Snap Judgment: Lost

Last night I caught about eight minutes of the Emmy award winning drama "Lost."

Lost is often referred to as a "water cooler show." Which means people discuss the show the next day at work around the water cooler, or around the coffee maker, or maybe even at the urinal.

Despite its water cooler status, and my love of workplace procrastination, I had yet to see the show.

At first Lost was everything I hoped it would be. There was marching about in a jungle-like environment. There was dramatic yelling. A lot of sweating. I even spotted a hobbit, now almost full sized.

I have to admit, during the eight minutes I spent with Lost, I was also watching the Cleveland Cavaliers stunning Game 5 victory over the Eastern Conference favorite Detroit Pistons.

As I toggled between ABC and TNT I noticed something that began to bother me. All the (male) characters on Lost were sporting beards of some sort. This made sense. Anyone marooned on a Island for a few seasons is bound to run out of razors.

What didn't make sense was that non-marooned Cleveland Cavalier's center Zydrunas Ilgauskas was out-bearding all them all. And it was a decisive out-bearding.

Z was really showing the Lost guys up. The last time I had seen him he didn't even have a beard, and now Ilgauaskas was at the point he could carry the whole Lost cast around underneath his chin. In the age of the remote control, scheduling a Lost episode against a Ilgauskas playoff appearence was a terrible move on the part of ABC.

It looks like Lost has lost me.

Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semi-finals can be see Friday at 7 EST on ESPN.