Lost is back! And I was totally intrigued by all of the questions that were raised in the first two episodes of Season Five. I had a few nitpicky complaints, which will get me mocked by James, no doubt, but here goes: I got that the first episode wasn’t specific to one character – that it followed the whole group, which is fine, but the second episode seemed to be Hurley-centric, yet still had a lot to do with “flashes” of the rest of the Oceanic 6. I understand the need for it narrative-wise, but I think the previous structure of having each episode based on one character, and then the rest of the group separately worked really well. I guess the fine line between how much goes to the focused person and how much goes to everyone else may have just shifted slightly, but it was just enough to bug me slightly.

Oh, and as intriguing as Faraday is as a character, they have given him some awful lines. “We could be in the past…….. [super long dramatic pause] or we could be in……. [more of a pause]…. the future!” Oh, really? The past OR the future? And you say that AFTER you’ve already establishing that we’re time travelling? WOW.

But those quibbles aside, the biggest questions for me are why the Island wants what it wants. If moving the Island makes it just jump around in space and time without any direction and it can’t be stopped – why do it? Wasn’t Jacob’s motivation for moving the Island to save it from the freighter people? But they were mostly all killed before the Island moved, and as Hurley pointed out in last season’s finale, those bad guys were on the Island and moved with the Island anyway. And if Locke is the newly appointed leader, why does he have to die to so quickly after taking over? And how is it Jack’s fault that the Island is in such bad shape? It seems like the trouble it’s in now have more to do with Ben moving it than Jack leaving it. But hey, what is Lost without a ton of new questions all the time?

Oh, and as far as 24 is concerned – I love to say I told ya so, so I’ll say it now – I told ya Tony wasn’t really bad! I didn’t believe it for a second! Although, he WAS apparently bad, but hey, he got good again, and that’s what counts.

As a general note, my TV round-ups will continue to be sporadic and inconsistent, but I’ll do ‘em when I can.