Settled in at 9pm to watch LOST. Turns out it was another one of those annoying and self-serving wrap-up shows they like to do. I am starting to get sick of the way the networks play with our lives in order to keep us on their station for one more hour so they can sell more premium advertising time.

Of course they did emphasize that a brand new LOST would be on in “just one hour”.

It was another one of those “We wrote a brilliant show so let’s stroke our egos and talk about it” kind of shows. They love to use phrases like, “It’s about much more than just being stranded on an island. It’s about all the interconnected relationships. It’s about these people finding themselves and dealing with their personal demons. Blah blah blah.” Give me the freakin show already!

At that point Amanda said, “I’m done with this and playing their games. No more LOST for me.” I said, “Good. Me too. I was thinking the same thing!”

I puffed out my chest in a sign of brave, steely resolve.

I began channel surfing and vacillated between the LOST recap show, Deal or No Deal, The American Idol wacky performances recap (geez another recap?), and Asheville’s Public Access-ish TV Station where they were playing this really good reggae band.

Every time I went back to the LOST recap show I would roll my eyes in disgust at the blatant viewer manipulation. Those rat-bastards.

Then I saw a commercial claiming there are going to be 16 episodes with no repeats over the next … um … let’s see … 4 episodes per month times four weeks in a month … yeah … 4 months and got a little excited.

From that point I watched the last 10 minutes of the recap show and it reminded me of several cliff hangers I forgot about. Oh yeah, that one dude had a tumor in his back and what’s his face cut him and used him as collateral. And the chick wanted him dead anyways. Oh yeah. Forgot about that. Oh and that other dude that was found naked in the forest could tell the future for some reason. Oh yeah. Forgot about that too.

And.

Well.

I ended up watching the new episode anyways.

I feel so dirty.