The only good things on Wednesday night Television is Lost. That's if its not the umpteenth repeat of the season. But I'm starting to figure things out after reading a million geeky posts from http://dharmasecrets.com and piecing things together.

From what I gather, all the people that are on the island are not there by chance, but everything has been manipulated up to this point to get them there. Everything is too neatly packaged and things can't be that coincidental.

Also, the island is surrounded by some huge EMP/Magnetic force. This gives the "others" their heightened abilities, what drove the french woman's team mad, and is what healed Locke and Rose. This also is driving a lot of the plots and subplots up to this point, minus all the relationship melodrama.

I got all of this just recently, and I didn't actually start avidly watching the show until the second season. Hopefully the show won't jump the shark prematurely, although it could. Alias, produced by the same guy, used to be a razor sharp show, and now its going out this year on pretty much a whimper.