Lost: Simply The Best

It has been forever since I blogged about something other than one of my favorite movies! But today will not be much different. Today I would like to talk about my favorite tv show of all time. That's right, Lost is better than Seinfeld (my favorite show 5 years ago), better than The Simpsons (my favorite show 10 years ago) , better than The Brady Bunch (my favorite show 25 years ago).

Not only is Lost my favorite show of all time, this current season is its best season yet. So many fans have jumped ship, complaining that they want this question answered or they want see more of that character. But I believe it just keeps getting better and better. Right now the series keeps building off of little hints that were dropped in previous episodes (Jacob's list? VW buses on the island? The Purge?) which makes it feel more like you are reading a book than watching a one-hour, stand alone, tv show. Is it any surprise that Stephen King is a big fan and has been referenced twice now in this season? (a rabbit with an 8 on its back is mentioned in his book On Writing, and in the first episode the characters were discussing the book, Carrie) Lost is taking on the feel of a saga, a masterpiece, much like Stephen King's Dark Tower series, which I have a feeling the producers are very familiar with. JJ Abrams, in fact, has expressed interest in making those 7 books for the screen --http://www.writerswrite.com/wblog.php?wblog=214071

Within this - the best season of the best show of all time - I believe last week's episode was the best episode ever. Maybe I am getting a little carried away, but after watching it I spent about four hours online researching stuff. And the image I posted here is the lightning-quick glimpse we got of the person who was in that chair in the shack in the middle of the jungle. Some say it looks like Locke. Others say Ben. Still others suggest Kelvin or Alvar/Magnus Hanso or Dennis Hopper (you have to admit it does sort of look like him!). All I know is that I am a little bit frightened to see what happens in these next two episodes. The producers say, "only an extremely deranged individual would think of doing what we're doing". Me scared!!!

Also in case you missed it, the producers of the show announced that there will be 3 more seasons after this one, each one containing 16 episodes. These are significantly shorter seasons than they had been doing... they averaged 23 episodes per year the first 3 seasons. But the good news is that each season will be 16 straight episodes, no breaks or re-runs, which is pretty much what we are in the middle of right now since the show came back from its (Day)break. So that means that by May of 2010, all of our questions will have been answered.

And in case you have never seen an episode but have grown interested... whatever you do, DO NOT tune in this week thinking that you will just "jump on board." This would be like deciding that you are going to read Les Miserables this summer, and then opening the book to somewhere in the middle and starting from there. It would be like deciding you are going to watch the movie Psycho and then starting from just after the shower scene. Completely and totally unacceptable. Get Season 1 on DVD. You will not be disappointed.