Ok, the "keeping it in his ass" comment made me snort really hard.

I've been spending so much time obsessing over find815 that I somehow have failed to watch these!

Considering these are "promotions," has ABC been claiming that writers for these webisodes don't need to be compensated similarly to their regular production work?

I recall a bit of a stink over the similar preview material made for Galactica's third season.

Thanks for the recaps! The integration of so much extraneous material was another thing that soured me on Lost.

So jack's Dad is alive? The coffin was empty, and we did see him on the beach? S1 flashbacks!

I am proud to say that i've never watched ONE episode
of "LOST". I don't value the show enough to waste my
time on this show.

@Moeskido: That's a good question, and I'd imagine that you're right... I doubt the writers got paid for these like they wanted.

Well, let me inform the media. Maybe you'll get a medal.
Thanks for letting us that do care know, btw.

Damn not clicking that arrow!
(walks off, embarrassed)

everything you 'need' to know about lost can be summed up without any video clips. indeed it takes littler more than a single sentance:

'every episode opens with a group of long standing questions and then proceedes to answer three or four of them in a manner that only raises futher questions.'

@oldandintheway: It's a good thing you came in here to let us all know. Otherwise those of us who do enjoy it would never have felt the appropriate level of deep, unquenchable shame.

@oldandintheway: I also hate things that I have never actually experienced! Perhaps we should form a club.

I enjoy the lost haters that watch 2 or 3 episodes total. I hated it too till I did a season 1 marathon. Now Lost is my crack. BSG is still my meth tho.

Aww, poor Arzt! Why no geek love on Lost? Hurley's girlfriends either run off or get shot, and Arzt actually *flees* Sydney after rejection.

At least there's still time for Hurley! Maybe there's a cute nerdy Other that also likes to read predictive comic books. They can giggle a lot and avoid eye contact. It will be PERFECT.

I saw that Frogurt guy at my local Costco once doing an infomercial style presentation for some kind of blender. No joke. It was a while back but I was stoked to see an alumni of "Jury Duty" and the Aaron Burr milk commercial.

While I'm a huge fan of the show, I don't think most of these "mobisodes" (??) really qualify as "missing pieces," with the exception, maybe, of that last one.

Unless of course there's a significant contingent of fans out there who've been distraught ever since Arzt blew himself to smithereens, because that pretty much put the kibosh on our ever learning his (surely luminous) backstory. If so, perhaps now they can sleep through the night without medication.

Moeskido: Damned if I can find the story now, but I remember reading a piece about these mobisodes in the NY Times about a month and a half ago in which it said the producers reached a deal with the writers for these scenes. I believe they are getting paid--though I don't remember how good a deal it is. I hope someone else here can confirm.

Most important LOST character, aside from the monster = Vincent. I hope we don't have to wait long for his backstory.

So anyone want to get into a debate on weather the Lost writers hate women?

*ducks*

The writers and studio did apparently cut a deal for these. See here: [www.nytimes.com]

@oldandintheway: how nice for you. so why bother to comment?

@Seth L: I'm curious what your thesis is, but I can't promise a debate.

"So is Jack's dad alive?"

At least he's alive in the flashforwards (the flashbacks from the S3 final episode where jack was shown in the future, off the island). Jack was drunk at the hospital and said to his boss to "bring down my dad and if he's not more drunk than I am you can fire me".

You don't catch this the first time you watch it, as you don't know it's in the future, but a second viewing will sort you.

@MrThunderfield: That could also mean that Jack was so shitfaced drunk that he didn't remember that his dad was dead. Obviously it was a writerly trick to make you think you're watching a flashback, but in no way is the question resolved one way or the other.

@firesign: I don't care about this comment enough to bother typing the rest of

@Ray Gunn: Pregnancies are fatal and the females are allotted fewer coconuts than the male surviors.

@Imipolex_G-Unit: Wait, you don't think death is a suitable punishment for attempting to keep bad genes in the pool? Granted, the fathers should pay too, but I think it's a rather elegant system.