19 posts tagged “lost tawk”

Yay!  Last night's episode was a thousand times better than last week's absolute dreck!  As always, I don't even know where to start.  It was a Locke-back, which was just awesome.  Poor young Locke.  How awesome was it that he drew SMOKEY as a child.  Smokey, people!!  And how was seeing Richard "guyliner" in that FB not one of the best WTF moments in television?!  Of course, while we got answers, we got questions.  Why was Abbadon an orderly in Locke's hospital?  Is Claire dead?  If she is, why is she still wearing a bandaid on her head?  What happened to Jacob and why is Christian speaking on his behalf?  What has Claire been smoking that she looked so stoned and didn't care Turniphead wasn't with her?  And, how creepy was that whole entire effin' cabin scene?!

So, there's the captain who tried to be a hero and tried to stop that bastard Keamy from doing more damage to our Losties and their island.    However, he was quickly cut down by that rat-bastard Keamy.  Boo!  I want to see more of

Captain Hunky!

Captain Beefcake!  I hope we do see more of him through some flashbacks or something.  Anything.  More!  More!  More!  More!    Ok, back to our regularly scheduled programming...

And, how awesome has Frank turned out to be?!  I mean, he has really put his neck on the line trying to help the Losties.  Keamy and Co. better leave him alone!  Sayid leaves the freighter to go back to the island while Desmond stays behind.  Oh, and Michael is still there getting beat to a pulp.  Poor Michael.  Man can't get a break.  What I don't understand is how Sayid is going to find the island when everyone and their uncle seems to have a hard time doing so.  And, on a tiny boat.  Just when we almost had a Jack-free show, he had to find the pack with the phone in it that Frank threw out of the helicopter.  And, of course, Jack is going to try to do something "heroic" and lead everyone into danger.  Again.  Or whatever. 

So, how creepy was it that it was confirmed that Richard Does. Not. Age.  Aaack!  They need to do some 'splainin about that one.  Yea, it's been speculated that he was part of the original crew of the Black Rock, along with possibly Widmore, but with this show...who knows!  Speaking of which, I totally thought Horace was Jacob because their profiles looked similar.  So, Christian and Jacob are in cahoots, and now they've got Claire all stoned and happy.  I guess it didn't strike Locke as strange that Christian and Jacob said the only way to save the island was to move it.  Yea, with this show and the shenanigans that have been going on...that makes perfect sense.

Next week is part one of a two-part season ender.  I'm kind of sad to see this season end and angry that we got gyped out of several episodes due to that writers' strike.  The writers were on a radio show last week and said there were only about 36 episodes left in the series.  As much as I'd like some more answers to many of the dropped plots on this show...I really don't want to see it end so quickly.  I mean, there's so much dreck that lasted much longer it's really a shame this is ending so soon.  But, I guess with all the outlandish storylines going on, it would be difficult to suspend belief for much longer.  In the meantime, I'm totally this show's biatch. 

I actually stayed up and watched last night's episode!  Yay for me.  Unfortunately, it was not as exciting or interesting as last week's show.   It was a bit of a rollercoaster ride for me, and not in a "whee!" kind of way, but in a "I-think-I'm-going-to-be-sick-and-hurl" kind of way.

First of all, it's a Jackisode.  Need I say more?  I think Matthew Fox is very attractive, but when he plays Jack, all I see is a weak, simpering, girly-man.  I don't despise the character, I just don't find him leader-worthy.  When that person-in-the-shower scene came on, I was afraid it was going to be Julia (hurl!).  But, when it turned out to be Kate…was I relieved?  Hell-to-the-NO!  Wow, which is the less of the two evils?  In this case, it's a tie.  As much as I find Jack to be lackluster and wimpy, he doesn't deserve either of those two shrews.  It appears Jack and Kate are playing house in this FF.  Oh joy.

And how disappointed was I to see Rousseau in the ground?!  W-to-the-T-to-the-F?!?!?!?!  Damn you, Lost writers!  IMO, she was just as important as the other main characters.  I wished they'd off'd Kate or Juliet or Red instead.  UGH, this story is so frustrating!  I demand  Rousseau and Alex flashbacks – do you hear me, writers?!  (Shakes fist.) 

