I'm writing this blog literally at 7:06 AM on the morning of February 3rd for two reasons:
1) Tonight is the biggest game in the New England Patriots' franchise history
and
2) I am too enraged by the sorry state of sports media for me to sleep
Despite going for the greatest accomplishment in sports history since 1972, instead - as of LAST NIGHT - we as football fans are subject to a series of the most absurd stories you can possibly put together. An explosion of Spygate stories, something that peaked at week 1 of the NFL season, have resurfaced the day before the Super Bowl because of a bunch of random people who need attention.
Not only are these revelations completely bogus, unwarranted, and just plain irrelevant to the outcome of Super Bowl XXXVI and other games the Patriots were involved in, the timing of these stories coming out is just plain ridiculous.
WHAT POSSIBLE IMPORTANCE does this story have on the 2007-2008 Patriots - what could possibly turn out to be the greatest team of all time. If every spygate rumor ever told is true (which is absurd to think of) then that STILL has absolutely no bearing on this year's Patriots. You think they really couldn't have beat the Jets in week 1, the only week of the entire franchise fucking history when they were actually proved to be cheating? At the very worst, I could care less what Spygate has to do with the past three Super Bowls the Patriots have won, it takes absolutely nothing away from the possibility of going 19-0 this season.
How sad it is that the state of sports media is this pathetic in 2008, that the DAY before the Super Bowl, we have to be subject to a ridiculous outburst of stories about Spygate - from SEVEN years ago no less! You'll read writers like Gregg Easterbrook who claim this was the NFL's fault for ignoring this when it was relevant, earlier in the season; but I ask 1) this really NEVER could have been brought up ONCE during the entire fucking season and 2) in the TWO FUCKING WEEKS of Super Bowl hype, this couldn't come up ONCE until the fucking DAY BEFORE the Super Bowl? You have got to be fucking kidding me. It's times like these, even typing a blog post on my bed at 7:15 AM, where it makes me proud to have absolutely no involvement in the sports media. Because if this is really the story I have to hear most before the biggest game in NFL history, then I've clearly chosen the wrong field to make my living in.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
LOST Season Premiere Collaberative Blog Discussion Featuring Lindsey Weber
Lindsey Weber is a senior at New York University studying Journalism and English. She has contributed to Stuff and New York Magazine, and this fall is planning to debut her off-broadway production "Too Many Chinamen". Her blog can be visited here. I asked her to collaberate with me following the season premiere of LOST on January 31st. This was our discussion:
*EDITOR'S NOTE: BECAUSE BLOGGER IS FUCKING RETARTED AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FORMAT, FONT SIZES MAY RANDOMLY CHANGE THROUGHOUT THIS POST
8 PM RECAP SHOW:
LJW:
so i'm starting with the pre-show recap - which attempts, in some crazy way, to retell the ENTIRE first three seasons of LOST - which, if you watch the show, is a daunting task.
OK WOW. how can they just GLOSS over some of these details?! they just flashed DAT CRAZY BLACKLIGHT MAP that is oh-so-important to the story. I think maybe someone watching for the first time would somewhat get it, but it's a shame because they really are missing so much. this is SO not a good substitute for the show. ew abc.
MPP: What really nicks my grits is that basically the whole map thing was more or less irrelevant to the show at this point. That's my favorite part about these last two seasons: having a set number of episodes remaining. No more random crap stretching the show out, like the episode with the hot girl getting bit by a spider and being buried alive (which was awesome).
LJW: OH BYE MICHAEL & WALT (AND VINCENT?) - does anyone realize they never wrapped up this dropped storyline? this better be for a REASON.
MPP:
What upsets me more is that Harold Perrineau (the actor who plays Michael) is STILL IN THE CREDITS. I want him to be gone! Him, Walt, and even Vincent! Get off the fucking show already! Is there truly no end in sight?!?! Worst characters on the show.
