GOOD EVENING LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For those of you who tune into this blog from the comforts of your PJ's and more often than I send the emails announcing the updates, this blog's for you!
Yes, it's a rare Friday night blog that is truly informative....
As I write this I am listening to Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on their weekly podcast at ABC.com. In these podcasts, they discuss certain things about the previous week's episode and usually straighten out some mysteries, but mostly they act goofy and seem to be punchy from their late night writing sessions....
Here's a brief summary of what they mentioned in this week's:
1. There will be a scene in the season finale that will have the same upside down, scratch your head kind of moment that last season's finale and all previous finale's have had...although it won't be the LAST scene, which will also be good...I can hardly wait and currently have goose bumps and reaffirmation that I am indeed a spaz...
2. Due to their own history of shenanigans they are coming clean and clear on who The OCEANIC 6 are:
Jack Kate Hurley Sayid Sun and Aaron....the promo shown for the upcoming episodes at the end of last night's ep confirmed who the Oceanic 6 were...Damon and Carlton also said that we will see a scene with all of them together at some point....
3. The next episode is entitled "The Shape of Things to Come"
4. There are only certain coordinates or bearings that can get you out of the island's proximity...When Desmond tried to leave on the boat back at the end of Season 2, he was only able to go in circles, since he had no bearings...
5. The "side effects" that Desmond and Minkowski experienced were due in large part to the large doses of electromagnetism they both were exposed to...Minkowski's from working around radio equipment on ships for a better part of his life, I suspect and Des' from imploding the Hatch....these "side effects" could also be termed "illness" or "sickness", which led to a comment that maybe we've heard about other people experiencing a "sickness" before(Danielle and her crew).
6. We haven't seen the last of the "purple sky" and they eluded to another electromagnetic event happening at some point....however, they will not revisit visually what happened at the Swan Station anymore..
7. There was a question about what was real or an apparition or the smoke monster. The breakdown is as follows:
Ben's mother: apparition
Spider that killed Nikki: smoke monster...Damon kind of snickered after this one, which led me to believe that he wasn't really being serious about this one...so take it with a grain of ironic salt
Yemi: Smoke monster
Walt: Some apparition, some smoke monster
Christian Shepard and Kate's black horse: Undead..to be clear about what undead means: collective name for beings that the superstitious believe are deceased yet behave as if alive.
8. A question was asked in regards to Aaron being raised by someone other than Claire and if he was really in danger, like the psychic predicted way back in season 1. They basically debunked the psychic as a con man, which means that Aaron could indeed be raised by Kate....although Damon did elude to the fact that Aaron was in danger, simply because Kate was a murdering house blower upper.....
9. we will learn more about the Black Rock and the 4 toed statue, but neither will get their own flashback...
10. Charlotte, the new red head Freightie, is a cultural anthropologist, which is someone who studies ancient cultures. This is RELEVANT...how will still be determined....
So there are 10 things you may not have known prior to reading this blog...Are you better off for knowing this? Probably not but who cares? Now go baffle your friends with this overload of info at the next closest water cooler...
Peace!!
EPdeLFC,
JB
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Not yet
HELLOOO LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll start by saying 5 weeks. 5 weeks until another new episode and it looks like some things are about to get even hairier.....
So let's cut to the heart of the matter, as my good chum Don Henley once said....
Before we go any further, allow me to apologize for my obsession with time travel...I mean, it's definitely prevalent in the Desmond and the Daniel Faraday story but maybe that's where it stops... I fully realize now that it's possible for a complete stranger to board a freighter in search of a mysterious island and the elusive man behind the curtain on less than 2 days notice.....
Just to be specific about the timeline..It looks like Michael has told Walt about killing Ana Lucia and Libby and now he wants to kill himself...
But the "Island won't let you kill yourself!".....yes, much to Michael's dismay, all suicidal tendencies are snuffed by the Island, which means it's influence is not limited to just the Island....let's meander, if you would, around this point for a second and talk Jack...
