I’ll admit it, I’m a huge LOST fan. Black smoke, polar bears, time travel and all. I’m going to miss the show dearly. And what better way to honor six seasons of some of the best made-for-TV storytelling I’ve ever experienced than with great food and wine.

Every day is reason to gather friends and celebrate life. But Sunday night’s LOST finale deserved something extra special. I agonized for days before the event and dug through the wine sample cabinet more than once. What would be fitting to toast? I thought we should drink something mysterious, epic, unique… something that would leave us wanting more, just like the show itself. Read the full story

Editor’s note: If you haven’t watched Lost‘s final episode yet, you don’t want to be reading this. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.

And so it ends.

Today, those who were huge Lost fans are likely talking with their friends, catching up on the Internet to reactions, possibly trying to get through the day with six hours of sleep, less if you happened to stay up and watch the Jimmy Kimmel Live special like I did. (That’s right, kids, I am writing this on around five hours sleep. So if I slip off into a tangent on Mr. Ed, nod, smile and pat me on the head, OK?)
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Of course, now that we’re heading to the end of six seasons of Lost, the big question is… um… how will it end?

To be honest, I have no idea. Not even going to begin to guess.

But a group called Team Tiger Awesome, along with Atom.com, have a few ideas, including this one, where it could end like a live TV show. Lost was shot before a live studio audience:

The Cast Says Goodnight

They have a few more thoughts, including ending it like M*A*S*H, The Usual Suspects, Rocky III and even Scooby-Doo. Check them out here.

When ABC’s drama “Lost” ends in May, it will definitively end — don’t look for any sequels or spinoffs.

The show’s producers said Tuesday they’ve had the final image of the mythologically dense series in mind since the first season, although Carlton Cuse said the last episode hasn’t been written yet. It will air sometime in May.

Cuse and Damon Lindelof were giving away few secrets to the show’s rabid fans at a news conference Tuesday. But they said the show’s sixth and final season will hearken back to its first season in 2004.

One secret they did reveal: actress Cynthia Watros, who played the character Libby before being killed off in the second season, will return this year.

You know us Lost fans — we pore over every detail of every episode, every tidbit that comes out of the show, hitting the message boards hard, trying to figure out exactly what’s happening.

So when ABC released a cast photo modeled after Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, you just know we were pulling out the magnifying glasses. (We’re getting fired up — season premiere’s only a mere four weeks to the day from today!)

(Before we begin getting seriously Lost-geeky here, it’s been pointed out that The Last Supper is a template for a lot of shows’ cast photos. The Sopranos had a famously dissected one, and Battlestar Galactica fans have gleefully told some sites already that their show did it better.)
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How hungry are you for a preview of the final season of Lost? Yeah, me too!

Now, as Warming Glow reports, Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have said there’ll be no footage shown of the sixth and final season before the episodes actually air.

But does that mean you have to go the boring route, like ABC is? Nope. Spain’s Cuatro network amped up the cool factor 100 times, with chessboard motifs and Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place”.

Here’s Cuatro’s promo for Perdidos (that’s Spanish for Lost, ya know):

By the way, here’s (yawwwwn) ABC’s promo:

Back in 1984, it was fashionable with my goofy eighth-grade friends to refer to each other as the “V” baby, as in the half-human, half-alien, all gross and reptilian off-spring born in NBC’s space invaders mini-series. It was this disgusting, scaly thing which made it both repellent and irresistable to middle schoolers, along with everyone else.

I don’t know if an updated version of the “V” baby will be featured in ABC’s new take on the story, but if it did, it could only stand to ratchet up the excellent creepy tension that laces Tuesday’s premiere. It’s got all the essentials – the hot but mildly menacing leader Anna (Morena Baccarin, the space hooker from Joss Whedon’s cult-tastic “Firefly”), the burgeoning resistance led by skeptical FBI agent Erica (“Lost”‘s Elizabeth Mitchell), a human flunky (“Party of Five”‘s Scott Wolf as a guilible reporter) and a Visitor double agent who’s changed his mind about the invastion (Morris Chestnut, of “Boyz N The Hood,” “The Best Man”). “Firefly” alum Alan Tudyk also makes an impression as Erica’s FBI partner – I do love a good Tudyk sighting.

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Morena Baccarin plays Anna, leader of the alien visitors, in ABC's 'V'. (ABC)

Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: “Why don’t you show some respect?!!” The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader’s origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: “Embracing change is never easy.”

So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait — did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who’s come here to eat us?

Welcome to ABC’s V, the final, the most fascinating and bound to be the most controversial new show of the fall television season. Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it’s also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president’s supporters and delight his detractors.
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