Lost about LOST

Warning: Do not read this post if you are interested in LOST but are not up to date. This is primarily for people who are as in love with the show as I am. If you are a fan want to be, you may also read this post. :)

First let me say that I do not watch a lot of TV. I've never been one of those people who has a TV show or two every night waiting on their DVR. My first year of nursing school, my roomates started having half the ward over on Wednesday nights to watch the TV show LOST. This was the second season. I started watching, mainly for social reasons, and now here I am, in season five, completely frustrated, and yet religious about Wednesday nights.

So, here we are in season five. Nearly all options of creating confusion have already been used. We have traveled back to the past for three seasons straight, and then when that got old, we started traveling to the future. Sometimes, we would travel to the past and the future. What started out as a great story about a series of really loveable characters learning to live with each other on a beautiful tropical island after a plane crash, intermingled with insights into each characters' past lives, has turned into some weird version of "how to come up with a BIGGER more UNBELIEVABLE catch (like spinning a wheel and making the island disappear, WHAT?) all while turning everyone against each other, and bringing out evil in everyone. I mean, I'm sorry, does Jack (who is beautiful by the way) really have to turn into a druggy? And there is no way you can convince me that Sun is actually going to use that gun next episode. PLEASE!

And did I mention, that we keep introducing new characters, with new issues. All of these characters are ALSO intermingled with all of the other characters somehow, and all the while we keep coming up with plenty MORE issues and questions, and still aren't solving any of the ones that have been building up for the last five seasons.

So the question here is.... do the writers know what's going on? On one hand, if they do, this is going to have a heck of a finale next season. But do they? Or are they just going to make everything so complicated that eventually we are so confused we will jut give up, because we forgot all of our original questions anyway?

Did I mention that now, since we ran out of traveling to the past and the future options, we are traveling through time. Seriously?

All that said... it's amusing to me that nearly everyone I talk to, shares my opinion of how utterly rediculous the show has become. And yet, let's face it, we are as addicted to it as ever. :) Each week, I will be glued to that TV screen, secretly deciding whether I'm in love with Jack or Sawyer, hoping for Jin and Sun to be reunited (Ok, wasn't THAT a great moment last week? I KNEW he wasn't dead!!!!), wondering how the 6 are going to get back to the island, and experiencing the highs and lows of each character's experiences. (I loved the Sawyer moment when he saw Kate last week). Wanting Hurley to succeed, hoping Jack and Kate work things out, loving Sawyer's one liners and wondering when we will see Claire again. The list goes on and on and on.

So amidst all the confusion and silly new plot twists, I remain a loyal LOST fan. The truth is, I missed them the last 8 months. They feel like my friends now, and I love to see what happens to them next. :)