Chipotle is my constant

"We have to save Johnny 5!!"

Hellooo LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I go on a mini vacation with the wifey and no sooner do my feet step on Ohio soil, do I start getting the questions..."El Prez, where's the update?!"..."El Prez, what are you waiting on? Give us the dang update!"..."El Prez, you breath is funky.."..Ok so that last one was just the wife and no, she doesn't call me El Prez....but she knows enough now about time travel that she made me her default "constant"....As we learned in this week's episode, Desmond and Penny are definitely each other's lobsters....I mean, I've waited by the phone in my day, but 8 years?!?!...dang..

But enough about love and constants and blah, blah, blah....What's up with the time travel?!?!

Honestly, I don't know...I think this episode was a way of explaining Des' abilities, to forsee events in the future and to get us to a point where his story starts to make a little more sense..

You have to be really careful with having time travel as one of your main possibilities in your storyline...It can get pretty confusing...what intrigues me the most about it is how the writers are interjecting it sparingly...From what I can gather, when the hatch imploded slash exploded, Desmond was exposed to a MASSIVE dose of radiation....enough that he was sent through time, mentally....I say mentally because he didn't physically travel..he stayed on the island but his mind travelled back to a key point..

I really think I need to stop here with the time travel talk...I wouldn't be doing my full duty if I didn't really explore it more and try to give a better explanation...I stumbled in the past on this type of postulating and I don't want to say anything that may turn folks away from this great show...I truly believe it's not about time travel, but more about how the island has the ability to create certain phenomenon...I wouldn't put it past the show to take certain characters and allow them to "travel" on and off the island...say, certain people who have been there a lot longer and may know how to do said "travelling" without quite the headache Desmond received..

That being said, I found it extremely interesting that Penny's dad was bidding on a ledger that came from the Black Rock, the very ship that is on the island...

.....did anyone catch the name of one of the crew on the ship..The last name was Hanso, as in the Hanso Foundation...the very people behind the DHARMA initiative....it's all starting to tie together...slowly and surely, this whole thing is going to be one big ball o' yarn...or is it a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive....that's Sir Walter Scott...see? those LOST writers aren't the only ones who can be literate...or illiterate, in my case....

...Just one last thing about the time travel...it's more like the ability to see the future...a very detailed future, not one you can change but one you can predict...Faraday was seen tryng to guess cards back in Kate's episode..he got all but one and was very disappointed in his abilities....the question you need to ask yourself is: who else can do this? Ben? Locke? We know Desmond has it sparingly, mostly in dealing with Charlie's death...Is Locke's only about predicting the rain? Could Walt do it? Is that how we were able to see him in the jungle, way back in season 2? Remember backwards talking, soaking wet Walt? It should play out more into someone like Ben's favor...I think he has it down exactly and that's how he's able to stay one step ahead of everyone..the question is if Locke can catch up....

That's all for me...I'm sure this thing will unfurl itself on it's own....

Goodnight, my little LOSTIES......

EPdeLFC,

JB

The "Him" is revealed

Hello LOSTIES!!!
Well, well, well.......tonight's episode had some interesting turns in it....Once again we have a flash forward employed to cast an even larger shadow of questions...Let's start where we ended, with the reveal that Kate's "baby" was in fact Claire's baby, Aaron....also it's the "Him" Kate referred to at the end of last season's season finale, when she met Jack at the airport...
There is NO question that it isn't the same kid....who now appears to be around 2 years old?...I'm confused about the timeline but I'll give it my best shot:
They are on the island for 92 days or so....The baby was born about 30 days in, making it 2 months old, Island time....
They get "rescued" and Kate goes on trial immediately?? I don't think so...The fact that she told Jack that she's heard him tell "that story a dozen times"...that would mean some time has passed before her trial...let's say 6 months or so...That makes the baby less than a year old...which would put her trial ending at roughly 6 months or more later?
This is all a guess but I think the timeline is very important to the grand scheme of the story...because we know at some point Jack is going to grow a crazy beard, pop some pills and become suicidal....Matthew Fox indicated that that would only take a year and a half...so Aaron is a little less than 2 when Jack has the beard and is screaming about how he's tired of lying....so I guess it makes sense for now...
Which brings me to my next point: Jack perjured himself on the stand at Kate's trial....He said that 8 of them survived the crash and that Kate administered first aid and was a hero....We all know this is a lie but who concocted this story??? It had to be something they all bought into and it had to mean something signifigant to their well being for them to lie repeatedly...Are they being blackmailed or extorted or what??
I think this story will continue to unfold as the season wears on...but it still leaves us scratching our heads as to how Kate came about being the mommy to Aaron....What happened(or happens) to Claire?? We know she wouldn't just give her baby up...and we know Kate would never take a baby..she might kill an abusive stepdaddy but baby stealing doesn't seem like her kind of business....
Jack also lied about saying he didn't love Kate anymore....But then he got super weirded out about her referring to the baby and that he wouldn't get any "coffee" until he accepted the baby....What The Fudge is going on here?!?!?! I'm losing my marbles...I think the circumstances that dictated Kate getting Aaron are what's behind Jack's depression, suicidal tendancies and drug and alcohol abuse....For a hero and leader of men, Jack's a little off the ranch, you know?...Also, and he may not even know it or maybe he does, but Aaron is Jack's nephew, since Christian Shepard is Claire's father...from what we know so far, this has yet to be discovered by Claire or Jack.....interesting...

