Finale Extravaganza

What qualifies an episode to receive the beloved moniker, "Finale"? Is it the rate of shocks per minute, or the massive, life-altering, mind-blowing, game-changing twist, or perhaps the cliff hanger that you would literally jump of a cliff to view the next 5 minutes of film for?

Who knows? I don't. I hope it is all of the above, because if it is, friends, we are in for 3 solid hours of elevated blood pressure come May.

I think the good people at Lost really do love us. Instead of the scant 5 post-WGA-strike episodes we thought we were getting, we're now being blessed with 3 episodes, a one-hour (part 1) finale, and two weeks later a hearty 2 hour (part 2) finale.

For those of you challenged in the math department, that means we're getting 6 hours of mouth-watering, tear-jerking, heart-warming, brain-incinerating Lost, instead of the previously-believed 5 hours.

The public outcry of disdain for ABC and their initial plan of giving Grey's (who cares) Anatomy a two-hour finale and pushing the tail-end of our beloved Lost into 2 one hour season finales has been heard.

It must be a serious finale too, because while the remaining episodes are airing consecutively (one per week) the one-hour and two-hour finales are separated by two weeks. I suppose we'll need that time to lower our collective blood pressure to a safe level and then get all riled up again.

Here's the official breakdown of the remainder of season 4.
Episode 4.09 - 24th April 10pm-11pm
Episode 4.10 - 1st May 10pm-11pm
Episode 4.11 - 8th May 10pm-11pm
Episode 4.12 - 15th May (Finale Part 1) 10pm-11pm
Episode 4.13 - 29th May (Finale Part 2 and 3) 9pm-11pm