{"id":2792,"date":"2010-11-08T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/is-the-event-the-anti-lost\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T09:19:00","slug":"is-the-event-the-anti-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/is-the-event-the-anti-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"Is The Event the Anti-LOST?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spoilersguide.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-event-airplane\/pilot01112.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spoilersguide.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-event-airplane\/pilot01112.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was intrigued to notice today that the number of views of <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/ending-of-lost-explained.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my blog post on the ending of LOST<\/a> had passed the 10,000 mark. It seems that there not only has been but continues to be significant interest in that topic. People are still reflecting on the finale, and looking for explanations. Perhaps this suggests that not answering every question was a successful approach. If they had tied up all loose ends, would people still be talking and blogging about the show, and searching the internet for answers?<\/p>\n<p>Just this morning I was thinking that the new TV show The Event, hoped by some to be the \u201cnew LOST,\u201d seems more like the \u201canti-LOST.\u201d Whereas LOST raised questions and kept us in suspense while\u00a0tantalizing us with\u00a0possible answers over the course of many seasons, The Event is quickly providing answers to questions we didn\u2019t have: who are the inmates at Inostranka (where?!), what secrets was Leila Buchanan\u2019s father keeping (who?!), and so on. This isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing, but for those who are watching the show primarily as a means of dealing with LOST withdrawal, this may not be the patch they need.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, oddly enough, the most frequent keyword leading people to this blog is \u201cfireworks.\u201d Twice as many people got here via that keyword as the second highest, which is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hijinksensue.com\/comics\/2008-05-30-lost-finale.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lost ending<\/a>.\u201d Go figure\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-849001870817601790?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was intrigued to notice today that the number of views of my blog post on the ending of LOST had passed the 10,000 mark. 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