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The stuff going down on that island...

I refer to the ABC hit series Lost, which began airing in 2004. Lost was incredibly well received during its initial release, and three seasons later it is still running strong.

My attraction to the show came late. I began watching when season two wrapped up on television. I resorted to the DVDs to catch up. But from the first pilot through season two, I was hooked. I watched all of what I missed from Lost in the span of about two weeks. Addictive? Very much so. Better than any cigarette, I'd say.

As we rolled into the school year, and season three began, something I denied for virtually all of season two began creeping into my conscious. If everything on Lost happens for a reason -- as the tagline of the show proclaims -- nobody knows what that reason is.

Frankly, I have some questions I want answered. Who are the Others? What are they doing to Jack, Kate and Sawyer? Why the heck are there vicious polar bears on this island? Who were those guys in the Antarctic who knew about the hatch blowing up? What is the significance of the numbers? Oh, and by the way, does anyone remember there is a monster on that freakin island?

Now, normally, a little suspense in a television series is a good thing. But quite frankly, the list could go on for pages.

Mostly, as I am starting to understand, Lost goes for the wow effect. Plot twists and cliffhangers are conjured up by the show's writers just for shock. Consistently throughout Lost, things happen for no reason. We, as the viewer, tend to simply turn our heads, keep on watching, and hope somewhere along the way, we'll get some kind of explanation.

It�s kind of like the expression, when the lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window. Except in the case of Lost, God opened far too many windows for anyone to begin thinking about which one to jump through. It's not like these little nuances get explained next week or even the week after. Instead, these nuances are simply ignored, and next week the writers pick something new to fascinate us with. The reasoning lies in the logistics of the show. The fact of the matter is, not even the writers know what will happen next.

There is no godlike apparition who controls the whole Lost shebang. Every time the writers sit down to write a new episode, they pull out whatever stop they can to entertain us, but not necessarily to clarify anything for us. If there is a reason for the crash or why all of these people are tied together, I want to get some semblance of that. Right now, there is too much going on to comprehend.

I am still going to watch Lost. I've invested too much into the series to negate my responsibility as a fan. But to be perfectly honest, I'm starting to run out of patience.

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