We've seen Jack in the all encompassing downward spiral of pills and depression and we've seen him attempt to throw himself off of a bridge, but the car crash happened, reminding him that he still had work to do....we also saw him throw caution to the wind before entering the funeral parlor by walking into traffic with no regard for his own safety...So the question is, has Jack tried and failed suicide more than what we've seen?? And has the Island intervened at each point? And if Michael is seeing Libby out of guilt, who is Jack seeing????
But back to the timeline of Michael...so he gets off the Island by Thanksgiving and is trying to kill himself just prior to Christmas....which is how Tom is able to seemingly be in 2 places at once...Tom's part in this episode is prior to Sawyer gunning him down on the beach...and on that note:
Let's have our own flashback, shall we?
"Relax Kate, you're not my type".....Spoken back in Episode 1 of Season 3, by Tom, when he had Kate shower at the Hydra station...Well finally the mystery is SOLVED!! Now we all know what he meant....yes, Tom prefers the company of a man, specifically a handsome fellow by the name of Arturo. To which I say...Bravo!...Bravo, LOST for continuing to embrace all walks of life by being one of the very few shows to portray honest, well rounded characters and not stereotyping...say what you want but to deal with a show that shrouds itself in mystery and science fiction, I think it offers an interesting look at how to have developed characters really drive the story and make it all the more believable...it was a side of Tom that was fun to watch...and it was enlightening...
You see, Tom really came out of the information closet as well in this episode, in terms of who was behind Oceanic Flight 815's discovery and how all the dead passengers were "acquired"...the other part was his admittance to Michael that some of the Others could come and go as they pleased on the Island...So far we've seen Ethan, Richard Alpert and Tom out in the real world....and we know Ben likes to travel as well.....It will be interesting to see if Jack and crew try to return to the island, if it will be one of the Others who are responsible for their return....Maybe Sayid gets to come and go now, since he works for Ben...
Which brings me to my other point...something big must happen to Sayid for him to trust Ben enough to work for him...because after he turned Michael into the captain, we know he's not quite there yet......I'm thinking it's "Nadia big"...oh yeah...don't think we haven't seen the last of Nadia...oh no....Sayid is a sucker for the ladies..
But back to Michael...he's seeking redemption for killing Ana Lucia and Libby...which I thought was cool of Ben to tell him that those deaths were his own choosing...Ben didn't ask Michael to kill those women....And Ben is trying to show Michael, that unlike Charles Widmore, he actually cares for innocent life....
But then you got Frank the helicopter pilot saying that Widmore is trying to FIND the Oceanic survivors..so who to believe??
My money is still on Ben..hell I've been wrong on everything else so maybe I'll just start to believe what Ben actually says...They're the good guys...which leads me to ponder this:
Who the HECK is shooting Alex and Karl and Danielle???? Karl for sure is dead and Danielle took a hefty shot to the chest area....Were they set up by Ben? They had every chance to kill Alex as well but she was spared....why?? Because Papa don't preach, he's protecting and possessing his daughter!! Oh my what a tangled web this is....ridiculously so.....
So I guess that's all I have to say about the episode...We saw Walt and he looked fairly normal...it still doesn't explain how Locke saw a taller version of Walt on the Island...Perhaps the smoke monster doesn't have a good accounting of time and felt that Walt's been gone a long time...
And it was good to see Libby, even though she was spooky...But she told Michael not to push the button and he went ahead with it...that was confusing....
And the previews for the rest of the season look kind of promising as well...A WAR is coming...they've been calling for it since back in Season 1...Locke told Boone that they would want Sayid on their side.....see, something's been planned for some time now and it's all coming together...The cake has been prepared and the oven has finished preheating..now let's get COOKING!!!!!....
That's all for me for this week.....if other things pop up that I may have missed I'll update the blog...look for some posts during the next couple of weeks that should be enlightening and frightening.. :)
Later
EPdeLFC
JB
I'll start by saying 5 weeks. 5 weeks until another new episode and it looks like some things are about to get even hairier.....
