Well, I Ain't Always Right but I've Never Been Wrong, Seldom Turns Out the Way It Does In a Song

Congrats to the WJC for correctly naming "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad Is To Be High)" by Ryan Adams as the Wednesday Song of the Day. Prof. CivPro, I'm not sure if that's really you out there, but you are getting the credit on this one. Again, congratulations.

Lost is beginning to get really interesting. Mr. Eko being killed by the bizarre black smoke that floats around the island, Locke and Sayid seeing the crazy eye-patched guy in one of the other hatches, and Jack being asked to flub the surgery on Benjamin Linus's spine so it looks like he tried to save him while intending to kill him all along. I'm not sure how many of you out there are dedicated Lost fans, but I will say this about the show: I do not fall into the category of viewers who demand that answers to questions be revealed in order to keep watching the show.
That is a huge part of why the show has such a large following and I think if they begin to reveal answers too quickly in response to fan pressure, they will lose a large part of the audience that is drawn to the show precisely for its mystery.

Here a just some of my thoughts on the future of the show:

• I have no idea what the black smoke is, but it was very interesting that Locke told Eko that he saw a "bright light" instead of the black smoke that Eko saw.


• The smoke is something that is completely out on its own. The Others probably know about the smoke, but they have no idea how to control or harness it.


• I'm not so sure that Juliet is the one that Jack should be trusting. Yes, Benjamin comes across as incredibly conniving and manipulating, but it just seems too easy for Jack to trust her. If the rest of The Others had wanted to get rid of Linus because of a power struggle within their ranks, why didn't they do it already instead of waiting for a plane crash that was apparently out of their hands?



• Speaking of that, wasn't Ben's comment last night to Jack very interesting? Ben asked Jack if he believed in God, to which Jack returned the question to Ben. To paraphrase, Ben responded with, "Well, two days after I discovered a tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon falls out the sky. If that's not God, I don't know what is." Not even touching the theological aspects of that question, that seems to demonstrate that The Others either did not know specifically that Jack was on Flight 815 or that they did not cause the crash at all. Very interesting.

As you can probably see, this show has its hooks in me, and it raises many interesting questions. For those of you out there who are fellow Lost followers, what do you think about some of the points that I have put forth? Mainly they are just theories, but if you don't have theories after watching a episode of Lost, what's the use in watching?