The “Lost” braintrust has heard all the criticisms: they don’t give enough to their loyal viewers, they bring up 10 questions with every one answer, they get lost in their own creativity, you never know when a rerun is going to pop up in the middle of the season, etc. To make it very clear that they are listening, they broke new ground with last night’s fall finale. In a revolutionary move, “Lost” broke off the first six episodes into a “mini-season,” allowing them to tease the full season—starting February 7—while also giving them the creative license to be able to market two cliffhangers in one season.
Last year, their audience became frustrated and infuriated when the show would rely on reruns or flashback shows for weeks at a time. To ensure their viewers that they gotten the message, they’re packaging the resumption of the rest of the season in no uncertain terms. The text of the February preview was as subtle as a kick in the ‘nads: “No repeats. Not. Even. One.”
The fall finale gave viewers plenty of questions to ponder in the months and weeks in between. Will the February-May run provide any more clarity than the mini-season did? Will there be a resolution to the Pickett-Sawyer feud? Will Kate’s love for Sawyer make her stay or will her feelings for Jack allow her to try to get off the island? Will she heed Sawyer’s warning that they are trapped on a separate island? Will Jack really let Ben die? Where do Juliet’s loyalties really lie? What the hell happened to Sun, Sayid and Jin? Are Michael and Walt gone for good? Why does Desmond hang around and make strange, constipated-looking faces all the time? What does the engraving that Locke espied on Mr. Eko’s “Jesus stick”—“Lift up your eyes and look north”—really mean? Will it lead the other survivors to the other island, a four-toed statue, a giant polar bear, a whisp of black smoke or a pair of Hurley’s Depends?
I guess we’ll have to wait until February. In the meantime, we’re offered up “Daybreak” as an alternative … a painful-looking combination of “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” and “Groundhog Day.” Giddyup.
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I wish someone we know would start a site that gave reviews and commentary about Lost. It would also be great if that site had forums for fans to discuss all the mysteries. Man. That would be radical.
I think the "Look north" on the Jesus stick means that the survivors should look north in the sky and they will see Sayid and Sun and Jin using Henry Gale's parachute to fly home. Since their boat was stolen and all. I guess.
it's giligan's island without the prozac.
I'm also thinking that Jack might pull a McGyver and carve a boat with his scalpel and sail everyone back to the island.
I don't watch Lost, but I do watch Ugly Betty.
It's TV great.
i agree with the jack scalpel-carving theory. I heard they are going to murder Hurlley and use his skin as the sail.
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