Prologue: Lost: Season Four

Before I start to review Series  Season Four of Lost, I thought I'd get abit of background in. S4 was produced at the time of the Writers Guild of America Strike, which affected shows across America. This meant that character background and certain iportant scenes had to be dropped, and left over for the next season.
         Despite this, Season Four is the second-favourite amongst fans, after the revered Season One. It's not hard to see why - a basic, centralised storyline, the partial fulfillment of the show's aims and a heavy emphasis on more scientific explanations.
        Unlike brief British series, one doesn't just skip through series with American shows. Season Four has 14 episodes, the shortest season of Lost. And starting Monday, I'll be reviewing one episode every day, culminating on Monday 23rd.
        At the end of Season Three, the survivors faced off the Others, who they'd been fighting since Season One. They succeeded, and we got what we thought was a flashback, a staple of the series. However, the shock cliffhanger was that this was in fact a flash-forward,and that at some point Jack and Kate get off the island.

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