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In celebration of Marley Gibson’s latest release, Ghost Huntress: The Reason”, we are talking this week about secrets. For in this third book of the series, an important secret is revealed...
Marley is giving away signed copies of this book all week here at the Buzz Girls blog, so be sure to drop by every day, and to leave a comment to be entered.
When my mind turns to secrets, right now, it skyrockets to the TV program, LOST, which is, of course, in its final few countdown weeks of the sixth season--and forever. It seems secrets are being revealed around every corner, with some being total surprises to me, some head-thunks (“I should have thought of that!”) and some more like confirmations of what I’d long suspected.
But while much of the water cooler buzz involves what has now been revealed, just as much is focused on what is still to come, and whether the writers will manage/remember to reveal every last secret, or viewers will have to then go for time and eternity on an issue or two, still wondering...
In order to be entered to win a copy of Ghost Huntress: The Reason, leave a comment telling us about a final TV episode of a TV (sit-com, drama, reality show) that left you completely satisfied. Whether it was in the revealing of all the secrets, or you just like the way it ended.
And be sure to check back next Sunday to see if your name is on the winner’s list!
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Time once again for the “Lost” running diary after the jump. Spoilers ahoy, you are forewarned. A brief mention
about the clip show before the premiere. Michael Emerson could probably spend the rest of his career doing voice-overs. So very great.
9:01 – This recap would be more helpful if we hadn’t just had a clip show for an hour.
9:02 – At least we didn’t start with Jack’s eye.
9:03 – Weekly Woodsman?
9:03 – You can let go now.
9:05 – First bit of weirdness. What was Desmond reading?
9:06 – Underwater?
9:09 – Déjà vu all over again
9:10 – Kate’s Eye.
9:13 – Guest star credits reveal too much.
9:14 – I guess the favorite curse word in the Lostverse is “son of a bitch”
9:15 – Our first undead returnee.
9:17 – When did Jin’s English get so good?
9:18 – Sayid’s Choice instead of Sophie’s Choice for Jack?
9:19 – Hurley sees dead people? OR was Jacob rebooted too after the bomb?
9:22 – So, is Shannon not on this plane?
9:26 – Everyone says they’re the good guys. Even Ben did once.
9:27 – Ben’s skills at lying seem on the wane.
9:33 – Again, with the temple.
9:35 – Was Desmond reading OUR MUTUAL FRIEND?
9:36 – Chasing the Dragon is still a bad idea for Charlie.
9:39 – This might be more screen time for Cindy the Stewardess than in the first 5 seasons combined.
9:43 – Shouldn’t everyone know who is Jacob by now?
9:45 – Fat Guy = Red Shirt
9:46 – Smoke Monster coming in 5 4 3 2 1.
9;47 – There are ways around a ring of protection.
9:48 – QUESTIONS ANSWERED: 1 (sort of)
9:54 – Please let this be the beginning of Sawyer’s heel turn.
9:56 – Is that a return of Greg Grunberg as the captain over the PA?
9:57 – the return of the end-of-show montage
10:04 – Does Sawyer know Miles can talk to dead people?
10:06 – HA. Missing coffin
10:10 – The whispering is back. So has it always been “the real Others” and not, as some thought last year, the cast hearing themselves time displaced?
10:16 – Head wound same place for Edward the Federal Marshal?
10:17 – No “Freckles?”
10:20 – New characters? Look, another member of the Deadwood Alumni Association.
10:22 – That’s a big ankh.
10:23 – A trojan ankh.
10:23 – Too bad that wasn’t Ben’s List from Season 2.
10:24 – Fountain of Youth at the Temple?
10:29 – So, is that money still in Jin’s suitcase?
10:31 – The Island has a Lazarus Pit.
10:32 – I guess this is the trade-off for Ben’s dip in the pool after being shot by Sayid.
10:34 – Dead. Or “dead?”
10:39 – Something bad is going to happen to either Sayid or Nadia because of Kate.
10:42 – Or maybe Claire.
10:44 – Nothing saying enlightened Japanese guy like doing Bonsai.
10:46 – But… Rose didn’t want to leave?
10:47 – Damn creepy Terry O’Quinn there. Straight out of THE STEPFATHER.
10:48 – “Home is where you wear you hat.”
10:52 – Miles knows that he’s not dead.
10:55 – The friendliest Jack and Locke have ever been.
10:56 – Uh oh.
10:57 – Black Rock reference?
10:59 – That’s got to be leading to a Christian Shephard appearance.
Finally, that day we’ve been waiting for all year. The season premiere of Lost. I mean, Groundhog Day. Click to see the rest of that rodent-filled cartoon by the great creator of Cul de Sac, Richard Thompson.
As for Lost, yes, the recap/discussion thread will return tomorrow for this last season of nerdville’s favorite television program.
posted by Mark Coale
You have seven days to go back and re-watch old episodes to get caught up in time for the season premiere next Tuesday night (fittingly on Groundhog Day).
