Lost -- I'm not even going to try to figure it out

What it is about incomprehensibley complex shows that draws me to them? The only show on TV these days that's more dense and confusing than Battlestar Galactica is, of course, Lost. It returned for a fifth season last night with two hours of mind-bending shockers and baffling twists. I'm not smart enough to comprehend string theory or the quantum mechanics of time travel, so I long ago gave up trying to figure out what's going on. I'm on board till the end, and I'll just go where Lost's writers take me.

A few quick thoughts from last night:

• How come Faraday tells Sawyer he can't change time, yet he talks to Desmond and appears to do just that? But if Desmond has been travelling through time, that would explain his visions of Charlie dying. Maybe they happened in alternate realities.
  
• Who are the soldiers who want to hack off Juliette's hand? Widmore mercenaries maybe? But are they from the past, when the island was "his"? Or the future, when it's his again?
• Who was shooting the flaming arrows? The Duke boys? (No, that'd be dynamite arrows.) The island natives who built the 4-toed statue? Pirates?
• Come on, who couldn't see Frogurt's death coming? (And what a great nickname too! Kudos, Sawyer.) Any random castaway who speaks up is bound to die. And this particular redshirt was even wearing a red shirt! His flaming death was awesome. Oh, and if you thought Frogurt looked familiar, he was the dude in the original "Got Milk?" commercial, who couldn't answer the Aaron Burr trivia question because he was eating peanut butter. And there's your random piece of trivia for the day.
• So Mrs. Caffey -- errrr, Hawking -- the antique-store clerk who told Desmond his destiny way back when, if working with Ben. Looks like she's into physics too. Could she be Faraday's mother, the one future Faraday told past Desmond to find? And if Ben ever needs some muscle, will she just call her son Michael? (Oops, wrong series -- she also plays the tough-as-nails matriarch on Brotherhood.)
• What's the story with Sun? She was totally playing mindgames with Kate, blaming her -- without overtly blaming her -- for her husband's death. And her deal with Widmore -- is she going to be basically a double agent and blow Ben's plan out of the water? (Sorry Jin, no pun intended.) One of the writers let it slip in the recap show that Jin may be very much alive. I want to see where this plot line is headed.
• Dr. Candle/Chang has a baby on the island. Was the baby born there? Conceived there? Could the baby be Miles, and his birth on Spooky Island gave him some sort of ghost-sensing ability?
• Charlotte's bloody nose -- just like the worker Locke saw building his house. The one who said he's been dead for years. Are the nosebleeds from travelling in time?
• If there are all sorts of people jumping through time all around the island, could that explain the ghostly whispers the Losties have been hearing for the past few seasons? Like, the voices of the time travellers are close to, but not quite in, the same dimension as the Losties?
• Why didn't The Others time travel with the Lostaways? Are they somehow immune? Wouldn't time travel affect everyone and everything on the island? (Obviously not...)
  

Geez, didn't I say I was done trying to figure this show out? It just makes my head hurt.