The Paley Center took this weekend to bring together some New York City area fans to meet and discuss this weekend's finale of Lost and the impact the show has made on TV and pop culture in general.

The event was presented by The Paley Center and the New York Comic Con. They started things off with a gift bag containing a neat little Lost Final Season Notebook that also contained two index sized colored cards, a pink "NO" card and a yellow "YES" card. The cards were then used in a trivia competition about all things Lost with the difficulty increasing with each question.

If you were wrong you were eliminated, the point being to get things weened down to a final "Oceanic Six".

I was eliminated on the second to last question before the final six. So close!!!!

The next round for those six were video based trivia questions. When they were down to only two Lost buffs they were both stumped by a question regarding the written message inside Daniel Faraday's journal from his mom. One of the two answered the next question about what reason Walt gave for John Locke to get out of the grave Ben left him in.

I knew that one!!! For all the good it did me then…

The organizers went on to play the newly "Enhanced" pilot episode that aired on television later tonight. It was decent. I really think what made it enjoyable was to see how far the characters have grown and evolved from that first amazing episode. 

The event was wrapped up with a panel made up by a collection of bloggers including:

Alan Sepinwall, Hitfix
James Poniewozik, TIME
Dan Manu, http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com
Christopher Rosen, 42 Inch Television, Movieline
Ryan Penagos, Editor, Marvel.com, Twitter
Emily Nussbaum,  New York Magazine, Vulture Blog 

The panel was certainly professional and articulate but they really could not lend much more to the conversation than any fan in the crowd. I was a bit disappointed in that it was not more interactive with the crowd and it was essentially a bunch of "professional" television viewers sitting around and providing conjecture on how they either liked "Across the Sea" or hated it, whether they liked the Sci Fi overtones or not and whether the sideways story was good, bad or better then the original timeline.

The panelists seemed uncomfortable answering some of the questions, partially because they didn't want to be wrong or because they'd be guessing at best like any of us about the direction of the stories, the reasons the writers may have made some of the decisons they did and the futures of the characters and how the show will ultimately end and if fans will be satisfied.

It was a nice event but could have benefitted from even a single participant who had a direct relationship to the production of the series.