The end is here

Tonight is the series finale of LOST. I have been a huge LOST fan since the very beginning. I used to ride my bike by the crash site during the first season. From the first I thought it was a great series. I did lose it during season 2 though.

What the heck is with the second seasons of shows?? Almost every show I have ever watched will have a fabulous first season then the second season sucks big time. If they make it past that the third season is usually better and things are okay from there on out, but that second season is always, always, always, horrible. It happened with my beloved LOST. It happened with Heroes and I was a huge Heroes fan. It happened with Grey’s Anatomy. It’s almost as if they are surprised that their show was a hit. They spend years getting the scripts for the first season just right and then when it actually does well and they need to come back a second season they rush and write whatever comes into their heads. Or, my other thought, is that the series does so well they decide to change it. Huh?? Okay, done ranting.

So I’m very much looking forward to the series finale but I’m also a little sad.  First, the reasons I’m looking forward to it.  I am curious to see how it all plays out.  The flash sideways they have been doing confuse me.  If the crash didn’t happen and they all made it to LA safely apparently their past was altered too.  So that confuses me, we’ll see if they clear that up.  They have answered a lot of questions in the last couple of weeks but it still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.  So Jacob is guarding the light at the center of the island – but why exactly?  Also, why can’t his brother leave the island??  Hopefully it will all be answered tonight.  But the real true reason I’m happy it’s ending? I hate being hooked on a TV show. I hate wanting to watch something so badly that I will alter my schedule to do it.  I have a DVR and I can record it but that is a lot of pressure having those recorded shows waiting for you to watch them.  I hate it.  I’m hating TV more and more lately and so the opportunity to “lose” a show makes me happy.

The reason I’m a little sad it’s ending?  It’s a good show and there really are so few of them on TV anymore.  I’m tired of the reality crap.  Okay, I do like the Amazing Race and will watch Survivor if there’s nothing else on, but other than that I’m done with it.  I can’t stand the “celebrity” shows on TLC and all those channels I can’t even think of now.  So as a whole TV pretty much sucks and losing a good show is a little sad.

Okay, there are places in the Mainland where LOST is just about over.  Time to get off the internet so I don’t stumble on anything I don’t want to.