Nicholas W Skyles has created some incredible images to accompany the Tommy Westphall’s Mind theory.
A little back story:
“Tommy Westphall was an autistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show.”
From there, St. Elsewhere‘s producer, Tom Fontana, took the opportunity to take characters from St. Elsewhere and insert them into new projects. Characters appeared in Homicide: Life on the Streets, Law & Order and The Wire. Soon the web grew even further, and to date, the spreadsheet that keeps track of the connections is almost too large to digest. The connections include references to fictional places, character names, awards, newspapers, cigarette brands, and companies.
So, at some point it begins to look like most of the television world exists in Tommy Westphall’s mind. This might be the best “I dreamt it” series ending ever, considering it continues to live on with such mystery. I recommend Skyles’ illustrations to help simplify the digestion process — it’s pretty complex!
Get The Key, which will walk you through the details of each connection. I was excited to read that the airplane that crashed and strand the cast of LOST was Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 also featured on Diagnosis Murder. There are many more LOST connections (including a cute one that involves Alias
