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LOST BLOG: Comic Con Panel and Cloverfield news!

2007-07-27T12:12:00.000-04:00

HEY LOST BLOG!!!!!

I am back y’all and I’m back y’all and I’m biggity back and I’m BACK Y’ALL! And here to bring you some huge news from this years COMIC CON ’07! Did I go? NO! But who needs you when you have friends who do, and you get to see Le Vie En Rose with your wife at the Enzian Theater! Let’s get into it guys because we have shitloads to tackle and I will keep my spazmatic excitement to a minimal.

PONG IS FOR SISSYS, LET’S GET LOST!
First off, let’s FINALLY talk about what I as a HUGE gamer have beenn waiting for. No puzzles pieces to lose behind the couch, no fake Rachel Blake to follow to find out her father IS the LOST EXPEIRENCE, and NO!!!! I-Pod games please. Let’s talk UBISOFT’s LOST: GAME for PC (blah), PS3 and XBOX360!!!! Well I don’t want to type anymore, so let the WHISPERS begin…

Trailer ufficiale del videogioco di Lost
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Yup! Red wires! Locke thinking! Puzzles! Caves! Black Smoke! The MURAL in the HATCH! Locke playing with the numbers! Sawyers Book of the Month Club! This game has it all as I see it. And I think that’s all we are seeing until….drumroll please….early…2008! Yup! 2000 friggin 8! Why? Ya big dummys!

Onto our next topic which is going to take up all this blog post I’m thinking and that’s the PANEL at COMIC with DAMON and CARLTON. Things got weird with audio there, but once things got started, it got a little out of hand!

SPOILERS!!! I think?! But SPOILERS

COMIC CON: LOST: Panel PANIC!

So, Damon and Carlton came out first and not much but announcement of the LOST: Video Game.

Then, after that, let’s just get to the good stuff.

QandA
Question of violence in the finale and how much power do the writers have. Their reactions were in Season 1 there was a great deal of violence and the writers and producers are very collective.

Next question was: What happened to MICHAEL!?!?

Let’s talk about Walt and why we saw him help Locke out of the Dharma Grave Pit, some might say to help bring Michael back into the mix. But, who was in the coffin? COME ON! It’s Michael!!! But Carlton and Damon had a guest with them and let’s just announce it already, I’m sure you heard ALL about it…Harrold Perrineau, Jr. had a seat next to Damon. Yes, Michael is back. So here is LOST BLOG’s B.QUAIN’S PREDICTION: Michael is in the coffin, so we will go more Flash PRESENT if you will, to see what happens to Michael, and I feel he will fight his way BACK to the island, but “someone” will kill Michael. Michael wants his BOY, but they took Walt back and made Michael go back home and put into a mental hospital. See where I am going with this?

Okay...back to the panel.

Some questions were asked, poorly may I add, and the answers came right at after, poorly as we expect. Somethings to mention are…

1) Ben got captured by the Losties, by accident…we will be seeing more.
2) Jack and Claire, the brother and sister connection, will they ever find out…Season 4 looks good!
3) More flashforwards? Both for Season 4, flash forwards and backs.
4) Richard Alpert? No so much in Season 4.
5) Libby? Very much more in Season ?, there’s a story to tell
6) A great question was “What questions should WE be asing?” and Carlton and Damon said, “Who is in the coffin”, “Who are Adam and Eve”, “Who was on Penny’s “not so Penny’s” boat, and Are Nikki and Paolo really dead?”

They thanked everyone for coming out and then it ended with another Orientation Film introducing Station 6: The Orchid!

Marvin Candle comes on, with a labcoat of course, but NO Dharma logo and says his name is something like “Edward Hourwicks”. There is this conversation between him and the camera manbefore they start rolling if you will. Candle/Hourwicks starts arguing he’s “a scientist, not an actor”. A rabbit is handed to him with the Number 15 on it’s back and starts talking about “Welcome to Station #6: The Orchid”. He also indicated “Sorry I have lied to them and their families, but the station is NOT botanical in nature, As you know there are unique properties about he Island”, then things start shaking and falling. They pan to a rabbit on the shelf, it cuts off…back to normal it has a message saying “Welcome To Station 6. But spliced into it has subliminal shots of “Jacob Loves YOU”…CUT!

That was it! There is new LOST news until the boys start up the PODCASTS, well I don’t know when, I’m thinking when the show starts, but we have DVD’s coming on Dec. 11th.

Thanks everyone for the LOST news…but here is something we have YET to tckle on this LOST BLOG and that’s Mr Man JJ ABRAMS new project before LOST and STAR TERK come to us next year, and that’s 1-18-08, or as others like to call it CLOVERFIELD

Most of you know what this is…and wowowow! But I do have something to show you that I think, very much like the trailer we have seen, will blow your mind.

That’s the poster! Beautiful! Can’t wait to hear more and see more on this. I know it’s right up our alley, so spoilers and other “I know I know’s” I will be ignoring. I want to be surprised. Plus, it comes out on the day before my birthday, so it’s a sweeeeeeeeeeeeet gift!

Thanks guys! I need to get to work. Enjoy the blog and let’s get excited! We have LOST to talk about!

b.quain

TOP TEN OF THE WEEK: Harry Potter, Documentaries, World Series of Pop Culture, and MORE!

2007-07-23T10:05:00.000-04:00

1) FREEHELD - Florida Film Festival and HBO's "Shelter Dogs" director Cynthia Wade has brought us yet another tear jerker and brilliant story of love and compassion. A story of a police officer, Laurel Hester, for 20+ years discovers she has 3rd stage lung cancer and she would like to give her partner Stacie her pension when she dies. Living in Orange County in New Jersey, who's Freeholders REFUSE to make the decision to help her and her partner. The compelling story and amazing story were a great reason it was a Sundance's Special Jury Prize winner. We we're able to see this film in a two part documentary special screening at the Enzian for Cynthia's film and friend of the festival Alice Elliot's "Soul and Body

2) BODY and SOUL: Diana & Kathy - Click the title to go to the website. Amazing documentary from a great friend of the Florida Film Festival and a woman who introduced me to a saint with her film "The Collector of Bedford Street." Amazing documentary and you heard it here first (as we saw the World Premiere of the film), BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Oscar Nomination. We will find out in January. The story was very sweet of Diana who has down syndrome, and she has been taking care of Kathy for 34 years, who has cerebral palsy. A must see when the film comes to your town.

3) HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - Amazing!!!1 that's all! Amazing. Very sad, very touching, very amazing page turner. Of course I am reading the 7th book right now…so what am I doing typing this.

4) ED BANGER RECORDS Vol. 2 - Sebastian, Uffie, Justice, Busy B, Mr. Ozio, just watch the clip and that's all you need to know. Hard as hell beats and the greatest music to do ANYTHING to. Mr. Ozio, you've come along way since the days of Flat Eric.

5) COCAINE COWBOYS - The Miami Vice of all documentaries. Netflix this baby now! Trust me! Does get a little long in parts, but very very great doc on drugs in Miami and money laundering in the 70's and 80's.

6) SOPRANOS: SEASON 2/Disc 1 - My only problem with this season right now is that Tony smokes in the house. No believable. BUT, we are one the 5th episode of the season, and very very very well done. We got to Peter Bogdanovich playing himself as a psychiatrist. Very funny. But, cigar smoking in the house, NO…no way. Speaking of cigars.

7) OLIVA - Very good cigar, not so good promotion they had at the Corona Cigar Bar. 3Buy 3 Get One Free was alright, because the one they were giving away tasted nice! I think this Top Ten blog might have the cigar of the week. Ha! Three weeks in a row!

8) ANTHONY BOURDAINE: NO RESERVATIONS - Marathon tonight, MARATHON TONIGHT!!!!! I have been watching some of this genius over the week!!! So good. Travel Channel all evening!!!! Go watch! New Season July 30th!

9) WORLD SERIES OF POP CULTURE - Very very very fun once again to watch the series and after the first episode, the "we should have been on there"'s ended. Seems like a lot of fun to be there and it would have been amazing to be part of it. I would have looooooved to play against "Twisted Misters" and shit talk, but still a fun season. GO TWISTED MISTERS!!!! We haven't finished it yet, were in the QUATERFINALS…so NO SPOILERS. We will finish tonight!

10) VANESSA AND BRIAN ON VH-1's WORLD SERIES OF POP CULTURE - Yup, our 15 frames of fame guys. That was Vanessa and I on the World Series Of Pop Culture this week on VH1. It was weird to start watching the World Series Of Pop Culture Year Two since how bizarre the test taking and auditions were. But, it was nice to see Vanessa and I, two out of the three team members that made the greatest Florida team AIR GUITAR HEROS. Thanks to Jason for still making the getting there fun, but no thanks to producers for making it cheap and very cold. Damn my hair was short, and YES, that isn't a fat face, the TV adds pounds. Sorry i took these off the I-Phone from the TV, ha! If i can get screencaps for LOST, i think i can do it for Vanessa and I, haha!

That's it for the week. I do have some honorable mentions like Fantasy Football (soccer) is UP and having fun. 2 and a half weeks and we go to the EPL and LIVERPOOL to win the Title! GO BOYS!

Not much but I did LOOOOVE this site. BYS . Click, it's kinda cool…countdowns and film! Sept. 08, '07??!?! I like!

Hope you like the list! I will have a huuuuge post this week, but for now, enjoy!

b.quain

TOP TEN of the WEEK: E3, Avo, Joshua, Harry Potter, Zelda and more!

2007-07-16T09:53:00.000-04:00

1) HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - This week it’s the film that’s getting onto the TOP 10. And next week will be Half Blood Prince I’m sure, and then the week after that will be Deathly Hallows. Ha! The film was the best since “…Chamber of Secrets” and I’m sure you’ve seen it already since it’s made the most money in film history, blah blah blah. ENJOY IT!

2) THE POLICE - When was the last time I saw a concert outdoors? The show was what I expected of an outdoor show and a huge band like The Police. Good times. They played for an hour and 50 minutes. We know the hits, so let’s stay away from those. But I got to hear “Truth Hits Everyone”, “Invisible Sun”, “So Lonely”, “Bed’s Too Big Without You”, “Synchronicity II”, and weeeird show closer “Next To You.” I had a blast with the drive up and down from Orlando with Buz and Summer and great times inside the stadium with Jeremy and his wife Andrea for the show. We had a blast.

3) MOJO CHICKEN - Great times on Saturday night. Our friends Jon and Jill made us dinner. So good. We had so much fun with these guys and we looove getting to know these guys. After dinner we decided to hit the Corona Cigar Co., where we able to catch up with Avo again.

4) AVO LEGACY - Our friend Brian met up with us at the cigar bar and I actually got to FINALLY try Avo’s Legacy. How is it this man makes such great cigars? Such a great man and such a great smoke. I suggest one if you care for a smoke.

5) E3 - GREAT GREAT GREAT announcements at this years ULTIMATE gamers convention. All three major studios come out to make some great announcements that I would like to post, if I can, in tomorrows blog. Microsoft needed some push, Sony had some GREAT titles I would love to give into, and NINTENDO blew my mind with a new idea and some titles we’ve grown up on. Speaking of…

6) ZELDA and THE TWILIGHT PRINCESS - I FINALLY started playing Zelda. I bought this when it came out, but I have always been so intimidated on the fact we were going to play as Link (of course), but this time we have to control him as if we were really playing him. INTENSE. But the game is so good. SOOOO GOOD! I will post more soon as I get farther.

7) LIVERPOOL - 3 – 0 win this weekend for our boys in RED! First game of the season in a friendly and gave us hope on a clean sheet for Reina. 3 weeks away…I can hardly stand it!

8) JOSHUA - Pretty friggin’ creepy. Birth control in a movie, worse than Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, or even The Good Son. Sam Rockwell was amazing, and deserves more than what he is getting in this film. No one has even mentioned how well he’s performing, since we haven’t seen him since “Hitchhickers Guide To The Galaxy”, right? Watch the trailer…pretty crazy.

9) LOGAN - Not Joshua in ANY way, shape or form. Ha! This kid is amazing. The last two times we hung out with Levi and Kim, he’s has always been on his best behavior, and such a great kid. Being two months married, it’s hard looking at Logan and thinking we need to wait on having a kid. Ha! Levi and Kim are the best parents and deserve such a great kid! Congrats you two! Speaking of Levi, Kim, and Logan!

10) SEA WORLD - LOST BLOG 1st anniversary meet-up was in effect yesterday. Ha! Actually Levi, Kim, Logan, Karen, her family, and Vanessa and I met up yesterday for a day in the sea. Sea World actually. It was amazing. Karen is real and very much like she is on the blogs and comments. The energy was amazing and her family so friggin incredible. We had so much fun and made the best of the 95+ degree sun and heat. It was great yesterday and all the talk of life, love, and LOST, it was amazing. I just need to start re-watching LOST and catching up with everyone. Thanks guys and lots of love to all of us. Amazing times yesterday!

Okay, that’s it…I am putting this up. We have made it to the Top Ten of last week. This weeks Top Ten will be kind of slow I think. Taking it easy, but it’s a lot of music, and movies to come.

b.quain

E3: Press Conferences: NINTENDO, SONY, and MICROSOFT...which one reigns SUPREME?!?

2007-07-13T09:18:00.000-04:00

PRESS CONFERENCES (in order)

MICROSOFT – Well well. Most of you didn’t think we’d see a new console. Oh the contrary. But, don’t lose your lunch so soon. Halo 3 is the big news and of course they wouldn’t have it any other way but to mix that console and that mega million selling franchise into one. The HALOBOX360 I guess we can call it will be debuting in 11 weeks. Enjoy. Halo and I have never been a Crocket and Tubbs, Captain and Tenille, or a Turner and Hooch. So I will be passing on the Halo360. I like that better.
I’m not going to say that the Microsoft was so unbelievable, at time very boring. Seems like we would be getting all these trailers sometime in the spand of two week on Attack Of The Show instead of two hours at the conference. But we got it. And I like it. But what was I looking for? FABLE 2!!!!! I didn’t get it in this press conference, but I think we have some AMAZING titles to look out for. Let’s count because they ALL come out in 2008! YES! All 30 new titles will come out by 2008!!!!!

Get those Xmas bonuses, cause we have a TOP 10 that you NEED! In the NEXT BLOG! I will be doing a E3: GAMES blog! This is just the Press Conferenes. But I will tell you. Some announcements. Here is how Microsoft makes it ROLL!

Peter Moore plays with Harmonix and Rock Band. Yes, as some of you know te Guitar Hero franchise and Harmonix have BLOWN up to a four piece and it looks AMAZING! Guitar, Bass, Vocals and DRUMS…this $150 dollar game will also have ALL INSTRUMENTS.

Then they announce a HUGE list of games in a trailer. 30 games to be exact!
Project Gotham Racing 4 - racing, that looks STUNNING, enjoy, I won’t be buying.
MASS EFFECT - I will be posting TONS on this game. I will be buying.
Dynasty Warrior: Gundam - Nope
Fatal Inertia - don’t remember much, sorry
CALL OF DUTY 4: Modern Warfare - AMAZING! A+++++ more to come!
Metal Of Honor: Airbourne - YES OH YES! More to come!
Stranglehold - Chow Yun Fat! Enough said!
Tiger Woods PGA ‘08 - Golf!
Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock - Yeah! Uh, yeah! MORE TO COME! Friggin GREAT!
Ace Combat 6 - you fly, so maybe PS3 might be better is launched on that console.
Beautiful Katamari - Finally for Xbox! Should be great!
NHL ‘08 - Hockey!
Lost Odyssey - Should be UNBELIEVABLE. I will get into more in games.
Assassin’s Creed - WOW! Stunning and looks crazy! I wanna play NOW!
NBA Live ‘08 - Basketball! Where’s the Base’ketball game?
Spiderman: Friend or Foe - nah! Nothing too special.
The Simpsons Game - Looks adorable and fun. Maybe!
Splinter Cell Conviction - I need to catch up on the other ones.
NASCAR ‘08 - I’d rather drive in GTA IV.
Eternal Sonata - Yeah? No? YES! Look at this thing! Coming soon.
BIOSHOCK - Of course!
Madden ‘08 - I want the real football!
Tony Hawk: Proving Ground - eh, nope, maybe not!
Crash of the Titans - Not too into the whole Crash Bandacoot, but I think them kids love him!
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - Get it on the Wii, you ARE a WIZARD HARRY!
Orange Box : Is this Half Life 2?
Bee Movie : Jerry Seinfeld and video games don’t mix!
ROCK BAND!!!! - Keep up with em and you will know EVERYTHING ROCK BAND!
Naruto: Rise of the Ninja: Get your headband and play, but not me. Not too into anime. Sorry!

There are the games, and some, well A LOT I have a feeling I will be purchasing this year, and money will go into this console instead of the PS3 I don’t have. But I still have tomorrow to decide if I need this PS3. Wait, uh, I just noticed. NO FABLE 2!!!!! What the shit is this? NO FABLE 2!?!?!?! Grrr…

Microsoft also announces they are now partners with Disney/Touchstone to release ALL
Disney films (exclude Song of the South, I’m sure) and TV for download in HD. Yup! You guessed it. No Netflix needed. Just download. See how this goes and we might be seeing more TV through Xbox, making cable obsolete. Also for the family, Scene It with it’s remote and gaming. Excellent!

Madden, Fifa, blah blah EA. Twice as fast in real time. Great! Quain’s Liverpool will take over I bet ya!

XBOXLive as also opened up the Arcade and Sega has teamed up to put out some oldies and original downloads to the XBOX. As of now, you can download Golden Axe and Sonic.

Greatest things I saw in the press conference. GAMES wise: Assassin’s Creed!!! WOW! A+ Trailer. Call of Duty: Modern Warefare…holy moly…a must! A+ Trailer and game play! Mass Effect…patiently waiting A+, game play EVEN BETTER! Very excited.

Done for today, so let’s go to…

NINTENDO – Next day was Nintendo and Sony’s turn and wow did Nintendo throw us for a HUUUUGE loop. FAT ASS USA might not dig what I think may be the greatest thing to hit the E3 floors since, uh, well, lemme think, I guess, EVER. Nintendo launched some great titles. But weren’t we expecting them all. YES! But have we seen them before, well, ummm, YES! So why was it so good the? I mean we saw Super Mario Galaxy last year, and some Metriod Prime Wii, even Mario Kart we’ve seen since the Nintendo 64. Looks the same guys, and even has that damn old feature of Classic Tracks. But I LOOOOOOOVE them. Mario kart is too damn good. And as Vanessa just said, “if it damn broke, then don’t fix it!” Agreed. The idea of Wii Motes and the introduction of…well shit, let’s just get into shall we.

MARIO KART Wii - WAS ANNOUNCED! And it will be in 1st quarter 2008, but the HUMDINGER of it all was the fact that this baby will have the ability to have controls via WiiWheel! THE WiiWHEEL! Amazing. When you stick that cute little WiiMote in and zoom away. Oh man! The game play looks the same, but very very soon, Nintendo will announce how many characters get to drive this time around, and they said it’s MASSIVE! Whoohooo!

SUPER MARIO GALAXY - Uh, yeah, wow! This one looks just has hard as Super Mario Sunshine, and if anyone remembers that one, watch out TV’s and WiiMotes. My Wavebird almost met my TV a few times when trying to beat Level One of Sunshine. Oye. So hard, but this game looks so so so amazing. WoW! So happy to think that THIS YEAR, yes I said it, actually November 12th is the release date! WHAT? Huh? Yeah! Uh! That’s right! Get those WiiMotes charged cause I see HOURS of game play and fun times in this game.

GHOST SQUAD - Uh, Sega has a new game coming out. Haha! Sega, remember those guys who put out, Dreamcast….GOD I MISS THAT CONSOLE! Still got it! But these guys are putting out a game for the Wii that needs no WiiMote or WiiWheel, nor any Nunchuck for that matter. How do you play you ask…well with the FRIGGIN’ WiiZAPPER! Yup! The WiiZAPPER which will be coming out before the year, and fits your WiiMote and Nunchuck in there to make a gun and you zap your terrorists away in this first person shooter. Resident Evil will be easier with it, and so will Duck Hunt…I kid! I mean, Medal of Honor! Yeah! Seriously amazing. The controller will cost $19.99 and come with it’s OWN GAME!!!! YEAH BOY!

Some other cool features to mention before I go nuts with one of the greatest ideas EVER in gaming history. Nintendo will be launching WiiWare soon, cool gadgets and good times for your Wii. Also, the MiiChannel, where you will be able to home more Mii’s, download games for them, and contests on making the coolest Mii.

140 games will be launched for your DS by 2009, and 100 for the Wii by the same time. DS?!?! Did we forget to mention the biggest console ever…well not size, but in quantity! The DS has been 55 million sold ALL over the world and making it the most bought console ever! Some games coming out. High School Musical, Madden, FIFA, Brain Age 2 (Aug. 20), Dragon Quest, Smackdown/RAW, Mario Sonic Olympic Games…few of those for the Wii as well. But one that’s not for Wii is the highly anticipated release of Zelda: Phantom HourGlass which was the biggest selling game in Japan. Expect it to be just as huge and SO AMAZING, as you play the game with Stylus and your brain to solve all the dungeon puzzles and monsters.

Let’s get back to the Wii, I have some MAJOR NEWS!

METRIOD PRIME 3 - Good times good times GOOOOOOD TIMES! In the Zelda for Wii, we we’re able to become Link with the WiiMote, and I always wondered what I would look like as a girl (not really, but let me have my fantasies OK!?!?!), and we leave it to Nintendo to finally let me be a girl, and KICK ASS GIRL at that! We get to play as Samus in what seems like the same setting as the Gamecube, but this time we control everything with our WiiMotes. The greatest thing ever in the Grand Theft Auto series was when they perfected the shooting aspect of the game when holding down the R2 button and you lock on your target, well the Z button in this will help you the same way. The game play of this one was great and THANK YOU Nintendo for showing us this game, but when can I play? Oh Aug. 27th! YUP! Get those Wii’s NOW!

GUITAR HERO III - Comes with the exclusive Les Paul Guitar and the first time on the Wii. That’s all.

Are you ready for this!??!?! THE BIG ONE!!! Myself included, I’m sure we can all use some poundage to come off on the bellies. Well Nintendo thought about this and they came out with the heavy hitter this year at E3, and the MOST impressive game to hit the console, in my opinion, ALL CONSOLES.

WiiFIT - I’m not kidding. Nintendo made a fitness game that comes with a workout mat called the Wii Balance Board. This devices weighs you, saves your data and you get your workout. Does EVERYTHING from stretching, YOGA, soccer headers, hula hoops, pushups, dancing, anything you can think of in exercise. Say goodbye to gym memberships, just do it at home with your family, loved one, or yourself. The Balance Board works on your feet and weight. Wait til you see this. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I think we have ALL changed our mind on how crazy the Wii is, and have learned to TRUST and LOVE Nintendo. The Wii is the greatest console to ever birth on this planet and grow to become the most powerful machine, EVER. Go fit and ENJOY this one. A+++++++

Final thoughts on Wii/NINTENDO…Super Mario Galaxy, WiiFit, High School Musical (WHY?!?!?!), ZELDA!!!, and Metriod! SO GOOD NINENDO SO GOOD! But…I do need to say this…Sick of Animal Crossing!??!?! NO! NEVER!!! Right?! How could you be? Well, NO ANIMAL CROSSING Wii this year….at all, I’m thinking. We’re not done with E3, but I think it would have premiered on stage today.