Then you have Miles trying to extort Ben for 3.2 million dollars...I loved Ben's reaction about not exactly being in the right place at the moment to make that transaction happen....
But that story will have to wait until Locke comes back and removes the hand grenade from Miles' mouth...DANG!!! That's some cold stuff!!!! But funny from a torturers perspective, I guess....
Last but not least, you got the case of the missing helicopter...It's apparently taking the long way around the island....It looks like next week we'll get a glimpse of what that's all about...One hint: It may or may not have to do with Time Travel.....just a warning...
On that note, I'd like to send you off with an interview conducted by Jeff Jensen over at Entertainment Weekly...There are some mild spoilers so read only if you want to know more about the show.....Like you don't want to know......
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20179125,00.html
Just some weekend reading...again, DON'T READ if you want to be unspoiled....but they are kind of mild...nothing too revealing....I swear it's like some weird LOST angel and devil are sitting on each shoulder telling me to tell you what to do....very cartoon like...anyhoo...
Enjoy LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Later
EPdeLFC
JB

A horse named Whimsy...

" 'The Life and Times of El Prez'....This should be a great read!"

HELLOOOOOOOO LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again, we find ourselves at the foot of another great chapter in the LOST saga.....Tonight's episode is entitled "Eggtown"....It may or may not be Kate-centric.....It may or may not have a twisted ending that will rival last week's head scratcher....It may or may not feature one smooth Sawyer and a box o' wine.....This bit may or may not be getting old....
After the last post, I was looking for something more whimsical to update you all on but with the serious dramatic turn that this season has taken, that whimsy is getting harder to find...however, if you know me by now, you know that I can whip up some whimsy...so here goes...

"Seriously?!? You WANT me to sign it 'Foxy' ??"


3 keys to a good time: Matthew Fox, roses and sweet, sweet karaoke....

Ok..that's all the whimsy I can manage....I don't know what's wrong with me...I gotta go out on a high note..
When asked how much time has passed from Jack on the island to Jack, bearded and drug addled, Matthew Fox seems to think the time line is somehwere around a year and half....So take that for what it's worth...I guess going crazy and pill popping doesn't take as long for some as it would others...
So to recap: Fall in love with Evangeline Lily all over again tonight..

"Eggtown", after a special Enhanced version of last weeks show, "The Economist"....
That's all folks....
EPdeLFC
JB

The Orchid

Hellooooo LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I submit to you today a THEORY. A time travelling, polar bear in the desert theory. What I am about to embark on is mind bending and scientific. It may be completely plausible or it may be completely plausible only in the world of LOST but it is a position that the writers which to take, therefore it becomes my responsibility to you to bring it to light.
Every week, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the 2 driving minds behind LOST, host a podcast over on ABC.com...In these podcasts, they answer fan questions and expound very little on some things we may not have noticed or don't have full answers to and they shed a little more info on that particular item. Oftentimes they can be heard giggling like school children, either at our expense or at their own...either way, you have to sift through their ADD...well you don't, but I do...being El Prez isn't all wine and roses...
Anyhoo, this week they were asked HOW CAN THERE BE A POLAR BEAR IN TUNISIA? The desert of all places??? And especially a polar bear that's obviously from the DHARMA station, the Hydra???
Well, our creators alluded to the Island's "Special Properties"....They even mentioned that there may be particular places where these properties are stronger and therefore have displacement abilities...They didn't say "wormholes" but the allusion was there....The other thing they mentioned was the "Orchid video"....
Now the Orchid video was part of the Season 3 DVD special features....I have posted it below for you all to witness....After watching the video, I will try my best to explain WTF you just watched...