So let's cut to the heart of the matter, as my good chum Don Henley once said....
Before we go any further, allow me to apologize for my obsession with time travel...I mean, it's definitely prevalent in the Desmond and the Daniel Faraday story but maybe that's where it stops... I fully realize now that it's possible for a complete stranger to board a freighter in search of a mysterious island and the elusive man behind the curtain on less than 2 days notice.....
Just to be specific about the timeline..It looks like Michael has told Walt about killing Ana Lucia and Libby and now he wants to kill himself...
But the "Island won't let you kill yourself!".....yes, much to Michael's dismay, all suicidal tendencies are snuffed by the Island, which means it's influence is not limited to just the Island....let's meander, if you would, around this point for a second and talk Jack...
We've seen Jack in the all encompassing downward spiral of pills and depression and we've seen him attempt to throw himself off of a bridge, but the car crash happened, reminding him that he still had work to do....we also saw him throw caution to the wind before entering the funeral parlor by walking into traffic with no regard for his own safety...So the question is, has Jack tried and failed suicide more than what we've seen?? And has the Island intervened at each point? And if Michael is seeing Libby out of guilt, who is Jack seeing????
But back to the timeline of Michael...so he gets off the Island by Thanksgiving and is trying to kill himself just prior to Christmas....which is how Tom is able to seemingly be in 2 places at once...Tom's part in this episode is prior to Sawyer gunning him down on the beach...and on that note:
Let's have our own flashback, shall we?
"Relax Kate, you're not my type".....Spoken back in Episode 1 of Season 3, by Tom, when he had Kate shower at the Hydra station...Well finally the mystery is SOLVED!! Now we all know what he meant....yes, Tom prefers the company of a man, specifically a handsome fellow by the name of Arturo. To which I say...Bravo!...Bravo, LOST for continuing to embrace all walks of life by being one of the very few shows to portray honest, well rounded characters and not stereotyping...say what you want but to deal with a show that shrouds itself in mystery and science fiction, I think it offers an interesting look at how to have developed characters really drive the story and make it all the more believable...it was a side of Tom that was fun to watch...and it was enlightening...
You see, Tom really came out of the information closet as well in this episode, in terms of who was behind Oceanic Flight 815's discovery and how all the dead passengers were "acquired"...the other part was his admittance to Michael that some of the Others could come and go as they pleased on the Island...So far we've seen Ethan, Richard Alpert and Tom out in the real world....and we know Ben likes to travel as well.....It will be interesting to see if Jack and crew try to return to the island, if it will be one of the Others who are responsible for their return....Maybe Sayid gets to come and go now, since he works for Ben...
Which brings me to my other point...something big must happen to Sayid for him to trust Ben enough to work for him...because after he turned Michael into the captain, we know he's not quite there yet......I'm thinking it's "Nadia big"...oh yeah...don't think we haven't seen the last of Nadia...oh no....Sayid is a sucker for the ladies..
But back to Michael...he's seeking redemption for killing Ana Lucia and Libby...which I thought was cool of Ben to tell him that those deaths were his own choosing...Ben didn't ask Michael to kill those women....And Ben is trying to show Michael, that unlike Charles Widmore, he actually cares for innocent life....
But then you got Frank the helicopter pilot saying that Widmore is trying to FIND the Oceanic survivors..so who to believe??
My money is still on Ben..hell I've been wrong on everything else so maybe I'll just start to believe what Ben actually says...They're the good guys...which leads me to ponder this:
Who the HECK is shooting Alex and Karl and Danielle???? Karl for sure is dead and Danielle took a hefty shot to the chest area....Were they set up by Ben? They had every chance to kill Alex as well but she was spared....why?? Because Papa don't preach, he's protecting and possessing his daughter!! Oh my what a tangled web this is....ridiculously so.....