Off to the final and last company with a console that needs some pushing, some pushing like our Florida Republican House Member Bob Allen and prostitutes. Okay, maybe not that bad, but SONY isn’t looking too good with the PS3 and with the announcement on Monday of the $100 price cut, what are we looking at here? GAMES, GAMES, GAMES folks…and I think we might be getting them! But aren’t most of these games coming out for the XBOX360? Let’s see!

SONY – YES! They are! And most of us own the XBOX360, so why do we need to buy this console? Well there plenty plenty goodies in here. Still thinking of getting that PS3? Well, I think you might still be, if you haven’t been paying attention lately or playing games. There have been MANY MANY games I am waiting for, but then aren’t they coming out on XBOX360. Yes! Most titles like Grand Theft Auto 4, Medal of Honor: Airbourne, Call Of Duty 4, Harry Potter, Madden ’08, Simpsons Game, FIFA ’08, Guitar Hero III, Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed, Resident Evil 5….so what else could there be? I know I know I know most of geeks out there are begging for that trailer of KILLZONE 2, but we got that last year! So what else can we ask for…well for starters, we got a UBISOFT title, but all you LOST fans don’t get too excited. It’s not the LOST game we are expecting. They went ahead and shelved it for this…

HAZE - it’s a pretty much DUMB’d down version of Halo. Look at the name it starts with a H and an A and ens in a vowel with a consonant in there. I’m not kidding. The way the gun is held and the movement. But this time “man” need to get things “done” with his gun and it’s his way or no way, and oye vey, are you serious? This is way LOST the game is being held? I HATE YOU UBISOFT!

So you want LOST huh?

UNCHARTED: Drakes Fortune - You have this jungle and looks like you aren’t supposed to be there, but then mixes a little Indiana Jones in there for time period. Don’t know much, but looks cool!

LITTLE BIG PLANET - Seems so much fun, making and creating little towns and cities and you can share them through the PS3 NETWORK. Plus the trailer had the Go! Team in there, good song, and cute game. I’m SOLD!

RATCHET and CLANK FUTURE: TOOLS OF DESTRUCTION - Looks like fun, but I don’t play this series. Sorry.

HEAVENLY SWORD - Might be the reason I am buying this console VERY soon. Looks stunning, the girl you play seems cool as shit, and the trailer last year blew me away. But what did I get this year? Uh, not much since G4 went to commercial.

IMFAMOUS - Yup! Another shooter and blah blah blah, but VERY SMART looking. Damn good, and damn 2008! Save money I guess.

GRAND TURISMO 5 - I hate driving games since Burnout took over and bit all the other in balls (not you Mario Kart, your safe). But wait, this trailer, is that car REAL?, looks like this game, I don’t want to say it, but this game seems, WOW! FRIGGIN REAL! And AMAZING!

FOLKLORE - Damn cool damn cool damn cool. I think I am sold on this one too. Very God Of War looking, but I like!

Also, Stranglehold for PS3 will come with John Woo's Hard Boiled on BLU-RAY!!!!!!!! I'm not kidding, might be worth it RIGHT THERE!!!

Finally, before I get into the whole new PSP and PS3 NETWORK is the bid daddy of them all

KILLZONE 2 - AMAZING, and I will more and a trailer. That’s all. So KNOW YOU HAVE TO READ TOMORROW! Ha! Suckas!

PS3 has finally launched it’s PS3NETWORK and WOW! Unbelievable people. I need to so much more research on this, but with it’s community and online, this will become the MYSPACE for consoles. It’s so amazing what this is doing as we speak with PS3 HOME, and instead of what looks like the Sims, the PS3 HOME is YOU!!!! Yes! YOU! You have a WebBrowser and PSP to PS3 capabilities. A store to get cool shit and I am foaming, drooling as we speak.

That’s it though. This is 9 hours of watching in one day, and 6 pages of typing means I am DONE! I will get into more tomorrow on the WHOLE E3. I only watched the Press Conferences and tomorrow I will tackle the GAMES!

Let me watch more guys! Lots of games to get into!

b.quain

TOP TEN OF THE WEEK: Ending 07-01-07

2007-07-02T11:13:00.003-04:00

MY TOP 10 OF THE WEEK: Week Ending 07-01-07

“…I know you’ll find out, that I’m a geek, with a lower case g, and I’m trying to hide, cause I wouldn’t be seen, with a guy like me…” – Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right, B, A, Start – (“I Know You’ll Find Out I’m A Geek”)

So, I was thinking of something NEW, and very UNIQUE to do to my blog away from the every Weds. LOST BLOG and Song Of Week was cool (and will be back). But what was something no one has done yet? Well, I got to thinking, what about listing my TOP 10 of the week of things that have happened or music I got, films we’ve seen, or cool new shit to play with….well, thought to myself. Is that original, or new? HELL NO! but it rules damnit!

(This Top 5 is the great things that happened in the past week for myself, doing this more for therapeutic reasons and archiving the BEST year of my life so far…so halfway there, I need to start now. In these blog posts, I hope to give you guys a good laugh, but I guess I am leaving myself to become an open book to supreme geekness. Music, movies, video games, geek news, etc. will be in here. Oye. Have a good read!)

1) Hell’s Kitchen – This one will be on here EVERY week I’m sure. Gordon Rasmey’s my hero and this week wasn’t all too much a ball buster as the past few episodes. With Aaron being gone, Gordon taking over the elimination process two weeks ago, and no one pulling food out of the garbage to serve to customers…it was a tame game. Best show on TV right now, since I loooove my food and to cook. Brilliant show.

What would be ANY TOP 1, 3, or 10 without a FILM! Here is how we kept our week busy! Also, this segment of reviews goes out to Joel Siegel, great film critic and film lover who passed on over the weekend.

2) Once - Breath of fresh air (since we are in Dublin for this…) film from John Carney. Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight brings this gem to you in select theaters in select cities. But, if it is by you, trust me to see it. Great music, great acting from Commitments co-star/guitar player Glen Hansard and newcomer/female singer/piano player Markéta Irglová. Superb all around and a film NOT to be missed this year. Can’t wait to singalong again.Rating: A+

3) Sicko - I won’t have this up here for arguments and I don’t know why and where (I do know why and where, but not EVER in the mood to argue) people became Michael Moore haters. Fantastic documentary about a topic that NEEDS to be told, and not by what people call Michael Moore’s style of filmmaking, one-sided, seeing as it’s more the subjects of the film telling their stories. Heart breaking, so very heart breaking, and a MUST SEE. Get to know Michael Moore, after the past few years I have had the honor to talk to him and meet up on a few occasions and I can tell how much he is like me trying to help people and just no matter what happens, no one wants change. It’s sick what has happened to this country, and I’m glad we can see what’s happening around the world. A MUST MUST MUST SEE! Rating: A+

4) Live Free or DIE HARD - Yup! Not kidding, it’s up here, and why would we be kidding. Fan-friggin’-tastic. Here you go. JOHN McCLANE! That’s all you need. He’s back and hasn’t missed a beat. Justin Long is great just adding more dialogue and some time to breath and times, but doesn’t steal the show, or act like the comic relief moron. Great action and a great story to the trilogy. A MUST SEE, before those More Than Meets The Box Office Bullshit. GO SE IT…that’s it, that’s that, that’s all there is!!! Rating: A

5) Camacho Cigars - Wow! Saturday night was a fantiastic night for a great celebration dinner and a great cigar. The Camacho was one of the finest I have EVER had for just $6.50. Mild, and such an excellent burn, wait burn…that’s the problem and why it’s $6.50. The cigar could EASY be over $10, but the fact that the cigar burns funny at times, makes this over an hour smoke kinda fishy. Just go an smoke this baby! So good!

6) Melting Pot/Corona Cigar Co - Vanessa took me out for a celebration dinner which we both felt was so well deserved. Melting Pot was so so so TASTY! Great times. Thank you baby! We hit the Corona Cigar Co. across the street. Smoked the Comacho. Then I was able to meet Avo Uvezian, famous jazz musician and brilliant cigar mogul for Avo Cigars. He played with my new toy and number 10 on this list. But then the last time we were there a couple were nice enough to pass on a Dos Equis since they weren’t going to finish their bucket. They were there again and I was able to thank the man and we wound up talking for an hour with John and Jill. Such a great couple. Just got married 8 days before us, smoke cigars, geek it out Lost, geek it out FILMS!, and seem so amazing. Good times!!!!

7) Ice Road Truckers - Watch this show when they do the famous day long marathon that History Channel’s usually do. So good! Very tense and very amazing. GOOD TIMES!

8) Simmons BeautyRest - WE GOT A NEW BED! After 12 years, we will be sleeping very very very nice. So good! You want a new bed? Get it this weekend!!! July 4th weekend is the most popular one for new mattress buying, so if you need one, GO NOW! Our bed is the greatest in the world and that leads too…

9) SLEEP - It’s amazing! Try this. We have done it since the new bed, and I am LOVIN’ IT!

Now, now, now! What would be ANYONE’s Top 10 of the week ending 07-01-07 without anything on the Iphone? Well, seriously, hate or love it, the Iphone is OUT and wants your slimy fingers to play with it. So this obviously goes into our number 10.

NUMBER 10!!! THE I-PHONE - Wow! What a little gadget. Vanessa and I went to the Apple Store on Friday to go play with the new I-Phone and Wow!!! We get in after a 45 minute wait in line and I rush into line to play with the one the guy in the line has to play with one. Vanessa goes to a table where everyone is around playing with phones. She meets up in 5 minutes after playing asking “what are you doing”…long story short. We bought two! I was hoping we can use these as our business phone (so you have the 929 number, USE THAT, haha) and wow, very tempting to move it all over to a I-Phone. We got home after Sicko that night and hooked it up and played for hours until 3am. This review is just on the First Impression of using it to play with, meeting new amazing people at a cigar shop through it, and talking to Solari to hear what New York sounds like, and it sounds UNREAL. Everything we have played with is amazing, no problems at all. Easy set-up, easy use, and amazing piece of work. WOW! Go for it people, GO FOR IT. I have used Apple/Mac for over 15 years now and I have never had a problem., enough said. THANKS I-PHONE! Wait, why isn’t it turning on? DAMNIT! Well, I gotta go and take my phone to get repaired. I kid I kid, I just want to get off the TOP 10!!! Rating: A+ on first impression

DISAPPOINTMENT of the WEEK!!!!
USA vs ARGENTINA - I looove both teams. Fantastic meet up, but not a great frigign’ game. 4 – 1 in the end and USA took a huge turn of the worst in the 2nd half. Gomez, and Gaven played as substitutes in the 2nd half. Yeah? You don’t know who they are? Me neither. Bad bad news for USA, and Argentina kicked ass in the first half, but SCHOOLED the U.S. in the 2nd. Come on USA, we just WON the Gold Cup, and now we need 3 points more and more than ever. Tonight we play Paraguay, who beat Columbia 5 – 0. Good luck guys.

Thanks guys for letting me be so UNORIGINAL, and next week, these will be written as the week goes on. Not the morning of. Much better I am sure.

See ya soon
b.quain

LOST BLOG: Series 3 Figures, LOST POLL, and MYSTERY OF THE WEEK!

2007-06-27T09:59:00.000-04:00

Another week has gone by and still some great LOST NEWS to go round. This is going to be a long morning, so let’s get started.

LOST SERIES THREE FIGURES…(breathe, we have until 2008)

Screw the Series 3 figures! Where are our Series 2 figures you ask? The ones of Sun, Jin, Sawyer, and Mr. Eko? Yeah, I know! So, we’ve been told by early 2007, but as of today, it looks like sometime in the next few weeks they will be shipping. But as of yesterday, I heard Series 3 figures are being made and a shipping date of early 2008. Just in time for you to re-enact your favorite hunting boar, to “your gonna die Charlie” scenes. Series 3 is looking like we will be making Desmond, Claire, Ben and Sayid running around the island. Wow, 14 figures and a hatch in all. Very exciting. NOW WHERE’S MY JULIET?!
No pics as of now, but very soon. (don’t hold your breath)…damn you McFarlane. Here’s the series 2.

Let’s stick to the geeky side of LOST, and let’s talk about that UbiSoft game that was supposed to come out last year, to early this year, to now having no release date at all, no specs, no ideas of anything, but still is confirmed coming out by 2007!!!! What?! Stop, please, okay, no! Stop! There is no game coming out by 2007!

Let’s stay geeking…if there is no game, and no figures then what can we get for the time being that’s LOST related. ABC.com has some of the COOLEST friggin’ shirts, toys, and LOST geek toys EVER.

LOST GIFTS and POLL

Here will be my Top 10 LOST Collectables I have found to this date.

Set of 6 Dharma Pint Glasses

Got a craving for some Dharma Beer? Then why not pour some of that delicious, warm, sudsy beer into your own set of Dharma Pint Glasses. YUMMY! Doesn’t come with the Dharma Van. $22.95

Dharma Flame Hatch Shirt

I still have my Dharma Swan Logo shirt and I always felt something was missing. The Flame Hatch, since it was blown up, it’s missing, but my Dharma Logo shirt is missing its friend the Flame Hatch. What an amazing shirt and a must for all you LOSTIES out there! $19.95/$22.95 Womens

Dharma Hydra Hatch Shirt

Can’t have your Flame without some water. Hydra more like it. If fire doesn’t suit you, how about this swift looking Hydra shirt? I would have thought this shirt would be blue for some reason. But it is great looking!
$19.95

Dharma Logo Rubki’s Cube

You know LOST is a puzzle and always has you thinking. Well, while we are on our Season 4 hiatus, why not put your brain to the test with this amazing Rubkik’s Cube? 6 colors equal 6 hatch logo’s. BRILLIANT!
$19.95

LOST Season 3 Eyes Poster

Priiivate Eeeeeyes, they’re watching you…Maybe you need to be re-watching the seasons then watching this poster. Sharp looking and those eyes…
$14.95

Hanso Foundation Coffee Mug

So you can’t really get a job with the Hanso Foundation, but you can enjoy a hot cup of Alvar at your actual job with this amazing looking ceramic mug. Friggin’ great!
$7.99

Dharma Hydra Logo Coffee Mug

So you feel like your boss may resemble Alvar Hanso a little too much to get the Hanso Mug? Then what about a Dharma Hydra Hatch logo mug? LOOOOOVE this mug! But I do think the Hanso one is genius. Amazing!
$9.99

LOST Numbers Ghost Mug

No, this mug doesn’t disappear when you drink coffee! But if you are drinking hot coffee your mug will be white. If you decide to drink cold, uh, hmmm…water? Then your coffee mug will be BLACK and the numbers will show! WHOA! Clever!
$14.95

LOST Blast Door Hatch Map Messenger Bag

Well if this one won’t cause accidents in NYC traffic and sidewalks, I don’t know what would. Bike messengers, this one is a no no. EVERYTHING that you need to know about the markings Locke, Radzinski, Desmond, and Kelvin were playing with, all at your hip. Amazing!
$45.95

Hanso Foundation Polo Shirt

Grab your messenger bag, you Hanso coffee mug and this shirt and you are ready for a day of work at the Hanso Foundation. This brilliant shirt will make only “true believers” know who you are ( so don’t expect to make any friends with this one). A must MUST MUST for any LOST fan!
$19.99

There you have it, and I kept the prices down, and waded through all the a little too much of the Lost items for what people REALLY need in the Lost craziness. Fun, creative and completely LOST. Here is your POLL!

You get to pick THREE items on here…what would YOU buy? I know it’s hard to pick only three, but COME ON, so much fun!

I really didn’t have time to get our LOST Youtube Clip Of The Week! Sorry….so busy and this post is LOOOOONG.

MYSTERY OF THE WEEK!!!!

HURLEY BIRD!!!!

So what is with this bird? Two appearances and both times, the bird knows the name of someone on the island. And since we are calling him Hurley Bird, then we know it said Hurley’s name both times. In Exodus Pt. 1 (from Lostpedia.com) you wouldn’t know the bird was there unless you watch so closely and read subtitles. My friends Jason and Sam said that some TV shows play with their Closed Captioning. I said, LOST had to be one of those shows. I guess so. But the most obvious of Hurley Bird sightings was in ”Live Together, Die Alone” the bird makes it’s appearance overhead, swooping towards the party and saying “Hurley”. When Hurley asks did that bird say my name, Sawyer asshole response is “yeah it did, right before I crapped gold!”
So what is this bird, where did it come from and why am I not doing a Mystery piece on Vincent? Grrrr…Plus I couldn’t get a good pic of that damn bird anyway. Was this mystery a bad one? No mystery there! Ha! In Live Forever Die Alone, we all know what we heard, as in it saying Hurley, but why and what is Hurley’s obsession with birds? We have heard him mention birds very often from time to time on the show. And we know many characters, maybe all of them, have an animal connected to them. Kate=Horse, Sayid=Cat, Charlie=Tuna (sorry). Hurley is a mystery in himself and PLEASE stop saying, “Yeah he is, it’s a mystery why he hasn’t LOST all that weight in 3 years.” It’s been 93 days, and he’s looking good!
So, Hurley Bird? What, where, and how? Your thoughts?

That’s it for this week! Seriously, this one is a pretty LOOOOOONG blog. Enjoy, have fun with it and comment, kudo, send it to others to read. THANKS!

NAMASTE
b.quain

lost poll

2007-06-19T17:56:00.001-04:00

LOST BLOG: Recaps, predictions, and WHAT I GOT FROM LAST NIGHT'S Season FInale "Through The Looking Glass"

2007-05-24T12:11:00.000-04:00

Wow, what a day!!!! Sorry to anyone trying to call me yesterday and found me in a Lost/Liverpool coma or didn’t answer at all…friggin’ INSANE day. Wow! I’m hurting. I feel so sick from the Liverpool game and I feel like my body has chills all over. Getting sick, I swear it. But, let’s talk!
Thank you to Brian, Jason, Rhem, and Vanessa for watching this and making it happen. Also, huge thank you to you guys and making my debut Season to the blog an amzzing one. We have seen major hits and the show and you prove this blog to be a hit. Karen, Levi, Jim, Jessi, CrazedJohn, Shawn, Sketchy, Bobb, Barbara, okay, I’m killing time here, but THANK YOU!!!! Exhausted, it’s 11:52pm, and expect no sleep from me tonight. Do you have any questions? I do!

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

WHAT I GOT FROM : “Through The Looking Glass”

QUICK START

WOW! What an amazing two hours last night. I think people got what they hell they had begged for week after week of bitching to ABC. DAMONCUSE did a brilliant job making the season finale, and coming up with one hell of an ending (still would like to see the other three ideas), but gave me EXACTLY what I wanted. Minus Tom dying. Friggin DEPRESSING! Why wasn’t Kate HIS type?! Who/what was he? AANND IIIIII, eeeeIIIIII, WILLLL ALWAAAAYS LOOOOOVE YOOOOOUUUUU! Yeah fake bearded bastard! Give us a hug!
This season finale was GO GO GO non-stop and was written and played out A+ all over. I need to thank everyone on the LOST team for making it great. Amazing work, and see you in Feb. ’08! Ya dummys! You can’t win with these people, I tell ya.

FLASH FORWARD JACK STYLE

FlashForwards, FlashForwards!!! Why act so surprised as if we have never seen it before? Weren’t we all watching the same show this season? I mean I thought it was brilliant that Season 3’s finale would end with a FlashForward seeing as it STARTED with one. Also, you bastard-geeks with high heads at ABC.com message boards want to argue with Karen!?!? You call the thunder and now you see what happens! Ha! Wow, Karen called this months ago and I am amazed. When talking to Karen last week, we re-watched “A Tale Of Two Cities” and she had me look between the lines. And yes! When first watching the episode in Oct., I got the weirdest feeling with Jack in the opening FlashBack scene where Jack’s watching Sarah. I’m not saying the whole “Tale Of Two Cities” flashbacks are FlashForwards, seeing as we see Christian Shepard. But we did see something with Jack last night and he was a little “not right” in the head in this episode.
Bear with me.
In “Tale Of Two Cities” I will breakdown the Flashbacks/forwards.
Scene One – Jack is watching Sarah in his Ford Jimmy type roadster, the same one he had last night! BAM! Sealed that one. Plus she has two kids. This may be waaaaay in future of what we saw last night. Might be the last shot we ever see of the show, but he gets right in the head, and says goodbye to Sarah for the final time. Locke needs to take notes form Jack, let people go John, see where it gets you.
Scene Two - Jack is talking to Sarah about the divorce, I’m guessing, since it’s about a lawyer being present, whom he fires. Sarah’s man, the father of her baby in the belly, in which we saw a pregnant Sarah last night. He calls her and asks if Jack was there yet. She laughs and I don’t think it’s at Jack’s behalf, but the fact it’s taken soooo looong for this divorce to be final. Since he crashed on the island, it’s not his fault, everyone thought he died on Oceanic 815, she had to wait a few months for him to get back.
Scene Three - Jack is arguing with his father. Well, last night he was arguing about his father and the fact Jack thought he was still alive. What if he is actually seeing his dad (loopy bastard), and talking to him. (not healthy, side effects from his pills?) We know, he sees him walking around the island. Christian tells him to stop trying to find Sarah. But she calls Christian, Jack loses his mind more and Christian even tells him to “let it go.”
Scene Four - Gets complicated, BUT! Jack sees his dad on the phone in the hospital hallway laughing and we hear “Dr. Shepard” form a nurse. We can only think Jack is staring off, delirious, BUT also, reminiscing of when his father was alive. THEN we hear the FlashBack music kick in (flashback intro music in a flashback…fishy) and in the same scene we see Christian getting out of his car at the Lynford Hotel, bringing us to our FIRST FLASHBACK of the season. Jack’s mind in the scene prior is playing out the flashback of what his father did BEFORE he got on the island. Something is not letting him go with his father. On the island, and now off of it.

Let’s get into last night’s episode now.
Jack’s on the plane in the opening scene, it was a LITTLE to easy that they gave it away in the beginning that it was a Flash Forward. The beard, “20 minutes is a long time”, the turbulence. Anyone else notice Damon Lindeloff’s voice as our trusty pilot on the plane. What threw me off was when Sarah walks in after the accident and she looks as if she had seen a ghost. But thinking about it, that’s not the first time she had seen him. It was even before the “Tale Of Two Cities” flash-forward where he meets up with her about the divorce. I think she just knows more than we do about Jack, and she’s DONE! Obviously. More to come.
Christian Shepard, from the scenes still makes me feel he’s dead. Jack is fixing, like Charlie, he will lie and forge his dad’s signature and it will make him see things. Jack is losing his mind, and FAST! As the story gets deeper last night, he argues about his father, as if that still has clout, and Dr. Hamill knows that Dr. Christian Shepard is deceased. Dr. Hamill gives Jack this, “come on man, your dad is dead dude, don’t bring that shit into this.” Jack isn’t healthy and more to come on that in these sections below.

