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I've seen an interesting link to a list of Lost's forthcoming episodes, but it's also potentially spoilerish. So link to it only if you want to know what the next seven episodes are titled, and who [allegedly] is prominently featured in them.

I'm going on the assumption that these are all now flash-forwards, rather than flashbacks. So if these are flash-forwards and are all off-Island, as the ones so far have been, the episode list gives us some definite ideas about (a) the other three of the Oceanic Six, and (b) who else, besides the six known Oceanic 815 survivors, presumably leaves the Island.

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For a long recap and a list of Burning Questions surrounding last night's Lost S4 premiere, check out Doc Jensen's column on Entertainment Weekly's website.

Do you agree with the Doc that the mysterious Jacob -- glimpsed in his rocking chair when Hugo peeked into the cabin -- seems to be a spectral Dr. Christian Shephard, the allegedly dead dad of Jack (and Claire)?

Maybe so. The most recent of the Missing Pieces mobisodes from ABC.com is a scene that refers to the very beginning of our Island saga. [Episode 13, "So It Begins," has already been released to Verizon mobile subscribers and will soon be posted on ABC.com.]

In it, we see Vincent, the Dog of Doom, running through the jungle just after the crash of Oceanic 815. Someone whistles and calls him over. It's Christian! He sends Vincent on a mission to find his son, who's still lying in the bamboo forest, and he tells Vincent to wake Jack up: "He's got work to do." This strangely echoes what Walt told John Locke in last season's finale, when Locke was lying in the Dharma death pit, seemingly paralyzed from Ben's gunshot.