Food Network, Ace Of Cakes
When ABC's hit series, LOST, needs a cake to celebrate their 100th episode, actor Jorge Garcia calls the bakery to commission a unique cake creation. Duff and his crew head out to visit the Aloha state and the set of LOST. Tune in: LOST in Hawaii, featuring the cast from ABC's hit series, Saturday at 9pm/8c
Friday, May 8
Wednesday, May 6
Like Duh!
n a Ladies' Home Journal cover story, American Idol judge Paula Abdul speaks openly about her past with painkillers, revealing that for the first time in 12 years she's no longer dependent on medication. According to the article, Abdul checked herself into the La Costa Resort and Spa, in Carlsbad, Calif., on Thanksgiving 2008, after years of medicating what is described as "chronic debilitating pain caused by an unusual series of accidents."
An initial back injury suffered as a 17-year-old cheerleader was followed by: a broken leg during a rehearsal in 1991; a neck injury in a car accident in 1992; and partial paralysis requiring 15 spinal surgeries from a 1993 airplane crash. To deal with the pain -- and keep dancing -- Abdul began using a combination of painkillers, which included regular shots of lidocaine, the magazine says. "I couldn't cancel my tour," Abdul explained. "I didn't want anyone to count me out. I tried to keep everything hush-hush."
By 2005, Abdul was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, described as a chronic pain condition that disabled her with pain, made her teeth chatter, and produced shingles-like lesions. "Paula wore a patch that delivered a pain medication about 80 times more potent than morphine and took a nerve medication to relieve her symptoms," the magazine reports. "Sometimes she took a muscle relaxer. But the pain was so bad it often left her sleepless and she would, as she says, 'get weird.' It was the combination of these factors that may have led to the impression that she was high at times when she was on [American Idol]." Abdul, however, told the magazine that she never shot an Idol episode under the influence.
Last month, when asked by Nightline's Cynthia McFadden whether she had ever abused prescription drugs, Abdul answered, "Never."
An initial back injury suffered as a 17-year-old cheerleader was followed by: a broken leg during a rehearsal in 1991; a neck injury in a car accident in 1992; and partial paralysis requiring 15 spinal surgeries from a 1993 airplane crash. To deal with the pain -- and keep dancing -- Abdul began using a combination of painkillers, which included regular shots of lidocaine, the magazine says. "I couldn't cancel my tour," Abdul explained. "I didn't want anyone to count me out. I tried to keep everything hush-hush."
By 2005, Abdul was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, described as a chronic pain condition that disabled her with pain, made her teeth chatter, and produced shingles-like lesions. "Paula wore a patch that delivered a pain medication about 80 times more potent than morphine and took a nerve medication to relieve her symptoms," the magazine reports. "Sometimes she took a muscle relaxer. But the pain was so bad it often left her sleepless and she would, as she says, 'get weird.' It was the combination of these factors that may have led to the impression that she was high at times when she was on [American Idol]." Abdul, however, told the magazine that she never shot an Idol episode under the influence.
Last month, when asked by Nightline's Cynthia McFadden whether she had ever abused prescription drugs, Abdul answered, "Never."
Tuesday, May 5
Thursday, April 30
Faraday Seek A Variable
Review of last night's amazingly crazy, but yet answer-filled LOST episode can be found at Zap2It
and also read the EW recap A Twist Of Fate
and also read the EW recap A Twist Of Fate
Wednesday, April 29
Who Knew?
Tom Price Furniture
This chair looks EXACTLY like my stepdaughter's papasan chair. All this time she was creating something artsy by casually tossing her clothes onto it. WHO KNEW???
Tuesday, April 28
100 Things I Love About LOST
I love LOST. I'm sure that comes as a big surprise to anyone who stops by this blog (and seriously... DOES anyone ever stop by here? hello??) So, in honor of this week's 100th episode, I bring you 100 Things I Love About LOST.
Feel free to thank me for all the hard work I do in bringing you such awesome Lost-ness.
Feel free to thank me for all the hard work I do in bringing you such awesome Lost-ness.
Monday, April 27
Friday, April 24
Wednesday, April 22
Coachella
Usually, I head to Indio, CA for 3 days of music, booze, heat and randomness. This year is a little different. Marc & I just went on Saturday.
4 hours in the car
head to the URB party to pick up tickets
try to find the person that has our tickets
watch the drunk people swim naked
wonder why the bartender winks at me (or maybe she's squinting to see straight)
get VIP tickets from joely
get back in car
park
walk through a mile of horse poop to get to the festival
go immediately to VIP area, get drinks, sit down in the grass, watch and admire TV on the Radio
walk over to Fleet Foxes
get tired of standing in a huge crowd
feel old
go back to VIP area, and listen to Thievery Corporation on the way
get sausages and cokes
watch the sky
watch the crowd
overhear some dude say to his girl, "let's eat this thai food and then go have sex"
hear the crowd get excited for MIA
listen to MIA and spot people we know in the crowd
get tired of MIA after 5 minutes because of the incessant bull horn
wonder if she has a guitarist, drummer, bassist and bull hornist
seriously, what is up with the bullhorn?
drive home glad we went
4 hours in the car
head to the URB party to pick up tickets
try to find the person that has our tickets
watch the drunk people swim naked
wonder why the bartender winks at me (or maybe she's squinting to see straight)
get VIP tickets from joely
get back in car
park
walk through a mile of horse poop to get to the festival
go immediately to VIP area, get drinks, sit down in the grass, watch and admire TV on the Radio
walk over to Fleet Foxes
get tired of standing in a huge crowd
feel old
go back to VIP area, and listen to Thievery Corporation on the way
get sausages and cokes
watch the sky
watch the crowd
overhear some dude say to his girl, "let's eat this thai food and then go have sex"
hear the crowd get excited for MIA
listen to MIA and spot people we know in the crowd
get tired of MIA after 5 minutes because of the incessant bull horn
wonder if she has a guitarist, drummer, bassist and bull hornist
seriously, what is up with the bullhorn?
drive home glad we went
I don't have an HDTV...
...but I have an HD Tivo!
My old TiVo, after 6 years of being there by my side, is about to hit the dust. I just have to catch up on a few shows (Lost, Office, 30 Rock) and then it's buh-bye TiVo 2.0, hello TiVo HD!
My old TiVo, after 6 years of being there by my side, is about to hit the dust. I just have to catch up on a few shows (Lost, Office, 30 Rock) and then it's buh-bye TiVo 2.0, hello TiVo HD!
LOST 4/22
Tonight is not technically a "new" episode, but instead they are showing a retrospective exploring events in the lives of the Oceanic 6 and the other island survivors during the three years after Ben moved the island. I'll definitely be watching. I mean seriously... what else would I be doing? Everyone who knows me knows I am totally and completely addicted to this damn show.
In the meantime, go check this out from EW Untangling The Mystery
In the meantime, go check this out from EW Untangling The Mystery
Thursday, April 16
Wednesday, April 15
Hoth Stuff!
From EW:
Tonight's episode focuses on Miles Straum, and the Doc valiantly charges into Norse mythology for clues. Plus: A chat with Ken Leung, "Lost Untangled," a "Star Wars" diversion, trying to figure out Smokey, a Purge binge, and and more!
Tonight's episode focuses on Miles Straum, and the Doc valiantly charges into Norse mythology for clues. Plus: A chat with Ken Leung, "Lost Untangled," a "Star Wars" diversion, trying to figure out Smokey, a Purge binge, and and more!
Tuesday, April 14
Josh and Anna's Big News!
It's the news you've all been waiting for: Anna Duggar is pregnant! She and Josh actually concieved months ago, but unlike certain other people [cough cough, Michelle Duggar, cough], waited until after the first trimester before announcing it on the Today Show. On one hand, I'm a little happy for her: this is her life's goal, they basically said in their wedding vows they were going to have as many kids as possible, and Anna seems thrilled. But on the other, freakishly bigger hand, I feel very sad for Anna. She probably didn't realize that she was signing up for a lifetime of TV appearances for every little announcement. She's only 20 years old and has been married/kissing/etc. for only seven months, and only started holding hands with a boy last summer! Yes, this is what she obviously wants, but is it only because she's been locked into a life where she thinks this the only option for her?
Another TWoP-er said exactly what I was thinking regarding this public situation that Anna has found herself in:
So here's how the pregnancy announcement went, from what I can piece together from various sources: Anna had taken several pregnancy tests before (my own speculation here: when she didn't get pregnant after the first couple times they did the deed, she started taking a test once a month?), and was disappointed with the negative results. On February 2, she took another test, while she and Josh were at work at the used car lot. Not wanting to be disappointed again, she peed on the stick and then left it in the bathroom for Josh to check later. Josh checked it, but told Anna that he wouldn't let her know the results until later. (Now at this point, if I were Anna, I would have guessed that it was positive - otherwise, why the suspense? But maybe he just wanted her to focus on work at work and not worry about it one way or the other.) (My own speculation again here: Josh gets on the phone with the TLC producers, down the street at his parents' house, and says, "Boy, have I got a scoop for you! Meet us at our place at 6:00!")
When they get home that night, Josh cooks up some story about the TLC cameras being there to film some yardwork that they're planning on doing. Then he gets Anna to sit down next to him and announces the news. Next they call the Kellers in Florida to break the news, using a TLC crew member's iPhone (Dave's? Just guessing since we saw his iPhone in "Duggars on Ice.") Creepy Pa Keller comments that the book and DVD they were given for their wedding night must have really worked! Then the next day they announce it to all the Duggars (and the Bates!) at Grandpa Duggar's banana birthday bash.
I understand wanting to make the announcement with all their family present, but did they have to make such a fuss with the cameras and going on the Today Show and all? Wow, a healthy young married couple became pregnant with their first child. Is this newsworthy? Maybe when she hits number 14 she can get her first TV special, like the [original] Duggars, but I don't see why this particular situation deserves special treatment. They had better not bring the cameras to the delivery room! As one TWoP-er puts it, "It's the reality TV version of 'If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?' If a baby falls out of a Duggar uterus and there aren't camera crews present, does the child exist?"
Another TWoP-er said exactly what I was thinking regarding this public situation that Anna has found herself in:
Regarding the idea that Anna should have lit out like a bat out of hell from Gator Landing when she saw TLC show up, I think this is where I started feeling sorry for the girl and perhaps fan wanking a little: Here is this girl, sheltered, brought up her whole life to think that the best days of her life would be when she married and started having children. "Submitting" seems romantic: I am going to be so in love with this man that I will give him all of me to do with as he wishes.
Suddenly, she is being proposed to by a man that she has essentially been crushing on, her family comes back and Josh announces "she has her ring" in the exact tone you use at the county fair when you are buying prize-winning livestock, and TLC is sticking cameras in your face to record a moment you probably thought would be moonlight and roses and soft music. No wonder she looked like she was going to climb backward out of that booth.
By now, anything she doesn't like she's probably decided is her fault and is a test that God has put in front of her. If she isn't enjoying physical intimacy (and really, what are the chances?), she probably thinks it is her own failure to truly submit, to truly trust God in the form of Josh presiding over her. Poor girl.
So here's how the pregnancy announcement went, from what I can piece together from various sources: Anna had taken several pregnancy tests before (my own speculation here: when she didn't get pregnant after the first couple times they did the deed, she started taking a test once a month?), and was disappointed with the negative results. On February 2, she took another test, while she and Josh were at work at the used car lot. Not wanting to be disappointed again, she peed on the stick and then left it in the bathroom for Josh to check later. Josh checked it, but told Anna that he wouldn't let her know the results until later. (Now at this point, if I were Anna, I would have guessed that it was positive - otherwise, why the suspense? But maybe he just wanted her to focus on work at work and not worry about it one way or the other.) (My own speculation again here: Josh gets on the phone with the TLC producers, down the street at his parents' house, and says, "Boy, have I got a scoop for you! Meet us at our place at 6:00!")
When they get home that night, Josh cooks up some story about the TLC cameras being there to film some yardwork that they're planning on doing. Then he gets Anna to sit down next to him and announces the news. Next they call the Kellers in Florida to break the news, using a TLC crew member's iPhone (Dave's? Just guessing since we saw his iPhone in "Duggars on Ice.") Creepy Pa Keller comments that the book and DVD they were given for their wedding night must have really worked! Then the next day they announce it to all the Duggars (and the Bates!) at Grandpa Duggar's banana birthday bash.
I understand wanting to make the announcement with all their family present, but did they have to make such a fuss with the cameras and going on the Today Show and all? Wow, a healthy young married couple became pregnant with their first child. Is this newsworthy? Maybe when she hits number 14 she can get her first TV special, like the [original] Duggars, but I don't see why this particular situation deserves special treatment. They had better not bring the cameras to the delivery room! As one TWoP-er puts it, "It's the reality TV version of 'If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?' If a baby falls out of a Duggar uterus and there aren't camera crews present, does the child exist?"
- The whole Duggar family gets together to make the announcement on the Today Show (and here's their written article)
- Josh and Anna will be featured in a new web series on TLC.com, "Duggars - the Next Generation." The first video, Josh Tells Anna, is actually kind of sweet. They're both so excited! I just can't figure out if they're calling each other "Baby" as a pet name, or just repeating the word "baby" as in, "We're going to have a." And here's Josh and Anna's Big Announcement, which starts and ends with a long-awaited kiss, and includes mention of how their "activities" have changed (I assume baby-making activities?).
- Here's their article on People.com's Celebrity Baby Blog. It features a very immodest picture of Anna (from their post-wedding photo shoot - these pics keep popping up!) where it almost looks like she's wearing pants! No, I can't know that she has a crotch!
WHEN are we?
Having trouble knowing what the hell is going on with Lost? Wondering WHEN they are? I don't know about you but there has been so much happening, what with the flashbacks, flash-forwards, time-shifting and general craziness that is Lost... well, frankly, I'm Lost!
Thankfully we're in luck. The helpful folks over at ABC have posted a timeline on their website. Feel free to Click Here to watch.
Thankfully we're in luck. The helpful folks over at ABC have posted a timeline on their website. Feel free to Click Here to watch.
Tuesday TV
8pm-American Idol. Who's your favorite? Who should go home? Is anyone even watching?
9pm-Fringe and Dancing With the Stars. I plan to Tivo DWTS and watch Fringe live with Twittering throughout. Once that's over then I'll fast-forward to DWTS and see who gets the boot.
9pm-Fringe and Dancing With the Stars. I plan to Tivo DWTS and watch Fringe live with Twittering throughout. Once that's over then I'll fast-forward to DWTS and see who gets the boot.
