Could Fans' Expectations Lead to Trouble for ABC's Hit Show Lost?

I admit I held out on this one for at least the first season. To be perfectly honest with you, I can't tell you why that was. I think that there was another show that was on during "Lost" or something like that. I can't even remember what show it was, but for some reason, I chose to continue watching that show over "Lost." Still, everyone I knew seemed to be hooked on this strange program, including my parents, and they all wanted me to start watching. "You'd love this show," they'd say.

I have a knack for liking strange shows. I loved "Twin Peaks." I loved "X-Files." I loved "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel." Therefore this particular show would seem to be right up my alley. However, I have loyalty to certain shows and whatever used to be on against "Lost" during the first season was a show I had ben watching for a while and I have yet to invest in that wonderful invention called TiVo.

Still, with everyone around me and in my family watching this show not to mention all of the magazines writing about the show, I was able to pick up the storyline without much effort or confusion when I watched the first show of season two. It watched with some skepticism. This show couldn't really be all that, could it?

Well, now I am hooked. It slowly sucked me in. As each strange new development came about I found myself with more questions and sucked deeper into the plot of these strange people stranded on an island. The plots itself would be impossible to explain right here, so I won't even try. If you haven't watched this show then you will just have to look up the plot and storyline on the myriad of websites dedicated to trying to figure this labrynthine plot out.

Here's the problem I foresee with this show, however. The hype and build-up over what must be behind this plane crash and mysterious island cannot possibly live up to expectations, can it? Has any show really lived up to its expectations when the hype and build-up was this big? I can't think of one television show or even a movie that had this kind of build up that didn't turn out to be a bit disappointing when you finally saw it.