I know these things usually never come to a resolution that truly satisfies but I think part of the pleasure is the journey. It’s why I was hooked by Twin Peaks. It’s why I was a huge X-Files fan even to the bitter, confused end. And it’s why I tune into Lost regularly. The show transports me from the normal mundane nine-to-five.

While The Wire may be quality television (maybe the finest hours of television ever produced) it just hits too close to home to really satisfy. So – I roll with whatever Lindelof and Cuse and their stable of writers send my way. It may not entertain you (or maybe it does in a less intentional way) but they’ve got me hooked and I’m willing to forgive narrative transgressions for the shear fact that I’m enjoying the yarn their spinning.

That said, a lot of what you’ve got here baffles me immensely. Why is moving the island so spectacular to you? (And to the majority of the Lost fanbase?) It seems to be no more-or-less absurd than the majority of the events that take place on the show, and having the island “move” due to turning a frozen-donkey-wheel far underneath the surface after going through a time travel device broken using a similar scientific principle to putting cutlery in the microwaves seems like same old Lost to me – irrational, illogical, but kind of amusing to watch. Since the end of this episode, I keep reading truly insane theories pitched by fans that Dharma trained polar bears to turn the donkey wheel in the past, which sounds about on par for your average Lost fan.

Anyway, using this event to proclaim the show as the “best ever” in a world which includes The Sopranos, The Wire and Six Feet Under is a tall order – I found most of the finale to be plodding and predictable. Tacking on the Jeremy Benthon shoutout to the end of the Snake in the Mailbox was bad plotting – why not have mentioned this mysterious character in flashforwards in previous S4 episodes? (Because the idiot comedy duo behind the series are making it up as they go along, that’s why.) The characerisation of this show continues to be truly appalling, with nearly none of the exchanges or interactions between characters containing any kind of humanity – note, for example, the fact that our man Jack appears to be so stupid that after witnessing hundreds of unbelievable, inexplicable events, he somehow doesn’t believe any of them have ever happened. Also consider that horrible cryptic exchange between Miles and Charlotte which resembles much of the idiot dialogue from Lost: obscure enough not to actually explain anything whilst also luring us into caring without actually resembling human exchange. I have to say, I was sick to death of this kind of malarky since S2:

*Hatch explodes. Charlie meanders down to the beach, apparently unharmed by whatever the hell happened.*

Claire: Charlie, you’re ok! What happened to Locke and Desmond?

Charlie: Dunno!

Claire: What happened to the hatch?

Charlie: Dunno!

Claire: I love you now, for reasons not apparent and illogical.

Aren’t you sick and tired of this? Doesn’t it strike you as awful writing? Help me out here.

Good idea on cycling through them – they can represent a particular mood or something. I’ve got two going right now and should probably mix it up and add another at some point.

Of course, Sean (a.k.a. OB1) will never part with his Lego Obi-Wan.

I am happy to see this little community take off, happy to help maintain it and happy to be part of it! I think I can speak for Ed in the wish that if those lurkers commented more, the community would be richer for it. You Scoobs know we are looking at you!