First and maybe only post about Lost

I've watched the first two seasons of this program. Although the first season was captivatingly weird and mysterious, subsequent episodes seem to be losing steam and losing direction. Instead of getting around to explaining the Black Smoke, the airplane crash, the Hatch, etc., the show seems to keep introducting subplot after subplot, new character after new character, and complication after complication purely for the sake of complication. And am I the only one who finds it annoying that the show's authors seem to have a consistent habit of killing off the attractive female characters, usually immediately after they've formed a romantic or sexual attachment? For a while the second season seemed like almost a weekly snuff show, in which one attractive female character after another would become romantically or sexually involved with someone, then promptly be killed off. I find this irritating to say the least.

I have to admire the reading tastes of the people on the ill-fated Oceanic flight, though. The books purportedly salvaged from their luggage, and seen being read by Sawyer and the other castaways throughout the show, make up an impressive collection of interesting books. Walker Percy, Ayn Rand, John Steinbeck, even Vladimir Nabokov. Not a single trashy romance novel or quick-get-rich marketing book or ranting Ann Coulter screed among them. How typical is this of the people you see in airports?

Edit: I notice that someone tried to comment and Enetation, as usual, malfunctioned. Try clicking on the number sign (#) to get to a view of this post which links to Google comments. I know, I know. When I get time.