Monday, April 13
Some Like It Hoth
Episode 5.13: Some Like It Hoth (Miles-centric)
Airdate: April 15, 2009
After young Ben is reported missing from the infirmary, suspicion mounts among the Dharma Initiative that there are traitors in their midst and Sawyer's lies about the castaways look set to come undone. Meanwhile, Miles is asked to deliver a package to a senior Dharma operative as flashbacks reveal how he came to be part of Widmore's operation to retrieve Ben from the island. But what is his connection to one of the most important figures in the Dharma Initiative? Source: What's On TV UK
We'll learn next week why Miles was really on the freighter and get a return visit with bossy freighter babe Naomi, as well as learn how/if he's been on the Island before. Source: Kristin on E!Online
Airdate: April 15, 2009
After young Ben is reported missing from the infirmary, suspicion mounts among the Dharma Initiative that there are traitors in their midst and Sawyer's lies about the castaways look set to come undone. Meanwhile, Miles is asked to deliver a package to a senior Dharma operative as flashbacks reveal how he came to be part of Widmore's operation to retrieve Ben from the island. But what is his connection to one of the most important figures in the Dharma Initiative? Source: What's On TV UK
We'll learn next week why Miles was really on the freighter and get a return visit with bossy freighter babe Naomi, as well as learn how/if he's been on the Island before. Source: Kristin on E!Online
Friday, April 10
And In Other Fringe News...
After collaborating on his upcoming Star Trek reboot, Abrams has signed Leonard Nimoy to join the cast of his Fox baby, Fringe. The 78-year-old Trek icon will play William Bell, Walter Bishop's former lab partner-turned-millionaire founder of Massive Dynamic.
The character is slated to debut in next month's season finale and then return in the fall for an extended arc.
The character is slated to debut in next month's season finale and then return in the fall for an extended arc.
Fringe Code Cracked
I had heard the images seen between breaks meant something but until I stumbled across this article, i really hadn't given it much more thought. Cipher Expert Cracks Fringe Code
Carrell & Fey Teaming Up
The flick Date Night, directed by Night at the Museum's Shawn Levy,starts shooting in a few weeks and stars the comedy dream team of Carell and Fey. The stars of The Office and 30 Rock play a married couple who go out to a trendy Manhattan bistro for some couple bonding time, when things go terribly awry thanks to a case of mistaken identity.
Thursday, April 9
Wednesday, April 8
Monday, April 6
The LOST Motherload
I cannot be held responsible for any of this content. It may possibly be accurate or it all might be a load of shit. Either way, it's damn entertaining.
Courtesy of WatchLostOnline.net:
Despite the fact that many of us (myself included) suspected that Christian Shephard might actually be Jacob, we finally have confirmation that he is not. The role of Jacob has been cast and he will be appearing in the Season 5 finale of Lost. Mark Pellegrino will be playing the mysterious island leader. And he won't just be appearing....he will be interacting in flashbacks with some of our main characters.
For example:
Jacob: We will learn that Jacob has witnessed pivotal events in the pre-island lives of Locke, Sayid and Sawyer. Source: EW
Sawyer: Jacob will meet a young Sawyer at his parents' funeral. Jacob will not be interacting with young Sawyer for very long, but he will be acting as a sort of conscience for Sawyer, telling him something like "I know what you did". Source: The Observ3r@The ODI & The Transmission
Locke: We will see a scene where Mark Pellegrino (who has been cast as Jacob) is reading a book on a bench outside a building when BAM!! Locke falls eight stories out of the window and lands behind him. While people cry out for help and to call 911, Pellegrino (Young Jacob?!) calmly puts a bookmark in his book and casually walks over to Locke's body in the grass and kneels down next to him. Source: Dark UFO
We will definitely be seeing Jacob's cabin again. Source: The Observ3r@The ODI
Here are some non-Jacob related spoilers:
Juliet: The sub will make a reappearance and Juliet will board it again (in a flashback maybe?). Source: vaudesir@Flickr
Sayid: The finale will feature the scene where Sayid's wife, Nadia, is killed. Sayid will either witness her death or see her dead on the ground. Word is that Sayid will also be injured (probably doesn't relate to Nadia's death since we saw no earlier indication of this). Source: The ODI
Sun & Jin: Their weding will be featured in a flashback. Source: The Transmission
Losties: We will see a return to the beach camp (and we will see Rose and Bernard again!). Source: The Transmission
Penny: While we know there will be a death of a (semi-major) character by the end of the season, it will NOT be Penny. Source: E!Oniine
Rose & Bernard: We will find out what happened to Rose and Bernard during and after the time-travel. Source: EW
The Temple: We will be seeing inside the mysterious temple in the season finale. To get inside, people will have to get a bit wet. It's very Egpytian with large columns around a type of fire pit in the middle and torches on the wall. There's a tapestry on the wall with Egyptian figures on it. At the very top of it, some figures are kneeling to a sun with an eye in it and the sun's rays have hands on them. Next to the tapestry is a spinning wheel. Locke and Ben will be inside the temple. Source: and DarkUFO
Courtesy of WatchLostOnline.net:
Despite the fact that many of us (myself included) suspected that Christian Shephard might actually be Jacob, we finally have confirmation that he is not. The role of Jacob has been cast and he will be appearing in the Season 5 finale of Lost. Mark Pellegrino will be playing the mysterious island leader. And he won't just be appearing....he will be interacting in flashbacks with some of our main characters.
For example:
Jacob: We will learn that Jacob has witnessed pivotal events in the pre-island lives of Locke, Sayid and Sawyer. Source: EW
Sawyer: Jacob will meet a young Sawyer at his parents' funeral. Jacob will not be interacting with young Sawyer for very long, but he will be acting as a sort of conscience for Sawyer, telling him something like "I know what you did". Source: The Observ3r@The ODI & The Transmission
Locke: We will see a scene where Mark Pellegrino (who has been cast as Jacob) is reading a book on a bench outside a building when BAM!! Locke falls eight stories out of the window and lands behind him. While people cry out for help and to call 911, Pellegrino (Young Jacob?!) calmly puts a bookmark in his book and casually walks over to Locke's body in the grass and kneels down next to him. Source: Dark UFO
We will definitely be seeing Jacob's cabin again. Source: The Observ3r@The ODI
Here are some non-Jacob related spoilers:
Juliet: The sub will make a reappearance and Juliet will board it again (in a flashback maybe?). Source: vaudesir@Flickr
Sayid: The finale will feature the scene where Sayid's wife, Nadia, is killed. Sayid will either witness her death or see her dead on the ground. Word is that Sayid will also be injured (probably doesn't relate to Nadia's death since we saw no earlier indication of this). Source: The ODI
Sun & Jin: Their weding will be featured in a flashback. Source: The Transmission
Losties: We will see a return to the beach camp (and we will see Rose and Bernard again!). Source: The Transmission
Penny: While we know there will be a death of a (semi-major) character by the end of the season, it will NOT be Penny. Source: E!Oniine
Rose & Bernard: We will find out what happened to Rose and Bernard during and after the time-travel. Source: EW
The Temple: We will be seeing inside the mysterious temple in the season finale. To get inside, people will have to get a bit wet. It's very Egpytian with large columns around a type of fire pit in the middle and torches on the wall. There's a tapestry on the wall with Egyptian figures on it. At the very top of it, some figures are kneeling to a sun with an eye in it and the sun's rays have hands on them. Next to the tapestry is a spinning wheel. Locke and Ben will be inside the temple. Source: and DarkUFO
Thursday, April 2
Tuesday, March 31
What's This???
courtesy of TV Guide:
Mark Pellegrino, whom Dexter fans for certain will remember as Rita's hate-to-hate-him druggie/abusive husband, has been cast on ABC's Lost, sources confirm for TVGuide.com. Pellegrino will likely make his first appearance in the two-hour Season 5 finale, airing May 13. His casting was first reported by EW's Ausiello.
Who is Pellegrino playing? "Officially," our source tells us, he is billed on the call sheet as "Man No. 1." That is obviously meant to be as generic as "Sexy Stewardess" - but perhaps more can be read into it, if one were (ahem) inclined. Ask yourself: Who is the BMOC in Lost-land?
Character name aside, Hawaii-based eyewitnesses tell the Dark UFO fansite that Pellegrino thus far has filmed a scene in which he is on hand for Locke's crippling fall from a window. The speculation is that Man No. 1 will also have a Zelig-like presence at other formative events in each castaway's pre-island life.
Who in Lost lore would be so omnipresent? Are you thinking what we're thinking?
Mark Pellegrino, whom Dexter fans for certain will remember as Rita's hate-to-hate-him druggie/abusive husband, has been cast on ABC's Lost, sources confirm for TVGuide.com. Pellegrino will likely make his first appearance in the two-hour Season 5 finale, airing May 13. His casting was first reported by EW's Ausiello.
Who is Pellegrino playing? "Officially," our source tells us, he is billed on the call sheet as "Man No. 1." That is obviously meant to be as generic as "Sexy Stewardess" - but perhaps more can be read into it, if one were (ahem) inclined. Ask yourself: Who is the BMOC in Lost-land?
Character name aside, Hawaii-based eyewitnesses tell the Dark UFO fansite that Pellegrino thus far has filmed a scene in which he is on hand for Locke's crippling fall from a window. The speculation is that Man No. 1 will also have a Zelig-like presence at other formative events in each castaway's pre-island life.
Who in Lost lore would be so omnipresent? Are you thinking what we're thinking?
Thursday, March 26
Wednesday, March 25
Say What?
Courtesy of EW:
An ABC insider confirms that Lost will begin filming a wedding ceremony later today that is slated to air during the show's two-hour finale on May 13. Who's getting hitched? Here are a pair of clues: Actors of Asian-American descent are being sought to play extras, and the wedding will take place on the mainland, not the island. That pretty much rules out Jack/Kate or Sawyer/Juliet. "One theory is that it's a flashback to Sun and Jin's wedding," whispers a Lost insider. "But the wild rumor is that Sun and Jin's daughter will marry Aaron in the future."
An ABC insider confirms that Lost will begin filming a wedding ceremony later today that is slated to air during the show's two-hour finale on May 13. Who's getting hitched? Here are a pair of clues: Actors of Asian-American descent are being sought to play extras, and the wedding will take place on the mainland, not the island. That pretty much rules out Jack/Kate or Sawyer/Juliet. "One theory is that it's a flashback to Sun and Jin's wedding," whispers a Lost insider. "But the wild rumor is that Sun and Jin's daughter will marry Aaron in the future."
Wednesday TV
Lots to watch tonight. Survivor, although touted as new, is not really new. It's the usual clip show they tend to broadcast during each season, especially when the show conflicts with Thanksgiving or, in this case, March Madness.
American Idol is on from 8 to 10 and LOST airs at 9pm. The Tivo will certainly be getting a workout this evening!
Some LOST scoop from my 'secret source':
1. When the plane first starts to descend down to the island you briefly hear the numbers come in over the radio. It's probably the same recording that Hurley's friend from the first mental hospital and I think Roussou's group heard it too. (Then Roussou put her own message over it which ran for 16 years before Jack turned it off). If Jack turned Roussou's broadcast off then someone must have put the original numbers broadcast back on?
2. Amy & Horace's son is Ethan. That means Ethan was spared from the Purge since we see him still alive in Season 1 when he was "planted" in with the Oceanic Flight Crashers. But why? How? Perhaps he was off the island at the time of the Purge in the early 90s. Or if the theory floating around that Amy had an affair with a hostile turns out to be true than Ethan would be half DI and half Hostile and he could have been spared for those reasons.
3. Where are Sun and Frank? We know the two are in 2007 but if the numbers being played as the Ajira plane crashes are the same numbers we hear Hurley calling out on Danielle's radio (as she encounters a shipwrecked Jin) than that must mean that the timeline that Sun and Lapidus are in must have been altered at least to the point where Danielle has never recorded over the numbers with her message, right? Either someone restarted the broadcast of the numbers (why?) after the helicopter left the Island, or the plane and everyone else landed before 1988, which is the year when Danielle changed the broadcast to her creepy message....which she herself turned off to contact the Freighter people in 2004. But if the plane landed before 1988, why are the Hydra and the cages abandoned? Dharma was still out and about until the Purge in 1992, supposedly, because Horace told John he had been dead for twelve years in 2004. I think it's just a continuity mistake, either the numbers being heard in the present time, or that Horace has been dead twelve years. It makes more sense for Dharma to have died out before 1988 when Danielle arrived on the Island, how did she not run into anyone there and how come Dharma did not go to the radio tower pertaining the changed message? Horace must have been dead for more than twelve years, and that was the continuity error. If the numbers being heard is a true indication of the time the plane landed, then Sun, Lapidus, Ben and the rest landed after Dharma was killed but before Danielle changed the message, and before the Others moved in. Or the numbers started broadcasting again somehow in the present time.
4. So Marvin Candle's real name is Chang. Pierre Chang.
5. Did anyone else catch that Hurley's and Jack's names were already on the recruit manifest before Juliet came in with the modified one? Why was that? Juliet took charge of the list so it would be assumed that all the lists were changed to include the 3 Losties but it seemed Juliet only made changes to one, the one which she came in and saved Kate with. Or was it that she did make changes to all of them but was thinking about leaving Kate off so that she wouldn't have anything to do with Sawyer but then had a change of heart.
6. Why did Sun not flash off the plane and into 1977 with the rest of the O6? Many theories exist...
First theory: Sun didn't flash because she has to turn the donkey wheel again, to bring them back to present time. Everyone has to play their role...
Second Theory: It will play into what Locke did off-island. He visited Jack/Kate/Hurley/Sayid, all of whom went back to 1977. He didn't visit Sun or Frank, and he didn't visit Ben, Ben visited him (and according to Christian, Ben was never supposed to turn the wheel and leave in the first place). How they'll play that off? I have no idea, but it fits.
Third Theory: Maybe Ben couldn't return to 1977 since he was on the Island presently in that time period (as a kid). Could Sun be on the island in 1977 as a kid (and we have not seen her yet)? Maybe she is related to the Dharma intro video guy - Pierre Chang/Marvin Candle's. Could it be possible Sun was the Asian baby in the crib at the beginning of the season? Pierre Chang's daughter perhaps (Although most think Miles was Dr Changs baby.) and this is why she was transported back in time because there is a Sun already there in 1977. Same for Ben. Sun's father's corporation/business has some relation to the Hanso Foundation so it could be some other situation that had her back on the island in the late '70s.
Fourth theory: Sun was not taken back to 1977 with Jack, Kate and the rest of the O6 because she was not the same as when she left. (Not with Child).
Fifth Theory: Remember that Locke said that they "weren't supposed to leave". We know that Juliette, Miles, Sawyer etc. were always "supposed" to go back in time because they've impacted events (such as Ethan being born) which we know happened in 2004. If Sawyer doesn't kill the 2 Others holding Amy, it's very likely that she would have been killed or taken prisoner and never hooked up with Horace and Ethan wouldn't have been born. (Sure she could have escaped or been released or in a million other ways found her way back to the Dharma camp and resumed the time line - but based on what we have been shown it appears that they were preparing to take her captive and presumably killed to provide the justice Richard stated was needed.)
