Long time blog reader, first time posting a 90% rejection of a blog commentary (without spellcheck on my blackberry-no not iphone b/c verizon isn't at&t).

Right off the bat, I concede the fact that lost is visually dense and it challenges the viewer to keep up, if they try to watch the show and read at the same time(that's the 10%). Given that, here's my perspective:
1) It is a re-run, so who cares what abc cares to show instead of another reality show like 'My dog beat up your Dad'
2) Jerry Garcia compared Deadheads to people's taste in licorice: '...not everyone likes it, but the ones who do like it REALLY like it'. While my t-shirt with the quote is long gone, it still can be applied to lost fans...let us have our licorice!
3) The enhanced episodes do not set off tivos/dvrs to think it is a new episode...haven't enhanced episodes of other shows done that, even when the extra is a scene with gene simmons harrassing ivanka trump? So give credit to the lost producers (gotta love damon and carlton) to not pass off used goods as new.

You dig? Btw, I love the blog!

Thank god this isn't another press release including stock phrases of praise for the enhanced, or as I like to call it, stupid bar.

The inclusion of this information bar at the bottom of rerun episodes is similar to being given the answers to a crossword puzzle. It isn't fun if you don't work for it.

It is a shame to trivialize the importance of observation. It undermines the dramatic potential of television. Commentary for a fictional drama is a cheap gimmick that may briefly capture the attention of fair weather viewers but hardly maintain them.

If the producers of Lost haven't figured out by now that their target audience loves to rely on their own memory then the show is in deep, stupid, trouble.