So here it is: The last episode update of the season. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In an effort to once again let the LFCers into my brain, I'm about to give you a never before used literary device known simply, as the Play by Play...here goes..
9:00PM-- The show starts. There's a hush in the room because I've just yelled at my betrothed and that cat to ZIP IT. I didn't yell, just sternly voiced...I kid..I love them both very much...
Nice beard on Jack...he always seemed so clean cut in all of his flashbacks....Who's obituary makes Jack break down and want to kill himself?....Ahh Jack the hero, in action!!
9:07PM-- Commercial. The Idol kids are doing some sing along. I think I just saw Smokey Robinson reading the words off of a teleprompter
9:10PM-- Charlie is getting his arse whooped by Bonnie and Greta...Mostly Bonnie...Turns out Ben has been lying to everyone about the Looking Glass Station, even his communications officer Patchy....Makes me wonder if Ben was routing all transmissions through there..That's a lonely existence for Cagney and Lacey....Looks like Juliet has gone rogue..Finally I think she's a good guy...Jin is a helluva shot--Can't hit stationary dynamite but can shoot one guy in the shoulder and one in the leg, while being shot at...
9:16PM--Commercial. Commercial on Idol as well....
9:18PM--Jack's a pill popping drunk....and his ex wife is pregnant....The guy seemingly can't catch a break...good thing he's stranded on an island away from all these problems...I wonder where his dad's at?....Rose delivers the funniest line of the night: If you tell me live together, die alone I'm going to punch you in the face, Jack....makes Jack smile...Back at camp, Bernard folds like a cheap chair and spills the beans on where everyone is headed....Too bad cause Jin was about to take it like a man, Sawyer style....Looks like Ben's world is crumbling....
9:25PM--Commercial..Bathroom break
9:29PM--Ben tells Richard to continue on with the Others to the Temple..I think he's making notes on one of Danielle's maps...odd...Ben says he's going to talk them out of it, the rescue that is...Kate is calling Sawyer out for his odd behavior..Little does she know that Sawyer is dead and there's nothing left but Sweet Baby James, filled with guilt and remorse....She says something about being pregnant and he says Let's hope not..dang, even the cat could tell that was harsh...
9:35PM--Commercial. Apparently I've time travelled back to 2005 cause I see the one and only Chocolate Teddy Bear, Reuben Studdard, singing on American Idol!!! where's Clay?!?!?
9:39PM--Ben is telling Patchy to protect the Island by all means necessary....Bad folks are coming and Ben wants to keep the place a secret...For some reason I'm reminded of the Eagles hit Desperado:
Desperado, oh, you aint gettin no yougerYour pain and your hunger, theyre drivin you homeAnd freedom, oh freedom well, thats just some people talkinYour prison is walking through this world all alone
Is Ben walking through the world alone? Has his focus on getting women to give birth led him astray? Is he trying to redeem his curse that befelled his own mother? She died and now, all women on the Island die before they can give birth....Strange...We see Jack with the shakes...we find out he rescued the boy and his mother from the burning wreckage...Dr Hamill tells Jack to go home..Dr Hamill? Is that a shout out to Star Wars star Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker??? I've always said Jack was Luke.....
9:50PM-- I think I missed a commercial cause this part has been nothing but revealing!! Juliet tells Sawyer they were building a runway, which is why he and Kate were busting rocks way back in the beginning of the season. What's the runway for? The aliens....HA..She's funny but lying again..you don't build a runway with out knowing why and who for....wait...is that??.....LOCKE!!!!!!!!!! Alive and well...well not all the way..He's paralyzed in a grave with some corpses..good thing one of them has a gun...oh wait..not a good thing...don't shoot yourself John!!...STOP...who dat?? It's WALT!!! A very aged Walt...apparently the writers have a reason for Walt to be a foot taller, with baby dreads and a deep voice..You have work to do....I'm confused...Is this Smokey again, manifesting into an image Locke will respond to? Is Jacob channeling the image of Walt?...I need a drink....
9:55PM--Commercial..Wait...is that Reuben AGAIN?!?! what the hell is he singing?!? oh Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...I think he just won American Idol....
9:59PM--Jack attends a funeral that no one else did. When asked "friend or family" he responds "neither"...who's in the box???..well the very next scene is Jack talking to Ben....maybe Ben will ask about the funeral...alas, only a commercial
10:05PM-- Jordin Sparks beats out Reuben Studdard to become the newest American Idol....Blake Lewis beat boxes for food signs being made in the streets...
10:11PM--Patchy starts a killing spree and Desmond shoots him with a spear gun...
