3 posts from January 2009

No, it's not a throwback to the Archie's but with this show...I wouldn't be surprised if Veronica and Archie showed up at some point.  As with the last, this season has not disappointed so far.  Tonight's episode opens with a new addition to Desmond & Penny's houseboat, and I don't mean a patio.  Little Charlie (hee!) is now offspring #3 of the Losties group that have left the island.  As we know.  For now.  It's cute how he's named after the late, great Charlie Pace (or so we think).  He did, after all, save Desmond and let him reunite with Penny.  However, Charles is also the name of Penny's infamous father.  Who, we assume, doesn't know that little Charlie exists.  Probably for the better.

Meanwhile, back on craphole island, the remaining Losties are running around, trying to make sense where they are in time and who the thugs are that keep harrassing them.  I thought that in the previous episode Locke had killed their captors but instead just overtook them.  Turns out they speak Latin as a form of Other code.  Coincidentally, Juliet speaks Latin too.  Just something she picked up while spending time as an Other in Otherton.  Guess it's like riding a bicycle. 

In another part of the island, Myles, Daniel and Charlotte were captured by more thugs (and a thugette).  Apparently there's a bomb on the island that's causing some concern and only Daniel knows how to disarm it.  Lucky for all.  However, he has to try to convince the new, old Others that he knows what he's doing and since the new old Others are highly skeptical, he needed to prove that his intentions were good because wouldn't want to bring harm to Charlotte, to whom he professed his undying love & devotion (BLETCH!).  So, with that thugette Ellie takes Daniel to the bomb tower of doom and introduces him to Jughead where Daniel notices that the bomb is leaking and they need to bury it so it doesn't go off and blow everyone to smithereens.  Or somesuch catastrophe.  Thugette Ellie doesn't buy it and does not back off.  And she looks familiar to Daniel.  Hmm... 

As Lock, Sawyer and Juliette march the thugs back to their hideout, Locke decides to pull rank and demands to speak to Richard.  This is when we find out Richard & Co. are living in 1953 (or was it '55?).  At any rate, as far as Richard is concerned, he's never met Locke so he's intrigued as to his talk of knowing him "in the future."  And by the way, the little punk-ass thug is none other than a young Widmore -- Charles Widmore!  Heee!!

Bent on finding Mrs. Faraday, Desmond goes to Oxford but does not find her.  That would've been too easy.  Instead, he gets put off by the registrar's office saying there's no such person or persons by the name of Faraday who worked there.  Unthwarted, he decided to go snooping through the halls and finds a locked room and goes inside.  Lo and behold, it's the classroom Daniel was doing his calculations in.  He then proceeds to get busted by the janitor who actually didn't seem to concerned about him snooping around.  This is where it gets foggy for me because I went downstairs to get some hot cocoa during a commercial and it came back on before I returned, but Desmond goes to a hospital and sees a woman lying in a bed.  From what the boards say, she too was suffering from the nosebleed of death, or something similar.  I didn't catch who she was but I'm sure I'll know soon enough.

Unsuccessful at finding Mrs. Faraday at Oxford, Desmond goes straight to the source -- Widmore himself.  I was afraid for him when he showed up in Widdy's office.  I thought Widdy was going to use his evil Darth Sidious force to strangle him upon appearing, but he was rather civil and told Des that he could find Mrs. Faraday in L.A.  Now, from his reputation, I wouldn't trust him to give me the correct time.  But, Desmond seemed convinced - grateful even - about the information and went on his merry little way. 

Back on the houseboat, Des decided to lie to Penny about finding Mrs. F.  Penny, however, has weird Spidey powers that sense when he's lying because she totally called him on it and he ended up confessing.  Crazy kids.  I wonder how long it's going to take them to sail to L.A.  I guess there's no hurry.  Oh wait...

And for the record, it's okay with me if Charlotte dies (even though they're only teasing me with the possibility).  I mean, she's the most useless character thus far.  Myles brings on the snark and can sense/see/talk to/feel/read dead people and even Juliet had something to do this episode.  Of course, Daniel is the brains of the whole time travel.  Charlotte is disposable.  She and her perma-bitchface and get off my screen now.

