’Lair watch party celebrates final season premiere

After six years of continual plot twists, flashbacks and flash forwards, fans of the mysterious drama "Lost" will begin the show's final season tonight at 9 on ABC.

To celebrate, Jeff Jordan, secondary education graduate student, will be hosting a screening party in the Mountainlair Ballrooms beginning at 7 p.m.

"People have football parties and ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show' parties, so we thought, why not?" Jordan said. "I've had ‘Lost' parties at my house. Why not try to do it in style for the last season?"

The show will be displayed on a theater-sized projector screen along with four plasma TVs, Jordan said.

Tables and chairs will be available for anyone wanting to watch the premiere event.

The night will begin with viewing of special features from the DVD box sets, Web content and other materials from the show through 8 p.m.

Then, programming will switch to ABC, with a recap episode designed to explain what's happened on the show so far.

"Lost: The Final Chapter" profiles who's left on the island, what questions remain to be answered and those that have.

The main attraction – the curiously titled, two hour season opener "LAX"– will begin at 9 p.m.

ABC.com has released the first four minutes of the show on the network's official "Lost" page. It shows the final few minutes of the fifth season finale and the aftermath of character Juliet's attempted detonation of a hydrogen bomb.

The show, for those already confused, tells the story of a group of survivors of a downed flight and their intertwined existence on a mysterious island throughout time.

The island appears to have magical powers – healing those who previously couldn't walk and bringing people back from the dead.

Polar bears have also been known to roam the island, along with a mysterious smoke monster that terrorizes the islanders.

For good measure, the show features a secret group of previous inhabitants known only as "the Others."

The show has confused audiences across the world as plot lines jump back and forth through time, revealing bits and pieces of the characters' past and future stories.

More importantly, they establish their relationships with each other and the island.

Matthew Fox, who plays Jack Shepard in the series, has hinted some fans won't be too pleased about the show's final episode.

"But when you have a show that makes people think as much as ‘Lost,' where you've made them hypothesise about what it all means and where it's all going on a plot level, ultimately you're going to disappoint them because they're going to want it to end a certain way, and it's going to end its own way," Fox told English newspaper The Guardian.

Fox did, however, add the final scenes would be "beautiful." Knowing "Lost," they will also be confusing.