No more Lost puns, for now

Though thinking them up is a lot easier than thinking through this series. After last night’s season finale, I just shook my aching head and decided to look for some good discussion on it over at Amy’s blog today, and sure enough, she’s got quite a thread running.

All I can say is that this is the best television hour in the regular season for delivering compelling, thought-provoking, maddeningly addictive drama with consequences. The art of storytelling is ancient, and sometmes it seems like a LOST art (see how that keeps working it’s way back?) until really good film or television like this draws us into the human story and reminds us of our shared experience. As has been pointed out time and again (“Time and Again” sounds like a good title for a Lost episode…), this series is about redemption, the personal confrontation each individual has with who they are, how their choices have formed them, why their decisions now have greater consequences for their community, and what they want to achieve with every opportunity they still have. It’s about relationships in life, and especially about fathers and mothers and the power of their relationships with their children.

The Lost series is about forgiveness, too, and sacrifice. It’s about mystery and faith. Ever since Carl Olson was on my radio show last year talking about these amazing features of this TV show I’d never seen, I started watching….and I’m hooked. Because art imitates life, and this particular work gives you the full picture. We keep trying to figure it out — the ‘Losties’ among us — but the point is, we’re not supposed to. We’ll just keep thinking and talking about how it all works together….sort of like those folks on the island.

Seems like whenever this thing finally ends (unthinkable right now), all these incredibly intelligent, creative minds involved in discussion over the series could, collectively, generate some new series that takes this experience to another realm.

Sorry….that’s too much for ‘the day after.’