So, I think thugette Ellie is going to be future Mrs. Hawking.  We already know snot-nosed thug twerp is Widdy.  I think Widdy is also Daniel's father so he and Penny would be half (?) siblings.  We don't know who Penny's mother is so it could also theoretically be Mrs. Hawking.  I'm glad this show has an ending because at this rate, especially with all the kidlets and the time jumping, it could possibly go on forever!

The folks over at Lost were trying to be cute with their 2-hour season premiere by giving each hour their own "titles."  Truth is, I almost turned it off after the first hour!  Good thing I didn't because we'd all hear the scream heard around the world.  (Which I know is totally unnecessary because I could always catch it on their website, but still...)

I love this show and everything, but nothing like a good mind-effing, time jumping, 4-year detailed series of stories backstories and subplots to really make me feel like a wee, little pea-brain.  I can't even remember what I had for dinner last night, much more who the hell Mrs. (Ms?) Hawking is!  Yes, I consider myself a fan, but I consider my brain rather rusty when it comes to these sort of things.  I can't even remember the names of all my first cousins without paper, pencil and a chart.  But Lost....oh Lost, you had me at eyeball.

Season 5 opens with seeing what happens to the Losties after Benry moved the island at the end of last season.  If we thought that was an amazing feat, boy, they really let loose all the crazy during this episode.  We see a flashback of Marvin Candle/Mr. Chang (or whatever) prepping to film yet another one of his Dharma orientation vidos.  It appears he's some sort of mad scientist who is in charge of all the excavating by what looked like the Donkey Wheel.  I dunno.  I was already lost.  Heh!  After handling some emergency at the excavation, we see none other than Daniel dressed as a crewman!  Huh?  Apparently he either time-jumped or is related to Richard-the-eyeline-guy who never ages. 

The O6 are back at their respective homes, minding their own business, living the lie, until Jack makes it his mission to right what Locke says went wrong, which was the O6 leaving the island.  So, with Benry's help (hee -- they're roomies!), he tries to round up the O6 so they can get back to the island and save the Losties-still-on-the-island.  However, that's not as easy as it sounds.  Sayid talked Hurley into leaving the asylum and run to a safe house with him.  Turns out, however, that the house wasn't so safe because they were ambushed upon arrival wherein Sayid, although killing the bad guys with his badass ways among them via dishwasher, managed to get stuck in the neck with some sort of paralyzing dart.  Poor Hugo had to carry an unconscious Sayid and hightail it out of that area lest they get nabbed by the cops.  Then they really couldn't get back to the island!

As Hugo drives erratically through the streets of LA (as does everyone else), he sees flashing lights behind him and decides to pull over.  With a passed-out Sayid in the passenger seat.  After being wanted for murder at the (not so) safe house.  This did not bode well until the approaching police officer turned out to be none other than the reanimated corpse of Ana Lucia.  Ok, she wasn't exactly a zombie, but she wasn't actually there, either.  This was all an illusion courtesy of Hugo's special I-see-and-talk-to-dead-people powers.  And it's a good thing too, because AnaL gave him some pretty good advice about how to avoid the cops and to go somewhere safe to hide.  And, oh yea, "Libby says Hi."  Heee!

Hugo being Hugo went to the only safe place he knew and that was home where he was greeted by Cheech! - I mean, his dad.  His dad being a dad, of course offers to help Hurley in any way he can even if it meant lying to the cops who, not surprisingly, shortly appeared at his doorstep.  Poor Sayid was still passed out but lying comfortably on the Reyes' livingroom couch.

Meanwhile back on the island, we see Bernard! and Rose! and Sawyer! and Frogurt?  Ok, here's where I had a brain fart and couldn't remember what Frogurt's deal was.  I knew he was in the early episodes and met his demise as a red shirt but I didn't remember anything else about him.  At first I thought he was Dr. Arzt and we might see him get blown up again.  Yay alzheimers.