So I guess that's all I have to say about the episode...We saw Walt and he looked fairly normal...it still doesn't explain how Locke saw a taller version of Walt on the Island...Perhaps the smoke monster doesn't have a good accounting of time and felt that Walt's been gone a long time...
And it was good to see Libby, even though she was spooky...But she told Michael not to push the button and he went ahead with it...that was confusing....
And the previews for the rest of the season look kind of promising as well...A WAR is coming...they've been calling for it since back in Season 1...Locke told Boone that they would want Sayid on their side.....see, something's been planned for some time now and it's all coming together...The cake has been prepared and the oven has finished preheating..now let's get COOKING!!!!!....
That's all for me for this week.....if other things pop up that I may have missed I'll update the blog...look for some posts during the next couple of weeks that should be enlightening and frightening.. :)
Later
EPdeLFC
JB
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Meet Magic Johnson....
HELLOOOOO LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!
Here it is....the last episode before the 5 week break....aargh....well at least it should be a good one..As we saw last week, Shoot 'em up Mike is back on the show....and he's on the freighter headed back to the Island....so the big question is how is this happening??
All signs are pointing to the time travel element of the show...we've seen it with Desmond, albeit it was a mind time travel situation...I don't think the same can be said for Michael...we saw Michael and Walt leave the island less than a month ago..sort of..remember the short time line that's actually part of the story-This is roughly day 100 or so since the plane crash....That really doesn't leave a lot of time to get on board a freighter as someone else...unless he met the freighter when he left the island, on one of those infamous shipping lanes...you know, that one that Tom Hanks found when he was a cast away..anyway, I digress...
This week is promising to be informative and interesting, not only with the Michael story but also with the Ben story...it looks like Yoda is going to share the same info he shared with Locke...it must be pretty good to get out of the jail and into his own place....THAT dude is an amazing salesman....If you ever shot me in my non existent kidney, I'll be damned if I'm going to let you set up shop next door, youknowwhatImean??
One of the other mysteries that seems to have some people all up in arms is the identity of the Oceanic 6.....Here's what we know for sure: Kate Jack Hurley Sun and Sayid are DEFINITELY 5 of the 6...The question is who's the 6th?
There's an argument out there that the 6th is Aaron....but how can that be? He technically wasn't a passenger on Flight 815..well TECHNICALLY he was a passenger on Claire, who was a passenger on the plane..but that's a bit graphic....even for me.. :)
Then there's the whole thing about Kate raising Aaron as her own son...certainly that would mean that he came back with them when they were rescued....so he would have to be the 6th, right?
Well I'm not signing up for anything....this is the kind of show that can put a full size 747 in the bottom of the ocean and stock it full of 300 odd dead bodies...this is the kind of show that can still find a way to deliver drop shipments of DHARMA oatmeal and boxed wine after the seeming demise of the DHARMA initiative....this is the kind of show that can throw a guy out of an 8 story window, smash his body and leave him only paralyzed from the waist down and then have him crash land on an island that gives him the ability to walk again.....yeah...I think this is also the kind of show that could figure out a way to have Aaron be one of the 6...but since the writers aren't confirming who they are, I'll be reserving judgement....
It's funny..as I was typing this, a promo for last week's show(DVR) came on, saying that the last of the 6 would be revealed....so there's an answer, I guess....hahaha...this dang show....
Later LOSTIES...see you on Friday with a wrap UP!!
EPdeLFC,
JB
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Time Plot thickens
HELLLOOOO LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay...we'll get to the return of Michael in a second...or are we calling him Mr Johnson?...either way, he's not really the hot topic just yet....yet...
So Sun got off the island and had her baby....and we were watching Jin running around at seemingly the same time trying to buy a panda bear....for the ambassador of China....on an errand for his father in law....but Jin is dead...or at least buried....so how is this happening??????
This one is a head scratcher...or is it? Let's examine the clues.....
