Like I mention in the post, working with people who are obsessed with the show will sustain me through the season for sure. Thursday morning I forgot to sign into our automated timesheet program, and we — we including my boss — ended up talking about the premiere until 9:45 (we get in at 9). I had to go back and edit those 45 minutes after one of the secretaries printed out my timesheet and wrote a note asking where I was for that time.

It’s definitely not always the type of show that I would step in to defend as far as the plot choices, BUT:

I also argue that much like the first few pages of a good novel which throws the reader into the thick of things (what the bookish folks call “en media res”), the first couple of episodes of a season of LOST are very inscrutable. Did you watch the fourth season? Remember that at the beginning of one episode, we saw Daniel Faraday crying as he saw the remains of Oceanic 815 being discovered on the ocean floor, and we had no idea why; the reasoning wasn’t revealed until several episodes later in the season.

So my advice is to stick with it, man. And ultimately, you’ll never enjoy this show as much on television as you will on DVD. Nature of the beast.