10:18PM--Jack is apparently auditioning for Rush Limbaugh's job..Oxycontin, Jack?? really?!? How did your life get so screwed up??...Cut to Jack and Ben's standoff...OK, now Jack's lost it and is beating Ben's bug eyes into the ground..brutal...what if Ben is telling the truth???..Jack tells Tom he's going to come back and kill them all....whoa...
10:22PM-- I realize that I only have 38 minutes left in my term as El Prez..yes, I'm more of a dictator than an elected official but still, the sadness starts to set in...
10:26PM-- This is where my note taking takes a dive...see if you can follow along..Charlie's destiny is fulfilled because the code to the key pad can only be deciphered by a musician...Why, we have one right here!!!
10:28PM-- Hugo to the rescue!! Some hippie van..he mows over Ryan like he's cutting the grass...Sayid breaks the other dudes neck with his dang feet!! and then Sawyer guns down Tom for taking Walt off the raft...remember the line in the jungle??Me and you ain't through, Zeke....truer words have never been spoken...Jack is messed up on the pills..Dr Hamill accuses him of being drunk and Jack screams to bring his father down here..if he's drunker than I am, you can fire me..where is Christian??? and what the h has happened to Jack?? Seriously, shouldn't he at least invest in a beard TRIMMER?...
10:40PM--Charlie dies a brilliant death. A tear was shed when he crossed himself......let me rewind: NOT PENNY'S BOAT!! We saw Penny Widmore! She knows Des is alive but she can't find him....what the..?? Patchy's outside the Hatch!! With a grenade!!!!! aww hell!!! Damn you Cyclops!!!..Locke shows up in timeto kill teh new chick and threatens to kill Jack..Jack makes the call and help is on the way!! But what kind of help?? Was Ben RIGHT?
10:55PM--Jack's finally gotten through to whoever he's been calling..we see his apartment, covered in maps and trash...he tells the person on the other end he'll meet at the spot by the airport....A car pulls up....a Volvo...I don't do Taco night!!! Sonofabi...it's KATE?!?!?
Oh my...we haven't been watching a flash back!!! We've been watching a FLASH FORWARD!!!!!!!!! They're off the Island!!!! OMG and WTF and ICBINB*!!!!!!!....But Jack's upset...back to Jack...Kate's all you look like crap and he's all you look good and she's all what's going on and he's all we shouldn't have left and she's all what? and he's all I've been flying around the world on the Golden Pass, hoping the plane would crash so I can get back...We never should have left, Kate...I have to go Jack, HE doesn't know I'm gone..who's HE?? Sawyer? Jin? Hurley???AAARRGHH!!!!!!
WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're dang right we have to go back!! You just told me you are off the Island and something so devastating happened there that you are a drunk, bearded, pill stealing mess!! Where's my Jack???
oh, my brain....You aren't supposed to do this Jack-Locke says....
I'm too spent to speculate...I would look for one more recap of what the heck we just saw and a whole summer's worth of head scratching and questions....The good news is there are only 48 more episodes left..the bad news is that we don't have a new one until February 2008.....
I'm out....for now....
EPdeLFC
JB
*I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
I like the way she eats ice cream
My Fellow Losties,
It with all due respect that I apologize for the late posting on "Greatest Hits", the excellent Charlie flashback episode. It's the time of year when I become overly obsessed with the show and I get wrapped up into my own salvation for answers, that I forget that I have a job to do.
That job is helping others find their LOST salvation. I have failed in some aspects but I hope to make amends today.
This is the LAST episode of the season coming up. A 2 hour season finale that will raise more questions and twist more heads than any of the previous. It's always about doing it better than the years before and we know how those ended:
Season 1: The Hatch is opened
Season 2: Jack, Kate and Sawyer are taken
Season 3:???? but soon, we'll all know...
But I'm jumping ahead...Let's talk about last week's episode, shall we?
It started with the "We're going to blow them all to hell" line, delivered late in the game by Jack. I say late in the game because it's been a bit of "where you been, dude??" Now you want us to follow you?? Well here we are, following Jack once again...
It's been 90 days on this place and Jack's back to being the leader....great...prove it..that's all I'm saying.
He's been my favorite since the beginning, but lately he's a sourpuss...I want the old crying Jack back...just my opinion..moving on
This week was Charlie's last..or was it? Desmond tells him that in order for Claire and the baby to be rescued, Charlie has to flip "the switch"...Where ever that is....ahh... but then Sayid has the idea of unjamming a signal that's been holding up the transmissions from leaving the island.
Juliet talks about an underwater hatch named "The Looking Glass" and VOILA! We've got ourselves a mission...It all connects...Juliet is led to believe by Ben that the Looking Glass is flooded. Charlie volunteers and sets in motion the prophecy of Desmond and what hopes to be eventual rescue.
