Jeff Jensen Has Seen It!

Jealous, much? I totally am. Jeff Jensen, beloved EW writer has seen the first two episodes of Season 5. I can't wait until January 21. Really, I can't. Dying here.

LOST Season 5 Trailer!!!

Wow, oh wow!!!! I just watched the Lost season 5 trailer on ABC Inner Circle, and it of course gave me chills!!!

You have to join ABC Inner Circle - just requires login and password info, etc. And it's on the Pick of the Week discussion board.

LOVE IT!!!!

Guess Who's Coming Back?!?!

Michael Ausiello confirms on EW.com that a familiar face will be returning to Lost in Season 5! Though some may not exactly be excited about this person's return, it will certain be interesting!!!

Two New Characters for Season 5!

I don't know how I missed this August 7 scoop on EW.com! Michael Ausiello wrote about how casting has begun for two new characters for Season 5 - exciiiiting!!!!

Season 5 TEASE!

EW.com has an awesome Season 5 tease by the ah-maze-ing Jeff "Doc" Jensen! Check it out!

Long Time No Lost

It's been a while. I didn't even post about the last few episodes of my beloved show. But I forgive myself, so you can too, right?

As any Lost addict might feel right about now, I am jonesin' for some Lost-y goodness. Ok, maybe not as much as some of the other people out there, but still.

Thus, I share with you a tidbit from EW.com's new Ask Ausiello column. According to EW's newest staff member, Michael Ausiello (formerly of TV Guide), "John Terry (Christian) and Alan Dale (Widmore) are in talks to return next season on a recurring basis... In the fine print of both their contracts, it states that Lost has the right to pick up series regular options on both actors for the show’s sixth and final season."

Uh... Huh? Well, what that means - to me, at least - is that Christian and Widmore are clearly central figures in the whole mystery of the island. But we kinda knew that already didn't we? I think my main question is - what about Ben? Where does he really fit in? Oh this is going to be SOOOO good to find out!

We'll have more scoop in a couple of weeks after Octagon Global Recruiting's big event in San Diego on July 24 (aka Comic-Con). Is it wrong that I'm getting a little tingly thinking about it???

Attack of the Darlton

From E!Online, Damon and Carlton on G4's Attack of the Show.

Givin' It To Us GOOD!

What can I say but OMFG, Hellzfreakingyeah, and WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

LOVED tonight's episode!!!! It gave us a whole lot of what wanted, in a weird, unexpected way. I mean, we wanted it, but we didn't really think we'd get it right? I mean, how could we. And yet, it wasn't in a Jump the Shark way, either.

Let's revisit, shall we?

• Thank you whoever, for having Matthew Fox manscaped. That luscious piece of slightly love-handled torso was quite the yum for the first flash-forward scene :)
• Why the hell was Charlotte looking at Juliet all weird right before they went off to the hatch? I don't like that red-headed smarty-pants!
• Why didn't Bernard go with them to the medical hatch? He is a dentist, he would be familiar with all those tools.
• Speaking of Bernie, SO glad Rose is back this week. Lovin it! She most definitely had a point about the whole "people don't get sick on this island, they get better" thing.
• Oh, going back a bit - so what kinda visions was Claire having? I did read somewhere that in last week's episode, there was supposed to be a scene depicting such visions, but it was cut out. Bummer.
• Jack is a crazy mofo'in' control freak - wanting to watch the appendectomy. FREAK!
• And, what's with his forced love triangle deal wanting Kate to hold the mirror - insisting that she hold it. Do I smell a contrivance here?
• HOLY SHOLY!!! Was that freakin Christian Shephard in the lobby!!!! Damnit! He has come after Jack! Or it's the island, right? What? Huh?
• Ok, now that I've calmed down a bit from that thinking... here's what I am thinking. I have read on good ol' Jeff Jensen's EW posts some theories about time travel... and I'm wondering if Hurley and Jack are really seeing Charlie and Christian, for real. Like, what if Charlie and Christian are time jumping? Well, I guess that can't really happen, given that both are supposed to be dead before any time warping is known to exist... okie dokie, maybe I'm WAYYYY off here.
• So, speaking of Hurley and Charlie, Jack's friend from Santa Rosa had a couple of messages for him. 1) He's not supposed to raise him. Him who? Him Aaron? Because that's kinda what that psychic guy was telling Claire... 2) He will have a visitor soon. Well, yeah, he kinda already did... spooooooooky...
• Ok, Hurley almost had me with the whole "We're dead" thing. That was very Sixth Sense-y of him. He and Jack do see dead people, so... that's kinda the same.
• Jack totally bought Hurley's craziness and he's gonna try it on when he gets home. Oh yes he will.
• Back on the island, I woulda freakin peed my pants if I were one of the three trying to hide from Kiwi or whatever the hell his name is. What's freakier... Kiwi pointing a gun in your face, with only a leaf separating you, or the T-Rex from Jurassic Park sniffin' you up and down...? I don't know why I just thought of that comparison....
• And in the future, Jack is waiting for Charlie to show up on that freakin bench. Waiting... waiting...
• Okay, just when I thought he was going to leave Kate... he FREAKING PROPOSED TO HER?!?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?!?! It's like, we wanted it to happen, but not like this, no not like this...
• I expected the ring to be a little bigger, coming from a Dock-tah...
• And on the island... Bitch speaks Korean! Good for Jin for calling her snooty little ass on it! And I Love how he barely missed her face with that torch. That mobstah mentality is alive and well in JinnyPooh
• Ew. Gross. Ew.... Ew.... don't show the appendectomy... we already had to live through seeing the decomposing faces of Danielle and Karl... ugh... gross.. who do you think you are, CSI:NY???
• In Futureville, Jack hears some kinda of beeping. Eery? Perhaps. But really, it was just an everyday nuisance - we all hate when our smoke detector battery runs out and we have to hear it whine incessantly to replace it.
• OH.... smoke detector.... bear with me a moment. So, the sonic fence was meant to keep Smoky out, right? And the smoke detector failed... and then - voila! Christian Shephard appears!!! And... some speculate that it is the island, or Smoky that is manifesting as Charlie and now Christian in 'real life.' Make sense? Kinda?
• So yeah.... Jack freakity-freaked out when he saw Daddy in the lobby again. And thus begins his downward spiral into Crazy Bearded Grizzly Jack.
• Just a thought now - is it Hurley in the coffin? I guess it can't really be because the dude is supposed to have had a son I think, from that newspaper clipping that Jack had.
• Oh, back at Jate's house, um - those fridge adornments, there's no way little Aaron did those. Nope. No way.
• WHAT THE HELL IS CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD DOING WITH AARON?????!!!!
• Oh, and Claire called Christian "Dad," which leads me to believe that she and Chris met at least once more after the meeting we saw, and that she accepted him as her father somehow. Something's weird there, or that wasn't very well-written (which could never happen, right?), because if I only met my biological father once, and I never wanted to see him again, I don't think I would say Dad... but then again, she didn't know his name, so I guess what would she have said? "Biological Father???"
• Have I mentioned that I'm glad Bernard is back?
• Oh, and hey, where the hell was Jack's appendectomy scar when he was all nekkid in the beginning? Huh?
• I am not liking this whole Juliet telling Kate about the kiss... OH... ok, I get it. She's telling Kate that Jack loves her. Just like Jack told Kate that Sawyer loves her last season. Deja vu, folks. Deja vu.
• In Futureville - So, Kate's doing somethin' for Sawyer... I bet it's got something to do with little Clementine. Is Noreen the name of Sawyer's Babymama? I don't remember. I don't think it is, but it could be her fugitive name. If she's still a fugitive, that is.
• Aw.... it's true Kate - Sawyer chose to stay - Jack is the one in front of you! Love Jack!!!! Love him!!!!
• And... Claire's gone. Just gone. Little Aaron is all alone under a huge tree. WTF?!?!?!