Had Sun remained on the island she would have died from the pregnancy and wouldn't have been with the group we now see in 1977. By having her remain in 2007 it seems that the universe is correcting itself and in contrast to Sawyer's encounter with the Others, it's preventing Sun from altering a past she was never intended to be a part of.
7. Random thought: The "adam n eve" skeletons are Bernard and Rose.
8. Sayid's purpose is to either kill Ben "not gonna happen" or save/help Ben in the expulsion of the other Darma people
9. A theory about how the show will move on to season six. Our survivors will obviously not be in the past for long. As we know (or think) Ben tricked Widmore in turning the frozen donkey wheel sometime in the past. I believe sometime this season, Young Ben tricks Widmore in turning the wheel. This will be known as the 'incident' that was described one of the old dharma videos (can not remember which, maybe the swan) because something will happen the 'dharmas' cannot explain. During this time, our survivors will end up back in the same time as Sun, Locke, and others. This should set up a showdown or give another story with the survivors all together for season 6. In the meantime, the incident will allow young Ben to blossom into the character we know him as today because 'the Others' will be without a leader for some time.
10. Could JACOB be an acronym for specific people who have special powers (and possibly become/are leaders)
J- John (maybe even james and/or jack)
A- Aaron
C- Claire/Christian
O- unsure of this one...
B- Ben
American Idol is on from 8 to 10 and LOST airs at 9pm. The Tivo will certainly be getting a workout this evening!
Some LOST scoop from my 'secret source':
1. When the plane first starts to descend down to the island you briefly hear the numbers come in over the radio. It's probably the same recording that Hurley's friend from the first mental hospital and I think Roussou's group heard it too. (Then Roussou put her own message over it which ran for 16 years before Jack turned it off). If Jack turned Roussou's broadcast off then someone must have put the original numbers broadcast back on?
2. Amy & Horace's son is Ethan. That means Ethan was spared from the Purge since we see him still alive in Season 1 when he was "planted" in with the Oceanic Flight Crashers. But why? How? Perhaps he was off the island at the time of the Purge in the early 90s. Or if the theory floating around that Amy had an affair with a hostile turns out to be true than Ethan would be half DI and half Hostile and he could have been spared for those reasons.
3. Where are Sun and Frank? We know the two are in 2007 but if the numbers being played as the Ajira plane crashes are the same numbers we hear Hurley calling out on Danielle's radio (as she encounters a shipwrecked Jin) than that must mean that the timeline that Sun and Lapidus are in must have been altered at least to the point where Danielle has never recorded over the numbers with her message, right? Either someone restarted the broadcast of the numbers (why?) after the helicopter left the Island, or the plane and everyone else landed before 1988, which is the year when Danielle changed the broadcast to her creepy message....which she herself turned off to contact the Freighter people in 2004. But if the plane landed before 1988, why are the Hydra and the cages abandoned? Dharma was still out and about until the Purge in 1992, supposedly, because Horace told John he had been dead for twelve years in 2004. I think it's just a continuity mistake, either the numbers being heard in the present time, or that Horace has been dead twelve years. It makes more sense for Dharma to have died out before 1988 when Danielle arrived on the Island, how did she not run into anyone there and how come Dharma did not go to the radio tower pertaining the changed message? Horace must have been dead for more than twelve years, and that was the continuity error. If the numbers being heard is a true indication of the time the plane landed, then Sun, Lapidus, Ben and the rest landed after Dharma was killed but before Danielle changed the message, and before the Others moved in. Or the numbers started broadcasting again somehow in the present time.
4. So Marvin Candle's real name is Chang. Pierre Chang.
5. Did anyone else catch that Hurley's and Jack's names were already on the recruit manifest before Juliet came in with the modified one? Why was that? Juliet took charge of the list so it would be assumed that all the lists were changed to include the 3 Losties but it seemed Juliet only made changes to one, the one which she came in and saved Kate with. Or was it that she did make changes to all of them but was thinking about leaving Kate off so that she wouldn't have anything to do with Sawyer but then had a change of heart.
6. Why did Sun not flash off the plane and into 1977 with the rest of the O6? Many theories exist...
First theory: Sun didn't flash because she has to turn the donkey wheel again, to bring them back to present time. Everyone has to play their role...
Second Theory: It will play into what Locke did off-island. He visited Jack/Kate/Hurley/Sayid, all of whom went back to 1977. He didn't visit Sun or Frank, and he didn't visit Ben, Ben visited him (and according to Christian, Ben was never supposed to turn the wheel and leave in the first place). How they'll play that off? I have no idea, but it fits.
Third Theory: Maybe Ben couldn't return to 1977 since he was on the Island presently in that time period (as a kid). Could Sun be on the island in 1977 as a kid (and we have not seen her yet)? Maybe she is related to the Dharma intro video guy - Pierre Chang/Marvin Candle's. Could it be possible Sun was the Asian baby in the crib at the beginning of the season? Pierre Chang's daughter perhaps (Although most think Miles was Dr Changs baby.) and this is why she was transported back in time because there is a Sun already there in 1977. Same for Ben. Sun's father's corporation/business has some relation to the Hanso Foundation so it could be some other situation that had her back on the island in the late '70s.
Fourth theory: Sun was not taken back to 1977 with Jack, Kate and the rest of the O6 because she was not the same as when she left. (Not with Child).
Fifth Theory: Remember that Locke said that they "weren't supposed to leave". We know that Juliette, Miles, Sawyer etc. were always "supposed" to go back in time because they've impacted events (such as Ethan being born) which we know happened in 2004. If Sawyer doesn't kill the 2 Others holding Amy, it's very likely that she would have been killed or taken prisoner and never hooked up with Horace and Ethan wouldn't have been born. (Sure she could have escaped or been released or in a million other ways found her way back to the Dharma camp and resumed the time line - but based on what we have been shown it appears that they were preparing to take her captive and presumably killed to provide the justice Richard stated was needed.)
Had Sun remained on the island she would have died from the pregnancy and wouldn't have been with the group we now see in 1977. By having her remain in 2007 it seems that the universe is correcting itself and in contrast to Sawyer's encounter with the Others, it's preventing Sun from altering a past she was never intended to be a part of.
7. Random thought: The "adam n eve" skeletons are Bernard and Rose.
8. Sayid's purpose is to either kill Ben "not gonna happen" or save/help Ben in the expulsion of the other Darma people
9. A theory about how the show will move on to season six. Our survivors will obviously not be in the past for long. As we know (or think) Ben tricked Widmore in turning the frozen donkey wheel sometime in the past. I believe sometime this season, Young Ben tricks Widmore in turning the wheel. This will be known as the 'incident' that was described one of the old dharma videos (can not remember which, maybe the swan) because something will happen the 'dharmas' cannot explain. During this time, our survivors will end up back in the same time as Sun, Locke, and others. This should set up a showdown or give another story with the survivors all together for season 6. In the meantime, the incident will allow young Ben to blossom into the character we know him as today because 'the Others' will be without a leader for some time.
10. Could JACOB be an acronym for specific people who have special powers (and possibly become/are leaders)
J- John (maybe even james and/or jack)
A- Aaron
C- Claire/Christian
O- unsure of this one...
B- Ben
FML - New Fave Site
Really been loving the FML Website. You can also follow them on Twitter. And now... you can get your very own FML t-shirt. How cool is that?
Monday, March 23
Hamburger Phone!
Not sure where my fascination began with hamburgers, but here is yet another piece I'd like to add to my collection....
Buy at Fred Flare
Buy at Fred Flare
Thursday, March 19
Wednesday, March 18
The Latest Lost Scoops
Enjoy.... my little Losties....
Episode 5.09: Namaste
Airdate: March 18, 2009
Ben and Sun return with Frank but things go differently for them. Christian Shepard shows the other O6 and Jin dressed in Dharma suits in an old 1970s photo. Amy is Ethan's mother (My source assumes that Amy is Amelia who we saw in the book club in the Season 3 Premiere). Jin and Sawyer see the first half of the Oceanic 6. The reaction is emotional. Source: Lost Spoilers
When some old friends drop in unannounced, Sawyer is forced to further perpetuate his lie in order to protect them.
Will Lost's Juliet Find Herself Betrayed by Sawyer?
Doc Jensen on LOST
Episode 5.09: Namaste
Airdate: March 18, 2009
Ben and Sun return with Frank but things go differently for them. Christian Shepard shows the other O6 and Jin dressed in Dharma suits in an old 1970s photo. Amy is Ethan's mother (My source assumes that Amy is Amelia who we saw in the book club in the Season 3 Premiere). Jin and Sawyer see the first half of the Oceanic 6. The reaction is emotional. Source: Lost Spoilers
When some old friends drop in unannounced, Sawyer is forced to further perpetuate his lie in order to protect them.
Will Lost's Juliet Find Herself Betrayed by Sawyer?
Doc Jensen on LOST
Tuesday, March 17
Duggar Videos on TLC.com
I know if I'm patient a new episode of 18 Kids and Counting will be on in just an hour, but I've been watching these Duggar videos on TLC.com and wanted to share some thoughts.
Let's start with Baby 18. Nothing particularly fascinating except that cousin Amy says "You have no idea what kind of family you're getting involved in," which is the same thing she said on the actual episode. Was this some sort of rehearsal? Also, in the episode she happily says baby Jordyn is "fearfully and wonderfully made." Check out the wall words behind her in this video - wonder where she picked up that phrase?
Next up, the hilariously edited Dating vs. Courtship. Oh my gosh, thank you TLC editors! Especially hilarious moments include:
0:15 - Josh: "Our relationship was courtship, not dating." Cut to Anna giving a look like "What the heck are you talking about?!"
0:58 - Josh and Anna share a giant pickle while Josh narrates that "the emotions are there but... I love her so much that I would not step over that line" (i.e. the "no kissing before marriage" line).
1:12 - It totally looks like Josh is going in for a kiss!
1:20 - Sounds like Anna didn't get the birds and the bees talk until a couple weeks before she got married?! At age 20?! She thinks it's important to wait until you need that information to get it because a lot of people get it too soon and regret their choices. (I can just imagine their conversation: "He's going to put what, where?! I'm glad I didn't know about this sooner, I wouldn't have accepted his proposal!")
1:58 - Producer: "Did you Google or YouTube 'how to kiss?'" Anna: "No! ...They have it on there?"
And the horrible Pa Kellar throughout. "Ohhh, I'm in love!"
In Caught On Camera, Jessa breaks a commandment when she says she didn't throw a bagel at the cameraman when they were at the animal park! Then when she's caught in her lie (they probably showed her the video), she goes, "Amy started it!"
Jim Bob Says Goodbye is actually pretty cute. The caption says "Jim Bob is usually the last Duggar ready to go - now we see why," so I thought it was going to be that he had to wait for Michelle to cook him breakfast and shave his neck, or he had to take time to Aqua Net his hair or something. But the real reason is very sweet. Also:
0:30 - Jim Bob asks Michelle where the new socks and undies are that he bought. I thought they only bought used?! (Oh and Michelle has no clue. But they're with the D batteries.)
1:25 - Michelle has scissors to cut off tags, and she pulls a size label off a shirt. Thrift stores don't use size labels like that! Again, what happened to "buy used and save the difference?"
1:40 - Jim Bob stiffly tells Michelle how he's going to miss her. "Take care of the baby, don't let her come out yet." JB continues his rehearsed speech for the camera while Hanny gets antsy.
And at the very end, see how Michelle's "Shhh" technique works on a noisy little boy.
And finally, I think my favorite of the bunch, Kids in Charge. This takes place during the episode that airs tonight, so maybe we'll see what they ended up getting to decorate the bathroom, which must have looked so horrible that all they can show is a shower curtain rod with towels over it. I liked seeing Jim Bob trust Jana with the money for the project - too bad, as a woman, she's not trusted to leave the house without a group of brothers with her. I liked seeing the kids at "school" (and hooray, it looks like they do get some non-Biblical education). Poor John-David, he'll probably never get his plane. And Jana's face at the very end looks exactly like Pam from The Office!
Let's start with Baby 18. Nothing particularly fascinating except that cousin Amy says "You have no idea what kind of family you're getting involved in," which is the same thing she said on the actual episode. Was this some sort of rehearsal? Also, in the episode she happily says baby Jordyn is "fearfully and wonderfully made." Check out the wall words behind her in this video - wonder where she picked up that phrase?
Next up, the hilariously edited Dating vs. Courtship. Oh my gosh, thank you TLC editors! Especially hilarious moments include:
0:15 - Josh: "Our relationship was courtship, not dating." Cut to Anna giving a look like "What the heck are you talking about?!"
0:58 - Josh and Anna share a giant pickle while Josh narrates that "the emotions are there but... I love her so much that I would not step over that line" (i.e. the "no kissing before marriage" line).
1:12 - It totally looks like Josh is going in for a kiss!
1:20 - Sounds like Anna didn't get the birds and the bees talk until a couple weeks before she got married?! At age 20?! She thinks it's important to wait until you need that information to get it because a lot of people get it too soon and regret their choices. (I can just imagine their conversation: "He's going to put what, where?! I'm glad I didn't know about this sooner, I wouldn't have accepted his proposal!")
1:58 - Producer: "Did you Google or YouTube 'how to kiss?'" Anna: "No! ...They have it on there?"
And the horrible Pa Kellar throughout. "Ohhh, I'm in love!"
In Caught On Camera, Jessa breaks a commandment when she says she didn't throw a bagel at the cameraman when they were at the animal park! Then when she's caught in her lie (they probably showed her the video), she goes, "Amy started it!"
Jim Bob Says Goodbye is actually pretty cute. The caption says "Jim Bob is usually the last Duggar ready to go - now we see why," so I thought it was going to be that he had to wait for Michelle to cook him breakfast and shave his neck, or he had to take time to Aqua Net his hair or something. But the real reason is very sweet. Also:
0:30 - Jim Bob asks Michelle where the new socks and undies are that he bought. I thought they only bought used?! (Oh and Michelle has no clue. But they're with the D batteries.)
1:25 - Michelle has scissors to cut off tags, and she pulls a size label off a shirt. Thrift stores don't use size labels like that! Again, what happened to "buy used and save the difference?"
1:40 - Jim Bob stiffly tells Michelle how he's going to miss her. "Take care of the baby, don't let her come out yet." JB continues his rehearsed speech for the camera while Hanny gets antsy.
And at the very end, see how Michelle's "Shhh" technique works on a noisy little boy.
