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The sixth, and final, season of ABC's Lost starts today, and I'm pretty excited about it. Both because I'm curious to see what the creators of the show have in store for this season and because I'm sick of new mysteries and questions being introduced and hardly any of them ever being answered. At least this time it has to come to an end. Somehow...

I don't know exactly when it started but at some point during the last 5 years the show has been running I kind of started hating it. Every single episode added new complexity to the already intricate plot. The amount of unanswered questions, of unsolved mysteries, of downright weird stuff is now so big that I'm sure it's impossible to sort it all out in just one season. The fact that they introduced time-travel in season 5 doesn't make it any easier.

On the other hand, I just love the weirdness and complexity of the whole thing. I love to read the theories of people (with way too much free time) about the events of the latest episode, theories sometimes derived from the analysis of screenshots from a bunch of different episodes. I enjoy wondering about what will happen next, and then be surprised with something completely unpredictable. I even like the fact that some of the things are not explained right away and remain a mystery episode after episode after episode...

Weird, uh?

This "love-hate relationship" lasted for more than 5 years. And it's finally coming to an end! I just hope I won't be too disappointed.

If you think you need a very quick summary of what happened in the last 5 seasons, check out this video (it doesn't even scratch the surface...):

And here's the trailer for the final season:

Ominous...

I've just seen the first episode of the fifth season of Lost that aired last wednesday. And although I'm a bit disappointed, that didn't really surprise me.

It's just that it keeps getting weirder and weirder. What's up with making the plot more complicated in each and every episode? What about finishing up on some stuff before moving along? I miss "The X-Files" (the first few seasons), where most episodes had all kinds of bizarre stuff happening but in the end everything was wrapped up and explained. The explanations were always quite... "supernatural", but at least they didn't leave us wondering what the hell just happened and salivating for next week's episode in the hopes of getting some answers. And people kept coming back to watch it next week anyway.

Getting back to the season premiere, we do get some answers on this episode (or maybe just one), but those answers come at a cost... You guessed it, more questions! I don't want to reveal any spoilers... but I don't like the direction where this is heading, with so many time-travel-related stuff. It never works out! It always makes everything too confusing and most of the times completely incongruous. I only remember it working out well a few times, like in "Back to the Future" and "The Butterfly Effect". I don't even want to get started on how wrong it's working on "Heroes"...

Anyway, I was a bit afraid of what might show up in this fifth season and episode 1 just made me confirm that I only keep watching this show because I'm too stubborn to stop after I've watched the previous 4 seasons. I mean, there has to be some kind of unifying story behind all of it. Although I'm really starting to doubt it will make any sense at all.

Oh well, at least I still have stuff like "How I Met Your Mother", "The Big Bang Theory" and "Californication" that continue to be a lot of fun to watch.