Reasons Why I Love Lost

The premiere of Lost is on tonight and so I thought I’d share some of the reasons why I think this is a good thing. Never have I been so wrapped up in a show since Deep Space Nine and Voyager were on the air back in high school. Sometimes I feel like a loser because I like it so much. Hopefully I’m not the only one.

My mom made me watch it.
Okay, so she didn’t make me watch it. But at the beginning of season 2, she said, “you should watch this, I think you’ll enjoy it.” She’s never really said anything like that to me, and I ended up really liking it (obviously) so it’s nice to have that kind of bond with her. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that it was my first year out of college, and I wasn’t working the night shift then so it was really the first time since I was, like, 3, that we’ve been able to sit and watch a show together.
(Obviously I can’t anymore, cuz I live in an apartment and everything, but you know…)

It helped me loose 40 pounds.
I was fat after college. Last fall I lost a lot of weight. I get hungry very easily. Watching the first season on DVD was a good distraction…. made me forget I was hungry.
So this is kind of a funny one, but it’s true, nonetheless. Plus, you gotta stay in shape incase one day you crash on an island!

I can’t predict it.
So many shows now are so dull and predictable. Even in the ones I mentioned before, Star Trek, you already knew what the ultimate outcome of every episode was going to be: everyone’s going to be fine. Captain Sisko just got kidnapped by a rogue group of hell-bent aliens!… tune in next fall to see the outcome! Well, we already know the outcome. He’ll be fine. But Shannon getting killed? Didn’t see it coming. Ana-Lucia and Libby being shot and killed? Didn’t see it coming. The hatch fucking EXPLODING? The sky turning purple? Kelvin turning out to be someone we knew from before? Is Henry Gale a good guy or a bad guy? Not sure. And I wasn’t sure for 3 or 4 episodes… now he’s the main bad guy. Didn’t see it coming.

It’s sci-fi.
It is.

It’s not just sci-fi.
Some of my favorite stories are stories that don’t fit into a particular genre and have a little bit of everything. It’s a drama, a tragedy, a romance, an action/thriller, a mystery, and a sci-fi all rolled into one.

It’s extensive, only if you want it to be.
Do you know who the DeGroots are? The Hanso Foundation? What’s wrong with the Apollo Candy Bars? Do you know what DHARMA stands for? Do you know the meaning behind the numbers that appear everywhere on the show… 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42? No? That’s okay! Because you don’t have to in order to enjoy the show. But if you want, those answers are freely available on the internet. You can get a lot out of just watching the characters interact with the mysteries on the show alone, but if you know some of the evolving back-story that’s being established off-screen, it only enhances the enjoyment of seeing things fall into place.

Six Degrees.
It’s a new show (made by the same people). But it was a theory before that. Everyone’s connected. Characters crop up into other character’s flashbacks in the strangest ways.

Second Chances.
The character of Locke was a supervisor at a box-manufacturing company before he crash landed on the island. He was depressed, lonely, and (literally) paralyzed in his life. But when he landed on the island his natural talents emerged and he’s one of the heroes. Point being: you’re never really sure what can happen tomorrow. Today you could be nobody. Tomorrow, the world could depend on a talent you don’t even know you have.

Evangeline Lilly.
No disrespect. Just sayin.

The music.
Award winning.

Story arcs.
It’s essentially one, big, 48-hour (so far) movie. No episodes are stand-alone.

More than meets the eye.
My brother, who was once watching an episode with my mom and I, said, “Wait… I thought this was a show about a bunch of plane crash survivors on an island?” Yes, it is. But if you watched the recap episode that was on last week, you might have said, “damn.” That’s just the “tip of the iceberg,” as they say.

Everything happens for a reason.
This is quickly becoming my religion. Not because of the show (because that would be crazy.) In other words: the show tapped into something I believed before I knew what it was. The more I experience things and the more I think about life, the more I think that there really are no coincidences. I’m not talking about some supreme being guiding our actions, I’m saying that every little thing that happens has a direct influence in your life. You stub your toe? Hobble around, maybe step over an ant that you would have otherwise accidentally stepped on. That ant is carrying back a food scrap so his hive can survive. Obviously there are better examples but that’s all I can think of at the moment.
I went to college for a reason, I got this job for a reason… I may not know what it is, but something later on in my life will call on an experience I had at this job, and that will make all the difference.

Anyway, that’s enough. If you’ve never seen it, the re-cap episode that will tell you everything that’s happened so far is available for free on iTunes. Or you can read all about it here. (Look at the wierd promo for it in the UK on my main page.)

Tonight at 9:00… I’ll make the (air-popped) popcorn.

Namaste, bitches.