I Am Ready For LOST To Be Over. Really Ready.

What year is this? 2010 right? How long has LOST been on the air now? Six years. Six goddamn years. I've been plopping myself down in front of the television once a week for an hour for the past six years tormenting myself with my love/hate relationship with this show. You would have no idea the amount of torment and verbal rape I've had at the hands of my so called "friends" over the amount of time I've dedicated to what used to be enjoyment but is now something along the lines of a horrible stamina test. Like a fart leaving the room, I wanna clear the air. I intend to explain why after 5 and 8/10 seasons I am still suffering and teetering to the end. So I guess this article is for you; Drew and Mike.

The main reason I commit my time to this show until the end is that I really haven't been fed up with the show until the end of season 4. By that point it had already been released that the end of the show will be season 6. That only leaves 2 season left after having already spent 4 entire seasons watching this garbage. AND if you take into account that season 4 was only a fraction shorter than the other because of the goddamn writer's "we want internet money" strike it really was only 1 3/4 quarter seasons left until the end. By season 4 I already become so involved with all of the mythology that I was desperate for answers. And they kept teasing my desperation with the promise that "THE ANSWERS ARE COMING! Next week, on an all new LOST". What can I say? I'm a sucker for advertising. Which really sucks when you're trying to save up for a wedding! The better part of me knew that the audience for this show was dropping like flies, so the studio, in effort to keep those floundering still on board made promises that the creators of the show just werent going to keep. Promises of answers and explanations of what exactly was going on were never intended to be kept. There's only one night left and they still won't answer anything! But despite all this, as they say in poker "I'm pot committed". I either follow through to the end and suffer the slings and arrows from friends, family and strangers. Or give up now and have wasted the better part of six years. I don't let movies try to beat me, how can I say the same about a television show?

The next reason, is that despite the constant wheel spinning and maintenance of the status quo the producers seem to have of "We know everything and you saps know nothing" attitude they've taken, and despite the fact that most of the shows follow the same formula of our characters formulating a plan but never following through with it, occasionally, OCASSIONALLY a really smart and funny episode emerges from the dregs. Is it enough to let one or two gems per season carry you over until the next? Probably not. But when you see a well written story finally start to blossom, I like to think that all of us would take the time to let it grow.

I wanna see the writers of this show dig themselves out of a hole they created. It'll be interesting to see if this series fans will stick by it like the fans of BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA or if they will rise up as one against their show ala THE SOPRANOS.

One thing you gotta give to these guys is that at least they're ending the series. They knew long in advance when the show was going to end and they've been building towards that ending for quite some time now. Win or fail I'll be watching. And for the best of times and worst of times I'll be happy to see it go.