Wednesday, April 29, 2009

FUCK

Dear Lost Blog

I knew our time together would be short. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up with the season. But I have a few things to get off my chest.

#1. I am a superb Lost guesser! Turns out, Widmore IS Faraday's dad. That means Penny and Faraday are related. Win.

#2. Ellie on the island is def Faraday's mother. Duh. Nailed it.

#3. Miles is Marvin Candle's son. All the people who thought it was Charlotte can suck it. You guys are dumb.

I don't really know what the fuck else is going on, or why Daniel's mom is such a bitch. Also, HOW DARE YOU KILL FARADAY?! He just got back! Why do you do this to me??!

HOWEVER. Looking back on that comic con video, that's clearly Daniel's voice, and that video must have happened after what we saw tonight (The Variable) because when Daniel talked to Chang earlier that day, he told him to fuck off (basically). So, while I don't want to get my hopes up, Daniel might not be dead (even though his eyes went all glossy). Richard might be able to save him, which would allow Faraday to tell Chang about the purge. I don't think he'll be saved in time to hydrogen bomb the island though, which is good I guess.

Dear Lost Gods. Please let Daniel come back to me. Thanks.

Monday, February 16, 2009

THE LITTLE PRINCE

YOU GUYS! JIN IS ALIIIIIVVEEE!!

Okay, I figured he would be, but it was so rad to see him AND to see a young Rousseau.

So I should probably update this closer to the air date instead of waiting almost two weeks, because they're answering a lot of questions pretty quickly this season (as well as proposing a hell of a lot of others).

Okay - back to the beginning of the episode. Charlotte isn't dead yet. But! They keep showing my favorite "Previously on Lost" segment ever. RAPTOR ARMS!!! (at the very end of the clip)



I swear, they've shown that so many times. Funny every time. So she's not dead yet, but there is definitely some sort of relationship between her and Daniel that's family-esque. "I'm fine, you don't have to baby me..." way to clue us in Charlotte. We already knew that.

The flashes are getting crazy and fast. Locke sees the light from the hatch, and Sawyer's heart breaks when he sees Kate. Daniel asks "John, do you know when we are?" and I really wanted John to say "We're at the end of season one..." - That of course would put a whole new twist on the show and wouldn't make any sense. But whatever, a girl can dream.

Then Miles gets a nosebleed, and Daniel explains that it has something to do with duration of time on the island. This of course is starting to finalize the theory that Miles is in fact Marvin Candle's son. Then Juliet gets a nosebleed, which makes sense seeing as how she was there before everyone else. What I'm super worried about is that Charlotte's going down hill fast. Are Miles and Juliet going to take the same path? We know that they're time tripping for a long time before the O6 gets back - ahhh.

Who was in the canoes? Drinking the water from Ajira Airlines? I have no idea. That'll come up later I'm sure. Alls I know is they've got guns.

I was sure that it was Sun trying to take Aaron away. I didn't really know why, but I assumed it had something to do with getting the authorities involved in order to try to find Ben. And then there was an "Oh fuck" when Claire's mom was there - but then she didn't know anything? And I was like "It IS Sun!" and then Kate confronted Ben and I was like "No! It's Sun! She's in the car with a gun!" and then Ben's awesome "It was me - sorry!" Then I was like "Oh..." and was a little disappointed.

The questions that remain - who was that dude that tried to shoot Sayid? Is he just one of Widmore's dudes? Is Widmore that clueless that Ben's trying to bring everyone back? It seems to me that he'd have figured it out after Desmond fuckin' barged into his office like that.

And then the question that everyone's asking, did Rousseau recognize Jin in previous seasons? I say, no, and that "no" is a perfectly legitimate response. Desmond didn't remember Faraday knocking on the hatch door until Faraday went back and did it. It was a spontaneous memory. I'm sure, had those bastards not shot Rousseau and Carl last season, that Rousseau would have spontaneously remembered meeting Jin.

Anyway - this is a little cheesy, but someone compiles these things every episode.

Monday, February 2, 2009

But I thought Flossy the sheep won Miss New Zealand every year!

Things I watch when Lost isn't on... Did anyone see Charles Widmore (Alan Dale) on Flight of the Conchords last night? When he's not looking for the island, apparently he's the Australian Ambassador.



And that song is fantastic. Flight of the Conchords are playing here at the Bass Concert Hall in May. I'm gonna try to convince Tim and Henri that we should grab 'em while they're here and do an Alamo show. That'd be so fun!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

JUGHEAD!

Daniel Faraday loves Subaru!



