I love the part where they castrated the midgets

I’ve been speed-watching Dexter, and, like other modern shows with more sophisticated story grammars than were prevalent in the past (Dexter is two-thirds of the way there, and Lost is there to such a degree that fans are bitterly annoyed when remembering the NPC episode) there is a large amount of mythology in even ‘monster-of-the-week’ (ha!) episodes.  And I’m struck by this show, and Lost, in that the “Previously on Foo” montages at the start of the program are, themselves, pretty huge spoilers.  While most reasonably astute viewers of Dexter will remember, say, who George King is from episode to episode, most Lost viewers are not fanboy enough to recall, “Oh, yeah, I remember in S03E07 when Desmond said that in passing to Jack: that was 36 minutes in, right?”: the previously reels do help.

Therefore, I am proposing that the writers (editors?) of mytharc-rich programs put half relevant scenes into the intro montages and half random scenes that might conceivably be relevant.  It will leave us waiting for the midgets.