LJW: OMG SCARY OCEANIC FLIGHT ATTENDANT DOING AN AD FOR ABC'S NEW "YOU-WATCH-LOST-SO-WATCH-THIS-SHOW-BECAUSE-IT'S-CONVENIENTLY-AFTER SHOW." So it's about some dude... who is "a treat" and "irresistable." great. p.s. abc, stop trying to tell me that oceanic airlines really exists. it's fucking scary. i'm getting so depressed at how over-simplified this recap is. awesome hurley flashback with HARRY FROM SEX AND THE CITY - as my favorite LOST hallucination...totally beats crazy polarbear//blackcloud//jacob.
MPP:
Don’t forget he was the agent in CALIFORNICATION! I mean how can you forget someone when you've seen their face squirted by pussy juice.
LJW: WHERE IS EKO'S STORY/DEATH WHERE ARE MICHAEL & WALT'S STORY/DEPARTURE okay i can't deal with this recap anymore. on to the ACTUAL premiere. p.s. so ELI STONE is about a dude who is jesus? he floats? he has visions of GEORGE MICHAEL, i.e.: this show features GEORGE MICHAEL. if i ever miraculously start having visions, if they were of george michael, i would have to end my life. also, just because i watch LOST like a maniac does not mean i'm going to stick around for this crazy-ass show. i haven't even seen cloverfield yet (and it's j.j. abrams...) but, to give an ounce of credit, johnny lee miller looks good and he was once married to angelina jolie (* hackers*, anyone?)
MPP: I agree with you on Eli Stone. I mean, a show about a Jewish lawyer who has some sort of divine intervention, and it's NOT from his overbearing mother? Oy vey! You gotta be kiddin' me! Any show who’s central recurring joke is based around George Michael is doomed for failure. Cloverfield was great by the way, just got a little motion sickness from the camera moving.
ACTUAL EPISODE (SPOILERS INCLUDED)
BLACKOUT IN BLOOMINGTON
MPP:
I just finished watching the season premiere about an hour ago. It was fantastic. Unfortunately I did not get to see the last minute of the episode - or the preview for next week - because the power went out in the entire northwest section of Bloomington at 9:58 EST. Driving around was quite the scene, I had never witnessed anything like it.
LJW: *i cannot BELIEVE the power went out 2 min before the end - i would have cried and then called cablevision and screamed. ok maybe not. but i would have cried... or at least checked the web for what i missed. basically what you missed was: NOT-PENNY'S-BOAT GUY: ARE YOU JACK? JACK: (UH-OH/HURRAH/CONFUSED FACE) LOST *
BEGINNING THOUGHTS
LJW:
okay so there was a lot of build-up to tonight's episode and I really do need to pretend like i don't know that there's a writer's strike going on and pretend like i don't know that this long-awaited new season is doomed to stop abruptly like eight episodes in. as i push THAT to the back of my head, i reflect on the last few seasons (please see my responses to LOST recap.)
i also would like to say that the flash foward thing on the last ep of last season totally caught me by surprise - I FUCKING LOVED it, and i know you did too. so when this ep started with that shot of the papaya and you THOUGHT it was on the island (but it wasn't.) i was thrilled. who gets out of the crashed camero? obvi that's hurley's chubby arm (does it still bother anyone that hurley has maintained his fabulous-full-figure after months on the island?) we hear the first key phrase of the season: THE OCEANIC SIX. omgggggg WHAT DOES THIS MEAN - who are the six? we already know three (kate, jack, hurley)? who else? i'm so excited... they are like tom hanks castaway after-he-leaves-the-island survivors! (minus the volleyball...actually I guess he's somewhat like hurley's imaginary friend aka harry from sex and the city aka my favorite character...) and this comes to be (at least for me) the main aspect of this episode.