The Helper Monkey has been watching selected shows from all five seasons as a refresher course and has a few observations.
– The show is so much better without Charlie and Claire.
– Season Two Ben Linus/Henry Gale was just a tease of things to come. Michael Emerson = Show MVP.
– Jacob may not have “touched” Juliet in the Season Five flashbacks, but, according to Ben, he did cure her sister’s cancer.
– What DEADWOOD alums will appear in the final season? Surely there’s a role for Ian McShane as Daniel Faraday’s father or Charles Widmore’s brother.
Start your countdown clock….
[Posted by Mark Coale]
Red Ted and the Lost Things by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Joel Stewart
This is a picture book graphic novel. It is best described as sweet and quiet, two words that are rarely associated with graphic novels! Red Ted has been lost on the train by Stevie who loves him as much as she loves cheese. He is put on the lost and found shelf next to a green crocodile who has been there so long he can’t remember who lost him. Red Ted doesn’t want that to happen to him, so he decides to escape. The crocodile goes with him, jumping off the shelf and following the signs out of the station. Once outside, they meet a cat who smells the cheese on Red Ted and then helps him find his way to Stevie by following the smell of cheese.
The adventures they have on the way are not frightening, focusing on things like rain and dogs. This book has a quiet story that combines an old-fashioned feel with a modern format. It is a very good first graphic novel for young children who will enjoy the speech bubbles and the frames that they see in older siblings’ books. Rosen tells a complete and charming story in just a few words and snatches of conversation. Stewart’s art works really well here with the bright and bold colors of the main characters contrasting with the gray tones of the backgrounds.
A graphic novel for the preschool set, this book has a charm about it that will find it happy owners. Appropriate for ages 4-6.
Reviewed from library copy.
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When You Meet a Bear on Broadway by Amy Hest, illustrated by Elivia Savadier
When you meet a bear on Broadway, you stick out your hand and ask them to stop. Then you politely ask what his business is there. He bursts into tears saying that he has lost his mother. The two of you think of how to find her together. Then you look uptown. And downtown. Along the river. Until you find a forest where the bear climbs a tall tree and shouts for his mother. But will a mama bear be able to hear him in the middle of a bustling city?
Though the styles are very different, this has the feel of Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie feel. It is the short lines and the repeating phrase of “When you meet a bear on Broadway.” Hest takes this form and creates a book about being lost, being helped, and being found. There is never any sense of panic about the child helping the bear. It is far more of a problem solving book about what to do when you find a bear on a city street.
The book has a nice bit of old-fashioned whimsy about it though the setting is modern. Savadier’s illustrations contribute to this with their gentle lines and watercolor washes. The little girl and the bear are often the only bright color on the page, magnifying their relationship rather than the largeness of the city itself.
Funny, quiet and very satisfying, this book would be nice paired with any of Numeroff’s If You titles. It also offers a nice change of pace for any bear-themed stories. Appropriate for ages 3-6.
Reviewed from library copy.
Also reviewed by A Patchwork of Books.
Congratulations to Michael Emerson, for his Emmy win tonight, for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. You can keep your Don Draper. I’ll take Benjamin Linus as the best character currently on series television.
How long ’til Lost starts again?
It’s still (Poetry) Friday here on the West Coast.
The other day I mentioned a book that was ghosting in the corners of my mind:
I wanted a few days to savor the novel I finished earlier this week: Lost by Jacqueline Davies, a spellbinding account of—well, the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, sort of, but really that’s a backdrop to an achingly moving tale of loss and grief, from the point of view of a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl (whose narrative voice may be my favorite of the year so far) who works in the factory.
And Beth of Bookworm Journal commented:
Melissa, the book by Davies sounds very good — thank you for posting about it. I’m acquainted with the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire only through Robert Pinsky’s poem “Shirt.” You may know it already, but if not, I encourage you to google it (it’s on various websites). Truly an amazing poem, and might be a good accompaniment to the novel…
Before Lost, I was acquainted with the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire primarily via a TV movie I watched as a girl—I remember so vividly the terrible image of a young Irish woman being urged by her desperate chum to jump out the window together before the flames devoured them, and the Irish girl sobbing that she couldn’t jump, she was Catholic and jumping was suicide and she wouldn’t do it, and the other girl stepping out the window as the Irish girl’s skirts caught fire. A horrible image. And would you believe that all this time, until I looked up the link for this post, I thought that movie was The Towering Inferno? Which entirely different film I must also have seen at some point—clearly I have conflated the two because I would have sworn Paul Newman was in the Triangle Factory movie, and now IMDB tells me he was part of Towering Inferno’s all-star cast, along with Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire for goodness sake, and O.J. Simpson.
The film I’m remembering must have been this 1979 TV movie, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, featuring Tom Bosley, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Charlotte Rae. It won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling.
