Lost To Confusingly Meander On Until 2010

Remember the heady days of 2004, when you watched Lost in the vain hope that someone would eventually explain what was going on, how so many pretty people managed to survive a plane crash and why an effing polar bear was plodding around?

Those days seem so long ago, don't they? Nowadays watching an episode of Lost is as arduous and pointless as trying to swim up a million mile-high waterfall made out of treacle - a waterfall with interminable sequences that centre around how a man got a tattoo once. But now ABC has confirmed that all the answers to Lost are coming, with a "shocking" finale being planned for 2010. Hooray! Only another three years and 48 episodes of painfully slow naval-gazing and deathly dull flashbacks that don't even pretend to try and answer questions any more to go until we find out what Lost is actually about.

Chances are you'll have been driven berserk by Lost by now. If watching a bald man doing nothing but press a number on a computer for six months in season two didn't turn you away, then watching a girl-haired man try and get a biscuit out of a machine in a cage week after week in season three probably has. Own up - somewhere between the Lost book, the Lost interactive game, the Lost videogame and the Lost exclusive mobile content you lost interest.

But you're not alone - the stars of Lost have also been sent screwy by starring in such a tortuous series. Between them they've been held up at gunpoint, seen their houses burn down, been thrown in jail for drink-driving, committed all sorts of other spazzy driving acts and got married to people only to divorce them again after a couple of months. They want to get off the Lost island just as much as you do. 

And soon they will, so long as you can seriously call the year 2010 soon. After the Lost producers recently admitted that there was an ending to Lost, honest, ABC has come forward to announce the details. That's the good news. The bad news is that there's still going to be another 48 episodes of nonsense to go until then. BBC News reports:

"Due to the unique nature of the series, we knew it would require an end date to keep the integrity and strength of the show consistent throughout and to give the audience the pay-off they deserve," said Stephen McPherson, the president of ABC Entertainment.

So that's three more seasons of Lost to go, with each season comprising 16 back-to-back episodes. 

This announcement is basically good news for everyone. Those people involved with Lost can now actively start working the show towards its much-speculated conclusion, ABC can benefit from the publicity the statement will garner and the rest of us can stop watching Lost for a couple of years, safe in the knowledge that everything that happens between now and the exciting 2010 conclusion will be mostly made up of dull flashbacks about Sayed being pointlessly sad about stuff nobody cares about.

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