Anywhoo, surprisingly, there was no sign of Benry nor Locke in this epi.  Methinks they're still mapping their way to Jacob's mobile home (Get it?!  Heh!).  Back in the FFs poor Hurley was just heartbreaking.  He's back in the mental hospital refusing to take his meds and convinced that the O6 are really all dead.  That's what I've been saying since S1!  Jack tries to talk to him and asks why he thinks that.  It's because Hurley sees dead people.  And dead person Charlie had a message for Jack that, for someone who doesn't believe dead people could talk or deliver messages, really freaked him out.  Charlie said Jack should not raise him (presumably Aaron).  Let the spiraling begin!

Meanwhile, back on Craphole Island, Jack is dying of appendicitis.  It's a good thing they have a fertility specialist and a dentist amongst them, because they really came in handy when an appendectomy was needed.  I thought it was a dumb move to send the two boaties to collect the supplies with Jin and Sun but then we wouldn't have Jin showing his awesomeness by threatening Red with breaking Faraday's fingers if she didn't get Sun on that 'copter.  Heee!  Go Jin!  See, he knows Red can't be trusted any further than she can be thrown, though I'd like to see someone try to throw her over a cliff.  VERY disappointed that Keamy & company are still alive and kicking and not eaten by Smokey.  What's up with that?!  Were they so vile that Smokey regurgitated them? OR, does this mean that, like Michael, the commandos can't die either??  (Dun DUn DUN!)  Either case, it was highly disappointing. 

And how much do I love Bernard?  I LOL when Jack wanted to be conscious during the "surgery" and wanted to see what was going on and "assist" Julia.  That lasted all of 15 seconds before he started yelping from the pain.  I say they should have given him a stick to bite on at this point.  I also lol when they ended up having to chloroform him to get him to shut up.  And also, Rose brought up a good question, why is the Magnificent Healing Island allowing him to endure appendicitis?  Here's a theory that I just thought of, maybe the island only heals those who will not return to civilization.  In the FFs that we've seen so far, we saw Jack, Benry and Hurley – all victims of some sort of ailment on the island (Benry with his back tumor and Hurley with the hallucinations).  Surgery by candlelight, the newest trend in island HMO, and of course, Jack pulls through.  Oh, and that exchange with Juliet and Kate, VERY cringe-worthy and "eww!" inspiring.  This scene along with the final Kate and Jack fight are all very reminiscent of soap opera drama.  If I wanted to watch a soap opera, I'd go back to watching one (I was hooked on All My Children for about 25 years, and this, my friends, ain't no AMC).  Sigh and oy.

Nice how the smoke alarm "warned" Jack that his ghost dad wanted to talk to him.  Smoke alarm=Smokey?  Ugh, who knows.  Well, at least this shows us his mental and emotional descent that culminated in TTLG back at the end of S3.  Oh, and now Claaaaaiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrreeee is the new Waaaaaaaaaaallllllltttt!

And next week's teaser?  The dead-for-12-years dude is totally Jacob.  Yes, I'm calling it!

I obviously didn't forget the show was coming back on, as evidenced by the last post below.  However, in my eager anticipation...I fell asleep on Thursday between 9:50 and 11:10 pm.  (Insert waa-waa-waa-waaa music here.)  However, on Friday, some of my fellow Lostie co-workers and I had a lunch hour viewing so I'm caught up, but not before I jumped online and read all the boards. (I was going to wait and remained unspoiled but that intent lasted a good 4 minutes.)

So much happened in this episode I almost don't know where to begin.  I feel like I need to watch it a second (and possibly third) time in order to get my head around it, but here goes.  First of all...poor Alex.  Ben used her as a pawn and with all his plans and schemes, this fatally backfired on him.  Loved how he (seemingly) sic'd Smokey on the freighter assassins.  Who knew there was another secret door behind the secret door that lead to the closet?  And why did he emerge all sooty?  Smokey was all kinds of awesome, though.