This is what I love about the show: Desmond says he sees Claire and the baby getting on a helicopter. Sounds great right? Wrong...what if it's the real "bad guys"??
How can you say that El Prez, they all cried....Here's why....At the end of last season, Ben told Michael: We're the Good Guys.
Well what if he's right? Yes, all season we've been led to believe that the Others are the enemy and yes, they have done some shady stuff and Ben is the biggest of the shady for his "purge" on the DHARMA folks and shooting Locke and leaving him for dead(notice I said left for dead, not DEAD). But as we all know and can attest to in real life, there's always something more evil lurking out there...Powers that appear to be working for the good of the people can sometimes twist and turn on you in a blink. Absolute power rules absolutely...but I digress, down into my own rabbit hole.....what??
Rabbit hole, you say???? Why, that leads me right back into the meat of the meal: The Looking Glass.
Alice in Wonderland had a sequel book written to it, entitled "Through the Looking Glass". The plot summary, according to the all knowing Wikipedia:
Alice ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror, and to her surprise, is able to pass through to experience the alternate world.
Now, I'm not going to jump into that possible theory inducing argument but it really explains some of LOST to an extent. I'll let you all do the research instead of boring you. Suffice it to say that this show has a love of rabbits, a love of Alice in Wonderland and now it's follow up, The Looking Glass. Please note that the DHARMA symbol for the Looking Glass is a rabbit.
It's my belief that this is the writers way of telling us that any theorizing we may have will only be leading us down a rabbit hole of our own....
I will stick to the surface and keep on with last week's episode.
Rock stars....
So we learned that Drive Shaft derived it's name from an old family heirloom. The DS on the ring stood for Dexter Stratton. File that name away as we haven't seen any use of it thus far in the show but it could rear it's head somewhere down the line. It is also not in reference to anyone historically, like John Locke or Desmond Hume, so that tells me it will come back again.
Much like...
Nadia, Sayid's long lost love.
Yes, Charlie saved her from being mugged and she dubbed him a hero. This is no coincidence, I am now convinced.
This all goes back to Desmond and his time travelling abilities. The monk, the old lady in the jewelry shop. These are "plants" or other entities bent on keeping the order to the universe. Yes, this show has stepped into the realm of science fiction so I'll hop along for the ride.
We used to think these "crossings" were mere coincidence but there's something larger at play here. I don't have all the answers but Nadia has popped into Locke and Charlie's back story.
Christian Shepard is the king pin of flashback appearances: Sawyer, Ana Lucia, Claire and Jack of course. There's a connection here folks. This year provided more as we saw Sawyer's spurned love turn up in the same town as Kate. Now that's just wacky....and it can not be a coincidence. I don't believe it. But again, I digress.
Back to the beach and the surprise showing of.....
Rose and Bernard!!! Or should I say, Sniper First Officer Bernard? Who knew that a dentist would be such a good shot??
And yes, this was the most touching moment of the show...If anyone knows me by now, they know how I love to compare LOST to Star Wars and now is no different.
In the grand scheme of things, these two have been the C3PO and R2D2 of LOST, providing the comic relief in an otherwise tense situation. And this week they said their goodbyes, much like that duo did many times...They are buddies for life and it's only a matter of how this all plays out to see if they'll remain friends or if one will be..
Shot by 2 gun-toting underwater ladies?!?!?! What the..? So the Hatch wasn't flooded but was instead manned( or womanned)....Another of Ben's lies, as Juliet thought the hatch was flooded...or did she know that it wasn't???
I still don't trust that lady but dang!! I like the way she eats ice cream!!
Anyway, this week's show is going to out some evil plans, expose some lies and twist some heads...I can not wait and I'm sure that I will talk to you all before then....Oh happy day, the FINALE is upon us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Later
EPdeLFC, JB
It with all due respect that I apologize for the late posting on "Greatest Hits", the excellent Charlie flashback episode. It's the time of year when I become overly obsessed with the show and I get wrapped up into my own salvation for answers, that I forget that I have a job to do.
That job is helping others find their LOST salvation. I have failed in some aspects but I hope to make amends today.
This is the LAST episode of the season coming up. A 2 hour season finale that will raise more questions and twist more heads than any of the previous. It's always about doing it better than the years before and we know how those ended:
Season 1: The Hatch is opened
Season 2: Jack, Kate and Sawyer are taken
Season 3:???? but soon, we'll all know...
But I'm jumping ahead...Let's talk about last week's episode, shall we?