Anyway, poor Bernard is being henpecked by Rose (boo to to the writers for this!) and is also being hassled by Frogurt for not being able to start a fire in an effective and timely manner.  Well, I don't exactly see a bunch of other people (Rose and Frogurt, I'm looking at you) giving it the old college try either, so stuff it lazy asses!  And, for whatever reason, Sawyer was bent on getting a shirt.  Why?  I don't know.  The funny thing was, no one wanted to give him one!  In retrospect, he should have been more concerned about acquiring footwear instead.

We also see that Juliet, Myles, Daniel and Charlotte are safe.  yay.  So far Charlotte and Juliet have proved to be just excess baggage while Myles went out and got a boar for dinner (maybe his special-powers-of-also-talking-to-the-dead people told him where to get it?) and Daniel is the brains behind all the timewarp jumping.  And, I'd like to add just for the record I am absolutely CONFUSED as to the whole time jumping thing.  My tiny brain cannot compute its complexity.  I just can't do it.  And I'm not even going to try.  All I know is that after Benry turned that donkey wheel and made the island move, the island kept jumping in time during this episode.  Drove me absolutely batty.

Daniel, however knows how it works and is doing all he can to try to "fix" things, especially when Charlotte starts to get the nosebleed of death that fell Minkowski.  After whiney Frogurt gets on everyone's last nerve, he immediately gets speared with a flaming arrow.  Talk about irony.  Unfortunately, all the beachies become targets of hundreds of flying flaming arrows.  Where they came from, nobody knows.  All the beachies run into the woods headed for the creek.  I guess flaming arrows can't hurt you in the woods...oh wait.  But, for some reason, they cease.

Meanwhile, a bright light overcomes the islanders and WHOOSH time travel.  Locke was with Richard one minute and after the flashing light, he's by himself.  Except for the sniper in the woods.  Hey look, it's Tom Cruise's cousin, Ethan, also back from the dead.  Except this was before he was killed.  Because this was a time jump to the past.  Huh?  Right.  Just as Ethan was about to kill Locke, another flash of light and WHOOSH, we're in another time.  And Richard happens to be here this time.  Richard tries to explain to Lock about what's going on but since I didn't quite get it I'm not even going to assume what he was saying.  It made sense to Locke, though, and gave him a compass while reminding him what it does ("It points North.").  Heee!  Oh Richard, I'd love to borrow your makeup someday! 

Meanwhile, Daniel is now bent on finding something (someone) to help out his little friend and he sees Desmond!  A hazmat suit wearing, rifle-toting Desmond!  Hee!  He tells a skeptical Desmond that his help is needed, bla bla bla and to go to Oxford University in the future and talk to his mom.  Of course we don't hear anymore detail because we see another flash and the scene jumps to present-day Desmond waking from a deep sleep bent on going to Oxford because he "remembered" something.  Oy!

The remaining O6, Sun, Khate and Turniphead are discussing current issues.  (Well, not Turniphead so much as he's crashed on the couch.)  Khate's on the run from the sheriff (AGAIN) because she was bullied into thinking that they can just come and take a DNA sample from her and Turniphead to prove that they are not related.  She'd rather be a fugitive than to be called a liar.  Sun and Widmore have some Godfather/mafia thing going on while Widmore is channelling Rodney Dangerfield with his cries for respect.  Sun's got something up her sleeve and I hope part of it involves bitchslapping Khate just because it would be well-deserved.

Odd couple Jack and Benry are fixing to leave for their trip.  Felix tells Oscar to pack everything he cares about in his little bag because he'll never be back again (or something like that) and he's leaving for six hours but will be back later to pick him up.  Benry needed to put the body of Jeremy Bentham aka John Locke on ice and took him to the butcher shop.  Naturally.  His contact at the butcher shop, Jill, is probably someone I should remember from years past, but I don't.  She does know, however, exactly what he needs.  Hmmm.

Back at the Reyes', Hugo's mom finds Sayid on her livingroom couch and asks why there's a dead Pakistni in her livingroom.  Probably one of the funniest lines of the night!  Hugo, tired of all the lying finally comes clean to his momma and tells her everything.  Of course it sounds crazy.  Try telling this story to anyone and even the most sanest of people are going to sound looney tunes.  However, his mother believes him.  Aww.  Because, dammit, it's all true!  Hurley does the right thing and lets his dad take Sayid to a doctor.....Dr. Jack, of course! 

