If you thought last season’s time-warping, mind-bending story lines were a blast, then you already know, after Tuesday night’s final season premiere, that you are going to love Lost.

How to begin? Where to begin? Perhaps we should simply begin at the beginning, which is, of course, our man Dr. Jack Shepard on a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles, in fact the flight from Sydney to L.A., Oceanic 815, with the lovely Rose across the aisle and pretty much the entire cast from Season 1 onboard (Shannon, oh Shannon, where art thou?).

Or never mind that, how about the part in which we see that the Island, our Island, which can move through time and space depending on the arduous turn of the giant crank, is UNDERWATER. Atlantis?

Or never mind even that, how about Kate waking up in a tree (and really, who hasn’t that happened to?) and slowly discovering the rest of the bomb-blasting crew, at the Swan hatch, post-Desmond exploding, and all of them realizing that OMG, it didn’t work?

Or did it?

OK, enough of all that, because as you know, I am too dense to watch Lost for all the mythology and clue-dropping, and I watch it merely as a great show with heart-pounding suspense and deep drama and tremendous character development and non-stop surprises (my favorite moment in the whole two hour premiere: The Not-Locke (AKA Smoky the Monster) tossing the unconscious Richard over his shoulder and carrying him off into the jungle, caveman-style). And based on all that criteria, that was an awesome season premiere.

Second favorite moment: Hurley not even slightly surprised when Jacob a) shows up in the jungle and b) tells him he’s dead. My Hurley better last this whole season, Lost writers. I’m warning you.

Third favorite moment: Cried my eyes out at Juliet’s death scene. Oh, Sawyer.

So, at the end of the two hours, we still have two worlds at play here, the new "now" on the island and the new "now" in L.A.

On the island, we have a pending war. The "new"  Others (was that the other stewardess and the children from the flight?) at the Temple and whoever Smokey The Man/Monster is leading. Our Oceanic gang is with the Temple folks, including the just-revived Sayid (or is it Sayid?) while Sun and Lapidus are on the beach with the folks who were supposed to safeguard Jacob but didn’t.

In L.A., the gang is slowly connecting to each other in interesting ways. John Locke and Jack meet in the lost luggage department, Locke having lost a duffle bag and Jack having lost the corpse of his father (Oh Christian, where art thou?). Kate hijacks Claire’s taxi. Sawyer might be planning to rip off Hurley.

It was fun to see Boone, and Rose and Bernard, and that algebra teacher who got blown to bits at the pirate ship way back in Season 2, and the worst U.S. marshal in the history if U.S. Marshals (really, the guy has been hit on the head more than Sawyer). And Desmond! Or was it?

So, what did you think? I didn’t get any of it, but I loved all of it. Discuss.