Then there's the teleportation/time travel aspect which, as much as I understand the need for the show, I'm really not thrilled about.  I suppose there's no other way to explain how Benry gets his info and his millions (though that detail still needs to be revealed).  In a FF, he ends up in the desert and meets up with Sayid who eventually did find Nadia and marry her just to end up getting murdered in LA.  Then there's the whole Widmore feud.  When he snuck up to Widmore's penthouse, I was practically going BOOM-CHIK-A-BOW-BOW!  Wow, was there a lot of implied other-relationship there, or what?  "Since when did you sleep with a bottle of [whisky or whatever] by your bed?"  Really, Benry?  Since when did you know what sort of items are on Chuckie's nightstand? BOOM-CHIK-A-BOW-BOW...

So, it's on with Benjamin and Charles.  Benry is going after Penny and Chuckles is going after the island and both swore the other will never find their target.  Verrrrrry interesting.  Many people think that it's absolutely sacrilige for anyone to even entertain the thought of killing dear Penelope.  I don't care so much for her, but what it would do to poor Desmond.  I'm not worried, because by the end of the season, there'll be another crisis to ponder.

Of course, I'd be remiss to not acknowledge the awesomeness that is Sawyer and how he's all protective of Hugo and Claire (and of course, her baybee).  Threatening to unleash harm to Benry (or was it Locke?) if they as much touch his curly head.  Too cute.  And loved that Bernard called Daniel out on his morse code B.S.   Team Jack needs to hog-tie the freighties and prevent them from doing any further damage. 

Unfortunately, I missed the "...next time on Lost..." previews so I don't know quite what to expect next week.  I'm sure I'll think of more once I watch the episode again.  What I need to do is watch it on Thursday and then again on Friday.  This will be my goal this week.  Oh, and I still don't believe that Rousseau's dead.

Another much-anticipated show of the season.  After last week's woeful misdiagnosis (on my part) of the Sun/Jin FF/FB one-two-punch, I was careful to watch this episode without any distractions AND with the glasses on.  What a novel idea, I know.  With so much talk about "we're going to find out who else is going to die" and "the rundown of the official O6" the hype was almost too much to bear.  Almost.

The show started off with a longer-than-usual recap of Michael and what his deal was before HP left the show and came back again.  On the freighter, after lying his way to the engine room where the deckhands seem to double as engineers, and with Desmond in tow (MMMMmmm Desmond!), Sayid calls "Kevin Johnson" out on his b.s. and coerces him to tell him the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth regarding what he's doing there and why he's under an alias.  Michael sends the other random freighter dude on a wild goose chase (ok, not so much, but he must not be very bright being gone for so long) and Sayid proceeds to inflict bodily harm upon Michael unless he 'fesses up.  Up on deck, there was some scuffle with some of the crew wanting to take an inflatable raft and go on an excursion.  The captain thought it was not such a good idea and roughs up the perpetrators in reprimand.  Michael's reason for being there, "I'm here to die."  Dun DUn DUNNNNN!

Meanwhile, back at Camp Locke, Benry, Miles and the gang are all playing Scrabble and eating pound cake.  Ok, maybe not so much playing Scrabble, but they're all together in a room while Locke explains to the "good" losties that the "bad" likes of Benry and Miles are there because they have a plan and Michael is Ben's MotB and they're really "good" guys.  The losties are like, "WHA?"  And Locke is like, "Yea," and Sawyer is all, "GRR!" and Hurley's all, "Duude," and Ben is all, "they're baaaaad" and Miles is all, "Ben's giving me a zillion dollars, beeyotches!"  I wonder what ever happened to that grenade Locke was making Miles eat.

Since the title of this episode is a giveaway that it's going to be all about Michael, we get right to his flashback.  Or flashforward.  Whatever.  Turns out, Walt has condemned him for killing Libby and AnaLucia (applause from me) and no longer wants anything to do with him.  Smooth move, Michael.  Some example you're setting for your 10-year-old.  So, now that Michael seemingly has nothing to live for, he wants to off himself.  In a series of botched suicide attempts, I got a Wyle E. Coyote feeling about the whole thing. It's tragic he's feeling so desperate, yet, it's so funny that nothing takes.  Just after he sells his watch (that Jin gave you, you dawg) to a pawn shop in exchange for a gun and bullets (way to go, pawnshop owner!  Guess you're not liable if no one can rat you out.), and goes into an alley to try to off himself yet again, we hear a friendly voice just in the nick of time.  And, it's our very own Mr. Friendly, Tom!