There is something terribly poignant about that thought. 146 people died in the Triangle Factory Fire, most of them young women trapped on the 9th floor of a building with flimsy fire escapes, no sprinklers, and no fire alarms. 68 years later, someone won an award for getting their hairstyles right on TV.
Robert Pinksy’s poem, “Shirt,” which I had not read until Beth directed me toward it (for which: thank you so much), captures that disconnect, that jarring history wrapped up in something so simple, so unnoticed, so miraculous when you stop and think about it, as a plain cotton shirt.
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,
The nearly invisible stitches along the collar
Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians
Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break
Or talking money or politics while one fitted
This armpiece with its overseam to the band
Of cuff I button at my wrist. The presser, the cutter,
The wringer, the mangle. The needle, the union,
The treadle, the bobbin. The code. The infamous blaze
At the Triangle Factory in nineteen-eleven.
One hundred and forty-six died in the flames
On the ninth floor, no hydrants, no fire escapes—
The witness in a building across the street
Who watched how a young man helped a girl to step
Up to the windowsill, then held her out
Away from the masonry wall and let her drop.
And then another. As if he were helping them up
To enter a streetcar, and not eternity.
(Read the rest at the Internet Poetry Archive.)
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Today’s Poetry Friday is hosted by The Book Aunt.
I was looking at my reading log for the past three months and laughing at how aptly it characterizes our summer.
June: Regular activities wind down; we’re home for long, lazy days, hanging out in the backyard, enjoying the sunny evenings. I read nine books.
July: Whoosh! How’d we get so busy? Every day’s a new adventure. Comic-Con munches up a solid week. I read (to completion) one, count it—one, book. Bits and pieces of many others, but from beginning to end? A single book: an old favorite, savored slowly, a page and sometimes only a paragraph at a time, late at night, when the heavy hush has settled at last upon the house.
August: Our summer activities have settled into a routine, streamlined, efficient. Dentist appointments figure prominently in the calendar. This means waiting rooms. The baby is suddenly old enough to sit and play, allowing hands-free time for creative pursuits such as watercolor journaling and sewing. I read five books.
Of course, August isn’t over yet, and it goes out with a weekend. This means there’s a strong possibility I’ll find time for one more book. I’m about a third of the way into Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding by Scott Weidensaul and grateful to Mental Multivitamin for the recommendation. The library will be wanting it back soon, so I’ll have to pick up my pace. Delightful so far. In bed at night, after lights-out, I’m enjoying a Wodehouse novel via e-reader. (The iPod Touch has really become my preferred vehicle for bedtime reading, for all the reasons I mentioned in this post. It’s the easiest, least obtrusive way to read next to a sleeping baby without disturbing him. During daylight hours, however, I will always and ever [she declares with confidence] prefer a Real Book.)
The fiction to-be-read stack is as deliciously high as always. I continue to salivate over too many intriguing novels and squander precious could-be-reading moments failing to make a choice already. But also I wanted a few days to savor the novel I finished earlier this week: Lost by Jacqueline Davies, a spellbinding account of—well, the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, sort of, but really that’s a backdrop to an achingly moving tale of loss and grief, from the point of view of a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl (whose narrative voice may be my favorite of the year so far) who works in the factory. I’d like to write more about this book in a proper post, later, but right now I’m still too wrapped up in the raw emotions of the story to be able to review it matter-of-factly.
So what comes after Lost, what novel will ring out summer? I can’t say.
How much work did the Lost brain trust put into their (last?) Comic-Con panel presentation? A lot, according to an article in today’s NYT.
“Is it too late for when Carlton and I come out onstage for there to be giant towers of flames?” Mr. Lindelof said (mostly) facetiously.
Tip of the hat to Peter Sanderson, since we saw the story first from his Facebook link.
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Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, the brain trust behind LOST, gave a presentation recently and they were asked if the show would have a comic book spinoff, as so many shows created by comics-friendly Hollywood writers seem to have. The answer would seem to be…”No.”
Q: My question is about the fate of Lost, because I know it ends with season 6, but do you think because of Bryan Fuller with Pushing Daisies continuing it in a comic book, and I love Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk (Damon’s comic) and with Lost it has a disjointed timeline and it comes together in the end, do you think that you’ll do any spin offs in a comic book form?
DL: We feel that if we hold anything back for the final season of the show, it will be bad. People have come along this far, and they need a conclusion.
Losties will find much else of interest (and spoilerish stuff) in the interview, including confirmation that
Brian K. Vaughan has left the writing staff.
Q: What’s Brian K. Vaughan like?
DL: Unfortunately he has left for greener pastures. When he first came on the show Jorge Garcia was ecstatic because he’s a huge fan of his work.
This was probably a smart move on BKV’s part, because when people start asking what you are like at TV show panels, it’s sort of an indication that you may just have greener pastures somewhere.