I READ THE NEWS TODAY…OH BOY

Let’s talk about the newspaper clipping and the obituary. Well, this one is a doozy and I’m sure we all have our theories and thoughts. But, in my mind it isn’t anyone we have met yet. The man in the casket will be introduced in season 4. We need to understand that so many things were answered last night, but also, some new people will be reveled soon. The show did an amazing job (if this is the case) that we have not yet met who is in the coffin and will have a face to the newspaper clipping. Hell, it might be the man on the phone in the last scene on the island.
The newspaper clipping reads as follows: "Los Angeles, Man found.. [unreadable] downtown.. [unreadable], The body of Jo.. [unreadable] ..antham of New York was.. [unreadable] ..[shor]tly after 4 a.m. in the.. [unreadable] of Grand Avenue. Ted.. [unreadable] ..man at The Tower.. [unreadable] .. heard loud noises.. [unreadable]..m's loft. Co.. [unreadable] ..entered the.. [unreadable] ..a beam in the.. [unreadable] ..[ac]cordin[g].. [unreadable].."

John, is the first name? So what if, and what if, John Locke is not his birth name? We’ve seen papers in screenshots indicating his full name is John Locke. But what happens when people come off the island, changing names maybe? I still feel we have yet to meet this dead so or so.

WAKE UP A LITTLE DESSIE, WAKE UP

Desmond’s hit on the head in the last weeks episode “Greatest Hits.” Where does he go, because he wakes up and is so lost at where is when he wakes up. Where did Dessie go? Because when Desmond wakes up, Charlie is down in the hatch, still alive. So, where did Desmond go? I’ll keep asking. Why was nothing mentioned in this episode? Did he need to talk to Penny when she came up on the screen about finding her? Will the season opener be Desmond and where he went when he was knocked out my Charlie? Let’s NOT FORGET that he was knocked in the head!!!!!!!!!

JACK AND KATE

When was the last time I type that title out? Wow! It’s been awhile! What did we see last night? Flash-forward AND on the Island. There is still a huge connection, and well, Jack says “Because I love you” to Kate. Now he might mean it as my main squeeze or you’re my pal, I love you, like Charlie tells Hurley. But, I love you was said. We know there will be a huge connection between the two in the next few months, so I guess we’re heading into a ABC wanting more love connections on the show. But, I have a feeling the real love connection will be between Kate and someone new coming in Season 4. Keep reading for more…

THE BEN LINUS MAID SERVICE COMP.

“I need you to help me, I need you to help clean up this mess that I have made. Cleaning up messes. Remind me that when Ben gets off the island to hire him as my maid service. I love the role switching we have going on here. Ben is now scared, no idea what’s going on. His mind is still racing on the whole Locke “hearing” Jacob, the radio tower, Alex betraying him, Juliet lying and going behind his back. A little too much on Ben’s plate. Sucks to be you Ben. But think why Ben is saying this…(next weeks BLOG POST! DUH DUH DUH!)

ANAGRAM TIME!!!!!

Not since “One Of Us” was there such an obvious “We have an anagram” for you. This one is a DOOZY! We have a big one. Now, we all go ANAGRAM TIME when we saw Hoffs/Drawlar last night. And trust me Karen pointed it out as well, and did it. Hoffs/Drawlar you get “Flash Forward”, BUT! Put Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Parlor and you get “Real Plan For Flash Forward” DUH DUH DUH!

WELCOME BACK DHARMA

Ben is scared out of his mind thinking Jack is making that call The communicartion barrier is broken and Dharma will want answers. Dharma is trying to stay communication free, so why the cut in the jamming? Dharma is on the phone to someone RIGHT NOW as I type this, but no one is answering. So who is coming out to see if things are okay? But, things aren’t okay, people are gone, PURGED!
Does he think that Dharma is just going to sit there and let a man kill everyone on the island and not try to come back? That Purge is coming back to rear it’s ugly head to Ben, and we may not have a Ben Linus with us much longer. Season 4 is going to be so AMAZING, it’s sick! Jack got on the cell, satellite phone and made a call to the Dharma Inactivate, if you will.
Now Naomi’s phone…that will let 2 people off the island. And Desmond got it wrong. Bye Jack and Kate.

THE FIRST KISS

Jack and Juliet kiss? Well, it was all her doing since in “A Tale Of Two Cities” she asks Jack what he wants to know about Sarah since being on the island, and all he asks is “Is she happy?” Well isn’t that sweet? She sees a love in him as he’s tearing up. He doesn’t care what she’s doing at this point, as long as she is happy. That turns any woman on, right? Weird.
This leads to Juliet seeing the honest and very lovable side of Jack. So the kiss wasn’t too far off. But in front of Kate and Juliet knowing Kate was watching. Why? Now that’s where it gets sneaky, and we can start with the asking “why”? It’s all part of Juliet. I know we feel it wasn’t placed well, and maybe should have been put in a few episodes prior, maybe when everyone starts doubting Jack, but I think Juliet knew she was going to die with Sawyer and sealed her confession with a kiss.
This kiss will come back to us in the future since Kate has a lot of baby to be had. Is it Sawyer’s baby? Is it someone from Season 4? This should connect with the The Last Scene about Kate to Jack.

WALT and who’s that SCREAMING

EeeeeeeeeeYEAHBOYYYYY! Amazing! But first things first!!! REWATCH ALERT! Re-watch this scene where John Locke has the gun to his head and we hear a WOMEN? MAN? KID? SOMEONE? screaming then you hear Walt say “Don’t John.” What is it? Why? John and I ask the same thing! WHY? And why is Walt telling Locke he’s got work to do? Is it because Walt is the one who needs saving in Boone/Locke hallucination? He needs to be saved and that’s ANOTHER reason that Locke can’t leave the island?

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Sorry, to my loyal blog readers, COME ON!!!, you know I had to! Wizard Of Oz references will take over this blog at some point. BUT! Let’s point out that there’s no going home. Right? Getting off the island? Wrong!!!
Yes, you can go home, but no one is allowed to. Who really wants to? Ben has no home to go to. Jack, as Ben tells him is “what is it you so desperately want to get back to? You have no one, you’re fathers dead, you’re wife left you for another man“, Locke doesn’t want to go home. So what gives with “home: and the “island”? You can go back home, but what Ben I think sticks true, why do you want to? This is your home!
So let’s go back to these Flash Forwards then. Jack needs to get back to the island right? Why? Is it his home now? Did he not correct things?

THE NEW BEACH

Sawyer and Juliet huh? Nice! LOVE IT! Hurley kills someone with intent, not good, very sad about that. BUT, Jin, Sayid and Bernard still alive and we have more than enough men to help the Lostaways if anything happens. Plus 10+ more hostiles going to a temple? More to come!
Sayid on your team, not too shabby if you ask me. Sawyer and Jin, bring it on! Hurley becoming a leader and Juliet has met her match. This is just BRILLIANT! Season 4…wowowow!

PENNY’S DIRECT LINE

Did anyone else ask WHY does Penny have a direct line to the Looking Glass, and she asks “How did you get this frequency?” I am dying here, so who is watching Penny so carefully? Also, when Desmond is running into the hatch door, it seems like he planned this. Seriously. He looks over to notice that Mikhail is gone, that’s his cue to Penny being on the monitor. All he has to do is yell to Charlie,”Hey Charlie! Mikhail is missing!!!” and Charlie would have his dukes up ready. But,no, he runs up knowing Penny is on the monitor.
Did he plan it when Charlie hit him on the head? Did Charlie accidentally play out the fate differently? Did Desmond switch it up when he was hit in the head on the boat, and then he got hit there, and all. There other scenarios to work this one out.
What about Penny really being part of something more? She is at the monastery meeting Desmond for the first time, and her father works with the Brother Campbell in buying wine. There are too many connections with Penny Widmore to just think she got a direct line to the Looking Glass accidentally. Her father’s medicine is all over the island, and probably fronts Dharma. Plus she’s THE ONE WHO IS SENDING THE INCOMING TRANSMISSION. ARE YOU KIDDING?! CHARLIE?!?!? WHAT’S UP!?!?! MAN, this kills me sometimes!
So she got the frequency at this point. Why doesn’t Charlie ask “How did YOU get this frequency sista?” Also, look behind her for shits sake, IT’S A SET!!! That background looks worse than a James Bond film from the 1960’s. She’s a front!

CHARLIE PACE, YOU WILL BE MISSED

Charlie Pace is dead. The music proves it. BUT, Desmond getting hit in the head, and Desmond not being able to talk to Penny, proves it wrong. I know so many of you said last night, why would he slam the door, it would take hours for the hatch to fill up with water from the small hole Mikhail let in. Charlie is playing out his destiny. He doesn’t know better. But Desmond knows more is to come. Desmond smiles and agrees with Charlie’s message, so maybe this hitting his head prior to going to the hatch means more in season 4. Hopefully this will be our Season 4 opening episode. A Desmond FlashBack, Flash Present with Penny, Charlie and all.
Sorry I’m not crying about Charlie in this section, but I feel Charlie saved his life by hitting Desmond in the head in the last episode.

BE AFRAID, BE NOT SO AFRAID

Uh, Locke? Did you kill someone? No, right? Damn! YES! You did! This was a season finale enough for me, Jesus it was scary. What is up with Locke and killing someone? Did the tables turn with him switching with someone. Or does it just take getting shot in the stomach and lying in a pile of dead skeletons do something to you?
But, what is it that Ben said though two weeks ago? “Once I open this door, there’s no turning back.” Well, Locke knows more than we know with Naomi and the phone. Locke DOESN’T have to leave if he doesn’t want to, but he needs Jack to help him. Between Jack and Locke, “he” doesn’t have much time, but someone needs, and will be saved.

THE LAST SCENE

Sorry a lot of the quotes will be in here since this is such a HUUUGE deal. They both say a lot of things. Jack mentions Old Habits. Kate mentions “why would I go to the funeral?” Who screwed her over? Who was it? Someone she loved? Someone Jack helped and then screwed her over? Kate said “he’s going to wonder where I am?” Well we now know Kate has a baby BOY! No one is waiting up for her.
But the main thing is the POLAR opposites these two pull. Notice that Jack is the one who keeps moving with his golden ticket Oceanic pass. Wasn’t it Jack that said it to her that KATE! couldn’t stop moving from place to place in Season One? And we saw in every flashback she had, all the moving she did, not just from the Feds, but in her mind. Cheesy I know, but true!
This was one of the saddest tings I have ever seen in filmed TV history. Some of the most amazing things were said, and sweetest. Or was it sweet? Kate thinks of it as Jack falling for her still, and still pinning over her love. But really deep down inside Jack knows he messed up so much on the island and needs to rescue, help, save his friends? Or kill Ben? Destroy the Island? Something more than just Kate’s love. This is massive, and read between the lines.

THINGS PEOPLE SAID

Ben (to Mikhail, obviously) - ”Mikhail, I need you to go NOOW!” - The scared Ben, loving it. Admitting he’s lying, even better. Ben is going down this spiral staircase SOOOO fast, it sucks it was a season finale. Re-listen to him talking. Sad.

Rose (to Jack) - If you say Live Together, Die Alone, I’m going to punch you in the face - Amazing. But not in this episode. We almost feel so completely sorry for Jack in so many ways. I almost agree with Jack at this point with Live Together, Die Alone…look at them. But, the team splits up which makes complete sense.

Ben (to Richard) - ”You’re going to take everyone to the temple as planned” - THE TEMPLE? What temple? And this whole “as planned”? Uh, Ben your plans haven’t been working to well, you think you really want to do this? But, this actually seems like the only plan that will work. Now we have two sides and a castaway sandwich. Temple with 10 or so hostiles, and the beach with 5 lostaways, Desmond and a Juliet.

Kate (to Sawyer) - ”And since when did you start calling me Kate? - Air Supply said it best. “I’m all out of love, and I’m so lost without you.” He doesn’t know what to do with you.

Dr. Rob Hammil (to Jack) - Jack Shepard, the hero, twice over - Damn you BKV and DamonCuse!!!! DAMN YOU! So was Jack coming back from Oceanic 815 being a hero, and then saving the woman on the bridge. Or saving Sarah and the woman on the bridge? Do people not know about Jack going on the island? Hmmm…twice over!! Grrr!

Mikhail (to Bonnie and Greta) - I thought you two were on assignment in Canada!! - Hostiles are everywhere!!! What’s in Canada? Cheaper pharmaceutical drugs, we know that, but why were the girls posed to be in Canada? Makes NO sense, but will make so much sense in Season 5 I’m sure. Ha! Let’s not forget Canada! Not in Portland, let’s just remember that!!!

Ben (to Jack) – “History is about to repeat itself” - Yup! But this time, it’s Dharma going to kick Ben right in the ass! It’s not the Naomi phone that will be bring danger, but it’s the fact that now that the communication is unjammed, then Dharma now knows something is wrong. They will come to the island after they realize no one is answering the Looking Glass, send people out and realize that no one is left alive from Dharma and send a party out to kill Ben. Dharma is MUCH bigger than we know. We have two parties coming to this island now. Amazing! More in the next blog.

Jack (to Kate) - ”We’ll celebrate when were home” Will ya now? It doesn’t seem like you are. This doesn’t seem like a party to me Jack. I can’t wait to see how this pans out in the next season!

NO UNANSWERED QUESTIONS THIS WEEK, I have to give you something to look forward to for next week! Wait, what’s next week?!??!!

NEXT WEEK’S BLOG!!!
I will be posting EVERY Thursday morning to recap things. The LOST BLOG will not be gone, so stay tuned for more. I have made this commitment to post every week until 2010. I will let you guys down EVER! At first I felt I was a Jack of blogs, but nevermind to that, after seeing last night. Maybe this blog will drive me to drink and seeing my father walking around my backyard. Creepy. But!
NEXT WEEK will be my WHAT I EXPECT from Season 3 to Season 4 and “Through The Looking Glass”

GOODBYE LOST TIL FEB. ’08!!!!

Thank you so so so so much for all of you, love you very much and thanks for helping me keep this blog going! Stay in touch. And keep reading. Vanessa and I will be posting and keeping it up.
“Previously On Lost” in 2008!!!!!

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B.Quain
(see you next week!!!!)

SONG OF THE WEEK: Download available

2007-05-23T09:19:00.000-04:00

Thank you John Locke’s Love Child (ha! Won’t give out names), Vanessa, Shawn, Solari, Brian DeShannon, Jason, Buz, Levi, (blue man!), Bobb, for watching and supporting me and the Reds for this game today. This blog post is for you!!!

Champions League Final is here!! Scary, very scary. Today will be a HUGE day for me. Liverpool has to beat AC Milan again, for another Champions League Cup, plus, I have the LOST SEASON FINALE on the brain. But, I do have to take a breath and enjoy the best team/squad Liverpool has had in years. I guess, the most powerful team.
The best LIVERPOOL team is hard to say. But, there were so many amazing men to have played Anfield in the past decade and change, that make them the greatest team EVER. My SONG OF THE WEEK gets into the passion and boys of Anfield and Liverpool. Let’s begin.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF LIVERPOOL FC

BILLY DUNLOP 1895-1909
A brilliant defender who joined Liverpool FC in 1895 and played over 300 games with the Reds. Spent 14 years with Liverpool bringing them two Champions League medals. A name to never forget. THANK YOU SO MUCH BILLY!!!!

JACK COX 1898-1909
One hell of a winger this man. I wish I could be like Desmond on Lost and bump my head to go back to see Cox and Dunlop play. Cox joined Liverpool FC in 1898, and gave them some amazing 11 years, 321 games, and 81 goals. For a winger, that’s mighty impressive. Cheers Cox!

GORDON HODGSON 1925-1936
The hat-trick hero for Liverpool. This man scored 240 goals in 378 appearances. You do the math. Hodgson had 17 hat tricks in the eleven years he played for the team. Also known for his 36 goals in one season. Brilliant striker and a name that everyone should remember when talking about the “best” strikers EVER, not just for the REDS. Thank you so much Gordy for everything making this team incredible.

BILLY LIDDEL 1939-1961
A name to never ever forget! A LEGEND!!!!! Played 494 games, and scores 216 goals in the 22 years he played with Liverpool FC. Another winger who blew everyone at the Kop away. AGAIN! A HUGE THANK YOU TO THIS MAN!!! Brilliant! Playing for so long, I think Liddell will bring us to…

THE SILVER AGE OF LIVERPOOL FC

BILL SHANKLY 1959-1974
Genius, ABOSOLUT GENIUS! Here is a name that the Mersey will NEVER FORGET! Here is my only profile on a manager and manager only who brought Liverpool to the top many times. Retired at Anfield and the Merseryside will never forget this man. Maybe one of the best managers ever, but brought such a heart to Anfield, thank you SHANKLY!! After spending a year or two at other teams, he stayed with Liverpool for 15 years.

BOB PAISLEY 1939-1954
These are the Paisley Gates that the song is talking about. This is the man who brought the 1977 Euro Cup into Liverpool’s hands. Nine years with Liverpool, and ONLY Liverpool. Paisley came in when Bill Shankly abruptly called for his retirement in 1974, and left the Kopites confused. Even though with confusion, he still shined supreme.

IAN CALLAGHAN 1960 - 1978
This man helped keep Shankly going to be one of the greatest managers, by being one of the, maybe is the greatest midfielders Liverpool has even seen. The man played 856 games for Liverpool and for me, he is considered the legend of ALL legends when it comes to LIVERPOOL!!! Also, a bit of Liverpool trivia, the man was only booked ONCE, in his career at Liverpool. After 18 years playing for Liverpool he retired from English football going to Fort Lauderdale. Why?

KENNY DALGLISH 1977-1990
Fantastic, fantastic striker! Wow. Brought from Celtic, this man played his 13 years at Anfield and managed them from 1985-1991, resigning from football playing to manage other English Premier Teams, then resigned at home, Celtic in 2000. Dalglish joined Paisley to play with Liverpool in 1976-77, helping get that 1977 Euro Cup. Little Liverpool trivia, he was brought in as a replacement for Kevin Keegan. Then winning the 1977-78 Euro Cup again as the main striker, and only goal of the game. Don’t forget the name! Let’s not forget the FA CUP final against Everton in the 3 -1 win in that derby! WOW!

RAY CLEMENCE 1967-1981
You have to give the biggest and utmost love and respect to this GOALKEEPER for staying so long and playing 470 games for the Reds. This man, to me, is considered a 5 star hotel…king of CLEAN SHEETS (which means he doesn’t let any goals in one game)!!!!

THE BOYS OF TODAY AT ANFIELD!!!!!

ROBBE FOWLER
I’m going to have to give the boys of today only one profile to an individual who will be retiring today at Anfield. I know, I know he’s done this before, but he did say he would play other clubs for five years and come back to retire at Anfield in this season. I love this man, and he is a legend to Anfield who will be missed. Scoring 128 goals for the Reds as of to date.

YOUR CURRENT LIVERPOOL SQUAD FOR 2006-2007!!!!

From here I will post on the boys who will be playing today’s game and the boys who have been injured and will be missed. This is one of the most aggressive (thanks Alonso, Sissoko, Bellamy), experienced (Carragher, Hyypia, Riise, Fowler and Gerrard) squads to date for Liverpool.

Top Level (in HOME KIT = RED/ORANGE ONLY in order) –
DIRK KUYT (First player in red) - Excellent Striker…expect him to play today! And get us a goal!
PEPE RENIA (2nd in Orange) – BRILIANT KEEPER!!! Expect NO goals to get by him in today while wearing the HOME KIT!
HARRY KEWELL (last one in red) – LOOK WHO’S BACK!!! Brilliant midfielder bringing us some powerful defending and maybe that goal he’s always wanted in a Champions (Euro) Cup Final!!!

Middle Level (in HOME KIT = RED KITS ONLY in order) –
JERMAINE PENNANT – (1st red player) – Great great cross action, needed on the wing and maybe get a header in from Peter Crouch.
ROBBIE FOWLER– (4th, middle, red kit) – As we know! Bye bye Robbie, you’ll be missed! Bring tissues to the game!
CRAIG BELLAMY (last red kit, 6th) – Oye! I don’t know what to say about this twat, but he proved himself worthy when he AND Riise scored in the Quater-Finals in the 1st game against Barcelona. And this was after Riise was clubbed in the knee with a golfclub by Bellamy. Yup! Just get up front and get that goal you are promising, then leave!

Bottom Level (in HOME KIT = RED KITS ONLY in order) –
ZENDEN (1st red kit) – (won’t play) Injured, but still pulling off some great magic here and there.
LUIS GARCIA! (2nd sitting) – (won’t play) BRILLIANT Spaniard!!! INJURED and will be very very very much missed. I will kiss my thumb for you any day…I wish you would be better soon. Heard some very scary news about his knee/leg, wish him the best.
STEVE FINNAN (3rd sitting) – WILL PLAY! And better calm down getting that ball up field. QUIT kicking it all the way up. Passing is ace when you have such an AMAZING back with you.
XABI ALONSO – (4th sitting) – Aggressive and will take control of AC Milan’s KAKA. Everyone thinks Gerrard will be in charge of that, but WATCH for him…who happens to be next.
STEVIE G!!! – (5th sitting) – A LEGEND AND A GENUIS!!! You have to know who this is by now. Did you watch the World Cup? Oye, I hope not, but did you watch last season? Did you see the FA CUP final against West Ham last season with that brilliant tying goal in injury/stoppage time. THE BEST! Expect him to get up the field and kick some crackers. He deserves his own page, but for today, he will play what words can’t be typed.
JAIME CARRAGHER - (6th red kit sitting) – A legend, the greatest defender to play the number 23. Okay, a little too much, but still, he is a genius with the left-one foot tackles. No need to slide when you have this beast stop that ball in your tracks every time. Watch this man not allow any balls pass him. Genius!
SAMI HYYPIA - (7th red kit sitting) – Oh man, this man next Jamie Carragher is yet another reason AC Milan won’t score. And maybe even get lucky to have Sami score. This man’s headers are unbelievable when they go in. Don’t hold it against him, we may see a corner that meets that head, and it’s UNSTOPPABLE!
Momo SISSOKO – (8th red kit sitting) – Oh man! Watch out AC Milan, this man has Gerrard’s back, and it will not be pretty. Very dangerous player, a yellow card may be issued, but hey, it’s the final, why not!
John Arne RIISE – (9th red kit sitting) – GET READY FOR A ROCKET! Wow! Will you be honored to see why this man is always on the top 10 lists of goals of the year? He has some of the most incredible rocket foots EVER. Also, one the best defenders. The back four have nothing to worry about. Just look! Hyypia, Carragher, Riise, and Finnan. WOW! Forget it AC MILAN! OUT!
Peter CROUCH – (last one sitting) – Brilliant brilliant brilliant striker. Yes you have heard of this man, from his headers, crazy height and robo dancing before the World Cup. Crouchy is ready and I expect a goal from this man. If we had to pick two strikers to play, I would say Bellamy and Crouch. Make Bellamy feel special, but at the 65th minute, you put in Kuyt and expect another goal from fresh legs and much anticipation.