So, yeah. I kinda dug this episode... Dug it all the way to China my friends! Next week's looks just as scrumptious!

I get it. We're moving fast. We're seeing things we never thought we'd see before. But I like it. I like that hello, we have waited freaking 3 1/2 years to see Jate, to see everyone off the island, to see what the hell was going on. I like seeing it. It's kinda unexpected now. (So does that make it expected?)

And that's bedtime folks. See ya next week!

Ben, We Hardly Knew Thee

It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!! Oh joyous day!

It's been difficult for me not to read Doc Jensen's write-up of Thursday's episode. I like to wait until after I've written my piece so that I'm not so heavily influenced by his brilliance. Of course, I could never be as astute as the Doc, but I do like to formulate ideas of my own.

This shouldn't take very long. I was in Helsinki all week on a business trip, and I got home at nearly 1:00am Friday morning (after a 28 hour day, literally). Therefore, when I watched Lost - which I HAD to before going to bed - I didn't take notes. I just wanted to watch.

I was very pleased with this episode. Freakin' Michael Emerson!!!! How I love him! If he doesn't get an Emmy this year, well, screw the Emmy's!

So, here's what I remember (seriously, I fell asleep for like 30 seconds at the very very end):

• Ben and his retractible billy club - dangerous duo indeed! BTW, weren't there TWO horses? Each of those guys had a horse, so what happened to the other horse?
• Mr. Moriarty is a very special guest of that Tunisian hotel. But that lady looked really afraid of him. And she should be.
• LOVE when Sawyer freaked thinking that Ben was going to shoot him, then turned his fear into awe, then finally understanding that Ben was actually handing the gun to him.
• Who wasn't hoping Claire would die? She's pretty much dead weight at this point. Especially with that AWFUL wig.
• As much as I didn't want it to, I knew that the Ben/Beefcake standoff would end badly, very badly. Again, Michael Emerson is oh so amazing! His face!!!
• I completely accept the reason that Sayid begins to work for Ben (even though ben TOTALLY played him). I just can't believe I didn't think of that reason already!
• Gosh, memory fading here... what happened next... OH - I think it already happened, but I do NOT believe that Jack was taking antibiotics... LIAR!
• Uh... oh yeah... back to Ben & Co. So, Ben went in his secret chamber... Um, is that when the flashforwards occured? And then, the monster came. So, was Ben flashing forward, summoning Smokey, or BOTH?!?!
• We still don't know what the monster is... :-( But - it kicked those Fighting Freighters' asses!!!
• Oh yeah, the doctor from the Freighter (aka, the guy from CSI) washed up ashore with his throat slit. I love that Bernard had a part in figuring out that Crazy Physicist was LYING when he said that everything was fine. But where, or where, is Rose?
• Back to Ben - Ben says goodbye to Alex, and it's really truly the first time I cry for him (yes, I cry). I didn't even feel that sorry for him in his first flashback episode. Ben really does have feelings, and I am glad that for once, I didn't have to doubt his intentions.
• So when Locke's camp is making it's way to the beach, I loved Sawyer's protectiveness of Hurley. And him calling him Hugo. So sweet. And I'm sad that Sawyer's fate is to stay on the island. I hope that staying on the island doesn't necessarily mean bad...
• Near-future Ben goes to Jolly Ol' England and sneaks his way into Widmore's bedroom. This is where I get confused. They seem an awful lot like God vs. The Devil here - but who's who? Ben says they can't kill each other... WHY? However, if Ben can't kill Widmore, he will go after the next best thing - Penny. NO! Not Penny!!!

Ok, I'm done here. I may have forgotten a few things, but oh well. Hopefully I'll be more coherent when I watch the next episode. Yay!

If LOST Had Opening Credits...

Via Google Reader, I came across a Lost-Media.com article about fake credits for LOST, complete with original theme song and everything.

Click here on Weebls to see the original HQ version, or just watch the embedded version below.

In my attempt to find the Weebls video, I found a wealth of other opening credit montages (silly of me to think that the Weebls one was the first!). I embedded my fave - LOST opening credits with the Buffy theme (there are a lot set to the Buffy theme, but I thought this was the best one). Enjoy!

Say WHAT?

If you've been feenin' for some Lost, here's a little fun for you:

Oops, I Forgot About "Walt"

How could I forget to mention anything about Stand-In Walt. That was frustrating, but understandable. When Michael left his mom's house, Walt looked out the window. Only it wasn't really Walt - as in it was not Malcolm David Kelley. Disappointing.

Oh, and - I don't watch the credits at the beginning, like a lot of fanatics do. I don't like to know ahead of time who may be on the show. That's why Libby was a surprise, even though I predicted it WITHOUT having seen the credits.

I Met Kevin Johnson

Before I begin, let us take a moment of silence to mourn the 5-week long absense of our beloved Lost.


Okay. Done. When I said beloved, I think I really meant, "I've invested 3 and a half seasons to this show; therefore, I cannot turn my back on it."

Not that "Meet Kevin Johnson" was bad. Let's take a look at the positive of last night's episode, shall we?

• Locke's "Family Meeting," starring Ben. LOVED Hurley's reaction to the "revelation that the Freighters were ther efor Ben. I was also pleased that Ben revealed pretty quickly to the group that Michael was his Man on the Boat. (Thankfully so, since the rest of us have known for a LONG time.) The reaction throughout the room was appropriate, and I loved it as well.
• Funny, I wrote in my notes, "What's with the suicide note clipped to his jacket?" I struck the word suicide, because I didn't really know, but apparently, I knew.
• The moment I heard Michael's nurse's voice, I knew it was Ms. Libby. We need more Libby! Too bad Michelle Rodriguez is probably never coming back. Not that I like Ana Lucia, but I think it would be even more haunting to Michael if she appeared as well. Creepy.
• I knew pretty quickly that this was a flashback of what happened after Michael left the island. I mean, they kinda tried pretty hard to trick us, but duh. (Meanwhile, my husband couldn't figure it out, and we did argue about it for a couple of minutes. Haha.)
• I'm glad that Walt has his grandmother to look after him.
• I also knew that someone would appear to Michael in that alley right before he was going to shoot himself. Only, I thought it would be Ben...
• I LOVE off-island Friendly! He's so clean cut and assertive. I shouldn't have been so surprised, though. We knew that Alpert and Ethan have been off the island.
• Mmmmm-hmmm... Michael changes his mind when he sees the footage of that 315 "discovery."
• Arturo! Love it! And Michael's face. Hahahaha!
• The proof that the 315 wreckage was staged - thank you! Although, the skeptic in me still thinks that Ben could be twisting this around. We still have no reason to trust him.
• I think we've pretty much confirmed that Frank is totally clueless.
• Duh, that's Ben on the phone, not Walt.
• Finally, we get some island stuff again.