Now, after watching that I can only come up with the following points:
1. The #15 rabbit has in fact either duplicated itself or travelled back through time and space and has arrived upon itself....
2. The yelling of "Keep them away from each other!!!" signifies that if the same being comes in contact with itself, who the hell knows what will happen..an explosion? The apocolypse? Who knows?
3. This "doctor" has been in 3 seperate films, all under the names of someone different each time....remember the Swan film? Dr Marvin Candle. The Pearl video, he was Dr Waxman. This time: Dr Edgar Haliwax..this name doesn't show up in any google searches, so I would have to assume it doesn't mean anything more than it's just another alias....that involves candles and wax....
4. The woman in the background yells out that they "are still learning about"....and then it cuts off....so obviously this was new technology at the time...
Has Ben perfected it? Is this the reason for the passport and clothes and does it speak to his ability to get off the island?
The other part of this mystery reverts back to last week's point made by Daniel Faraday, the latest Island newcomer...He specifically told Frank to follow the same coordinates that they flew in on...Do not deviate!...This was interesting because it goes back even further to when Ben let Michael and Walt go and told them to stay on the bearing of 325....Was Ben honest with Michael about the bearing?
Is it possible that if you select a different bearing out of the island, you could end up in a different time? Could this explain the 70's style pimp suit Ben was wearing in the picture that Miles had? Is it possible that Michael went back to a different time? A time BEFORE the flight crashed?? Is this why Walt would now appear older?
I have to be honest with the last part...That theory comes from my good friend, DocArzt, who runs a very successful and informative LOST website of his own. The Theory was so good that I had to share, but I will not take credit for it...But boy! does it get the mind going or what????
That's it for today..I think time travel, wormholes and desert dead polar bears is enough for one night...
Later LOSTIES!!!!!
EPdeLFC
JB

The Big Hit

Helloooooooo LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's hit it hard and hit it fast. This is going to be one of those LOST updates that you'll tell your kids about.....mostly you'll say that you once knew this guy who was so obsessed with a show that he would write about it.....Ad nauseum...to anyone who would listen and had a decent internet connection...
Tonight's episode once again confirmed that we AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET.....I'm going to start at the end.....WTF?!?!? Sayid is a hired gun for Ben?????? Holy Smokes!!!
"Are you crying because you got shot or because you were stupid enough to care for her?"..man, Ben is SO cold....and apparently now a veternarian.....Off the island, in fact...Folks, I can't begin to tell you what a mind bender this show is turning into....
There were 2 great lines of the night: The first was very telling and that was when Sayid said, about Ben, "The day I trust him, I will have sold my soul to the devil".....well I guess he sold his soul....But was it to the devil??
Let's deconstruct the last exchange between Ben and Sayid.
Ben: Those people don't deserve our sympathies(Who are those?) Need I remind you what they did the last time you thought with your heart and not your gun?(Will this be on the island, or on the freighter? Or back in the real world? Will it have anything to do with Sayid's long lost love, Nadia?....ahh...which leads to this from Sayid:
Sayid: You used that into recruiting me to kill for you.(Did Ben promise something to Sayid in exchange for Nadia's well being???...He doesn't seem like the kind of guy to do anything for himself...except maybe fall in love with women all over the place..Shannon, this Elsa chick....Naomi..but I'll get to that in a minute)
Ben: You want to protect your friends or not, Sayid?(Is Ben referring to the other Oceanic 6 or the people left behind on the island? Or some other friends? Maybe some poker buddies??)

Whatever happens here, let's remember one thing: Ben is still alive and kicking and causing some real disturbances....And apparently he can come and go off the island like it ain't no thing...
We saw in his secret room that he has a ton of money, a ton of passports and a ton of fresh threads...very interesting...

Let me get back to my Sayid in love with Naomi bit....He looked at her bracelet when she was dead. It had an inscription: N-I will be with you always. R.G.
Now I don't know who R.G. is and right now I really don't care. My point was that Sayid looked sad when he saw the bracelet...Something was triggered...It wasn't until he shot Elsa at the end that it dawned on me. He saw a kindred spirit in Naomi...a hired killer...We all know Naomi was the military brains behind the freighter people...Sayid was the military brains to the 815ers...And Elsa was also a hired gun...and she had a bracelet as well!! Sayid's hand lingered on it after he shot her....Were Naomi and Elsa working for the same dude???
Methinks so.....and I'll leave it at that...