THAT’S IT! You’re winning STARTING 11, plus more! Wow, I cannot believe I just did all this. Ha! But this game is so important and this next season coming up August will be their shinning year. I hope to have a great summer hearing news that Benitez (manager) bringing in some great legs.

Some other amazing players I couldn’t mention…

Ian Rush – brilliant forward, deserves to hold the cup today with our squad.
Steve Nichol – who is the New England Revolution’s manager/coach! Great coach, great team!!!
Michael Owen - Of course I can’t forget this man. Stevie G and Owen were the most powerful force. Wish I could have seen more games of theirs. Damn you American Sports channels.
Kevin Keegan - 100 goals for this man in 7 years. Great forward! Congrats. Very special man for the Reds.

If you need anything and want to know more about Liverpool…Wikipedia always helps, but their main site is

liverpoolfc.tv

Well, this is a JUMP OFF/SONG OF THE WEEK section…and I do promise you a song. One of the greatest chants that’s also the reason why the heart and passion of Liverpool will never die. Not like ANY OTHER league team, Liverpool know who they are playing for, and the reason why they are scoring goals. To hear the cheers of millions of fans world wide. It’s not the money (seeing as they don’t really need it to keep the best players in the world). Just remember how many years these players stay and keep scoring for them.

This is an older song, but wow, this is a chant that will bring goosebumps every time. If you read about some of the key players I mentioned, you will get it and love every minute of this team and their style and passion of football.

Last thing before I post the song is ENJOY the game. No matter what happens remember that the teams playing have come a long way. I do not enjoy and very much despise Italy’s way of playing the game and hooliganism. I wish the best for both teams and make it friendly. What has happened in Italy in the past year is disgusting and let’s pray no one gets hurt and the crowd is on their best behavior. This is not only important to Liverpool fans, but Liverpool have to bring the Cup home to England.

COME ON RED MEN!!!!

DOWNLOAD “Fields Of Anfield Road” HERE!!!

b.quain

ARCTIC MONKEY'S LIVE @ Harc Rock Live Orlando (Setlist, Review)

2007-05-21T10:21:00.001-04:00

Finally finally finally got to the Arctic Monkeys live. Even though it was in Orlando, Fl. So it wasn’t too fair, but I did get to see a band with balls, umph, and brilliant rock songs. But a 1/3 of it was missing. And I was expecting them to have that British Rock Band Form of no movement. It was minimal, but I do understand that it’s the last night of the tour and all. Plus NO ENCORES!!! THANK YOU! Hate those friggin’ things.
Form, and they did, but still having it at the Hard Rock Live, you heard EVERY note and EVERY word. Brilliant sound, lights, and decent crowd.

Here is the setlist for the show so you can see they played for ten minutes more than an hour.

1) If You Found This It’s Probably Too Late
2) BrianStorm
3) Still Take You Home
4) Dancing Shoes
5) From The Ritz To Rubble
6) Balaclava (goes RIGHT into)
7) Fake Tales Of San Francisco
8) You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights, But You Were Looking Straight At Me
9) Teddy Picker
10) D Is For Dangerous
11) I Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor
12) This House Is A Circus
13) Old Yellow Bricks
14) If You Were There, Beware
15) The View From The Afternoon
16) Fluorescent Adolescent
17) When The Sun Comes Down
18) Leave Before The Lights Come On
19) A Certain Romance

It was genius having Ben who knew the first alum standing up front with me singing those songs, and having Brian and Solari with me bouncing and singing. Vanessa and Heather we’re up against the front bar, so we had a great crowd with us. I wish I could have pictures of the set. Great lighting with 2/3 of the show, nothing annoying, and fit with the music. Also, Nick O’Malley’s (drummers) Dr. Dre shirt was friggin’ ACES! Ha!
Thank you to a great crowd who knew every word. I lost my voice AGAIN. Something about me and singing the Monkeys. Last time was the bachelor party with Ben singing “Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor” at karaoke. Go see these guys. Buy up some albums, singing some songs, and enjoy a fun live show. Brilliant!
We had fun chanting ANTI-Sheffield United chants and trying to get Alex into the crowd more, but...no chance. We did make eye contact during Leave Before The Lights Come On holding up my Liverpool shirt and screaming Down With The Blades. I know Alex Turner is a HUGE Sheffield Weds. fan, so gonna give props to a proper football fan in the States.

GOOOOD TIMES! Thanks everyone!
b.quain

LOST BLOG: Recaps, predictions, and WHAT I GOT FROM LAST NIGHT'S "Man Behind The Curtain"

2007-05-10T11:07:00.000-04:00

HOOOORAY BOBBY ROTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats buddy! When young Ben got onto the island it felt like his feature film “Berkeley”, made me smile. Now I need to start season 1 of Prison Break for the guy.

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

Ummmmm….what JUST happened?

I’m starting off this blog after watching the episode ONCE and then I will re-watch. I really felt like this episode was a cheap shot in some ways to answer questions. I have yet to feel comfortable to see that this was our first look at Ben, Dharma and hostiles. Where were Adam, Eve, Karen, Gerald? BUT, we did see an Emily!!! So let me re-watch and get back to you…

Disclaimer: It is 1am as I write this, and my parents are coming over at 7am, I need to finish this blog, but I am seriously exhausted. Wedding in 4 days!!!! Maybe I can hit my head and go back.

WHAT I GOT FROM: “The Man Behind The Curtain”

EMILY AND ROGER LINUS and some theories

The episode opens with Emily giving birth to Benjamin Linus. Something seems fishy (biscuits) here, and when I BEGGED for Emily, I didn’t mean diss me on the whole Locke theory. What happened to the whole Emily Annabeth, and why no mention of Locke? But, let’s remember that Emily Annabeth was admitted to the Santa Rosa Mental Institution (for schizophrenia) with Hurley, Lenny, Dave, and Libby. So what gives? I guess deep down inside we will never know who Locke’s REAL mother is anytime soon.
More something seems fishy. Ben lies! We know this, so when Ben told Locke he wasn’t born on the island…was he still lying? Maybe the flash backs are not what they seem, but something the island is trying to tell the person the flashback focuses on, this time Ben, a more fabricated story then they know, or believe. This may seem like a crazy theory. But WHAT IF Ben was born on the island?
Or, he’s born 32 miles out of Portland, not born on the island and Emily dies. Then what the HELL were Olivia and Horace of the Dharma doing? We think we know Mittelos Bioscience is based out of Portland, but where and why were they there if Richard is a hostile?
If you haven’t noticed this blog post will be all questions right? Plus we have the unanswered questions section…so what does one do?
Okay! Re-watching this episode, I got this out of it. She was 7 months pregnant with Ben, they knew she was going to give birth any second now and were following them. So, they WATCH Roger and Emily, know when to pull the car up. Can we say “injection victim?” and we know nothing of their past. Was Emily part of it, leaving Roger out of it?
Ben sees his Mom at night next to the barrier. She gives him the line “It’s not time yet”, and when is that? Yet another dead relative guiding someone around the island.
Also, let’s give a HUGE round of applause for Doug Hutchison for making it to LOST playing Horace (RULES!) and Samantha Mathis, ha! Weird. But…

GATHER AROUND ALL YE FAITHFUL HOSTILES

As Ben is bitching with Richard and the “not so well planned” tape recorder Purge 2, John Locke comes back with a dead body. I looove how all the hostiles are gathering in awe. Amazing. What do these hostiles know that we don’t?

HORACE GOODSPEED

What I’m guessing with this episode is that we might not tackle so much of the Dharma’s early years again, so what we saw tonight, is what we get. Horace was one of the originals, with his wife Olivia. On Horace’s jumpsuit, it says he’s a “Mathematician” meaning, NUMBERS!!! Was he the one working on the numbers? Will we ever see

HOSTILE CAMP

Mikhail comes running in at top speed screaming about Naomi, which had Ben almost change his plans and infiltrating the Lostaways camp. Something is up with Naomi, not the fact that there is a boat 180 miles off to the west or a radio. Someone came onto the island, without HIS permission. But, John Locke has to go and mess things up again and take it out on something else, instead of letting Ben do his job.
Richard and Tom refuse to help Ben, and at this point, when Mikhail says “Since when do you answer to him”, everyone is thinking, finally there’s someone else we can answer to. HIM! The camp sees Locke come in with a dead body and they think “He IS who we thought he was!!!”, and then pummel Mikhail bloody and probably thinking “I hate that guy too, go Locke!”
The reason Richard and Tom, nor anyone for that matter helps Ben is, that they are done with Ben. These past few days on the island have been a little to abrupt in the “Ben’s not cool” club, what gives? Seems fishy again! But, we know someone else who is done with Ben, and man did that get extremely creepy. More to come.

ALEX

A few things really quick. She had a gun, gave it to Locke, says “Happy Birthday DAD”, and walks off…was Rousseau close by? If the Hostile Camp is taking off, where is Rousseau and the dynamite? Is Alex still hanging out with Karl? So many questions with Alex…when will these be answered. You can work so well with her, and the producers aren’t. USE HER and her potential.

I HAVE A QUESTION MISS GOODSPEED!

Volcanos? On this island? Long time ago? You mean when the four-toed statues were still standing and connected to a leg with another leg, and full body? Quick question Miss Oliva!!! Where the HELL are we Miss Olivia Goodspeed?

ANNIE AND BEN, SITTING IN A TREE

Annie was Ben’s first love and nothing came out of it, but a great connection between Annie and Ben. So, BEN DOESN’T DIE!!! We need more back story before we kill him off. Right? This was a decent way to intro Ben to the island, but THIS CAN NOT be the ONLY flashback of Ben’s we get. NO WAY! There is more to come out of it. But it makes so much sense for Ben to die in the next few episodes.
Annie was sweet and you know something major happened to her. But did she die during the Purge? Wouldn’t a ten year boy actually tell the girl he’s crushing on to wear a gas mask. Yeah? Right?! I don’t think Annie died, is there going to be more with her?
There should be since we didn’t see her body in the Purge, and we don’t see who her parents are. Who is Annie besides Ben’s first crush?
We see in Ben’s home a shot of the doll of Annie when he is much older. There is no Annie, and there is a sad face on Ben. Does this mean she’s gone, dead, alive, now part of this purge?

WHISPERS

I will try to have these translated and put on the blog VERY SOON! These are a must!

ALPERT AND BEN…PASSING A TEST

What a GREAT scene, wow! Chills! The interaction between these two was great, and seems like it will open up more with Ben, instead of him being this guy who was born there, defending his island. This interaction proves that ben is special in a way. Richard knows it, since he’s special, I mean the guy CAN’T age on the island!!!! So, we have a special one, the ONE who was born by Roger and Emily Linus, the same kid we hear about from the Dharma crew of DeGroots and Goodspeeds. Same ONE!
But, things are not what they seem. Yes, Richard, you are happy he hears whispers and sees Mom, but what you got your hands on, is one stone cold asshole. You didn’t expect this, but it did lead to you getting you’re true prophet and not Ben.
The TEST for Ben and seriously, this was brilliant. Ben FINALLY was put to a TEST, and waaaay before ANYONE else had. Alpert put Ben up to a test like Sawyer would have to, but thought Locke would pull through. Let’s remember this. Ben puts Locke up to killing HIS father (since Ben didn’t want to be the only one I guess), BUT, Alpert doesn’t want someone going through what Ben had to, so he makes Locke get Sawyer to do it. Ben loses his special power since he kills his dad, the island takes it away from him. Leading to…

JACOB

We saw Jacob, but barely. And I feel what I said two weeks ago still feels strong for me that we’d HEAR Jacob more than see him. BAM! Very true. The “Help me” was very very important. Back to Locke and Ben, Ben used to be able to see Jacob and I feel I was right about Richard Alpert being the apprentice to Jacob. Richard has all this trust in Ben and knows Ben will do anything for him. Richard helps raise Ben in many ways, cause his dad is a drunk ass. Richard puts him up to the test, and then one day Ben goes to see Jacob and no longer can see him or talk to him. Ben goes crazy leaving Richard to put this “PORTECTIVE POWDER” down on the ground around the hut. (in the hut…painting of a DOG, and some jars with some liquid).
Ben takes Locke there, but KNOWS since Locke KILLED his DAD, that he wouldn’t be able to SEE or HEAR Jacob. He says “you’re too limited”, and Ben finally starts to believe it, but then Locke hears “HELP ME!” which comes to why is Jacob, the answers to the island needs LOCKE? LOCKE?! Why Locke? What is Ben doing to Jacob? So many question here, very very amazing.
Locke then turns to the light (flashlight) and the truth comes out. Jacob appears. But look at Ben when Jacob goes nuts, he was never expecting it. (NOW BEFORE YOU GO NUTS THINKING THAT THE BLACK SMOKE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CHAIR…it was the middle of the flashlight’s bulb) Ben’s face when Locke sees “himself?” is as shocking as ours. He didn’t expect to see Jacob, or expect Jacob to come out, because of Locke’s fate on killing dad. We get a screenshot of an eye, and it looks right into Lockes and Locke BOOKS it out the door. What did Locke see before running out? Ben comes out now knowing that EVERYTHING he’s done for this island, is now GONE! Comes out so slow and sad. Ben has met his match…GREAT SCENE!!!
What a weird way to have Psycho brought into the show. Talking to an empty chair like Bates did to his Mom?
Was Jacob really John Locke? Alvar Hanso? Why was the flashlight the only way you can see him?

BEN KILLS DAD

Ben is in his jumpsuit that says Work Man, and I feel Ben has been there for years and he’s JUST like his dad. Nothing better than what his dad called a janitor. Dad NEVER moved up in the decades on the island and Ben feels with Dharma, neither would he. He wants BIGGER and BETTER and knows that the Hostiles will give it to him. He’s put to the test, and PASSES with flying colors. Dead dad, now could be a leader for the Hostiles, under Alpert.

HOSTILE HOLOCAUST

Pretty sad, and pretty sick. Stack em up and let them rot. Ben, mentions he’s smarter than Locke, in jealousy. Ben shoots Locke to leave him to die. And we get the truth in 24 frames or less. Ben’s face when he hears Jacob really spoke to Locke. So good!

SOMETHING SOMEONE SAID…
Horace (to Roger) ”How’s the baby?” - The baby seems okay, he’s alive if you notice he’s crying. But why the baby worrying when a woman is dying in front of you? Plus, why look at Olivia like that? Oh, because she was injected!!!!! (read above once more to Emily & Roger Linus).

Ben (to Richard) ”You do remember birthdays, don’t you Richard?” - I guess not you silly guy Ben you! Uh, wow, whatta joker! This one reeeeallly threw EVERYONE into a loop. I mean, we were supposed to think Ben was being a prick and that Richard is done with him. AND Richard IS done with him, but the question here is…Richard Alpert doesn’t age. Why? How? What? HELP ME! It’s 1:16am, and my Mom and step-dad knock on our door in 5 hours. No sleep tonight. Seriously.

Ben (To John) - We all answer to someone John.” - Yes Ben, many many people answer to someone higher than you. But who does Alva Hanso ever have to answer to?

Roger (to Horace), Horace (back to Roger) - He don’t say much.” “I’m sure he will when he has something to say.” - I know I joke when I say the island doesn’t work with much, but what it knows, With Apollo Bars, the numbers, Expose, Widmore, etc…but what about dialogue? Yes, we have heard this before. BOONE said it to Locke in the sweat lodge hallucination vision I posted yesterday. Things will be coming around full circle soon.

Annie (To younger Ben) - “We can have as many as we want” - There’s those Apollo bars again! And why can these kids have AS MANY as they want? If a kid dreams it, does it appear? Okay, a little far fetched, but I still love the idea of that being why the are no kids there. Walt imagined a Polar Bear from his comic, and got it.

Mikhail (to Ben) – “Since when do you explain yourself to HIM?” - You heard right folks! This was the HUGE hint that Locke may be the HIM we’ve been waiting for. Wasn’t expecting Mikhail to be so crazy up in arms in this scene.

Locke (To Ben) - ”I guess there’s a first time for everything.” - On this island, there has to be a first time for everything, so there can be a second time and third, maybe re-live over and over again for everything. I know this makes no sense, but think about time and space and the island. I love this line.

Richard Alpert 25 years ago (to young Ben) - ”Do you even know what that word means? - Hostiles huh? I guess not Richard Alpert. Mikhail told us that DHARMA was the one who tried to kill the “others” or “Hostiles” in the purge…but we see it was the “other” way around. We get on this island and it’s all NAMASTE!, and peace, love, beer. So, do NOT trust these “hostiles” at all. Mikhail was lying through his teeth, since all he wanted to do was get Kate and Sayid out of the Flame. We’re there two fights in this episode. The scene in the classroom, was that the warning? And then the gas was the purge?

Ben (to Locke) - ”Jacob feels the same way about technology like you do.” - More hints of Locke being Jacob.

Ben (to Locke)) - ”Are you sure this is what you want?” - Are you sure this is what YOU want Ben? Afraid of the truth, to see if Locke can reeeeallly see Jacob? What if you are wrong about Locke? I guess that’s what Ben’s gun is for.

PREDICTIONS (not many, I have to go, Mom is HERE!)
- Richard Alpert saves Locke when Ben comes back without a Locke
- Richard knows Locke didn’t kill dad, and Ben might have killed Locke.
- The camp sets up to stop the war, but the camp is still split up.
- Charlie, Charlie, Charlie

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
- Is Emily Locke’s mom as well?
- Why is Jacob, John Locke?
- Was Jacob invisible because John Locke cannot see himself?
- Does Locke die to become Jacob?
- What was the protective powder laid out around Jacob’s house?
- TOO MANY UNANSWERED!!!

Okay, I wrote this EXHAUSTED and did NOT re read, so if anything is mixed up and not worded right….i am so so so sorry.

I have a wedding to plan, family to entertain and a wedding to plan. HA! Sunday is the big day! Next LOST we will be a married couple!

PLEASE!!!! Check back tomorrow, or a little bit after to see what I, or WE, commented back to your comment. Myspace DOES NOT tell you if someone commented back, so check the blog again. EVERY FRIDAY every comment left will have a comment back from me.

THANKS GUYS! LOVE Y’ALL FOR THE SUPPORT!!!

b.quain

LOCKE/BOONE Halucination Answers...HGE LOST THEORY and PREDICTIONS

2007-05-09T07:59:00.000-04:00

Time goes by in Lost, where we see something and it won’t come back until it’s so out of our brains, but when we get an answer, we say “Oh, that was from the beginning of the season!!!”. When Vanessa and I saw Season 3:Episode 3’s “Further Instructions” Locke/Boone hallucination, we both agreed that this will make sense “further” down the road. Well, we have come to a dead end in three weeks and that hallucination is the ANSWER to EVERYTHING!!!!!

A HUUUUGE THANK YOU to Karen for pointing so much of this out, and discussing this with me to make sure it ALL MAKES SENSE!!!

LOCKEVISION!!!! (Follow these steps)

1) Watch the Lockevision (don’t maximize, but make it a little larger to see EVERYTHING. Maximizing the vision will make it TOO pixilated)
2) Read what is posted in order, and DO NOT watch while reading, since it’s the visuals of the vision that make all the sense
3) Re-watch…and see if it makes sense.

Okay, hopefully you have watched it before reading this. Let us follow the WHOLE hallucination in order.

IN THE HUT:
Boone ends up in the sweat lodge with Locke. Like many people we have seen on the island who were killed off, or dead, have guided someone. Christian Sheps guides Jack to the Caves, Yemi guides Eko, and even Dave guides Hurley (imaginary friend?). Boone was always considered to be the leader, died very early in the game, so why not have a pissed off Boone get back at Locke? And here’s why he did.

1) Boone shows up next to Locke, who’s lost his voice due to the hatch bowing up. Boone seems a little offset and still VERY bitter towards Locke. He seems very condescending towards Locke since it was Locke who had Boone die. Boone mentions it was “the sacrifice the island demanded.” Funny, from what I see on the show, the island doesn’t demand much, it gets other people/things do it’s dirty work for it. Boone knows it.

2) “I’m here to help you find your way again, so you can bring the family back together.” Look at Locke’s face, amazing!!! It was in this very Locke-Centric episode where Locke finds the hitchhiker “Eddie.” Eddie is brought to Locke’s commune and they all considered themselves part of “the family”. This made the viewer think that the pot growing hippies in the commune were 1) on the island, or 2) something to do with the “family” Boone speaks of. Not the family as in Anthony Cooper who was just there, Emily who has been tested on the island and Ben, or Bernard who has been there. This line right now in the show, means Emily (Locke’s mother) was on the island prior and part of Karen and Gerald’s “immaculately conceiving projects". No one else I know is doing this, so she’s had to have gone somewhere.

3) The wheelchair? Don’t think too much on it, unless they plan on Locke being paralyzed for the outcome of what’s to happen. I just feel, it was a way to get Boone to guide him through the airport.

IN THE AIRPORT:
1) We get a quick shot of an airport sign zooming in and out, and reads “International Departure Gates”. Departing is never a good thing, so remember that word.

2) “John someone in THIS AIRPORT is in serious danger, you’re the only you can save them.” Remember, key words are SOMEONE THIS AIRPORT DANGER YOU SAVE THEM. Eko was never in the airport during this dream, so HE’S out, and he dies. He dies, and Locke says to Sayid, “You’re next!”, looks like we have a winner. Each section of the airport has someone who is going to be off the island. Sayid, Sun and Jin. Charlie, Aaron, and Claire. And Sawyer, Kate and Jack.

3) After Boones says “…save them” we get a great shot of the new family on the island. Aaron, Claire and Charlie. Charlie’s in a black suite, holding Aaron as he descends to the gates, saying “Goodbye” if you will. Well, I feel that something bad is about to happen to Aaron during this “purge/war” and it’s going to be Charlie to save Aaron and Charlie dies. Charlie knows the situation and there’s nothing he can do. Aaron lives (bad idea) and Charlie will die, doing something noble, so he dies a “hero” and not a junkie putz. “Not them, they’ll be fine, for awhile”, well it has been 17 episodes since we’ve seen this hallucination, I think it’s been awhile.

4) “I think Sayid’s got it” Jin, Sun and Sayid. Sun is holding a bag to her belly, and swipes it at Jin, basically giving him her belly baggage. Sayid has always had their back, but this has nothing to do with Locke anyway, so leave it up to Sayid, Jin and Sun. When Sun is going to be captured, I think Jin won’t be around to help, since they are splitting up right now. Sun trusts Juliet for helping her, and Jin is busy with Desmond’s “Anti-Trust Jack” party. So Sayid (who’s never on anyone’s team) will save her. Too late? Sayid dies? We’ll see. Does ANYONE know what the hell Sun and Jin are arguing about? Translate?

5) Back to Charlie. Well, if you look at Hurley, always smiling. He once again is not supposed to be there, he’s playing a HUGE role, apart from the Losties. He says “Next please?!?” and Boone says “Not Hurley”, but then the first person we see is Charlie. Next please!? Charlie is the next one we see…makes sense!

