I know this is originally a Chrichton novel, but I wonder if the showrunners have read Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. There is some aesthetic overlap, plus the main antagonist is also called the Man in Black.
Oh absolutely. JJ Abrams is on the list of ex.producers. I don’t know how much influence/say he has or if they just wanted his name attached, but Abrams used a lot of King when creating and developing LOST, something Lindeloff and Cuse continued when they took over early in S1.
I had the same thought; the second he’s called the Man in Black, King springs to mind intentional or not
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