LOST Thoughts: Everybody Loves Hugo
April 14, 2010
- If you’ve got Libby, Libby, Libby at your table, table, table, you will like her, like her, like her even though she’s mentally unstable, stable, stable.
- Hurley may think his $100,000 donation will be used to remodel the looney bin rec room, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it ended up being used to refurnish the boardroom over at the Susan Ross Foundation.
- I wonder if in his infinite wisdom and generosity, CEO Hurley allows all of Mr. Cluck’s employees to submit reimbursement claims under their Flex Spending Accounts for buckets of chicken when “taken” as an anti-depressant.
- Ilana has shown signs of a temper before, but I had no idea she was so explosive!
- Alpert and Ben: reunited, and it feels so good.
- Of all the character changes this season, none is more troubling to me than Zombie Sayid. He’s become nothing more than The Locke-ness Monster’s version of Igor.
- Desmond’s car wasn’t a Toyota, so we can rule out a sticky accelerator…it must have been equipped with ANTI-LOCKE BRAKES.
- I don’t blame Desmond for being so pissed at Locke, though, after being sent on a most impromptu search for Baby Jessica. Somebody tell The Locke-ness Monster it’s not 1987!
LOST Thoughts: Happily Ever After
April 7, 2010
- Say what you will about Widmore, but he really does have the most delightful bedside manner.
- What Widmore doesn’t always seem to have is the greatest eye for detail. If you’re going to place a chair with restraints into the gigantic electromagnetic orange crate, it might also be a good idea to bolt the chair to the floor!
- Doesn’t Widmore have enough money and connections to find someone more competent to run the controls than the fat kid from Kate & Allie???
- Fisher Stevens is the most obnoxious chauffeur since Bruno Kirby in This is Spinal Tap. I kept expecting him to read Desmond a few passages from Sammy Davis, Jr.’s Yes, I Can.
- Speaking of annoying, this very well may be the most annoying version of Charlie yet – and that’s saying something! I doubt he’ll ever top “running wildly in an undersized hospital gown” Charlie.
- Why does Zoe always look like she just got finished changing the oil on a ’67 Plymouth Duster? Isn’t there any Dharma soap laying around somewhere?
- And while on the topic of unsightly appearances, will there ever be a time-changing electromagnetic detonation that will finally produce a version of Faraday without that ridiculous mullet?
- It was really disturbing to hear Faraday introduce himself as Daniel Widmore, though not as disturbing as it would have been to hear a classical piano solo in the middle of “You All Everybody.”
- Just as her son’s hairstyle remains unchanged in every dimension of time and space, so does Eloise’s overbearing personality. I mean, even knowing the fate of the world requires her focus, she’s still worried about HOW A SALAD FORK IS SITUATED?!?
- Something tells me Sayid would make a TERRIBLE chiropractor.
LOST Thoughts: The Package
March 31, 2010
- With all of the world’s most sophisticated equipment at his disposal, why did Widmore have his mercenaries use the same primitive blow dart technology the headhunters employed against Gilligan? When in Rome, I guess…
- If we learned one thing from the “unbutton” scene in the hotel suite, it’s that there’s nothing hotter than the surface of the Sun…YOWZA!
- Every time Keamy makes an appearance he just oozes menace. I think he’s actually the guy from Burn Notice, but I’ve got no idea what Burn Notice is, so how the hell would I know?!?
- Sun’s Dad is an a-hole in every dimension, including flash-sideways.
- If Jin ever finally gets to meet his daughter, she is going to kick his ass at Hide and Seek.
- Settle down, panicky Claire – even though your name wasn’t scrawled on the wall of the cave, you’ll still get an Ajira boarding pass.
- As for Kate, “whatever happens, happens.” Sucks to be her!
- I have no idea who to root for in the war between Widmore and The Locke-ness Monster – it’s like the Nazis vs. the Vietcong.
- Sure, Sayid has been reduced to a murderous zombie, but he still wants to FEEL, dammit!
- It sure looked like Desmond was overserved on his return trip to the island, brutha.
