As you read this, there are only three and a half hours of Lost left. Let that sink in for a second, it’s pretty insane. And to think, I’ve been editing this Website for only a month and you’ve been without my thoughts on my favorite network show for nearly six seasons. I’m sorry.

So, I figure, with the show finally reaching the finish line, now is as good a time as any. And Tuesday May 11th’s episode of Lost, “Across the Sea,” is the perfect time to start.

It’s fitting that “Across the Sea” was written by show co-runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, because the episode was about the island’s two show runners: Jacob and the Man in Black. They aren’t gods or angels or demons. Just a set of twins whose mother got a rock to the head the second after they were born.

Their new mother, played by Allison Janney, seems to have been the protector of the island for a very long time. And now she has these two boys to inherit her job. Call them the original candidates.

She fills their head with a bunch of island mythology that may or may not be true. They will never die (a lie), that they can’t hurt each other (another lie) and that the purpose of the island is to house a mystical life force that, I guess, is kind of the beating heart of the earth. (My friend made a great point. Maybe that glowing light is the same thing in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction. I digress)

I won’t give a blow by blow of the whole episode because, let’s face it, if you are reading this, you already saw it. Here are some overall impressions though. While it was really cool to find out who the “Adam and Eve” skeletons finally were,  how Jacob and MIB were related, where they came from, what they are protecting, where the wheel came from, etc., the whole episode just felt like another huge tease. I liken it to the Star Wars prequels. Quality aside, the whole point of that trilogy was to find out how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. And that didn’t happen until the third movie, The first two movies were just kind of pointless. “Across the Sea” felt like Star Wars Episodes 1 and 2: interesting, possibly revelatory back story, but just the beginning of what we really want to know.

What was missing? How about why MIB hates Jacob so much now? How is it exactly possible for him to get off the island? How and why did Jacob and MIB figure out all of this information when, obviously, they were pretty ignorant to all of it when their mother was killed? Is the MIB a human being now? What are his special powers? How long have they been there?

The list goes on and on.

Lost is an awesome show and I love to step back from Jake, Kate, Sawyer and Locke once in a while to get all this mythology. But, with only three and a half hours left (with commercials) it’s time to really bring it home.