The first clue is the Year of the Dragon reference by the toy stoy owner...according to this:http://www.chinaorbit.com/china-culture/chinese-zodiac/year-of-the-dragon.html
the year of the dragon is 2000...This would be 4 years before Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on the Island...The second clue is that Jin has only been married for 2 months and he's working for Sun's father...So Jin's part is definitely happening PRIOR to Oceanic Flight 815....
Sun, as we all know, is pregnant on the Island in 2004.....as Juliet said "in 3 weeks, you will die"...do the math with the fact that, on the Island, women reach the middle of their second trimester and Sun is 15 weeks pregnant.... that means 5 months later she gives birth to Ji Yeon, so May 2005...we know she is part of the Oceanic 6, which for a recap I guess would consist of: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun and Aaron......
Then there's the headstone, which has Jin's death as 9/22/ 2004, the day of the Oceanic crash....so he never made it off the Island.....and the fact that one sharp dressed Hurley is there...
So Jin's story is a flashback and Sun's is a flash forward.....My first thought was that's an easy way out and it really doesn't make much sense in terms of reasoning...why bother telling some lame-o story about Jin trying to acquire a teddy bear??? It's filler and pointless, unless it was meant to confuse...which it was...You get the build up that he makes it to the hospital just in time to deliver the panda and then you realize that his is the flashback and her's is the flashforward...SO Jin never makes it off the Island...and the way Sun is emotional would indicate that he is dead because certainly she would be more adamant about getting back to the Island...
A nice twist on the whole flashback/flashforward angle...employing them both in one episode....very sneaky, sis!
So here's a theory about how this might pan out:
Jack wants to get back to the Island, desperately
Hurley is being summoned by the ghost of Charlie to return to the Island...
Kate has Aaron and doesn't want to go back to the Island at all....
Sayid is working as an assassin for Ben to protect the Island...
Sun has a baby and is the only one thus far who appears to be living a healthy lifestyle, although she does have a baby that was concieved on a magical Island...
So maybe in the near future we will see that the folks who were left behind are in danger and it's possible that Claire and Jin are still alive...perhaps the Oceanic 6 were chosen randomly and now they need to go back to help their fellow LOSTIES....I don't know how this is going to play but damn, it's getting fun!!!
Now as far as Kevin Johnson is concerned, this will most likely deal with time travel....I think Ben put Michael and Walt on a heading off the Island that would put them into a different time..Think about how the helicopter took off from the Island with Sayid and Des and landed a day later...It's entirely plausible with this show that Michael ends up back in time, maybe a year or so and is "recruited", much like Sayid in the future.......REMEMBER, he's only been off the Island for about 30 days at the most....I highly doubt this is enough time to get a new identity and infiltrate a boat that's headed back to the Island....but maybe he does...It only took me 35 days to do the same back in 1996....but I had a lot more hair back then so that helped....what the hell am I talking about??!..........
Anyway, next week will set all of that straight...be prepared for time travel, alien abduction and the Watergate tapes....who knows how this thing will go.......
That's it LOSTIES......
EPdeLFC, JB
Okay...we'll get to the return of Michael in a second...or are we calling him Mr Johnson?...either way, he's not really the hot topic just yet....yet...
So Sun got off the island and had her baby....and we were watching Jin running around at seemingly the same time trying to buy a panda bear....for the ambassador of China....on an errand for his father in law....but Jin is dead...or at least buried....so how is this happening??????
This one is a head scratcher...or is it? Let's examine the clues.....
The first clue is the Year of the Dragon reference by the toy stoy owner...according to this:http://www.chinaorbit.com/china-culture/chinese-zodiac/year-of-the-dragon.html
the year of the dragon is 2000...This would be 4 years before Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on the Island...The second clue is that Jin has only been married for 2 months and he's working for Sun's father...So Jin's part is definitely happening PRIOR to Oceanic Flight 815....
