Confessions of a Lost addict

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I’m a Lost addict.  I’ll be the first to admit it.  No need to have an intervention where my friends and family sit me down and say, in low voices, “Evan, you have a problem”.  It’s true.  Claire and I stay up hours past when we should be sleeping to find out what will happen next with the hatch, the others, the island.

Part of the problem is that we’re still catching up; I saw Season 1 of Lost and then got too busy to watch it weekly.  Claire only recently got interested, and so we’ve been sprinting towards the third season.  We just finished the second season (three words: what the hell!?!?), and now we’re in a pickle: Netflix, our Lost dealer, does not have the yet-to-be-completed season 3 on DVD.  When we realized this, we broke out into a cold sweat.  I started to itch and Claire began to convulse and tear apart the apartment looking for a forgotten disc.  There had to be more, had to be!

We tried the next line of attack (bearing in mind that I have not the time, will, or bandwidth to use bittorrent or the like): iTunes.  I bought an episode and we watched it on my 15-inch screen.  Small size aside, there were slowdowns during the large pans and some audio/video syncing problems.  Not to mention it cost me $2 an episode.

Luckily, a friend let us know that you can watch episode of Lost for free (!) on ABC.com.  Awesome, good move ABC.  Unfortunately, they’re smarter than I expected: you can only get the most recent 10 episodes.  The season is probably 20 episodes in, so we’ve been reduced to buying the episodes on the iTunes store.  I’m trying to not be bitter, but I feel like Netflix has let me down.

With that in mind, here’s what Netflix should do:

In addition to the collected season discs, Netflix should release “singles” of Lost: single episodes on a disc.  As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t even need to have a unique menu (as classy as the Lost DVD menus are).  It just needs to work.  I’d be perfectly willing to use one of my Netflix slots for this.  Sure, some money would be spent creating these discs (which I suppose would have to eventually be sold for very cheap on the Netflix store), but I think fellow Lost addicts will agree with me: we will have incredible loyalty to Netflix if they support our addiction.

I’m off to rob my best friend so I can buy more Lost on Netflix and smoke it.

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