Lost in Space?
09/26/06 06:51 PM
Wow, are Lost episodes really that interchangeable?
ABC announced Tuesday that Season 3's second hour, on Oct. 11, will be "The Glass Ballerina" instead of the previously announced "Further Instructions," which will move back a week to Oct. 18.
Scheduling moves like this are made all the time with "self-contained" dramas such as the Law & Order franchise, where the order of episodes often doesn't matter that much. But in a serial, especially a complex one like Lost, you'd think that the sequence of events would be pretty much locked in.
"No comment. Just a change in airdates," ABC's principal Lost publicist, Jeff Fordis, told unclebarky.com Tuesday.
Here's ABC's episode synopsis for "Further Instructions:" The fates of Locke, Eko and Desmond are revealed after the implosion of the hatch, while Hurley returns to the beach camp to tell the tale of what happened when he, Jack, Kate and Sawyer encountered "The Others." Meanwhile, Claire is shocked to find Nikki and Paulo in Jack's tent.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves all of a sudden. Here's the tease for Oct. 11th's replacement episode, "The Glass Ballerina:" Sayid's plan to locate Jack places Sun and Jin's lives in grave danger. Meanwhile, Kate and Sawyer are forced to work in harsh conditions by their captors, and Henry makes a very tempting offer to Jack that may prove difficult to refuse.
So the switch is on, but not until Lost makes its much anticipated return on Oct. 4. For now at least, a six-episode arc will be all she wrote until the February "sweeps." Lost is scheduled to give way on Nov. 15 to the 13-episode Taye Diggs serial Day Break before returning with an interrupted string of 16 new episodes to close out the season.
As we've learned, though, some things on Lost already are subject to change.
Ed Bark
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