The coming production of new season "Lost" is taking a more concise approach also. Perhaps these people finally realize that long, dreary series are simply not going to work anymore. Or it may just be the attention span of audience getting increasingly shorter...

Speaking of Sylar, we saw a manhole immediatley adjacent to where his body lay in the season finale; maybe that how he got away - crawling down to the sewage, not completely dead. *shudder*

And I can't believe Claude's part is done either. Mr. Bennet and he still have unfinished business to take care of.