Sick and Lost

I have not felt well the last couple of days. Usually I very rarely get sick. I have no energy. I am taking the Zinc cold medicine and hoping I get stronger soon. I worked out on the rowing machine on Monday, but did not run on Tuesday. Hopefully, I will feel better and be able to run on Thursday. I slept good the last two nights and still feel incredibly tired. The neighbor kids were making a lot of noise last night but I slept right thru it.

A part of me is stir crazy because I took a day off from running today. I have been fortunate to be fairly injury free. However, if I had a serious injury and had to take an extended time off, I don't know how I would handle it. Running really keeps me sane and I think I am addicted.

Lost
Season five of Lost ended last night. Virginia and I have watched it from the beginning. It is the only show we currently watch together. Lost is certainly a completely unique show and creatively far superior to any other tv show ever. However, after every show, I need to spend several hours on the internet figuring out what happened.

I am not a science fiction fan, so at times I don't enjoy that part of the show. However, the characters are very good and the mystery is fascinating. I assume from the beginning they have an explanation for what happens on the island and from the beginning I was interested in how they reveal answers on a tv series that the creators hoped would last for a number of years. After a great first year, they did struggle a bit in the second and beginning of the third year. In the middle of the third year they decided that the show would end after the sixth year and with a set number of episodes they were able to plan out the resolution of the series. The finale of season three which turned out to be a flash forward instead of a flash back was a turning point in the show and one of the most talked about episodes. Lost started out as a rating hit in season one, but eventually became more of a cult hit. It is not the type of show that you can miss episodes and continue to watch. A person has to invest a good amount of time into following Lost.

The finale started with the introduction of two characters never seen before. Jacob had been much discussed, but the other character whose name is unknown, was completely new and likely to be a big part the mystery. The season ended with more questions than ever. For the characters living in 1977, Sayid was shot, Juliet was pulled down a huge well, but survives enough to apparently ignite a hydrogen bomb that the 1977 characters are convinced will prevent the 2004 crash of flight 815. Meanwhile in 2007, Ilana and her followers reveal John Locke's dead body. This means that Locke was not revitalized on the island and that someone has taken his form. The fake Locke convinces Ben to stab Jacob, who apparently represents good in the island struggles. I give the season finale a B+.

The final season will start in January and we don't know what time period it will take place or even if it will be on the island. As far as I am concerned if they are able to finish the show on a strong note, Lost will be the greatest tv series of all time. I gave the series an A.