All right, that was about the good of it. As for the rest of what happened....

• It took a bit long to get the flashback, didn't it?
• I guess Michael was too distracted being Kevin Johnson that he forgot to clean up the brain stain, eh?
• It looks like KJ cleans up all the "biohazard" on the boat, and there happens to be a lot of it.
• Uh, so Michael's going to ease his suffering by pawning Jin's watch for a gun?! I'd like to think that the watch just brings back too many painful memories for Mike.
• Michael, Michael, Michael. Who the heck would tell his 10-year-old son that he killed two people in order to get him back? Yeah, I don't know what I would do if I had to keep two months of my life secret, and I had just killed two people - on my own, not at the direction of Ben. So, ok.
• It's taking us long to get out of this flashback too.
• Ah, Michael can pick up Naomi's accent because of his familiarity with good ol' Charlie.
• Sayid, Sayid, Sayid. Way to eff it up for everyone, bro. Is that why you end up working for Ben? Now you need to redeem yourself too? Then again, it could be all part of the grand plan, as Michael didn't seem to have an incredibly strong reaction...
• Karl died. We kinda knew that would happen. Ooops! Then Rousseau died! That, I wasn't so sure of. Poor Alex... that moment when Rousseau told her she loved her... awwww.... Then mommy dies! Could it really be the freighters? Is it Frank and whoever it was that left with him on the 'copter? Is it Daniel and Charlotte? Or is it the Others, instructed to kill Karl and Rousseau by Daddy Dearest?

I guess we'll have to wait until April 24! I'm surprised they had a preview for episode 9. I thought they were still working on it. Looks like the monster makes its way to New Otherton and wreaks havoc.

I'm very sad, as I will be in Helsinki the week that Lost returns. Hopefully I can find a way to watch it on ABC.com, but I don't think I can do it until the weekend. I never wait to watch Lost! It will be tragic, I tell ya.

I'll still be posting here and there, when I find juicy tidbits. So, see ya around!

More On Ji Yeon

A new day can shed a lot of light on a situation. Such is the case with me and "Ji Yeon." I realized that I do like this episode. It just took a while to get going. To put it in American Idol terms, it started out a bit pitchy, got more comfortable toward the middle, and worked it out at the end. So, I have a couple of things to add/fix since I posted my recap last night. (If you haven't read it yet, what are you waiting for?)

First, I read the beloved Jeff Jensen's recap on ew.com, and I realized that the captain's name is Gault, not Golden. (I must be really tired when I'm watching the show.)

Next, I could be really really wrong about the whole 'Ben staged the 815 wreckage' thing. I mean, there was that whole note, "Don't trust the captain." But is that what it really said? I mean, it looked like it was written by an illiterate person, or a first grader. Also, did the author mean the captain of the ship, or another captain? I'm sure that's looking too far into things, so, perhaps I shouldn't be so quick to believe Cap'n Gault when he implies that Ben wrangled up 324 bodies to send to the depths of the ocean.

Finally, perhaps the O6 are just the O6: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Aaron, Sun. Done.

What's Goin' On Ji Yeon?

Hmmm.... I really want to go to sleep right now, but I should get all this Lost stuff off my chest and out of the way.

With the last two episodes prior, we started a bit of a slump, and I'm not sure where we're ending up. "Ji Yeon" left me with mixed feelings again. I'm a bit wistful over the fact that, had we not known that Harold Perrineau was returning, we would have been pretty shocked about his presence on the freighter. I was glad to finally see him, but I couldn't help but feel a bit robbed of that wonderful "OOOHHHHHHHH!" moment.

Also, we were promised that we would know who the Oceanic 6 were by the end of this episode. Well, I'm sorry, but I don't know who they are! I think I do, only because I read on lostpedia.com that Jin's tombstone had the date of the crash on it - September 22, 2004. (It does, I checked again.) That says to me that Jin doesn't make it off the island, so Aaron is one of the 6...? Lordy lu.

All right, I guess I'll organize the rest of my thoughts by Freighter, Island, and Off-Island events.

Freighter

What is this errand that Frank was preparing for, eh? And why, oh why, does Frank tell Sayid and Desmond that they don't want to meet the Captain?

(By the way, ain't it a hoot that Say and Des both have long hair and beards, and they were both in the military?)

What's up with poor Regina? At first, I thought her reading upside down was a silly little cover-up for something more sinister that she had up her sleeve. Well, sinister, not so much. Just plain ol' depressing is more like it. I'm not sure what this extreme cabin fever is that El Capitan speaks of, but I have a feeling it's induced by something/one other than just the cabin itself.

We finally meet the Cap, and his name is Golden. I'm sure there's some crazy literary reference that I'm missing, but that Jeff Jensen will be sure to know. For now, I'll just say that it's... huh? Cap'n doesn't look ominous. He doesn't look scary or threatening, and yeah, he does seem pretty forthright as one of our boys said. The episoded finally got interesting. Cap'n clearly knows that Des and CW (that's Charles Widmore to you) have a history, and he knows all about the staging of Flight 815, which he seems to claim was done by none other than...

BENJAMIN LINUS!!!!!

I don't know why that never ever occured to me. Of course Ben would want to stage that.... he doesn't want anyone finding out what really happened. And, heck yeah, I've been wondering where the hell 300+ bodies come from... oh Ben. What the EFF have you been up to?!

Last, but not least, we have the "big reveal," or rather, the big fat disappointment. Really, the fact that Ben was possibly responsible for the staging of the 815 discovery was way more WOW. But, ok, ok.... Michael's return was fulfilling to an extent. He goes by Johnson, Kevin Johnson. He cleans up bio-hazards (to put it mildly). He and Sayid pretend to never have known each other. (I can't remember, but I don't think Des ever met Michael.) Strangely enough, the Freighter Folk seem to know that there's a "saboteur" on their ship, but they do not know who it is.

Island

Jin's broken English was all over the place. When Kate returned, he asked, "What happened?" as if he was saying, "What's up, dude?" DDK (that's Daniel Dae Kim to you), you are better than that.

The dialogue for the first 10 minutes or so of this episode is excruciatingly contrived... ugh. Or maybe it's the delivery of the lines. It's actually both. Both. Bad lines, bad acting. Kate and the Kwons don't have very good screen chemistry.

Juliet and the Kwons though, that's another story. Oh, when J let it slip that Sun had cheated, I knew that a hard slap was in order. Thank you, Sun, for delivering. Though, Juliet sure knows what cards to play to get what she wants. Love it.