THE OCEANIC SIX
LJW:
i love that this season is going to revolve around piecing together
clues to figure out what happens BETWEEN two stories that we've already
(partially) seen. ok, that sort of doesn't make sense. so, the last seasons started with a plane crash then flashed backward to individual stories - using the plot-to-come (or the loose ends) open. that worked out so well that it's pretty much genius for the writers to craft the same structure for this season. jack asking hurley if he 'told anyone' about 'it' ... OMG what happened? who'd they fuck over to leave the island? who is STILL THERE? hurley keeps saying they have to go back... WHO IS STILL ALIVE? (ahhh, didn't that scary black dude in the mental hospital with no business card really freak you out? it makes me think that they are going to bring in oceanic airlines as part of this plane crash/magical island conspiracy.)
MPP: The first thing that honestly came into my mind when Jack asked Hurley that question was that they ate everyone else on the island.
FEAR FACTOR
MPP:
LOST is fucking scary. The show legitimately freaks me out at points. You nailed it when you said the scary black dude (aka the chief from The Wire) came to visit him at the mental home and give him the creepiest look ever while asking if they "were still alive". Batshit crazy.
LJW: *lost is scary. i agree. and that dude (who, by internet exploration is named ABADDON which is hebrew for DESTRUCTION (uh oh), is pretty damn creepy. i don't watch the wire (yet) but he must be a fucking badASS.*
REALITY BITES
MPP:
The Hurley flashbacks were great - kicking things off with his hallucinations puts you right back into that mindset of false reality: who's real, what's real, and how the fuck is Locke still alive after being shot into a ditch full of skeletons are just a few of the questions the show teases me with.
LJW:
so is charlie still alive? i know that he's DEAD but when he 'appears' to hurley, for like two seconds, i was like WAIT WHAT. first off, if he's dead, he looks great as a ghost - totally a rockstar in the afterlife (perhaps he's bringing back DriveShaft - god knows you would love to hear an acoustic version of "You All Everybody" but after the scene's over, i'm like SO IS HE DEAD? because that other crazy guy saw him and hurley did feel that slap it seems... AND i'm thinking about the other time when hurley saw Jacob's house then made it disappear by counting to five - same idea? i WANT charlie to be alive, but isn't that a cop-out? also, how does charlie know hurley's real name...he has NEVER
called him hugo while on the island. oy, how will i deal with a LOST where claire isn't constantly screaming, CHAHHHHHHHHHHLIEEEEEEEEEE.
MPP: OK, so this is what I was talking about before with reality. Charlie is definitely dead - we saw him die. We also saw Hurley make him disappear. The other crazy guy seeing him was one of those ridiculous things LOST writers throw in that they know are physically impossible to logistically explain, but they don't care because it's a TV show and a big cloud of black smoke is eating people on the island. As for Jacob's house, I honestly believe that that was real, maybe Hurley could see it then the way Locke could hear Jacob that one time. you could also see Jacob sitting in the same rocking chair where you see him for a glimpse when Locke is there, and the guy who popped up reminded me of the Russian guy who they've killed 5 times and still hasn't died. I think his name is Rasputin.
MPP: What the fuck is this new movie with Kate Hudson and Matthew McCougnahey? They already made a romantic comedy together with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Was their chemistry THAT good to put them in the exact same fucking movie twice? Jesus.
LJW:
*don't insult how to lose a guy in 10 days. and don't forget: two's a charm: drew barrymoore and adam sandler in the wedding singer AND my favorite, 50 first dates.
*
THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE
LJW:
ok, so mark, remember how after a good episode we would like run to the computer to check out those LOST message boards (don't pretend like this isn't true.) that's honestly how i know it's been a good one - if i'm dying to see if the little things i've noticed are actually legit (and if it's really good, they usually are.) this ep, i definitely felt like that. For example, did hurley SEE jacob? when he peeps into that cabin, you can see (through his eyes) someone IS IN that rocking chair before a crazy locke-eye popping up causes me jump five feet into the air. i'm SURE i saw that – so is HURLEY like the actual special island-person... i forget what ben said about 'seeing/hearing' jacob. if he is, i totally called that. hurley is the
best.
