Mistakes by narrator in the Apr. 22 Lost Special

[ehart9807]

Has anybody noticed that the narrator in Yesterday's Lost special made some inaccurate statements in his narration?

For example, the narrator said that the charges were dropped against Kate, but didn't she in fact enter into a plea bargain of 10 years probation and she wasn't allowed to leave the state?

Then: the narrator said that when Sawyer and the group ended up in the 70s, they "had no choice but to join the Dharma Initiative." That was not accurate because they could leave on the submarine. Instead, didn't they freely choose to join Dharma? In fact, Sawyer had to convince Juliette to stay on the island.

Early on, the narrator said that it was Charles Widmore who staged the plane wreckage at the bottom of the ocean. Is that a settled issue (i.e., did the narrator give us definitive information that we previously did not know)? Or have the writers still left the issue of whether it was Widmore or Ben who staged the wreckage, open for speculation and to be addressed in a future episode?

[spinaltumor]

Yeah, I really wondered about when it was said that Widmore staged the plane wreckage, since that's still under questioning....

I mean, was this recap written by the writers of Lost, or by abc like the pop-up episodes? Because abc wouldn't be so legit.

[blop]

Apparently the narrator was actually Nestor Carbonell (Richard). Don't know who the script was written by though.

But I wouldn't worry too much. I think the narration was supposed to help viewers who don't follow the show as closely, and so they tried to simplify some things.

[yosemitechris]

i knew widmore staged the crash from last week espoide this just confirmed it

[ehart9807]

In the "Some Like it Hoth" episode, Miles told Naomi that the dead guy was on his way to deliver some papers/invoices to Widmore relating to the plane wreckage. But that could be interpreted two ways: Either the dead guy was going to deliver the invoices to Widmore to show that Ben staged the wreckage (we don't know who the invoices were addressed to), and those invoices would be the proof, Or the dead guy was going to deliver invoices to Widmore to show Widmore how much setting up the wreckage had cost and the fact that it was done.

There was an episode with Michael where Mr. Friendly showed Michael the invoices to try to convince Michael that it was Widmore who staged the plane crash. But could it have been Ben pretending that Widmore staged the wreckage in order to take suspicion away from himself?

[alphaman]

It's possible, but I'm still betting that it was Widmore, something of a gut thing. If I really thought about it, I might say Ben, because he seems to have much more reason to fake the crash (to keep the location of the island a secret).
Anyway I haven't seen the Recap episode yet, but to answer the question above about who wrote it, I would say someone from ABC is likely, I think Darlton has said on some of the official podcasts that they don't do the recap eps (I know they have said this about the previously-on-lost, I think about the full recaps eps too).

Given the attention to detail they have, I doubt they would have messed up that much. (Though the simplified for non-regular viewers is also a good explanation)

[yosemitechris]

we clear alot of those question up last weeks esp.