Hopefully this means less useless flashbacks/forwards and no more 'light' subplots.

I wanted 22 episodes this season. 16 was skimpy enough and pushing it. 13 is ridiculous. The only upside is the DVD set better be cheap.

I'm actually really unhappy with that news. The fact that they're enjoying a creative streak now and the fact that they had the season planned till the end and now have to readjust, risking tampering the creative flow kinda upsets me.

I don't understand why they can't run it till the end if they can do 5. If the show runs uninterrupted as they reiterated then it would fall short of the end of the season. If this decision was reached just to have Grey's Anatomy squeeze 3-5 episodes, I'll be really pissed. And that probably WAS the reason.

What sucks is that they're condensing the remaining 8 episodes to five. It's not like they're gonna make up those 3 lost episode next season. We totally lose 3 episodes.

But 13 is better than 8

I doubt abc/buena vista will do the same. Grey's Anatomy's first season which was only 9 episodes was like $20.

I'm guessing it will be around $35-40. Maybe even $27-30 in the first week of release at stores like Best buy, Target, etc..

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 3
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http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... omist.html

Ausiello:

The writers' strike may end up being the best thing that ever happened to Lost.

ABC is said to be finalizing a post-strike spring schedule that not only hands Lost its best available time slot, but promises to further strengthen the network's stronghold on Thursday night.

According to multiple sources, ABC plans on airing this season's final five* Lost episodes on Thursdays at 10 pm/ET beginning in late April, where it will follow all-new episodes of Grey's freakin' Anatomy! Throw in fresh installments of Ugly Betty at 8 pm and you've got yourself the most formidable one-two-three punch since the early days of CBS' Survivor/CSI/Without a Trace smashup. Creatively speaking, I'd go so far as to say this rivals NBC's storied Must-See-TV juggernaut back in the '90s.

And I haven't even gotten to the best part.

The best part is that I'm hearing that ABC is strongly considering keeping this dream lineup intact this fall... and beyond.

I don't know about you, but this almost makes up for ABC's mishandling of [insert any number of show titles here].

* This just in: I'm now hearing that Lost's final arc may consist of six episodes, not five. No, Team Darlton isn't making an extra episode this season. Rather, the final installment of the current run (aka Episode 8) will likely be held to kick off the final batch of five. According to my spies, Episode 7 makes for a better, more logical, break.

An Ugly Betty-Grey's-Lost combo on Thursdays would be absolutely wonderful.

I mean, it would mean I'd have to record Survivor and watch it over the weekend, but whatever.

Ugh. I don't know. I'm very skeptical about this.

Didn't they learn it doesn't fare well in the 10pm hour? ALOT of people watch Lost and moving to 10pm regardless of the lead-in it will lose some viewers, especially college students (probably including me).

I still hold that abc is fucking retarded when it comes to scheduling. They have a horrible track record in my book. The only smart move they made in recent years (and I will admit it was an incredibly smart move) was to move Grey's Anatomy to thursdays at 9pm...

As for the proposed line-up... Betty barely breaks 10m anymore. Grey's is not the powerhouse it was anymore and with a 10pm slot, Lost won't be pulling in more than 14-15 million.

that line up is cool! Now i can doubley skip to dumb shows before amazing LOST!

8: Earl 8:30: 30 Rock 9: The Office 9:30: Scrubs 10: Lost

Best tv night ever?

and wtf Sayid!

WTF?!

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Sayid is an assassin who works for Ben in the future?

OMGGGGGG

Amazing episode.

good episode though i never liked the fact that they have just kind of abandoned nadia. I mean Sayid risked everything for this women, then he starts banging shannon and we dont hear about nadia again

I think it's obvious they're leaving out a large, large chunk of what happened between getting off the island and what we just saw. I'm sure there's plenty of backstory going on there, at least enough to give me the benefit of the doubt.

i'm not just talking about tonight though. I'm talking about his whole love life thing. I still never saw the point of him and shannon. I mean I get that they needed someone to feel bad that shannon died after they killed boone but the whole thing seemed forced. This is a guy who waited 7 years to find the women he loves. 30 days crashed on an island and all of a sudden he likes a superficial blond. Then in this episode he is a stone cold killer who obviously had feelings for the women. It just bothers me because it feels like the just botched the whole thing

Great episode! So confused but still awesome!

Next week looks good with Kate.

FUCK! This means Ben doesn't die!

DAMN IT!

I guess Ben isn't in that Coffin. It looks like to me that Ben is somewhat blackmailing Sayid. It doesn't look like that he likes working for him, but is only doing it to keep his friends alive. I wonder what evil Ben is really up to.

Locke is the one in the Coffin.

Mystery solved!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

And the island has a 31 minute time difference from the boat.

Similar with me to what Loyal said. The scenes on the island were good but the whole flashforward with Sayid didn't impress me. On the positive side, as much as I've griped about Jack in the past, this season his character is one of the best written.

Can't be Locke because he