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If you have been missing LOST this last couple weeks, well, no new episodes, but this might tide you over for a day or so. The Helper Monkey was on wrestling historian Karl Stern’s podcast today to discuss the season finale, the show as a whole, the greatness of John Locke and Benjamin Linus, the not-so-greatness of Jack Shephard and more.
You can download it here.
Isn’t it sad that both of these characters are dead and Kate is still alive?
Season Finale. Let’s get it on after the jump.
Did we really need another clip show?
0:01 - No animals were harmed in the making of this episode.
0:02 - Great. New characters.
0:03 - Jacob! and the Statue! In less than a minute! Who says this show doesn’t answer questions?
0:04 - Could Jacob and his friend that looks like Jonathan Pryce be Cain and Abel?
0:06 - Kate is a rebel from Iowa. JUST LIKE JAMES TIBERIUS KIRK!
0:08 - A Kate episode? Please let that mean she dies tonight.
0:09 - Good old Faraday.
0:11 - Drill Cam
0:13 - John Locke heel turn?
0:15 - With friends like that …
0:16 - Yeah, like they were going to show you what was in the box now.
0:20 - Young Sawyer. Full of piss and vinegar.
0:22 - Woman of Action.
0:23 - Love the Dharma Sub logo.
0:24 - Jack with dap for Locke? He HAS changed.
0:25 - Take that, Mr. Linus
0:29 - Well now.
0:30 - For you Silver Age fans, JACOB IS MOPEE.
0:33 - I guess we have our casualty for tonight. Probably dying by blowing up the bomb.
0:40 - Ha. Rose, Bernard and Vincent in one fell swoop.
0:42 - We’re Retired. Best Line Ever.
0:43 - What do you mean “you people?”
0:44 - “you’ll be fine.” Famous Last Words.
0:46 - That was confusing.
0:47 - Map. That’s gotta be important.
0:48 - It can’t be a good idea to burn down Jacob’s house.
0:52 - ha ha ha ha. That was great.
0:53 - Alone time.
0:54 - Honesty? From Ben?
0:56 - Haven’t seen that in a long while.
0:59 - Mexican stand-off.
1:03 - Another Statue appearance.
1:04 - There was an old man who lived in a foot.
1:05 - Is that really Christian Shephard?
1:10 - I didn’t think he meant “had” in the biblical sense, but well, they both did, didn’t they?
1:11 - Two alpha males fighting for control.
1:12 - Oh, Juliet. what are you doing?
1:18 - Get this sappy stuff about my time travel show.
1:20 - “Nothing has ever felt so right.” Bad thing happening in 3..2..1
1:28 - Blessed? Cursed? What’s the difference?
1:33 - This is bad. Very bad.
1:37 - Is Miles the only person thinking clearly?
1:43 - TENSION~!
1:44 - There goes Dr. Chang’s arm. Finally.
1:45 - Good riddance, Phil.
1:46 - Boy, that sucks.
1:51 - Ricardos.
1:52 - SWERVE~!
1:53 - Oh Ben. You’re making such a horrible mistake.
1:57 - They who?
1:59 - Excellent. Ten months and counting.
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HOORAY~!
A Faraday Episode.
Your running diary of tonight’s episode after the jump.
0:01 - So, that bag of groceries didn’t protect him, after all.
0:03 - Guessing already this is not the best mother/son relationship.
0:04 - Does Kirk kill that monster and crawl inside it for warmth?
0:08 - Over/under of uses of the word “time” tonight: 125.
0:10 - I think we’ve seen this scene before.
0:12 - “The future, you say?”
0:18 - Eloise Hawking, meet Marv Marinovich.
0:19 - Charles Widmore. Daddy?
0:20 - Who else expected the journal to already be filled up?
0:23 - So, Ellie does indeed = Eloise.
0:26 - The return of crying Faraday.
0:28 - I guess Faraday is too important to be recruited by Naomi.
0:31 - Fonzie Times.
0:32 - Poor Sawyer.
0:34 - Creepy man visits young Charlotte.
0:37 - Jack must play video games to know to shoot the fuel canisters.
0:44 - Daniel Faraday - Nerd and Mama’s Boy.
0:47 - That is called inopportune knocking.
0:50 - Sure. Detonate a bomb. Why not?
0:57 - Okay, Ben didn’t kill her. Yet.
0:58 - I love the ominous wind blowing.
0:58 - Yep. Called that one.
1:00 - Man, what a shrink’s field day.
1:01 - Noooooo!
Posted by Mark Coale
Real time diary this week.
This week is all about Mr. Benjamin Linus. Huzzah.
more after the break.
9:01 - nice huts
9:02 - YOUNG CHARLES WIDMORE~!
9:04 - You call it the monster. (we call it maize.)
9:08 - Dangerously deranged.
