300 Lost Words

A word count didn't even occur to me today when I wrote my article entitled "Good Question."  And so I find myself home after work and teaching class franticly pounding out 300+ words before I fall below my goal after only the 2nd day of this project.

My mind on the way home was focused on the premiere of the next season of my favorite tv show "LOST" which my wife and I have been patiently (and sometimes impatiently) waiting for since last year.  I don't have a whole lot of tv shows that I am really into right now and LOST has been out of my life for a while now... I was a bit worried that I would lose touch... that I wouldn't care when it finally returned... that the tension that they built up for last season wouldn't sustain me through to the new shows many months later.  I was wrong. I am incredibly jazzed. But why? Why is LOST able to bring me back from a tv coma and still have me dying to see the next episode when I normally would be cold and abandoned. The answer is "Specifics and Unanswered Questions."  The world is clear and vibrant and every time they reveal a secret truth they either make it a part of a greater secret truth or create an additional secret truth.  This is a hard balance to keep... too many secrets and you lose your audience, but reveal too many and you lose your audience's interest.

And so tomorrow night I return home to my friends Jack, Locke, Mr. Eko, Kate, Sawyer and all the rest.  Congratulations writers of LOST! You've done the impossible.  I'll be back and I want answers!!!