And finally, I think my favorite of the bunch, Kids in Charge. This takes place during the episode that airs tonight, so maybe we'll see what they ended up getting to decorate the bathroom, which must have looked so horrible that all they can show is a shower curtain rod with towels over it. I liked seeing Jim Bob trust Jana with the money for the project - too bad, as a woman, she's not trusted to leave the house without a group of brothers with her. I liked seeing the kids at "school" (and hooray, it looks like they do get some non-Biblical education). Poor John-David, he'll probably never get his plane. And Jana's face at the very end looks exactly like Pam from The Office!
Monday, March 16
Check This Out!
It took 34 years, but Chevy Chase, one of the original "not ready for primetime players," is finally ready. "Saturday Night Live" alum Chase has been tapped to co-star on the NBC comedy pilot "Community," marking his first potential full-time primetime series gig.
The Sony-produced "Community," which is being directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, is described as "Stripes" at a community college. It centers on Jeff (Joel McHale), a lawyer who is back in school after his college degree is deemed invalid.
Chase will play another student at the community college who has been married five times.
--I love Chevy Chase and I love Joel McHale. I am definitely going to check it out!
The Sony-produced "Community," which is being directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, is described as "Stripes" at a community college. It centers on Jeff (Joel McHale), a lawyer who is back in school after his college degree is deemed invalid.
Chase will play another student at the community college who has been married five times.
--I love Chevy Chase and I love Joel McHale. I am definitely going to check it out!
Friday, March 13
50 Mac Desktops
The hardest part will be choosing which one you want to use!
Courtesy of mac.appstorm.net
Courtesy of mac.appstorm.net
Spring Reality
Some of these have already started, but here's a handy list for your Spring reality line-up.
Celebrity Apprentice 2 [NBC, March 1, Sundays at 9]
Ax Men [History, March 2, Mondays at 10]
Make Me a Supermodel 2 [Bravo, March 4, Wednesdays at 10]
Keeping up with the Kardashians [E! March 8, Sundays at 10]
Candy Girls [E!, March 8, Sundays at 10:30]
Dancing with the Stars 8 [ABC, March 9, Mondays at 8, Tuesdays at 9]
The Chopping Block [NBC, March 11, Wednesdays at 8]
Hot Girls in Scary Places [E!, March 13]
Tough Love [VH1, March 15, Sundays at 10]
Dhani Tackles the Globe [Travel Channel, March 16, Mondays at 9]
Taking the Stage [MTV, March 19, Thursdays at 10]
Dogtown [National Geographic Channel, March 20, Fridays at 10]
The Locator [WeTV, March 21, Saturdays at 9]
Table for 12 [TLC, March 23, Mondays at 10]
College Hill: South Beach [BET, March 24, Tuesdays at 10]
The Hills [MTV, March 30, Mondays at 10]
The Duel II: New Zealand Challenge [MTV, April 8, Wednesdays at 10]
Groomer Has It 2 [Animal Planet, April 11, Saturdays at 9]
Deadliest Catch [Discovery, April 14, Tuesdays at 9] news
Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment [Discovery Channel, April 14, Tuesdays at 10]
The Cougar [TV Land, April 15, Wednesdays at 10]
Pitchmen [Discovery, April 15, Wednesdays at 10]
Stranger Among Bears [Animal Planet, April 17, Fridays at 10]
Who Do You Think You Are? [NBC, April 20, Mondays at 8]
Pros vs. Joes 4: All-Stars [Spike, April 27, Mondays at 11]
World’s Strictest Parents [CMT, April]
Beverly Hills Groomer [Animal Planet, May 16, Saturdays at 10]
The Bachelorette 5 [ABC, May 18, Mondays at 9]
Jon & Kate Plus 8 [TLC, May 25, Mondays at 9]
Little People: Just Married [TLC, May 25, Mondays at 10]
Those Landers Girls [E!, May]
But Wait … There’s More [Discovery Channel, spring]
Tattoo Highway [A&E, spring]
Celebrity Apprentice 2 [NBC, March 1, Sundays at 9]
Ax Men [History, March 2, Mondays at 10]
Make Me a Supermodel 2 [Bravo, March 4, Wednesdays at 10]
Keeping up with the Kardashians [E! March 8, Sundays at 10]
Candy Girls [E!, March 8, Sundays at 10:30]
Dancing with the Stars 8 [ABC, March 9, Mondays at 8, Tuesdays at 9]
The Chopping Block [NBC, March 11, Wednesdays at 8]
Hot Girls in Scary Places [E!, March 13]
Tough Love [VH1, March 15, Sundays at 10]
Dhani Tackles the Globe [Travel Channel, March 16, Mondays at 9]
Taking the Stage [MTV, March 19, Thursdays at 10]
Dogtown [National Geographic Channel, March 20, Fridays at 10]
The Locator [WeTV, March 21, Saturdays at 9]
Table for 12 [TLC, March 23, Mondays at 10]
College Hill: South Beach [BET, March 24, Tuesdays at 10]
The Hills [MTV, March 30, Mondays at 10]
The Duel II: New Zealand Challenge [MTV, April 8, Wednesdays at 10]
Groomer Has It 2 [Animal Planet, April 11, Saturdays at 9]
Deadliest Catch [Discovery, April 14, Tuesdays at 9] news
Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment [Discovery Channel, April 14, Tuesdays at 10]
The Cougar [TV Land, April 15, Wednesdays at 10]
Pitchmen [Discovery, April 15, Wednesdays at 10]
Stranger Among Bears [Animal Planet, April 17, Fridays at 10]
Who Do You Think You Are? [NBC, April 20, Mondays at 8]
Pros vs. Joes 4: All-Stars [Spike, April 27, Mondays at 11]
World’s Strictest Parents [CMT, April]
Beverly Hills Groomer [Animal Planet, May 16, Saturdays at 10]
The Bachelorette 5 [ABC, May 18, Mondays at 9]
Jon & Kate Plus 8 [TLC, May 25, Mondays at 9]
Little People: Just Married [TLC, May 25, Mondays at 10]
Those Landers Girls [E!, May]
But Wait … There’s More [Discovery Channel, spring]
Tattoo Highway [A&E, spring]
Wednesday, March 11
Tuesday, March 10
OMG a Famous Person Twittered Me!
After learning that Jake Shears (lead singer, Scissor Sisters) was on Twitter, I immediately began following him. I Tweeted that I was excited to learn he was on Twitter and that the Sisters were one of my all-time fave groups AND that I couldn't wait for a new album.
Tonight... he Twittered me (yes me! personally!!!!) and said the new album is "coming soon."
Between a famous person Twittering me and learning the Sisters are coming out with a new album soon, I think I might faint.
I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
Tonight... he Twittered me (yes me! personally!!!!) and said the new album is "coming soon."
Between a famous person Twittering me and learning the Sisters are coming out with a new album soon, I think I might faint.
I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
Monday, March 9
Wienermobile Cake
Seriously folks.... my birthday is in July and I believe this gives each of you plenty of time to practice before presenting me with my very own WIENERMOBILE CAKE!
Random Lost-ness
Courtesy of PopCandy:
We know the sub is scheduled to make a trip in two weeks and the time that they're in now is around the time that Ben Linus and his dad show up. I'm wondering if the sub brings a young Ben Linus with it.
So, safe to say Ben is a child on the island when JAMES LaFleur is in charge - that's why Ben calls him JAMES in present times.
The statue was holding an ankh in each hand.... How fascinating, since it has FERTILITY meanings as well as the connotations of everlasting life....keys to eternity, etc. Hm.
One other source I found had an interesting twist:
The Ankh... is also known as the Key of the Nile, representing the union of Isis and Osiris. It is said that this mystic union would initiate the annual flooding of the Nile, providing Egypt with her various means to survive. The meaning of the ankh as WOMB, thus fertility and reproduction, is well-illustrated in this particular legend.
Now we know why Alpert was so intent on recruiting Juliet...because she already had successfully delivered a surviving baby and mother.
Something is still not right about Juliet. She knows more than she lets on. When she and Sawyer started making out, I was like, "NOOOOOOO!!!" But when you think about it, maybe they're perfect for each other: the con and the con...
I agree. I think Juliette is aware that when you leave the island, you return to the off island present time. My guess here, but the world is not on the same loop as the island, so it wouldn't constantly be jumping along the time string. Off the island would have been early 2005 based on the timeline we were folowing prior to the island disconnecting from the time string.
We know the sub is scheduled to make a trip in two weeks and the time that they're in now is around the time that Ben Linus and his dad show up. I'm wondering if the sub brings a young Ben Linus with it.
So, safe to say Ben is a child on the island when JAMES LaFleur is in charge - that's why Ben calls him JAMES in present times.
The statue was holding an ankh in each hand.... How fascinating, since it has FERTILITY meanings as well as the connotations of everlasting life....keys to eternity, etc. Hm.
One other source I found had an interesting twist:
The Ankh... is also known as the Key of the Nile, representing the union of Isis and Osiris. It is said that this mystic union would initiate the annual flooding of the Nile, providing Egypt with her various means to survive. The meaning of the ankh as WOMB, thus fertility and reproduction, is well-illustrated in this particular legend.
Now we know why Alpert was so intent on recruiting Juliet...because she already had successfully delivered a surviving baby and mother.
Something is still not right about Juliet. She knows more than she lets on. When she and Sawyer started making out, I was like, "NOOOOOOO!!!" But when you think about it, maybe they're perfect for each other: the con and the con...
I agree. I think Juliette is aware that when you leave the island, you return to the off island present time. My guess here, but the world is not on the same loop as the island, so it wouldn't constantly be jumping along the time string. Off the island would have been early 2005 based on the timeline we were folowing prior to the island disconnecting from the time string.
Saturday, March 7
Thursday, March 5
Wednesday, March 4
Tuesday, March 3
Friday, February 27
Hot Chicks!
For those of you who know me, you know I love chickens. And this is just The Cutest Thing Ever!
Some Additional LOST Intrigue, Theories & What-Not
Received by way of my friend Lola & her super-awesome "secret sources":
OK, maybe I'm crazy, but I thought of something while reading this. Do you think that the passengers from flight 316 could be the original Others? If they did, indeed, land 30 years in the past, isn't it conceivable that they could be the Others from the current day? Also, if, when Desmond eventually ends up back on the island, it is still in the past, perhaps he takes on the job of punching the numbers in the computer to try to prevent what has happened (Widmore finding the island, Oceanic 6 (and Ben) leaving). If Ben did kill Penny before he got on flight 316, it would make sense that Desmond's motivation for pushing the buttons would be to save Penny's life by making sure Ben doesn't leave. In essence, the mission of the original Losties would be to ensure that they end up where they were when they crashed on the island originally. I know this brings everything to a crazy full circle, but it's just a thought!
Widmore said the Others had been around for three decades. That's just 30 years. We know Ben launched the purge sometime around1992, so are we to believe that the Others had only been there since the 1970's? He was 17 in 1954, which would make him 37 around the time of the Others (1974); we also know that Widmore looked for the island for 20 years, so he's been gone from the island since around the mid-late 80s--would have made him in his mid-late 40s when he was exiled and he's 71 in the present time. Penny first met Desmond in what 1997 or 1998 and she was at the least 25 (?) so Penny was born what in 1972 or 1973? Was Penny born on the island? Interesting thought. Who wasn't born on the island? And how's this for a twisted theory...what if Penny is not Widmore's daughter? Instead, she is his mother. The writers of the show would not name Penny & Des' kid Charlie for no reason (although speculation says it's after Lostie Charlie). The kid will go back to the island with Des at some point and get transported back in time.
So let's talk about the numbers that Desmond had to put into the computer. Could they be the exact coordinates of where the island was located at a specific time? The reason Desmond and whoever else had to keep putting the numbers in the computer was to keep the island at that specific location and not move like it usually would. So people off the island (i.e. Eloise) would know where it was and could travel back and forth as needed. So that's why the flash happened after Locke and Desmond did not enter the numbers, because the island finally moved again. Eloise Hawking mentioned the island had been moving on its own when the Dharma people found it so it seems like the island's natural state is traveling around so the numbers might be an override. And staying in one place would make it easier to bring supplies and people. SOOOOOO...knowing that, here are my additional thoughts.
So if they forget to put the numbers in, the island moves, right? So as the flights are trying to arrive (like 316 did) on the Hydra island on the runway Jack and Kate built, if the numbers aren't put in, the island moves and than the plan miscalculates the landing and crashes? I don't know, just a thought. Because remember that Desmond said in Season 2 or 3 "I think I crashed your plane". The numbers aren't hit and the light flashes.
Did you see Nadia when Locke was getting his leg fixed in Tunisia, even though at that point she was supposed to be dead? Also am wondering if the girl who had Sayid in handcuffs is Ana Lucia's sister.
Foot statue theory:
The foot statue. I've always felt the foot statue was modeled after Locke's foot. During Locke's backstory in season 1 (The Walkabout), one of the first things they focus on after it's known he was paralyzed are his wiggling toes. In season 2 the Losties bring an injured Locke to the Swan station (the hatch) and he refuses, or gets mad, when they attempt to remove his shoes. Then in this season, of all things, Jack finds shoes from his dad to put onto Locke. In last night's episode, we see Locke's dress shoes on the beach, him barefoot in the sand. Then, during the hanging scene, they twice focus tightly on the foot of his injured leg, practically throwing us the hint.
Now, I counted five toes on Locke's foot, but the pinky toe didn't look quite right. It's debatable. The statue had four toes. So, either the creators are throwing us a red herring that Locke's foot is depicted in the statue, or they're finally giving us a clue that Locke's foot is modeled in the statue, and the statue was actually a huge statue of Locke. Maybe that's why Ben and Widmore know why John is so special and important.
I can see the entire series ending on one last shot of this huge Locke statue created by an ancient civilization. And now that time travel exists on the island, anything is possible for Locke visiting such a civilization.
OK, maybe I'm crazy, but I thought of something while reading this. Do you think that the passengers from flight 316 could be the original Others? If they did, indeed, land 30 years in the past, isn't it conceivable that they could be the Others from the current day? Also, if, when Desmond eventually ends up back on the island, it is still in the past, perhaps he takes on the job of punching the numbers in the computer to try to prevent what has happened (Widmore finding the island, Oceanic 6 (and Ben) leaving). If Ben did kill Penny before he got on flight 316, it would make sense that Desmond's motivation for pushing the buttons would be to save Penny's life by making sure Ben doesn't leave. In essence, the mission of the original Losties would be to ensure that they end up where they were when they crashed on the island originally. I know this brings everything to a crazy full circle, but it's just a thought!
