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I think this captures exactly what makes these ultra-complex shows (“The Wire” being the other canonical, non-sci-fi example) so different from what has come before them on television: if you’re trying to synthesize the entire history of the show, the proper form for conveying all that information is not a linear narrative. It’s a relational database.

Keeping up with Lost, Steven Johnson, Boing Boing