Saw the commercial then. Pretty neat...it's kind of funny, because if you aren't a Lost fan, you wouldn't know it was for the show, and might go to the website and be all, "WTF?" Hehe.

Is there a link to the commercial online?

I can't find a link to it. If you have last week's episode of Lost on a DVR, it was played during that. Or any other ABC primetime show last week may have it.

It was short, just 10 secs or so, and is like a promo for a vacation getaway in paradise, then says "Oceanic-Airlines.....Taking you places you've never imagined!" It doesn't even mention the show, IIRC.

So heres the schedule up til August

July 13 - The Moth
July 20 - Confidence Man
July 27 - Solitary
August 3 - All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
August 10 - Special

They're skipping Raised By Another, Whatever The Case May Be, and Hearts And Minds. If you are watching the show for the first time PM me when these dates come up and I'll show you how to see these eps.(I don't think I can talk about it on the forum?)

here's the Oceanic Airlines commercial. i thought the website was pretty creative advertising, but this takes it up a notch.

It's a real player file.

Oceanic Airlines Commercial

Wednesday, July 13, 10/9c
"The Moth"
Charlie begins a painful journey of withdrawal from drugs, surprisingly aided by Locke, whose true motive for helping Charlie is a mystery. Meanwhile, survivors struggle to find and free Jack when he's buried alive in a cave collapse, and someone might be secretly thwarting Sayid, Kate, and Boone when they enact a plan to find the source of the French transmission.

The www.oceanic-air.com website has been updated. Some interesting new things on there.

at the seating chart, click pre-board check-in, "ethan rom" appears ..re-arrange the words to "other man" for a very short and odd? clip..

Here's a vague, but informative article about Season 2. I spoilerized some stuff just in case.

Beverly Hills, CA – From the opening moments of the first episode of its sophomore season, Lost won't waste a minute in providing further information about the major storylines on the show. What's at the bottom of that tunnel? Who are the Others? What the heck is the island all about, anyway?

"Right out of the gate we're addressing some of the big mysteries of the island," Lost co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof tells MediaVillage.com. "We'll go right inside the tunnel, and what you'll see in there changes everything."

Indeed, whatever they discover in that tunnel "will change the fundamental state of existence" of the characters, Lindelof continues. Viewers won't see quick glimpses of strange things but rather will get a good long look around.

"We're erring on the side of giving away too much rather than too little," Lindelof says. "They found that hatch in episode 10. Thirteen episodes later they opened it up. It's got to be good."

What the characters won't find inside, Lindelof promises, are aliens, a time travel portal or "a ship they can blast off in." Whatever is in there will involve those mysterious numbers that led to Hurley's lottery win and streak of bad luck in that character's famous backstory.

"Right from the start, in the season premiere, the numbers become a fundamental plot point for the season," Lindelof says. "People aren't going to be disappointed in how we use them."

He says the producers of the show wanted to make certain that whatever the characters find inside the tunnel will be "great, cool and risky." But, Lindelof cautions, he can "guarantee some people are not going to like what they find in there."

While some characters are exploring the tunnel, others will be dealing with the aftermath of the destruction of the raft and the kidnapping of little Walt by a band of creepy men who are presumed to be among the community of Others on the island.

"Who survives [the raft attack], how they survive, where they end up and how they reconnect with the other characters" will drive the story through the first seven or eight episodes next fall, Lindelof adds.

Lindelof also confirms that the character played by newcomer Michelle Rodriguez

He also says that Boone, the one main character who died last season, will definitely stay dead. "So many times in genre shows when you kill someone off they come back. On Lost the rules are different. When you're dead, you're dead!" Lindelof declares.

The other big nagging mysteries in the story – why did Ethan kidnap Claire, what happened to her while she was held prisoner, what if anything happened to her baby – will be addressed later in the season, Lindelof says. "But we have bigger priorities first: The hatch and Walt's kidnapping."