It started with the "We're going to blow them all to hell" line, delivered late in the game by Jack. I say late in the game because it's been a bit of "where you been, dude??" Now you want us to follow you?? Well here we are, following Jack once again...
It's been 90 days on this place and Jack's back to being the leader....great...prove it..that's all I'm saying.
He's been my favorite since the beginning, but lately he's a sourpuss...I want the old crying Jack back...just my opinion..moving on
This week was Charlie's last..or was it? Desmond tells him that in order for Claire and the baby to be rescued, Charlie has to flip "the switch"...Where ever that is....ahh... but then Sayid has the idea of unjamming a signal that's been holding up the transmissions from leaving the island.
Juliet talks about an underwater hatch named "The Looking Glass" and VOILA! We've got ourselves a mission...It all connects...Juliet is led to believe by Ben that the Looking Glass is flooded. Charlie volunteers and sets in motion the prophecy of Desmond and what hopes to be eventual rescue.
This is what I love about the show: Desmond says he sees Claire and the baby getting on a helicopter. Sounds great right? Wrong...what if it's the real "bad guys"??
How can you say that El Prez, they all cried....Here's why....At the end of last season, Ben told Michael: We're the Good Guys.
Well what if he's right? Yes, all season we've been led to believe that the Others are the enemy and yes, they have done some shady stuff and Ben is the biggest of the shady for his "purge" on the DHARMA folks and shooting Locke and leaving him for dead(notice I said left for dead, not DEAD). But as we all know and can attest to in real life, there's always something more evil lurking out there...Powers that appear to be working for the good of the people can sometimes twist and turn on you in a blink. Absolute power rules absolutely...but I digress, down into my own rabbit hole.....what??
Rabbit hole, you say???? Why, that leads me right back into the meat of the meal: The Looking Glass.
Alice in Wonderland had a sequel book written to it, entitled "Through the Looking Glass". The plot summary, according to the all knowing Wikipedia:
Alice ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror, and to her surprise, is able to pass through to experience the alternate world.
Now, I'm not going to jump into that possible theory inducing argument but it really explains some of LOST to an extent. I'll let you all do the research instead of boring you. Suffice it to say that this show has a love of rabbits, a love of Alice in Wonderland and now it's follow up, The Looking Glass. Please note that the DHARMA symbol for the Looking Glass is a rabbit.
It's my belief that this is the writers way of telling us that any theorizing we may have will only be leading us down a rabbit hole of our own....
I will stick to the surface and keep on with last week's episode.
Rock stars....
So we learned that Drive Shaft derived it's name from an old family heirloom. The DS on the ring stood for Dexter Stratton. File that name away as we haven't seen any use of it thus far in the show but it could rear it's head somewhere down the line. It is also not in reference to anyone historically, like John Locke or Desmond Hume, so that tells me it will come back again.
Much like...
Nadia, Sayid's long lost love.
Yes, Charlie saved her from being mugged and she dubbed him a hero. This is no coincidence, I am now convinced.
This all goes back to Desmond and his time travelling abilities. The monk, the old lady in the jewelry shop. These are "plants" or other entities bent on keeping the order to the universe. Yes, this show has stepped into the realm of science fiction so I'll hop along for the ride.
We used to think these "crossings" were mere coincidence but there's something larger at play here. I don't have all the answers but Nadia has popped into Locke and Charlie's back story.
Christian Shepard is the king pin of flashback appearances: Sawyer, Ana Lucia, Claire and Jack of course. There's a connection here folks. This year provided more as we saw Sawyer's spurned love turn up in the same town as Kate. Now that's just wacky....and it can not be a coincidence. I don't believe it. But again, I digress.
Back to the beach and the surprise showing of.....
Rose and Bernard!!! Or should I say, Sniper First Officer Bernard? Who knew that a dentist would be such a good shot??
And yes, this was the most touching moment of the show...If anyone knows me by now, they know how I love to compare LOST to Star Wars and now is no different.
In the grand scheme of things, these two have been the C3PO and R2D2 of LOST, providing the comic relief in an otherwise tense situation. And this week they said their goodbyes, much like that duo did many times...They are buddies for life and it's only a matter of how this all plays out to see if they'll remain friends or if one will be..
Shot by 2 gun-toting underwater ladies?!?!?! What the..? So the Hatch wasn't flooded but was instead manned( or womanned)....Another of Ben's lies, as Juliet thought the hatch was flooded...or did she know that it wasn't???
I still don't trust that lady but dang!! I like the way she eats ice cream!!
Anyway, this week's show is going to out some evil plans, expose some lies and twist some heads...I can not wait and I'm sure that I will talk to you all before then....Oh happy day, the FINALE is upon us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Later
EPdeLFC, JB
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