The second memorable line of the night was the funniest of LOST so far this season...and it comes compliments of Hurley:
"I saw that breakdancing thing you did with your legs when you snapped that dudes neck at the beach. I'll hang back here."
HAHAHHAHAHH....that was pretty funny.....

Another interesting factoid popped up tonight in the form of Daniel's "experiment". Apparently time off the island is 31 MINUTES faster than time on the island....or was it slower?? I've never been good at math, which is why I now have a job using math 95% of the time....relax, bosses!! The computer is a big help....Hahaha...I kid...Seriously, it's PHYSICS I've never been good at...hell, half the time when I spell it, I spell it PSYCHICS and that's just a whole nother ball of wax...or yarn...
Either way, there's some freaky time variations on the island and that was enough to cause Daniel to warn Frank the Pilot to not deviate off the bearing they came in on...DO NOT, under any circumstances....what do you think would happen???
I'll tell you what I think...I think its a worm hole situation.....yep, you heard me..a worm hole....through time...Like Back to the Future, except without the fancy flying car....This is your Doc Brown, El Prez, telling you that somehow, time travel will play a part in this show....If they deviate of the heading, will they catch up to the future? Will they age instantly? Is that why we've seen a taller Walt???? Something is happening here folks and this show just continues to push all the MYSTERY buttons it can, every 108 minutes!!! My mind is blown!!!

I have to stop here...my head continues to spin and it's going to cause me to get dizzy and lose my lunch.....I will leave with a little factoid from the "Enhanced" episode of the show that aired before tonights new one..you know, the episodes with the pop up facts?
Well they spoke about the Christiane 1, the boat that found Oceanic Flight 815 off the Sunda Barrier or whatever? Well it turns out that boat was searching for old trade boats.....Old trade boats like the Black Rock.....Folks, there's a lot of people looking for this island and I think before it's all said and done, you are going to find that there are 2 factions fighting over this place, one for good and one for evil and our LOSTIES are caught in the middle.....which side will you be on??
I'm out....
EPdeLFC, JB

The last Jarra

Happy Valentines Day, LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Head over to abc.com to get your own LOST Valentine!!!.....Last week they had a feature on getting your own Sawyer nickname....not nearly as original as the original but kind of funny, nonetheless........
Tonight we get another all new, mind bending episode that's sure to please and confuse: "The Economist" ...Just make sure you stick with it all the way thru the end....It's a DOOZY!!!!......trust ol' El Prez when he says he didn't expect this kind of surprise......
That's all the crypticness I have for today.....Enjoy the show!!!!
EPdeLFC,
JB

It's now officially ON

"hehehehehehehe....the strike is OVER!!"

HELLLLOOOOOO LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, it's official...The writers strike is finally over....who cares about their basic human rights, what's "owed" to them and whether or not they can live off rerun's of Gimme a Break...The strike is a thing of the past and the future holds with it the promise of..........At least 5 more episodes of LOST!...That's right! Check it:


Gary Coleman reveals he's been secretly married

Gary Coleman is a not-so-newlywed.
The former Diff'rent Strokes star married 22-year-old Shannon Price in August on a mountaintop in Nevada, but they have been keeping their vows under wraps, the pair told Inside Edition.
"Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the helicopter pilot and us," Coleman, 40, said on Tuesday's broadcast of the program.
Oh crap...that's supposed to go in my other blog......
Check this IT instead:
From my good friend Doc Arzt over at his blog:
Carlton Cuse spoke with Variety today with regards to what the future looks like for lost. Here are his comments:
As for "Lost," exec producer Carlton Cuse said he and fellow showrunner Damon Lindelof would meet with ABC brass today to hammer out the plan for the rest of the season. They won't be able to finish the remaining eight segs of the show's planned 16-episode season -- five is a more likely number -- but they will be able to craft a completed storyline for the remainder of this season, Cuse said.
And whatever segs are not produced this season will be picked up down the road in the show's remaining two seasons, Cuse said.
"We're going to try to make as many as we can and do a good job of finishing out this season," he said. "We'll have to compress some of the storytelling we planned for this season, and that may not be a bad thing. Damon and I feel like we know how we can finish it off and still make it a really, really great story."

So there you have it folks.....Not great news because I'm greedy and want all 8 but I will settle for 13 high quality, deeply impactful episodes of the greatest show since Diff'rent Strokes.....

That's all I got...
EPdeLFC,
JB