After the reletive disappointment of the football (Ok, Rooney was stupid, but come on, red card for clapping at a referee? what next - being sent off for raising your eyebrows?) I settled down for another fun eerie evening being 'Lost'. My box set arrived on Tuesday, and I've been stedily running through the series.

For anyone who's not seen it yet, firstly, where have you been? On a desert island? Seccondly, I won't spoil anything. Suffice to say, if you're watching it on Channel4 (or ee-fou-er) you have some big suprises to come :)

As a quick run through for those who havent seen it, the basic premise is a plane en-route from Sydney to Los Angeles fails to make it to it's destination. The plane breaks apart over an unknown island and crashes, leaving 40+ survivers stranded.

Now before you jump to the "Oh, it's Survivor, or Gilligan's Island for the new millenium", there are quite a few twists.

All of the survivors are strangers to each other (apart from obvious father/son/wife/brother partnerships, of which there are some) although many of them seem to have intertwined pasts. Most of the survivers seem to harbour guilty secrets. Things appear on the island that have no real explaination for being there, such as polar bears, or strange messages that have been tranmitted over the airwaves for over 15 years from an unknown loction. Some survivors seem to possess strange powers, some of which don't seem to be apparrent before arriving...

Oh... and there is a giant monster roaming the island.



I have had the pleasure of meeting a couple of the cast, so I got to run through my "I've met her - Oh, I've had a drink with him" routine (something I find myself doing a frightening amount of times these days..) . Daniel Dae-Kim being the first, and ... well, I can't mention who the other cast memeber I've met is, as it may spoil things for anyone who hasn't seen everything.

Charlie (played by the thankfully so far un-typecast Dom Monaghan) is easily one of the best things in this show, bringing some welcome comic relief and geniune warmth and friendlyness to an otherwise (intentionally) mainly dark and mysterious cast. Several fan sites have even popped up for Charlies (ficticious) rock band, DriveShaft. I have no doubt 'DriveShaft' memorabilia is making it's way onto eBay as I speak...

Right, going to bed. Started counting down days to holiday today..

Cheers
Pb