Does anyone else feel like Lost has become Quantum Leap on crack? For those of you who are too young to remember that show, it was about this physicist, Dr. Sam Beckett, who traveled through time to right what once went wrong, hoping that his next leap would be the leap back home. Throughout the show, he was followed around by this hologram, Al, who would tell him what year it was, who he was (Sam would leap into someone else's body, not just into another time period), and what wrong he had to right. I loved the show initially. I used to get a real kick out of the episodes in which Sam would wake up in nightgowns, frilly dresses, or sexy corsets, walk into the bathroom, and realize that, once again, he was a woman. However, after awhile, both the joke and the idea got old. At that point, I wanted Sam to leap home more than he did.I'm starting to get the same feeling with Lost. I want to write TPTB and say, "Enough with the flashing lights. Enough with the headaches. Enough with the nosebleeds. Enough with Locke playing the roll of Sam and Ben the roll of Al. Enough with the quantum leaps, skips, and bounds. Just get back to the story already." Like Lost wasn't hard enough to follow when it was just flash-forwards, flashbacks, and a million and one connections between the characters. Now I have to figure out what year they're in every five minutes. Enough. Enough. Enough.
I would also like to advise them that, if they're going to continue the quantum leap thing, they really need to think it through a little bit better. I guess TPTB think that, by having Locke tell everyone that they can't change anything in the past, that the butterfly or domino effect won't occur. What a crock! The very fact that they are traveling through time and interacting with people who they didn't interact with before (for instance, Rousseau seeing Jin or Penny's father seeing the survivors long before Penny was even a dot on the horizon) ought to send the butterflies and dominoes flying. In theory, this could mean that some of them never even made it onto Ocean Flight 815 or survived the crash.
Of course, I'm not going to write that letter. It wouldn't do any good so instead I'm just going to be happy that we got a hug between Sawyer and Jin--aw, they're friends and a family now--sad that the geek won't get the girl this time, and hope that the Oceanic Six, Ben, and Desmond make it back to the island before the last five minutes of the last season of the show. Otherwise, we're going to have several seasons of Sawyer and Jin running around the island with Dharma-issue toilet paper shoved up their noses to stem the blood flow, and that's definitely going to downgrade their hotness factor quite a bit.
