"Lost" returns on ABC this Wednesday.  What are any of your thoughts for the new season?

Sure  captured  many imaginations.....I  know  no  real  answers  will  come until  the  very end  of  the series  in  a  couple  of  yrs.   From  reading  the  LOST  tv  forums.....yikes  there  are  so many  possibilities.....that  it  has  the  desired  mind  boggeling  effect,   for  moi  at  least.    The  babes  rock  too....and  why  is  the  big  guy  not  loosing  any  weight?  A  most  important  question....

[COLOR="Navy"][QUOTE=petofi;251588]So what is your version of intelligent prime-time programming, "American Idol?"  Tell me one example of a network program that actually causes the viewers to THINK.[/QUOTE]

No, I think American Idol is a boring piece of crap, too :-)  Worse, I think it's exploitative of the very auditioners it's allegedly trying to reach.

Well, shoot, Jeopardy gets me thinking ... and sometimes reflectively thinking, too.

IMO, some of the PBS stuff causes viewers to think, like Frontline and American Experience.

Ditto for 60 Minutes.

I think some of the entertainment programming, as well, presents good food for thought.  I'm a big Masterpiece Theatre (now Masterpiece) fan, and the current Austen festival always gives me cause to think.  Ugly Betty does, as well, as do NCIS, Pushing Daisies (before it went on hiatus because of the WGA strike), and Moonlight.  House also gets me thinking.  The late, lamented Joan of Arcadia always kept me thinking.  And, you know, The Simpsons gets people thinking.

That pretty much disposes of my network week :-)  In my market, we also get Dr. Phil, but on a non-network affiliated station.  He grandstands quite a bit but, overall, his show gets people thinking.

I guess we can argue about what we mean by "thinking" and the relative value of those thoughts or that kind of thinking.  Good drama, sharp and incisive comedy, good mystery programming, and an intelligent and witty teleplay always keep me thinking.  Simple action-adventure with minimal character development does not.

I don't know ... tell me what intrigues you about Lost.

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I love "Lost" for a lot of reasons--the most obvious for me is the superb writing and the cinematography.


The acting's very good and I adore the Hawaiian locations.

And there is a lot of eye candy there too. ;)

WGal

I hadn't seen the two hour finale from the end of last season. Last night's show really blew me away.

I couildn't stand to see Charlie die. One of my fave characters gone.

I have a close relative who is in the world that Charlie came from--in music--and a lot of what he went through in terms of his art and his career rang true. Seeing him die was like watching my relative die.

Waaaay too intense for me.

WGal

And poor Jack!  Boy, does he need help!

I loved the idea of using bubble comments to explain things as they were happening on the repeated last season's finlae show.

These people are so inventive--they continue to amaze with their creative ideas.