Lost Post Script: When Death Comes A Knockin'

As a P.S. to my catch up post, and just reacting to the promo that promised death next week (which was pretty morbid, semi creepy, and, duh, supremely effective) it made me think of previous "Lost" castaways we have...well, lost.

And it made me wonder one thing...does anybody remember Shannon? And how Sayid fell for the annoying, Paris Hilton-like character? Sayid, the ultimate badass, fell for the whiny blonde girl?

And Boone... the first major character to get iced. Poor Boone, Shannon's ill fated brother in law, who was done in by Locke's weird and creepy ideas that the "island demanded a sacrifice."

And then there was, of course, Ana Lucia, Mr. Ekko, and poor, poor Libby. And Niki and Paulo, two characters who were brought in late in the game just for the purpose of being killed off in the brilliantly "Twilight Zone-ish" morality play episode.

But then there's Charlie. Poor Charlie, the only truly beloved character the producers have killed off.

So whose gonna bite the dust next week? I don't think anybody but the already established Oceanic Six (and, of course, Benjamin,) are really safe next week. Claire is clearly not going to make it (since Kate's got baby Aaron in the future.) But my money is on Jin, whose death would make a poetic companion episode to last night's tear jerker about his relationship with Sun.

We'll see next week. Way to tease our bloodlust, ABC advertisers. And way to prove the point of artsy European filmmakers who make movies about Americans having...well, the lust for blood in their pop culture choices.

I miss Charlie.

But I don't miss Shannon. At all.