Lost's Plans for the Future: Anyone Else Not Happy?

Before I get into the article, I want to point out that I am a HUGE Lost fan. I have been watching the show since it originally started airing and I have even watched reruns and scoured message boards trying to learn of anything important that I may have missed. With that in mind, you would think that I would have been pleased to hear that Lost has forty-eight new episodes planned in the coming years. I was at first, but that happiness sort of ended after I learned more about it.

For the last two seasons, Lost has aired around twenty-four episodes a season. When you think about it, this is quite a good number. ABC; however, recently announced that the remaining forty-eight shows will air over three seasons. Three seasons! That means that only sixteen episodes will be run in a season's time. As previously stated, as a fan of Lost I should be pleased to hear that it is returning in the future, but I can't help be feel cheated. Sixteen episodes? Is anyone else feeling this way?

Although I am not extremely thrilled at the fact that Lost will be stretched out for three more years, especially with a relatively low episode count, I am hoping it will make for some better shows. I don't know if it is just me, but has anyone else been left wondering what is going on during season three? Yes, I find the current storylines interesting and I think that some of the best episodes have been developed this year, but, in my opinion, some of them seem out of place. I guess you could say that I am just in a rush to learn why exactly the Lost characters are on the island and what people think happened to them back home.

In my opinion, it seems as if the writers and producers of Lost didn't exactly know how long ABC would give the show. This may have left them in a predicament; reveal to much and the show may end sooner than expected and visa versa. It seems as if some of the episodes in season three have just been filler episodes. I am now hoping that with an end in sight, the writers and producers of Lost will be able to start planning for the end. I suspect or at least I hope that this will result in better episodes; episodes that at least answer some of the many questions that many of us have been asking for the past two seasons.

It's funny when I think about it though. Although I am not too pleased that ABC is planning on having only sixteen episodes a season for the next three years, I will still tune into the show each and every night, most likely till the end.