He says the story about the kidnapping of Walt is especially intense, because "a child taken from a parent by strangers is the scariest thing of all." When the Others take Walt, there is no Amber Alert, no Fox News Channel and CNN reporting the story, nowhere for his father to get help. There is only fear, frustration and rage. Early episodes, Lindelof says, will deal with the repercussions of this harrowing incident.

"That is the big mystery of the island," Lindelof explains. "Who are these other people and what do they want?"

Lindelof welcomes ABC's decision to move Lost from 8 to 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, because more people are available to watch television. He also thinks the show is "very intense" and says, "children should not be watching," which they are apt to do at an earlier hour.

"By the finale of season two viewers will know why the plane crashed," Lindelof says. He envisions Lost running "somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5 seasons."

"I know what the ending [of the story] is," he concludes. "At a certain point you can only stall [the audience] so long."

http://www.mediavillage.com/

Sounds like they've really got the right idea. Can't wait.

DAMN... What a great show.... J.J. Abrams is a mad genious, he needs to resurrect Alias this season, since it might be its last

New cast member added for this upcoming season. From zap2it.com:

Sweet!!!!

Can I read that w/o it giving something major away? If it's about a certain female that we all pretty much have known about, then I'll read it...if it's somebody else, I'll run away so I don't read it.

It's someone of the opposite gender. But it's pretty vague concerning the plot.

I'm catching up on the show in the Summer reruns.

One question: why does everyone (by that, I mean fans of the show) hate Sawyer?

I though his backstory was the best, and explains why Sawyer doesn't want to be liked, hence why he acts like a jerk to everyone.

Because of this complexity, I like Sawyer - he's definitely one of the most interesting characters on the island.

I didn't think everybody hated him...initially, probably, but like you said, after his story was told, he was a much more likeable character.

Wednesday, Aug. 3 at 10/9c
"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
Survivors wonder why Charlie and the pregnant Claire have been abducted - and by whom - while a search party ventures into the treacherous jungle to try to find and rescue the missing duo. Meanwhile, inner demons about his father resurface for Jack, and Boone and Locke discover another island mystery.

A quick question for anyone who's been watching the reruns this summer...did they skip an episode between last week and this week?

I'm pretty sure the episode on last week (7/27) was Sayid's flashback episode ("Solitary"). When I started watching this week, they were showing scene's from previous episodes that I haven't seen before...I looked up the episode history and it seems that tonight should have been "Raised by Another", not "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues". It doesn't seem so, but is this the way they originally aired?

No, they're skipping some episodes in order to finish up right before the season premiere. They don't have enough weeks to show all the episodes.

Thanks. I guess I'll have to wait for the DVD's then...I was enjoying watching this in HD.

Me too.

(And this was only one episode that ABC skipped. They'll skip a bunch of episodes for next week's episode.)

Why bother skipping episodes? They should air them at other times then. We were totally confused when we watched the last episode on the Tivo. Unless they are throwaway episodes...

Which they aren't. I haven't been keeping up lately, since I have them all on DVD and saw them the first time anyway...but I think they skipped the Claire/Psychic one, didn't they? I thought that was a good one.

Not that you should have to buy the DVDs to see all eps, but if interested, it's only like $38 or something if you preorder it, for 7 discs.

Me three. I only started watching LOST last Dec when they aired the first 6 episodes 2 per week for 3 weeks. That got me hooked but I patiently waited till reruns because I didn't want to miss any episodes. Now they start skipping them in reruns too.

ABC, get a clue. Why can't you do 2 per week some weeks again to catch us up in time for Season 2? Is there really that much else important on in the summer that you couldn't spare the other hour?

I guess I'll have to do the DVD thing, but I really do like seeing these in HD, even though I have to skip through the commercials.

Does anybody else have the issue where the very last part of the show every week drops from HD into standard definition? Sometimes it's only the last couple of seconds, sometimes the last half-minute or so. I don't know if this is the local affiliate automatically turning "off" the HD prematurely or what (maybe the show goes over the top of the hour slightly?) This is on WTAE-DT out of Pittsburgh.