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I’m just going to vomit into this post my thoughts on the season premiere of LOST as I watch it (just a few hours behind). Thoughts after the jump (there will be spoilers).

• Does Jack look older than he did in the pilot episode on purpose? Or is that just a continuity issue with Matthew Fox, the actor, aging six years since this all began?
• The intro sequence under water reminds me of the credits sequence for Star Trek.
• Oh, the eye!
• Sawyer’s hair is longer than in the pilot. Interesting!
• Juliet? wtf? Shouldn’t she be covered in earth?
• I love that Dominic Monaghan and Sonya Walger are doing double duty for ABC on LOST and FlashForward.
• It is striking to me that their experiences on the island are worth sacrificing just to return to lives that they weren’t necessarily happy about living in the first place. They’re always trying to go back.
• Oh yeah, smoke monster!
• See what I mean? They’re all so unhappy getting off that plane, except for Bernard and Rose.
• Oh, Jack, why would you run through the tunnels?
• Miles, are you going to tell him something?
• Really? An ankh?
• Jacob, the good god?
• Oooh, and the Christ symbolism with Syid  laid out like a cross when they took him out of the water…interesting. Just give him three days in a cave. He’ll be OK.
• Is this whole series just about the ups and downs of Jack?
• I <3 Emilie de Ravin.
• Terry O’Quinn is pretty awesome.
• What  happened to Desmond?

Final thoughts on this premiere: I know there is almost an entire season of LOST yet to come, but I feel disappointed in the premiere. I came into the episode with a lot of questions, chief of which was, “wtf?”. I am leaving this episode with even more questions now.

What’s the story with Richard? What’s the story with the smoke monster? Has this temple existed on the island the whole time? How the hell did these people stay hidden? What’s the story with the magic water and the hour glass? Where the hell is Desmond and how did he get on the friggin’ plane? What happened to the elder Shephard? What’s Claire’s, Shannon’s, Michael’s, Walt’s, Anna Lucia’s, Boone’s, Mr. Eko’s, and Libby’s stories this season?

Oh, and finally, is ABC losing so badly to CBS and NCIS on Tuesdays that they had to bring the big guns to Tuesday night?

I can’t wait to see how this season is going to play out. They had better not screw it up.

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