9:11 - J’ACCUSE~!
9:13 - That’s a big elephant.
9:14 - “the best interests of the Island.”
9:16 - Et tu, Ben?
9:21 - Friends can be significantly more dangerous than enemies.
9:24 - Thankfully, no Solomon-like decision from Charles Widmore.
9:26 - Guess Ben’s memory really was wiped out.
9:27 - Hiddley-Ho, Lost-a-reenos.
9:33 - A batpole would be so much easier.
9:34 - So, was the water keeping it at bay?
9:35 - Lots of rule breaking going on here.
9:35 - I guess Ellie is not Penelope’s mother.
9:37 - We Have Title.
9:38 - So, it’s not Locke? Locke = Monster. Excellent.
9:38 - “It’s not a train.”
9:43 - Ben is such a great gloater.
9:45 - “how does that work? the knowing?”
9:47 - uh oh.
9:48 - Don’t mess with a man’s family.
9:54 - I guess she is not who she claims to be either.
9:56 - Jehovah starts with an “I.”
9:56 - People fall and hurt themselves a lot on this show.
9:57 - If that’s Anubis, that’s a bad sign.
9:59 - So, he passed the test?
Next week: A Miles episode?
Posted by Mark Coale
[Note: Due to a new work schedule, I was unable to watch this week’s episode of Lost in time to write the regular Day After column. We’ll cut and paste it in here sometime Thursday after getting caught up. For now, Let’s just call this an Open Thread.]
Is this another week where a below average episode (read: one starring Kate) is saved by the last five minutes? Discuss.
* Did Dr. Manhattan shoot his load the first weekend?
Depending on whom you talked to this week, the opening weekend box office for WATCHMEN was great or underwhelming. Things look a little clearer after the first night of weekend number two.
From Variety:
Warner Bros./Paramount’s comic book epic “Watchmen” fell 78% from its opening day landing third Friday with an estimated $5.4 million from 3,611 theaters. Pic’s eight-day cume currently stands at $73.3 million.
Did all the fanboys decide they didn’t need a second viewing? Was word-of-mouth outside the nerd bubble not great? Were people scared off by Dr. Manhattan’s package?
* In other nerd news
Time.com’s Nerdworld blog interviews annotator extraordinaire Jess Nevins. (Disclaimer: Jess and I went to grad school together and his work has appeared in my magazine.)
9. Have you, as an annotator, ever gone down in defeat? Are there things in the LoEG books that you just can’t solve?
Oh, heavens, yes. When Moore & O’Neill get into areas which I don’t know anything about and which are ill-represented online and in print–1950s British comic book science fiction, for example–I’m at a complete loss, and some of their references stump even the collective brains of the people who contribute to the annotations. In the
Black Dossier, for example, Kevin O’Neill drew in spaceships from various British Fifties sf comics, and if he hadn’t identified them for the print version of the annotations, they would have remained a mystery to us all.
Moore sometimes jokes about trying to stump me. I feel a pain in my head when he says that, because if/when he ever tries to do that, I’m not just stumped, I’m uprooted and thrown into a woodchipper.
*Since there was no Lost column this week…
A week without a new Lost means an extra week for people to scrutinize the most recent episode looking for clues about the statue or how to put all the various time traveling threads together. The coolest thing I read (don’t remember where) was that the hieroglyphs that showed up on the countdown clock are on the Ajira airline tickets.
*A non-comic note for all you people who hate non-comics news here.
Sad news this morning for the pro wrestling business as word broke that Andrew Martin passed away at the age of 33. For those who watched during the “Attitude Era,” Martin worked for the WWE as Test, a beefy mid-carder best remembered for being coupled with a young Stephanie McMahon and feuding with her brother Shane. While not the best in-ring performer, many people raved about the match between Test and McMahon at Summerslam 1999. Once removed from the McMahon family soap opera, he slowly drifted down the card until being released a few years ago from the WWE after failing a drug test. Recently, he had been working on shows in Europe and Japan.
Posted by Mark Coale
Let’s get this out of the way. I missed the original airing of 316 tonight and am playing catch-up like the little tomato in Mia Wallace’s joke. To get tonight’s column done in the most expeditious way possible, it’s another “real time diary.” I hear this week’s show is a doozy, so let’s get on with it.
00:01 - Hmmm. this looks familiar.
00:03 - Jack diving in headfirst to save someone without thinking or checking things out. How apropos.
00:04 - She does love lighting those candles.
00:05 - A Dharma station?
00:10 - “Is he telling the truth?” “Probably not.”
00:11 - Could the Lampost be built over the Hellmouth?
00:12 - So who built the pendulum? Widmore? Faraday?
00:13 - “Desmond just pawn in game of life.”
00:20 - John Locke’s what?
00:21 - if the original flight resurrected Christian Shepherd, will this flight do the same for Locke?
00:23 - Ben discussing biblical literature. Odd.