I don't think it came as a surprise to anyone to see "dead" Tom off the island, alive, in New York...on Saturday Night...!  Nah, par for the course for Lost.  He tells Michael that the island won't let him die and he has a job for him.  After the zillionth attempt at trying to off himself and not succeeding, and seeing the fake-discovery of the fake Flight 815 on the news, he visits Tom in his swanky penthouse suite (and gets introduced to Tom's squeeze, Arturo, the little scamp!).  Tom explains the staged find and gives Michael his assignment - to kill everyone on board. This, my friends, is how Michael ends up on the freighter.

After explaining this to Sayid and Desmond, Sayid gets a bug up his butt about ratting him out, takes him to the captain and does just that.  The captain looks at them as if to say, "yea, so?" but doesn't say anything.  Hmm, could he already know?  Will his next word actually be, "Duh!?"  But we're not going to find out until sometime next-freakin'-month!  Mutha-effers!!

Meanwhile, back at Camp Locke, Benry freaks at seeing Karl with his arm around Alex's waist and sends them (Karl, Alex and Danielle) into a trap back at the Temple under the premise that it's "safer" there.  Don't you guys have Benry figured out by now?  Nothing he says is true.  Well...99% of what he says is likely to be untrue.  Whatever.  The "death" hype came to be when Karl got...shot?  I don't know what they were being hit with...I thought it was a pea shooter...or a spear shooter, but the wounds looked like bullet holes.  Someone's got guns with silencers!  Another innovative Dharma-brand product!  So Karl gets it and we're like, "wow, that wasn't anything" but then ROUSSEAU gets it, and we're all OMG - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swear, if TIIC killed her off without giving us the FB they promised us, there will be one angy mob knocking their doors down!  I'm in the camp (heh!) that is hoping that Danielle isn't really dead, ala Locke when Ben shot him in-the- place-where-the-kidney-was-supposed-to-be-and-therefore-really-isn't-dead kind of way.  Unfortunately, the next episode won't be shown for another 5 freakin' weeks, and when it does come back, it'll be at the ungodly hour of 10:00 pm!  OY!  Damn the writers' strike!  I want my show!!!  Oh, and I think it's lame how Aaron is one of the O6.  Laaaaaaame! [/Cartman] 

Ok, this was a tough one...where to start... 

We finally get to meet Regina.  After all the hype, the poor actress only got a couple scenes and offs herself.  Well, alrighty then.  I liked the fact she was "reading" her book upside down.  I think she was suffering from more than cabin fever but we may never know.  Or at least find out until season 6.  Oh, we also get to meet the captain, finally.  He's one cold SOB isn't he?  Good thing Sayid and Desmond that that "warning" note.  Well, if you work for Widmore I guess that comes with the territory.  Too bad Frank & company can't pull a mutiny and take over.  Ah, what the heck, most of the crew are probably short a few fries of a happy meal as well.  So much for the rescue operation.  Oh yea, by the way, it's not...

Meanwhile, back on the beach, Sun and Jin are basking in the glory of upcoming parenthood.  And, we all know in TV Land, this means things ain't exactly going to be a walk in the park.  Cute how they're letting DDK speak more lines in English.  Wish I could pick up a foreign language that quickly.  Suddenly Sun gets a bug up her butt about leaving the beachies aka Team Jack to join the bungalows in Team Locke's neighborhood.  I guess she has a good reason not to trust the new freighties who have been acting nothing but sketchy since they arrived.  Plus that Beeyotch Juliet who can't be trusted any further than she could be thrown.  Oy!  And when she blabed to Jin about the affair Sun had...I repeatedly yelled at the TV "Oh no you di'int!!!!"  I wanted to reach through and smack that perma-smirk off Juliet's face myself.  Couldn't she pick a less tacky way to prevent them from going to camp Locke?  Guess not.

One thing we know is that Sun and Jin do get off the island.  We get a FF of Sun and the birth of her baby.  At first, I was worried that Jin didn't make it off the island because he wasn't in the FFs, but when they showed him shopping for a cute panda, all felt right with the world.  Poor Jin in a comedy of errors couldn't get his taxi, panda and call together and ends up losing the panda, the cell phone and the taxi.  Wa. Wa. Wa. Waaa.  Then he goes back to the toy store to get another panda (man, they're expensive !!) but the owner doesn't have any and the last one is on hold.  First of all, who puts a stuffed animal on hold, and prepays for it?  I dunno...it's not like it was a Cabbage Patch doll or Tickle Me Elmo or anything.  Ah well.  Jin pays through the nose for it and the store owner lets him have it.