6) Here is where it gets GOOOOOD! After we see Charlie and the “next please.” Sorry Charlie. We see Desmond “DESCENDING” with three women. Either this means three women being Penny, Ruth and Naomi. Or (I like this one!) Jin, Hurley and Charlie. “Forget it! He’s helping himself!” Desmond is the only one of the Losties to have a costume and that’s the pilot uniform. He is in charge and taking people somewhere. We have seen him split the camp up, not intentional, but he split the camp into Jin, Hurley, Sayid, Charlie, maybe now Claire or Sawyer. Jack has his own team on the camp. Jack, Juliet, Sun, and maybe Claire, but most of all, weird…but KATE! Kate still trusts him. BUT, this brings us too…

7) “Take the stars out of your eyes”, Sawyer says to Kate (Thank you Karen for getting that). Kate is wearing BLACK, she dies, BUT WAIT, there’s more, what’s this Sawyer pulls out the SAME BROUCHURE that CHARLIE’S got!!! Kate was next to die too! BUT, Sawyer takes it from her. This little interaction was Kate going to die following Jack (he’s next in line), and Sawyer saves her and dies himself. She has death in her back pocket, not expecting it, different from Charlie, being handed death to his face, expecting it. Kate gives a smirk looking back knowing that Sawyer just saved her, and now with Sawyer out of the equation, she’s got Jack, and her mind is free from the two of them.

8) Jack takes his watch off. TIME! He puts his TIME into the bucket and places it on the conveyor belt and pushes time forward. Jack will no longer be enslaved by time and space. What’s this mean? I don’t know much about this TIME anymore…so confusing, BUT, we are soooon to find out. We do hear the beeping of the numbers needing to be pushed when Ben is scanning Jack. There was trust between Jack somewhere in those 10 days Ben had Jack, but Ben keeps his guard on Jack at all times. It’s a very Ben thing to do.

9) “There’s nothing you can do for them, not yet!” Nope, not yet, but…”First you need to clean your our mess”, and wow, wouldn’t I be damned if last week Ben warns Locke not to come back to the camp “Until you have cleaned up your own mess”. Well that mess was cleaned up, and that’s why this is whole blog post is being written. There was NO NEED to write all this out, until we heard that come out of Ben’s mouth. NOW is when Locke can get ready to do the dirty work and SPEAK!

10) We hear Boone in a repeat of “…clean up your own mess, clean up your own mess…” and it gets all shaky. Then we see Boone, where he belongs, on the top floor (heaven if you will), and Locke needs to get up there. The sign that we see before “Departure” is right under Locke, and he needs to be ASCENDING if you will (thank you again Karen, you rule!!!!). Locke leaves the wheelchair and starts riding the escalator to the TOP. Makes me laugh a little every time.

11) Locke gets to the top, and we find blood. Blood will be spilled for sure, but who’s blood is it? Eko is dead, and was never in the airport, so forget that it was about him. But, we do find Eko’s stick, which reads

12) Boone reappears all bloody and says “Clean it up John.” Something I feel Ben will say to John in the next few episodes and then this line Boone says next “They’ve got HIM John, you don’t have much time.” It Will ALL MAKE SENSE. Who is Him? Him is Anthony Cooper? I wish the HIM was more than JUST Anthony Cooper, and maybe HIM as in Jacob…but we’ll see. HIM is much more deeper, and the Jacob we see has something to do with Locke’s Mom. Why? We haven’t seen Emily since Anthony Cooper got his kidney. Short visit. She had a looot of cool shit to say, but then disappears. Where? Why so long? She HAS to make a comeback, we’re coming to the end of this season, and getting answers.

13) Or, another theory from that episode “Further Instructions” is when Locke wakes up from the explosion, he sees a naked Desmond running around, all-frantic. What if he was being captured since, they got HIM, as in Desmond? What if it’s a time and space thing, and he was captured? Escaped.

IN THE LONG RUN

Here is what I think. We know Charlie will die saving Aaron, Desmond broke up camp even though he didn’t mean too, Sayid will probably die helping Jin and Sun, Sawyer dies helping Kate out, and John will lead to higher ground when Richard takes out Ben.
Ben will die from an argument with Juliet, Juliet revolts against Ben, Richard has had enough of Ben, kills him and Richard tells Locke, you are in charge of what Ben couldn’t take care of. We meet Jacob, who is going to be Bernard, Locke’s REAL brother and Emily’s is the “man behind the curtain.”
Get it! Bernard will be Locke’s brother, who put Ben in charge, but Ben fails, making Jacob fail, and Locke will be in Ben’s spot.

Another look at it from Karen…
“The short of it is... Charlie will die, Hurley will be very important to the island, John is moving on to greater things), Jack will let the others think their in control for a while.. OR He'll side with the others..I think there will be 2 deaths though!!
The important thing to see is what I mentioned
The 2 people who DIVIDED the lostie camp is
Desmond (who is descending the escalator) and John (who is ascending the escalator)!!!!!!! John always knew his destiny was the island, now he needs to claim his right to be there!!!!”

There you go!!! How smart are these DamonCuse’s on the show. I love how you would NEVER think of this hallucination ever again, until you watch the DVD set in Nov. and say “Man, these bastards gave it to us in the beginning of the season.” Hiatuses suck! Glad they wont do that anymore.

ENJOY!!! I’m still so LOST!
b.quain

LOST BLOG: Recaps, predictions, and WHAT I GOT FROM LAST NIGHT'S "The BRIG"

2007-05-03T10:57:00.000-04:00

What a brilliant week it has been. Thank you to Liverpool for making into the Champions League Final (May 23rd, seems like a great day, the game and LOST!!), we got the marriage license taken care of, Liverpool vs Milan (you know it!)!!!!, things are coming together with the business, and LOST was incredible. I felt like Eddie “On The” Money, and was Sh’ Sh’ Sh’ Sh’ Shakin’, half the episode. It was basically saying, good job Quain for putting that brain to work. I felt great to see some more predictions come true.

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

I KNOW THIS ONE IS A LONG ONE! BUT READ IT ALL, PLEASE!!! So much to look into!!!!!

This Is What I Got Out Of: The Brig

A LITTLE GAME BEN LIKES TO PLAY CALLED “I KNOW”
When “re-watching” the “PREVIOUSLY ON LOST”, we are reminded of Ben saying “I know you were raised in foster care, I know you spent four years prior to the island…”. Ben knows more about Locke than some stupid red file on theLostaways. This whole John and Ben thing is killing me. Will we see a “brothers in arms” episode soon? Love it!

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!?!”
Man! I laughed my ass off when Ben said “It’s just a metaphor John!” NO SHIT BEN! We knew this. But think about it though, and doesn’t John KNOW this!?!? John Locke would NEVER NEVER EVER NEVER want Anthony Cooper there. From watching Lost, I think where Helen and John left off, that would be what Locke would want to work with, before Cooper. Also, why would John want “someone” there, before “something”?
I think when John Locke stepped onto the island, the island gave John what he really wanted and that was his legs. The thought of his “not so much” dad Cooper wouldn’t cross his mind. Hell, most of the time when someone mentions Locke being crippled, even though he’s a Man Of Faith, he kills them with his eyes.
So, WHO REALLY BROUGHT ANTHONY COOPER TO THE ISLAND? We know this!!! A scared little Anthony Cooper admits it was the car accident (once again), drugged up (Juliet and the sub), and hand delivered to Locke. He wasn’t lying at all when he spoke what he knew. But all his speculations of what the island is…we’ll get into that.

R.I.P. JAMES “SAWYER” FORD (2004-2007)
Goodbye Sawyer, it was really nice knowing you. These words may sound harsh, but seriously, didn’t we just see Sawyers last reeeeally good episode. What else does the island want from James Tom Sawyer Ford? Nothing! Exactly. Sawyer has done everything he needed to do. Sawyer was living for one thing and that was for the man who killed his family to read the letter he wrote. Well, he had that chance last night, and look what happened. Ripped right in front of him. He finally finished the deed, and he’ll go quickly. But he won’t go quietly. He will put up a good fight.
Sorry to all the women who love the smooth silky Pantene Sawyer look, it’s now going to look like those skeletons on the Slave Ship.
One thing stopping me from Sawyer not dying is that he killed himself already. As we know Anthony Cooper/Adam Seward is a anagram for “Sawyer, the con man, a poor dad”. James Ford, a con man, and a poor dad. Anthony Cooper was everything James Ford is. So maybe the island will recognize that, letting Sawyer live. Nah! Bye Sawyer!

R.I.P. KATE AUSTEN
Well, I guess not. BUT! In this episode Ben reminds me that John Locke has to say “goodbye” to Kate. So I “re-watched” the scene between Kate and Locke in “Left Behind” episode to go back and see what Locke says to Kate before he takes off with Ben and the Gang. He says “…I made a strong case for you, I told them you were “good person” reliable, smart, honest, and they told me who you are, what you’d done.” Yup, Kate is bad! And we know what happens to bad people! Kate will be captured, and will come out fighting.
So this leads to tonight’s little “We should tell her” game Juliet planned. Jack disagrees because he knows Kate will get ready, pack some heat, and get Sawyer on her side. What Jack and Juliet know, is that Ben is ready to come out in 3 days and capture the women, and Kate is one of them. Juliet is testing Jack to see if he would go behind Ben and the “Others”, and tell Kate about she is on the “list”.

LET’S TALK ABOUT TRUST
So, Jack thought it would be nice to go back into a blue shirt this week. Now we have a neutral Jack. But the word TRUST and Jack is being slung around more than ever. And now it leads to bringing other characters to the table whom might be worthy of this task when the “New Purge” comes.
But let’s dig into Juliet, and it’s time to start to liking her folks. I feel when she is with Jack we CAN trust her. She is done screwing people over and I think she pulled one over on Ben. I think that tape was her final straw and will be the straw that will break the camels back. Juliet is DONE hurting people, except one person and that’s Ben. So, she (I mean DamonCuse spoon-feed that ridiculous line) says “I hate you” and she means it. Obviously, no one is there, she couldn’t lie to anyone since she was alone, and lordy knows she can’t lie to herself, she’s all she has at this point.
Juliet pulls this FINAL little con for Ben, but goes back with intentions of helping these castaways. BUT, look who has the tape recorder now, and Ben is just a little TOO smart at this point. Ben just happens to play the tape when Locke is walking up to the tent. Locke hands it over to Sawyer, and that’s the way Ben’s little game of “I know” works. So, let’s talk about the word trust again!
DO NOT TRUST BEN! That’s about it. Sawyer is trying to be trusted, Desmond is trying, Sun or Jin is trying, Kate is trying, Jack is an idiot, Charlie is trying, Naomi…hmmm…IS NOT! Stay away from her!
Also, really quick, Jack knows about Naomi, I hate to say it. When Jack asks questions to Charlie, it was to get something out of him, like Jack usually does. The look Jack gives Charlie, as if saying “You sly devil, you’re not going to tell me are you?” was a little obvious. Jack is better than that, COME ON PEOPLE, It”s JACK!!!!!

SAYID/NAOMI
HUUUUGE scene ! Massive! This scene PISSES ME OFF so bad, that all the theories of the show being timelines and bending time and space is now, in my mind, 100% real! That’s it! I said it. And I can’t elaborate much more, or dig too much deeper into it. The show is entering such a HUGE sci-fi, supernatural world that I feel, ANYTHING can happen.
OR!
The plane was in an ocean trench 4 miles deep? I feel she’s an “other” so, let’s try not to believe EVERYTHING she says. HERE IS WHAT HAPPNED WITH THE PLANE
- Widmore/Hanso/Piak/Oceanic set up the plane in the bottom of the ocean with people in it. Why would Oceanic do this? Well they were going out of business anyway, as some of us know from the Lost Experience. Since the wreckage is so far down, would YOU go down and worry about the bodies? No! We trust the media to tell us what is what, so we don’t need to see the proof for our selves. We trust sweet ol’ Widmore and Co.
- So, if Widmore/Hanso/etc. really pulled this off, then let’s think that they don’t want the LOSTAWAYS ever to be found! So! Don’t be shocked when we kill them off more and more now. These survivors are not coming off the island. EVER!
- Michael you say? Michael comes back to the real world and only to sound like a nutcase talking about hidden islands, being a survivor of the crash, and polar bears and Black Smoke Vincents. Michael will end up in the crazy house where Hurley, Libby, Dave and Lenny were and probably be on this island ALL OVER again, like Locke is, since he went a little loopy. What if the physical rehab place was in the same hospital that Hurley was in…different ward, wing, building?
- Oceanic will look at Michael and say he is trying to get money form their company, but never made it onto the flight. His poor child Walt…blah blah blah, and Walt will bring his evil to the outside world. There you go! EVIL CHILD! Bird killer! WOW! Sorry, went a little off tangent there!

Also, THAT PHONE! We got into it 2 weeks ago in the blog section “Decoy Phone Home” but is it me, or is that phone a little too “HI-TECH-Futuristic” for today’s phones? Yes, it looks like the I-Phone which isn’t out yet (hint hint, DamonCuse knew it wouldn’t be out by the time this aired, so they played off that), but has SO MANY touch-screen buttons, “radio”, and massive channels, MEGA-SPEAKER with feedback, with more what-nots on it. Are we about to find out about a fake technology sponsor on the island?

WHAT PART OF THE ISLAND ARE YOU FROM??!?!
So Ben is able to walk now, much better than we EVER expected. How? Yeah we know what he said to Locke about Locke being around and healing him, BUT WE KNOW BEN LIES…about EVERYTHING!!!! Man, it’s friggin’ KILLING me that he lies so much. Nothing is the truth.
Also, check out the rock, statue, whatever Cooper is tied to! Remember the four toed foot Sayid sees on the boat with Jin and Sun? Could this be from the same time? What is it? IS this where people go to heal faster? Is there where they set up and meditate before their “Namaste” Purge’s they go on? What part of the island are they on?

WILL THE REAL SAWYER PLEASE STAND UP
Oh man! Did this guy have a mouthful to say, even when he was gagged with Ben’s sweaty dress socks. Also, think about WHY DID BEN UNCOVER THE GAG when Locke was going to slit his throat? Who ungags someone when they are about to kill them? Unless they have “something” to say?! Ben knows Cooper has MUCH to say, so Locke wouldn’t do it.
Ben needs to be the “god” of the “Others” and having EVERYONE watch and call Locke out on it, makes Ben look higher than Locke. Great test Ben, once again!
SOMETHINGS COOPER SAID THAT I NEED TO PUT HERE!!!
- I Guess I Didn’t Raise No Dummies – You’re a dummy, YA DUMMY! But no you didn’t, Locke is a smart smart man, but, I don’t think he meant Locke only. Dummies, plural? Who is the other dummy? A brother I guess! Who can that be? Kane/Able?
- I was driving down I-10, when BAM! Someone slams into my car… Believe this! We have seen it before with Juliet. But this time it’s kidnapping. One thing he says though is the paramedic “SMILES at me”, so there is a HUGE hint. Let’s think of classic smiles on the island and Juliet or Ben win the title!
- …crashed into the Pacific… DamonCuse showing us that the outside world watched the news to hear about Flight 815 crashing by Bali! BALI?!?!?!? Why there? Isn’t that MEGA-WEST of LA, or even FUJI where the pilot said he was making a stop for? Why Bali? Media lies!!!!
- DO ANY OF THESE NAMES RING A BELL? Anthony Cooper, Alan Seward, Louis Jackson, Tom Sawyer, or even Paul? No last name on the Paul. Sorry

BATMANUEL TO THE RESCUE!!! OR IS HE?
Believe this man!!!!! That’s all I have to say! Believe him! I have trust in him. BUT WHAT SUCKS, is that Locke doesn’t trust ANYONE anymore, so he will not trust Alpert. Great idea, and mind messing with our eads there DamonCuse!!
We have had our time with Ben and there is ONLY so much of Ben we can have. He will never change, and it’s time to kill him off. It’s up to one of three people to kill him. Locke, or Juliet and the other person, everyone will think I’m crazy, but it’s Richard Alpert. He is DONE with Ben! He is a leader and more since HE IS Ben’s right hand man more than anyone else. Think about all the perks this man has. He knows how to GET ON/OFF the island, he knows where the money comes from and who’s involved, he knows the medicine, he knows the barracks/island/camps, he knows EVERYTHING! THINK ABOUT IT! He will be the new “Others” leader. BUT, also remember this, people DON’T DIE on the island!!!! Seriously! Some people are DEAD already, waking the Lostaway camp!!!!

BEN’S BARNES AND NOBLE TENT
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that Ben has a bookcase with at least over 50 books, but when they pack up and leave, all they have is fabric with twine wrapped around. Am I the ONLY one who finds this amazing!?!?! He knows he is there for 24 hours, maybe 48, and he still has DOZENS of books in his tent. PLEASE, find this screencap. AMAZING!

THINGS SOMEONE SAID:

Locke (to Sawyer) - ”They have files on us James, all of us” - STOP IT LOSTAWAYS!!!! STOP! We need someone there to stop Locke when he says that and question “Files? WHY? Who the shit are these people and why do they have files on us? Hmmm…maybe because they wanted us here Locke! Think of that? They planned this, they know who we are, and they have plans for us!!!” Then, maybe an answer or two will kick in, but until then, let the “that went over my head” games continue. FILES! WHY?! Does Sawyer not give a shit? ALL OF US! That’s a lot of files…and ”watchers”.

Cindy (to Locke) – ”That would have taken me hours to do myself” - He’s just tying a knot for ya my dear. But, Cindy sees it SO MUCH more than that. But, once again the term false prophet comes back to bite Locke in the ass. When Cindy says that, it’s more than just tying the knot, but it’s the fact that it’s this god doing it for her. More than meets the eye in some ways. This might help, let’s see like this. You get a band like A New Found Glory, The Killers, or Fall Out Boy, and the guitarist breaks a string on their guitar. Well not having any talent and not knowing how to tune their own guitar, what if Liam Gallagher or Paul Weller walked up and tuned it for them? Takes them 4 minutes to fix and they would be like “WOW! Thank you, that would have taken me hours to do.” That’s about it. But they wouldn’t even know who Paul Weller or Oasis is anyway so. And yes, Paul Weller is a god.

Ben (To Locke) - This is not the first time we’ve done this John, trust me, no one will get hurt” - How many times before? Also, LOTS of people are going to get hurt. I love the way Ben tells John as if he just was selected as a contestant on the Price Is Right.

Ben (To Locke) – ”When people join us here, on this island, John, they need to show a gesture, of FREE WILL” No whale jokes please. When people join us? What other people? Also, show a gesture. Who do we feel has shown gestures? Bernard? Tom? Juliet? Alpert? Ethan? Are these all people who have been there prior and Ben made them into one of his?

Naomi (To Sayid) – “Island?...We thought it was a fool’s errand, until 3 days ago. I was flying back for the ship and all of the sudden the clouds opened and I was…” - BAH! Bullshit, by the way, clouds opened at night, and the freight boat was 80 kil. off of where she is! BUT, if not, let’s think that what was said about this being in the triangle of the Loyalty Islands, I think we have a match of where this island can be. Penny’s coordinates were false? No! She knew that if they went into the right portal, she would end up there with Desmond and use the phone. But, little does Penny know, that Naomi is an “Other”, or “Watcher” and phones don’t work on that island. Bali?! BALI?!?! Grrrr!

Naomi (To Sayid) - ”Remind me not to rescue you Sayid” - He don’t need you “Other” woman with a moustache!!! Sayid will do fine on his own, Sucka! So, what she means is, when Ben comes with his posse and someone tries to take down the one man who is tougher than all the Others together, I don’t have your back Sayid. She knows who Sayid is, and she has been waiting to meet him. But what it seems like to me, is the girl likes boy, so girl will bicker with boy, and bat her eyelashes. I see a connection here.

Sayid (To Desmond) - Did YOU actually see her helicopter? - Just go back and see Naomi’s face when he asks that. That’s all. PROOF right there she’s lying and someone is on to her. That’s it! Re-watch! THAT FACE!

Ben (To “Others”) - He’s not who we thought he was” - Oh Ben, but he is who you thought he was. Get ready for a new Locke and a new season of Lost. Locke will be much MORE than you can EVER imagine Ben.

Locke - ROUSSEAU? - I don’t think I ever dropped an f’bomb here, but if there was a time, YES, it would be NOW! LOOOOOOVE IT! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOCKE in this scene. The way he says “Rousseau” so calm and smooth. Anyone else would have been like, “Who followed me?” but Locke was making his little spear for Ben’s throat when “The Purge 2” happens. LOVE IT! Go Rousseau, kill some Lostaways with your explosives. She’s going to use them on the Losties camp, you’ll see!

Ben (To Locke) – “Where would you get a ridiculous idea like that” AND “Don’t tell me what I can’t do John” WOW!!!! This is why I will miss Michael Emerson in season 4. The ridiculous idea WAS a set-up for Ben to get Alpert to talk to Locke, but I think Alpert had some tricks (files) up his sleeve. ALSO! LOOK LOOK RE-WATCH AND LOOK at Ben’s face when he says “Don’t tell me what I can’t do, John…” LOVE IT! He’s saying in a nutshell, “that guy Randy that Locke worked with, also the guy at the walkabout center, these people you told that to Locke, they were “Watchers”. I know your favorite line John. I know!” Ben loves that game “I know!”

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS!!!!!
- How many times has Ben done this “Kidnapping” of pregnant women?
- Who is it Ben thought Locke was going to be?
- Did Richard Alpert hand over the file to get good with Locke, and in time kill Ben?
- Can Alpert be trusted?
- Why does Rousseau need explosives?
- Why would anyone want to live in Jasper, Alabama?
- What does Juliet want to tell Kate?
- Doesn’t Juliet want to see her sister? So when she hears there is a way off this island, Naomi’s radio, why didn’t she flip out of excitement?
- Who knew that Naomi was coming to the island?

PREDICTIONS/THEORIES
- Ben will die, Sawyer will die, Kate will be captured, and Sun didn't get pregnant on the island. Juliet LIES!
- Jack needs a comeback, only to be out casted a bit in Season 4. Any nominees for Lostaway Leader?
- Jacob is right around the corner...i mean "CURTAIN" (going back to that theory from April 17th)
- Ben has been in love prior to what we have seen, and her name is NAOMI
- Karen and Gerald DeGroot are Ben's parents
- Desmond says "Are you him?" in Season 2 to Locke in the hatch when they meet. We find out Desmond knows more than we think. Get ready.
- Walt! Oh yes Walt...get ready kids! GET READY!!!

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SONG OF THE WEEK: Bis "This Is Fake D.I.Y."

2007-05-02T09:01:00.000-04:00

SONG OF THE WEEK: BIS – “This Is Fake D.I.Y.”

THIS IS!!!! an amazing song, from one hell of a fun, adorable, hip, geeky, but motsly poppy band that had the balls and cute spring dress wearing keyboardist to back it up. Ladies and gentlemen I give you, Scotland’s best pop trio, BIS! (composed of Steven Clark (Sci-fi Steven), John Clark (John Disco), and Amanda MacKinnon (Manda Rin)
Addicted to their punk rock length songs of just over 2 minutes, with their 808ish keyboards and fists in the air sing-alongs, I WAS ADDICTED. Ask anyone that knew me in the mid-90’s. But, after talking to Shawn yesterday about music and bands freedom, of doing what they want, and making the music they want to. i.e. The Replacements, The Jam, Arctic Monkeys, etc. I felt this post was a must, and in a way a dedication to Shawn and a band I overlooked.
After releasing singles after singles in Europe on The Delgado’s label Chemikal Underground, it wasn’t until K Records found HUGE talent in these kids and put a Heavenly split 7” out. Then Mike-D (Beastie Boys) of Grand Royal picked Bis up, and finally putting out a full length, with 18 pop hits, for them.

