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November 16, 2009:

Plot summary of six seasons of the television show Lost:

Some people with pasts crash on an island. Some different people with pasts capture one or more of the first group, march them across the island at gunpoint to confinement, intimidation, psychological manipulation, and torture. Those people escape, capture one or more of the second group, march them across the island at gunpoint to confinement, intimidation, psychological manipulation, and torture. Those people escape, capture one or more of the first group, march them across the island at gunpoint to confinement, intimidation, psychological manipulation, and torture. Those people escape, capture one or more of the second group, march them across the island at gunpoint to confinement, intimidation, psychological manipulation, and torture. This continues essentially infinitely, until declining ratings suggest wrapping it all up. Then, a very small minority of members of both groups who have both pasts and futures capture each other in varying combinations, march them across the island and or Los Angeles at gunpoint to confinement, intimidation, psychological manipulation, and torture, leaving everyone dead; all but one happy; fans but apparently not advertisers ready for more.