Meanwhile, back on the freighter, we get the REVEAL WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...who IS Benry's MotB...? 

Could it be...? 

Is it someone we know...? 

It's...it's...it's....

....Michael. 

Surprise!  Except not so much. 

Dear Writers/Producers/IIC, if you're going to do this sort of "reveal" you might wait to put the actor's name in the credits later on...otherwise, it's not much of a surprise.  Thanks loads.  Love, Maraschino.

Back in the future, Sun goes into heavy labor.  Wow, does that bring back memories.  So, if she's calling out for Jin and asking the doctors to hurry and get him, we all assume he's on his way to see her with giant stuffed expensive Panda.  Yay, she has the baby.  It's the girl Jin wanted and named back on Craphole Island.  Meanwhile, we see Jin rushing through the hospital carrying the panda anxiously ready to give it to Sun...except, he must first get through the guard.  Huh?

Ok, this is when things get fuzzy for me.  And, no, I hadn't been drinking (though in retrospect, maybe I should have).

We are shown that Sun's room is "guarded" by someone hired by her father.  Jin presents the panda as a present from his employer to Mr. Paik's grandchild.  However, the guard tells Jin the baby is a boy.  So, maybe it's not the same room as Sun is in.  However, we see Jin peering inside and he gets a glimpse of Sun and the baby.  Yea, it's "our" Sun and the baby she just had.  So...huh?  And why isn't he in there with them?

Instead, he leaves and goes on his merry way.  As he walks out, a nurse asked him why he's leaving so soon and he said it wasn't his baby and that he's only been married for two months.  HUH?!?!?!?!

So, fast foward a week or so Sun is out of the hospital and gets a visit from none other than pre-crazy (post-crazy) Hurley.  For just a split second I was thinking...nah...fegidaboudit.  Then I thought, maybe one of them has amnesia.  Thankfully, Hurley mentioned Jin, and yes he and Sun were going to "see" him.  Yay..?   However, this is when I swear I heard Twilight Zone theme music playing in my head, but Sun and Hurley went to see Jin at the cemetary.  Wha?!  Sun is crying like Jin is gone gone gone and it's quite the sad, somber, depressing moment.  Amidst my confusion.  I was hoping for a "psych!" ending, but it didn't happen.  We are to assume Jin is dead.

But...didn't we just see him???  What gives, Lost?!

Ok, here's my theory:  Sun's dad was never a fan of Jin's.  I think when they got back to civilization, he and Sun created a cover story that Jin did not survive the crash so as to not incur the wrath of Sun's dad.  Because he's not really dead, he has assumed another identity and "married" someone else.  It's all an act.  Much like Kate's.  Except more complicated.  And emotionally draining.

I'm sure I'll think of more theories later...but this is what I need to believe for now.

Yea, late to the party, but I was too sleepy last night to do my weekly recap for Lost Tawk.  As I've had time to digest the episode, I think I've come to enjoy it more.  Except for all the Juliet crap.  I cannot stand her.  I don't trust the character and something about the actress just bugs.  But, the scenes with her and creepy Benry were really funny (though unintentionally for the most part, I'm sure). 

The beginning fooled us into thinking it was a FF for Juliet because she was talking about herself as feeling like a celebrity.  And of course, we all know that for the O6 who got back to the real world, they are quite the celebs.  However, in this case, she was talking about her arrival at Otherville back in the day when she was manipulated into coming on the island for "research" and stuff.  By the way, I think it should be illegal for anyone's therapist to look like Otherville's therapist (Harper) .  Just…YIKES!  I'd need a therapist to get over being subjected to that therapist! 

