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Lost stars Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Dominic Monaghan, and Emilie de Ravin have given USA Today a few teasers about their upcoming flashback episodes. Jorge Garcia's Hurley-centric episode airs tonight, and the actor claimed that a younger, slimmer Hurley will be seen. Daniel Dae Kim and Dominic Monaghan will also have significant screen time, since Hurley attempts to distract Charlie from his recent bad news. Hurley's grief over Libby's death is revisited as well.

Sayid's flashback episode will air next week, and Naveen Andrews stated that the former torturer's past will catch up with him in Paris. The island storyline has Sayid leading a group of his fellow crash survivors to the "Flame" DHARMA station. Sayid will see a cat from his past on the island, part of a trend in which significant objects from the characters' lives pop up unexpectedly.

Whoever creates the promos for Lost needs to start coordinating things with the show's writers, or at least start watching the show. The last few Lost previews have made so many empty promises that I am considering hitting the Mute button on my remote when the ads come on. It should not be possible to over-dramatize the events on a show about plane crash survivors on a bizarre island, but ABC has achieved that feat.

Consider the commercials for last week's episode, "Stranger in a Strange Land." Viewers were told (in all caps and bold lettering, no less) that three big mysteries would be revealed during the episode. Did the show deliver on ABC's promise? Sure, if the meaning behind Jack's tattoos is a big mystery. If kinda, sorta finding out what happened the Cindy and the kids is a big mystery. I am not even sure if there was a third mystery; that's how inaccurate the promo was.