Bernard! Where have you been old man! It's a Wolfram and Hart reunion! (That's an Angel reference, in case you were wondering.) I'm glad they answered some of our questions with Bernard's ponderings. And before we even saw an episode! The only thing I'm a little iffy on, is the whole 'we went with Jack because Locke is a murderer' thing. Um, didn't Jack attempt to shoot Lock in the face right in front of everyone?! I would stay away from both of them, gosh darnit!

I actually liked the remaining island scenes - Juliet explaining to Sun what the hell would happen to her if she stays, and Jin returning to the Kwon tent with dinner. During the latter scene, however, it was clear that poor Jin was not going to make it. Their fate was clearly doomed. How many times did he have to say "You will never lose me," or something to that effect? Doomed.

Off-Island

So, honestly, honestly, I had a flash of "what if they did and flash forward and flashback at the same time?" But it was just a flash, and I gave in and bought that Jin and Sun were in the same time. They totally got me! I'm a fool.

I was all freaked out by the nurse and doctor. I was sure they were going to kill Sun or steal her baby. (Damn, they got me good.)

I was so sure that when Jin dropped his cell phone and it kept getting run over and all that awful stuff was happening to him, that people were out to get him. Although, I did notice how severely outdated his cell phone was, so that should have solidified the fact that Jin was in way-back-when. (I was duped!)

Sun has the baby, and the doctor doesn't steal it, and it doesn't come out a black baby, or bug-eyed like Ben, so that's good. But what's not good is seeing someone cooing over placenta-covered baby. No no no. I think that in real life, they actually clean that stuff off before they hand baby over to Mama.

Hurley is the only one to show up for... baby's birth? Jin's death anniversary? (Or is it the crash anniversary?) And why exactly is Hurley glad that it's just the two of them?

Ok, I think that's about it for the moment. The battery on the laptop is about gone, and I am just too tired to plug in or keep writing.

Calling Out "The Other Woman"

First of all, I'm pretty bummed that I never did get to write something about one of the best episodes ever, "The Constant." Perhaps it's best to leave that one alone anyway - there's so much to be said, that it's better left unsaid.

So, this week, we had "The Other Woman." I'll hold off on my opinion until later.

We started with a would-be trick by the writers, who tried to get us to think that maybe Juliet did leave the island. I didn't fall for it. Even more disturbing than the writers trying to trick us, was Harper's (Andrea Roth) over-cosmetically-enhanced face. I looked up Andrea Roth on IMDB - she did not always look so rubbery. She's very pretty in the pictures I saw. I feel kinda bad for saying this, but in last night's episode, I was so disturbed by the unnatural look of her face that I cringed every time she was on the screen. To make clear, she was not creepy in an actor/character sense, like Michael Emerson is with Ben - though her acting was fine. Who knows, the makeup people coulda done it to her, but either way, bad choice on someone's part. She's probably a very nice person. Normally I wouldn't feel so awful about pointing out that someone's face turns me off, but this week I apparently do.

So, enough about that. Juliet went into the jungle to find those sneaky Freighters, and started to hear the whispers. We all know by now what the whispers mean - something is going to appear. And voila! There was Harper. Here's where I started to wonder - do you only see people who don't really exist, or who are dead? It seems that Juliet knew that Harper wasn't really there. Here is where I made my first and only prediction of the night - that Harper got prego and died, and that's how Juliet and Goodwin end up getting it on.

I was so completely wrong. And DUH, I should have knowng better, given that the title is "The Other Woman." Harper knew what was going on, and really she couldn't care less, except that Ben will take it out on Goodwin. So, who is it exactly that Juliet looks exactly like? Annie? His Mom? Either way, Ben had some twisted obsession with our little Dr. Burke, and apparently still does.

John Locke, you're a fool. Though he has grown a lot in some sense, he's still plagued by the same flaws he had pre-crash. He still has a faulty sense of pride that won't allow him to see things any way but his own. (Ok, he's not the only one - Jack.) He still wants the approval/acceptance of a man who has power over him. Off-island, it was his father. Now, it's Ben. How disappointing. If Sawyer can become a man who plays horseshoe with Hurley and not call him nicknames or be a bad sport when he loses, can't John manage to get out of someone's shadow for once?

Best line of the night: "What's Ben gonna do?" - Goodwin

Jack and Juliet catch up with Kate, who was knocked out by Ginger Jones. Juliet realized she'll always be the other woman, and while Jack was distracted by Kate's head injury, she ran off to go get some water, aka find some Freighters to go kill.

Meanwhile, back at the Barracks, Ben showed Locke a Red Sox tape-turned-last-ditch-effort. Bradford Meade - I mean, Charles Widmore - is The Man Who Sent the Boat. I feel a bit dumb for not knowing this, because - duh - that's how Naomi would have gotten a picture of Penny and Des. So now, the question is - did Daddy widmore calculate every step so that Des would end up on the island, turn the failsafe key, and ultimately allow people to locate it? Ah, yes, my friends, I believe that is very probable. So who was it that Widmore was beating to a pulp on that video? And why was he doing it himself, and not having one of his goons do it? Another - when exactly was this shot, given that it had to be after he showed Jack the Red Sox game about a month or two ago...?

After all that, we flashed to a scene of Ben trying to romance - or freak out? - Juliet by having a dinner party of two. He mentions Zach and Emma, those two kids, but what they are needed for - who knows. He is still mentioning Jacob's list, and I'm wondering if there's really a list. Ben was creeping J out in this scene, and we saw more of just how obsessed he was with the doc.

In real time, J finally made it to the Tempest, which is a HUGE station with some fancy pipes and tanks in it. Daniel's a sweetie, Char, not so much. And here was where it all clicked - Juliet is still very much under Ben's thumb. Sadly, it took Charlotte kicking her around a bit for her to realize that. Side note - nothing against Kristen Bell, but so glad that Rebecca Mader plays Charlotte, because it just wouldn't have been believeable with petite little Kristen kicking ass. Unless you called her a Slayer.

Ok, here's the sucky part. Ben showed J the body of her beloved Goodwin. She asked him why he was showing her. He answered something - but our DVR messed it all up, and we couldn't hear what he said. At all. The screen was all frozen and pixillated, and the next thing we heard was Ben telling her to take as much time as she needed. Damn.

Jack and Juliet had a moment that many fans have been waiting for - awwww.

Ben gleefully carried his clean clothes to the house and told Hugo and James that he's see them at dinner. The end.

All in all, not the best this season. The reveals were not so shocking. Although, one thing I did not know was that Ben can control the whispers or the apparitions or whatever those are on the island. I'm not sure if he has done it every time we've seen them, but he sure knows how to get someone to see them.

Last, because I do need to get to work, the promo people at ABC need to get their act together. In the teaser for next week's episode, they actually said we'd see a face we never expected to see again. Come on, people! You think we all haven't been smart enough to figure out that Michael is that one on that freighter?

And with that, I close. I'm tired.

Constant Craving

My, oh my!

