Here's a mediocre trailer for the new season on YouTube. According to the Wikipedia article on Lost, it looks like there are at least eight finished episodes "in the can" for Season 4 out of sixteen episodes anticipated. The writers' strike may have an impact on when the second half of the series airs.
Also of note in the Wikipedia article, the following regarding future seasons/episodes:
"In May 2007 it was announced that Lost will continue for its fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons, concluding with the 117th produced episode in May 2010. These three final seasons will consist of 16 episodes each, running weekly in the spring uninterrupted by repeats."
I can't remember being as excited about a television series as I have been with Lost. If you haven't succumbed to its siren song, there's still time to catch up on DVD before Februrary!
That you post such great articles and now love Lost means only one thing ... will you marry me?
BRING IT ON!
Then something happened that made me (and practically everyone else that I know save one) stopped watching it: they dragged it on and on and on.... It stopped being mysterious and started being stupid.
I think that Lost "lost" many of its readers for dragging its feet in revealing answers. The first couple of times they "solved" mysteries with even larger ones were intriguing. When they did it episodes after episodes after episodes, we all stopped caring.
As long as they keep doing some things extremely well I am willing to suspend my disbelief for the rest.
Cannae wait!
It's coming on just in time for my friend to come back from Japan! This has been a highly anticipated event. Hooray for LOST!
and they've reached an agreement with ABC to run for 6 seasons, no more, no less, so all the questions will be answered and they'll have to start doing more answering than asking soon.
Lost is like X-Files - it will eventually get so overblown with its mysteries that only its die-hard audience will care.
2010 is a ways away - plenty of time to avoid actually getting to the bottom of anything.