Being Bis was easy at first, seeing as EVERYONE was in love with them. Upon forming in 1994, it would take this band ONLY one year to make it to “Top Of The Pops” on their own D.I.Y. style, and way of making music. The band ate, drank, slept (not in that way, please!), walked, breathed, everything BIS. They were recording masters putting out so many EP’s, 7”’s and by 1997 they had their sophomore album “Social Dancing.”
At this time Bis had also put their instruments and vocals to the Cartoon Network’s smash “Powerpuff Girls” closing credits and Bis were now even more everywhere than ever. The band put out one more album on SpinArt Records called “Return To Central” which never sold, and the band broke up. Amanda wound up marrying one of my friends Ryan from the band Discount and had the honor of meeting her in Gainesville whole seeing Superchunk.
Ryan and Amanda got together to make a side project called The Kitchen. I’m thinking Ryan and Amanda met while Bis and Discount were busy making 7”/EP splits with every D.I.Y band out there. Bis wound up sharing 7”’s with The Apples In Stereo, J Church, Lugworm, Heavenly and touring extensively. In time, Bis went in one ear and out the other for me, but recently found ALL of my Bis stuff and uploaded it.
I heard of some other projects they did like Data Panik and a Bis reunion recently. Good luck to these kids, and THANK YOU for the awesome catchy tunes.

ENJOY!

DOWN THE TRACK HERE!!!

B.Quain

LOST BLOG: Recaps, predictions, and WHAT I GOT FROM LAST NIGHT'S "D.O.C."

2007-04-26T11:11:00.000-04:00

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

First I need to say that I am honored to hear a friend of mine, who directed the film “Berkeley” has directed a Season 3 episode of “LOST.” Congrats to Bobby Roth for all his work on Prison Break and now joining the crew of Lost. I was able to meet and hang out for a few with Bobby at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival two years ago, who held my seat to meet Michael Moore and Christopher Jaymes (In Memory Of My Father). Bobby was very nice and we talked a lot about Prison Break, and told him I could never get into that show. Sorry Bobby, but now you will have my full attention! Ha! GREAT JOB!
Wow, what a sleepy episode, until the last five minutes right? Well, not really. I was re-watching and got a lot out of this. I was so shocked to see how much I would be tying. So, instead of reading some thank you’s or crap about how Jim, Me, Vanessa, or now even Shawn solved the whole show in 2 minutes…

WHAT I GOT OUT OF: D.O.C.

JACK RED SHIRT
Some might not think too much of this, but DamonCuse obviously do. Jack’s new wardrobe is a huge deal to LOST fans. Jack is back on the beach, and is it a shocker we are not focused too much on him? Well, for those who do not know what a “red shirt” is on television it’s a term used for who will be killed. It all started on Star Trek, and was brought into more TV shows. LOST has the joke of Scott/Steve, Arzt, Gary being a red shirt, and Nikki or Paulo were also considered “red shirts”.
Let’s try not to think too much of it, but Jack to me right now, is a red shirt. What’s to come for Jack? Is Jack already dead…(inside?)

NAOMI
Is it me or is she just a little too good in speaking to EVERYONE on the island? Sure, everyone has their own way of talking to each other, i.e. Jin and Hurley, BUT she is speaking in their languages. Hmmm…I won’t be surprised if by next week, she says “I don’t know Italian, or Chinese.” Something is going on here and the Island wants her to be able to talk to the Lostaways. NO WAY has this girl studied all these languages JUST for this trip.
Also, last night was weird and we NEED to get into Oceanic flight 815. And I guess we will soon…

JIN
Poor Jin, doesn’t even know who his REAL father is, if there IS a real father? Probably not right? First, all the women in Jin’s life that should be the closest to him, hide so many secrets, so, no wonder the man is so angry. Sun hides the affair, and that his mother is a prostitute from him. When his mom is actually hiding from him, and that she was a high paying hooker.
I guess we got a hint of yet another woman being part of this “immaculate conception.” Something seems fishy here, and it’s not Jin’s father (get it, he’s a fisherman, ha!?!). Something else is up and I feel this is why Jin and Sun are together. Sun’s father is very successful and very HUGE as we know, and Jin is one of the experiments. It would make sense, and I feel that’s what this ”D.O.C.” episode was getting at. I feel Mr. Paik is the Korean version of Alva Hanso with money and real estate. He’s into hotels and building, so why not help put these hatches into the island. Sun says it best “…pretending of what you do.” What does he do? She’s done pretending, and I need to know!

SUN PREGNANCY
No one knew about Sun’s pregnancy except the Losties, because Sun got pregnant ON the island. Well, we are lead to believe Ben and Juliet CAN’T know anything about the pregnancy seeing as Juliet acts, very poorly may I add, surprised when Sun tells her. How can they know? Unless Kate is talking in her sleep.
So, how the hell can Juliet leave a message to Ben about Sun’s pregnancy? Obviously Ben wanted more on Sun’s pregnancy, he got Juliet to go help her. Well, Jin is not able to make babies, and we are supposed to think the island is helping him? Nope. Not me. Juliet impregnated her somehow. Something is up here, Ben is in on it, and Juliet is the guinea pig. When Juliet says “Kwon is pregnant, the fetus is healthy and was conceived on the island with her husband, and was sterile before he got here” WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN!?!? Grrr…What is going on? Need more info…need to think more.

MIKHAIL TO THE KING
And you guys thought he was dead huh? TOLD YOU! Ha!
I kid, I kid! But seriously, why would we see him again in a flashback two weeks ago? Also, what I love is that the flare gun lead him RIGHT to Naomi, NOT the Fab Four, but NAOMI. Hurley calls for help, and Mikhail might have been the closest, but look at the shock on his face. He thought Naomi pulled the trigger, but to his surprise it’s the boys looking JUST as shocked. Speaking of shocked, wow, what a great reaction on Naomi’s face when she saw Mikhail and was grabbing all on Desmond, as if to say “No! Stop, I know this man, don’t let him near me, please!” Great scene! Okay, now onto Mikhail and the security barrier.
So what happened to him, you ask? I don’t know. I like what I said a few posts ago about Locke giving him something to act like he died, but it might be more than that. The continuity of him breathing was NOT continuity, he WAS breathing. That was our clue. We are getting into a STRANGE place now on the island where ANYTHING can happen. Also, Mikhail KNOWS who this Naomi chick is. Here is something I felt odd…

DECOY PHONE HOME
So, Mikhail steals the phone. Why? To steal something else from Naomi. He took the obvious phone, but he took something else HE needed. He doesn’t need a phone! The man is well equipped, as we’ve seen. Every time we see Mikhail he’s got some kind of technology where the outside world is talking to him. The computer with chess on it, which I would like to think that would be the computer to get Michael to go after Walt. (THEY GOT MY BOY!) The television screens on that deluxe editing suite so Mikhail can track down Oceanic Flight 815 when Juliet and Ben go see her after the plane crashes.
Now, Vanessa and Shawn have this theory that the plane crash was staged. Well, let’s go back to the Wizard of Oz theory BLOG POST I did two weeks ago where I mentioned Hanso and Oceanic’s President Michael Orteig would be in on it, as in money. Hanso needed a plane to get these Losties on the island, and who else to ask but your buddy Orteig. So, this will explain why Naomi said what she said at the end of “D.O.C.”.
But, back to Mikhail and Naomi. Mikhail requests that he is “let go” when he fixes Naomi up. Why? To go hide in the jungle? He has no clue where Ben and the others are, and he doesn’t mind the company with the Losties. He can’t be near Naomi. So, what I am thinking is,
1) He knows who Naomi is, and it’s NOT GOOD. So he asks to leave so she doesn’t recognize him, plus he pretends to steal the phone, as a decoy to steal something else that’s missing in her bag.
2) He’s off to meet up with Rousseau and take Alex back. He wants Ben dead (who doesn’t), and this might be the way to get Alex back. We need to see Karl and Rousseau pretty damn quick.

SORRY CHARLIE 2
LOVE IT! Shit I love Mikhail! Why is it he knows EVERYTHING about EVERYONE on this island. So…Charlie went deaf when the hatch blew up with him in it. BUT, something else happened when the hatch blew up and I’m thinking time and space might have been bent or something. Charlie was deaf sometime. When Charlie threatens Mikhail with tearing out his OTHER eye, Mikhail motions to his ear, lifting it up saying ”Huh, What?!” and Charlie goes completely off his tits. Why? Mikhail knows more about every ones misfortunes that we know. I’m thinking because he has a huge misfortune and that’s not seeing our of two eyes, so he has a third one that works better than 20/20.
So what happened to Charlie, was he deaf? What does Mikhail know that we don’t?

OCEANIAC FLIGHT 815
OK OK OK! Let’s get into it! The moment we have all been waiting for. The big news from Naomi and the episodes final words. She informs Hurley:
1) The plane CRASHED – From what we know and seeing it on Mikhail’s monitors in “One Of Us”, the plane “Disappeared.” So how does Naomi believe that the plane crashed? Don’t believe everything you SEE on TV! Staged!
2) There were no survivors – obviously there are! One of them is talking to you, wait, it’s Hurley though, and we have theories of this guy not even BEING on the island. Hmmm…No survivors? Plenty of them there! And as we know we have more coming on the way. Sun, Kate and hell maybe Jack is too, acting like a little girl most the time.
3) The way she cuts off Hurley is almost like she’s scripted to tell him this. She doesn’t act shocked to hear there was at least ONE survivor? If someone told me they were part of a crash I saw on TV and said EVERYONE died, I would at least be “HOW DID YOU SURVIVE, it’s a miracle!! Are you alone?”
What was going around the TV room last night with Shawn and Vanessa was that the plane crash was staged. And VERY VERY possible. Think of Hanso, Orteig, the buddies if you will. Hanso has power and Orteig has the props. So, all we need now is a TV station to blow the story out of the water, kind of like Fox News’ sudden announcement that Bush won the election in 2002, and then every other station followed their lead. Assholes.
So what if they staged it? Also, what if Naomi isn’t ONLY there for Desmond. What if this woman was hired by Penny, but Naomi got the job because she NEEDED to get on that island? Like a TEST if you will. Once again! TESTS! Naomi knows A LOT more than we think about this island. She seemed scared of Mikhail and Mikhail seemed like he was all into her.

BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMB…SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Four hours left and this BLOG will need to find another way to connect with you. There’s three weeks and four hours of LOST left, we will see some major shit and some major twists I feel.
The storm that we saw coming in last week’s episode “Catch-22”, which was gorgeous by the way, is saying that this episode was the CALMING before the STORM. The clouds seen and thunder heard was enough to say, HOLY SHIT here we go, next week is going to KICK SOME ASS!!! But, as we all know, there is the calm before the storm and maybe that’s why not many people liked this episode too much. It’s been go go go (Magnolia reference) few episodes lately, until last night.
So what I am saying here is GET READY for some MAJOR fast action and scary, yet unbelievable twists. DamonCuse know they have EVERYTHING to lose since the show wants at least TWO more SEASONS!!!! GO GET ‘EM BOYS!

MR. KWON
Wow, is he not the cutest little Korean man you have ever seen…LOVE THIS GUY!!!! So sad we won’t see him anymore. He RULED. And his SAKE!!!!

WHAT SOMEONE SAID

EVERYTHING Naomi said – (To Desmond, Jin, Hurley, Charlie, Mikhail) – How the shit does she speak so many languages? And you may say, it was one or two words, but is it me or did she learn “I’m not alone”, “I’m dying”, etc. JUST for this trip like she knew she was in bad shape from the get go. NO! She’s in a bad way right now, and is speaking in “tongues” if you will. But, next morning, she wakes up felling better and speaking English, and coherent. I don’t know. A little strange, yo!

Hurley (to Desmond, Charlie, Jin) - “Oops” - The flare gun couldn’t really do anything for them, but HURLEY, ya big dummy! But, there’s the Hurley we were used to in Seasons One and Two. But why? Why now, when we were seeing a leader transform so quick and before our eyes? Is Hurley going back to his old ways? Nah! He’s Hurley the Hero!

Sun (To Kate) – “What do you think happened to Jack, when he was with the Others? He seems different” - Well, because Sun, HE IS DIFFERENT! Our HERO is quickly becoming our ZERO. Red shirt! See. Well put in the script and very well delivered by Sun. Keep watching Jack guys, oh wow, the worst is yet to come.

Mikhail (to Desmond) - ”As your friend pointed out, I already died once this week.” - WHAT?! Oye, you’re killing me here! What the shit is going on? Here’s some insight though. Locke and Mikhail knew each other prior to the crash. How? Locke’s been there before? Or Mikhail needed boxes for his Flame Hatch Tree House, that’s why Locke staged Mikhail’s death, so no one can hurt him anymore. Mikhail and Michael. Michael/Mikhail. Hmm…I wonder if there’s more on that?

“Eu não estou só," which translates to "I'm not the only," which is close to "Eu não estou sozinha," meaning "I'm not alone." (To Desmond, Charlie, Hurley) – (THANK YOU LOSTPEDIA.com): Well well well. I guess these Dharma assholes can not be trusted. Who would have thunk? I guess we will have a CarolAnn moment on the season finale…THEY’RE HEEEERE!

Mr. Kwon (To Sun) - ”I wasn’t even sure if I was the father.” - Nope, I hate to say it my man! You’re not his father, but you took good care of him. Who is Jin’s father? Anxious to see how this one all pans out.

Mr. Paik (To Sun) - Why should I give you money without an explanation?” - I feel he has said that to someone else, but that certain someone happens to be a Mr. Hanso. Yup! And damn did he EVER get an explanation. Oh and by the way, who has money? Cause maybe we can offer it to Mr. Hanso, so we too can get an explanation.

Juliet (To Sun) “We all make mistakes” - Wow, well, if Juliet wasn’t just screaming, “Get out now! Trust me, this is a HUGE mistake sister!” I love that line, what a great line for such an average episode. Sorry. It was an average episode script wise. But purposely so. Calm…get ready!

Sun (To Jin’s whorish mother) - “My husband believes that you are dead, Don’t force me to make that a reality” - Sun is a badass woman and damn if she means it when she comes out fighting. Do not, I repeat do not mess with the Kwon family. Sun’s words can make you feel 2 inches tall, and Jin’s “Spinning Star Kick” will knock any one-eyed man to the ground. Jin – FULL POINT! WIN!

UNANSWERED THEORIES
- Mikhail survived the barrier, but how? Why?
- How was Flight 815 found since they crashed in the ocean?
- Where did flight 815 crash?
- What is up Juliet’s sleeve, behind Ben or behind his back?
- Is Kate pregnant?
- How does Naomi know so many languages?
- What did Mikhail REALLY steal out of the sack?
- Naomi is not alone. Who is with her?
- Sun has this file on Mr. Kwon. Why? How did she get it? Very Others of her.

PREDICTIONS/THEORIES
- Sun won’t die. She is part of this Immaculate Conception like her husband is.
- Sawyer still has to kill Anthony Cooper! Ha! I know we say this every week, but I guess it’s a season finale story. That’s all Sawyer has going for him.
- Locke has plans for Anthony Cooper, but Sawyer will get to them first, making Locke a little pissy.
- Naomi knows Mikhail and she will tell the Fab Four “I dreamt of a man fixing me with a patch, named Mikhail.” To their dismay, they agree with her.
- We still need a Charlie, Ben, Jack, and Sawyer flashback
- Rousseau needs Mikhail to help kill Ben. But something will cause a stir.
- Jack needs drama and it’s not Kate or Juliet. What gives? Christian maybe?

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LOST BLOG: Recaps, predictions, and WHAT I GOT FROM LAST NIGHT'S "Catch-22"

2007-04-19T10:30:00.000-04:00

HELICOPTER?!?!?! HELICOPTER?!?!?! Uh, Jim?!? Please tell that was funny? Weird right? I can’t believe there was a helicopter! Shocked the shit out of me. Is it every week another prediction that is made, will pop up?
I MUST apologize to some who might have felt that as a spoiler, but I was completely joking around, and I think if you re-read it, you can see that. No way in hell did I think Penny would really come in a helicopter at first. I got some massive chills when I heard some propellers whizzing in last night’s episode man.

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

Okay with that said! Onto…

WHAT I GOT OUT OF LAST NIGHT’S LOST EPISODE: “CATCH-22”

BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
First off, a HUGE HUGE HUGE CONGRATS to one of the greatest comic book writers EVER, for making his debut in co-writing credits with LOST last night, Brian K. Vaughan. Charlie’s opening line in the episode, “Superman can fly around the entire planet, in the blink of an eye“ was a huge big ups to comic books and made me happy to think Brian K. Vaughan is on board.
I am a massive fan and congrats to you. Now ALL OF YOU go out and buy Y: The Last Man, Ex-Machina and seriously, what happened to The Hood, friggin amazing. When Marvel went MAX! Seems so long ago. Also, thank you BKV for your Ultimate X-Men, A+ to you, you genius!

SUPERMAN
Here is a man, who is not enslaved by space and time. Get it? Vanessa was rad enough to get me the complete DVD BOX SET of ALL the Superman movies. Re-watching (see Jim!) the first Superman, we know that Lois dies, but for Superman, he can change that. Charlie reminds us last night that “Superman can fly around the entire planet in the blink of an eye” and as much as I laugh at that scene, we think, wow what a sweet guy for saving Lois like that.
Superman flies around the earth to make it backspin and go back in time to save Lois. Kind of like bumping your head, and going back in time to save the woman you love, or the chap playing guitar every week. Huge reference for us comic book geeks, but also Richard Donner fans (the Goonies is the best film EVER!).
A Flash reference though?!! Vibrating through walls? The Hatch? Will we be vibrating through a wall for more Hatches? Hmmm…But, more time and space to come. Claire is my card I will put on the table. Friggin’ great reference from BKV!

Okay, enough ass kissing, but seriously, read some BKV! Let’s get something out of the way here, before we get into the Fab Four and a camping trip.

JACK/JULIET and SAWYER/KATE
Pretty damn obvious what’s going on here! We all said it last week that Jack and Juliet will lead to Kate and Sawyer. But we will not leave it at that, will we? No! Everyone is asking what’s up Jack’s sleeve, and it’s totally getting into Juliet’s mind and not those turquoise sweatpants. Jack is completely playing Juliet here and this is NOT going to end well. We still have SO MUCH to learn about Sarah. Who she left Jack for? Will she ever come back?
The connection of what Sawyer and Kate said about it “..it’s strange being back to the camp…” was a cool way to keep the connection alive between Kate and Sawyer, more than just sex. Thinking alike is always a good thing between couples.
We should be getting another Jack flashback hopefully this season. I have a feeling since we introduced a new character, an old one needs to make a comeback and that will be a season finale. Hoping for a Ben centric finale though, aren’t we all?

BROTHER CAMPBELL
First thing said when we are introduced to this man, is TESTS! And damn it if I am not mistaken on how much he looks like Isaac of Uluru in the episode of S.O.S. If you go back to some replies to the comments in the “Island Theory” blog from earlier this week, I mention re-watching S.O.S. because I feel I know who is behind this all. Well, that episode sealed the deal for me.
Some things about Brother Campell we need to point out. Vows to charity, helping out at Moriah’s Vineyard. Well let’s think of Desmond’s vow to silence being a TEST to see if he can choose not to speak, what about “push a button” for three years? We see the connection between Brother Campbell and Mrs. Hawking (the antique shop lady), so you know they are working together to bring Desmond to the island. Much much more to come with these two I have a feeling. Also,
As Desmond said, Moriah’s Mountain is where God instructed Abraham to kill Isaac, but God spared Isaac’s life. In the bible, Isaac is the father of Jacob and grandfather of Benjamin. Keep that in mind.

THE ISLAND
Well well well. This is VERY hard to pin-point and I know I have mentioned the island “gives us what the island ONLY knows.” For some of the new readers, I always had this feeling we keep seeing 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, Hanso, Apollo, Oceanic, Widmore, Mr. Cluck’s, MacCutcheons, etc. because the island is only taking in what is on the island. The island keeps reminding the Losties of their past, but doesn’t know much more. Same way we keep seeing the same people from flashbacks coming to the island, like Anthony Cooper, Ethan Rom, Richard Alpert, etc.
Well the island was just thrown for a loop last night, along with the rest of us. Our paratrooper in Top Gun form, whom IMDB names Naomi, was not who we thought it was. And what I am thinking, this is pretty damn HUGE. I have a feeling she is not connected to ANY ONE on the island, but someone Penny sent to find Desmond. NOT CONNECTED, WHAT?!?! On Lost?!?!
In the finale of Season 2, (last scene) the two Portuguese men in the Arctic/Antarctica? are playing chess, and get that distress call from the computer of “Electromagnetic Anomaly Detected”, well she is connected to them, of course. The Island has just received an outsider, and I have a feeling Naomi was never meant to be part of what’s in store. Like Hurley.
And this comes to…

PENNY or NAOMI
So, if Desmond let Charlie get the arrow in the neck, would have that been Penny, not Naomi, in the “Iron Eagle” outfit? (I better watch what I say, or Lou Gossett Jr. is on the Island next). I don’t think so. I think it was supposed to be Naomi the whole time. Penny sent Naomi to get Desmond, seeing as she knew his name and had a picture of him. Since we had our flashback of Desmond, I’m feeling she doesn’t know Desmond from the past.
Penny is sending people to get Desmond, but with the Islands powers, it’s not going to be easy. Unless you “Ferry Cross the Bermuda.” Naomi came close, but now she’s no better than our Flight 815 survivors.
Also, something Tom said earlier in the season. “Ever since the sky turned purple…” when Jack asked him have they tried to get off. I was always thinking he meant, “Well, now that the sky turned purple, yes we can”, but Naomi crashing kind of proves him, actually it proves me wrong. Unless she really did have a malfunction prior getting to the island. Michael and Walt are security on a mini island, and she was shot down, there I said it!!! Just you watch! (kidding)

DESMOND
Really quick, and this is something that needs to be put down and LOCKEd away if you will. Last night’s episode handed us a HUGE clue and COMPLETELY SEALED another theory I have of LOCKE and DESMOND switching roles after the explosion (read a few blogs prior, it’s the LOCKE THEORY). Last night blatantly threw that DESMOND was a MAN OF FAITH, very much what Locke is now. Since the explosion we have seen a much different Desmond. Look back at Desmond in this episode and you think to yourself “Wow Desmond, who knew this about you?”, Ruth would NEVER think of him doing that. His only religion was Celtic winning the CUP! Hahaha! LOVE IT!

IS JIN DEAD?
Kidding. Just seeing if you are still reading!