I can't really post much because I'm super swamped with work, but I will say this:

• Still kinda teary after tonight's AH.MAZE.ING! episode...
• Desmond looks really good with the short hair.
• Faraday... not so good with the long hair
• Love Jeremy Davies...

Sneakin' a Peek!

Time for this week's sneak peek! You can peruse the widget to the right, or you can click here to see then on the Watch With Kristin Blog. Either way, they will not disappoint!

How Rebecca Mader Has Redeemed Herself

As newbie Charlotte on Season 4 of Lost, Rebecca Mader has made quite the impression on a few of the more prominent Lost columnists, such as Krtistin Dos Santos, Michael Ausiello, and Jeff Jensen. She fits the role of Charlotte quite nicely - much better than Kristen Bell could have, in my opinion.

The funny thing is, there was a time when I thought Ms. Mader was quite possibly one of the worst actresses to appear on prime time. Does anyone recall the Fox legal drama Justice? It debuted in 2006 and starred Victor Garber and Kerr Smith... and Rebecca Mader. I really thought she was quite bland, and that she pretty much sucked the life out of every scene she was in.

Watch this clip from the show (granted, the guest-starring actress is pretty bad, too):


I have to say though, I am among the smitten when it comes to Rebecca/Charlotte. I look forward to seeing more of Char's character development, and I hereby pronounce that Rebecca Mader has indeed redeemed herself in my book.

Here's proof of how cool she is now:

Just Got Back From "Eggtown"

Can someone please explain to me what "Eggtown" means? 'Cause I don't get it...

UPDATE: Thanks to Lostpedia for this explanation.

Anyway, I am proud to say that I predicted something kinda big in this episode - with no prodding or influence from outside forces. Yay me.

But first, hooray for the Kwons! They had all of about 8 lines each. I think it would be great if there were a spin-off show called "Meet the Kwons." Husband and wife get rescued from a "deserted" island and get as far as Korea... LA style. Yes, the happy couple starts a new life in Koreatown, raising their island-conceived baby. Hilarity ensues as the hubby frantically learns to speak English in good ol' LA.

But I digress. So, we started the show with another eye shot. I think I'm kinda tired of the eye shots. They were cool for, oh, about 2 seasons. Now, eh. The interesting thing came after the eye shot - John Lock is sleeping in Ben's bed. It's kinda "Single White Female"-ish. I mean, in the assuming someone else's life sense - not the sleeping with someone else's boyfriend, then stabbing him in the eye with your stiletto sense.

Another digression. It is now time for...
Prediction # 1: Miles doesn't know a thing about our girl Kate.
Outcome: Wrong! He actually knows a good deal about our girl, and everyone else on the Flight 815 manifest.

In flash forward, we see that Kate ain't so great when it comes to her trial. Her lawyer talks about bringing "him" into it. Bring forth...
Prediction #2: "Him" is her son.
Outcome: Yes, indeedy! Although, this prediction has been around since last season's finale. We all wondered who the 'he' was that she needed to get back to - Sawyer? baby? someone else?

Then, immediately after that scene, we see Claire and Kate in what could be a fabric softener commercial. Talk, talk...Aaron cries... and in comes...
Prediction #3: Kate's "son" is Aaron!
Outcome: Hell yeah it is! I'll admit, the writers got me a little confused at the end with the Sawyer scene, then the Jack scene. But right then and there, when the ladies were hanging the laundry and Aaron cried, I just knew.

And that concludes the Prediction round. On to the damn questions!

• Why is Emilie de Ravin still wearing a wig? Or at least, she sure looks like she is. What the heck is up with her hair?!
• Why would Kate consider firing her lawyer over bringing Jack in to testify? This is one of the things that kinda got me off the Aaron radar. How the heck does their relationship get so incredibly strained? D-I-V-O-R-C-E...? Eh, but obviously, it's far too soon for that. It's all the LIES, I tell ya - LIES!
• Who are the eight survivors that Jack is talking about, and how does that number go down to six? Are they counting Steve and that other lady who drowned as two of the 8? Are the other two Nikki and Paolo? Please god, no.
• Who knew Kate liked Patsy Kline so much?
• What is this card memory game that Ginger and the Professor are playing? Does it have to do with time travel? Mind reading? Does Danny boy just have a really bad memory?
• Oh... and I suppose one should be asking How does Ben have access to 3.2 million? And, as Ben asked, Why 3.2? Why not 3.3 or 3.4? I guess this question does not weigh on my mind as heavily as the others, because we already know that Ben is pretty much Bruce Wayne. He's an average guy with a cave. Some older helper guy (Richard Alpert?) assists him with carrying out his super-ness. He gets the bad guys - or so we think. Ben's all kinds of superhero rolled into one.

And now, in honor of the Oscars this Sunday, I would like to present a few awards recognizing some fine work in "Eggtown."

Best Use of an Oldie But Goodie - "Xanadu" by Olivia Newton-John. I imagine Damon and Carlton have been waiting since the pilot episode to find a way to squeeze Xanadu into the series.

Best Use of an Overused Line - "We're finished!" says Kate as she bangs on the door. That's just way too typical of someone to say when they are alone in a room with someone and no longer wish to speak with them. (Perhaps a more "fresh" approach would be to chase the other person around the room with a bowling pin or two, bludgeon them to death, and then yell, "I'm finished!")

Best Homage to "The Sopranos" - John Lock stuffs a grenade into Miles "I'm an Ass" Straum's mouth and pulls the clip. SO Tony Soprano of him. What a koinky-dink then that Ken Leung, who plays Ass Straum, guest starred on an episode of the final season of "The Sopranos."

With that, I (finally) conclude this post. Enjoy your breakfast.

Real Men Get Better With Age

Wanna see a really old student film that Matthew Fox did?

I know you do... so I've posted it here for you. The short film was made back in the day, when Foxy was still affiliated with Columbia University. The guy who made the film was a fellow Columbia student.

All I can say is - thank goodness he did something about that hair :)



Uhh.... and in case the video isn't working on this post, you can see it here.

The Darlton Scoop

Oooooh-weee! My fave, Doc Jensen (aka Jeff Jensen), has an interview with Lost Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on EW.com!

Darlton give up some juicy teases, and they clear up some questions that we rabid fans have been harboring since "The Beginning of the End."

For instance, "Sometimes, a bracelet is just a bracelet." Sure... or is it?

Click here for all the juicy Lost goodness!

More Sneak Peeks!

As always, the Watch With Kristin Blog delivers the goods by posting all four sneak peeks of this week's episode, "Eggtown."

Even better, I grabbed the codes and put them up here for you!

Enjoy!

Odd Freighter Out

I've said it before - I don't like spoilers, but the spoiler-ish item I'm about to write is kinda obvious.

So obvious, that all you need to do is watch the first couple of minutes of Lost to realize that something is amiss in Freighterville.

While everyone from Rebecca Mader (Charlotte) to Harold Perrineau (yet-to-be-seen Michael) is listed among the regular cast in the opening credits, one Mr. Jeff Fahey (Frank) was among the Guest Stars... hmmmm....

