Sean, I think Daniel posted once that each episode was supposed to be two days, and the season being forty days. Also, I came across that info on TV Tome as well.

It remains that in the first ten minutes of Episode 4 (which, if we were going at two days an episode, should cover days seven and eight), Jack, while discussing the need to burn the bodies, says:

"It's been four days."

....which means that Episode 4 takes place almost entirely on Day 5 at the latest.

So, from all the evidence we've been presented so far, they're covereing an average of a day an episode, TVTome and our own Daniel notwithstanding.

It remains that in the first ten minutes of Episode 4 (which, if we were going at two days an episode, should cover days seven and eight), Jack, while discussing the need to burn the bodies, says:

"It's been four days."

Sean, the pilot was split up. The pilot (eps 1 and "2") was two days, and ep 3 (the Kate episode) was two days, and thus at the beginning of "Walkabout," it has been four days. There, I knew the dialogue made it make sense to me.

(I'm about to go grocery-shopping, so if you present conflicting evidence, I won't see it till I get back.)

Yeah, we lost half of the punchline to last week's Desperate Housewives. SO not amused.

If I find the original reference, I'll post it.

Eek! I'm all italicy!

t Sends mental notes to Betsy to close her tag.

t receives mental note

t kicks self for not using QuickEdit in the first place.

Hey! We can post links to LOST resources here.

t Slaps forehead in that Duh! way.

So, from all the evidence we've been presented so far, they're covereing an average of a day an episode, TVTome and our own Daniel notwithstanding.

More chronology-related dialogue:

In episode three, "Tabula Rasa," Jack had the line "three days ago, we all died." That was at the end of the episode, which I seem to recall was at night.

And in the latest episode (five, "White Rabbit"), Jack said "it's been six days. No one's come." That was at the beginning of the episode, during the day. I don't know if that helps at all. At least one of the five episodes must have spanned a couple days, though, in order for episode five to be on day six.

I still haven't seen 1.05 (White Rabbit) yet, but by Cranberry's accounting, that still seems to be averaging closer to a day an episode (counting 1.01 and 1.02 as seperate episodes).

If it were averaging two days an episode, 1.05 should be covering days nine and ten (or days seven and eight, if we're counting 1.01 and 1.02 as two halves of the same episode, the opposite of how I counted them in the first paragraph).

Maybe they're cover more days an episode later in the season, but for the moment, were closer to my counting average.

t braces for day and episode counting smackdown with Daniel and P-C

I'm not going to try and pin them on a day count at this early stage. There is no particular reason why the next episode can't suddenly be a week later, then the next one have a graphic that states it is two months later. Lost doesn't so much seem to be about the nuts and bolts of surviving on an island so the time line may not be so important.

The 4 years thing being mentioned a couple times seems to be mighty curious though. There was no random reason for that.

Adds Laura, Consuela, Deena, and Sailaweigh to the list of clearly delusional people.