Sun, as we all know, is pregnant on the Island in 2004.....as Juliet said "in 3 weeks, you will die"...do the math with the fact that, on the Island, women reach the middle of their second trimester and Sun is 15 weeks pregnant.... that means 5 months later she gives birth to Ji Yeon, so May 2005...we know she is part of the Oceanic 6, which for a recap I guess would consist of: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun and Aaron......
Then there's the headstone, which has Jin's death as 9/22/ 2004, the day of the Oceanic crash....so he never made it off the Island.....and the fact that one sharp dressed Hurley is there...
So Jin's story is a flashback and Sun's is a flash forward.....My first thought was that's an easy way out and it really doesn't make much sense in terms of reasoning...why bother telling some lame-o story about Jin trying to acquire a teddy bear??? It's filler and pointless, unless it was meant to confuse...which it was...You get the build up that he makes it to the hospital just in time to deliver the panda and then you realize that his is the flashback and her's is the flashforward...SO Jin never makes it off the Island...and the way Sun is emotional would indicate that he is dead because certainly she would be more adamant about getting back to the Island...
A nice twist on the whole flashback/flashforward angle...employing them both in one episode....very sneaky, sis!
So here's a theory about how this might pan out:
Jack wants to get back to the Island, desperately
Hurley is being summoned by the ghost of Charlie to return to the Island...
Kate has Aaron and doesn't want to go back to the Island at all....
Sayid is working as an assassin for Ben to protect the Island...
Sun has a baby and is the only one thus far who appears to be living a healthy lifestyle, although she does have a baby that was concieved on a magical Island...
So maybe in the near future we will see that the folks who were left behind are in danger and it's possible that Claire and Jin are still alive...perhaps the Oceanic 6 were chosen randomly and now they need to go back to help their fellow LOSTIES....I don't know how this is going to play but damn, it's getting fun!!!
Now as far as Kevin Johnson is concerned, this will most likely deal with time travel....I think Ben put Michael and Walt on a heading off the Island that would put them into a different time..Think about how the helicopter took off from the Island with Sayid and Des and landed a day later...It's entirely plausible with this show that Michael ends up back in time, maybe a year or so and is "recruited", much like Sayid in the future.......REMEMBER, he's only been off the Island for about 30 days at the most....I highly doubt this is enough time to get a new identity and infiltrate a boat that's headed back to the Island....but maybe he does...It only took me 35 days to do the same back in 1996....but I had a lot more hair back then so that helped....what the hell am I talking about??!..........
Anyway, next week will set all of that straight...be prepared for time travel, alien abduction and the Watergate tapes....who knows how this thing will go.......
That's it LOSTIES......
EPdeLFC, JB
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Cowboys Like Us
HELLOOOOO LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tonight we have an all new episode of LOST entitled : Ji Yeon....I'll let the Korean name do the talking for me and let you figure out who the show is centered on....I also think the promos tell you as well.....I will spoil this for you: Jin's English is getting better by the day....I think the island can not only make a paralyzed man walk, it can also get you hooked on Phonics....
So today's update is a little informational, a little fun at the show's expense and the link at the bottom is a great interview with the show's Executive Producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof...I highly recommend the read....
So, now for the fun...as you all know, I find pictures from the episodes from time to time and post them on the blog....I try to come up with something witty to say, in lieu of the actual dialogue...a "Mad Libs", if you will...So here are some photos from episodes so far, with a couple of attempts at humor...I will thank you all in advance for indulging me....
"That was a lovely dance....here is your dollar"
OR
"I'm sorry you didn't find it "sexy"...here is your dollar back."
There goes Ben...getting his ROLL on....
"Now, Sawyer, we'll need you to try to look seductive in this shot........"
".....Or maybe this would be better......."
"....Or this......"
..THAT'S IT!!!!!.......wait...can we get another button removed?!?!?!"
These were all courtesy of ONE episode: #4 "Eggtown"...
