by Angie Nelson

Created on: April 20, 2009

I will be the first to tell you I do not watch a lot of television. There is one show I will not miss, however, and that is ABC's Lost. It is by far the best television show I have ever seen. It is the only one I have seen every episode of, some multiple times. It is the only television series I will ever own on DVD. It is one of the few shows that I can watch, and not predict what they will come up with next.

My parents watch a lot of crime shows; I can always tell who did it. Sometimes I wonder why I don't write for one of those shows. They aren't necessarily what I would call predictable, but you don't have to be a super sleuth to figure them out. Lost is a different story. My friends and I get together every Wednesday to watch. We set the DVR to tape it so we can fast-forward through the commercials because we are too impatient to see what's coming next. This means we prolong the wait to start watching by about fifteen minutes, and that is the most nerve-wracking fifteen minutes of my week.

We started our weekly Lost parties during the second season, when we started to become friends. I think it was something that bonded us for life. The three of us are all very different people otherwise. We enjoy theorizing what will happen next, who might die soon, and of course what everyone is dying to know, how it will all end. As this season' end approaches, I am becoming aware of the certainty that only one season will remain.

That's probably a good thing; I would hate to see such an epic show go the way of Alias, which started strong and petered out. Lost is so unlike anything else on television that I have ever seen. It's long the longest movie ever made, and we are watching installments of it. I have never felt emotionally attached to characters in a television show, but the acting (for the most part) is so perfect, I can't help but believe it. I do; I believe in "The Island."

So many things have happened over the past four and half seasons that really make me think. For example, when Ben takes John to the secret room where he is keeping "The Man from Tallahassee," I knew who would be sitting in the room. For the life of me, I cannot give you a reasonable explanation of how he got there. The writers have yet to reveal this enigma, and perhaps they never will. Recently, there have been some wild developments, like the fact that Jin, Sawyer, Juliet, and Miles have all been living in the 1970's for three years. Somehow Kate, Jack, Hurley, and Sayid make it back to the

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