Lost As Sin

I decided tonight that Lost is a lot like sin. It's interesting and exciting on the front end, but never fails to leave you feeling empty and confused by the end.

I watched the latest installment tonight, along with 10.6 million other poor, strung-along souls. I go back and forth on the artistic merits of Lost. At first I found myself amazed by the labyrinth of a plot the creators of the show have designed; there's nothing quite like this show for stirring up conversation and keeping people up at night reading plot theories on obscure websites.

Of late, though, I've started to wonder if the show really has an intricate plot, or if it's just being mysterious for mystery's sake, throwing around black smoke and polar bears, trying to convince us that there's a logical explanation to everything, and that maybe if we just thought about it a little harder... when in reality a bunch of writers are sitting around a table trying to figure out some semi-plausible way to connect the dots, inevitably deciding it would be easier for now to add a few more instead of drawing any lines.