Last night's "Lost"

Who are the character's played by Rodrigo Santoro and Jessica Biel and where did they come from? My bad...

As far as I can tell, they are crash survivors (as opposed to "Others") who were, as I put it, brought up from the minors to the big leagues.  There were supposed to be something like 46 survivors from that part of the plane, so there a quite a few characters that can be introduced as needed. Unfortunately, they don't usually get explained, they're just, all of a sudden, cutting fruit at the table with Hurley, for example. Every once in a while, the writers/producers will throw new characters in the background of a scene, then make them more prominent. It's basically to replace characters as they get killed off (last night, for example.) I call them "cannon fodder" since, usually, they get offed pretty quickly.

I missed it!  Who got killed off last night???  Its really bad because I also like Biggest Loser and they come on at the same time.  I try to jump back and forth during commercials, but I miss big chunks of Lost when I do that. 

Echo...the priest got offed. This show just confuses the heck out of me but I cant stop watching - wait for some type of explaination.

Too bad, too! I've liked that actor, going all the way back to HBO's "Oz".  But every time he came on camera, I kept thinking, "Hee hee. Seen you naked!!" Same thing happens when I see Chris Meloni on "Law and Order." One thing bugged me about last night's episode, though. Eco's accent is African, since that's where the actor's from. But did the accent of the African "warlord" sound annoyingly JAMAICAN??

Rodriogo is the guy that was in the hatch entering in the numbers before it was found.(he just had a beard now.) If you remember he excaped when Jack and everyone else came into the hatch.

actually that was desmond who was already in the hatch--and he is no Rodrigo!! Rodrigo was the one who came out of the can when they all went to hatch#2 to investigate. Bette you're right--they do bring in the background characters too suddenly--I never guessed that those two were just fellow survivors I thought I had missed part of an episode. Some of the background ppl just come and go, such as Rose and her husband and an awful lot just get offed; I could tell echo would be a one season wonder. But it shocked me that they got rid of Shannon and the stepbrother--I don't understand why they had to go. Well after last night's episode at least we know how the hallucinations and sightings are happening!

That was desmond that was in the hatch pushing numbers when Jack and them came in.  I love Lost i've been addicted to it since the first show.  I think I need to take trip to Hawaii.  LOL 

Oh yeah! That's right. Thank you.

I love how they just do that. Like these people came out of nowhere. OK, so what's with the black stuff that killed Echo? Just when things seem to be normal they throw some strange thing like that into the mix.  Laurel