Lost: The Season that Was

When it comes to the show "Lost" I still feel a bit like I have come late to the party. I did not jump on this particularly bandwagon until the second season. Sure, I had been told by friends and family alike, during that first season, it was a show I would probably like, but, for whatever reason, I didn't start watching it. I can't recall if it was up against some other show that I was watching at the time, or if it was just my initial perception that it was just going to be some modern-day dramatic version of "Gilligan's Island" or what, but I did not participate.

People kept me in the loop enough that I knew exactly what was going on when the second season started. I also was able to do some catching up the summer before the second season started. With the watching of the first show that second season, "Lost" sank its hooks into me. I have been hooked, like some happily drugged carp, ever since.

The show has been wildly uneven since then. It has lost viewers since then. Many viewers have begun to feel like they are being jerked around, much the way viewers of "Twin Peaks" began to feel after some time and turned away in droves. However, those of us who have stuck with the show, were rewarded this past season.

The writers and producers of the show have done something smart. They went and got themselves a timeline. They will produce seasons and shows up until 2010 and then they will finally bring all of the plots to a conclusion. Of course, this is Hollywood we are talking about, so they will probably just leave things open enough should there ever need to be a "Lost" movie there can be and still have things left to answer.

Last season the show really floundered a bit. The writers decided to try and introduce new characters, the extra passengers we had yet to meet on the fateful Oceanic flight. It was a bad move. Other than a few people, and one character named Anna Lucia, from the tail section of the plane, the rest of the characters could not possibly match the characters that we had all come to know and love. We also got to know the "Others" the previous season and some of them were worth keeping around.