If you’ve read this blog for any period of time you know that I’ve loved, and then hated, and then loved “Lost”. It started out with a (lit­eral) bang and then went down­hill for awhile and then came back up and then kinda mud­dled around and then really hit its stride a sea­son or two ago. And we’re com­ing down to the end on May 23 with a 2 1/2 hour series finale that pro­ducer Damon Lin­de­lof has already said won’t answer every ques­tion out there. But it will answer some and I guess that’s what matters.

What will it answer and how will it answer it is the big ques­tion though. Will we ever be told why no chil­dren could be born on the island? Will we ever know who built the statue that Jacob lived inside of? Will we be told who even­tu­ally fin­ished the don­key wheel project started so long ago by Jacob’s brother, the Man in Black? Will it be explained what was wrong with Sayid before he com­mit­ted hari kari with the bomb in the sub­ma­rine? And where is Daniel Fara­day? I want him back one more time.

There’s a lot to answer, and judg­ing from last week’s episode focus­ing on the rela­tion­ship of Jacob and his brother, the showrun­ners are in no hurry to get to the fin­ish line that they set out for them­selves two sea­sons ago. Yeah, we got the answer from sea­son two on who the bod­ies were in the cave, but that deserved a whole hour ded­i­cated to one sim­ple question?

I don’t think that the peo­ple who make the show are going to end it as some hal­lu­ci­na­tion in Hurley’s crazy head or a dream that Aaron started hav­ing before he was born or fast for­ward­ing five to 10, or more, years into the future and see­ing whomever took over for Jacob down­ing another air­liner or crash­ing a cruise ship or some­thing. I just want a sat­is­fy­ing end­ing, not every­thing has to be explained and I know that every­thing won’t be explained (like how that plane was able to drop a food ship­ment on the island if nor­mal peo­ple aren’t really able to travel to the island) but I want cer­tain peo­ple to live (mainly Hur­ley) and for their sto­ries to end with sat­is­fy­ing end­ings. Not much to ask.

Also, I’m going to see the Times Talks Live:Lost on May 20 where New York Times enter­tain­ment edi­tor Lorne Manly is going to be talk­ing live with pro­duc­ers Carl­ton Cuse and Lin­de­lof. I’m sure they won’t give any­thing away (the finale is only 3 days later) but I bet they’ll hint at some­thing. Maybe I’ll tweet it — that would be fun.

And what show will I watch after this is all over with? Maybe The Walk­ing Dead.