also, WHO DO WE THINK IS RIGHT? naomi is sketchy - but do i think this because i think that locke is legit? he's been right before, despite his crazy behavoirs. do you notice, that when she calls her 'people' before she dies, the dude on the other line says something like, 'don't worry, we're coming to get you and take you home' - i think that it's implied that the only intend on bringing her back ALIVE. anyhow, when they all choose sides... i'm paying attention to find dat OCEANIC SIX but kate, jack and hurley are split - how does that work? SOMETHING must happen. and flash foward hurley says, 'i wish i went with you,' implying that perhaps, locke wasn't making the best choice... so good of those crazy writers to fill in that detail - making it so i'm not ENTIRELY sure who i'd go with! but if I WAS one of those other survivors (you know, the ones that don't get to have actual lines, but occationally gets screentime when they hand a jack a gun or something), i probably would have gone with locke; he's a magical badass.
MPP: This is an example of the commercials ruining the element of surprise. I would have no idea who to believe either, except I already saw bearded-guy on the ad telling Jack "rescuing you isn't exactly our primary objective" - so I know Naomi's full of shit. What I DID like was Hurley telling Jack back home that he shouldn't have gone with Locke, because at that point I was sure Locke was right, but now it throws a wrinkle into the mix - like a quarter banging around in a dryer. MPP: And how about the music on LOST. Michael Giacchino is a genius. Adding the perfect amount of tension and filler, and creating themes for different emotions. Haven't heard a score that good since THERE WILL BE BLOOD (which did not garner Jonny Greenwood an Oscar nomination by the way, absurd).
LJW: *LOST music is intense, but not even close to being on the level of THERE WILL BE BLOOD-let's not lie. LOST music is mostly scary sounds which mimic classic horror films, which completely works.* LJW: SO FOR THE FINAL TALLIES: CHARLIE: DEAD (?) BUT LOOKS FINE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE NOT PENNY'S BOAT: LEGIT ADVICE NAOMI: SKETCHY, DEAD & YES, YOU SHOULD FEEL SORRY FOR THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYED HER OCEANIC SIX: JACK, KATE, HURLEY, ?, ?, ? (FOR NOW, LET'S JUST SAY IT'S ROSE, ROUSSEAU AND VINCENT) TEAM LOCKE: SAWYER, CLAARON (THEY GO TOGETHER), HURLEY, BEN, ROUSSEAU, ROUSSEAU'S KID & HER ALMOST-BRAINWASHED BF...ALEX&KARL, FOR YOU LOSERS, AAAAANNNDDDD DESMOND. TEAM JACK: KATE, BERNARD, ROSE, JIN, SUN, SAYID, AND JULIET(DUH).
MPP: No way Claaron is being killed - she's 4. I say one of the Rose/Bernard combo is #5, and we'll say numebr 6 is... I don't know... that kid who's dating Ben and Rousseau's daughter, Karl I think. MPP: My LOST prediction for this season is halfway through they form a Union and are so upset with the others and the rescuers that they go on strike until they receive more of the residual coconut juice on the island.
LJW:
p.s. so do we like jack on-island, with scruff; post-island, full beard, or between these two moments, (mostly) CLEAN SHAVEN? i'm so happy we're given three different facial hair options for jack.
MPP:
As much as I like the full beard, you it's always been my dream to have a nice scruff. So on-island takes it.
*EDITOR'S NOTE: BECAUSE BLOGGER IS FUCKING RETARTED AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FORMAT, FONT SIZES MAY RANDOMLY CHANGE THROUGHOUT THIS POST
8 PM RECAP SHOW:
LJW:
so i'm starting with the pre-show recap - which attempts, in some crazy way, to retell the ENTIRE first three seasons of LOST - which, if you watch the show, is a daunting task.
OK WOW. how can they just GLOSS over some of these details?! they just flashed DAT CRAZY BLACKLIGHT MAP that is oh-so-important to the story. I think maybe someone watching for the first time would somewhat get it, but it's a shame because they really are missing so much. this is SO not a good substitute for the show. ew abc.
