Fifth Year LOST

Tonight was the night we got LOST again, and if feels like it has got its groove back.

This is the shows fifth and final season. The year that ties up the loose ends and answers all those nagging questions the show has been teasing us with for the past four.

The night began with an hour recap of all the main characters and main plot points. Good thing too since I missed a few episodes and never went online to catch up. Doesn't look like I missed too much, and what I did I picked up on in the following episodes.

When the recap show ended the fun began. No more of those annoying flash forwards, now it's flash backs to what happened, and/or is happening, to the survivors that were left behind -- three years ago. In the "current time" (aka, three years later) Jack and Ben are trying to get the Oceanic 6 back to the island. This, of course, is no easy task since not everyone wants to return despite the fact that their lives have gone to mud lately.

Meanwhile, those who were left behind have to deal with becoming unstuck in time. The up side of this is that the show get's to explore the island before the crash, before Dharma, maybe even before the Others... The down side is that this game of Chutes and Ladders isn't good for everyone's health. Apparently, you get nose bleeds and start loosing memories.

The fun side of this slip-and-slide story telling is that we get to guess how these events are going to retcon the events the survivors experienced over then past few years. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the two skeletons found in season 1 were those of Rose and Bernard, and those ghostly voices that were heard in the Jungle were those of the time travelers trying to change the past.

I'm hooked again and think I'll be stuck on ABC Wednesday night's for the remainder of the season.