Lost

day 03: your favorite television program: "Lost" ABC

It amazed her that the original reason she had started watching "Lost" was because she had been in the throes of her 'Lord of the Rings' obsession back in 2004, and Dominic Monaghan was one of the stars. She had heard about it on a LotR fanboard, and vowed to at least watch the pilot. It seemed interesting enough...

Six years later she can't get enough. She's worried she may go through withdrawal when the series ends in mid-May.

But for as much as she loves the show to pieces, she knows that not many other people do. Even friends who watched it with her when it first premiered have stopped because the show has taken countless turns into the strange and confusing since then. She doesn't even bother mentioning it to her best TV buddy; she knows it makes little to no sense anymore. But she just can't help it.

She thinks it might partially be a curiosity - or a burning need - to see how Carlton and Cuse end the monster of a series.

But it's also the characters and the overall style of the show. Since the very first scene of the pilot, the opening eye motif has been carried throughout, and she sometimes finds herself trying to guess who's eye it is this time. The flashbacks were essential for character development in the first three seasons, and something that no other show (that she knew of) did. The flash-forwards of the fourth and fifth seasons, and the new flash-sideways's of this final sixth have been something altogether new and compelling.

That, and they give her another look at Charlie, who remains her favorite character even though he was killed in the finale of season three, as he might have been if the plane never crashed.

Now, with only a handful of episodes left, she is on the edge of her seat, spending an hour every week simultaneously terrified, confused, excited and hopeful. However it ends, she knows it will be amazing.

And then she will spend a week over the summer watching all six seasons straight through.

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i seriously can't describe how much i love this show. you have no idea.
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