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So LOST returns this Thursday with 8 new episodes. Finally a break from the Writers'
Strike TV torpor! I've been waiting for this eagerly since the end of season 3.

Here's the ABC season promo trailer:



It suggests that this season's arc will deal mostly the crew from the boat. I'm not speculating about their origin too much, other than that they're "bad guys".

Who else looking forward to it?

PS Since this thread starts with Season 4, I think we can safely dispense with spoiler tags for seasons 1 though 3.

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yellowmac

Hooray! A shining beacon of awesome TV in a sea of reality-show filth.

I am pumped. Though I'll have to watch it tape-delayed since I've got a birthday dinner to attend...

Even though there are only 8 episodes for this "season", it'll be short and sweet I suppose.

LoganSnake

I really hope Season 4 is like Season 1 or second half of Season 3 and is in no way like Season 2 in terms of quality.

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Grasshopper Green

I'm eagerly awaiting my LOST fix!!!

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ratbastid

I liked Season 2! Get us back into a HATCH, quick!!

Fremen

To be honest, Lost is losing my interest fast.

I watched the recap episodes tonight and found I wasn't that interested in investing my Wed. evenings in being disappointed and wondering if there were more.

They better start answering questions left and right, or I'm getting lost, fer realz.

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ratbastid

You know what? People have been saying that since the first season, and mostly they're still around. I'll believe it when I see the mass exodus in the ratings--and not just short term feedback on how bad the first half of Season 3 sucked.

Lasereth

I don't get what people's problem is with the varying seasons of Lost. I didn't think I would watch it but after seeing the first 3 episodes I was hooked. I watched every single episode of every season of Lost in a couple of months and the show is freaking awesome. The show was different in season 3 at parts but it was never bad or a let down. Also, how do people think Season 2 sucked??? The hatch was freaking amazing and one of the most suspenseful plotlines I've seen in a TV show.

I love Lost and I can't wait for season 4 to start. Great show.

mixedmedia

I have been roped into this Lost phenomenon myself, much to my own flabbergasticiousness.

I've not been much a one for tv shows other than Twin Peaks. But I started watching Season 1 with Phillip around Thanksgiving and I've already been through all three seasons, lol.

Not sure if I'm going to bother trying to catch the episodes on tv, though, I'm not very good at catching scheduled shows...I may wait until it comes out on dvd.

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Tully Mars

Tivo or DVD-R system. Than you don't have to shell out of for the DVD's.

I watched Lost a bit at first. Right up until the "others" entered the picture. Seemed like it became a mix of a modern day Swiss Family Robinson and the Twilight Zone. Then it was "isn't there a Family Guy rerun on?"

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mixedmedia

I don't have either of those. Basic cable, baby. I don't even have the digital box thingy.

I didn't buy the Lost dvds, Phillip did. Otherwise I would get them on Netflix...that's the only way I managed to get through Six Feet Under. I would never buy a tv series...unless it were something like Twin Peaks, The Family Guy, Simpsons, etc. Shows that there's a good chance I would watch more than once.

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Tully Mars

I was on my back for a significant amount of time. I have TV toys coming out my... hmmm maybe this is why I was on my back so long?

I've been buying the Simpsons season down here at Costco. I think I now have seasons 1 thur 10. They work pretty well for learning Spanish and you still get to laugh. I put the audio on SP and the sub-titles on ENG. I think I'm making progress. People no longer don't look at me like I'm crazy when I ask where the laundry soap is at Wal-Mart.

Side note it's funny how what's said and what's written vary so much at times

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Jove

This episode was such a tease. I feel so used.

Willravel

This is what I said during the first episode, but I kept watching. By the end off season 1, I popped in my Alias DVDs.

fresnelly

Last season I was worried that the flashforwards were going to be dead ends: repetitive footage of mopey and self destructive survivors. Tonight's opener indicates to me that there's still some fun to be had back on the mainland.

Yeah, this ep was a tease but I'm hooked.

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radioguy

i didn't get the whole charlie/hugo episode at the mental institution....i know crazy people see things, but i thought crazy people saw different things than other crazy people.

Fremen

I was a at a friend's house when Lost came on tonight.
WE sat down to watch it, and it turned out to be a recap show, again!!
What was the point of those recap shows last night if they were going to do it again tonight??

Anyway, I didn't watch the new episode of Lost as we determined McDonald's needed our money, immediately.

I'll catch it later, or not....

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ratbastid

Wow, I'm wondering if we're going to be predominantly in flash-forward mode from now on? Wouldn't that be interesting, if the rest of the story gets told in retroactive bits from the perspective of island-escapees?

