listed in this excerpt from "The Key":
• The airplane that crashed and stranded the cast of Lost was Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, also featured on Diagnosis Murder.
• Oceanic Airlines is also featured on advertisements and computers in a terminal at LAX (the fictional TV series, not the actual airport of the same name).
• The family on Fox's series The War at Home took a trip using fictional Oceanic Airlines which also appears/appeared in Lost, JAG, and Diagnosis Murder.
• On a balloon capsule on Lost all of its sponsors are listed and among them is Nozz-a-la Cola. Nozz-a-la Cola is a fictional product created by Stephen King, mentioned and consumed in Kingdom Hospital.
• In the Jan 25th episode of Veronica Mars, Veronica's fortune contained the numbers that won Hurley the lottery.
• Charlie of Lost once dated a girl whose father worked for a paper factory in Slough. The paper factory in Slough is the paper factory of The Office (UK).
• Charlie from Lost was in a band named Driveshaft. Alias' Sydney threw a party and the music playing at the party was a Driveshaft song. Additionally Alias also mentions Oceanic Airlines briefly and so it has crossed with both Lost directly and also all the shows which mention Oceanic.
I don't really believe the full hypothesis (some of the links are pretty questionable), but I thought people might be entertained by Lost's small corner of the Tommy Westphall Universe. Besides, it's been kinda slow on the community lately :-) If you go to the site, there's a graphical map and a complete "key" of all the connected shows.
I discovered there's actually a whole Tommy Westphall Hypothesis (found via the wikipedia entry) which links over 200 shows (think six degrees of separation) with St. Elsewhere, and thus speculates that they must ALL be taking place in Tommy's mind. I was surprised to discover that Lost, Alias, and Veronica Mars (all shows liked by many members of this community) are among those listed in this excerpt from "The Key":
• The airplane that crashed and stranded the cast of Lost was Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, also featured on Diagnosis Murder.
• Oceanic Airlines is also featured on advertisements and computers in a terminal at LAX (the fictional TV series, not the actual airport of the same name).
• The family on Fox's series The War at Home took a trip using fictional Oceanic Airlines which also appears/appeared in Lost, JAG, and Diagnosis Murder.
• On a balloon capsule on Lost all of its sponsors are listed and among them is Nozz-a-la Cola. Nozz-a-la Cola is a fictional product created by Stephen King, mentioned and consumed in Kingdom Hospital.
• In the Jan 25th episode of Veronica Mars, Veronica's fortune contained the numbers that won Hurley the lottery.
• Charlie of Lost once dated a girl whose father worked for a paper factory in Slough. The paper factory in Slough is the paper factory of The Office (UK).
• Charlie from Lost was in a band named Driveshaft. Alias' Sydney threw a party and the music playing at the party was a Driveshaft song. Additionally Alias also mentions Oceanic Airlines briefly and so it has crossed with both Lost directly and also all the shows which mention Oceanic.
I don't really believe the full hypothesis (some of the links are pretty questionable), but I thought people might be entertained by Lost's small corner of the Tommy Westphall Universe. Besides, it's been kinda slow on the community lately :-) If you go to the site, there's a graphical map and a complete "key" of all the connected shows.