Lost stars Naveen Andrews and Dominic Monaghan are bemoaning the lack of screen time they have in the third season of the desert island show. The actors earn a reported $78,000 a week playing Sayid Jarrah (Andrews) and Charlie Pace (Monaghan), but admit they spend a lot of time sitting around with nothing to do.

Andrews says, “Even though I like getting paid for doing nothing, it is nice occasionally to work.”

Monaghan adds, “As one person works more, work is being taken away from another. You have to make your peace with that.

Executive producer Carlton Cuse explains, “The actors are frustrated. They’re all really good at what they do and it’s difficult when they don’t get a chance to do it.”

I’m a HUGE fan of LOST.  HUGE.  I have watched every SINGLE episode since it began, and have even read up on all the LOST fansites.  As long as LOST is on TV, I will watch it.  Hey - I watched every single episode of Alias, even when it REALLY SUCKED (anyone remember the zombie episode?).

LOST totally dissappointed me last night.  It was the most BORING, HUGEST waste of a LOST episode I’ve seen yet.  In case you don’t remember - the preview they showed last week for “Tricia Tanaka is Dead” said “If you don’t watch - you won’t know what everyone is talking about the next day.”  Want to know what I’m talking about today?  How much last night’s episode of LOST sucked!

What was the huge suprise?  That Alex is really Rousseau’s daughter?  Huge shock!  We already figured that out ages ago!  Are you freakin serious?

Did we learn anything new last night?  Yeah, Hurley wasn’t always fat.  Woop-de-doo.  Did the flashbacks give us any new information? NO! Seriously - what was the point of that episode?

I’m pissed…because ABC totally misled all of us LOST fans with the line “If you don’t watch - you won’t know what everyone is talking about the next day.”  HEEELLLOOO… we’re not total doorknobs! Of course we knew Alex was Rousseau’s daughter.

LOST was so boring last night…I actually fell asleep.  Enough with the bloody van already.

What did you think?

Thanks to my buddies over at The Tail Section…comes this little tidbit from last night’s episode of LOST (which rocked, btw).

The symbol that Juliet was branded with was very similar to the cross of Scientology, turned upside down.  Inverted crosses came about with St. Peter’s crucifixion.  He did not feel worthy of being crucified under the same cross as his messiah.  It has since come to symbolize ‘unworthiness’  and as a mark of deep respect for your superiors.

Could the others be Scientologists?

You could just tell as you were watching it - that there had to be more to what we were seeing. And the folks over at SciFi2U have figured it out!! In the video below, you can hear a woman saying “Only fools are enslaved by time and space.” So what exactly does that mean anyway!

How freakin cool is THAT! I love these little juicy tidbits… Here is the same video played normally. You can hear the voice, but it’s much quieter - because all the other noise is not being drowned out this time.

Here’s a little more info I found on last week’s episode:

The Tail Section determined that Aldo, the guard outside the facility, was reading a chapter of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time that discusses black holes, time, and space. You can see closeups of the pages at TTS. It’s almost like they used that book on purpose or something! Who knew Lost could be tricky?

What does it all mean? Is this just another red herring designed to drive us crazy over the space-time continuum theory, like when Hurley suggested to Sayid that the FM radio transmission was from “another time”? Maybe.

Either way - I cannot WAIT for Wednesday’s episode!!

I just got an email from Erin and she was all upset about LOST being a re-cap tomorrow night.  We’ve been not-so-patiently waiting for LOST to return, and after a long hiatus it IS coming back tomorrow night. 

Don’t forget…LOST moved to 10:00PM.  There will be a re-cap episode at 9:00, and then a new episode at 10:00PM!  I can’t wait!!

In a highly unusual move for a broadcast series, ABC and the producers of “Lost” are in discussions to determine an end date for the show.

The date will set a limit to the number of “Lost” seasons to come and will be announced to fans. The show’s producers, speaking at ABC’s Television Critics Association press tour session, said having a conclusion date will bolster fan confidence in the series’ narrative. A timeline for making the decision was not announced.

“It’s time for us now to find an endpoint for the show,” said executive producer Carlton Cuse. “JK Rowling announced there were seven books in the Harry Potter series and it gives fans [a framework for understanding the arc of the show]. ‘The X-Files’ was a cautionary tale for us. It was a great show that ran two seasons too long. ‘Lost’ has a short-half life.”

“None of us want to be doing the stalling show,” added executive producer Damon Lindelof. “We don’t want them to be building sandcastles next week.”

Though the series ratings have dipped this fall, the show remains one of ABC’s top-rated programs. During the first season, Mr. Lindelof said the show could run nine seasons if necessary, noting the island has plenty of mysteries. Recently, fans and critics have grown frustrated, however, with the show’s continually expanding mythology that keeps piling on new mysteries and characters.

After the panel, Mr. Lindelof suggested the series might cap at 100 episodes, which would only result in two more seasons. But ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson sought to downplay the producers’ statements, noting that “we’ve had those discussions for the past two years.”

Earlier while on stage, Mr. McPherson said he agreed with critic complaints that the first six episodes this season pulled the story too far from the group dynamics that made the show popular.

“[The writers] made a clear choice that first installment would be about Jack, Kate, Sawyer and The Others,” he said. “For me, the show I really invest in is having everybody together. I thought it was a riveting six episodes, but I like it when they’re all together and they’re heading toward that again after the break.”

Though Mr. McPherson stood by his decision to schedule a four-month break in the “Lost” schedule this season, he reiterated his plan (first reported last month in TelevisionWeek) to try and run next season’s episodes without a break or repeats, launching either in the fall or spring.

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