FOOTBALL and DESMOND
Well, he never became the BIG FOOTBALLER I thought he was going to be, but he was singing Celtic’s Football Club song, ADORABLE! I still think with everyone on the island, I would be with Desmond most of the time, sorry Vanessa, it’s not Juliet, it’s Desmond. Wine, camping, and his football, I’M IN!!! Love it!

UNASNWERED QUESTIONS:
- Who is Naomi?
- How is Brother Campbell and Mrs. Hawking connected?
- How much longer will Charlie survive?
- Will it take Desmond dying to stop these flashes?
- Did the I-Phone really come out yet? (seriously, it looked like one! Take a look!)
- How is Widmore and the monastery involved with each other?
- A helicopter would never fly out that far, I’m thinking that it came from a HUGE boat, where is that boat?

SOMETHING SOMEONE SAID...

Charlie (to Hurley) – ”Superman can fly around the entire planet, in the blink of and eye.” AND so can submarines, Ethan, Juliet and friends that teleport form the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in the blink of an eye as well. Just a reminder for some of you out there. Keep the brains ringing.

Brother Campbell (to Desmond) - ”God tests our faith in many ways, as you know we have our own tests here.” Is it me or am I the only one freaked out on that word “test” now. Seriously, when our first child comes to Vanessa and I saying “we have a test in spelling tomorrow, can you help me Daddy?” I’m going to tell the kid to run as far as they could, and never come back. “Let me see your arm, is there a Dharma logo on it?” But, seriously. Their own TESTS huh? Well after seeing the picture on his desk. I believe they do. He also mentions the keywords fit, faith, and goes in some circles of time and paths. Then says the magic words ”one of us. TESTS for the Man Of Faith.

Sawyer (to Kate) ”You need me to make you a mix-tape?” - BRIAN K. VAUGHAN AT WORK. Love it!

Hurley (to Desmond) - ”Watch the MASTER” Is it me, or does Hurley have a “clarify he is a leader of the week line”? Every week, it seems, Hurley is saying something, or maybe even doing something that shows he is at the right place right time and usually the one to control it. This week, the Fab Island Four was the premise and who was there? Yup, Hurley. Who had to say something for Nikki and Paolo during their burial? Hugo it is! Who set up the golf course? Okay, well he needs to get credit for it, that was awesome! Aren’t Gold Cups called “Masters?” I don’t know.

Hurley (to Jin) - ”I love the part about the bird, it was a bird right?” Looking back to Season 2’s episode “Live Together, Die Alone” and the bird swooping down, saying Hurley’s name made most of us say Hurley’s animal connection is a bird. Well, this line helps us remember that, and not to forget it. It’s funny how DamonCuse remind us all the time about things that might slip our minds.

Desmond (to Ruth) ”Yes, I was scared about the wedding, so I had a pint too many maybe, but I raised my eyes and I asked “Am I doing the right thing”, and that’s the last thing I remember but when I woke, I was lying in the street, and I don’t know how I got there…” A watcher was watching Desmond, drugged him and Desmond’s vision to become a monk and live with the monastery was clear. Desmond is Scottish and can drink a pint or two, trust me on that. Being a fan of a league team (LIVERPOOL!), and spending time at the pub, you know what you can drink and what you can’t. Desmond knows. So, a “watcher” mixes his pint with something, he falls asleep at the wheel, the watcher grabs him and Desmond ends up doing the right thing? What is the right thing? Desmond is NOT a Man of Faith, but he WAS, right? And now LOCKE and Desmond switched roles...Locke is the Man Of Faith…Superman was the Man Of Steel (kidding). But it makes sense!

Ruth (to Desmond) - ”It’s a good thing a bloody shepherd didn’t hell you up, you would be off with the sheep then.” Well Jack “Shepherd” has helped him up, and he is following the sheep if you think about it. The island is full of them.

Sawyer (to Kate and Juliet) - ”You guys arguing on who’s your favorite Other?” BRILLIANT!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!!!! Still laughing a bit! Ha! Friggin’ brilliant!

Sawyer (to Kate) - ”If Bernard asks, I don’t know a thing about it” WOW! Well well well, the name Bernard is brought back. I am so excited to get to the last portion of this blog post!!! WOOHOOOO! Season finale is coming up, and QUICK! Bernard huh?

CONTINUITY on SOMETHING SOMEONE SAID
Charlie (upon standing on the wire) – We see Charlie comment twice to Hurley’s argument about Flash and Superman. The first time Charlie steps on the wire he stops at “…then maybe we should fit Superman with a pair of Kryptonite…” stops there. But later on in the episode (35 minute mark), Charlie goes further with “…then maybe we should fit Superman with a pair of Kryptonite ballet slippers…” then continues with “What the hell?” I don’t know with this one, maybe being picky, but sometimes this show forces you to catch EVERYTHING, and continuity is not allowed. I’m thinking it’s nothing. Continuity.

OKAY…I NEED YOU, the READER to JOIN IN!!!
With the Season 3 Finale coming up in 4 weeks (what the hell do we do ‘til Jan 2008?), I have a question for us and want to have some fun with it.

Q: What do you feel the HUGE cliffhanging SEASON FINALE be in 4 weeks? (Think of four things that you feel will be the Season Finale, come up with some ideas and post them in a reply, let’s see if any of us can predict something…I thought this might be fun for all of us)

A:
1) Isaac will come back to us, thanks to Bernard a “Watcher”. I feel that Jacob IS Isaac from the episode of S.O.S., which Rose went to see when Bernard took her there. Isaac thought she was fit to be on the island and she ended up there.
(TRANSCRIPT of the their conversation)
Rose - So, uh, how does this, work? I sit here and you chant? Pray? Or what?

Isaac - There are certain places with great energy, spots on the earth. Like the one we’re above now. Perhaps this energy is geological, magnetic, or perhaps it’s something else? And when possible, I harness this energy and give it to “others”. May I?

(Reaches out for Rose’s face, places his hands centimeters from her cheeks and the music builds and he’s in deep thought, then he opens his eyes in shock. Pulls away)

Rose - What, what what is it?

Isaac - I’m sorry, I can’t do anything for you Rose.

Rose - I didn’t expect you to

Isaac - It’s not that you can’t be healed, it’s different energies, this is not the right place for you.

Rose - Where is the right place?

Isaac - I wish I knew
Also, really quick, Ben promises Juliet, Jacob can save Rachel from her cancer. Same way Isaac can save Rose. Also, We NEVER see Bernard on the plane, but Rose mentions to Jack, Bernard being in the bathroom. There’s the whole Black and White/Ying and Yang with Bernard and Rose. I feel that’s why we haven’t seen Bernard in so long and he was mentioned tonight, keep him out of sight, and people will forget, but when he shows up, Fans all over the world screaming “OHHHHH!!!” will happen. Also, Hurley mentions in “Expose” that the Mr. LaShade was “the Cobra” the WHOLE time after four seasons. An insider was the “man behind the curtain” if you will.
2) LOCKE comes out to get an “angry and much irritated with Ben” Mikhail, who didn’t actually die from the security shield. Mikhail refuses to be Ben’s bitch, and finally gets one over on him. And, Locke needs him to go behind the “others” and rescue Anthony Cooper, but someone will join them along the way, Sawyer. Sawyer kills Anthony Cooper.
3) Sun’s back starts to hurt from the pregnancy, and Juliet saves her. But, Sun has a problem which will be Sun or the baby, something wrong with Sun’s back. BUT, Juliet not talking to Jack anymore, means Jack can’t help her back, but Christian Shepard comes out of the woodwork, and asks Jack to help him.
4) Vincent’s cage is found. But Vincent’s dead body and collar is found too, IN THE CAGE!!! Hmmm…then who is that dog walking around the island?

There you are!!!!! Last night’s episode and more on LOST!. Please have fun with the Season Finale thoughts, I thought that would be fun to make a checklist for some of us an play with. But, none of them will be right knowing this show. Ha!

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b.quain

LOST Theories: Where the Islands are, The Purge, Yellow Brick Road...

2007-04-17T10:23:00.000-04:00

AN OLD THEORY
Bermuda triangle theory? Remember that when watching the first few episodes and you so badly believed that’s where they are. Well, that doesn’t seem so far fetched, since there was this whole Amelia Earhart anagram. Earhat dies flying over the Pacfic Ocean, so Bermuda is out of her question then. Well, there is one place; ten places actually, that supernatural activity has been reported. The Bermuda Triangle is part of these ten areas called the Vile Vortices. I know we’ve heard of these before, especially Sci-Fi fans. And, one of these areas is very much conveniently placed in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and California. (check the map above)
Vanessa and I ran this whole Bermuda Triangle theory, but NEVER dove into the whole Vile Vortices. In time I forgot about this, since this was probably our first time watching the show, but Vanessa brought it up the night of “One Of Us”, and now realized how much more this Vile Vortices makes sense. “One Of Us” displays an anagram which fits for Earhart, and also the OUTSIDE world knows Flight 815 has “disappeared”.
Each of these ten Vile Vortices are named, Bermuda Triangle being one of them, but the location that we feel the island on Lost is located, is surprisingly called “Loyalty Islands”. Now, on these “Loyalty Islands” there is civilization there, but these triangles/Vile Vortices are pretty HUGE, so, maybe there are a few islands for Dharma and Hanso surrounding them?
Well, when looking on google maps, I moved the map around to find JUST northeast of these “Loyalty Islands” but STILL in the triangle are 4 Islands. One major one with two mini islands accompanying it, plus a smaller one JUST a little more off. Looks like our islands! Looks like our LOSTIES.
Also, here is something interesting! Some say that planes, boats, etc. DO NOT disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, some survivors have said to teleport, or transfer to another Vile Vortices. Now, what if, what we saw this week, Ethan and Richard took Juliet towards the Bermuda Triangle, and they knew of an exact point where the teleport section of the Triangle? And Poof! They are now in that Loyalty Island section.
Spending A LOT of time on these websites, and researching these Negative to Positive energy islands, there are so many amazing coincidences to why this section of the earth is the perfect spot for our survivors of this crash. Speaking of CRASH, shouldn’t they be dead? Well. This section of the Vile Vortices holds positive energy. With the positive energy this section gives off, during the Chernobyl accident, this section of the earth, and so close to Ukraine, was unaffected by the explosion. No shit! Even Alaska felt the explosion and some were affected, but why not this triangle, these islands?
The Loyalty Islands also fit comfortably in the Polynesia Triangle. More Greek mythology to make our show’s ongoing Greek hints and appreciation stand out. Let’s go onto what we’re thinking might have happened. Getting onto the island.

A NEW THEORY
What if the “Purge” was to “eliminate”, “cleanse”, or “eradicate” who ever was there before, and make the island their living space? Imagine Alvar Hanso is a Walt Disney figure at this point of our theory. What if, Alvar Hanso is very sick, but knows of a place that can “heal” people and was making a “beautiful place to live and maybe never get sick again” for the world? Hanso needed a team of scientists and doctors to figure out what this energy is.
Hanso buys these islands up, and finds companies like Widmore Pharmaceuticals, Apollo Foods, and Oceanic Air to put some money into this project and things are going smoothly. But at this time, they never knew that the islands powers have had “others” who may have lived there prior, had left the island. The island may not want anyone living there, making people “see things they have never even imagined” as Richard Alpert would say.
What if these flashbacks that we are seeing, it’s not only us seeing them, but the character that we are following that week is seeing as well. We notice that the flashback’s story ties in with the story of what the character is going through that week/day on the island. Maybe the island is reminding them of why these people are “bad” or their downfalls.
Back to Hanso. So Hanso starts to build this community and runs out of money since a lot of unfortunate events start to happen. The money runs out and never gets to finish his dream, and he’s not getting any younger, so they freeze him. Sponsors pull out, but these scientists still have a place to live. During their time there, people start to realize that love is forming on the island and babies are not being conceived on this island. In fact, women are dying on this island because of it. With never being sick, and working hard to make this island the “perfect place”, these scientists work harder, but in some years more people come in.
In 1970, The Hanso Foundation was forced to sell the island to the American Government, whom knows the power of this island, and they decide that they too, can use the islands powers. A married couple, scientists from Hanso and the University of Michigan, Gerrald and (a pregnant) Karen DeGroot, come up with the Dharma Initiative. They leave Hanso’s dream, and start to work for the government to keep their work going. Karen succeeds in having her baby, and she names him Benjamin. Some are amazed at Karen, but some seem skeptical, as if she’s a witch, or not normal. Some people shun the DeGroots, and “others” take them in, giving them a house in the barracks to raise the newborn Ben.
The Dharma Initiative uses their information to “help save the world.” Gerald and Karen not knowing of what the Government REALLY had up their sleeve, Gerald and Karen are put on the back burner. Which is okay, since the birth of Ben and raising him was very important since their were no children on the island.
Between Dharma and Hanso, the island is not big enough for the two of them. In time, they share the island, but Dharma start to go crazy being confined in these hatches. Hatches being built because of in 1986, the explosion in Chernobyl (or something like this) and they are forced to be quarantined. Not knowing the power of the island, Dharma look foolish to Hanso, and something has to be done.
Hanso feels that Dharma don’t belong, so they decide to take their island back. What we know as the “Purge”, Hanso fail in taking back the island. But killing off many of the Dharma (including Gerald and Karen), Ben is 16 years old by this time and can take care of himself.
As we know I don’t want to get in too much about after the Purge, but! I LOVE the idea of Hanso being this Disney mogul-type, and being so close to Oceanic Air mogul Michael Orteig and knows of a spot in the Berumda Triangle that teleports you to these islands. Hanso checks it out, and winds up purchasing these “Special” islands that he will make MILLIONS on by building a civilization where NO ONE gets ill, but time lapsed because of no babies are allowed to be born on the island. Hanso lost money, went frozen until they solved the problem, looks like it might be happening with Aaron being born (or is it Ben?).
The island will give you want you want (Hurley’s van, connecting him with his father), but wants only what is on there (in their minds). It feels it has what it needs on there, and doesn’t want any more, maybe the island isn’t smart enough. But the island saw something in Ben, knowing there is this evil inside him and the island knew his destiny and knew he would help the island. Ben is born on the island, BUT he will not have the powers that “others” have, handed to him. He can feel pain, he can get sick, etc. But someone like, let’s say VERY CLOSE to Ben, like Locke, could and heals very quickly.

A QUICK THOERY
Something stuck me odd when we first met Ben and what I like to call the “Yellow Brick Road” theory. When we first met Ben he went as the name Henry Gale (uncle to Dorothy Gale in the Wizard Of Oz) and the story of the Wizard Of Oz keeps coming back. Think about how Dorothy gets to Oz, a tornado teleports her, if you will (in a dream, but Lost wouldn’t do that to us) and is forced to meet new people and make friends. But in the end of Oz, we find out that the Oz friends, Dorothy was connected to, even related to. Jack and Claire. Get it. Well, I want to tackle the Wizard if you will, the “Man Behind The Curtain” as he is credited as. What if, and what if, we think of Jack as Dorothy and at the end of the movie, the man who brings Dorothy back was a doctor who was no other than the Man Behind the Curtain as well, and Jack’s dad, Christian is a doctor. If you look at the credits for Frank Morgan in the Wizard of Oz, he plays MANY roles in the film, very much like Christian Shepherd. But everyone else plays TWO roles, very much like EVERYONE on the show. Flashback, and island.
This “Yellow Brick Road” theory, I would like to get more into, but I have taken away from the Island. Sorry! I have a great idea for all of us LOST fans to get into for next weeks blog post, and that’s for the season finale coming in almost a month.

(1999 by Prince in my own words)
“I was rushing when I wrote this, so sue me if it makes no sense.”
Sorry this was such a rant, I wrote this in such a hurry and I don’t want to look back, because I will start to edit it, and look too much into it and never post it. So, there will be holes in what I say, and maybe not make much sense. I didn’t want to go into the Purge, or Dharma, or Hanso, but I do, and it’s going to bite me in the ass later. Think of the Islands and where they are.

Thank you guys!
b.quain

my LOST DREAM! Predcition I guess, Vincent, Black Smoke, Brodie!

2007-04-15T10:02:00.000-04:00

As some of you know, I had my wisdom teeth pulled out (yes, I'm 32!! Late bloomer OKAY!) , and the tooth that was next to the bottom right (#31, yup, I know the tooth number, that's how many times I've been to Dr. Behner) needed a filling. Well, I think I'm in need of a root canal at this point, and I woke up at 4:30am in some pain. But what woke me, had to be one of the most abrupt ways to wake. You know the falling off a cliff, and wake up upon impact? Here's the dream.
I'm on the island (I shit you not), and instead of what the producers would have as a baby crying somewhere in the jungle, it was one of our three kitties howling, Brodie. I'm walking around the jungle looking for this sound. I know it's island too, just from how comfortable I was in the dream, knowing where I was going as if one of the characters always seem to know on the show.
After feeling LOST for so long and not being able to find Brodie, Vincent is about 20 yards from me staring at me and panting. He turns his head and books it into the jungle. I follow him (damn, I'm stupid), and we run for a bit. I lose him, but we end up to where there is a tree and a cage right next to it. I see the carcass of an animal and I'm thinking Brodie didn't make it after the crash. I walk up to the cage and decaying animal seems t big to be Brodie and I look closer and there is a collar.
"Brodie doesn't have a collar"
At this time, I turn the color and name one the collar to read, Vincent. The dog that was JUST running in the woods, making me come out here, is dead, decaying in this cage. Did he NOT survive the crash and dead this whole time? Then who is the dog running…
That's the point I turn around and the BLACK SMOKE and impales me making me wake up.

BRODIE vs VINCENT!!!!

THOUGHTS:
- Is Vincent's cage still out there?
- Is Vincent still in the cage?
- Am I bad? (kidding)
- Can I harm the island? (ha!)

(THIS IS NOT THE THEORY I AM STILL WORKING ON, EXPECT IT MONDAY OR TUESDAY. IT WILL BE UP BEFORE THE NEXT EPISODE)

LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of ONE OF US..S03EP17...RECAPS AND PREDICTIONS

2007-04-12T10:54:00.000-04:00

First off, one thing must be said and done, and taking a moment to honor an amazing novelist and brilliant writer Kurt Vonnegut, who passed away last night. You will be missed, and thank you for some excellent excellent work. (it’s 7:15am, and this is what I JUST woke up to! Sad). I will not blog about it, this will be a blog everyone will do, but I will honor him and appreciate everything he did.

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

LOST BLOG

Good episode? Yeah! Good episode!!!! But, did we get duped with TWO Juliet flashbacks this early in the season. The ONE character, besides Ben, that needs to keep us hanging on with was Juliet. We could have used a Sawyer flashback or a Jin/Sun flashback this week, and maybe hit us HARD with Juliet, but the pacing in this season is incredible. (Always has been for most of the doubters prior.) So we were hit VERY HARD with some familiar faces, and some secrets revealed that were predictions whispered on the couch while we were watching Season 1.
One thing I did LOVE about this episode was, ALL the hints, secrets, theories, puzzles, were in the flashbacks really. Maybe all but the marking on the tree (similar to Juliet’s back), this episode’s secrets was all flashback. BUT, what did we get out of this episode that focused so much on Juliet and the secrets of the Others?

THIS IS WHAT I GOT FROM: “One Of Us”

JACK and KATE
Nothing gets solved here, just some recapping and maybe reassuring us Jack is still one of the Flight 815 survivors. This whole scene and the last scene helps us realize how much one man can take, and soon we will see how more he can’t take. Jack’s pretty angry and honestly, he doesn’t need to take this shit from anyone. 3 months ago he started a new life clean slate and already he has been broken hearted. I DO NOT want to be around that island when Jack discovers Juliet’s true plans. “Don’t trust a word she says” may be the only once of truth out of Ben’s mouth.

HERARAT AVIATION
And the pilot will be Noah himself. Okay! Three things I got from the name HERARAT was, ONE – Juliet IS a rat (her a rat). And TWO – Ararat was the resting place for Noah’s Ark after the floods. Tsunami anyone? Floods? I’m telling you. THREE – ANAGRAM TIME – Earhart, as in Amelia Earhart, who mysteriously died over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. The name Herarat is a pretty shady/shit name for an aviation company. Don’t Google this one, no fake websites.

SUBMARINE
Jim pointed this out, MAYBE the submarine NEVER moved. And YES, of course it didn’t. I agree with Jim on this one. Juliet was transported by Herarat Aviation and taken on the island for her to believe SHE TOO cannot get off the island. Ben has this whole “warden” persona, and uses it to have the upper hand on anyone. Another thing, HOW GORGEOUS was that shot of the submarine and the island?!?! WOW! Does anyone remember Skeleton Crew by Stephen King and the whole teleportation story “The Jaunt.” Great collection. “The Monkey” and “The Raft!!!!” Read some of these.

REUNION
So Jack, Kate, Sayid are back home, and this time they brought a friend and Jack almost has to ask the camp, “Can we keep her, huh, can we, please? I promise she’ll be good. She won’t shit on the rug”, or sand for that matter. I guess she might have to now.
But she was good, for the most part. Saved Claire’s life, right? Hmmm. But there was something more deep down that confused me and that was Jack’s “Do you trust me?” attitude or more fright than anything. Fright of losing everyone’s trust?
It’s been 18 days since Jack was at camp, and kidnapped from the Others. Everyone seemed happy to see him, but we didn’t hear “Jack guess what?” and “You’ll never guess what Hurley did!!!” or even “Nikki and Paolo, these two died from, blah blah blah.” None of that. Jack must realize that his position as leader might have diminished, since it’s been 3 months and everyone might start taking control of their own destiny on the island. Everything Jack stands for to the Losties, s slowly going away.

EXCEPTION CONCEPTION
We know this whole being pregnant on the island is a no no. But, how were Karl and Alex born on the island? Were they BEFORE the “Purge” and was this why the island was under quarantine? Alex and Karl, we need MORE!

BEN IS VIP, An A-LISTER
Ben=Puffy Combs on Loyalty Island! Get with Ben and your name is on the “list.” The scene with Juliet on the rocks watching the water was pretty intense. This was Ben’s lying and conniving ways on steroids. Sabine, Mikhail, Jacob all in ONE conversation, wow Ben, who else are we missing?
Sabine? Who? I think it was referenced to one of the greatest love stories ever told “Griffin and Sabine” of two people corresponding through postcards, and their love goes full-force in some mysterious ways. But, Sabine lives on an island and is a stamp maker. Soul mates, or “a figment of my imagination” accuses Griffin to Sabine. READ this! Excellent. Great reference.
Mikhail. Yes we heard his name before, I mean shit, we watch the man die, BUT what is all this we see him doing? (more to come). And JACOB AGAIN!!!! Whoohoo, now he cures cancer. Is that what he was doing while trying to get his LOVE Rose onto the island. Jacob, we’ll call Bernard for now, went to meet Rachel, bumps into Rose, and we have a love story. He takes Rose to, wait, this not a recap, this is a theory. (more to come, someday, I love to tease ya!)

AND THE AWARD GOES TO?
Wow! Wow! WOW! That scene where Juliet tells Ben he has cancer, the argument that rears its ugly head, and some acting that BLEW ME AWAY. Some of the best acting we have seen YET on this show, and I guarantee we will see some Emmy noms and Golden Globe noms for this season going to Michael Emerson and Elizabeth Mitchell. Congrats to them for this remarkable episode.