It could be a contractual thing, but it could also mean that Frank Lapidus will soon leave us. (Say it out loud - kinda rhymes.) Mira Furlan (Rousseau) is listed as a Guest Star, and she's been on quite a few episodes lately, and is not yet dead. So.... who knows.

Just something to think about people.

Gettin' Sneaky...

I cannot embed them here, but ABC.com has posted two Sneak Peeks of this Thursday's episode, "Eggtown."

UPDATE: Uhh... duh. You can watch at least one of them by clicking play on my widget. Yeah, the one to the right.

The first is a much-desired Locke/Ben scene, in which Locke gives Ben the last two eggs... relevant to the title much? Ben calls Locke's frustration over not having the answers, and I LOVE the end of the scene :)

The second is a scene in which Kate visits roomies Sawyer and Hurley in their New Otherton pad. Kate is apparently rooming with Claire and Aaron, and she has come because she needs something from Sawyer.

See for yourself and enjoy!

Sources

Ah. A kind reader brought to my attention that I neglected to include references in my last post about Naveen Andrews. He didn't know about Naveens heroin addiction - and how would he? He's not scouring RSS feeds for every single Lost tidbit out there - that's kinda my job, isn't it?

So, just for him, I am posting these links to recent Naveen articles:

Naveen on Digital Spy

Herald Sun

I found both of these articles courtesy of Lost-Media.com

Has Naveen Andrews Hurt Sayid?

When I heard that last night's episode, "The Economist" was going ot be Sayid-centric, it wasn't like I was jumping for joy. In past seasons, I might have thought that a Sayid episode meant drama, intrigue, violence, and good acting - all things that would get me excited. But not about last night.

So what has happened in the last year or so to make me disinterested in Sayid? Is it that he was so underused last season that I simply lost interest in him altogether? Am I resentful that I have to watch an episode centered around him before I find out what will happen to Sun and Jin? Or does the fact that Naveen Andrews has been very vocal about how he feels about his underuse last season and that he hopes that this season will be different? (He probably already knows that by now, since they've completed 8 episodes.)

I'm all for people speaking their minds - I sure tend to. But its a bit disturbing when you hear an actor complain about this or that about a role or show that has many devout followers. I realize that things can't always be perfect when it comes to any kind of work - especially acting in television or movies. But does the public have to know about it so much? Does Naveen Andrews have to voice his discontent in every single interview he gives?

I guess what bugs me most is that I used to like him and Sayid. I thought Naveen was definitley one of the stronger actors on the show, and I thought Sayid's story was fascinating and heartbreaking. But now, eh. Every shot of Sayid last night, I was reminded of Naveen's dissatisfaction, or of his former heroin addiction. I know that's pretty wrong of me, but I couldn't help it.

I do hope (and think) I will get over it. Sayid's story is quite intriguing, especially now that we know he works for Ben!

Love, Economist Style

Tonight, on a "very special Valentine's" Lost: Sayid gets it on with another blondie, and Sawyer wants to play house with Kate. It's love, "The Economist" style.


Well, this episode was a bit of a doozy for me, and not just because of the storyline. B's away, so I had the (not so) brilliant idea of us being on the phone while watching the episode so that it would feel like we were watching it together. Eh, not so much. Logistical issues lingered into the first 15 minutes or so of the episode, only compounding my confusion.


Thus, I'm not even sure where to begin with it all! I have far more questions than insight, so... uh... I guess I'll start with Sayid's working for BEN?!?!?! Followed by Ben is a "Journeyman"! Man, if Dan Vassar had half the stuff that Ben had in that secret room, his journeys would have been a whole lot easier - Livia told him to always have money.


Ok, now that I got that off my chest, I'll just get on with it then.



What I Got Right

• Hurley is setting them (Sayid, Kate, Miles) up.

Yup, that's it. That's about all I called.

What I Got Wrong

• Thinking Sayid works for Abbaddon
• Not thinking there would be a complete ambush from the Locke Lackeys.
• Just who Sayid was after - Elsa or her employer. (I still don't know.)

What I Wish Someone Would Just Tell Me Already

• Why was that Italian guy afraid of Sayid?
• Why did Sayid kill the Italian? (Especially after prett much vowing in Season 3 that he wouldn't kill again.)
• Why is Elsa using a pager? What the hell year are we in?!
• What's up with the 30+ minute lag between real world time and "Island Time"? Does it have anything to do with the general stereotype that island life if very laidback, and that islanders always manage to be 30 minutes late for everything?
• What's going to happen when they realize that Desmond wasn't on the flight either? Apparently nothing, since good ol' Frank and Dan didn't seem to care.
• Although... what was that look that Frank and Dan shared when Des asked if either of them know who Penelope Widmore is?
• How the hell did Ben leave the island and hide the fact that he did from everyone else?
• Why has Ben been lying about never having been off the island?
• What's with the braceletS (on Naomi and Elsa), and who the hell is RG?
• Is the "economist" Abbaddon?
• Why the heck didn't Jack want to get on that helicopter? He was so gung-ho about getting off the island, and then he refuses to get on the copter? What?!
• Since when is Ben a doctor?!

General Observations

• Love when Jack says to Kate, "Does that mean I should wait 20 minutes and go anyway?
• Love LOVE when Hurley comments about Sayid killing someone with the "breakdancing thing you do with your legs."
• Sawyer is so right about Kate - what the heck does she have to go back for? Although, based on the preview for next week, she apparently becomes "one of the most recognizable faces in America."
• Sayid has really awful luck with women.

Oh, that's about all my brain can squeeze out at the moment. All in all, three big WTF moments in this episode: Sayid finding Ben's secret room; Dan's rocket arriving to the island half an hour late; Sayid being Ben's bitch in the future.

I don't know if it's the fact that we really haven't seen a whole lot of Sayid in a while, but I find myself not as interested in him as in the other characters. And where the heck are Jin and Sun? Thank goodness they finally come back next week.

That's not to say I didn't enjoy tonight's episode - a few factors were working against me. It delivered some pretty awesome goods. And with that, I say goodnight.

LOST Love

Thanks to the folks over at the EW.com PopWatch Blog for this awesome tidbit:

You can send your loved one a Lost valentine! Choose Juliet ("I'd never hurt you, trust me."), or Hurley ("You drive me crazy."), or of course my fave, Jack ("Our love needs no fixing.")

You can also send valentines from Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty.

Drs. Shephard/erd Unite!

That Mike Ausiello is out to give me a heart attack!!! He posted another exclusive today on the Ausiello Report blog that ABC is moving Lost to a new time slot in the spring (post-strike) schedule - right behind Grey's Anatomy!

Yup, that's right. Dr. Derek Shepherd and Dr. Jack Shephard will be neighbors. (If Isaiah Washington hadn't been fired, we'd have Dr. Preston Burke and Dr. Juliet Burke as well... )

As long as Ugly Betty stays on at 8pm, Thursday nights will be the best night of television - for me at least.

Oh my, oh my... breathe, breathe...

