Lost

I think I am nearly recovered from Sunday night's 18-hour Lost finale on ABC.  And I'm pretty sure that the name of the series relates more to the people who are trying to follow the show than it describes the actors who are stranded on the island.

For those of you who haven't been watching Lost, here's a basic recap of all six seasons.  A bunch of people crash in a jet that was en route from Australia to Los Angeles.  They crash landeded on a mysterious beach (which we actually visited on our Hawaii trip, pictured on the right!) which features a smoke monster and a lot of magnetism or something.

Jack is one of the plane survivors, and he is a doctor.  But it turns out he is now dead.  The end.

A whole bunch of other weird stuff happened in between, but we have a long way to go before we figure it all out.  Mrs. Smoot and I didn't watch the show from the beginning.  We started buying the season DVDs a few months back, and we're only up to Season 3.  So watching the finale was even more confusing to us than it was for the people who had seen the whole thing.

This has become a ritual for us at night.  For the last few years we have picked a TV series, bought all of the DVDs, and watched them all on a nightly basis.  Prior to Lost, we watched every episode of every season of House, and then Fringe.  And at the risk of losing a bunch of "Cool Points" I will not even mention the series we watched from start to finish before that (Dawson's Creek...).

I'm not sure what we'll do when we run out of episodes of Lost, frankly.  Is Three's Company out on DVD...?