Lost - part deux

Someone at AXN clearly values my opinion on Lost... I discovered a large number of visitors referred here from AXN, and specifically this page. So whoever saw this, hello there!

And this is what I wrote.

I didn't manage to watch all 5 episodes (16 to 20) this last Saturday - I missed the first one. But to an engineer geek like me, episode 18 - Numbers - was amazing. Starting with Hurley winning a gruesome amount of money using the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, and ending with a close up shot of the same mysterious numbers cut into the hatch that was discovered buried in the sand.

The symbolism of the numbers crops up again and again in the show; each of the numbers appears - in dates, flight numbers, times, gate numbers, license plates etc. And the fact that this was the sequence that was transmitted from the island 16 years ago (there's that number again!) and which drew Danielle Rousseau and her companions to the island only serves to add to the mystery.

And for more intrigue, visit Oceanic Air, and explore the site. Don't miss the numbers in the boxes at the bottom of the page. There's more info there than meets the eye...

If there's anything about the show that bugs me, it's the fact that they've raised so many questions (and continue to do so) and provide so few answers, as if they're setting themselves up for Season 2. Given the show's success in the US and its popularity around the world, I can see their point, but guys, would it hurt to at least tell us something?

Like - What is the monster/security device? What's in the hatch? Are there any more people on the island? Who spoke to Boone over the plane radio?

Please don't go the way of the X-Files, run circles around your audience for 5 years, and then let us down.

To leave you, here's a quote from Damon Lindelof (the show's co-creator):

I can say that there will be other mystery things arising that will make the 'monster' pale in comparison to what you're going to want to find out. We're still trying to be firmly ensconced in the world of science fact. I don't think we've shown anything on the show yet that has no rational explanation in the real world that we all function in. We certainly hint at psychic phenomena, happenstance and being in a place where they probably shouldn't be, but nothing is flat out impossible. There are no spaceships, there isn't any time travel.

If that doesn't whet your appetite, I don't know what will.