I hear that Lost is one of the best shows on television right now. I’ve been so fooled into believing this that I started watching the show regularly this season. Last year, I think i saw four, maybe five, whole episodes. This year, I’ve seen all but one.

Up until this season, I really couldn’t sit through a whole episode. Usually, I would get sidetracked halfway through. Either I ended up doing something else, or I eventually flicked over to another show. The only shows I saw completely from last season were the first episode and the last one, the one where the black dude, the Asian, and the white dude are on the raft with the kid who gets kidnapped. In fact, I think I saw that episode at least three times because whenever they rebroadcast it, I always thought it was a new episode coming on, and I would end up watching the shit all over again. This season, I missed the first show, but I’ve seen the rest. And I must admit the show is a lot better this year than it was last. But that’s only because of the Internet.

The Internet is a great thing. There’s all this bullshit on it, all of these sites. And I think half are now devoted to this damn show, which I guess is cool. I mean, it’s great for researching. which is something I definitely had to do in order for me to keep watching this shit. Because I was sort of, uh, Lost. I didn’t know crap about what the hell was going on. I didn’t know any of the character’s names. I didn’t understand why the hatch was so important. And I had no idea why the numbers were so ominous to the fat dude on the show. What I needed was a little backstory, a little background character information. So, I went hunting through Google, and hit some of the forums to figure out what the deal was. And the shit I found out blew my mind.

This shit was mind boggling. In fact, this shit was so mind boggling that I can’t even describe half the crap that’s going on. This was on the level of, I don’t know, uh, the fuckin’ DaVinci Code (Joking)? This shit is a theory wrapped up in an enigma, wrapped up in ham, wrapped up in cheese, with salad dressing, pickles, and tomatoes, wrapped up in a pita. With me taking a bite. Hmmmm. Damn, I’m hungry. I think I better take me a little visit to the local Potbelly’s. By the way, who thunk up that shit. Why would you name your restaurant after something that sounds so inedible? That’s probably why they’re third on the list of mass marketed sandwich shops, although, Subway doesn’t sound so edible either. When have you been in a subway, and smelled and viewed your surroundings and said, “Damn, I’m hungry.”

Anyway, getting back on track. After I spent hours upon hours reading shit on Chinese mysticism, the theory of relativity, and quantum physics, I decided that I had to force myself to keep watching this bullshit. Sure, every episode pretty much ends where it begins with absolutely nothing happening. Sure, half the time I get sleepy watching this shit. Sure, I pretty much believe that the payoff, or the endgame as some of “them” call it, can’t live up to the setup and the hype. Still, if the people behind this show pull off half the shit I’ve read being speculated as the “endgame,” I gotta be there, witnessing the crap first hand. This could be some shit on the level of the Prisoner. And we all know that the Prisoner was top notch.

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