TV Guide Interview with Carlton Cuse

Oh... life just gets better and better doesn't it? Especially now that the WGA strike is finally over!!!

Yesterday, we heard from Lost Executive Producer Carlton Cuse that fans will get five additional episodes this season. Yippee-skippy! Last night, TV Guide's Mike Ausiello posted this exclusive interview with Carlton on The Ausiello Report. In the interview, Carlton gives more deets on how the season will play out, and promises that fans will get all 40 remaining hours of our most favoritest show, even if it means spreading some of those hours into Seasons 5 and 6.

Enjoy!!!

How Frank Lapidus Came to the Island - Interview With Jeff Fahey

Gotta love that Kristin Dos Santos! She just posted an interview she did with Jeff Fahey, aka the mysterious Frank Lapidus. Check it out below, or visit her blog!

Are You a Skater or a Jater?

Kristin Dos Santos has put it up for debate - are you a Jater or a Skater? Let her know how you feel in The Great Skate vs. Jate Debate!

Go For Five!

In a USA TODAY article, Lost Executive Producer Carlton Cuse says that they are going to try for five more episodes, in addition to the eight that they have already completed!!!!

This is such exhilirating news!!!!!! Happy Tuesday, boys and girls!

Strike Ending Definitely Equals More Lost

Straight from the horse's mouth! Lost Executive Producer Damon Lindelof has this to say about the impending strike lift:

"As for Lost (pending the actual lifting of the strike, which we vote for on Tuesday), a game plan should begin to manifest by the end of the week. All I can say is that Carlton and I and the rest of the writers have every intention of making sure you guys get more episodes this season beyond the eight already completed. How many and how they will be aired is a conversation we'll be having with our bosses, but as soon as we've got a plan, we'll tell the fans first."

Read more about it on the Watch With Kristin blog.

More Lost After Strike Ends?

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! I just read that Matthew Fox said during a press junket that if the strike ends this weekend, production on Lost could resume ASAP, and that they might complete 4 to 6 episodes.

Now, even Foxy says that's the rumor they are hearing - we'd have to hear it straight from Damon or Carlton's mouth.

Still, this is perhaps the most exciting news of the - well, hour, at least!!!!

Click here for the original post on Collider.

Sneaky-sneak Previews on ABC.com!

Ooooh-wee! ABC.com has a couple of sneak preview clips from next week's episode!!!! Haha... a great line in the second clip, and I think I know a little more about how Hurley ends up being one of the six....

I can't embed them here, but click the link above to view them on the site.

Lost Shout Out on Watch With Kristin

I know I said I hate spoilers, but teasers are another story.


Here's this week's Watch With Kristin show, in which resident E! Lost-ophile Kristin Dos Santos dishes some dirt on one of our beloved Losties.


(If you want to remain 100% pure of spoiler-ish material, I suggest you avoid pressing play.)

Even More on Confirmed Dead

Here's a quickie: Who is the lady that asked Daniel why he was crying?

Yes, could be his wife, but I mean who is she? They certainly made a point not to show her face at all during the whole scene. I'm thinking that's quite a deliberate move.

Thoughts?

Confirmed Dead: The Morning After

After a decent night's sleep, I still don't know how to feel about last night's episode. What I do know is how I wish it was next Thursday already. Perhaps if I were an island native, or one of the Boat People, I would know how to get to next Thursday ASAP.

Yes, that was a reference to the fact that I do believe there is some serious time travel stuff going on.

For instance, something about Miss Indy Jones doesnt' seem quite right. I don't think she is from 2000-whenever like the Losties are. Maybe it was just the fact that her trip to Tunisia just seemed so back-in-the-day, or the fact that she really did look like an Indiana Jones lovah, that I feel like she has traveled through time before.

Another thing about Miss Indy is that she was incredibly ecstatic at finding the Dharma collar among those polar bear remains. How would she know they were going to be there? (She bribed the guy to let her in, so she knew something was there.) How does she know what it is? Thanks to Jeff Jensen's column on EW.com, and my theory-geek hubby, I am thinking that little Miss Indy Jones is very closely related to Ben's friend Annie - or is Annie.

I think I mentioned it before, but I don't think the Boaties are all that bad. They certainly don't know as much as Naomi did.

I still really dislike Miles. I have a bit of a soft spot for Daniel. I even kinda dig Frank. But I don't get how he landed the copter and ended up so far away from it all bloody. Could it be that Smokey got to him and thrashed him about a bit?

Also, what does it really mean to be a native of the island? How can there be true natives if women can't even live to give birth to children? A thought on the birth thing (courtesy my husband). In the book The Time Traveler's Wife, the woman constantly has miscarriages because the baby involuntarily time travels while still in the womb. Could it be that the babies on the island are doing the same thing? If time travel is really involved, do the time travelers (like Richard and probably Ben) do it voluntarily or involuntarily?

Ohhh.... sooooooooo many questions! I guess that means that last night's episode was good. It certainly has left my brain darting and spinning all over the place. Now if only I could dart and spin over to next Thursday....

Confirmed Wha?!?!

Another week, another huh?!?! So many questions, so few answers were served up with tonight's episode of Lost. I have mixed feelings about what I've just seen... but before I go filling my brain with the opinions of others, I will share my own thoughts.

What I Knew

• Aha! See, so this is how I thought the season premiere would start - with a flashback of life off the island, from the point of view of some non-Losties.
• I knew the elements of Find815 would find their way into the storyline. I didn't realize that the whole plane would be there. Interestingly enough, it was broken up into three parts, just like it was on the island.
• That whatever Charlotte (Miss Indy Jones) was going to see would have something to do with our island - and boy did it! That Hydra collar(?) was certainly one of the OH! moments of the night.
• That Miss Indy Jones wouldn't be dead. No, I haven't been reading spoilers. I just figured that those people would know better... but why?

What I Should Have Known

• That Naomi was speaking some kind of code when she said "Tell my sister I love her." I figured it meant something that she said that, but I'm not quite bright enough to figure it would have been code.
• That Locke lived because he didn't have a kidney there. I mean, duh, I knew he only had one (ok, well, I kind of forgot), but was so distracted by the whole magical island thing that I didn't even consider the missing kidney.
• That Sayid and Juliet would catch up to Jack and Kate. Hello! Otherwise, what was the point of their conversation about having guns? I was not very quick tonight.
• That Abbadon was the mastermind behind the crew. I suspected that it was his voice on the other end of the phone when Frank called Oceanic.
• That freakin' Ben would know exactly who theose people were. Ben knows everything. I really should know that by now!!!