Okay not really - but Jeremy Davies looks real young in that commercial - and apparently hasn't changed his mannerisms in years. Golden!

Alright, so first up, we have Desmond running around like a crazy person trying to find a doctor because PENNY'S HAVING A FUCKING BABY?! Whoa! I'm guessing that was around 2 years ago - cause when they show 'im he looks like an adorable two-year-old. And I know this doesn't happen until later but, shut the fuck up, they named him Charlie. The beauty about watching LOST at the Alamo is hearing crowd reactions. Sure, you watch it at home and gasp, yell, get teary-eyed whatever, but when there are 80 other people doing the same thing, it's spectacular! As soon as Desmond said "You and Charlie!" the entire audience made this fantastic sound that I can only describe as a combination of laughter, ahh-ing, ooh-ing and going "Yay!" - it was beautiful...

Back on the island, we find out how crazy unpredictable these flashes are. Also, we find out that Juliet speaks Latin, as do all the other Others. It's the language of enlightenment! This is totally going to come up later. I think it's going to involve the island having some serious old-school roots. Latin? Yeah dude, people have been on that island a long, long time. You also have the Brits calling it "our" island. Not "the" island. There's a sense of entitlement here for sure. Oh yeah, and by the way, there's a bomb. And it's big. And dangling by a rope.

Faraday is so smart! And something about him seems so trustworthy, clearly because Richard was all "oh hey buddy, whaddup? wanna fix this bomb problem? that'd be rad! kthx". Jump back to Desmond though - oh wait, Faraday who? No sorry, he never worked at Oxford. Bullshit, lady! I did think it was funny that Desmond couldn't remember what year he went to see Desmond at Oxford. He did after all tell Penny "I won't call yeh fer EIGHT YEARS!" Duh, Desmond, you saw Faraday in '96. Either way - he goes and finds Eloise's maze, a picture of Faraday and a ladyfriend, and then some dude busts in and says "After what he did to that poor woman..." WHAT DID HE DO?! I really didn't want it to be bad...

CHARLES WIDMORE! Man this dude is EVERYWHERE! Okay, so apparently, Widmore funded all of Faraday's research before sending him to the island to conduct similar experiments - interesting... how in the WORLD would Widmore know the properties of the island??? Hmmmmm... But before Faraday went to the island - some girl went crazy. My guess is, he upgraded his lab rats. I'm assuming he fell in love with this girl Theresa Spencer, told her about his research, she agreed to be a test subject, but apparently forgot to find a Constant in advance. PEOPLE, ALWAYS KNOW WHERE YOUR CONSTANT IS! So she seems permanently unstuck in time - and instead of sticking around, Faraday bailed. Bummer.

Back on the island, Faraday's chatting with Ellie, one of the British others. We also find out that the asshole that was giving Sawyer, Juliet and Locke shit is actually young Widmore! CRAZY! Again, something that was super fun to find out in an audience. Everyone got a huge kick out of that.

So Faraday says that Ellie looks familiar - she resembles Theresa sure, but I think that Ellie is actually Eloise... Faraday's mom. I'm pretty sure that he was definitely hanging out with his mom. After all, don't guys supposedly fall for people that are like their mothers?

Back to the future.. Desmond BUST IN on Old Widmore! (There was a general "NO!" from the crowd - and I was saying "Getthefuckouttathere! Getthefuckouttathere!"). He of course knows exactly where Faraday's mom is - my theory: because they're old friends. They were both Others. The difference here I think is that Widmore wants to find the island again to exploit it, while Hawking wants to save it. She also has an acute sense of the universes "course correcting" and knows that it is imperative that they all go back.

Okay. Mega theory time. Widmore and Ellie were on the island in 1954. This is fact. They eventually get off the island via the "very privileged information" that Alpert shares with them. He probably also tells them that they'll never come back. Ellie spends time researching the properties of the island, while Widmore builds up his monopoly and becomes more and more powerful. They both have kids, and they teach them their trade (Faraday learns crazy physics, Penny learns that with enough money, anything is possible). (SIDE THEORY! Random thought - Penny and Faraday might actually be siblings??? Probably not...) While Faraday's mom possibly encouraged Daniel to go to the island, Widmore seems hellbent on keeping Penny out of the loop, instead sending Desmond (sending, accidentally sending... either way, that shit ain't a coincidence).

The reason that Widmore gave Desmond that information instead of taking him down? Penny is Widmore's Achilles Heel - he knows that the only way to keep her safe (because Ben is totally going to kill her - he said so - Widmore "killed" Alex...) is if she knows where Desmond is. By telling Desmond to stay safe, he keeps Penny safe. Clearly Widmore doesn't know that Hawking has already met Desmond cause he says "She won't be happy to see you..." Hell yes she will! In fact, she'll be EXPECTING HIM! Also, Widmore's probably jealous that he didn't get magic powers from the island...