MPP: What really nicks my grits is that basically the whole map thing was more or less irrelevant to the show at this point. That's my favorite part about these last two seasons: having a set number of episodes remaining. No more random crap stretching the show out, like the episode with the hot girl getting bit by a spider and being buried alive (which was awesome).
LJW: OH BYE MICHAEL & WALT (AND VINCENT?) - does anyone realize they never wrapped up this dropped storyline? this better be for a REASON.
MPP:
What upsets me more is that Harold Perrineau (the actor who plays Michael) is STILL IN THE CREDITS. I want him to be gone! Him, Walt, and even Vincent! Get off the fucking show already! Is there truly no end in sight?!?! Worst characters on the show.
LJW: OMG SCARY OCEANIC FLIGHT ATTENDANT DOING AN AD FOR ABC'S NEW "YOU-WATCH-LOST-SO-WATCH-THIS-SHOW-BECAUSE-IT'S-CONVENIENTLY-AFTER SHOW." So it's about some dude... who is "a treat" and "irresistable." great. p.s. abc, stop trying to tell me that oceanic airlines really exists. it's fucking scary. i'm getting so depressed at how over-simplified this recap is. awesome hurley flashback with HARRY FROM SEX AND THE CITY - as my favorite LOST hallucination...totally beats crazy polarbear//blackcloud//jacob.
MPP:
Don’t forget he was the agent in CALIFORNICATION! I mean how can you forget someone when you've seen their face squirted by pussy juice.
LJW: WHERE IS EKO'S STORY/DEATH WHERE ARE MICHAEL & WALT'S STORY/DEPARTURE okay i can't deal with this recap anymore. on to the ACTUAL premiere. p.s. so ELI STONE is about a dude who is jesus? he floats? he has visions of GEORGE MICHAEL, i.e.: this show features GEORGE MICHAEL. if i ever miraculously start having visions, if they were of george michael, i would have to end my life. also, just because i watch LOST like a maniac does not mean i'm going to stick around for this crazy-ass show. i haven't even seen cloverfield yet (and it's j.j. abrams...) but, to give an ounce of credit, johnny lee miller looks good and he was once married to angelina jolie (* hackers*, anyone?)
MPP: I agree with you on Eli Stone. I mean, a show about a Jewish lawyer who has some sort of divine intervention, and it's NOT from his overbearing mother? Oy vey! You gotta be kiddin' me! Any show who’s central recurring joke is based around George Michael is doomed for failure. Cloverfield was great by the way, just got a little motion sickness from the camera moving.
ACTUAL EPISODE (SPOILERS INCLUDED)
BLACKOUT IN BLOOMINGTON
MPP:
I just finished watching the season premiere about an hour ago. It was fantastic. Unfortunately I did not get to see the last minute of the episode - or the preview for next week - because the power went out in the entire northwest section of Bloomington at 9:58 EST. Driving around was quite the scene, I had never witnessed anything like it.
LJW: *i cannot BELIEVE the power went out 2 min before the end - i would have cried and then called cablevision and screamed. ok maybe not. but i would have cried... or at least checked the web for what i missed. basically what you missed was: NOT-PENNY'S-BOAT GUY: ARE YOU JACK? JACK: (UH-OH/HURRAH/CONFUSED FACE) LOST *
BEGINNING THOUGHTS
LJW:
okay so there was a lot of build-up to tonight's episode and I really do need to pretend like i don't know that there's a writer's strike going on and pretend like i don't know that this long-awaited new season is doomed to stop abruptly like eight episodes in. as i push THAT to the back of my head, i reflect on the last few seasons (please see my responses to LOST recap.)
i also would like to say that the flash foward thing on the last ep of last season totally caught me by surprise - I FUCKING LOVED it, and i know you did too. so when this ep started with that shot of the papaya and you THOUGHT it was on the island (but it wasn't.) i was thrilled. who gets out of the crashed camero? obvi that's hurley's chubby arm (does it still bother anyone that hurley has maintained his fabulous-full-figure after months on the island?) we hear the first key phrase of the season: THE OCEANIC SIX. omgggggg WHAT DOES THIS MEAN - who are the six? we already know three (kate, jack, hurley)? who else? i'm so excited... they are like tom hanks castaway after-he-leaves-the-island survivors! (minus the volleyball...actually I guess he's somewhat like hurley's imaginary friend aka harry from sex and the city aka my favorite character...) and this comes to be (at least for me) the main aspect of this episode.