What I Want to Know

• Why was Daniel Faraday crying when he found out about the discovery of Oceanic 815? He did seem like a bit of a sissy.
• What do Essex, MA, Inglewood, CA, Tunisia, and the Bahamas have in common?
• Are the names of the four crew members anagrams for anything?
• Why was there a gas mask in that trunk? Since they're looking for Ben, is it because they know about the Purge, and they're prepared for something similar?
• Who is the grandson that Miles is hunting in Inglewood? The pictures on the wall certainly looked like young Eko.
• Why did Miles need/want all the money that was in the vent? And what was the powder stuff that he rejected? I'm guessing it was drugs, but why didn't Miles want that?
• Why doesn't Charlotte believe that Flight 815 has been found? What does she already know at that point?
• What the EFF are the 2 million year old remains of a polar bear doing out in Tunisia - with a HYDRA collar?!?!?!?!
• Why is Charlotte afraid when she sees the group of Losties? Does she think they are natives? Does she recognize Ben right away?
• Is Seth Norris an anagram of something? Why are they using so many first and last names?
• Whose body did they use instead of the pilot's?
• Does Frank Lapidis = Jacob???
• Was that Abbadon on the phone talking to Frank?
• Is this crew of people really all that bad? Do they all know exactly what is going on?
• What does "N842M" mean? It was on the side of the helicopter.
• Who the heck is Abbadon? What did Naomi do that Abbadon thinks she should be the leader of the mission?
• What the HECK is that picture of Ben - from the 70's????!?!?!?!
• Does Ben really not know what the monster is??? Or was he just stunned that John would ask that question and not want to know what was going on?

Other Random Things

• The look on Ben's face when Hurley mentioned the cabin - priceless.
• I bet it didn't take Claire very long to feel bad about bringing Aaron along for all the violence.
• I don't like Miles.
• LOVED when Karl called Ben "Mr. Linus." Ha. Like he deserves being called Mr.
• Great quote #1: "I don't know Miles. How stupid are ya?" - Jack
• I REALLY don't like Miles.
• Great quote #2: "Sure, who are we to argue with Taller Ghost Walt?" - Sawyer
• Uh... looks like Naomi kinda failed her mission.

Again, I'm not really sure how I feel about this episode. They didn't answer a whole lot of questions, but there certainly was some progression of the story (uh, hello Hydra collar!).

The other issue I may be struggling with is the introduction of more sci-fi and paranormal stuff. Yes, it's always been a very important element of the show, but never as blatant as a real-life ghostbuster.

If I Were a Lostie

Hm. This is a toughie. I'm in Locke's camp. I'm seeing Sawyer beat the crap out of Ben. I'm hearing Ben shot Locke. Then there's some new chick who says her team is here to take us away, and Ben tries to shoot her dead. Gosh. Well, first of all, I'd be crying. Then, I'd probably just make a run for it somewhere in between the first and second times that Sawyer gives Ben the 1-2 punch.

Widget!

Completely crossing the picket line, I have put the ABC.com Lost widget on the sidebar of my blog. Cool, eh?

There's something wrong with it, because you can't see the right 1/4 of the video, but heck, it's there. And if you click the nifty little play button in the middle, you'll get to see the OMFG promo for tomorrow night's episode!!!

Love me just a little.

UPDATE: The promo in the widget is sadly not the promo we saw last night. In last night's promo, which aired during ABC's Super Tuesday coverage, the narrator told us - he told us - that we would find out who the Oceanic 6 were.

UPDATE #2: Aha! The Husband was able to figure out how to change the HTML code to get the widget to appear properly. Nice.

Down the Rabbit Hole

I went onto ABC.com a bit earlier to find the amazing promo that B and I saw last night (turns out the widget promo is not the same one).

Well, one thing led to another, and before you know it, I'm ogling Dharma shot glasses!

Allow me to share my findings:

The Sawyer Nickname Generator. Mine is "Grasshopper."

The US Marshall's Zero Halliburton attache case for $570!

A Dharma Rubik's Cube. The two just seem to go hand-in-hand.

Harold Perrineau Can Sing (and pay respect to our service men and women)!

For those of you who haven't heard, Harold Perrineau (Michael) has recorded a song dedicated to the men and women fighting the war, called "Stay Strong."


Fellow Lost castmate Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) was kind enough to donate his time and effort into directing the video for the song.


Check it out! (There's a very special cameo near the end, too - yum!)





Click here if you can't see the video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lrow1clxEdQ

Random Unanswered Question (RUQ) #1

As any Lost fan knows, there are many questions out in the Lostiverse that have yet to be answered. Some are the BIG questions, like "Who is Jacob?" or "Who makes it off the island?"

Other questions are not so crucial to solving the Lost mystery (or are they?), but I would still like them to be answered.

And so, here is my Random Unanswered Question:

Why is Hugo Reyes' nickname "Hurley"?

Spoiled Brats

Ugh. And so the frustration has begun.

In my quest to feed my hunger for Lost, I view other blogs (http://thelostdiary.com/), read columns by writers I like (Jeff Jensen, http://ew.com/), and look to Lostpedia for things I missed (http://lostpedia.com/). I do not, however, search for spoilers, which is why I am irritated at the moment.

From time to time, I comment on the items I read online. I did so last night, after I read Jeff Jensen's piece on "The Beginning of the End." I should have known better, but I decided to look through others' comments to see if anyone shared my questions and opinions, or perhaps had intelligent guesses about any of the questions that have arisen.

Mr. Jensen asked readers who they thought the Oceanic 6 might be. To my dismay, roughly 25% of the commenters boasted that there was no need to guess, followed by the alleged names of the 6. Some of them didn't even preface it, just listed the names.

Now, I know - after I saw one person who claimed to hold the answer, I should have just stopped reading those freakin' comments. But I needed something. I kept reading, but only the first few words of each comment. Most of them were stupid questions or observations. One courteous commenter actually put the disclaimer "SPOILER" at the front of their comment.

I'm very passionate about the fact that people shouldn't simply throw information out there and ruin it for the rest of us. If they're that jaded about it, why do they even watch the show anymore? I get it. Obviously, the only way they can feel cool in life is to flaunt that they know something that others don't. Well, ANYONE can find out the information they have - they are not special.

I would love to continue ranting and shout expletives at those unfortunate people. But, the best thing I can do is simply to not read comments anymore.

By they way, if anyone actually ends up reading my blog and comments with a spoiler, I will delete it :)

Seeing the Ex

After the initial shock and awe have set in, I've been able to reflect a little more on what watching "The Beginning of the End" was like. I'm telling you, it really was like seeing an ex for the first time in months.

Within the first 5 minutes came a revelation that nearly knocked the wind out of me:

"I'm one of the Oceanic 6!" = "I'm getting married."

Not really the kind of thing I wanted to hear so soon; however, I came to terms with it, and now, I appreciate that I found out sooner, rather than later.

As the evening went on, each new piece of information only brought up more questions. Questions I knew I wouldn't get the answers to - at least not right away.

One thing became very clear to me - we have both changed. The eight months we spent apart almost allowed me to get over him, in the sense that I was no longer so obsessed with him. However, seeing him again has made me fall even harder for him, even though I know I can't really have him. Besides, this is not the Lost I used to know. He's different now. He's more mature. He's found direction in life. This Lost knows where he's going, and he knows how he's going to get there. I respect that about him. It will be very difficult to let him go.

That said, even though Lost has changed, he won't let me down. He'll do what he can to ease the pain of the long goodbye, and he'll give me something that I can always hold on to.