Lost: Missing Pieces — baiting the fans and making them like it

If, dear reader, you feel you may not know me as well as you desire, there is really only one thing you need to know right now: I love Lost. The television show, that is, in which a group of plane crash survivors try to come to terms with the mysterious happenings taking place on the Pacific island on which they’re stranded. In recent weeks, much of my time has been devoted to fan sites about the show (despite E.J.’s constant deriding), and it’s because this Thursday, the show will return from a nine-month hiatus with the premiere of season four, and I am beyond ecstatic. But more on that later.

In the past few months, Lost’s producers have kept fans baited by a series of 13 two- to three-minute web episodes (or “mobisodes”, as they’re sometimes called) featuring new, tantalizing scenes from story lines from the show’s previous three seasons. Titled “Missing Pieces”, they have ranged from the seemingly pointless to the amusing to the suspenseful, but none have been as potentially mind-blowing as the final installment, seen here. I’m not going to try explaining it to you; either you watch the show and you’ll understand, or you don’t and you couldn’t care less. There’s not much middle ground. This final one may be my favorite of the bunch, though it’s in a dead heat with this one. You can watch all 13 here or here.