… And one big heaping piece of filler episode.
First a word about the filler: Further Instructions.
What’s missing from the title is what viewers did for one hour: wait. As in the phrase “Await further instructions,” and boy did we ever. Nothing happened in the Locke centric episode.
We didn’t learn much new about anyone or anything. [...]

“Lost’s story is the star, and no actor would ever be killed off for any other reason than supporting the story.”

“It’s all huff and puff and speculation. Not a word of it is true,” according to Damon Lindelof in Michael Ausiello’s column at TVGuide. He also claims that Rodriguez’s behavior wouldn’t account for the removal [...]