Lost

Lost is one of my guilty pleasures; but it is starting to give me tiredhead. Each week new mysteries unfold with little resolution of previous curiosities. The most annoying thing about Lost is its tendency to launch major plot points and then tend to ignore them. In Season One, much was made about the "island monster." It was absent in Season Two altogether.

One of my former favorite shows was Alias, also written and created by Lost's J.J. Abrams. jumped the shark - I think - during the (I think it was) season 2 finale where Vaughn was trapped behind a door after a big, red, liquid-filled ball exploded. From that point on, Alias abandoned much of the character-driven, emotional plot lines in favor of conspiracies of conspiracies. It ultimatley collapsed under its own mysterious weight.

I fear Lost may be going down the same road. Gone from Season One is the intense interaction among the "losties" as they seek to build a society on this new, strange place. Gone is the tension - sexual, political, emotional, etc. Now it is secret after secret - a little revealed each week. Lost threatens to collapse under the weight of a gigantic metanarrative that the show cannot support.

I am still on board, but my patience is thinning.