Curse the writer's strike. It's impossible not to support the writers on this one, unless you're a television producer, but because of them we're being robbed of the best television in years. Eight episodes just isn't enough. It's an hors d'oeuvre, a teaser. It's completely unfair.
I suppose we have to sigh and take what we can get. Maybe, just maybe, a deal will be met and we'll get a pleasant surprise come summer. Unlikely, but if you've watched the show from season one, you're a junkie with the same unquenchable desire as the show's late heroine-addicted rock star, Charlie (Dominic Monaghan).
But a hit's a hit when it comes to addiction, and the first episode of season four hit hard. After last season's twist of a flash-forward instead of a flashback showed that the show's two main characters, Jack (Matthew Fox) and Kate (Evangeline Lily) will, at some point, be rescued. The show has viewers at its mercy, never letting them know whether we're seeing the past, present or future.
Season four opens on one more character who apparently made it out alive, the lovable, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, who is back in the nuthouse, ranting about being one of the "Oceanic Six," and seeing his dead rock star friend around town.