At any rate, who knew Benry was crushing on Juliet all that time?  I think it's kind of gross myself (cuz I don't like Juliet) but I found it oddly endearing how he was trying to touch her hand at the lab and threw that "surprise, it's just the two of us!" dinner party at his house.  Poor Benry can't get a break.  Oh yea, he is kind of an evil mastermind.  And, can bring on the creepy like nobody's business.  On the other hand, he can also bring the funny which I tend to focus more on.  LOVED the scene with the rabbit dinner when he asked Locke if it had a number on it.  I was LMAO at that, and at the end, as he was walking in freedom toward his new dwelling in the Saywer/Hurley neighborhood carrying a load of clean linens telling the boys he'd see them at supper and Sawyer and Hurley just standing with dropped jaws.  I want them to have spinoff show called "Losteria Lane" or something.  I would totally watch it!

Anyway, Locke falls for Benry's lies (well, he doesn't think they are but everyone knows better) about Widmore and his man on the boat.  Ok, we don't know if he lied about that last one because we weren't let it on it.  However, I don't think it would be a spoiler for anyone to surmise that it's Michael since they've flashed Harold Perrineau's name in the credits for the past 6 weeks and we hadn't seen or heard a peep out of him all this time.  But this is Lost.  And anything can happen.

Just ask Benry.

I almost want to finish this title with...Confusion.  As much as everybody loved this episode, it left me feeling quite unsatisfied.  Don't get me wrong, I lurves me some Desmond (Rowr!), and I even went "awww..." over the final telephone scene, but still...I didn't think it was the best episode evah.

For one, I was disappointed in the whole "time travel" bit.  Yea, I know Desmond's FBs have been all about the TT, but it left me feeling like the writers took an easy out by going sci-fi on us. Nevertheless, this is my beloved Lost and I'll stick with it through thick & thin, sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer... 

How many times does Harold Perrineau's name need to be in the credits before we actually see him in a scene?  Same goes for the kid who plays Walt and the woman who plays Regina (?).  Speaking of which, I didn't see a woman on the freighter and I have a feeling there are a lot more people that teeny freighter are hiding. And at least one is a friend of the Losties, and one is a friend of Ben's.  Could be one-in-the-same, but we'll see.  Creepy what happened to Minkowski...I had grown to like him and they kill him off.  Damn you, Lost writers!

I totally forgot all about Mr. Widmore until someone mentioned his name.  I was wondering why they kept showing that pasty old man.  Who knew he'd be a bigger germphobe than me.  (Now it's got me thinking twice about touching those bathroom sinks -- yuk!)  Next think you know I'll be wearing empty tissue boxes on my feet and growing a beard.  And what's the deal with Penny?  Fickle much?  First she wants nothing to do with poor Des, then she agrees to accept his call in the future, then when he finally does call in the future, she acts as if she's been waiting for him all her life.  WTF?! 

Ugh, my head hurts again.  Lurves me some HIC, and I hope he gets an Emmy nod this year.  Thank God they didn't kill him off or I would have never forgiven the writers.  Maybe seeing next week's "enhanced" version will make things clearer for me.  Or not.

At any rate, I hope next week brings back the excitement because I hardly yelled at my TV tonight.  Tonight's yell rating = 1 megaphone.

Heh.

Heh, when I told my co-workers the title of this evening's episode, they looked at me like I was crazy.  Then I had to clarify by saying you know, it's right next to Funkytown.  Everyone got it.  (Or, maybe they were just humoring me.) Onto the show...

I was going to be a huge nerd and take notes throughout the show so that I wouldn't miss anything, but I forgot.  So now, not only am I a big nerd, I'm a big, forgetful loser nerd.  Nevertheless, tonight's show, though good, wasn't as "pow" as last week's.  I dare say, it may have even been predictable at times, but I still liked it (well, except for the Kate and Sawyer romp, but I see how that was a necessary evil now).  But the hawtness that is Sawyer is just another present just for me-thank you Lost!  We got the answer to why Kate isn't in jail during Jack's FF in S3, but - true to Lost form - for every answer, we get 50 new questions.  Poor Desmond and Sayid...I wonder if they'll survive the trek to the freighter.  And I don't care what those yayhoos say, I don't trust the Boaties (except for Daniel, I trust him just a little only because he's squirrely!).  I knew the 'copter wouldn't have smooth sailing so-to-speak to the freighter, but it still worried me that they did not contact the Beachies by nightfall.  Boy, am I gullible.

