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Lost In 8 Minutes, 15 Seconds


Lost finally returns to television on January 31st, and if you haven't seen the show or are in need of a refresher course in the form of a slap in the face, then check out the above video where you'll be treated to a recap of the entire show so far in 8 minutes and 15 seconds. Get it?



Well, if you haven't seen the show, then we doubt you'll "get it", but for the uninitiated out there, 815 was also the flight number of the Oceanic flight that crashed onto the island. We'd also forgotten about the four-toed giant statue... what the hell does that thing mean? Plus we love how they say Mr. Friendly throws like a girl because he most certainly does.

In the future, we wouldn't mind having all television shows and movies given to us this way. They've compressed 69 hours of Lost down to 8 minutes, and kept most of the pertinent facts that you need to know intact. At this rate, we could also watch every episode of Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, and the entire run of Planet of the Apes (both the movies and the television show) in an hour. Our brain might not survive the onslaught, but think of all the time we'd save. Plus it would make commercials entirely subliminal, which would thrill the advertisers. How can you skip past what you don't even know what you've seen?

Capsulized television. Bring it on.

10:30 AM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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  • Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert at 06:26 PM on 01/01/08 *

    Excellent. All caught up now.

  • Awesome. I've never seen Lost and always wanted to get into it, but never had the time to start at the beginning. Now I'm all caught up :)

  • Freakin sweet. Anyone who hasn't seen lost needs to netflix the first couple seasons. Trust me, you'll go through at least a disc a night.

  • she totally left out all the deaths of all of the tail section people and shannon

  • Not bad. Not bad at all. Sure there were details missing (island spawns meaningful tokens from everyone's past; has weird non-aging properties; different hatches; original vs. hostile Dharma; creepy whispers; draws people that have insane off-island coincidence connections; sorry not picking, that's just fun) but that was very comprehensive. And you gotta keep it at 8:15!
    Now that I'm less than a month away from more crack, I gotta hope and pray this damn writer's strike doesn't leave us hanging for YEARS.

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