lost: first 5 titles show a pattern…

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The titles of the first five episodes of Lost (including the two-part premiere), as well as their rumored centricities, are after the jump.

“LA X, Part One” and “LA X, Part Two” open the season, and it’s expected that these episodes will be multi-centric, not focusing specifically on any one character.

It’s followed by “What Kate Did,” which is obviously Kate-centric.

Then we have “The Substitute,” rumored to be Locke-centric.

Then a Jack episode, “Lighthouse.”

And now we know that the fifth episode will be called “Sundown,” likely referring to a Sun-centric episode.

As Dark pointed out, these episodes appear to mirror the centricities of season one–so far, to the letter. If the pattern were to continue, we’d next see a Charlie-centric, a Sawyer-centric, a Sayid-centric, and a Claire-centric.

Obviously we know that Dominic Monaghan will be spending some time on the island, but it’s not known yet whether or not his role will be significant enough to merit a whole episode devoted to his character.  Also, so far all of these other characters–the not-dead ones–presumably have two stories to be told: their on-island adventures in either 1977 or 2007 and their off-island adventures in 2004 post-reset.

The title of Jack’s episode is intriguing, because last season, Darlton revealed the image of a theretofore unmentioned DHARMA station. It would later become known as “The Lamp Post,” but at the time, a lot of people speculated that it would be called “The Lighthouse” or “The Beacon.”  Could this episode refer to another new station?

Regardless, it seems unlikely that they’ll be able to stick too closely to the season one order of business–for starters, they’d be unable to have a Ben-centric episode under that model. But I like the idea of getting back to basics.