well, today is the "LOST" (tv show) marathon on tv.

Usually we watch National geographic and discovery channel asia, but I started watching the show on AXN and got hooked.

After all, there are only so many nature shows on lions in Africa that one can watch...although NG, like Discovery, is starting to show Construction type specials.

Lost is the anti "bridge of san luis rey" tv show. In the "bridge", the monk investigating the lives of those who died could not justify their deaths, and apostasized...(but even from an athiestic standpoint, one could say he did not have an adequate data base to make that decision...and a Christian would say that perhaps dying was not a "punishment" but a gift, to prevent sin...or that God allowed this evil, caused by human error , perhaps the sin of shoddy workmanship, because he permits things, and then uses the evil and changes it to good in the long run.)

But in Lost, everyone has baggage, usually sin, and the island is their chance to start anew. But Hurley merely won the lottery with "cursed' numbers, and Locke is given a chance for a second life after others harmed him.

Like Desperate housewives, it is a team effort, and like that highly maligned but highly watched show, there is an under currant of morality that is healthy...