SEASON 6 - What Kate Does - How Sawyer's Determination to Leave the Temple On "Lost" Is Identical to That of Mallinson or George in "Lost Horizon"

Not believing or caring that he is in the safest place possible and that he must stay, Sawyer is determined to leave The Temple on Lost, at any cost, and does so at gun point. He is begged to stay, but does not listen and leaves.



Similarly, while staying in the Temple of Shangri-la, the character of Charles Mallinson in the novel, and George Conway in the film version of Lost Horizon,



is also equally determined to leave the safe haven of Shangri-la.



Furthermore, both characters were in Love with women from their respective worlds.

Sawyer with Juliet on Lost.



George Conway with Maria (a.k.a. Lo-Tsen in the novel) in Lost Horizon.



Ultimately however, both men are destined to lose their loves.

Sawyer loses Juliet to her fall down the shaft at the Swan site.



George Conway (Charles Mallinson) loses Maria (Lo-Tsen), while trying to escape from Shangri-la.

In both cases the loss of their respective loves drives them to extreme despair.

In the next episode of Lost entitled, The Subsitute, while intoxicated, Sawyer toasts to being dead, but in reality is still alive. However, apparently he feels dead inside.



George Conway, in the film version of Lost Horizon, is driven to madness at the death of his love Maria and throws himself off a mountainside. Charles Mallinson and his love, Lo-Tsen both die in the novel as well.

Once again, these similarities might be able to be written off as simply coincidence, but combined with all the other connections I have documented, it is hard to deny there is a conscious decision being made to at the least pay a strong homage to the world of Lost Horizon.

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