Meanwhile, the folks back at Otherton (or Eggtown, now that Locke has taken over), are enjoying their Dharma-brand "normal" living.  I, for one, would think that they'd be more careful about the food, especially after not having some "real" food in awhile.  For example, why did Locke waste the last 2 eggs on Benry, ESPECIALLY since Benry didn't eat them and Locke ended up throwing them against the wall?  Granted, he probably didn't count on them going to waste, but I'm stuck on the fact that he didn't 1) save them for himself or 2) make them into an omelette for the community to partake.  The crazy $#!^ I think about.

Then stupid Kate has a bug up her butt about talking to Miles.  I think they've been under that island sun too long, but the Losties suuuuuuuuuck at interrogation.  Except for Locke - now that he's grown a pair (heh), he's asking some good questions.  True to form, stupid Kate botches her plan to get anything out of Miles...well, anything of importance to the rest of the world.  Instead of asking him what he knows about Benry, she asked him what he knows about her.  Wake up, Kate, it's not always about you!   Oh looky, Kate gets more FF stuff.  Bla bla bla bla bla trial.  Bla bla bla bla mother.  Bla bla bla bla Jack.  Bla bla bla 1 minute overtime...bla bla bla baby...bla bla bla AARON?!?!  BAM!

Ok, I can't say I wasn't spoiled as to the possibility that Claire wasn't going to make it off the island and back to the real world, but it still struck me as sad.  The way Kate seemed all clingy to "him" was kind of creepy.  And, I guess Jack finally got word that Aaron was his nephew (or did he?), but he didn't feel ready to see the baby.  WTF, Jack?! 

Oh, and was it just me who thought the cab driver was going to be someone dubious like Benry?  Heh, I knew they wouldn't do that to me 2 weeks in a row.  But still...

Ah, I still love this show.  And I'm going to be sad, but hopefully relieved when it's all over.  I'm still working on disk 2 of the S1 set.  I started rewatching and it's been nothing but fascinating.  I just hope the series ender won't be woefully disappointing.  And I need to stop reading the spoilers. Oh, and I want a Vincent FF because I want to know whether or not he's really the brains behind the whole operation, because if he was, that would be AWESOME.   

Now I get to catch up on 100+ pages on the boards...

Heh, granted when I first heard of this title, I had NO idea what to think except for hey, Ralph Nader is going to make a guest appearance!  (Yes, sad that Ralph Nader is the first to come to mind when "economist" is mentioned.) [ETA: I meant Alan Greenspan.  This is what happens when I blog after midnight.  At least my brain cells are getting some sleep.]  However, I digress...

The reason for the delay in posting my Lost Tawk is that, as usual, there is a battle going on in my household with the internet, cable, modem, router, you-name-it, The Kid and I are constantly at odds with this piece of technology.  In a nutshell, the modem and router are in his room because I had originally had set it up so his desktop can have internet access for homework-related projects, etc., and since my laptop has wireless access, I was cool being linked via router.  However...little did I realize that the modem was used for more nefarious shenanagins such as connecting to XBox live and playing games with other kids across the world.  UGH!  (sigh) Of course, The Kid insists that the reason for the loss of access isn't due to his video game playing, but because I bought a cheap router.  (sigh)  I keep telling him I can't WAIT until he starts making his own living and hope he could afford the top-of-the line of everything.  Ooh, I can't wait!  In the meantime...I'm tethered to the modem, in his room (ugh), so we have to share internet access.  However, I do have the upper hand since I do more important things like paying bills (and blogging, heh) as opposed to wasting time playing video games...

Anyway, last week on Lost...we were treated to yet another flash-forward, and the answer to the 4th O6 survivor - Sayid.  I guess once a terrorist, always a terrorist, even if you've survived a plane crash and returned to civilization.  Who knew, however, that his future boss would be the infamous Benry!  (Yes, I still like calling him Benry, even though his Henry days are over.  It just has a crazier ring to it!)  Wow, was that a total mind#$%^ at the end, or what?!  I instantly recognized the voice when I heard it, but when I saw his face, it was like WOAH...  That Benry is an evil genius.  And, oddly, I still like him.  Almost as much as Sawyer...or Desmond...almost.

