Lost's Plans for the Future: Anyone Else Not Happy?

Before I get into the article, I want to point out that I am a HUGE Lost fan. I have been watching the show since it originally started airing and I have even watched reruns and scoured message boards trying to learn of anything important that I may have missed. With that in mind, you would think that I would have been pleased to hear that Lost has forty-eight new episodes planned in the coming years. I was at first, but that happiness sort of ended after I learned more about it.

For the last two seasons, Lost has aired around twenty-four episodes a season. When you think about it, this is quite a good number. ABC; however, recently announced that the remaining forty-eight shows will air over three seasons. Three seasons! That means that only sixteen episodes will be run in a season's time. As previously stated, as a fan of Lost I should be pleased to hear that it is returning in the future, but I can't help be feel cheated. Sixteen episodes? Is anyone else feeling this way?

Although I am not extremely thrilled at the fact that Lost will be stretched out for three more years, especially with a relatively low episode count, I am hoping it will make for some better shows. I don't know if it is just me, but has anyone else been left wondering what is going on during season three? Yes, I find the current storylines interesting and I think that some of the best episodes have been developed this year, but, in my opinion, some of them seem out of place. I guess you could say that I am just in a rush to learn why exactly the Lost characters are on the island and what people think happened to them back home.