The flashbacks have largely served to show the past that the characters are redeeming themselves of on the island. Last night's flash-forward showed Hurley, in part, redeeming himself after rescue for things he did on the island.

Lasereth

"The Oceanic 6." Pretty obvious that there's still a huge amount of people left on the Island and that only 6 were rescued.

Great episode. Man those writers really know how to draw you in.

mixedmedia

I actually sat down to watch this last night, cursed through the hour-long recap and fell asleep in the middle of the actual episode.

Now I can't watch anymore until it comes out on dvd.

Oh well, I tried...

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ratbastid

Trust me, this episode will be quite adequately captured by next weeks "previously on".

ALSO!! Anybody actually watch that next show, whatever it was, for the very special announcement from Oceanic Airlines?

yellowmac

This is from lostpedia.com:

I'm not sure if this is a contest for a real prize (having that kind of golden pass would be pretty freakin' sweet) or if it's related to this find815.com alternate-reality game that was running in the past month. (I don't really know much about that ARG ... I'm too lazy to do those.)

And, last night's episode was again, awesome. Yeah, a tease, but there's still plenty of storyline and episodes left.

mystmarimatt

I have to say that I'm pleased they cast Jeremy Davies in a role, if he's, as the previews tout, a "bad guy," they've done a nice job.

He's one of those actors I love to hate, he's just got this squeamish, obseqious... bit going on that's a lot of fun to watch.

It'll be interesting to see how the newcomers will be adapted into the story. If the writers have shown anything, it's their willingness to have both series-long and season-long arcs occur fluidly. People can moan and groan about not getting answers, but in that sense, the show is very finely crafted.

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i believe that you can watch it on abc.com

anyways, this episode was alright, but nowhere near as good as a season premiere should have been, especially after that fan-fucking-tastic season 3 finale. seriously, that's probably my all time favorite lost episode or close to it. i really hope this demi-season picks up. it's all i've got until those writers get off their duffs.

Grasshopper Green

I'm liking the flash forwards, and found this episode to be satisfying, if not exciting. I didn't find this season premiere to be as "Holy shit!" as last year's, but I'm still totally hooked.

I really tried to watch Eli Stone so I could find out what the Oceanic announcement was...but it totally sucked and I gave up after about 20 minutes.

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Reese

I thought it was a great episode. I'm loving the flash forwards much more than I thought I would.

Spoiler: So was it Hurley's funeral that Jack attended in the S3 Finale?

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Spoiler: I thought the obit had "JO" listed as the first part of the name?

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mrklixx

Spoiler: I don't think so. The casket wasn't big enough. I'm betting on Locke.

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Reese

Spoiler: I thought it was locke too last season but the way things are going i don't see even jack visiting his funeral.

oh find815.com has a little LOST side story with video and a few mini games. Kinda a time waster but mildly interesting for those of us that can't wait till next week

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fresnelly

Spoiler: "Because I have a man on their boat."

HA!

Awesome.

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ratbastid

This was a BIG episode.

casual user

this episode >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> last week's

i'm liking the new characters so far, and ben and locke are as awesome as ever. plenty of great moments, such as "if i still had a kidney there, i'd probably be dead", "how stupid do you think i am? *gun fire*" and of course when ben shot the chick with the accent.

filtherton

Is it just me, or is the british lady the same one who is in the gum commercials?

If not, why do all british people look alike?

Reese

100s of years of being stuck on the same island together?

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Jove

Now the island has an archaeologist, a physicist, a ghost reader and a pilot all looking for Ben. Why?

This episode was a great tease.

yellowmac

Perhaps it's some group connected with the old DHARMA Initiative trying to exact their revenge.

fresnelly

I figure the ghost reader for Jacob, the archeologist for the giant foot statue and the physicist for whatever Dharma was into and the peculiar properties of the island.

As for Ben... He's closer to centre of all these things than anybody. (Locke has a similar but still developing relationship). What the Employers are really after remains to be seen Ben is some sort of Key I gather.

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Grasshopper Green

Last night's episode was so much better than the season premiere.

Spoiler: Who do you think Ben's man on the boat is? I think it's the Russian guy with 9 lives..."rescued" after blowing himself up and killing Charlie

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Fremen

Lost is heating up for me again. Saw both eps last night.

It's good to see Jeff Fahey working.

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Reese

Oh man, I didn't even notice that was Jeff Fahey..


So what's the deal with the polar bear skeleton in the desert?

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