"Lost": Finding the "Missing Pieces"

So, Thursday, I went to ABC.com to look up the “Good Morning America” programming schedule for my other blog when a mysterious video started playing. Now normally I just ignore whatever video is playing, but since this looked like something pertaining to “Lost,” I watched it.

The camera was following something through the grass when we saw a pair of shoes. As the camera panned up, we saw the shoes belonged to Jack’s father, Christian, and the thing the camera had been following was Walt’s dog. Jack’s father told the dog to go find his son because he had work to do. The next thing we saw was the opening sequence of the “Lost” pilot…

Huh?!

I thought maybe we were seeing a preview, but I did some investigating and discovered the video was a part of “Lost: Missing Pieces,” which was done as a special bonus for Verizon V-Cast customers. The “Missing Pieces” website says the 13 two to three minute stories are newly created and not deleted scenes. They “reveal answers and new details about your favorite characters. For each story, we leave it up to the fans to figure out where these pieces fit into the overall mythology.”

So where does this Christian piece fit? Was he a ghost that only the dog could see? Or is he some image that the island manifested?

Warning: If you have not seen Thursday’s “Lost,” stop reading now…

My chief “Lost” consultant, EW’s Doc Jensen is leaning toward that last one. In fact, he believes that Claire didn’t actually survive the house explosion and is a spirit herself--which Jensen says explains Miles’ fascination with her since he communicates with the dead.

Is that heavy or what?

Jensen also reported a theory this week that Jack’s appendicitis was caused by the island punishing him for not doing what it wanted and that in the future, it’s trying to get him back to train him the way it wants.

Okay…

This week’s episode was a pretty good one with a lot of clues, but I’m a little frustrated by the whole Sawyer-Kate-Jack love triangle. It seems like just when we think she’s made up her mind, she changes it again. Instead of just being happy with Jack, she had to screw things up by doing something for Sawyer, who we learned stayed behind.

But in her defense, I’m thinking that even without the interference of Sawyer that she and Jack still wouldn’t be happy thanks to Jack’s dad and the island who I’m starting to think may be one and the same--if that makes any sense…

After all, Hurley did see him in Jacob’s cabin…

By the way, you can see the “Missing Pieces” for yourself here...