Poor Hurley got suckered into luring Team Jack into a trap at the barracks.  Anyone else find it odd (or maybe not so much) that Team Locke is behaving more and more like the Others used to in the beginning?  All sly and cagey.  Oh, and I'd like to thank Lost for giving me the bestest Valentine's Day gift ever -- a nearly shirtless Desmond.  MmmmMMMM!  I hope that's not the last we see of him (or his shirtless chest).  They still have a lot of 'splainin to do with his storyline.

I would not have guessed how that episode ended.  I think that German chick's (whose name escapes me, natch) boss ("The Economist") is also that notorious Benry, evil genius.  Wouldn't that be a hoot?!  I wouldn't put it past him.  We are all merely pawns in Benry's world.  Ok, so are we supposed to believe that the hidden closet in Benry's house is a portal?  Is it his black box of travel?  And, why does he dress all dorkified all the time when he has some slick threads in there?  (Especially in that photo Miles had -- Oy!) 

Fashion Police's Most Wanted

Some people say that in the last scenes, he had brown eyes...but I looked at the screen shots and it looks like the lighting was just a little off.  Maybe to make it look all dark and foreboding.  When he was in that veterinary clinic, I thought Vincent was the evil mastermind.  It would be totally awesome if Benry's boss was Vincent!

Did I mention Desmond was practically shirtless???

Maraschino's Valentines Day Present

Rowr!

As much as I was looking forward to this show tonight, this episode left me feeling unsatisfied.  Although it answered some questions, true-to-Lost-form, it opened up 50 more.  First, we are introduced to 4 new characters (Naomi's crew).  And of course, they all have their quirks.  What brings them together is the mysterious dude whose name escapes me that kept harranguing Hurley in the mental ward in last week's episode.  Abboud?  Abbound?  Abbazabba?  Whatever it is, it means something.  Being that it's 2:00 am, I can't quite remember at the moment.  Anyway...

The new characters have their "super powers" bla bla bla, but their main reason they're on the island is NOT to save them (yea, Jack, you idiot!), but to hunt for Benry.  Benry, true to form, is making friends wherever he goes.  What's funny is the photo these people even have to go on looks a surveillance-type picture of Ben looking like an accountant in an office.  Good luck with that, folks.  As we find out, they aren't exactly the brightest crayons in the box.

What I don't understand is the timing of the "super friends'" arrival to craphole island.  We see them in various parts of the world in one scene, and suddenly on craphole island greeted by cows Kate and Jack in the next.  Yea, I'm sure this little tidbit will be revealed sometime in season 5 (maybe), but by then, I'd have moved onto other mysteries.  Thanks Lost.

Another mystery for me is the fact that when Sawyer referred to Benry as Alex's dad (right were Locke was about to take him out), Rousseau was right there and didn't even correct him.  I was half hoping she'd give Sawyer a good elbow to the jaw, just like she did with Benry earlier.  But, maybe I'm just asking for more gratuitous violence.  I'd think with finally finding HER daughter, she'd make sure people knew that under no uncertain terms.  But, what do I know?  Silly me bringing logic into this mix. 

So what do these people want with Benry?  Who is Benry's plant on the boat?  I checked the boards earlier and there were 22 pages of postings by the time the show finished for my time zone.  I read the first 5 pages and so far, people thought the plant was Mikhal.  I think it's emo Richard.  Either one works for me as I know we hadn't seen the last of Mikhal after blowing up Charlie in the sub-station.  Reverse-aging, island-hopping emo Richard is probably a teen by now.

Ok, random thoughts: what's with showing corpses in the plane on the news?  How did a polar bear wearing a Dharma choker end up in the desert?  Were we supposed to know the kid who ghostbuster Miles "communicated" with?  What's with the dustbuster?  Where does Claire store all her make up? 

One last observation: the character of Benry was supposed to be temporary, but since Michael Emerson is a genius with the character, he became a permanent fixture on the show.  It seems my earlier theory of the writers not having a clear direction of this series from the beginning holds true as the show now revolves around the magic of Ben.  Don't get me wrong, I lurves me some Ben, but this arc leads me to think the writers are really making this up as they go along...which means we may never get any answers to questions from season 1.

Oh Lost, I wish I could quit you...