Bad knock-off, LOST, and why are the characters so far in the background? Even if they tried to pull off conflicted looks, we wouldn’t be able to discern them. At most I might be able to glean a finger-pointing.

Because the show is ending, I think an appropriate painting to mimic would be “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Whether or not they get off the island, I think it would work.

You’re way off, Joe. Obviously I don’t know what significance the Last Supper had to Battlestar Galactica (having not yet watched the show), but the whole Jesus/religious symbolism has been at the heart of what LOST has been doing from the very beginning of the show. In fact, one could argue it’s the BASIS of the show. And Locke isn’t just the “show’s most complex character” that they randomly threw in the middle – he’s paralleled Jesus over and over again over the last five seasons. (Hey, maybe the chick in the red dress paralleled Jesus, too – I don’t know. But Locke certainly wasn’t thrown arbitrarily into the Jesus spot at random.) Nowhere in your post do you even acknowledge that the essence of the Last Supper and the religious figures and implications therein have been a part of the fabric of LOST from the beginning. You know better.

Like I said, I haven’t seen Battlestar, but I doubt the image of the Last Supper had any more significance with that show than it does with LOST. They’re not “knocking off” Battlestar – they’re using an image that has been basically predestined from the first fucking episode. Pay attention to the freaking show – OF COURSE the Last Supper would be an important image for the final season. Ask yourself this: If BSG had never existed or had never used the Last Supper in that photo, would LOST still have done it? Of course it would have. Obviously. Regardless of whether or not another show has done it, if it fits, it fits. And it does fit.

And, by the way, I seriously doubt Battlestar was the first show to mimic the Last Supper in its marketing anyway – not to mention the litany of times it’s been used in other media. Let’s not pretend the BSG masterminds spontaneously came up with this idea on their own. And while we’re at it, the LOST image is apparently riddled with clues, too – though I’ve avoided deciphering them or reading about them yet, as I’m trying to go into Season 6 spoiler-free.

Personally, I’ve watched all but the last season of “Lost” and never made any connection to the Bible. So it is possible to miss that. >;) The Bible and I aren’t that intimately involved.

I’m not even sure I can say I missed that, as art, at the end of the day, is all in the eye of the beholder. The artist can tell you again and again what he/she intended when creating something, but what matters is what you yourself get out of it. I took “The Bible as Literature” in college, so I have read it. But I did not associate “Lost” in any way with Jesus. *shrugs*

I never even noticed that the names were so often biblical, as I run into people with names found in the Bible all the time.

Interesting. I find it odd that anyone can watch LOST and not see the Biblical references and allegory – it’s such an integral part of the show. And not only the Bible, but “Paradise Lost” and other such literature. (For the record, I am not religious and have never read the Bible – though I do have a basic familiarity of it.)

Of course, it’s not like the Bible is alone – LOST has pulled heavy influence from (and openly referenced) lots of literature, science-fiction, philosophy and all kinds of mythology (religious and otherwise). Still, the constant references, symbolism and even story elements that parallel well-known aspects of Biblical mythology were always pretty obvious, I thought. It’s right at the root of the show. The writers certainly weren’t trying to be subtle about it.

So Amber, you’ve seen all except Season 5, is that right? Because there’s a pretty blatant Bible/Jesus plot element in Season 5 that I think would be difficult for anyone to miss. But we’ll leave it unmentioned for now.

I talked to four other people this morning who also never made any connection to the Bible or “Paradise Lost” and the like. I can see now why one could make the connection, but it clearly isn’t a universal observation.

It likely has a lot to do with the fact that, as you say, this show–like every other show, really–builds on so much that has gone before. It’s all part of our collective psyche at this point.