THE OCEANIC SIX
LJW:
i love that this season is going to revolve around piecing together
clues to figure out what happens BETWEEN two stories that we've already
(partially) seen. ok, that sort of doesn't make sense. so, the last seasons started with a plane crash then flashed backward to individual stories - using the plot-to-come (or the loose ends) open. that worked out so well that it's pretty much genius for the writers to craft the same structure for this season. jack asking hurley if he 'told anyone' about 'it' ... OMG what happened? who'd they fuck over to leave the island? who is STILL THERE? hurley keeps saying they have to go back... WHO IS STILL ALIVE? (ahhh, didn't that scary black dude in the mental hospital with no business card really freak you out? it makes me think that they are going to bring in oceanic airlines as part of this plane crash/magical island conspiracy.)
MPP: The first thing that honestly came into my mind when Jack asked Hurley that question was that they ate everyone else on the island.
FEAR FACTOR
MPP:
LOST is fucking scary. The show legitimately freaks me out at points. You nailed it when you said the scary black dude (aka the chief from The Wire) came to visit him at the mental home and give him the creepiest look ever while asking if they "were still alive". Batshit crazy.
LJW: *lost is scary. i agree. and that dude (who, by internet exploration is named ABADDON which is hebrew for DESTRUCTION (uh oh), is pretty damn creepy. i don't watch the wire (yet) but he must be a fucking badASS.*
REALITY BITES
MPP:
The Hurley flashbacks were great - kicking things off with his hallucinations puts you right back into that mindset of false reality: who's real, what's real, and how the fuck is Locke still alive after being shot into a ditch full of skeletons are just a few of the questions the show teases me with.
LJW:
so is charlie still alive? i know that he's DEAD but when he 'appears' to hurley, for like two seconds, i was like WAIT WHAT. first off, if he's dead, he looks great as a ghost - totally a rockstar in the afterlife (perhaps he's bringing back DriveShaft - god knows you would love to hear an acoustic version of "You All Everybody" but after the scene's over, i'm like SO IS HE DEAD? because that other crazy guy saw him and hurley did feel that slap it seems... AND i'm thinking about the other time when hurley saw Jacob's house then made it disappear by counting to five - same idea? i WANT charlie to be alive, but isn't that a cop-out? also, how does charlie know hurley's real name...he has NEVER
called him hugo while on the island. oy, how will i deal with a LOST where claire isn't constantly screaming, CHAHHHHHHHHHHLIEEEEEEEEEE.
MPP: OK, so this is what I was talking about before with reality. Charlie is definitely dead - we saw him die. We also saw Hurley make him disappear. The other crazy guy seeing him was one of those ridiculous things LOST writers throw in that they know are physically impossible to logistically explain, but they don't care because it's a TV show and a big cloud of black smoke is eating people on the island. As for Jacob's house, I honestly believe that that was real, maybe Hurley could see it then the way Locke could hear Jacob that one time. you could also see Jacob sitting in the same rocking chair where you see him for a glimpse when Locke is there, and the guy who popped up reminded me of the Russian guy who they've killed 5 times and still hasn't died. I think his name is Rasputin.
MPP: What the fuck is this new movie with Kate Hudson and Matthew McCougnahey? They already made a romantic comedy together with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Was their chemistry THAT good to put them in the exact same fucking movie twice? Jesus.
LJW:
*don't insult how to lose a guy in 10 days. and don't forget: two's a charm: drew barrymoore and adam sandler in the wedding singer AND my favorite, 50 first dates.
