Goodbye Lost! We will need some other nerd obsession now.

Lost will be coming to it’s climactic end this Sunday at 9, promising 2 1/2 hours of maybe an answer or two that will hopefully live up to some of the hype, while Celebrity Apprentice will be airing it’s own much-talked about (live!) season finale at the exact same time. What is a Lost nerd that loves Bret Michaels and the whole Trump gang to do? Thank god for DVR.

Yes, after 6 seasons of insane theories and obsessive viewing, Lost fans (such as myself) will finally get to see what the heck all of this stuff has been leading up to. Will they be happy with what they see? Probably not. There are two things the internet is good for when it comes to shows like Lost: speculation and complaining. Well, there will be nothing left to speculate on, folks. Cue the backlash. I, for one, think it’s going to be great. You won’t see me posting my “How it should have ended” fan-fiction on the web Monday morning. Though if the finale doesn’t involve the smoke monster fighting a polar bear I will be very disappointed.

How will the island and alt-world reconcile? Will everyone (who happen to still be alive) get off the island? Is there any chance of a happy ending? Will Juliet FINALLY show up again? Well, at least we will know in a few short days. I most look forward to people who checked out of the series long ago tuning in to the finale to see how it all ends, only to be woefully confused by all they have missed. “Wait the bald dude is the smoke monster now? Jack is an island protector who drank magic kool-aid? Hurley has been on the island this long and STILL hasn’t lost weight??”

Then there’s Celebrity Apprentice. I’ve always enjoyed the show, but imagining that it could cut into the Lost finale’s likely massive ratings would be ridiculous. Until you add Bret Michaels into the mix as one of the final two contestants. As you probably know, Bret originally went to the hospital for kidney surgery. Then a brain hemorrhage. Then he finally got a bit better and went on Oprah. Then he had a small stroke 3 days ago. Then the doctors discovered he has a hole in his heart. Yet, Bret is still planning on making the Celebrity Apprentice finale. Now that is a man who either really wants to win money for his diabetes charity or is desperate for Donald Trump’s approval.

Of course, with all the coverage of Bret’s many medical trials and his struggle to make it to the live finale, doesn’t Trump kind of have to name him the winner?

The final season of Lost, considered to be one of the most compelling (not to mention confusing) dramas to air on TV in recent history, is already halfway over, and true to it’s title till the end, the audience is still thoroughly Lost. For all the “answers” promised in the advertising blitz for this sixth and final season, few have trickled out in any clear fashion, meaning the real big answer is: “Yes, you are going to have to buy this whole show on DVD and get fired from your job so you have proper time to obsessively watch it over and over and piece the puzzle together.” Though, honestly, that would be more work than going to actual work.

Not that I’m complaining. A season of Lost where they actually spell out all the answers instead of wrapping them in more mystery and vaguely trustworthy explanations would be like an episode of MacGyver where he simply uses a set of keys to break into a crime-den: it’s just wrong. Instead of an avalanche of answers, this season has actually given us a whole new set of questions. The most important being: why, on an island inhabited by Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway and Matthew Fox, would the Smoke Monster (Smokester, as his fellow monsters call him) choose to take the form of the bald dude with man-boobs? (the answer, I realized, is because Locke is rad).The second most important: why, after 6 seasons, do the special effects on Lost still look like an early 90’s PC game?

What really seems to divide fans this season is the “flash-sideways” world (no, not FlashForward, that’s another show that just wants to be Lost), where we get glimpses at the characters in a world where their plane never crashed at all. A what if? A parallel dimension? An epilogue? A lot of fans seem to be answering: who cares? People are writing it off as “filler” and a “waste of time,” because obviously the creators of a carefully planned, epic TV show got lazy during the last season they have been building towards and got some interns to write up some fan-fiction alternate world stuff. That seems likely.

And just because we haven’t gotten specific answers doesn’t mean that the picture isn’t coming together. We’ve gotten a whole lot more of eternal, magical island frenemies Jacob and The Man in Black (aka Smokester), who seem to enjoy long walks on the beach, sipping wine together, and trying to kill/imprison one another. Not to mention that Jacob has a magical mirror that he has used for a very long time to look into the lives of anyone he’s interested in (yes, I realize that sounds like the plot of a Lifetime original movie produced by SyFy. Maybe something called Peeping Demigod?). Who/what are they exactly, and why have they done all these messed-up things to our castaways? Maybe we’ll never know in specifics, but I’ve got a feeling we’ll have a good idea by the end. If not, the creators can anticipate ending up on a deserted island somewhere themselves. Lost fans are an intense and unforgiving lot.

