10: REVIEW - Lost

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

If you're like myself and any number of people, perhaps even millions of people, Wednesday night has become the night where you find yourself plopping down in front of your television to watch the ABC television show, Lost. The show premiered this past fall, and it was the highest premiere debut for a show on ABC in nearly nine years. The show had been hyped long before the premiere. Information about the show and the cast was leaked online, and people latched onto each and every piece of information they could find.

Theories were made about what would happen on the show before it aired. Those theories were only fueled even more once the pilot aired officially. A version of the pilot had also been leaked online, and another version was shown in Hawaii on a big screen to thousands of people. Everyone has a theory or thought about the show. Those theories are either fueled more and changed as the season has progressed. Now the end of the first season is near, and much has happened.

Each and every week we are given a look at each of the different characters and their lives before the fateful plane crash that brought them onto the island. Each and every single person on that island had something in their past that they weren't totally happy with. That flight was either them running from something or running to something.

On the island, not one person is not important. Each of the main characters have something they can share with the rest of the island, and this is shown by the amount of time each character gets to develop their one story. If one character does not appear one week, you are sure to see the next episode. Each episode has been said to have a passage of two days, so we get to see the characters pretty much every day on the island the way it is.

This past week, the twentieth episode of the season, "Do no harm", played out, and it was the culmination of a season of waiting for those that watch the show on a weekly. Claire gave birth to her child, at the same as someone else on the island lost his life. This kept the balance of the number of the people the same. Since Claire's back story episode aired in December much speculation has surrounded her and her then unborn child. Now that the child has been born, things are now moving forward. So many of the theories have surrounded whether or not her son is the next coming of the anti-christ or something of that sort.

There is truly no telling what the producers have up their sleeve with this show. Predictable television fare it is definitely not. Lost was created by JJ Abrams. The man behind the popular ABC show, Alias, and past popular show, Felicity. Both shows doing quite well. Lost being another that has done well for him. The second season is already in the works, and the first season DVD is already set for release in September.

I am just one of the many that sits in front of my television weekly. I have my own thoughts about the show, but I'm not one of those fans that discusses each and every aspect of the show each week until I am blue in the face. I'm one of the ones that sits and watches and just allows things to happen as they happen. I don't go out to prove my theories with the rest of the Lost fandom, which has grown to be quite huge. Websites and communities for the show number in the hundreds. Their is fan fiction and places showing love for every actor and/or character on the show.

I was excited about the show before it even aired because from what I heard of the plot reminded me of a tape I received in the mail about a year to a a year and ago. This tape held a preview of a possible show being thought to be put into development. The show was basic and crude, but it gave you the basics. A plane crash on an island with a cast of people and the island isn't what it seems to be upon further inspection. Sound familiar anyone? I watched it with my family, and then called in and gave a short interview about what I liked and didn't like. I'm not positive, but I am pretty sure that session was for what has now become Lost.

I'm excited to see what happens the rest of this season, and the future seasons as well. The ride has been bumpy so far with a lot of twists and turns, but aren't those the best rides to have?