Nightmarish desolation

After the Pottermania stupor, I went back to where I left off with my latest favorite TV show, LOST. I have finally finished watching the whole of Season 1. For those who haven’t looked at a television set for six months, they’d say: What is this show about, anyway?



It is about the forty-eight plane-crash survivors, stranded on an island pining to be rescued. These castaways found the inner strength they never knew they had amidst the chaos and frantic misery. Total strangers worked together to fight the cruel weather, harsh terrain and the mysterious creatures of the island in order to stay alive.

It wasn’t the mysterious numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) or the invisible ‘monster’ that got me hooked on this show; it was the human relationships – the characters’ interaction with each other – the human element that kept this show afloat. That is why in the last episode of the first season, it was the flashback to the passengers boarding the plane that carried weight the most – forty-eight of these lives were about to intersect while the rest were about to end (or so we think).

So what about those black, clouds-like, howling things? Some people were thinking of nano-technology. These nano-bots repaired Locke’s half-paralysis; made a dead man appear to walk again; and that the ‘monster’ manifested at certain times could be thought controlled. To put it plainly, the island was an experiment out of control.

Complete DVD of the first season will be available on September 6.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau