I love Lost. It's my favourite show that is currently producing new episodes. I can't really recommend it to anyone who doesn't already like it because it has a continuous story-arc which is about 30-40 episodes long now. So it won't really make sense if you jump right into it. You could watch season 1 on DVD (or download it) though, and then it would make some sense.

The episode yesterday mostly served to clarify that Sawyer (and Charlie, somewhat) is a bad guy. But it wasn't all that convincing. He conned the woman he pretended to love out of $600,000, he stole all the guns from the armory, and he committed a semi-violent pretend kidnapping. But he is such a likable bad guy (anti-hero) that you can't help but like him. Granted, if his turnaround doesn't happen until the end of the show, which is years away, his evil behaviour will probably escalate, still.

I wish I had a class where we analyzed Lost instead of plays from the 16th century or whatever. I mean, I appreciate the value and genius of them and blah blah blah, but I find it hard to engage with anything before the 19th century. Someone I was talking to who is taking Sci-Fi Lit this term said they talk about Lost in it sometimes. I wish I was in that class, but it doesn't bother me that I am not, since it was the right decision not to take it (for various reasons that I won't bore you with). Anyway, I think Lost is as artistically valid, and in some ways better, than a novel. Well, I think well-written continuous story-arc shows are in general. Or something.