*
THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE
LJW:
ok, so mark, remember how after a good episode we would like run to the computer to check out those LOST message boards (don't pretend like this isn't true.) that's honestly how i know it's been a good one - if i'm dying to see if the little things i've noticed are actually legit (and if it's really good, they usually are.) this ep, i definitely felt like that. For example, did hurley SEE jacob? when he peeps into that cabin, you can see (through his eyes) someone IS IN that rocking chair before a crazy locke-eye popping up causes me jump five feet into the air. i'm SURE i saw that – so is HURLEY like the actual special island-person... i forget what ben said about 'seeing/hearing' jacob. if he is, i totally called that. hurley is the
best.
also, WHO DO WE THINK IS RIGHT? naomi is sketchy - but do i think this because i think that locke is legit? he's been right before, despite his crazy behavoirs. do you notice, that when she calls her 'people' before she dies, the dude on the other line says something like, 'don't worry, we're coming to get you and take you home' - i think that it's implied that the only intend on bringing her back ALIVE. anyhow, when they all choose sides... i'm paying attention to find dat OCEANIC SIX but kate, jack and hurley are split - how does that work? SOMETHING must happen. and flash foward hurley says, 'i wish i went with you,' implying that perhaps, locke wasn't making the best choice... so good of those crazy writers to fill in that detail - making it so i'm not ENTIRELY sure who i'd go with! but if I WAS one of those other survivors (you know, the ones that don't get to have actual lines, but occationally gets screentime when they hand a jack a gun or something), i probably would have gone with locke; he's a magical badass.
MPP: This is an example of the commercials ruining the element of surprise. I would have no idea who to believe either, except I already saw bearded-guy on the ad telling Jack "rescuing you isn't exactly our primary objective" - so I know Naomi's full of shit. What I DID like was Hurley telling Jack back home that he shouldn't have gone with Locke, because at that point I was sure Locke was right, but now it throws a wrinkle into the mix - like a quarter banging around in a dryer. MPP: And how about the music on LOST. Michael Giacchino is a genius. Adding the perfect amount of tension and filler, and creating themes for different emotions. Haven't heard a score that good since THERE WILL BE BLOOD (which did not garner Jonny Greenwood an Oscar nomination by the way, absurd).
LJW: *LOST music is intense, but not even close to being on the level of THERE WILL BE BLOOD-let's not lie. LOST music is mostly scary sounds which mimic classic horror films, which completely works.* LJW: SO FOR THE FINAL TALLIES: CHARLIE: DEAD (?) BUT LOOKS FINE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE NOT PENNY'S BOAT: LEGIT ADVICE NAOMI: SKETCHY, DEAD & YES, YOU SHOULD FEEL SORRY FOR THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYED HER OCEANIC SIX: JACK, KATE, HURLEY, ?, ?, ? (FOR NOW, LET'S JUST SAY IT'S ROSE, ROUSSEAU AND VINCENT) TEAM LOCKE: SAWYER, CLAARON (THEY GO TOGETHER), HURLEY, BEN, ROUSSEAU, ROUSSEAU'S KID & HER ALMOST-BRAINWASHED BF...ALEX&KARL, FOR YOU LOSERS, AAAAANNNDDDD DESMOND. TEAM JACK: KATE, BERNARD, ROSE, JIN, SUN, SAYID, AND JULIET(DUH).
MPP: No way Claaron is being killed - she's 4. I say one of the Rose/Bernard combo is #5, and we'll say numebr 6 is... I don't know... that kid who's dating Ben and Rousseau's daughter, Karl I think. MPP: My LOST prediction for this season is halfway through they form a Union and are so upset with the others and the rescuers that they go on strike until they receive more of the residual coconut juice on the island.
LJW:
p.s. so do we like jack on-island, with scruff; post-island, full beard, or between these two moments, (mostly) CLEAN SHAVEN? i'm so happy we're given three different facial hair options for jack.
MPP:
As much as I like the full beard, you it's always been my dream to have a nice scruff. So on-island takes it.
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