Finding Lost, getting lost

Neil Shyminsky considers Lost as a "trope of a trope," with an often self-conscious relationship to its precursors in high and low culture.  The producers of Lost encourage audience interaction with the text, even if it leads to a conflation of actor and character (in the case of Jorge Garcia's Hurley and Terry O'Quinn's Locke).  Shyminsky evokes that Harold Bloom's theory of  “poetic misprision” captures the viewer's complex misreading of Lost, a process that favors active participation over truth.