thinking broadly about LOST, i have to say that it's easy for me to forget just how far the show has come conceptually since i first began watching it. the shift into complete sci-fi time-traveling island-moving insanity was so gradual over the seasons as new supernatural elements were introduced that i look back what i thought the show was all about prior to actually watching it--a television serial version of CAST AWAY--and what it has actually become, and it's just baffling.
baffling in a very awesome way, but baffling.
the only thing i really miss from older seasons is my attachment to jack. in those first three seasons, as the typical sort of wet blanket, "by the book" guy, i really related to him, and i understood that his motives were mostly good; i felt for him when things went sour with his wife; i was stunned and crushed at the end of season 3 to see what he'd become.
still, LOST is so great. i can't wait until it's all said and done and i can sit down with all the dvds and just watch it straight through, maybe with someone who has never seen it before, and can be as surprised by where it so bravely goes as i have been.
