doing the cool thing

I'm gonna be honest, it's what I do here, and those words I seem to put in a lot of my writing, so I'll get to the point.

I like Lost.

It's nothing new, if you know me, but in the realm of things, it's like the cool thing now, to like Lost.

Not everyone gets it, that's okay, there are episodes I don't get either, but I watch because the lives of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 are important to me.

I've gone though stages, as a Lost fan. In the beginning (Season 2, I caught on late), I watched, trying to get it and tried to guess what was coming. Then I started looking for clues in everything. Then I had to really know everything before it hall happened. Now I watch and do my best to be surprised as I can be when things happen.

This post is going to be Lost heavy, and will contain things people who aren't currently up to the current episode may call spoilers.

During the time between season five and six, I began to rewatch from the beginning, in what could only be called as satanic. It was nuts. I began to notice stuff I hadn't the first time through and I began to make connections quicker. Then I noticed something else.

Those people who survived the crash, all 42 of them (I know that because it's one of The Numbers), began to look a lot like a community, but not just any community, a community that needed one another as much as one another needed them.

Yeah, it gets bat-poo-crazy near the tail end of season one and never lets go, but I began to see something in our Losties: Acts.

I then began to plot out a book that tied Lost to the Gospels, some how, then more recently I found out someone else beat me to it. I want to read his book, but at the same time I don't because it may just prove/deny the same connections I had seen.

For bat-poo sakes: Sun can speak English, rather fluently, which becomes a miracle of the tongues (until we get her back story). Locke is healed by the island! He was pushed out of a window and fell eight (Number) stories and survived and then the island heals him! Let us not talk about Richard 'Guyliner' Alpert, the man who doesn't age; how everyone who comes to the island suddenly can shoot guns like they're trained assassins, or how everyone is connected in some weird way or another. Kevin Bacon has nothing on these guys.

Yes, it's all fictional, but so is Harry Potter and everyone believed it to be an allegory until Roland said Dumbledore was gay.

The writers, being crafty people, also have a habit of sneaking in biblical references. One of the off island stations is in the basement of a church and Locke has this Jesus-like feeling to him until season five ended, now he's all about going home ala' Dogma's Bartleby and Loki, even if it means killing everything in his way (ala Bartleby).

What I'm saying is, a show doesn't have to scream God every line to have a very biblical feel to it. Am I saying Lost is Gospel? I know better than that. What I am saying is if it turns out that after last nights episode, that Locke v 2.0 isn't the bad guy, I'll be more than surprised.