Where will 'Lost' find itself now?

For eight long months, we had no contact with our friends on the island.

Now, at the start of the new season of "Lost" (Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on ABC), we find the castaways right where we left them last May: thinking they're about to be saved.

But nothing is ever what it seems on "Lost." The guessing game is about to resume for the castaways, and for us.

This season has been whittled to just eight episodes thanks to the writers strike, with 40 more hours before the saga concludes in 2010. Still, it's not too soon to marvel at the ingenuity and wild ambition that "Lost" has displayed -- and how it, somehow, has continued to surprise us.

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