I don't know what's up with Charlotte. She's probably not dead, but I think she's definitely going to crazytown. And now Faraday's gonna freak out and try to find her a constant (probably himself - because apparently he's in love with her - WHY?! she's sucky!) So Charlotte's going to get worse and worse as the island keeps skipping, which is going to make it WAY more difficult for Faraday to figure out what's going on. The real question? Will Charlotte still be alive in three years when the O6 come back? I HOPE NOT!

Also - looking back on that Comic Con video, even though I said this before, Pierre Chang's baby is DEFINITELY not Charlotte. He tells the lady with the crying baby off screen to "Take him outside!" It could still be Miles I guess, but that would fuck up my theory about why Charlotte's brain is going all wonky...

Until next week!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

SEASON 5 Premiere!!!



Alright - so I definitely went through the "OMG you guys have to watch this it's the best show ever!" and rewatched the show a few times beginning to end. Well, I watched the first two seasons, took a long break, and then bought seasons 3 & 4 on Blu-ray (holla!) and watched those a couple weeks before the premiere. So I was just about as excited as that dude.

Anyway - on finishing the 4th season, I was super excited about 2 things. Number one: they caught up to themselves with the flashbacks/flashforwards, so that means we'll just be going back and forth between the island and L.A. (or Korea, or Desmond/Penny's boat). That's awesome. Number 2: More Daniel Faraday. LOVE HIM! Oh yeah, and duh, they're going back to the island.

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First up. DR MARVIN CANDLE! Or is it Pierre Chang? And they have a baby?! But babies can't be born on the island! And honestly, I don't have any reason to believe that that baby is Miles. And CERTAINLY not Charlotte. Crazy talk. Okay, it could possibly be Miles. Either way it's a cute baby. But they haven't gotten to the crazy energy wheel yet, which probably does something to cause that anti-baby rule. Oh yeah, also apparently it causes time travel cause DANIEL FUCKING FARADAY is there! In the past! And some dude had a seizure? Oh man confusing! "Did you hear that? Heh, time travel. How stupid does that guy think we are?" Awesome look from Faraday!

CONNECTION! If you guys saw the video the Lost panel showed at Comic Con last year (link here), Chang is talking about time travel. Then you hear a voice, and everyone that was smart SWORE that it was Faraday talking. I agree with them. I could recognize the soft, sweet croon of Jeremy Davies anywhere... so yeah, I think that they were definitely confirming that here. He was saying that he had a credible source. Faraday....

Okay, so the island is moving. Faraday asks if it's the island or them. I say, it's the island. Ben moved the island, right? Not the people on it. They're staying stationary. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. But then wait, someone off the island says it's been three years?! THREE YEARS?! These guys have been stuck in a time warp for three fucking years and Jack JUST NOW screams "We have to go back!" Jesus fuck are those dudes gonna be glad to see everyone else when they make the time thing stop. I have no theory on how it's going to be stopped.

I don't want to touch on Aaron right now. I think they're gonna do that in the fourth episode I think. I do however, believe that it was Sun who sent the lawyers. She's working with Widmore now in order to get find Ben so that she can kill him because of Jin's death (or probable death - you learn from this show that if you don't SEE someone die, they're probably not totally dead).

John! God, John is going to be awesome this season. So he sees Mr. Eko's brother's plane crash, then Ethan (FTW!) shoots him in the leg (I thought John was going to be paralyzed again when he fell on his back - that would have been brutal). John says Ben sent me to lead you, Ethan says "IMPOSSIBLE" and then FLASH and Ethan's gone. Then Mr. Richard Alpert, THE most mysterious person in this show appears. Gives him the compass, the same compass that John picks as a child when Alpert visits him ("Which of these things belongs to you?") so that John can give it back... Then Richard tells John he has to die. (NOTE: I'm writing this after I saw the 3rd episode so this has already been confirmed) This means that the reason that Alpert went to see John as a child in the first place was because future John told him to. I don't know if John was old enough then to remember that though, cause he didn't seem to before...

Desmond! This guy does not apply to the rules! Is it because he didn't come with the Oceanic group? Or because he was so close to the energy released from the hatch implosion that he was rocket-shipped back in time? WHERE HE MET MS. HAWKING?!?! Either way, bad things didn't happen when Faraday knocked on his door. More Desmond in the next ep...

