I've been wanting to get into this series for a while now, since I've heard nothing but good things about it, but I don't know where to start. I don't want to watch a random episode on G4 and be lost (no pun intended).
What should I do? Just rent a DVD for Season 1 or something?
if you want to watch the show, you HAVE TO start with pilot and end with last episode... if you don't, you won't get any clue what the hell is happening, because in Lost, even if you are watching from the first episode, you still don't get a lot of things and you will be confused every time you see a new episode... LOST is kinda hard to watch, because with every season, the story changes so much and so much new things arrive in, you are just... well... lost

if you would watch some of a recent episodes without seeing earlier seasons, I guarantee to you that you wouldn't understand even a single event or sentence in it, you would just spoiled the story for yourself... so rent the DVD, or buy the DVD, or just download the episodes from the web, or watch it streaming somewhere, start from the first episode and you will see if you like it... for me, Lost is definitely the best thing I've ever seen on TV ( even I don't like the 6th season so much ).