Key ingredients: Mystery.
Toss in some quips, sex appeal, and a smattering of literary and philosophical hyperlinks, and DUDE!
you got yourself anotherLost.
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anointing thatLostreceived, yet they will most likely will never produce the kind of weekly viewership numbers thatLostproduced.
The pursuit to fill that Island-shaped hole in our hearts will continue in 2012.
Shed rather see TV emulate more nuanced dramas likeThe Wire, Breaking Bad, andMad Men.
NEXT: Even a fat and happy rat can use a break from mystery pellets.
I, too, want lessLost-ishness from TV.
But I dont need any more of them.
Not right now, at least.
I hunger more for something unique and challenging, something that clever variations of a cherished classic cant provide.
So what should the nextLost look like?
I have no idea.
I am among those who accept and admire the final form ofLost, however messy and fuzzy.
Like I said: I dont know what the nextLost will look like.
Well just know it when we see it if we see it at all.
I miss that cultural energy.
Its one thing to discussGames of Throneswith my Comic-Con pals and readers of George R.R.
TheLostconversation at its height was bigger, broader.
Back in 2005, itseemedlikeeveryonewanted to know what or who was inside that damn hatch.
I once thought Id never get another geeky enterprise as daring and engrossing and popular asTheX-Files.
Yet the truth was out there waiting to be found on a trippy tropical island.
Now take me somewhere else.
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