Intertextual TV: Lost

So this weekend, I started watching the TV series Lost.  And although I've only seen the pilot and maybe the next three or four epoisodes, I LOVE it!  It seems interesting and smart, which in terms of TV viewing is rather a departure for me--I normally like mindless TV.  But I keep thinking about it in terms of all kinds of other texts.  And it seems that it's intended that way.  I mean, how can we not think about it in connection to Lord of the Flies?  But that's the obvious comparison, right?  So far, the series clearly references Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  But I also noticed one of the characters reading Watership Down.  And so I'm thinking, "Oooo!  It's an epic about building a new society."  And that's pretty obvious, right?  So, we've got Lord of the Flies, Alice, and Watership Down.  Charlie's tattoo says "Living is Easy with Eyes Closed," which of course is from "Strawberry Fields," and we have a character named John Locke.  And yeah, this is all kinda obvious.  But mixed with the fantasy elements (dare I say "magical realism"), all I can think is Umberto Eco.  If Eco were to create a TV series, would it be like this?  I mean, really, I bet that Eco watches Lost, because it all feels like Eco's novels to me.  This is so like The Island of the Day Before or Baudolino.  In those novels we see characters who somehow end up in fantasy worlds that play with what they know about science and myth.  And so my thought process is something like this:  Lost, intertextuality, magical realism / fantasy, Umberto Eco.  So what do I make of it all?  Right now I don't know, other than I'm excited to see how the series progresses.  And I'm interested to see what other texts come up--I'm betting Dante is related to all of this somehow.  I'm really hoping that Eco publishes an essay on Lost, because that would be kick-ass.  I guess this is how English teachers watch TV.