Fallen to the intrigue of "Lost"
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 17:06 EST
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I used to make fun of all those “Lost” fans who spent hours discussing episodes at work and days online finding Easter Eggs and developing new theories. Then “Lost” took the lives of my mother and my best friend. I tried so hard not to succumb to its powers but the challenge proved to be too intense for me, and I lost the battle.
While I haven’t reached the point where I spend more time on the message boards than I do sleeping, I have developed a dependency on this never-ending labyrinth of intertwining storylines and hair-raising questions. Some people get their kicks from skydiving, I get mine from watching the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815.
While this season’s opener repeatedly gave me goose bumps, it left me needing more (a true sign of a budding addiction -- building up a tolerance). Sure the flash forward was really cool, but it yielded too many questions to leave me satisfied. And who cares about stupid Hurley anyway? J.J. Abrams, if you want loyalty from me, show me Kate, Sawyer, a coconut, anything but Hurley and his characteristic barrage of “Dudes” and dumbfounded facial expressions. He sucks.
With that said, the flash forward was successful in kind of answering a few questions that we kind of didn’t know that we needed to ask. First off, we now know that there are going to be six Oceanic survivors who get off the island. Which leads to the question who… and how… and why (OK, so that’s really three questions but who’s counting)?
We know that Hurley followed Locke’s group to the Others’ camp, and Jack and Kate went to find the boat, so what happens that people from both groups get off of the island? And what does Locke’s group do that upsets Hurley so much? And why do only six people leave the island? It’s a web of questions that I just don’t have the mental capacity to answer at this point.
Basically, the fourth season premiere followed in the steps of its predecessors -- it was an hour of intense chills that left me with more questions than answers. I think they should change the title of the show from “Lost” to “Why?”.
But don’t think that means I won’t be tuning in this Thursday. After all, they might finally answer my questions.