"What goes around comes around." Truer words were never spoken when looking at the concept of karma. Do our past actions affect our future? Does good bring good and ill bring ill? How important are fate and free will in determining the paths of our lives? Are our lives, like a record, spinning around and around, repeating the same patterns again and again? It's these metaphysical questions (and a host of others) that have been explored over the course of the last four seasons of ABC's Lost . I had the chance yesterday to watch the brilliant and provocative first two episodes of Season Five of Lost ("Because You Left" and "The Lie"), which kicks off on January 21st, and naturally fell under the series' deft spell. While I'm prohibited by the network from revealing major plot points about the first two installments of Lost , I can offer some rather oblique clues about what to expect and discuss some general points from these early Season Five...