CT: The Lost Dawn Treader?

This is weird. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage Dawn of Treader may actually be getting a rewrite... on ABC’s Lost.

C.S. Lewis’ influence on Lost isn’t anything new. After all, last year saw the addition of a character named Charlotte Staples Lewis (pictured). Her arrival on the island clearly rang of Prince Caspian. And when I wrote my recent Christianity Today review of the show, I was tempted to include my observations about the show’s parallels to The Great Divorce (a group of characters visit heaven—symbolically in Lost, literally in Divorce—but cannot be happy there because of their stubborn and selfish attachment to selfish sins and thus rush back to hell.)

Only recently has the show begun to overtly connect its island to the magical, mythical land of Narnia. While some examples of this would be spoilers to those not fully caught up, suffice it to say that the episode two weeks ago introduced an important place called “The Lamp Post” —which stands figuratively at the Island’s entrance, much like the one that welcomed Lucy to Narnia in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Entertainment Weekly’s resident Lost writer, Jeff Jensen, recently devoted a whole column to Narnia-Lost connections. While much of the article will read like ancient hieroglyphics to the uninitiated (and spoiler-heavy to fans not absolutely caught up), he had some thought-provoking observations—especially regarding Dawn Treader.

For any Lost and/or Narnia fans, click the link for a spoiler-free rundown of Jensen’s Dawn Treader comparison.