Widmore said the Others had been around for three decades. That's just 30 years. We know Ben launched the purge sometime around1992, so are we to believe that the Others had only been there since the 1970's? He was 17 in 1954, which would make him 37 around the time of the Others (1974); we also know that Widmore looked for the island for 20 years, so he's been gone from the island since around the mid-late 80s--would have made him in his mid-late 40s when he was exiled and he's 71 in the present time. Penny first met Desmond in what 1997 or 1998 and she was at the least 25 (?) so Penny was born what in 1972 or 1973? Was Penny born on the island? Interesting thought. Who wasn't born on the island? And how's this for a twisted theory...what if Penny is not Widmore's daughter? Instead, she is his mother. The writers of the show would not name Penny & Des' kid Charlie for no reason (although speculation says it's after Lostie Charlie). The kid will go back to the island with Des at some point and get transported back in time.
So let's talk about the numbers that Desmond had to put into the computer. Could they be the exact coordinates of where the island was located at a specific time? The reason Desmond and whoever else had to keep putting the numbers in the computer was to keep the island at that specific location and not move like it usually would. So people off the island (i.e. Eloise) would know where it was and could travel back and forth as needed. So that's why the flash happened after Locke and Desmond did not enter the numbers, because the island finally moved again. Eloise Hawking mentioned the island had been moving on its own when the Dharma people found it so it seems like the island's natural state is traveling around so the numbers might be an override. And staying in one place would make it easier to bring supplies and people. SOOOOOO...knowing that, here are my additional thoughts.
So if they forget to put the numbers in, the island moves, right? So as the flights are trying to arrive (like 316 did) on the Hydra island on the runway Jack and Kate built, if the numbers aren't put in, the island moves and than the plan miscalculates the landing and crashes? I don't know, just a thought. Because remember that Desmond said in Season 2 or 3 "I think I crashed your plane". The numbers aren't hit and the light flashes.
Did you see Nadia when Locke was getting his leg fixed in Tunisia, even though at that point she was supposed to be dead? Also am wondering if the girl who had Sayid in handcuffs is Ana Lucia's sister.
Foot statue theory:
The foot statue. I've always felt the foot statue was modeled after Locke's foot. During Locke's backstory in season 1 (The Walkabout), one of the first things they focus on after it's known he was paralyzed are his wiggling toes. In season 2 the Losties bring an injured Locke to the Swan station (the hatch) and he refuses, or gets mad, when they attempt to remove his shoes. Then in this season, of all things, Jack finds shoes from his dad to put onto Locke. In last night's episode, we see Locke's dress shoes on the beach, him barefoot in the sand. Then, during the hanging scene, they twice focus tightly on the foot of his injured leg, practically throwing us the hint.
Now, I counted five toes on Locke's foot, but the pinky toe didn't look quite right. It's debatable. The statue had four toes. So, either the creators are throwing us a red herring that Locke's foot is depicted in the statue, or they're finally giving us a clue that Locke's foot is modeled in the statue, and the statue was actually a huge statue of Locke. Maybe that's why Ben and Widmore know why John is so special and important.
I can see the entire series ending on one last shot of this huge Locke statue created by an ancient civilization. And now that time travel exists on the island, anything is possible for Locke visiting such a civilization.
Thursday, February 26
Wednesday, February 25
Tuesday, February 24
This Brought Back Some BAD Memories....
Could that bad smell be a meth lab in your hotel room?
I kid you not... back in July we traveled to Columbus, Indiana to participate in the USSSA World Series. The very last night we had to transfer to a different hotel and the only place we could find was this horrid Travel Lodge. But, it was a place to sleep. Interestingly, one of the parents learned (the next day) that the hotel had been shut down due to a meth investigation and had only recently re-opened for business.
Nice....
I kid you not... back in July we traveled to Columbus, Indiana to participate in the USSSA World Series. The very last night we had to transfer to a different hotel and the only place we could find was this horrid Travel Lodge. But, it was a place to sleep. Interestingly, one of the parents learned (the next day) that the hotel had been shut down due to a meth investigation and had only recently re-opened for business.
Nice....
Tuesday LOST Preview
Episode 5.07: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham (Locke-centric)
Airdate: February 25, 2009 from 9 to 10:06 p.m.
Locke's fateful mission off the island as Jeremy Bentham is revealed.
Someone will be joining recent time travel victim Charlotte six feet under before the season is over. My source describes the character as "major-ish," which most likely rules out any of our series regulars.
Faraday's mommy wasn't lying. The Island is not done with Desmond. Question for you... Think Ben successfully tied up the loose end that got him all bloody pre-plane flight? I'll only say this: We haven't seen the last of Penny either.
Airdate: February 25, 2009 from 9 to 10:06 p.m.
Locke's fateful mission off the island as Jeremy Bentham is revealed.
Someone will be joining recent time travel victim Charlotte six feet under before the season is over. My source describes the character as "major-ish," which most likely rules out any of our series regulars.
Faraday's mommy wasn't lying. The Island is not done with Desmond. Question for you... Think Ben successfully tied up the loose end that got him all bloody pre-plane flight? I'll only say this: We haven't seen the last of Penny either.
Thursday, February 19
Wednesday, February 18
Super-Mega LOST Goodness!
Thanks to Lola for this awesome info!
1. When Charlotte was going nutty because of the flashes, she muttered, "Oh, turn it up, I love Geronimo Jackson," or something to that effect. That was mentioned previously in the show many times. Here's a refresher:
* While looking through the record collection inside the the hatch in The Hunting Party, Hurley discovers the Geronimo Jackson record and comments on it. Charlie, who is with him, states that he is an expert of all things musical and had never heard of them before.
* While Ana-Lucia is interrogating Benjamin Linus inside the hatch's armory in The Whole Truth, John Locke is listening to music on the record player, while looking through a stack of records, Geronimo Jackson is among them.
* In Further Instructions, Eddie wears a Geronimo Jackson t-shirt which he claims belonged to his father. Mike then claims that his dad has excellent taste.
* In Cabin Fever, a poster showing Geronimo Jackson is present in the locker of a young John Locke during a flashback to his high school years.
2. Danielle's music box is in the wreckage.
3. JJ Abrams or someone threw a Star Trek reference in this and Fringe this week. Daniel asks Charlotte - "you speak any other languages?" to which the reply by Charlotte was "just klingon".
4. Why would Robert try to shoot Danielle? Reminiscent of how Yemi turned on Eko. Maybe the monster inhabits their body once it's taken hold and the protection is to lead non-others to their death? Remember that Rousseau is the only one who didn't go down the hole. Her teammate that was yelling for them to come down and help him...that had to have been the smoke monster talking. Remember how the monster has taken shape of people before. I think they all went down there...all were killed by the smoke monster and then the smoke monster took their shape. But if this theory were true and the smoke monster took over Robert's body, Danielle actually shot him...the smoke monster can't be shot can it? I don't think the monster can be shot, but the body that is hosting it, can, right? Another theory is that Robert tried to shoot Danielle b/c she had already flipped out and killed the rest of them. (Jin found their bodies.) Either that, or Danielle's right and there really was a sickness. Robert knew that the smoke monster was a guardian. When Danielle's team goes under the Temple (DHARMA station?) they gain all the knowledge of the island and thus get "sick." Danielle's presence on the island in the future is a hurdle (not sure for who exactly, for the island itself maybe?). Since her team all know this (island knowledge) that is why they try to kill her, but 'destiny calls' and she kills them instead.
5. So is Christian a Native of the island, kind of like Richard? Difference being that Christian stayed off the island that's why he aged, and Richard didn't. Christian was dead when he came to the island. Is his body being used/possessed by Jacob? Though the reference to saying 'Hi' to his son may kill this theory. And John will also be dead next when he returns to the island. Interesting. So is Christian still alive? I don't think so. When John went into the cabin, it was Christian (with Claire there) who told John what to do. Doesn't mean Christian is Jacob. Maybe Christian is the new Jacob.
So who's Jacob? In the bible Jacob is known as a Christian Shepherd. In the conversation between Charlotte and Faraday, Charlotte said she thought that he was the creepy old man on the island that told her never to come back. Could Daniel Faraday be Jacob? It could be really far fetched but what did she mean by that and who really is Faraday?
6. I wonder if the reason that Jack's father is involved in this is because he was someone who did not die on the island yet his corpse arrived there (after the plane crash). Since there are similar enigmas with birth and conception on the island, maybe there is also something strange related to death.
Christian was a dead person who did not die there.
Aaron was a baby born there yet not conceived there.
Ji Yeon was conceived there but not born there.
Just some thoughts.
7. So Charlotte's dead. Are we sure she's dead and not just unstuck in time like the chick in England who Daniel experimented on? Her last words sounded like she was saying something about wanting to have a chocolate bar for dinner. Sounded like something a kid would ask a parent. So is she brain time-traveling now or is she dead? Charlotte said to Faraday she remembered him from when she was a little girl and said if she ever came back to the island that she would die. I think in the next few episodes (hopefully) we will see Faraday during one of the time shifts talking to young Charlotte. He is trying to change the future because he loves her. He is trying to keep her from coming to the island and dying. Remember a few episodes back when Desmond saw the woman Faraday experimented on? Her sister said sometimes she would wake up asking for her doll like she was 3 years old? I think it's the same kind of thing that Charlotte went through when she told Locke to look for the well. She was remembering things from her childhood because her mind was flashing through different time periods.
8. What's the deal with the nosebleeds? Still haven't figured it out. Considering Sawyer and Locke arrived on the island at the exact same time, shouldn't they both have gotten nosebleeds after the same amount of skipping? Maybe it's just a little more variable than that or does Locke's specialness or something else prevent him from getting one. Perhaps it's the same reason Daniel isn't getting nose bleeds - Locke must have a constant too (as Desmond is Daniel's constant) - could Locke's constant be Richard? I'm not sure it has anything to do with constants. It could be all about losing track in your own mind of time like Daniel Faraday said: the brain has an internal clock, and when it gets confused, it leads to a hemorrhage and even death.
9. Remember back a few seasons, we see Charlotte in the desert of Tanzania and she discovers the skeleton of a polar bear with a Dharma symbol. This appears to be the same location we see Ben after he turns the donkey wheel himself. Because the wheel is obviously in a very cold environment, they must have used polar bears to turn the wheel at one time. By now we know Charlotte has some connection with Widmore because she was on his boat; and we know that the old lady in the cathedral basement seems to be "tracking" the island so they must have sent her to that desert to inspect.
10. Does anyone think that Charlotte could have been the little girl Ben liked as a kid... Anna/Annie? She had red hair and left suddenly.
11. So is Ben the real bad guy of the series? Did you notice the look on his face when Desmond said he was there to find Faraday's mother. I would swear Ben was not
aware of her relation to Faraday, or... drum roll please...Faraday has actually changed the timeline by communicating with Desmond when he was in the hatch (era 2003 or so). Has Daniel broken his mother's rule of you can't change what is supposed to happen? Or maybe Faraday wasn't trying to change the PAST he changed the FUTURE, which is totally possible because I thought he only said they couldn't change events that had already occurred. So what was Ben's look for?
12. Food for thought: Time Travel - Can you run into yourself according to Lost's time travel rules?
13. If you can't change the past and interact with people you didn't meet yet, how did Jin interact with Danielle, and why didn't they remember each other in the future after the crash? Desmond only remembered Faraday once he was off the island. He did not recognize him when they met on the island. That is why Rosseau did not know Jin when she met him on the island after the plane crash. If Rosseau were still alive today, she would now realize that she had met Jin before.
14. As mentioned last week, the van Ben is driving is an anagram for REINCARNATION. There is a dead person in the back of that van who is going to be reincarnated after he gets back to the island, so John Locke will rise from the dead, but I am excited to see how he dies in the first place and what he said to each survivor when he went to visit them as "Jeremy Bentham." In the marina where the Oceanic met up there was a boat named Illusion clearly visible in the wide shot. The only name visible actually. With the "reincarnation" van and the boat called the illusion, I guess it's a safe bet that Locke won't be staying dead for long.
15. From a book on the Law of Dharma:
"The word "dharma" originated in the ancient language of Sanskrit. It's a principal element of the great religions of Buddhism and Hinduism, and basically it means "protection". Dharma is a proactive concept. Protecting ourselves from unhappiness is no one else's responsibility but ours, and its accomplished not by physical force but by living within our own inner laws of righteousness, peace and tolerance.
Dharma dictates absolute honor for all living things and the land that nourishes them, and the belief that until each of us finds our own inner peace, there aren't enough marches, protests and demonstrations in the world to achieve peace among the nations on earth.
There are no specific rules in living according to dharma other than not causing harm to any human animal or the land itself. It's based on the idealistic premise that humankind ultimately will rise to its own innate, sacred goodness when shown the way to its spiritual path."
There's a Universal Dharma and since our universe was created by God its not surprising that its dharma is the same righteousness peace and tolerance we possess within ourselves.
When we live outside the bounds of our own divine dharma, we're naturally out of synch with the universe and pay the price in the form of stress, misery and bitterness, regardless of how much wealth and supposed success we might accumulate."
16. Jacob and Benjamin are Old Testament names, and as this show has many Biblical allusions, with John (A New Testament name and seemingly a Christ-like figure on the show now with him being sacrificed, dying and then apparently going back to resurrect on the island), Christian (part of the New Testament) would make sense to be the new island "overlord"
17. Random theory not in relation to episode...Ok so the theory is that Widmore is Faradays father. I hope we haven't forgotten the episode Catch 22 in which Mrs. Hawking and Brother Campbell appear in a photograph together. Faraday and Campbell even look a like. Why the surnames are all different is a mystery anyway. All I'm saying is Widmore funding his son's research is a bit too similar to Christian/ Claire situation. Maybe Faraday's father is actually Brother Campbell.
18. Remember the hieroglyphics at The Swan when the button needed to be pushed within a minute? Similar hieroglyphics are those at the Temple. The one on the right with 3 vertical lines, is a spaceship. They are also similar to the hieroglyphics as on the door that Ben opened to go let the smoke monster loose on Keamy's team.
1. When Charlotte was going nutty because of the flashes, she muttered, "Oh, turn it up, I love Geronimo Jackson," or something to that effect. That was mentioned previously in the show many times. Here's a refresher:
* While looking through the record collection inside the the hatch in The Hunting Party, Hurley discovers the Geronimo Jackson record and comments on it. Charlie, who is with him, states that he is an expert of all things musical and had never heard of them before.
* While Ana-Lucia is interrogating Benjamin Linus inside the hatch's armory in The Whole Truth, John Locke is listening to music on the record player, while looking through a stack of records, Geronimo Jackson is among them.
* In Further Instructions, Eddie wears a Geronimo Jackson t-shirt which he claims belonged to his father. Mike then claims that his dad has excellent taste.
* In Cabin Fever, a poster showing Geronimo Jackson is present in the locker of a young John Locke during a flashback to his high school years.
2. Danielle's music box is in the wreckage.
3. JJ Abrams or someone threw a Star Trek reference in this and Fringe this week. Daniel asks Charlotte - "you speak any other languages?" to which the reply by Charlotte was "just klingon".
