3. Lost
lostpedia.com
Launch Date September 2005
What You'll Find News, recaps, future-episode spoilers (not that you'd look...right?), character profiles, message boards, investigations into core and tangential mysteries (the monster, the polar bear, the island itself), and dissections of cryptic clues like the obituary notice in the season 3 finale — it's all here. During the show's long hiatus, the site staged a fan-fiction contest to imagine what lay ahead in season 4 — a nifty, geeky way to pass the time and build community.
Why It's Essential For Lost theorists, it's the ultimate resource for researching new conjectures and keeping tabs on what's been debunked and what hasn't. For casual fans, it's perfect for helping understand those all-too-frequent moments when the mythology-dense show references some long-forgotten bit of business.
Official Site abc.go.com/primetime/lost
A serviceable, media-packed barker channel, notable at the moment for housing a new series of Lost vignettes called ''Missing Pieces.'' Check 'em out. — Jeff Jensen
