For those of you who don’t know, either because you were abducted by aliens prior to September 2004 or you are completely oblivious to the coolest things happening in the world, LOST aired on ABC two years ago and is approaching it’s third season. Since I will be blogging on Wednesday evenings about the show, I thought I’d catch every one up in the next few weeks.

Season 3 will begin on Wednesday, Oct. 4^th. Season 2 DVD’s will be available to purchase in stores on Tuesday, September 5, and you can pre-order yours today on Amazon too.

In the coming weeks I will fill you in on the main characters, major plots, and best theories floating around in Lostland. Then, on the 27^th, I will tell you everything I can find out about Season 3, and then the countdown begins.

The series began with a pilot script written and created by J.J. Abrams (creator of the TV series Alias and Felicity, as well director and co-writer of Mission Impossible III and writer of Armeggedon.) and Damon Lindelof. The pilot episode was the most expensive in the network’s history, costing between $10 and $14 million dollars.

The show follows the survivors of the crash of fictional Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney to  Los Angeles. As the pilot, whose life on the island is short-lived, tells the others, “We were six hours out of Sydney when we lost communication. We turned to head towards Fiji. We were two hours off course when we crashed. They won’t know where to look.” (Paraphrase).

To make matters worse for the survivors, it turns out this is no ordinary island. It’s an island with a mysterious “smoke monster,” kid-napping “Others” who appear to be scientists dressed as savages, and a variety of back-stories that link each character’s sordid past to another’s.

That’s the basics, for now. I’ll introduce you to the main characters next week. In the meantime, there are character, season, and episode synopses on Wikipedia, Lost-Media, and ABC Lost, among others.