Tvguide.com has a daily column called the watercooler where one of their paid couch-potatos waxes on about all the big shows from the night before. I'm assuming they all come armed with TiVo sicne they tend to review every decent show, even ones in the same timeslot. Anyway, my favorite day of the watercool is Thursday when they review the Wednesday night shows, and any TV fan worth the title knows that Wednesday night means Lost and Veronica Mars. Well they also have a little poll, "What was the best show you watched last night?" and every show on the major networks, and some not (like Nip/Tuck and other cable goodies), is included. Most days the top show garners maybe 20% of the vote and several others are around 5-10%. Not so on Thursday mornings. Lost has 52%, and Veronica Mars is holding steady at 30% or so, and no other show has over 2%. Guess others agree with me.

I also heard that the Lost people have an answer to everyone who whines about wanting the various mysteries solved quicker and want more payoff- Watch Veronica Mars instead. I can't help but think that Rob Thomas would love to say right back, "If you want your mysteries to unfold more slowly than on Veronia Mars, watch Lost." The people involved in creating each show ahve to be TV fans, or there's jsut no way they could have produced such perfection, so it's a safe assumption that they have a heavy dose of respect for one another.