Lost

Well the writer's strike has now been going for 6 weeks. There were enough shows left to keep me entertained for a while, but now they are disappearing. As I have made clear in the past, Lost is by far the greatest show on television today. Well, now the strike has really hit home.

Here was the plan. Lost writers were going to have 3 more seasons, each 16 episodes each. As of the beginning of the strike, 8 episodes were written. Assuming the strike didn't last to long, they would get the other episodes out in time. Well, the strike took too long. Good news, because every show out there is now off, Lost is being moved to the prime spot of Thursdays at 9:00 P.M. A show cannot get a better slot than that. The bad news, Lost is not going to have a complete season. According to our body Damon, Season 4 will be 8 episodes (and I'm sure they will still charge 50 bucks when it comes out on DVD) and Season 5 will go back to the original number, 24 episodes. Damon says that they had already planned all of their big cliffhangers, so they are just going to keep it going as planned. Oh well. However, this means it will be one year and two months from the last episode of Season 4 to the first episode of Season 5. Wow. I thought waiting 9 months was long. Anyway, it is said and done. I guess there is nothing that we the viewers can do about it now. But at the very least, I think it might be time for us the viewers to strike back. For the sake of brevity, I will put this in a separate post.