Well, between congregational recordings and the iTunes new online ordering service I am now completly caught up with Lost.

possible spoiler

I love the show. It is hard to know where to begin.

Perhaps the most idiosyncratic thing to say is that the beach scenes take me back to my high school years on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. There is something about the surf on the Pacific Ocean in the tropics that I find quite blissful.

Another personal attraction is the character John Locke because he is played by Terry O’Quinn. Perhaps you remember his cameo in the X-files movie as the agent who killed himself to blow up the building at the beginning of the movie. I remember him from the ill-fated Millennium, Chris Carter’s attempt at new and different TV work. In that show, O’Quinn played Peter Watts, friend to profiler Frank Black and member of the mysterious Millennium Group which posed as a security consulting firm but was actually more like a superstitious (and magical?) cult. Watts’ relationship to the Group and his weird view of the world is quite a bit like that of John Locke’s. I almost want to say that he is there playing the “same” character even thought there histories are nothing alike.

My biggest problem with the series is the way Jack has kept a buzz cut. Can that be done without electricity?

At this point I’m thinking there must be three groups on the island:

1. The plane survivors, which were two groups but will hopefully merge.
2. The weird scientific group that built the underground station (were the newly intruduced survivors hiding out in the remains of another station? I wasn’t happy that no one asked.)
3. “The others.”

Of course, just as we’ve seen in the encounter betwee the raft crew and the second group of plane survivors, these groups could be divided up to cause more confusion. And there will always be the question of whether the island is somehow attracting/causing this weirdness, rather than the weirdness explaining anything…