I'm nervous. I am about to write about the show that has been written about probably more than any other show in recent television history. I have been putting off writing about "Lost" since the very beginning of OCD TV because it felt like such a gargantuan monster compared to the friendly little reality shows I have been writing about. It seems that there is nothing that hasn't been said about this show, from conspiracy theories to frustration and annoyance with the complexity of the plot, so I'm going to write about it in a way that I know hasn't been done before. This is just how "Lost" relates to me.

I have always loved puzzles, even as a really young child I loved doing puzzles, or figuring out mazes. I'm also a voracious reader and it was a short time before I found that my favorite stories were strange, scary ones with a surprising ending. Anything by Roald Dahl, Richard Matheson, Graham Wilson. E. F. Benson and a few others also suited my palette. They are masters of strange, unnerving stories with unexpected conclusions. For me, "Lost" maintains the same principle. It's like a giant puzzle and there is a certain feeling of satisfaction when one of the pieces fits.

For example, the Sawyer storyline of his being on a quest to kill the man who caused his parents' deaths had sort of sat to the side like a middle piece of puzzle that didn't yet have another piece to attach to for quite some time. Enter John Locke and his amazingly horrible father and all of a sudden, that piece of puzzle that is sitting on the side looks like it might just have the right edge to fit with the Locke piece already in place. If you saw the episode, you know that those two pieces did fit together very well indeed, much to my great satisfaction.

I am also drawn to "Lost" because, much like the macabre books I love so much, atmosphere is key to the story. The island IS the atmosphere of "Lost," and is imposing and intimidating whether it's day or night. That's really quite a rarity. What seems frightening at night is usually very ordinary in the day, but not in this place. Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all and what could be more unknown than being stranded on a creepy island with a bunch of strangers and no way of getting off?

More of Sarah lurking around on the island after the jump...

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