LOST Thoughts: Ab Aeterno
March 24, 2010
- We don’t know his politics, but I’m gonna take a wild guess that Richard Alpert’s probably an Obamacare guy.
- The doctor’s butler was great at fetching floor towels, but left a little to be desired in the “stopping boss killers” category.
- Couldn’t Jacob have arranged for Ilana to be admitted to the Russian equivalent of Cedars-Sinai, instead of what looked more like a dilapidated Siberian Care Now?
- What kind of priest rejects a confession? Oh, right..the kind who sells the confessor to a slave ship.
- Watching the smoke monster interact with chained-up Alpert, I noticed a couple of major flashes when it was right up in his face. Then, Isabella shows up a short while later. It seems pretty clear those flashes were capturing Alpert’s thoughts, so the smoke monster could replicate the visage of Isabella – just like it did with Eko’s brother.
- I’m no Physics major or anything, but how exactly does a huge ship go from hitting a giant beach statue to comfortably resting upright on the middle of an enormous island?
- Is it possible that Jacob’s analogy comparing the island to a cork that keeps the evil wine trapped in a protective bottle might be a clue to why the flash sideways island rests at the bottom of the ocean?
- There were a few moments during this episode where I thought maybe Jacob was the evil one. He was kind of a dick to Alpert at first.
- I found it very interesting that the Man in Black gave Alpert the exact same instructions for killing Jacob that Dogen gave Sayid for killing The Locke-ness Monster.
- If the whole chicken shack/temp agency mogul thing doesn’t end up working out, maybe Hurley can get a gig as a translator.
LOST Thoughts: Recon
March 17, 2010
- Nobody does the “accidental” spilling open of a briefcase full of money better than Sawyer…that is, with the possible exception of one Det. James Ford.
- You know, I just realized that the title of this particular episode has a double meaning. Recon refers to both the reconnaissance mission Sawyer was sent on by The Locke-ness Monster to gather intel on Hydra Island, as well as the scene in the hotel room, which was a repeat of an almost identical con (“re-con,” get it?) Sawyer perpetrated way back when (albeit with a much different ending).
- I don’t know exactly why, but I just don’t buy Miles as a cop. James Ford, on the other hand, at least comes a little closer to believable – although he gives off much more of a loose cannon private eye vibe, kind of like a modern day Jim Rockford.
- I guess when thinking in terms of NBC investigative dramas from the ’70s, Miles seems better suited to be Quincy’s sidekick, Sam.
- I’m not really sure what got all of these ’70s NBC shows bouncing around in my head, unless it was Det. Ford coming to his senses while watching a poignant moment from Little House on the Prairie in his bachelor pad.
- Interesting to see Charlotte without a nosebleed for once. Of course, I can’t imagine ol’ Twitchy’s gonna be too thrilled to find out Det. Ford performed his own private body cavity search on the lovely Ms. Lewis.
- Speaking of Faraday, remember his theory about needing a “constant” to survive time travel? Seems to me that Sawyer’s only “constant” is getting laid, regardless of dimension: flash-back, flash-forward, flash-sideways, and apparently even a little flash-from-behind.
- I don’t know about you, but I Was totally shocked when the mysterious hooded figure fleeing down the alley away from the crash scene was revealed as Kate! I mean, I was absolutely certain it had to be Frogurt. Masterfully played, Darlton.
- I’m not sure what I find more amusing – the fact that everyone seems convinced they’ll be able to pop the keys into the ignition of the Ajira jet and just take off for the friendly skies without any repairs or refueling, OR hearing Sawyer explain away Kate’s concern about not having a pilot for the plane by telling her they’ll just hop into Widmore’s sub and burn rubber like so much McQueen and McGraw.
- I usually don’t comment on the previews of next week’s episode, but I was thrilled to see we’re about to have all our questions about Richard Alpert finally answered, such as, “Why don’t you ever age?”, “Where do you store your seemingly endless supply of Maybelline?” and “What’s The Tick really like?”
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