4. Why would Robert try to shoot Danielle? Reminiscent of how Yemi turned on Eko. Maybe the monster inhabits their body once it's taken hold and the protection is to lead non-others to their death? Remember that Rousseau is the only one who didn't go down the hole. Her teammate that was yelling for them to come down and help him...that had to have been the smoke monster talking. Remember how the monster has taken shape of people before. I think they all went down there...all were killed by the smoke monster and then the smoke monster took their shape. But if this theory were true and the smoke monster took over Robert's body, Danielle actually shot him...the smoke monster can't be shot can it? I don't think the monster can be shot, but the body that is hosting it, can, right? Another theory is that Robert tried to shoot Danielle b/c she had already flipped out and killed the rest of them. (Jin found their bodies.) Either that, or Danielle's right and there really was a sickness. Robert knew that the smoke monster was a guardian. When Danielle's team goes under the Temple (DHARMA station?) they gain all the knowledge of the island and thus get "sick." Danielle's presence on the island in the future is a hurdle (not sure for who exactly, for the island itself maybe?). Since her team all know this (island knowledge) that is why they try to kill her, but 'destiny calls' and she kills them instead.
5. So is Christian a Native of the island, kind of like Richard? Difference being that Christian stayed off the island that's why he aged, and Richard didn't. Christian was dead when he came to the island. Is his body being used/possessed by Jacob? Though the reference to saying 'Hi' to his son may kill this theory. And John will also be dead next when he returns to the island. Interesting. So is Christian still alive? I don't think so. When John went into the cabin, it was Christian (with Claire there) who told John what to do. Doesn't mean Christian is Jacob. Maybe Christian is the new Jacob.
So who's Jacob? In the bible Jacob is known as a Christian Shepherd. In the conversation between Charlotte and Faraday, Charlotte said she thought that he was the creepy old man on the island that told her never to come back. Could Daniel Faraday be Jacob? It could be really far fetched but what did she mean by that and who really is Faraday?
6. I wonder if the reason that Jack's father is involved in this is because he was someone who did not die on the island yet his corpse arrived there (after the plane crash). Since there are similar enigmas with birth and conception on the island, maybe there is also something strange related to death.
Christian was a dead person who did not die there.
Aaron was a baby born there yet not conceived there.
Ji Yeon was conceived there but not born there.
Just some thoughts.
7. So Charlotte's dead. Are we sure she's dead and not just unstuck in time like the chick in England who Daniel experimented on? Her last words sounded like she was saying something about wanting to have a chocolate bar for dinner. Sounded like something a kid would ask a parent. So is she brain time-traveling now or is she dead? Charlotte said to Faraday she remembered him from when she was a little girl and said if she ever came back to the island that she would die. I think in the next few episodes (hopefully) we will see Faraday during one of the time shifts talking to young Charlotte. He is trying to change the future because he loves her. He is trying to keep her from coming to the island and dying. Remember a few episodes back when Desmond saw the woman Faraday experimented on? Her sister said sometimes she would wake up asking for her doll like she was 3 years old? I think it's the same kind of thing that Charlotte went through when she told Locke to look for the well. She was remembering things from her childhood because her mind was flashing through different time periods.
8. What's the deal with the nosebleeds? Still haven't figured it out. Considering Sawyer and Locke arrived on the island at the exact same time, shouldn't they both have gotten nosebleeds after the same amount of skipping? Maybe it's just a little more variable than that or does Locke's specialness or something else prevent him from getting one. Perhaps it's the same reason Daniel isn't getting nose bleeds - Locke must have a constant too (as Desmond is Daniel's constant) - could Locke's constant be Richard? I'm not sure it has anything to do with constants. It could be all about losing track in your own mind of time like Daniel Faraday said: the brain has an internal clock, and when it gets confused, it leads to a hemorrhage and even death.
9. Remember back a few seasons, we see Charlotte in the desert of Tanzania and she discovers the skeleton of a polar bear with a Dharma symbol. This appears to be the same location we see Ben after he turns the donkey wheel himself. Because the wheel is obviously in a very cold environment, they must have used polar bears to turn the wheel at one time. By now we know Charlotte has some connection with Widmore because she was on his boat; and we know that the old lady in the cathedral basement seems to be "tracking" the island so they must have sent her to that desert to inspect.
10. Does anyone think that Charlotte could have been the little girl Ben liked as a kid... Anna/Annie? She had red hair and left suddenly.
11. So is Ben the real bad guy of the series? Did you notice the look on his face when Desmond said he was there to find Faraday's mother. I would swear Ben was not
aware of her relation to Faraday, or... drum roll please...Faraday has actually changed the timeline by communicating with Desmond when he was in the hatch (era 2003 or so). Has Daniel broken his mother's rule of you can't change what is supposed to happen? Or maybe Faraday wasn't trying to change the PAST he changed the FUTURE, which is totally possible because I thought he only said they couldn't change events that had already occurred. So what was Ben's look for?
12. Food for thought: Time Travel - Can you run into yourself according to Lost's time travel rules?
13. If you can't change the past and interact with people you didn't meet yet, how did Jin interact with Danielle, and why didn't they remember each other in the future after the crash? Desmond only remembered Faraday once he was off the island. He did not recognize him when they met on the island. That is why Rosseau did not know Jin when she met him on the island after the plane crash. If Rosseau were still alive today, she would now realize that she had met Jin before.
14. As mentioned last week, the van Ben is driving is an anagram for REINCARNATION. There is a dead person in the back of that van who is going to be reincarnated after he gets back to the island, so John Locke will rise from the dead, but I am excited to see how he dies in the first place and what he said to each survivor when he went to visit them as "Jeremy Bentham." In the marina where the Oceanic met up there was a boat named Illusion clearly visible in the wide shot. The only name visible actually. With the "reincarnation" van and the boat called the illusion, I guess it's a safe bet that Locke won't be staying dead for long.
15. From a book on the Law of Dharma:
"The word "dharma" originated in the ancient language of Sanskrit. It's a principal element of the great religions of Buddhism and Hinduism, and basically it means "protection". Dharma is a proactive concept. Protecting ourselves from unhappiness is no one else's responsibility but ours, and its accomplished not by physical force but by living within our own inner laws of righteousness, peace and tolerance.
Dharma dictates absolute honor for all living things and the land that nourishes them, and the belief that until each of us finds our own inner peace, there aren't enough marches, protests and demonstrations in the world to achieve peace among the nations on earth.
There are no specific rules in living according to dharma other than not causing harm to any human animal or the land itself. It's based on the idealistic premise that humankind ultimately will rise to its own innate, sacred goodness when shown the way to its spiritual path."
There's a Universal Dharma and since our universe was created by God its not surprising that its dharma is the same righteousness peace and tolerance we possess within ourselves.
When we live outside the bounds of our own divine dharma, we're naturally out of synch with the universe and pay the price in the form of stress, misery and bitterness, regardless of how much wealth and supposed success we might accumulate."
16. Jacob and Benjamin are Old Testament names, and as this show has many Biblical allusions, with John (A New Testament name and seemingly a Christ-like figure on the show now with him being sacrificed, dying and then apparently going back to resurrect on the island), Christian (part of the New Testament) would make sense to be the new island "overlord"
17. Random theory not in relation to episode...Ok so the theory is that Widmore is Faradays father. I hope we haven't forgotten the episode Catch 22 in which Mrs. Hawking and Brother Campbell appear in a photograph together. Faraday and Campbell even look a like. Why the surnames are all different is a mystery anyway. All I'm saying is Widmore funding his son's research is a bit too similar to Christian/ Claire situation. Maybe Faraday's father is actually Brother Campbell.
18. Remember the hieroglyphics at The Swan when the button needed to be pushed within a minute? Similar hieroglyphics are those at the Temple. The one on the right with 3 vertical lines, is a spaceship. They are also similar to the hieroglyphics as on the door that Ben opened to go let the smoke monster loose on Keamy's team.
Tuesday, February 17
Tuesday TV
Lots going on tonight. Here we go:
8pm
American Idol: the first 12 perform
Biggest Loser
Homeland Security
9pm
Duggars
Scrubs
side note: Fringe returns April 7
10pm
Real Housewives of O.C.: season finale (will Jeff die?)
Primetime
11pm
Real Housewives of NYC: season premiere
8pm
American Idol: the first 12 perform
Biggest Loser
Homeland Security
9pm
Duggars
Scrubs
side note: Fringe returns April 7
10pm
Real Housewives of O.C.: season finale (will Jeff die?)
Primetime
11pm
Real Housewives of NYC: season premiere
Monday, February 16
2.18 LOST Preview
Episode 5.06: 316
Airdate: February 18, 2009
Jack dives from the top of the waterfall and he swims over to Hurley, who's sitting on the side playing guitar... There's also a floating guitar case. Then he swims over to a maybe unconscious Kate. Suddenly, Jin comes out of the jungle holding a gun and wearing a Dharma jumpsuit. Jacks says "Jin?" And then Jin lowers the gun looking confused. Source: Lost Spoilers
Mrs Hawking gives something to Jack that MUST go back with Locke's body along with a special item that comes in pairs that is related to Jack's grandfather. Source: Lost Spoilers
Airdate: February 18, 2009
Jack dives from the top of the waterfall and he swims over to Hurley, who's sitting on the side playing guitar... There's also a floating guitar case. Then he swims over to a maybe unconscious Kate. Suddenly, Jin comes out of the jungle holding a gun and wearing a Dharma jumpsuit. Jacks says "Jin?" And then Jin lowers the gun looking confused. Source: Lost Spoilers
Mrs Hawking gives something to Jack that MUST go back with Locke's body along with a special item that comes in pairs that is related to Jack's grandfather. Source: Lost Spoilers
Thursday, February 12
Wednesday, February 11
Lost Wednesday
Episode 5.05: This Place Is Death
Airdate: February 11, 2009
Locke takes on the burden to stop the island's increasingly violent shifts through time. Meanwhile, Ben hits a roadblock in his attempt to reunite the Oceanic 6 and bring them back to the island.
And, be sure to read Doc Jensen's latest, Time Travel Anxiety? The Doc Has The Cure!
Airdate: February 11, 2009
Locke takes on the burden to stop the island's increasingly violent shifts through time. Meanwhile, Ben hits a roadblock in his attempt to reunite the Oceanic 6 and bring them back to the island.
And, be sure to read Doc Jensen's latest, Time Travel Anxiety? The Doc Has The Cure!
Friday, February 6
Buncha LOST Goodness & Stuff
Courtesy of my friend Lola (thanks, BTW, this is awesome stuff!):
Episode 4 tidbits and thoughts...
1.The numbers were everywhere this episode...
The transmission on the radio that Danielle's team was holding was saying the numbers, "4, 8, 15, 16...etc" what seemed to be on a loop but it was hard to hear first go.
Kate's house number was 42
Kate and Jack met at something with 23
When Jack calls Kate his number shows up as something with a 23 and 15 in it. I wonder if the numbers have anything to do with the spacing/ duration of the time shifts.
2. The van that Ben was driving said Canton Rainier Carpet Cleaning, for what it's worth Canton Rainier is an anagram for reincarnation.
Does that bode well for John Locke's dead body? We now have rationale for why characters won't be trying to change their past by interfering with their past selves - and why they might try to do just that, too. But I also wondered if Lost was setting up Locke (and us) for an awful twist of fate. Here is a man who has apparently made peace with his past, who has taken ownership of it, who values it greatly, all of it, good and bad. He doesn't want to change one little bit of his history, because if he did, he would lose all of his history. In other words, we now know what Locke stands to lose here in Season 5. And while he has no intention of losing it himself, I wonder if there's someone in the Lostverse who is conspiring to make sure he does. Bottom line: Is someone going to try and change John Locke's past?
3. Food for thought...When it flashed on the outrigger and it started raining, it also started raining on Jack and Kate in the car when it wasn't before.
4. The piece of wreckage found from Rousseau's craft said "Besixdouze." That's a direct reference to the story The Little Prince, which this episode is named after. Besixdouze (B612) is the name of the planet (asteroid really) that the Little Prince lived on.
5. So, who is The Little Prince? I think it has nothing to do with Aaron and everything to do with, "The Little Prince" published in 1943 and written by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince leaves his planet and after wandering the universe realizes how much he had before he left and he longs to go back. Is the Little Prince Jack? or is it Locke. In the book, the Little Prince has to die to find his way home. In the book, there are characters from the other planets that the Little Prince meets throughout the book; The Businessman, the Lamplighter, the King...many parallels can be drawn!
More about the Little Prince: It's about an alien boy who crashes in the Sahara and meets another castaway, a French pilot, who becomes responsible for the boy's welfare as his health erodes and his angst intensifies with the realization that he was never supposed to leave his magical little meteorite home, his community, and his one true love - his constant. Like the book, last night's Lost doted on themes of friendship, loyalty, sacrifice, community, and commitment. That must be one heck of a library they have on the Lost set.
6. So it looks like the people who ransacked the camp were perhaps survivors of a crash themselves, flying on Ajira Airways...check out http://www.ajiraairways.com. I'm thinking this might be the airline that Locke was going to take for the Australian Walkabout. Maybe Ajira is the airline that Jack and company fly on when they return to the island. Current time could be after the Oceanic 6 make it back to the island, however Sawyer and company are all jumping through time so they haven't been able to find each other.
7. French translation of Danielle and company's discussion mainly finds nothing really important. However here is one bit of interest:
"We shouldn't have followed those numbers" and "SHUT UP BRENNAN!"
8. Remember in the season 4 finale, Jin was buying the bear and going to the hospital and I know I thought it was for Sun, but then it wasn't. Maybe that wasn't in the past (before he married Sun) but the future (future of the freighter explosion) and they have another child or their first child is sick in the hospital or something like that. What do you think?
Sun's motives and behaviors this season are perplexing me. I didn't detect an iota of motherhood in that woman, did you? In fact, her incompetence as a caregiver and the cold deadness I sensed inside - it was enough to make wonder if Sun isn't really a mother at all. And when I thought that thought, a sick possibility dawned on me. There has been speculatation that there had to be something more behind her vendetta against Ben than just wanting to avenge Jin. The theory is out there that maybe there was actually another man in her life - perhaps the never-seen 'Economist' from last season's Sayid story - and she was desperate to protect her new post-Island family from Ben's scheming and destruction. But another creepy-chilling possibility crawled out the darkness of my morbid imagination last night: Where is Ji Yeon, anyway? Could she be...(gulp) dead? Did Ben do something to her, too? Has something so awful happened to Sun's only living link to her beloved Jin that it has pushed her over the edge into utter Lady Vengeance territory?
