I am going to preface everything I am about to say with this: I still love this show.

But. BUT! After seeing the double shot of the “Lost” Season Four opener last week, I am beginning to get the feeling that these guys are on the same island as the castaways from “Gilligan's Island.”

Because new people keep popping up out of nowhere and coming and going off the island like it were a fast-food lane.

 What gives? When the next episode airs, are we going to see the Harlem Globetrotters fumble their way onto the island, solve some minor mystery that leads to more mysteries, play a game of basketball with the passengers of Oceanic 815, then find a way off the island while everyone else is at a coconut hunt?

Will Zsa Zsa Gabor and Rip Taylor wash up on the beach, do a musical bit with the polar bears and then find a way off the island while everyone else is — oh, I don't know — knitting grass skirts?
But you know, like many “Lost” devotees out there, I won't stop watching.

The writers of the show can throw any off-the-wall or stupid twist into the plot, and we would find a way to see it as, “oh, damn, how cool!”

Last week's premier was a must-see for fans because after the Season Three cliffhanger we were all left running around our living rooms shouting, “Oh, my God, oh, my God, they're off the island! They have been off the island the whole freaking time!”

Then we spent each Thursday night until last week, rocking back and forth in fetal positions with anxious anticipation of the show's return. That return paid off big, if you are a “Lost” fan.

Because in “Lost” terms, the premier delivered exactly what we have been getting these past four years.

Nothing was answered without raising larger questions. Nothing was answered. Flashbacks out the ass. Huge twists in the story that rip larger holes in the established plot. Guns with a never-ending supply of ammo. And Hurley holding the whole thing together. I love Hurley, and not just because I resemble him. No, because he's the only one who makes sense.

Well, now we know that six people got off the island, the rest stayed and have split and Hurley's back in the nut house. Or was back in the nut house. There are so many flashbacks, flash-forwards, half-flash-forwards and semi-flashbacks you cannot keep it all straight.

And now there's this new guy. And something tells me he's not alone, so yet again, more new people find their way onto an island nobody can find. Let's hope any new characters will not be as annoying or unnecessary as Nikki and Paulo were.