"What?!...I cannn't bloody hear yew....what?...You "just called to say I love you"...who is this?...Stevie?!...."
Okay...so they aren't all solid gold but I have to admit..everytime I read the Ben one I laugh....maybe I should have stopped there.... :)
One more thing: I HIGHLY recommend you guys check out the comments section at the bottom of each blog...Sometimes it's like a whole nother blog has been written...I love all the comments from the LOSTIES!!!!!!! That's what this whole thing was for: creating a forum where I lead with an extremely self biased iron fist...
Enjoy this link and enjoy tonight's show!!!
http://www.ugo.com/tv/lost/?cur=darlton
Source: courtesy of UGO.com
EPdeLFC...................JBizzle
Tonight we have an all new episode of LOST entitled : Ji Yeon....I'll let the Korean name do the talking for me and let you figure out who the show is centered on....I also think the promos tell you as well.....I will spoil this for you: Jin's English is getting better by the day....I think the island can not only make a paralyzed man walk, it can also get you hooked on Phonics....
So today's update is a little informational, a little fun at the show's expense and the link at the bottom is a great interview with the show's Executive Producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof...I highly recommend the read....
So, now for the fun...as you all know, I find pictures from the episodes from time to time and post them on the blog....I try to come up with something witty to say, in lieu of the actual dialogue...a "Mad Libs", if you will...So here are some photos from episodes so far, with a couple of attempts at humor...I will thank you all in advance for indulging me....
"That was a lovely dance....here is your dollar"
OR
"I'm sorry you didn't find it "sexy"...here is your dollar back."
There goes Ben...getting his ROLL on....
"Now, Sawyer, we'll need you to try to look seductive in this shot........"
".....Or maybe this would be better......."
"....Or this......"
..THAT'S IT!!!!!.......wait...can we get another button removed?!?!?!"
These were all courtesy of ONE episode: #4 "Eggtown"...
"What?!...I cannn't bloody hear yew....what?...You "just called to say I love you"...who is this?...Stevie?!...."
Okay...so they aren't all solid gold but I have to admit..everytime I read the Ben one I laugh....maybe I should have stopped there.... :)
One more thing: I HIGHLY recommend you guys check out the comments section at the bottom of each blog...Sometimes it's like a whole nother blog has been written...I love all the comments from the LOSTIES!!!!!!! That's what this whole thing was for: creating a forum where I lead with an extremely self biased iron fist...
Enjoy this link and enjoy tonight's show!!!
http://www.ugo.com/tv/lost/?cur=darlton
Source: courtesy of UGO.com
EPdeLFC...................JBizzle
Friday, March 7, 2008
About dang time
"Look! I know it's raining and we're in the jungle in the middle of a mysterious island and you just saw a your ex lover's wife and she just appeared out of nowhere and then some whispers happened and she disappeared but she told you to kill some people who just arrived on the island and you appear to be upset about that, BUT really....how do you feel about ME?!?"
Helloooooo LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I first need to apologize...I started this blog last Friday and never got around to finishing it...I think it had something to do with being exhausted and trying to fend off a snow shovelling heart attack...my driveway is over 100 feet long and I had to dig my way to the curb in order for the pizza delivery guy to get his job done....so without further ado..here's the update...
It's not often I disparage this great show but as a fearless leader, sometimes I need to call 'em like I see 'em......If I were Simon Cowell giving a critique of episode 3:06 "The Other Woman", I would call it OBVIOUS.....and that's where I have my biggest problem...this show has never been as obvious as it was tonight, which leads me to be a little skeptical about what we're being told...
I guess the biggest thing I could site as obvious is Ben's insane infatuation with Juliet....we all saw that a mile away...The interesting line here was spoken by the therapist, Harper Stanhope( note the name as an anagram: Another perhaps) when she says : You look just like her.....methinks this is more in reference to Ben's childhood sweetheart, who gave him the doll on his birthday...her name escapes me at this point...