Sayid never ceases to amaze me with his badassedness.  Upon being revived by Jack from an unconscious state, he immediately comes to and begins to throttle Jack within an inch of his life!  Oh, if only he succeeded.  But alas, Jack had to tell him who he was bla bla bla and Sayid let him go.  Close to having the O6 together, Benry goes to the Reyes' to fetch Hugo.  Hugo, however, doesn't want to play along anymore and proved his seriousness by throwing a freshly-nuked Hotpocket at Benry!  Getting slammed by one of those things could be lethal!  Benry was lucky to have escape unscathed.  Hugo, however, was not so lucky to escape the cops, as he actually ran out to them so as to not get sucked in by Benry and his plans.

Back on the island, a now-shirted (boo!) Sawyer and Juliette are running through the woods when Sawyer steps on something sharp.  See, this is why footwear would have been a better choice!  As they pause to examine the injury, they hear footsteps and are soon accosted by some thugs who demand to know what they're doing on their island. Because of all the time-travelling, I have no clue as to who these people could be, but they were seriously hard-core as they were about to chop off one of Juliette's hands.  Just as one of them was about to, Locke comes to the rescue and mows down all the bad guys.  Yay Locke.  Too bad you had to die in the present.  Or did you....? 

Back at some other place that looks like a classroom upstairs and a church downstairs (?!), a woman is scribbling some mathmatical formula on a chalkboard and then goes downstairs to the church where we see Benry lighting some candles.  Why he wasn't also struck by lightning is a mystery to all of us.  The woman turns out to be Mrs. Hawking (from the Desmond flashback) who may or may not be Daniel's mother (which is my theory because she does math!), who may or may not be the brains behind all of Benry's shenanigans.  She gives Benry a timeframe of 70 hours to get something done.  Presumably get the O6 back on the island, but again...it could be anything.  And what does this mean anyway?  Why 70 hours?  Why do they all need to go back?  Benry is concerned because Hurley's out and that could be problematic. I wanna know what about Walt and Michael?  Ok, Tall Walt and the reanimated corpse of Michael?  Don't they count?  Why does this show generate more questions with each and every episode? Why? Why? Why?!  

By the way, if they don't do whatever in 70 hours....God help us all.  And He'll probably start with a lightning bolt to Benry's head. 

...Like Donkey Kong!  Woot! 

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I'm such a nerd when it comes to this show, it's almost embarrassing.  Almost.  Ok, not such a great fan when I couldn't remember if the premiere was on tonight or tomorrow since it had been on Thursdays previously.  Also, not my fault their stupid hiatus is almost a year long.  I did hear a rumor, though, that they're going to cut that out and just do their seasons like normal boys and girls do and take the usual amount of time off in between seasons, at the usual breaks (summer, winter) until the series' end in about 3 more years.  It's about time, people!  Get with it! 

I've invested too much time, emotion and energy into this show to have really "forgotten" about it, but their monkey scheduling doesn't exactly make it easy to keep up with.  Fortunately, I got on their website and saw a couple of previews and --WOOT-- got back into it!  When we last left the show what seems like eons ago, the Losties got themselves separated.  Some got back to civilization, some were blown up on a ship (perhaps?), some were left on the island that "moved" and we were to believe that at least one (Locke) or possibly two (Jin) had died.  Knowing this show, some of these statements may not exactly be true.

The preview showed that we had to look forward to Jack still being manipulated by Benry.  And, oddly enough, I still find that rat-bastard mad genius Benry oddly intriguing.  We also get a glimpse of Khate on the run yet again.  This time with Turniphead in tow.  Did she really think people were going to buy that he's her kid?  I guess so.  But not for long because she's wanted for DNA testing and she ain't gonna have any of it so she's taking the kid on the run.  Nice.  She's not exactly the brightest bulb but her antics make for good storytelling, I s'pose.

What I want to know is what's going on back at the movable island.  This show, and only this show is going to allow me to suspend my disbelief about this impossibility.  Only because it has a great cast and (most of the time) some good writing.  The downside is that this show is my crack, and for the next few days I'm going to be obsessing about it.

That is, until next week...