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Since early on, I've heard expectations of a LOST flashback featuring Vincent the dog.

I think I just got in in "Lost - Missing Pieces 13 - So It Begins," which you can probably find on youtube. So It Begins takes place during the first seconds of the pilot and immediately before.

Very good, and ties in to the premier of Season 4 quite well.

I read LOST fan fiction. I liked it.

Less skilled though hilarious versions are also available.

Likewise, the LOST theme music break-bet remix makes me want to find a Youtube-to-mp3 convertor, as its so awesome. Lost + Weird Al + Queen is beyond words.

As far as I know, gspn.tv is the first LOST podcast firewalled by the People's Republic of China!

Congrats Cliff and Stephanie!

Putting up a detailed spoiler for an episode that hasn't even finished airing in California, let alone for people who watch it via iTunes, is sickening. It's bad form and bad sportsmanship. It's hateful blog "journalism" that I want nothing of.

A reader -- with who I am not happy with, pending an explanation -- sent the spoiler in to me. If I had read even the second line a major plot development would have been revealed.

I'm not linking to the article, and I'm not linking to that blog. Left or Right, smart or dumb, Podhoretz's post was unprofessional and juvenile. I want nothing to do with the National Review or John Podhoretz.

The sidebar links to all National Review properties are removed within the day. As time permits, I'll purge them from the archives (though I will leave the manually URL or else use a nofollow tag, so that all sources on this blog can be checked).

"... I'll be there for you
when our jet falls from the sky..."

Sadly, that line is not in the new theme song for LOST (replacing Alan Thicke's quixotic rendition), but the good-time happiness of the Friends score does a lot to lighten a famously dark TV series.



Props to LOSTCasts for discovering the link. Also check out the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (now known as "Rifftrax") parody of the LOST pilot. And also the Bare Naked Hurley song parodies (h/t to Jay & Jack).

Others may criticize ABC's mid-season decision to replace two of LOST's executive producers -- Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse -- with Alan Thicke. (Thanks to LOSTCasts for the news.) However, the tone is refreshing and the new theme is up beat.



I like it!

I'm too nervous about the 2006 Election and the end of the fall season of LOST to think properly, so read about The Hydra over at Lostpedia.

And, while you're at it, learn about The Arrow, The Staff, The Swan, The Flame, and The Pearl.

If you're too busy for wiki reading, check out some of the great vidcasts over at The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack.

Or for that matter watch old orientation films, watch LOST itself online, or look at old maps of LOST island. But whatever you do: don't read Bad Twin.

From this moment on, I do not take if the CEO of Disney personally orders his private militia to execute a school-bus full of orphans. Free, high-quality streams of hit TV shows, including and especially LOST, make any and all Disney operations worth it.

After watching LOST online, be sure to check out LOST podcasts including Generally Speaking and the Lost Podcast, Jay & Jack, as well as the theory-oriented Lostcasts.

I'm unusually sympathetic to a John Robb post as I have a bad cold, as well. So today's update isn't politics or gossip -- are just two 1970s information reels (one fake, one real).

The DHARMA Initiative (from Purpleslog via TV Squad)

The ARPANET Initiative (from Digg via Search Marketing)



(Interestingly, they both start out with similar, awful music. Hmmm...)