As prophesied, the season premiere of Lost was, in fact, excellent, including a beautiful two-minute montage set to Mama Cass's "Make Your Own Kind of Music" which singlehandedly redeemed the mediocrity of the first season.

And it seems like the writers may have learned some lessons from the many mistakes they made last year (though of course it's still too early to tell). Which would be a good thing.

The show's still not perfect, but it's the second-best science fiction on TV right now, and I suppose we have to take what we can get.

Wikipedia has the recap, as well as your Season One Episode Guide.