Hurley! I don't know why we haven't really found out why Hurley's so special yet, but it's coming. I can feel it in my bones! He sees everyone from the island ("Oh yeah, Libby says hi..."), he saw Jacob's cabin without even looking for it, and there is of course the numbers. Still. Even with all of that. Hurley still seems so out of place, and Cheech Marin is his dad. What? So we find out that Hurley didn't want to lie in the first place. He's a good dude, after all. Lying's for the bad guys. And then Sayid busts in with all of his badass assassin glory and says they're in danger. A bunch of shit happens, Hurley throws a Hot Pocket at Ben's head (Ben didn't even FLINCH!) and then gets himself arrested. DUMB DUMB DUMB!

I understand that he sees Sayid as a trustworthy person, but why would he listen to him over Ana Lucia? Sure, she's dead, but Hurley's got some sort of crazy connection with these people. And surely, mentioning Libby is a straight shot to Hurley's trust, so why? Sure, Ben was being extra weird and talking to Hurley like he was a six-year-old, but yeah. I'm pretty sure everyone was yelling "DAMMIT HURLEY!" at the same time I was. I am curious to see how Ben, Sayid and Jack team up to break Hurley out of prison.

Charlotte... I'll be honest, when her nose started bleeding, I was pleased as punch! I hate Charlotte! Something about the way she talks and the way her jaw is always jutting out and she's always frowning... Anyway. Charlotte was born on the island it seems (again, babies can't be born on the island! how is this possible?!), so here's my theory on that. The reason she's the only one suffering from mind-explosions is because she should be moving back and forth in time WITH the island instead of with the people. I haven't figured out why I think that exactly, but I think maybe she's been dislodged in time and space (instead of just time?), and I think that it might be possible that while they're time warping, we'll see baby Charlotte at some point? I'm still forming this plan (AGAIN: Charlotte's dead obvs, saw the new eps. Thank GODDDD)

And then there's Ben.. sweet, wonderful Ben. The poor guy doesn't know what to do with himself right now. He's lost his power, his daughter, and his island. He's got some stuff going on in the real world (Jill the butcher, and a couple other people he mentioned) and I'm positive that he's got a plan. He always has a plan. But it's trying to make it work that's his problem. So he's got to rely on .........

MS. HAWKING! God that was exciting! Hawking, who's first name is Eloise apparently (learned that from those weird pop-up episodes that they show occasionally) IS SO OBVIOUSLY FARADAY'S MOM! (Also, duh, Eloise is the name of Faraday's lab rat) (CONFIRMED: Desmond looks for her in Oxford, hears she's in L.A.). She gives Ben a 70 hour time window. Right now (this is kind of formulated out of nowhere), I'm guessing that that weird pendulum thing is calculating where the island is traveling in time. I think that in Hawking's estimated 70 hours, the island will be at the exact point (give or take a few minutes) where the Oceanic group (plus Ben & Desmond) separated allowing them to reunite at the point where they left off. Either that, or in 70 hours, island time will match up with real world time. Actually now that I think about it that seems more likely unless Ms. Hawking can make the Oceanic 6 time travel too... that seems hard.

Okay - final conclusions of the episode. The people we know and love that are still on the island (Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Faraday, etc) are the ones that the Others call The Hostiles. They pop up randomly, know the island extremely well, and occasionally attack the camp. Also, Sun has turned stone-cold. I swear, I thought she was going to try and kill Kate. The only person she doesn't want to kill is Hurley, cause he's the only one who cared enough to see Ji Yeon. Everybody watch out - Sun's vicious!

Anyway, please, just be my constant

This is a trial

So I really just wanted a place to write out all of my LOST thoughts before they got jumbled around in my brain. In case you stumble upon this randomly - if I keep updating this, I'm just gonna write about everything that happened, my predictions, and the like - I never look at spoilers though so I will never post about anything that hasn't happened yet (unless I get stuck in some sort of time-conundrum Lost style).

A little bit about me: I work at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas. I host our TV at the Alamo screenings along with some other programmers. Specifically, I host LOST at the Alamo. I did it a little bit last year, and plan on being there throughout season 5. I also go to school at UT, persuing a degree in Radio-Television-Film with a focus on media studies and cultural criticisms. I will seriously sit down and discuss pop culture, fandom, fan culture, convergence culture, Jenkins, Mittell, some other media scholars, etc. Love that shit. I will talk even longer, of course, if it revolves around Lost (seriously, you don't even know how many papers I've written on it).

Anyway, enough about me. I just watched the new episode (JUGHEAD) and my brain's a'realin'!