The most recent episode, “Ab Aeterno” (which I believe translates to Emmy Submission, based on Nestor Carbonell’s performance), gave us the most answers yet, finally explaining how Richard Alpert became immortal (and no, his fashionable perma-eyeliner sadly has nothing to do with it) and his relationship with Jacob. Will more answer-filled episodes arrive in the coming weeks? Or will it be back to mysterious business as usual? We will have to wait and see, but either way I’m still hooked.

Lost’s final season premiered this week and I cannot escape from its frothy-mouthed fans giddily telling me the finale will be an EPIC conclusion that finally explains the mysterious island of wackadoodle happenings and brain-cramping corkscrew twists in time and space.

Okay, okay! I believe you guys, there’s no need to stand so (don’t stand so) close to me with the emphatic gesturing and theories of “What the eff is going on.” Yes, Lost sounds INCREDIBLE and BRILLIANT - I just have no idea what you’re raving about and it sounds like gobbledygook.

I’m not alone, The Onion released an excellent “news piece” the other day:

Final Season of Lost Promises to Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever

You Lost nerds, god love ya!

Yo Lost fans!  The sixth and FINAL season is under a month away now - February 2nd.  ABC has already started their countdown with this amazing “Everything You Need to Know about Lost in 8:15″ video.  As someone who’s seen a few episodes, I started off enjoying the refresher course, but soon found myself (you guessed it!) Lost. Check it out:

Pretty great, right?  Though I obviously have a ton of catching up to do if I’m interested in jumping on the series finale bandwagon.  Will I make it?  Dare I?

[Source: Gawker]

This week will be the very last of the ’00s, possibly one of the awesomest decades in TV so far.  Sure, that’s easy to say for someone like me who hasn’t been around too many decades, but I think once you check out the list of shows that came out in the past ten years, I think you’ll agree.  And without further ado, we ask…

Happy voting!

Yo, you wanna see some Lost bloopers?  I thought so.  Here’s the reel from the Season 5 DVD:

Weirded out!  It’s confusing seeing these people out of their (in their?) element.

[Source: BWE]

Ha!   The Internets are spreading this Spanish Lost promo like butter on bread:

RE: this clip, I really think Tom Ganjamie over at Best Week Ever put it best:

At first glance this looks like a deleted scene from Pan’s Labyrinth, but it’s actually a promo for Season 6 of Lost over in Spain. This is way cooler than anything ABC has given us so far, but it also FINALLY proves my theory I’ve had since season 1: The whole show was just God and the Devil playing chess with old Party of Five action figures because they… wait for it… LOST the regular pieces (note: my mind is blown!). Also God is playing Radiohead on his iPod. It all makes complete sense now.

Hmm….  He kinda lost me at the end there. Lost!

Oh man! Crazy news for fans of Glee!

Fox announced its midseason schedule yesterday and with it, some perplexing news:

1) No new Glee episodes until April 13th.
2) Glee is moving to Tuesdays at 9 p.m. - competing with the Lost timeslot.

Whoa!  Item #2 is particularly upsetting.  Two shows with rabid, obsessive nerd fans… will there be nerd fan overlap?  What will the nerd fans be watching Tuesday night if they love both?

Hmm.  We nerds could all just watch everything online on our own schedule and cut the TV tether.  No one watches TV on a TV anymore anyway.  Take it away, blinkx Remote!

[Source: EW]

Lost explained!   All your questions answered:

Right?

Gilligan’s Island actually crosses my mind quite a bit when I hear people discussing their Lost theories.  The Skipper and his li’l buddy never did make it off the island, after all.  Would you be surprised if it were the same exact island as the one inhabited by our friends on Lost?

Anything’s possible in this day and age, folks.  Haven’t you seen the Family Matters / Step By Step crossover episode?

Oh man!  I’ll admit, this video I came across on Towleroad made me snort…

Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy and Lost’s Matthew Fox fought over a cup of coffee by way of staring contest.  Observe:

Gorgeous man!

I expected them to throw in some Lost reference I totally wouldn’t get and confuse the heck out of me, but they didn’t.  They kept it nice and ridiculous.  Melikes.