Lost

Season five begins next Wednesday. Time for me yet again to paraphrase Peter O'Toole in Beckett, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome doctor?" Couldn't Black Smokey just rip out of the jungle once and carry Jack away forever? Am I the only one who finds the beef-and-dairy cake triangle endlessly tedious? At least Sawyer is amusing, but, aside from their perfect cheekbones, is there anything on the planet less interesting than Jack and Kate? Give me Locke, give me Sayid, give me Sun and Jin, give me Desmond and Penny, give me Widmore, anything but JandK over and over again. But most of all give me Ben, who -- we discover from a Lost website sneak peek -- packs a fine suitcase among his many other talents.