And I can't explain just how satisfying it is to have that explanation right up front; avoiding hiding the ball for dramatic effect makes me so pleased.

I will freely admit my attention span is for shit, and I have been writing Christmas cards while watching both nights, but I'm still waiting for the explanation. I mean, I know there are various theories, held by various people, but did I miss where we already know the origin of the room, or how the objects gained their powers? I'm confused. (Which is not unusual.)

I'm so glad others are watching, too!

There seem to be two popular theories, that it involves a way to communicate with god, or the one I am praising, the idea that God died in that room, and his powers were distributed among the objects. IIRC.

ETA: these may be the theories you heard of; there's no evidence either way.

Okay, those are the two theories I know -- I thought I missed where we knew one of them was the actual answer. I'm with you, though -- I *love* the theory you love. So interesting.

One of the things that is compelling about Lost Room and its mythos is that there are theories. It's not a 22 episode arc where there's time for Internet geeks to get together and make guesses--and I don't think that's a bad thing. There are events in the show, and theories within the show, which is only natural. Internet geeks aren't the only people that make things up.

You know what there's a lot of? Communication. It's not one of those shows (and Heroes is pretty free of this too) where you're left irritated that people just hadn't shared or explained or contradicted. They're not caught up with that soap opera stutter/silence that you see so often.

Also, the viewpoint character has about the knowledgebase (effectively) of the viewer. So problems aren't solved with his extensive knowledge of biotech, or anything.

You can play along at home.

So problems aren't solved with his extensive knowledge of biotech, or anything.

I've been reading too much Overheard in NY--I read this as his extensive knowledge of bee-yotch. And I WORK AT A BIOTECH COMPANY.

Totally, ita.

I also love the fact that Joe, or whoever, can prove what he's talking about, so there's none of that "But they'll think I'm insane!" bullshit going on. He found the key, he used it, he boggled, he showed Lou -- and they went to a Penn State game. I loved that.

I do think this could have been a decent full-season series, though. We could learn more about Joe, about Jennifer, all of the key players. Maybe it couldn't have gone more than one season, but this is one show I'd actually like more of, based on what I've seen.

Hmmm. Looks like they are running Lost Room straight through on Sunday. It was my plan to watch Monday, but stuff happened, and watching didn't. Yay for SciFi and their repeaty nature.

AmyLiz, you still around?

And the kid? Pretty smart. Not genius smart, and she hasn't caused any big trouble because she won't behave, nor pulled any solutions out of her triple digit IQ ass.

I need to watch the Lost room, I think. I also need to catch up on Daybreak. And Scrubs. And the Colbert Report.