Can I start a new genre of criticism?

I've been under the sway of the middle section of Essence of Decision. The second framework the authors look at is organizational theory perspective of historical analysis,which is endlessly fascinating to me.

As I watch "Lost" and "The Wire" (we're still in season 4), I keep thinking about how the structure of the organizations in which the characters exist impact their actions. In "The Wire," you have individual agents working within large, stagnant bureaucracies. To get things done, the agents must deliberately confound or undermine their organizational framework - in fact, they seem to thrive in the hand-offs between different departments, and they manipulate the hierarchy because, well, one exists.

The fact that the hierarchy is defined means that the individual agents can take advantage of the routines and idiosyncracies of their organizations, which often respond in predictable manners. Sometimes the ripples cause unexpected outcomes, but what is often exhilarating about the show (besides the fact that the writing makes process narratives seem very vivid and human) is seeing an individual actor taking on the inertia of their bureaucracy - not by challenging it, but by finding a large enough margin in which to operate.

"Lost" on the other hand features a bunch of confused actors. The hierarchies are undefined and very fluid. It's not even clear how many "organizations" exist on the show. And though the individual agents have complete freedom (or so it seems) to act and to do whatever they choose, they are routintely stymied not by routines and organizational inertia, but by the fact that they are operating in an organizational void. As viewers, we are slowly being introduced to different layers of the organization and its management structure, and the knowledge imbalance between someone like Ben Linas or Charles Widmore and everyone else is what temporarily creates a power structure that will, we hope, ultimately be completely flattnened.

Someone smarter than me should write about this extensively. And they should extend the discussion to "The Hudsucker Proxy." Good luck to whoever you may be, smarter person!