2010: The Year We Become Un-”Lost”

ABC has announced that we won’t learn all of the answers to the never-ending spiral of mysteries on “Lost” for another three years!

Lisa de Moraes explains:

The creative team behind the weedy tangle of a series will get exactly 48 more chances to explain away the airplane, the island, the hatch, the polar bears, the smoke monster and The Others.

That’s two seasons’ worth of episodes.

Only, to make sure the writers have plenty of time to try to figure out what their show is about, ABC will air only 16 episodes each season, so it will continue for three more seasons, ending in 2009-10 with what ABC reports will be a “highly anticipated and shocking finale.”

Do I feel manipulated? Certainly. Will I keep watching? Definitely.