9. So is the deal that if you don't have a constant, you're going to get nosebleeds? I think what happens is you have to get a constant to stop the nose bleeds and keep from dying. Also, how will the double time travel effect Charlotte, Juliet, and Miles ie: the white flash and the blackout. Could the nose bleeds be from radiation exposure - the bomb is leaking? Seems like the nosebleeds are related to when people were on the island. Juliet just started, she was on the island for years. Miles (aka possibly Dr. Candle's son) and Charlotte were probably on the island years ago as well. Maybe Farridy knows Miles was on the Island but Miles does not. Miles and Charlotte were 'chosen' to be part of Farridy/Widmore's team; possibly because they had been to the Island before!? There was a moment of confusion following Charlotte's collapse. When she first wakes, she asks Daniel who he is. After a brief moment of uncertainty she recognizes him. Perhaps the fainting is similiar to that of Desmond in "Constant" when he is traveling between years. Thus, the nosebleeds are a precursor to the same experiences that Desmond encountered, and if a constant is not found, death ensues. Another thought on this topic, the nosebleeds seem to be happening in the order in which the people were first on the island.
1. Charlotte (supposedly born on the island)
2. Miles (maybe Dr. Candles kid? Asian baby 1st episode from this season)
3. Juliet (has been on the island for 3+ years)
4. our Losties....sawyer, locke, et al...including Jin!...have yet to have the
nosebleeds but i am sure its coming :)
10.Could the canoe people in the island future be Widmore's people after following the oceanic 6 back to the island?
It definitely seems like your instincts are right on about the future theory:
FLASH ONE
Departure Point: 1954, the Others vs. the H-bomb testers era of the Island. (As seen in last week's episode, ''Jughead'')
Arrival Point: November 2004 - the night Boone died and Claire gave birth and Locke
made the Hatch throw a blazing bat signal into the sky.
FLASH TWO
Departure Point: November 2004
Arrival Point: Hard to say. Clearly not a moment we've seen yet in the series - so I'm going to theorize that this moment has not yet happened: The castaways landed on a point in time after the departure of the Oceanic 6. That ''Ajira Airlines'' water bottle? I'm thinking it came from the airplane that's going to bring the Oceanic 6 back to the Island. Which means that it's possible that the other party in the other outrigger - the ones that started firing on Locke and company - was Jack and company.
FLASH THREE
Departure Point: TBD. ''Thank you, Lord!'' Sawyer bellowed as the screaming came across the sky to carry the castaways away from their attackers...
Arrival Point: Only to drop them in the middle of a storm at sea sometime in 1988. ("I take that back!" Sawyer retorted to the skies.) According to most Lost sources, 1988 was the year that Danielle Rousseau, 16 and pregnant, washed up on the Island with a bunch of French scientists.
11. Jin was caught in the "moving radius" of the island on that piece of drift and has been time traveling with the island since the blast (which for the losties is only about a day or two). Problem is the boat was 5 miles off shore and if the helicopter was not in the radius, how was Jin? Probably because Jin was caught in the "moving radius" and not the helicopter because it was above the "moving radius" and Jin was at water level. Jin could've been blasted back into the perimeter of the island so that is why he moves along with the others on the island...also things in the air might not be affected by the island so the helicopter was not stuck in the time travel
12. Everything goes back to the original others. The more we learn about everyone
else, the more connections there are back to this group. Daniel's mother, Penny's
father, maybe Jack and Claire's father, Miles' father, possibly Charlotte was born
on the island, maybe Jin's father. Maybe the rest of the survivors have connections
to this group that haven't been revealed yet???
13. Ben admitted that he was the one that hired the lawyer. Why would Ben bother with the lawyer when he already knows Aaron is Claire's not Kate's? Most assume, with good reason, that the reason he did it was to try to force Kate to go back to the island. At this point it seems to have worked. The only question I have is why did Ben tell her? Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it? Some say Ben telling Kate about hiring the lawyer exactly goes with his personality. Ben lies or distorts the truth for as long as he needs to. With Kate and Aaron there with Jack and Sayid, he feels he has Kate exactly where he needs her. He's kind of bragging. He'll also probably say that if she doesn't come back to the island, he's not the only one that knows. Remember the Others came from somewhere and 'work' for some organization - the same one that brought Juliet to the island and got Ben his files of information on all the survivors. Could there be other reasons why Ben hired the lawyer? Could he want to get a blood sample for sick and twisted island research? Probably not but something to ponder. Or could it be someone like Faraday's mom (She is somehow a VERY MAJOR player in this. Remember, Whitmore said that Faraday's mother was back in LA...) and Ben just says it him because he's working with her or covering for her somehow and this conviently helped Ben complete his mission of getting the Oceanic 6 back to the island.
14. The present time off the island with the Oceanic 6 is 3 years after they left... the present time ON the island has been like 1 or 2 days since the 6 left... does this mean that the people stuck on the island are going to be skipping through different time periods for 3 plus years? or will it feel to them as if it were only a few days, when off the island it is actually years?
15. The last part of the episode with Danielle, was approximately 1988 because Alex was 16 years old when 815 crashed and only 110ish days have passed, so its still around 2004 on the island when the show started, and since Alex was just about to be born because Danielle was very pregnant, its about 1988. Does anyone know if there is any method to the flashes or are the flashes to random periods? They have flashed to 1954, 1988, 2004 and I'm sure other periods too I've missed. Have they flashed to the future?
16. Some food for thought:
When this whole thing ends, Ben is actually going to be the one who planted the plane and bodies at the bottom of the ocean. I think he is the ultimate "bad guy" in this. He 'thinks' he has more control over his situation. But his destiny was to turn the wheel and be banished.
Widmore is actually trying to find the island to keep it away from Ben. He believes in Faraday's research (maybe his son?) and the DHARMA Initiative's goals - to better humankind. Ben destroyed that through the purge.
Ben wants the island for his own personal safety, while Widmore, as an original "other" believes in the special nature of the island.
Jacob is the ultimate #1 of the island. Richard knows this. Jacob had "chosen" Ben to be a decoy leader to keep Richard safe. Once Ben has grown out of control, Jacob has chosen him to leave, and then chose Locke to be the new decoy - again, all to keep Richard safe.
17. What if Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore are siblings? There has been speculation that Hawking and Widmore were lovers. When 1954 Widmore ran away from Locke, Sawyer and Juliet (after snapping his fellow other's neckbone!) and returned to Alpert's camp, Widmore claimed he was outnumbered. Ellie scoffs "outnumbered eh?" Widmore shoots back "shut up Ellie" Ellie's sarcastic comment and Widmore childish response sounds like every brother and sister I have ever met. It didn't sound like a boyfriend/girlfriend exchange. That would explain why present day Widmore would allow Hawking to look for the island and not kill her. I don't think even Widmore would kill his sister to find the island. If Hawking is Faraday's mother, and I believe she is, it doesn't seem so crazy for Widmore to be financing Faraday's, his nephew's research.
And finally, One additional theory: My guess is that Locke will discover the frozen donkey wheel and crank it back to the OFF position, which will send the Island into a skid (i.e., come to rest at a certain in space and time) and send him out the wormhole
windshield and into his Jeremy Bentham off-Island moment.
Episode 4 tidbits and thoughts...
1.The numbers were everywhere this episode...
The transmission on the radio that Danielle's team was holding was saying the numbers, "4, 8, 15, 16...etc" what seemed to be on a loop but it was hard to hear first go.
Kate's house number was 42
Kate and Jack met at something with 23
When Jack calls Kate his number shows up as something with a 23 and 15 in it. I wonder if the numbers have anything to do with the spacing/ duration of the time shifts.
2. The van that Ben was driving said Canton Rainier Carpet Cleaning, for what it's worth Canton Rainier is an anagram for reincarnation.
Does that bode well for John Locke's dead body? We now have rationale for why characters won't be trying to change their past by interfering with their past selves - and why they might try to do just that, too. But I also wondered if Lost was setting up Locke (and us) for an awful twist of fate. Here is a man who has apparently made peace with his past, who has taken ownership of it, who values it greatly, all of it, good and bad. He doesn't want to change one little bit of his history, because if he did, he would lose all of his history. In other words, we now know what Locke stands to lose here in Season 5. And while he has no intention of losing it himself, I wonder if there's someone in the Lostverse who is conspiring to make sure he does. Bottom line: Is someone going to try and change John Locke's past?
3. Food for thought...When it flashed on the outrigger and it started raining, it also started raining on Jack and Kate in the car when it wasn't before.
4. The piece of wreckage found from Rousseau's craft said "Besixdouze." That's a direct reference to the story The Little Prince, which this episode is named after. Besixdouze (B612) is the name of the planet (asteroid really) that the Little Prince lived on.
5. So, who is The Little Prince? I think it has nothing to do with Aaron and everything to do with, "The Little Prince" published in 1943 and written by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince leaves his planet and after wandering the universe realizes how much he had before he left and he longs to go back. Is the Little Prince Jack? or is it Locke. In the book, the Little Prince has to die to find his way home. In the book, there are characters from the other planets that the Little Prince meets throughout the book; The Businessman, the Lamplighter, the King...many parallels can be drawn!
More about the Little Prince: It's about an alien boy who crashes in the Sahara and meets another castaway, a French pilot, who becomes responsible for the boy's welfare as his health erodes and his angst intensifies with the realization that he was never supposed to leave his magical little meteorite home, his community, and his one true love - his constant. Like the book, last night's Lost doted on themes of friendship, loyalty, sacrifice, community, and commitment. That must be one heck of a library they have on the Lost set.
6. So it looks like the people who ransacked the camp were perhaps survivors of a crash themselves, flying on Ajira Airways...check out http://www.ajiraairways.com. I'm thinking this might be the airline that Locke was going to take for the Australian Walkabout. Maybe Ajira is the airline that Jack and company fly on when they return to the island. Current time could be after the Oceanic 6 make it back to the island, however Sawyer and company are all jumping through time so they haven't been able to find each other.
7. French translation of Danielle and company's discussion mainly finds nothing really important. However here is one bit of interest:
"We shouldn't have followed those numbers" and "SHUT UP BRENNAN!"
8. Remember in the season 4 finale, Jin was buying the bear and going to the hospital and I know I thought it was for Sun, but then it wasn't. Maybe that wasn't in the past (before he married Sun) but the future (future of the freighter explosion) and they have another child or their first child is sick in the hospital or something like that. What do you think?
Sun's motives and behaviors this season are perplexing me. I didn't detect an iota of motherhood in that woman, did you? In fact, her incompetence as a caregiver and the cold deadness I sensed inside - it was enough to make wonder if Sun isn't really a mother at all. And when I thought that thought, a sick possibility dawned on me. There has been speculatation that there had to be something more behind her vendetta against Ben than just wanting to avenge Jin. The theory is out there that maybe there was actually another man in her life - perhaps the never-seen 'Economist' from last season's Sayid story - and she was desperate to protect her new post-Island family from Ben's scheming and destruction. But another creepy-chilling possibility crawled out the darkness of my morbid imagination last night: Where is Ji Yeon, anyway? Could she be...(gulp) dead? Did Ben do something to her, too? Has something so awful happened to Sun's only living link to her beloved Jin that it has pushed her over the edge into utter Lady Vengeance territory?
9. So is the deal that if you don't have a constant, you're going to get nosebleeds? I think what happens is you have to get a constant to stop the nose bleeds and keep from dying. Also, how will the double time travel effect Charlotte, Juliet, and Miles ie: the white flash and the blackout. Could the nose bleeds be from radiation exposure - the bomb is leaking? Seems like the nosebleeds are related to when people were on the island. Juliet just started, she was on the island for years. Miles (aka possibly Dr. Candle's son) and Charlotte were probably on the island years ago as well. Maybe Farridy knows Miles was on the Island but Miles does not. Miles and Charlotte were 'chosen' to be part of Farridy/Widmore's team; possibly because they had been to the Island before!? There was a moment of confusion following Charlotte's collapse. When she first wakes, she asks Daniel who he is. After a brief moment of uncertainty she recognizes him. Perhaps the fainting is similiar to that of Desmond in "Constant" when he is traveling between years. Thus, the nosebleeds are a precursor to the same experiences that Desmond encountered, and if a constant is not found, death ensues. Another thought on this topic, the nosebleeds seem to be happening in the order in which the people were first on the island.
1. Charlotte (supposedly born on the island)
2. Miles (maybe Dr. Candles kid? Asian baby 1st episode from this season)
3. Juliet (has been on the island for 3+ years)
4. our Losties....sawyer, locke, et al...including Jin!...have yet to have the
nosebleeds but i am sure its coming :)
10.Could the canoe people in the island future be Widmore's people after following the oceanic 6 back to the island?
It definitely seems like your instincts are right on about the future theory:
FLASH ONE
Departure Point: 1954, the Others vs. the H-bomb testers era of the Island. (As seen in last week's episode, ''Jughead'')
Arrival Point: November 2004 - the night Boone died and Claire gave birth and Locke
made the Hatch throw a blazing bat signal into the sky.
FLASH TWO
Departure Point: November 2004
Arrival Point: Hard to say. Clearly not a moment we've seen yet in the series - so I'm going to theorize that this moment has not yet happened: The castaways landed on a point in time after the departure of the Oceanic 6. That ''Ajira Airlines'' water bottle? I'm thinking it came from the airplane that's going to bring the Oceanic 6 back to the Island. Which means that it's possible that the other party in the other outrigger - the ones that started firing on Locke and company - was Jack and company.
FLASH THREE
Departure Point: TBD. ''Thank you, Lord!'' Sawyer bellowed as the screaming came across the sky to carry the castaways away from their attackers...
Arrival Point: Only to drop them in the middle of a storm at sea sometime in 1988. ("I take that back!" Sawyer retorted to the skies.) According to most Lost sources, 1988 was the year that Danielle Rousseau, 16 and pregnant, washed up on the Island with a bunch of French scientists.
11. Jin was caught in the "moving radius" of the island on that piece of drift and has been time traveling with the island since the blast (which for the losties is only about a day or two). Problem is the boat was 5 miles off shore and if the helicopter was not in the radius, how was Jin? Probably because Jin was caught in the "moving radius" and not the helicopter because it was above the "moving radius" and Jin was at water level. Jin could've been blasted back into the perimeter of the island so that is why he moves along with the others on the island...also things in the air might not be affected by the island so the helicopter was not stuck in the time travel
12. Everything goes back to the original others. The more we learn about everyone
else, the more connections there are back to this group. Daniel's mother, Penny's
father, maybe Jack and Claire's father, Miles' father, possibly Charlotte was born
on the island, maybe Jin's father. Maybe the rest of the survivors have connections
to this group that haven't been revealed yet???
