Six years of twists and turns, and we're still lost.

Tuesday nights will never be the same for my husband.  This weekend he said goodbye to a very dear friend.  To prepare for this send-off, we lovingly cooked some dishes in his friend’s honor…Hawaiian pulled pork sandwiches, tropical fruit salad, a peanut butter-based dessert, and Dharma beer (sorry, no hyperlink for this one folks; the genuine stuff is still on some island).

I’m sure I have fellow LOST fans’ attention now.

After a record-breaking two and a half hour finale, I’m convinced psychiatrists will have a slew of new patients.  It should come as no shock, though, as fans of LOST are arguably some of the most loyal, and when you take away an addict’s drug, it’s not a pretty sight.

This February, at the time of this article, over 4,600 LOST fans joined a Facebook page protesting President Obama’s State of the Union address being aired the same night of the LOST finale.  Fortunately, a White House spokesperson discounted the rumor, and LOST fans across red and blue states could be heard cheering.

*On a somewhat hilarious side note, an “Obama is more Important than LOST” Facebook group had only two members and one comment.  I smell a new political marketing campaign.

But this February’s Facebook page is just a sampling of the power social media can have in the hands of dedicated fans – and the power it can have over the success of a show.

With all its cliffhangers, LOST, please excuse the pun, may have been lost on confused viewers just a decade ago.  But with sites such as Dark UFO, Lost Media, and Lost.com viewers found a release for their frustrations and a haven for their otherwise laughable predictions.  If you spend just a few minutes on Lostpedia, it’s pretty apparent the conversations and questions from fans online would not have been done justice around a water cooler at work.

At this moment, I’m sure LOST fans across the nation are weary eyed at work after a late night of LOST-themed dreams/nightmares…or a late night of watching “Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost”.  They will, of course, manage to find time during their Mondays to check all their favorite LOST blogs searching for insight into last night’s unanswered questions: Why didn’t Ben go into the church?  At what point did all the LOST characters “die?”  And are those gorgeous eyelashes of Richard’s real?

The Lost Supper

Me…well, I’m just happy my friends, better known as the cast of Glee, can now overtake our TV screen Tuesday nights.  More on my Gleek lifestyle later.  That is, if I can convince the guys at The Gab show tunes are worthy of a blog post….