L.O.S.T.

Has it escaped your attention? The new season is about to begin, while we are still watching three last parts of season 2. Here in Sweden, that is.
I really do not know what to think. In the beginning it was quite simple and obvious, but as the time and plot were progressing and developing, everything was getting more and more complex and entangled into a crazy (un)reality of immense proportions.
Who is lost? Are the characters in the series more lost than their viewers? Or less lost? What is really going on, there, on the island? Are they on an island? Or are they somewhere else? Or maybe all this is only a dream - a nightmare - a joke?
Undoubtedly more and more cruelty and evil is being revealed with every coming part.

By the way - why is it ALWAYS the same old and proven pattern: to start from a relatively neutral level of "normality" and "averageness", and then go towards meeting the crazy, the deranged, the abnormal, the more the better, to finally bathe in blood for the sake of gaining new audiences...

Have we become so bloodthirsty that we get bored watching casual people? Must there always be extremely much blood and gore to make us interested? To keep us watching? To cause us return to the screen one week later?
Human nature, right?
But a Christian should remember these words:

And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: - but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:1-10)

Therefore I must put this subject of watching the series under deep scrutiny according to God's Word. Anything else would be against my conscience.