13. Ben admitted that he was the one that hired the lawyer. Why would Ben bother with the lawyer when he already knows Aaron is Claire's not Kate's? Most assume, with good reason, that the reason he did it was to try to force Kate to go back to the island. At this point it seems to have worked. The only question I have is why did Ben tell her? Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it? Some say Ben telling Kate about hiring the lawyer exactly goes with his personality. Ben lies or distorts the truth for as long as he needs to. With Kate and Aaron there with Jack and Sayid, he feels he has Kate exactly where he needs her. He's kind of bragging. He'll also probably say that if she doesn't come back to the island, he's not the only one that knows. Remember the Others came from somewhere and 'work' for some organization - the same one that brought Juliet to the island and got Ben his files of information on all the survivors. Could there be other reasons why Ben hired the lawyer? Could he want to get a blood sample for sick and twisted island research? Probably not but something to ponder. Or could it be someone like Faraday's mom (She is somehow a VERY MAJOR player in this. Remember, Whitmore said that Faraday's mother was back in LA...) and Ben just says it him because he's working with her or covering for her somehow and this conviently helped Ben complete his mission of getting the Oceanic 6 back to the island.
14. The present time off the island with the Oceanic 6 is 3 years after they left... the present time ON the island has been like 1 or 2 days since the 6 left... does this mean that the people stuck on the island are going to be skipping through different time periods for 3 plus years? or will it feel to them as if it were only a few days, when off the island it is actually years?
15. The last part of the episode with Danielle, was approximately 1988 because Alex was 16 years old when 815 crashed and only 110ish days have passed, so its still around 2004 on the island when the show started, and since Alex was just about to be born because Danielle was very pregnant, its about 1988. Does anyone know if there is any method to the flashes or are the flashes to random periods? They have flashed to 1954, 1988, 2004 and I'm sure other periods too I've missed. Have they flashed to the future?
16. Some food for thought:
When this whole thing ends, Ben is actually going to be the one who planted the plane and bodies at the bottom of the ocean. I think he is the ultimate "bad guy" in this. He 'thinks' he has more control over his situation. But his destiny was to turn the wheel and be banished.
Widmore is actually trying to find the island to keep it away from Ben. He believes in Faraday's research (maybe his son?) and the DHARMA Initiative's goals - to better humankind. Ben destroyed that through the purge.
Ben wants the island for his own personal safety, while Widmore, as an original "other" believes in the special nature of the island.
Jacob is the ultimate #1 of the island. Richard knows this. Jacob had "chosen" Ben to be a decoy leader to keep Richard safe. Once Ben has grown out of control, Jacob has chosen him to leave, and then chose Locke to be the new decoy - again, all to keep Richard safe.
17. What if Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore are siblings? There has been speculation that Hawking and Widmore were lovers. When 1954 Widmore ran away from Locke, Sawyer and Juliet (after snapping his fellow other's neckbone!) and returned to Alpert's camp, Widmore claimed he was outnumbered. Ellie scoffs "outnumbered eh?" Widmore shoots back "shut up Ellie" Ellie's sarcastic comment and Widmore childish response sounds like every brother and sister I have ever met. It didn't sound like a boyfriend/girlfriend exchange. That would explain why present day Widmore would allow Hawking to look for the island and not kill her. I don't think even Widmore would kill his sister to find the island. If Hawking is Faraday's mother, and I believe she is, it doesn't seem so crazy for Widmore to be financing Faraday's, his nephew's research.
And finally, One additional theory: My guess is that Locke will discover the frozen donkey wheel and crank it back to the OFF position, which will send the Island into a skid (i.e., come to rest at a certain in space and time) and send him out the wormhole
windshield and into his Jeremy Bentham off-Island moment.
Thursday, February 5
Wednesday, February 4
Lost Theories, Tidbits & Other Crazy Shit
Observations from various sources...
So Charles Widmore was an original "Other" over 50 years ago. After the flash, they buried the Hydrogen bomb as recommended by Daniel, and that's how Widmore discovered the power of the island. The buried Hydrogen bomb is the source of the mysterious energy of the island. Faraday's visit also introduced Richard to time travel. I don't think he knew anything about that before meeting Daniel and Locke in 1954. It also introduced Widmore to Faraday, so he could find him many years later and fund his research. I think my brain is melting...
My guess is that because of Locke's story to Richard in 1954, Richard started to believe that Locke was their true leader. Then along come the snooty young wippersnapper Charles WIdmore thinking he would be the leader someday, but with Richard focused on Locke, Widmore is pushed aside. He gets angry, does something stupid, like maybe contact the Dharma Initiative to come to the island, and as a result is booted off.
As we all try and chase the mice running inside our heads...are we reaching a point where we should be thinking that 1) yes, Mrs. Hawking is clearly Dan's mom AND 2) Widmore is his dad???
Both british, both clearly involved with the island, approximate same age (right?). Widmore is funding Dan's research and has been for some time. And of course, Dan is on Widmore's boat looking for the island. Hmmm...
- If that is the case, then Penny and Dan are at least step siblings, which would also make Dan and Desmond bro's-in-law. Hmmm...
- is that why in Dan's journal he had written that Desmond would be his constant??? or was that just from the memory of Desmind's previous visit to Oxford???
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but the unhelpful woman working the desk at Oxford that Desmond talks to was an Oceanic Flight Attendant "Jenna" in Season One. She lets Hurley on the plane and he gives her a big hug. "Jenna" also helps Locke on the plane. Either Team Darlton is running out of extras or she works for Widmore!
Charlie had potentially been on the island in the past, at least there were subtle references to him being there…like when he had to play Good Vibrations on the keypad in the looking glass station and the lady said that the one who programmed it originally was a musician…it was all very suggestive that Charlie was the one that programmed it. WELL – here’s my thought…..
Penny and Desmond’s child, Charlie, isn’t named after Charlie. He IS Charlie and he’s going to end up on the island at some point in time before 815 crashed and he’s going to spend some time there and program the keypad. He'll somehow end up jumping through time (Charlie will inherit Desmond’s ability to jump around like that) and he will end up off the island and not remember being there, just like when Desmond kept jumping back and forth and he suddenly couldn’t remember which place was real and couldn’t remember the island. Only Charlie won't know about the need to have a constant so he won't remember.
So Charles Widmore was an original "Other" over 50 years ago. After the flash, they buried the Hydrogen bomb as recommended by Daniel, and that's how Widmore discovered the power of the island. The buried Hydrogen bomb is the source of the mysterious energy of the island. Faraday's visit also introduced Richard to time travel. I don't think he knew anything about that before meeting Daniel and Locke in 1954. It also introduced Widmore to Faraday, so he could find him many years later and fund his research. I think my brain is melting...
My guess is that because of Locke's story to Richard in 1954, Richard started to believe that Locke was their true leader. Then along come the snooty young wippersnapper Charles WIdmore thinking he would be the leader someday, but with Richard focused on Locke, Widmore is pushed aside. He gets angry, does something stupid, like maybe contact the Dharma Initiative to come to the island, and as a result is booted off.
As we all try and chase the mice running inside our heads...are we reaching a point where we should be thinking that 1) yes, Mrs. Hawking is clearly Dan's mom AND 2) Widmore is his dad???
Both british, both clearly involved with the island, approximate same age (right?). Widmore is funding Dan's research and has been for some time. And of course, Dan is on Widmore's boat looking for the island. Hmmm...
- If that is the case, then Penny and Dan are at least step siblings, which would also make Dan and Desmond bro's-in-law. Hmmm...
- is that why in Dan's journal he had written that Desmond would be his constant??? or was that just from the memory of Desmind's previous visit to Oxford???
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but the unhelpful woman working the desk at Oxford that Desmond talks to was an Oceanic Flight Attendant "Jenna" in Season One. She lets Hurley on the plane and he gives her a big hug. "Jenna" also helps Locke on the plane. Either Team Darlton is running out of extras or she works for Widmore!
Charlie had potentially been on the island in the past, at least there were subtle references to him being there…like when he had to play Good Vibrations on the keypad in the looking glass station and the lady said that the one who programmed it originally was a musician…it was all very suggestive that Charlie was the one that programmed it. WELL – here’s my thought…..
Penny and Desmond’s child, Charlie, isn’t named after Charlie. He IS Charlie and he’s going to end up on the island at some point in time before 815 crashed and he’s going to spend some time there and program the keypad. He'll somehow end up jumping through time (Charlie will inherit Desmond’s ability to jump around like that) and he will end up off the island and not remember being there, just like when Desmond kept jumping back and forth and he suddenly couldn’t remember which place was real and couldn’t remember the island. Only Charlie won't know about the need to have a constant so he won't remember.
Thursday, January 29
50 Greatest TV Shows
Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever.
1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Post your answers
50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space 9
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Food and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under (best show ever, IMHO)
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who
15. Heroes (only the first season)
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica (all the original, none of the new)
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons
Totally lifted from my friend Kimber's Blog
1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Post your answers
50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space 9
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Food and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under (best show ever, IMHO)
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who
15. Heroes (only the first season)
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica (all the original, none of the new)
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons
Totally lifted from my friend Kimber's Blog
Wednesday, January 28
LOST Preview
Episode 5.03: Jughead
Airdate: January 28 at 9 p.m.
I'll tell you that the mystery [of which female may note make it through the season] will be solved in the closing seconds of the Jan. 28 episode. Source: The Ausiello Files
Desmond goes in search of a woman who could be the key to helping Faraday stop the island's erratic movements through time, and Locke discovers the identity of the unknown forces who have been attacking the survivors. Guest starring are Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Sonya Walger as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis, Tom Connolly as Jones, Alexandra Krosney as Ellie, Imelda Corcoran as Abigail, Matthew Alan as Cunningham, Dan Hildebrand as custodian, Mary Ann Taheny as Moira, Raymond Ma as Efren Salonga, Sarah Farooqui as Theresa and Tuli Roy-Kirwan as secretary.
From TVGuide:
Will Ben's childhood girlfriend, Annie, be showing up on Lost this season? And any word on Rousseau?
I'd give my Dharma-brand nuts to have the castaways time-trip to the Others' very early days and spy on nerdy Ben and his pubescent crush. And who knows, maybe that territory will be plumbed when we get a Ben-centric episode in mid-March? As for "the French woman," I'm holding firm to my belief that we see Danielle in this week's episode.
And lastly.... A Doc Jensen Theory to read before tonight's episode.
Enjoy!
Airdate: January 28 at 9 p.m.
I'll tell you that the mystery [of which female may note make it through the season] will be solved in the closing seconds of the Jan. 28 episode. Source: The Ausiello Files
Desmond goes in search of a woman who could be the key to helping Faraday stop the island's erratic movements through time, and Locke discovers the identity of the unknown forces who have been attacking the survivors. Guest starring are Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Sonya Walger as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis, Tom Connolly as Jones, Alexandra Krosney as Ellie, Imelda Corcoran as Abigail, Matthew Alan as Cunningham, Dan Hildebrand as custodian, Mary Ann Taheny as Moira, Raymond Ma as Efren Salonga, Sarah Farooqui as Theresa and Tuli Roy-Kirwan as secretary.
From TVGuide:
Will Ben's childhood girlfriend, Annie, be showing up on Lost this season? And any word on Rousseau?
I'd give my Dharma-brand nuts to have the castaways time-trip to the Others' very early days and spy on nerdy Ben and his pubescent crush. And who knows, maybe that territory will be plumbed when we get a Ben-centric episode in mid-March? As for "the French woman," I'm holding firm to my belief that we see Danielle in this week's episode.
And lastly.... A Doc Jensen Theory to read before tonight's episode.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 27
Duggarpalooza!
First of all, I'd like to remind everyone that "I Left My Duggar in San Francisco" and "Duggars on Safari" air tonight on TLC. The San Francisco episode should be particularly interesting as Jim Bob and Michelle visit a head shop where they comment on the "funky glassware."
Now, on to the wedding! "Once a Bride, Always a Duggar" and "A Very Duggar Wedding" aired on Sunday night on TLC.
The first was a half-hour show featuring Josh and Anna's wedding preparations, including a trip to Florida for Josh and his sisters.
The good:
The good:
Now, on to the wedding! "Once a Bride, Always a Duggar" and "A Very Duggar Wedding" aired on Sunday night on TLC.
The first was a half-hour show featuring Josh and Anna's wedding preparations, including a trip to Florida for Josh and his sisters.
The good:
- The older Duggar girls got to travel sans-parents!
- The older Duggar girls, plus Anna, were bossed around by Josh as they prepared for the wedding.
- Anna obviously only married Josh to get out of the trailer she was living in with her parents and 8 siblings.
- A "fancy restaurant" to the Duggars is one with silverware and glassware.
- The photo pillow Anna made for Josh with a giant picture of them together. (Did he use it to practice for his first kiss?!)
- Josh called the restaurant they went to "Eye-talian" and couldn't pronounce the names of any of the foreign foods like lasagna or fettuccini.
- The waiter at the restaurant was crazy! (And yes folks, he's for real.)
- The Duggar girls set some sort of trap to spray Josh with soda when he opened his car door..?
The good:
- Anna and the Duggar sisters ended up making some beautiful bridesmaid dresses.
- Erin Bates played the piano wonderfully.
- John-David speaks! And is funny! (Is Erin Bates lined up for him?)
- Jim Bob's "talk" with Josh, which mostly consisted of giving him a Christian book on wedding-night prep, and telling him to listen to whatever his silly wife wants to blather on about.
- Pa Keller's pick-and-choose translation of the bible. "Jesus changed the water to wine at the wedding. That word really means grape juice. He changed the water to grape juice."
- The hair!
- The "transfer of authority" from Pa Keller to Josh. Poor Anna will never be under her own authority, I guess.
- Josh's "serenade." I guess he has an okay voice, I just hate when people sing like that.
- Josh went into their wedding night hotel room first, leaving Anna to drag the suitcases behind her.
- The engagement re-enactment skit. They got every detail down to the half-hug! And I loved the lines, "It's her birthday, give her some lemon in her water," and "It's a half-carrot [crunch]."
- Jim Bob equates sex to Legos.
- John-David wiring the car brakes to the horn!
- There was rampant pickle-eating!
- The first kiss, which I highly doubt was worthy of the sound effects they played for it (including church bells, choirs, and fireworks).
Thursday, January 22
Wednesday, January 21
80s Flashback
I've been feeling very nostalgic for the 80s lately and happened to run across this site hawking some awesome 80s Valentine's Cards.
LOST Returns!
Here's a great link that will help you get up to speed for tonight's season 5 premiere!
And, the ever-popular EW coverage
And, the ever-popular EW coverage
Tuesday, January 20
Kinda Creepy In A Big Brother Sort Of Way
Photos From Space
Not sure how I feel about this. Kinda cool but yet really creepy. Is it legal? Should I be wearing clean underwear?
Not sure how I feel about this. Kinda cool but yet really creepy. Is it legal? Should I be wearing clean underwear?
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