The next biggest case of obviousness is the fact that Charles Widmore, Penny's dad is behind the freighter folks showing up...The question now becomes: Is Ben being honest about not knowing why Widmore is going through all this trouble to find the island? Again, methinks not....I'm not sure where the word methinks got it's start but I like using it apparently....
I know there were some other things about the show that might be worth examining deeper but truthfully, I felt it said all it had to say....it really is that point in the season that some episodes feel like they are stretching the inevitable and shoring up some mythology or overstating some points...NOT THAT I'M COMPLAINING....I think they are building up for some big show stopping stuff for the end of the season....I look forward to it all...
Speaking of which, it looks like they are going to air the already filmed episode 8, entitled "Meet Kevin Johnson" next week, instead of postponing it until they have all of their other episodes filmed....also the season finale will be a 2 hour event, aired over 2 weeks because Grey's Anatomy has the bigger pull aparrently and for LOST to stay on Thursday night, it needs to break up it's finale....whatever...I swear this show can't catch a scheduling break to save it's life...The first season it had a crappy lead in and a crappy after show...The second season everyone berated the reruns and it had an even crappier lead in ....the third season they try the old "Air 6 episodes and then take a 13 week break"....that didn't work....and now, the writers strike wreaked it's havoc on the scheduling...if it weren't such a great show, it would have been cancelled a long time ago....jeez...who put that soapbox there??.....
Anyway, let's go out on a high note....Fellas, this one is for you:
El Prez..OUT
Helloooooo LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I first need to apologize...I started this blog last Friday and never got around to finishing it...I think it had something to do with being exhausted and trying to fend off a snow shovelling heart attack...my driveway is over 100 feet long and I had to dig my way to the curb in order for the pizza delivery guy to get his job done....so without further ado..here's the update...
It's not often I disparage this great show but as a fearless leader, sometimes I need to call 'em like I see 'em......If I were Simon Cowell giving a critique of episode 3:06 "The Other Woman", I would call it OBVIOUS.....and that's where I have my biggest problem...this show has never been as obvious as it was tonight, which leads me to be a little skeptical about what we're being told...
I guess the biggest thing I could site as obvious is Ben's insane infatuation with Juliet....we all saw that a mile away...The interesting line here was spoken by the therapist, Harper Stanhope( note the name as an anagram: Another perhaps) when she says : You look just like her.....methinks this is more in reference to Ben's childhood sweetheart, who gave him the doll on his birthday...her name escapes me at this point...
The next biggest case of obviousness is the fact that Charles Widmore, Penny's dad is behind the freighter folks showing up...The question now becomes: Is Ben being honest about not knowing why Widmore is going through all this trouble to find the island? Again, methinks not....I'm not sure where the word methinks got it's start but I like using it apparently....
I know there were some other things about the show that might be worth examining deeper but truthfully, I felt it said all it had to say....it really is that point in the season that some episodes feel like they are stretching the inevitable and shoring up some mythology or overstating some points...NOT THAT I'M COMPLAINING....I think they are building up for some big show stopping stuff for the end of the season....I look forward to it all...
Speaking of which, it looks like they are going to air the already filmed episode 8, entitled "Meet Kevin Johnson" next week, instead of postponing it until they have all of their other episodes filmed....also the season finale will be a 2 hour event, aired over 2 weeks because Grey's Anatomy has the bigger pull aparrently and for LOST to stay on Thursday night, it needs to break up it's finale....whatever...I swear this show can't catch a scheduling break to save it's life...The first season it had a crappy lead in and a crappy after show...The second season everyone berated the reruns and it had an even crappier lead in ....the third season they try the old "Air 6 episodes and then take a 13 week break"....that didn't work....and now, the writers strike wreaked it's havoc on the scheduling...if it weren't such a great show, it would have been cancelled a long time ago....jeez...who put that soapbox there??.....
Anyway, let's go out on a high note....Fellas, this one is for you:
El Prez..OUT
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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
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