just when i was disappointed with some finales like "24" and "the office" and a little bit with " heroes", here comes "lost" showing all of them how it is done. i thought most of the season it was sputering along and at mid season i almost lost interest ( pun intended). then in the last month they turned it up into high gear. they started answering questions in clever ways and developed new ones that came in smoothly instead of awkward like in the beginning. then the finale, especially the very end, blew me AWAY! " lost" took the crown back as THE show to watch on tv. PERIOD.

24 had a bad year but in my opinion is still the best show out there

Jericho was okay but Black Donellys was just awful. What was with that narrator gimmick of the guy who wasn't a brother but was always showing up when they were planning stuff? Yuck.

Lost finale was really strong this year. 24 is a parody of itself. Heroes finale was a let-down. Why didn't Sylar just paint Hiro with the Sword??

Posted by NYKBocker:

^On the Black Donellys..I thought it was a fresh new way of story telling. I guess you either like it or you don't.

Narration, IMO, is typically a crutch that TV/Movie/Theatre writers use when they're being lazy or just plain don't know how to write. I take it as an insult to the viewer when being used to advance the story and answer questions. The best case i found of narration really working is in the moview The Big Lebowski. And it worked there because the narrator wasn't really a character in the story. He was more like the disembodied voice of the american spirit.