00:24 - Ben typing up loose ends = trouble
00:26 - I admit I don’t remember this guy. I’m sure he’s been in an episode before.
00:29 - So, does Aaron need to go back too? or not?
00:34 - Make-up sex?
00:35 - He’s not sure how she takes her coffee? How long have they been broken up?
00:37 - What has Ben done now?
00:39 - You probably should have read that note, Jack.
00:44 - Guess this guy will be important.
00:45 - I bet BKV took some ribbing over that product placement.
00:46 - Good old Hurley. Looking out for everyone.
00:47 - Charlie’s guitar maybe?
00:48 - “Who cares?” Ben is such an amazingly great heel.
00:49 - I’m surprised they are not in their original seats. Or are they?
00:51 - Lepidus?
00:52 - “we’re not going to Guam, are we?”
00:56 - Are you prepared to spend the day reading about the importance of Ulysses to the LOST mythos?
00:59 - So, was there a plane crash? or just island mumbo jumbo? I guess we’ll see eventually. We saw wreckage from the crash, correct? Or just a water bottle?
1:02 - Jin? but when?
Is everyone now stuck in the 1970s? It would make for a great cross-over with LIFE ON MARS (preferably the British version. Who wouldn’t want to see Gene Hunt kick Ben’s ass?)
Next week: This is your death, John Locke.
Looks like the episode title, “This Place is Death,” was no idle threat.
Discussion of death, life and everything after the jump. SPOILERS AHOY.
Charlotte, we hardly knew ye. I thought for sure, when she talked about possibly meeting Daniel in the past, he was going to play the “I’m your constant” card and she would be fine. I guess not.
And with Charlotte dead, who will translate for Jin? Not the guy “from Encino.”
Yes, Charlotte was a kid on the island. Now, who’s her father? What’s up with her mother denying the island’s existence and telling Charlotte it didn’t really exist. Very Alice-ish.
Now, what’s up with The Sickness? Guess it wasn’t any of the things mentioned here last week. Either the Smoke Monster/Jacob/someone at the Temple brainwashed Rousseau’s crew or Rousseau’s great at overreacting. Of course, her husband (?) did pull the trigger on her, so let’s hope there’s more of an explanation soon.
Wasn’t it great to see Smokey again? So, it’s the “security system for the Temple?” Does that mean the Others can control it, since that’s where Ben sent them last season? And nice to see Smokey dish out some kharmic justice to Blond Frenchy.
Who was broadcasting the numbers? Dharma? The Others? Was this already established a couple seasons ago? (if only we were one of those lucky journalists who got the episodes ahead of time. We would certainly come off a lot smarter if we could look everything up with a few days advance notice.)
Was that an editorial cheat with Sun and her phone call? Shouldn’t we have seen that last week?
Let’s hope Locke fixed the Island. The ever-quickening flashes are now just a smidge annoying.
A friend mentioned tonight that he thinks Sun/Jin is now a bigger romance than even Desmond/Penny. I don’t know about that yet, but it’s certainly leaps and bounds over the Jack/Kate/Sawyer/Juliet conflagration.
Three cheers for Ben for finally going off on someone. That was almost a “Duck! Rabbit! Duck!” moment in the van.
Hey Jack, three years late for that apology.
Locke just can’t get a break, other than the nasty compound fracture. I guess he arrived being unable to walk and he’ll leave that way too.
Did we see the most inopportune time-jump ever tonight?
Was that Locke going down the Rabbit Hole?
Once again, what’s up with Christian Shepherd? Is he a ghost? Resurrected? Being possessed by Jacob?
And when Christian/Jacob tells you to do something, you better do it. And don’t listen to Ben either.
That wedding ring is probably going to be a really big plot point moving forward. Did Locke just give it to Ben? Did Ben kill Locke for it? Etc., etc.
And the mystery of Faraday’s mother is solved. Love the giant Foucault’s Pendulum.
Thought unrelated to the plot: Does the music seem more “Hitchcocky” to anyone else?
Next week: Windows as travel method? Will this be like the Madame du Pompadour episode of Doctor Who? Might we see Sayid riding a horse crashing through a giant mirror or window? We’ll see.
Is it just me, or do Jack and Kate become more unlikeable every episode where they are spotlighted?
Let’s talk about them and some swerves from “The Little Prince” after the jump. There will be SPOILERS, so if you don’t want to know what happened tonight or you live some place where they don’t show the episode Wednesday night, read at your own peril. Thanks.
I have to admit up front, this episode did not do much for me, despite all the “surprises” pulled out at the end of the episode.
I think we all knew Jin was still alive, but I didn’t think we’d see him this soon. His being rescued by Rousseau and her crew in the late 1980s (87?88?) was a nice surprise. Maybe it’s me, but I always got the impression she had been on the island for a long time (i.e., longer than 17 years than the message indicated). It’s hard to imagine the baby-faced pregnant young scientist turning into the Jungle Warrior Rousseau of Season One.
