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I happen to like television. Some of what is on television. Not a lot, but what I like I like a lot. To the point of near obsession—or not so near if you believe my friends and family—which you shouldn’t.

Okay, I’ll admit it, there have been several series over the years that I really enjoyed, even became semi-obsessed about. X-Files was a big one for me, still is, truth be told. Amazing writing, fabulous acting, and anytime you make me laugh and scare the crap out of me at the same time, I’m hooked. 

Which brings me to my nearly tearful bidding adieu to LOST. The finale is but hours away as I type away here and for the life of me I can’t imagine a world without LOST in it. Okay, hyperbole rears its snarky little head, but seriously! How can LOST be gone!? And what will take its place? Besides Fringe, which I also adore, Castle, which is growing on me, Grey’s Anatomy, which is just getting better as the good ones do, and I will always love the Law & Orders, all 18 of the, So You Think You Can Dance which is my all-time favorite reality thing. Okay, so I’ll live and life will go on. But only because there are wonderful, astonishing, incredible writers out there who give the actors something to do and give us viewers someplace to go, and all those great stories someplace to be.

TV Finales. There has  been is now and always will be to do about finales. Finale, the very word itself is intrinsically bound with so many emotions and implications. Even season finales are bound to the idea that a summation of sorts must be presented, hand in hand with the inevitable cliff-hangers (don’t you dare kill one of our favorite characters!) to make sure we tune in post hiatus. But finale finales, the series finales carry a much heavier burden. How to sum up five, six, or even ten years of a storyline, how to give a cast of characters not only closure, but better yet, lives we can imagine they go on living—without us. Some do it better than others of course, and some end with absolute disasters. I won’t debate the good and the bad here, what’s done is done, but I personally think they’re getting better at it. That being said, no finale can be all good simply because goodbyes tend to, well, suck. The really good shows bring you into the story, bring the characters to life, gives you an hour to share and then it’s over!  

I’m weird in that what I enjoy is the journey and the ending. Which means it’s never really over for me; I watch these favorite shows over and over and enjoy that same journey over and over. I like knowing how it ends and I like watching it gain once I know how it ends so I can just sit back and enjoy without all that pesky suspense and what the heck! is going to happen next?

The LOST finale is approaching and then it will be done, but of course, it will never be forgotten, not entirely, because there it is, sitting in a favored spot on my bookshelf. Thank God for DVD’s!

Okay, it’s over, and yes, I cried, and I will miss it. A LOT. Sniff, sniff. Thanks, LOST.