Lost: What happens when Faraday comes clean about the island?

I am obsessed with Lost.

That said, I need to air some grievances. Lost has become a drug that used to get me high but now I am just stuck in a downward spiral because I can't stop using but the high is no longer coming, and now I shoot up for the fix, to feel normal, so I slowly have to use more and more (going to Lost forums, etc.) to get that same feeling, and eventually I will overdose and die (of boredom and lameness). Unless they kill Kate. That's the drug-use metaphorical equivalent of going to rehab, finding Jesus, and writing a best-selling memoir.

But, you say, they're answering all of our questions about the island. Finally, you protest, we're getting real action and suspense. Most importantly, you continue, Penny and Desmond have a child named Charlie (squee!!).

You doth protest too much. They are answering "questions", kind of, in a way that is not necessarily...there. It feels like they are answering questions we never asked by stringing together past plots and revelations haphazardly - where's the continuity? Where's the "oh we had this in mind fom the beginning"? You didn't. We know it. Give it up and give us an ending we can be satisfied with.

"Real action" and "real suspense" is finally here, since, for once, something is actually happening. Of course, we are sacrificing character development for this action - which means we have "freighters" who have been with us for two seasons who still have little-to-no revealed purpose on the show, and newcrashies who have no backstory and are easily shot, placed in charge, or used to solve some continuity error at any moment.

Penny and Desmond are wonderful and happy and should sail off into the sunset (or into....Iceland...that seems to be the furthest from any of the Losties). And yet the powers that be have even tried to kill them (!!).

I like where the show has begun heading. I say "begun" because I think it is fairly obvious that the show was originally about Purgatory, despite what the creators say, and they changed course when everyone figured that out after three episodes. The Egyptian influences, the Smoke Monster, potential Dharma vengeance, all exciting. But week after week, we have to watch characters we don't know (or Kate....ugh...) strap on their water skis and jump over the shark. It's depressing, and it isn't doing justice to the show that would have been the greatest show in television history.

I hope in 2030-ish, someone "Battlestars" Lost into a complete, focused, and consistent series. Maybe I will, as I will be...45...perfect age for television producing!

Manner(s) of the Day:

Always hold the door for someone. Even if you have to wait a few seconds. Especially hold doors if you are exiting and the others are entering. Acknowledge people as they walk through, especially if they say "thank you". Always at least mutter a quick "thank you" if a door is held open for you.

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