It appears that if you’re got a lot of time logged on the island, you get the nosebleed. Does that add fuel to the fire that Charlotte and Miles may have been born or raised on the island? And Juliet’s been there a while, working for the Others in their fertility clinic. Is Faraday exempt because he met his constant?
“Sun’s Got a Gun.” Prediction: She takes a shot at Ben and hits Kate or Hurley.
So, the Grey’s Anatomy/Private Private team-up is called “a crossover event?” Let’s hope it’s received better than SECRET INVASION or FINAL CRISIS?
On first glance, that bottle of ketchup Aaron had looked like a bottle of pills. Count me as one of the people who finally thought we might get an explanation of what’s wrong with the kid.
The appearance of Claire’s mother wasn’t much of a surprise, but her lack of involvement in the DNA testing was a nice left turn. And the lawyer working for Ben was seemingly predicted by many folks on the net.
I assume “weepy Sawyer” stirred the loins of many of the female (and some male) viewers out there. I admit that I didn’t remember that Kate was the one that delivered Claire’s baby. Maybe her ending up with Aaron isn’t so wrong after all.
Sadly, the Hatch light flashback did not lead to a cameo from Boone. Too bad.
To whom do the outriggers belong? An Indian airline? More castaways?
How did episode co-writer BKV not have Sawyer make a Hawaii Five-0 reference in those boats?
Nitpick: What items do or do not accompany the time jumpers when the bright light hits? When they jumped during the boat chase, I expected them to find themselves in the middle of the ocean with no boat?
When they came on-shore, anyone else expecting them to find the four-toed statue?
Where’s Vincent? Inquiring minds want to know.
Is Jin in the same time as Locke and the others?
Next Week: Locke goes down the rabbit hole?
posted by Mark Coale
Available in paperback this month is a new edition of the science fiction classic, The Moon Pool, by A. Merritt. First published in 1918, The Moon Pool is widely considered to be the inspiration of the popular ABC series Lost. In an introduction written especially for this edition, Dr. Lynnette Porter comments: "Ever wonder what might have inspired the TV series Lost? Long before Jack or John Locke began to explore their mysterious tropical island, A. Merritt created a seemingly innocent island with sinister undertones, a mysterious hidden society of other-worldly inhabitants, and characters who debate the wisdom of faith versus science. Sound familiar? A trip to The Moon Pool takes you from Merritt's adventure into a new way to get Lost."
Looks like we have a new mystery on our hands.
That and so much more after the jump….
Okay, the question is …. “Whose mother is the girl with the gun?”
She was called Ellie, so the first logical guess is Eloise Hawkins, who most people seem to think is Daniel Faraday’s mother.
Does that also make her Charlotte’s mother, if Daniel and Charlotte are sibilings? (and if they are, let’s hope there is no “Luke and Leia” creepy kiss.)
But there are other possibilities to be sure.
Penelope? We know now that Charles Widmore was there on the island in 1954 … and an Other?
The girl in the coma? Could be.
Claire? We saw Claire’s mother in 2004, but maybe she could have done some time-travelling?
With this show, of course, just about anything is possible.
As for the rest of the episode…
* Baby Charlie. Apparently born in the Phillipines a few years ago, when Penny and Desmond were hiding from Charles Widmore. And don’t you think he could have had Desmond followed when he went back to the boat?
* Speaking of the baby, is he named after Driveshaft Charlie? Or maybe evil daddy Charles?
* Miles’ ghost-whispering talents really paid off in this episode.
* Just how many redshirts are left now? Can’t be too many, except for the ones with the Others at the temple.
* I will never get tired of Richard Alpert appearing unexpectedly. I hope they have signed him to a long-term contract. Imagine if CANE was still on the air. What would the show’s producers have done?
* Faraday’s long-time benefactor is Widmore. Not really a surprise, but does call Faraday’s good-guy status into question.
* Are LOST fanatics now going to start learning Latin? So much for it being a dead language.
* “Jughead” had nothing to do with the Archie comics character. Hooray. Lots of concrete, you say? Could that be what was buried under the hatch? And did pressing the button keep the bomb from going BOOM?
* Oh, Charlotte. That’s not good. That’s a Minkowski-sized nose bleed.
* Wasn’t this a great episode, with no Jack, Kate, Hurley or even Ben? A nice refreshing change.
Next week: Things heat up for the Oceanic Six.
Teen and I eagerly settled in last night to watch Fringe. We came late to the Lost party (we watched the first two seasons on DVD), but we are now big fans of that show and it shares some of the same creators.
So what wasn't to like?
I can suspend disbelief with the best of them, but:
- a plane that lands itself simply becuase you press a red button labelled "auto pilot"? They tried to get around this by saying Logan airport was one of the first to use the new system, but...
