Wednesdays are so exciting...

...if you are a huge geek who is obsessed with television. Which I am. So, I look forward to each new episode of "Lost" with similar fervor as those people who stand in line in owl costumes awaiting new Harry Potter installments. Thankfully, there are few public opportunities to, say, dress up as Hurley, so my geekdom is at least a bit more private.

In my anticipation of this evening, I came across this article on MSNBC.com, which contains some scintillating information and theories -- as well as some stunning examples of a geekdom that, frankly, I hope I never achieve (a fan-produced map of the Hatch!). Salient points include:

1. "Some folks even think Ana-Lucia was one of the Others before she got on the flight, and her meeting Jack in the Sydney airport bar wasn't a coincidence." Man, that would be freaky, and certainly more interesting than further exposition of the electromagnetic properties of the island. I like science as much as the next Alvar Hanso, but still, the topic of electromagnetics = dry.
   
   
2. "In the season opener, two patients came into Jack's ER. He made a choice to save wife-to-be Sara. The other patient, Adam Rutherford, shares a last name with Shannon. Coincidence? We think not." I love the flashback sequences that show pre-crash connections (and missed connections) between the characters. It's the whole six degrees thing. Plus, I find comfort that some fate-like force could be steering our otherwise random and haphazard existences. (This might also be the reason why I am so interested in the Desmond character, and why I love that scene last week where Jack loses it whilst chasing Desmond through the bush, as if he can't handle the enormity of fate and/or coincidence.)
   
   
3. "'Lost' creator J.J. Abrams is having a good chuckle right now. And we got a big tip-off from E! Online, which got co-creator Damon Lindelof to tell everyone to 'check out Marvin Candle's left hand. Weird, huh?' We did, and found that Candle's left arm and hand never moves throughout the entire orientation film. In fact it looks a bit fake, like a bad prosthetic." My prediction: Marvin Candle is the one-armed man who killed Dr. Richard Kimble's wife. Quick, somebody call Tommy Lee Jones.