- a guy locked up in a mental asylum for 17 years because there was an accident at a lab that killed someone? Hard to believe he would be sent to a mental asylum. Hard to believe he'd be there that long. Hard to believe that no one else seemed to be housed there. Hard to believe that if he was so scary and dangerous, the one guard in the background didn't seem to care when he went for his son's face and started trying to pry open his eye.
- the only way to get the guy out of the asylum is to get his estranged son to do it, even flying to Iraq to see said son, even doing some indepth sleuthing on son's secrets and lies and threatening to reveal all unless he lets them see his dad. Um, wouldn't have been easier just to convince a judge that it was a matter of national security and bypass the son (who has "potential love interest with secrets" written all over him)?
- and the mad scientist was investigating a laundry list of "fringe" science. Hard to believe that he investigated like 20 different things.
- the mad scientist's lab still existed in some basement in Harvard, albeit a little dusty, after 17 years. Right. Like no one wouldn't have lusted after the space or the equipment.
That's the point where the TV went off. I guess my take is that Lost is about people first and then plot, and Fringe was about a gee-whiz plot and then people. It just seemed forced and over the top.
Which is too bad.
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I was pretty satisfied with the way that Battlestar Galactica ended--kept true to the spirit of the show, with emotional scenes.
My favorite TV ending was that of Six Feet Under. I just loved it.
I was addicted to Sopranos. I love being "involved" in the whole mafia family, seeing their struggles, and triumphs. Even though a lot of what they did was illegal, they loved each other and were truly loyal to those that were loyal to them. They were a family. Most people hated the ending to the last show because it was somewhat of a cliffhanger.. I on the other hand thought it was brilliant. It left people to USE THEIR IMAGINATION on what they thought had happened. I think people are scared of that, but I personally LOVE IT! Imaginations are a wonderful thing and through them many magnificent ideas are born!!!
I did not watch Battlestar Galactica, but I will take your word for it, JP! I did watch every episode of Six Feet Under and the Sopranos and loved them from beginning to end!
I was completely devastated when Buffy ended. I felt like I was losing family. I was also somewhat relieved to have more time on Tuesday nights to read.
It's hard to think of one! I'm usually left pretty unsatisfied. I'm going to go with Alias, because as much as I like "happily ever after" I prefer to know that Sydney's out there kicking some butt!
I loved JAG and was happy that Harm and Mac finally got together! They were meant to be!
I really liked the ending to Friends. Thought it ended really well.
SweetMelissa, I like to think Sydney's still out there, too. But good choice!
NymFaux, I'll have to check out JAG!
Donna, Friends--definitely!
And for those of you who go waaaay back, I'd like to add The Mary Tyler Moore Show and M*A*S*H* for having great finales.
I really liked the way that Numb3rs ended -- they tied up loose ends, brought back characters from earlier seasons and shows, and gave it a nice resolution.
(I admit I was much less satisfied with the way Battlestar Galactica ended! But I know that's an issue that splits fans -- half seem to love it, and half seem to hate it...)
Cara
It's really hard to end a series, Tina. I can't think of one that I really liked. Maybe Sex in the City? (Didn't like the movie so much, though...)
Alias is the only one that comes to mind. All of my favorite canceled shows had bad endings in my opinion.
I was super happy with how Gilmore Girls ended. It left some room for imagination but wrapped up the storyline.
I hate when shows I love end. I am always left wanting more. The only show I was satisfied with was Life on Mars. It was a weird show with an even weirder ending...it was perfect
D.M., oh, yes, Buffy!
Cara, how did I miss Numb3rs???
Heather, oh, yes, S&TC!
Another vote for Alias from Ladytink!
Nikki, you're the first to mention the wonderful Gilmore Girls!
Haze, I've heard great things about Life on Mars!
I think I was satisfied with the ending of Charmed I loved that show I would come and turn it on everyday after school
Denise
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I was bitter sweet about the way Angel ended. On the one hand I was sad that they would all be dead but on the other hand, it was realistic in the sense that eventually the BIG BAD would get them. But the point is they went down fighting.
I loved how Full House ended. Everyone all grown up, going about their lives, yet staying together. Wrapped up things very well :))
Charmed and Angel are two I didn't see (that's what DVD's are for, huh? ;), but I agree with Bee that Full House ended well!
I was satisfied with the ending of Friends.Everyone ended up with who they should have been with.
I was really satisfied with the way Friends ended. The couples were totally destined for each other since the very beginning and I have to agree...I wanted Friends to end the way it did! So yes,I enjoyed it very much :)
More votes for Friends, I see--and I sure agree!
I liked Dawson's Creek - Pacey ended up with Joey! Much better than Felicity - she should have picked Noel!
I HOPE Lost ends good and that all secrets are revealed!
I usually are quit disappointed with TV series endings. One ending I liked though was Alias!