MIKHAIL
Oh man. This man was a loose canon. Itchy trigger finger for Sayid, knows more than meets the eye with Locke, tells his co-worker to kill him, but it’s Locke who kills him. What gives? Why did Mikhail want to die so bad? AND, how did Mikhail KNOW that Sayid, Locke and Kate were coming to move all the screens and video console by the time they got there. Mikhail had a bad-ass hatch, and it seems it got stripped down somewhat after the crash. I REPEAT, he wants to die so bad, but why? What did these “hostels” do to him? Did he do something like Juliet, and still not forgiven Mikhail for his mistakes? Did Mikhail kill someone too? Why the patch? Cyclops? Ha! Sorry.

THE SAWYER/SAYID SHOW
These two should take their little act on the road. But, once you get a heckler like Juliet, and it’s all over. Wow! For a second I think I could hear EVERYONE watching the show gasp for something major going to happen. But it’s Juliet who turns the tables and amazes us, and truly amazes herself as well. Will we be seeing more of Sawyer and Sayid together, working together, some foreshadowing here?

JULIET HATES FREAKS, I MEAN LOSTIES
“One Of Us” huh? Jim and Jaosn were over last night and when we get into conversations about films, it gets crazy. But one film didn’t strike any nerves last night and seems no one owns this on DVD. What’s wrong with us!?!?!
The 1932 film “Freaks” (a must see for all of you David Lynch fans) has this remarkable and most stand out lines in the film “One of us, one of us.” This line is used and repeated by some of the cast members (freaks if you will), in the marriage scene where Cleo marries Hans. Cleopatra never intended to be with Hans, cause she loved, but for the fact of money. Cleopatra never liked the circus freaks anyway. Well, later on Cleo is brutally attacked when the circus freaks find out about her evil ways and make Cleopatra deformed, making her “One Of Them.”
How does this connect with Juliet? Well we have two theories here. Juliet is LYING to Ben and going to go behind his back and save the “Losties”, or if the reference sticks true, then Juliet is evil, hates the Losties and is only doing it for Ben’s (something), and the Losties will attack, and you don’t want that, duh duh dun uh.

THE LAST SCENE
Let’s think about this. HARD! Ben has this whole plan of the injecting Claire WEEKS before this conversation with Juliet. He KNEW damn well that the injection planted in Claire would give way and make her sick on point, and precise. 48 hours yes, but to implant her weeks ago to get Juliet over there. COME ON!
He knew what he was doing pre-flight. Getting Rose on that flight for Jacob, I mean BERNARD. Making Flight 815 crash, and how? Oh man, I have a SURPRISE for you tomorrow! One thing that makes me go, “OH MAN no WAY!!!!!” in that scene is when Ben says “Claire should be symptomatic in 48 hours”, Juliet looks at Ben then looks up thinking “Oh man, you are an asshole buddy, and if you think you are taking me with you, you’re taking the piss, ya dummy!” Re-watch that scene! I have a feeling we may have one of the greatest cliff hanging season finales known to man.

WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT, LOST!
Juliet (to Rachel) – “I’m never going to fit in with these people” Eh, probably not, but you are doing an amazing job showing them both sides of the story. One day you want to stay on the island and have sexy time with Goodwin, and another day you want off the island so bad, you are grabbing Ben by the shirt crying into his chest.. These Mitelos Bioscience/Hostels know what they want, and Juliet seems to still not know what’s going on.

Juliet (to Richard) – “I didn’t even know they had an airport out here.” Submarine huh? Hell no! They flew Juliet out there. To a submarine, that doesn’t even work? Need to work? Should work? Have to work? (more in the Unanswered questions). You might not be able to fly planes onto to Loyalty Island, so where does this submarine park itself?

Richard Alpert (to Juliet) – “I know six months sounds like eternity, but you’ll be amazed on how time flies once your there.” Once again, TIME is not on your side Juliet. What does this mean? Time flies! All these references on time. Is Juliet enslaved by time and space? I don’t think so.

Juliet (to Hurley) – “I had the day off” What is this? Was this her sarcasm to fit in? Did she really have the day off that day while everyone else was busy whispering in the woods and kidnapping our Lostie friends? I found this interesting. Maybe nothing at all.

Ben (to Juliet) – “Unless you don’t have faith in him.” Man! Faith in Jacob? Ben gets kind of weird with Jacob. But with Ben, I don’t think there is faith. He has the WHOLE thing planned out. I mean, Mikhail had this amazing equipment to watch people and news. And that is taken away from him when Ben says so. Ben has so much up his sleeve, and the Flame Hatch isn’t even the least bit of it. Where did they go now?

Juliet (to Goodwin) – “Karl developed some X-Rays for me” Karl did what? First time we met this chump he was reading “A Brief History In Time” guarding the Room 23 main door. So, is he a tech, nurse, doctor’s assistant? What’s up with Karl, is he more than meets the eye?

Ben (to Juliet) - Maybe there’s one on that plane! He’s not asking if there is a pregnant woman on the plane, or questioning it. HE KNOWS there is. Ben knows all. Ben is on time and on point with everything. He knows there’s some pregnant women on the plane.

Juliet (to Ben) – I’m fine” Ben gets through all the plans and how things are going to roll out with the Juliet being one of them. But WOW JULIET, you don’t look fine, you look as if you may have been brainwashed or giving a less hearted robotic answer. RE-WATCH THIS SCENE. WOW! Friggin intense. GREAT!

Ben (to Juliet) - “See you in a week” Ben assures Juliet after the pans are done and she is made camp with the Losties, he’ll see her in a week. Not if Penny and her trusty boat can help it. This will give us 6 episodes and 6 days for something major to happen. That takes us to, one of my favorite sections of the blog.

PREDICTIONS:

- Juliet will cave in and a boat coming to take Desmond away means a HUGE chance for her to get off the island.
- In 6 days (that’s how many episodes are left anyway), a boat will come to get Desmond off the island, this will get in Ben’s way of his plans and keeping Juliet there and his rabbits Sun and Claire. Don’t blow this one up Locke.
- The Desmond flashback needs to be right around the corner and needs to explain more on his “time and space” condition (that was ONCE LOCKES!!!) and the military.
- It takes two to tango might be a huge discovery for me while watching Lost. We see Juliet’s face when she realizes how bad she’s going to HURT Jack, and the tie of the knot. But, we have yet to see Jack’s face. Jack knows better, he was hurt by so many people, may he have learned his lesson with Kate. Probably not, but it takes two to tango!
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HUGE THEORY/PREDICTION BLOG TOMORROW!!!!

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

- How can Mitelos, Flight 815 or Hostels fly out to the island, but no one else can?
- Where the hell is Rousseau?
- Sabine died on the operating table, BUT how far was she? Did she have the baby?
- Did Ben really know about the tumor in his back? Make it happen?
- Has Jack been faking it?
- Where is this island? Hmmm? We’ll talk more tomorrow!!!

Thanks everyone!!! Great episode, and I think this one will bring us to third base, and soon gets us home! Baseball night last night and Jim’s Pirates lost, Jason’s Red Sox lost, and our Mets LOST!

b.quain

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LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of LEFT BEHIND..S03EP15

2007-04-05T11:31:00.000-04:00

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

THIS MORNING’S LOST BLOG IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: DUN’KIN DONUTS COFFEE. Wow, much needed.
Oy, what a night. So many predictions felt like they were (in Lost terms) answered. And one I was so happy to see was the prediction of the rain!!! Whoohoo, called that one, and felt great to see, wait, rain only happened for the same length as the black smoke right? REWATCH! What the hell was THAT? So no Nikki coming back, so close, BUT,

JULIET
Juliet called the rain, giving 30 second before it actually came down, the same amount of time, Locke to Boone. That scene was totally almost a spitting image of Locke and Boone in Season One with Locke predicting the rain. Wonder what’s going on here?
Juliet has some issues. Like everyone, or anyone on the island, she has death, cheating, and lack of confidence surrounding her. The lack of confidence might have been the reason to handcuff herself to Kate, seeing what her feelings for Jack really were. Or pushing Kate’s buttons to see what Kate would do, and see what her love for Jack really is. Okay, I know we saw all this, and we get it, sorry. But what is up with Juliet?
Juliet seems to be a kung-fu master in navy seal mode, taking down Kate with only one swift flip. Was she gassed? NO! With the knife, anticipating Kate to take it from her, as if she was awake the whole time. In fact Juliet never sleeps it seems, even after the black smoke scanned her I the tree house. Juliet is not what she seems. What is IS, is a doctor (with some badass training), and someone is need to a fertility doctor on the beach. So, Juliet, we introduce to you, SUN! Plus, she has some history with Sawyer still, right? It’s going to get good.
Another thing really quick about Juliet, she would have shown Kate (but mostly us, as we know Lost loves to do) her marking on her back if what she was saying we’re true. To remind us, that she was marked. When Jack sets Juliet free, from the jury and they mark her, Tom’s face hits the floor. Seems like what’s about to happen to her, might be the worst punishment for anyone. What if it’s not that? What IF, when Jack told them to set her free, if they said, well Jack thinks she’s fit to become our doctor, a watcher, and a mole if you will. I understand the arguments here, that it was Ben that had to do it, YES of course it was, but it was BECAUSE of Jack that Ben made the move. TESTS!
I think they moved Juliet up in the ranking of “others” more than just letting her go to death. Juliet was NEVER to die, they were waiting to see what Jack would do. He did it, and now she’s moved up to be something more powerful. She can kick ass, she can kick ass on no sleep, and she’s just all around KICK ASS! LOVE JULIET, best character we have going for us in this season. HURLEY AND JULIET, you have a spot at our dinner table ANY NIGHT you’d like!

BEING A GEEK PAYS OFF, SUCKERS!!!!!!!!
The smoke has been amazing thus far, but FINALLY the writers/producers (DamonCuse) gave us a shape and form to this monster for us geeks to finally go, OH MAN!!!! NICE!!!
If anyone like myself is a HUGE gamer, and plays RPG’s like a mutha, then you would have noticed something about the Smokey. As a kid playing Zelda, Final Fantasy Castlevania, Devil May Cry and I’m even playing right now GOD OF WAR, we seem to always fight a Cerberus. Three headed dog. Last night, the smoke, it floated as if it was a three-headed “something”, not saying a dog. WAIT! YES I AM! Vincent. So, as of today we will be calling the black smoke as it was called in Greek mythology and many enjoyable video games, “Cerberus.”
Cerberus was a three headed dog that protected Hades, and also known as the “demon of the pit.” Cerberus is a tough mother, but Hercules defeated it once, and has weaknesses. Song and water. Charlie=song. But, water, which brings us to,

RAIN
Why is the rain so evil!!! Ana-Lucia kills Shannon in the rain. Desmond predicts a major rainstorm to Charlie. Walt (what I’m thinking) stopped the rain so Michael could find his dog. Ethan was shot in the rain, and beat Jack to a pulp. Why is the rain SO BAD? Plus, why the hell did the rain go away when “Cerberus” did? Did anyone notice that the rain came, so did Cerberus, but then went away when the rain did, or vice versa. Like Desmond said, expect a rainstorm.

IT’S A FACT!!
Juliet IS an OTHER. As soon as Juliet SCREAMS in pain from the dislocated shoulder, her “dog”, her guardian, her CERBERUS, comes to save her. The black smoke comes to her aide. But Cerberus just gets in the way to Juliet’s plans with Kate, so Juliet has Cerberus scan HER and not Kate. Juliet plays dumb to what the Cerberus is, but then when the truth (the KEY) came out, Juliet became a loin tamer to it, and knew EXACTLY what to do with the security barrier. Juliet is one of them, and the producers/writers (DamonCuse) gave that to us so EARLY! Which can lead us to.

WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF NOT KNOWING WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!! (KATE)
Greatest line in the show EVER! Damon Lindeoff’s way of saying “haha, I know what you guys (us) are going through, and it’s SO MUCH FUN!” But Kate has no friggin’ clue what’s up! Poor Kate, she’s stuck with Juliet who’s sitting there letting Kate pour some shit about the village Juliet lives in, being gassed and her friends, and Juliet is sitting there as if to say, “Yes yes, my sweet dear Kate, yes, tell me.” But when in all honesty, Juliet is thinking, you poor sad little sucker of a “bad” person. But bad? How do we know this?
Locke was told, by the Others, “what Kate did”, so he says. Isn’t that Season 1? GREAT EPISODE (What Kate Did, go watch it again this week since this flashback happened connects to What Kate Did) But, did they tell Locke who Jack was, and Sayid, and anyone else? Is Ben and Locke passing pints around, playing backgammon (black and white), or Mouse Trap (which we see in this episode TWICE!) Last thing we remember was Locke f’ed things up for the Others, but in all honesty, he made things, SO MUCH BETTER! Plus, why is Locke bandaged up? Did he take it out on the real Sawyer?

FLASHBACK!
I think this was the first time we had a flashback that was based on a connection. Is it me, or are we going to see these happen more often? You can’t take that away from us. Jack and Sarah will connect soon with other members, and so will Sawyer and the real Sawyer. I have a feeling flashbacks are obsolete in Season 5.
Also, in this flashback! Did Cassidy know Diane Janssen (Kate’s mom) at all? We see Kate’s mom stare her down for like 4 seconds before we hear “Go, go, go!” Now let’s go back and remember, Diane waited on Sawyer in Keith’ Diner in “the Long Con.” Is there more to the story we don’t know about? Also, bibles, being sold, is DamonCuse trying to sell us on the fact more biblical shit is to hit the fan?

IT’S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW!
Backgammon came back! Mouse trap is back. Cowboy up (Sawyer tells Karl to do) and Kate’s hat says “Cowboy Up”. Good people, bad people. Juliet has dislocated her shoulder 4 times, a number! Watership Down is being read again, more on that to come. MAJOR reoccurring things here.

HURLEY
“I’m not supposed to be here”, and yes, I know what he meant, meaning in the exact same spot as Sawyer for that moment. But, we know what he meant. I’m telling you! He was NEVER meant to get on that plane. And NOW, Hurley is proving my case right, more and more every week. The island had showed us the fear Hurley has. The numbers, Libby’s death, monsters, etc., but since the van, Hurley took that fear, met it face to face, and now is the real Hurley. The Hurley who built the golf course to better everyone, a TRUE leader if you will. Jack ya nunce, you’re no leader, neither is Sawyer, Sayid or Kate, HURLEY it’s YOU!

THE ISLAND
The Island is very tricky, not saying it’s smart, but sneaky, and has faults like all of us. It can give you what you want, like McCrutcheons Whiskey, Apollo Candy, Expose, the Numbers, Mouse Trap (we got into that), etc. It reads inside you’re head and gives the victim similarities to their past, and it becomes a test.
The island might have proved something we talked about with Mikhail and Locke. The security barrier. Was it on when Locke threw him in? No! Did Locke WANTING it to be on, make the fence turn on? Yes! Juliet had to push some numbers (1623) to turn it on, then arm the red button. It was off before hand, now it was on?
But it’s faults are starting to rear it’s ugly head, like giving Hurley a van. Hurley, Vincent, and Charlie, racing to their death, then Hurley wanting to come over faliure SO BAD, defeats the Island and his fear is gone. The Island is so screwed with Hurley now, it’s amazing. Someone who’s not supposed to even be there, is solving it’s puzzles and tests. Hurley might have done a bad bad thing with Nikki and Paolo, but Vincent knows they’re alive, and someone needs those diamonds. Did Hurley kill anyone? More to come.

SAWYERS BOOK OF THE WEEK CLUB
This week is, uh, wait, this can’t be right. “Watership Down”? Didn’t Sawyer already read this? Hmmm. Didn’t I just erase this off my DVR so I can keep my back episodes of Lost? Damnit! But I do see a connection, but what I might be seeing here is maybe a connection of the book to next week’s episode. Think about it, the book comes out FIRST, then comes the movie, or TV. So, we get the book, then the next week’s episode will connect.
The rabbits will be Jack, Kate, Juliet, Sayid walking through the jungle to get to a “better” place. The rabbits were “running” from the dogs in Watership Down, but in this case the Losties are running from, wait, I don’t know. Need to read this again, I have it somewhere.

LITTLE DITTY, ABOUT JACK AND JULIET
Are they taking the same self-defense classes? Kate is getting the shit kicked out of her by these two.

COINED TERMS THIS WEEK:
Writers/Producers – DamonCuse
Black Smoke – Cerberus

ANSWERED (in my eyes)
- Desmond is hunting boar huh? Locke type things to do
- Hurley is NOT supposed to be there.
- Juliet is an “other”
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UNANSWERED
- Where is Rousseau?
- Juliet is a ninja warrior? From where?
- Where did the “others” go?
- Why didn’t the rabbits live in the barracks?
- Jack can sleep for a long time, or was he gassed a day later?

PREDICTIONS/THEORIES
- Locke is an "other", Cerberus scanned Locke and let him go. Locke and Ben brothers still? Oh yes oh yes!
- Bernard is HIM! It’s official!
- Juliet is promoted to a “watcher” now, and will watch Sun’s pregnancy
- Major fights will happen making more rain come, meaning Nikki will come back.
- So many to think of, maybe next week, before this next episode I will spill some beans. But, I must put up the BLOG for you!

Okay everyone, here you are. Last night’s “Left Behind”! Enjoy!

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LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of EXPOSE..S03EP14

2007-03-29T11:58:00.000-04:00

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

Woke up around 9AM, sorry so late on the blog! Enjoy.

So, a few clues, wait, no, many many clues were answered tonight, and maybe the first time in TV history, it wasn’t ridiculous or far fetched. Definitely not treated as if it was a shitty cliffhanger season finale. I really enjoyed how most scenes that were re-shot, and were done right. The producers did an amazing job with giving us the plane crash again, and bringing Nikki and Paolo in this time.

R.I.P. NIKKI/PAOLO (it’s like we hardly even knew ya)
So finally, 95% of Lost fans got what they wanted last night. Some clues solved and redheaded stepchildren were killed off. I was so friggin’ shocked to see a Nikki/Paolo centric episode, and I felt that it was ballsy to all hell. I really thought it was the producers were about to force these two assholes on us. But quite the contrary. I was amazed they wanted us to hate them even more, by making them evil.
Then, the producers gave us A+ flashbacks, and we had a flashback, within a flashback. NICE! Yet to be done. Unless there are secrets we don’t know about with Desmond. So in this blog, the island says goodbye to two more castaway Losties, or do we?

WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO GUEST STARS
“…We bring them back next season.”, Zukerman jokes to Nikki, so, see you soon Nikki and Paolo, see you very soon. Well, I have a feeling Paolo is dead, but Nikki, since we saw those eyes open, she’s going to be back. And more EVIL than ever. We have YET to see someone on this island, as the “others” would like to say, bad. Nikki had this greed inside her, very much like Kate, nagging very much like Shannon, and a horrible actress very much like, well, no one, Nikki just sucks.

PLANE CRASH
Seriously, that scene was so amazing. Shot for shot of it, there has to more than meets the eye. What I’d love to know was what was Paolo seeing when Nikki came up to him. Staring out into the sky and tearing up. NEED TO KNOW what happened to Paolo, he seemed very sweet, and was ready to come clean. Damn you island for killing him off now, grrr.

SAWYER/THE ISLAND - MEMROIES
A few things are striking me odd here, but I’m sure we are all getting this. But with Sawyer’s big mouth we tend to laugh at what he says and not take him seriously. Vanessa said it best last night, “Sawyer doesn’t seem himself lately” and I think we are all starting to realize people are changing left and right on the island. Like the Goonies tagline should of been on the poster, LET’S GET INTO SOME DEEP SHIT!
Last week Locke was watching Expose in his little dinky apartment, (see last weeks blog for pic). If you listen to the TV, it mentions Cobra and Crystal. Who were shown last night. So, shouldn’t he recognize Nikki on the island? I understand that she was a “guest star”, BUT, she had to come from somewhere and not just geeks wet dreams. Other shows. What about Hurley, he’s the geeksusmaximus, and would hang out with Vanessa, myself, and Jim and Jen all the time, so that would mean, he HAS to know Nikki from somewhere. People know DriveShaft. LOVE DRIVESHAFT, my I-Tunes is always on repeat. But not Nikki? Is the Island playing games.
3 months!!!!! Are you kidding me, 3 MONTHS and Sawyer keeps saying who are you/they about Nikki and Paolo. Something is going on.
I think it was a brilliant display of giving Nikki/Paolo haters a way of finally getting something from them, and then killing them off, ALIVE! Insert “SEE! ZOMBIES” here. Chills!
The Island is starting to take a better form of seeing everyone and now learning what it can do with these people there. I did notice that the ONE ad on the sideline of the “proper” football game Desmond was watching in “Flashes Before Your Eyes” came to life last night. The ad was for Expose, and BAM, it was on last night. So the Island doesn’t go to far out there and only sticks with what it knows. Numbers, Apollo, Oceanic, Hanso, Epxose, etc. The Island doesn’t want Sawyer to remember, there’s more to it. And HURLEY…

SAINT HUGO IS DEAD
Wow, Hurley man, what did you have to go and do that for? Hurley has been a saint before and on the island. In his flashbacks Hurley has done NO wrong and on the island he is the one who helps everyone in their bind. Shit! He invented the HUGO CUP for Brodie’s sake. But last night we witnessed Saint Hugo do something that has now finally made Hurley a reason to be on the island. Remember, HE WAS NEVER TO BE ON THAT PLANE, he didn’t HAVE to be there. But he made it, and the island knew Hurley was wrapped around it’s finger. It brought back the numbers, it killed his girlfriend, it tried to make him kill Charlie with a van, but he overcame that fear, and now the island tricks him more. Last night’s episode was about one thing and ONE thing only. To show us HULREY KILLED SOMEONE. And it was a shity way to kill someone, very sneaky sis. I know I know I know, he didn’t even know, and that’s NOT FAIR, but hey Locke, why don’t you remind me what you said last night. Oh yeah, “THINGS DON’T STAY BURIED ON THE ISLAND”, and remember that.
Sorry Hurley, I love you mate, I do, but you did a bad bad thing last night, and we all saw it. You are now no better than anyone else on the island. Sucks! BUT! We’re they dead?!?!?!?! NO! And who wants those diamonds now? Who’s going to bury up the sand and find the two of them alive? Gone? Took acting lessons? PLEASE! Nikki SUCKS!

BOOKS AND BOOKS GALORE

“THE PIGS ARE WALKING” screams Arzt. From George Orwells “Animal Farm. Nice! Love ya Arzt. Miss you! Ha!
SAWYERS BOOK CLUB: This week Sawyer brings us “Evil Under The Sun” by Agatha Christie. Need look it up. I think I have some summer reading to do.

NO MAPOTHER, YES MAPOTHER
Last week, when I was going to screen a shot of William Mapother and explain more on the whole thing about him not being able to speak at my screening of his film. I wanted the screenshot of him coming out of the door and saying “Hello” to Juliet, and to my amazement.. Look at the hallway. And after I found the screencap, I was finishing my second time watching the episode to recap on the blog, and I saw the hallway with Richard, Locke and Ben. Same set? Same hatch? Same what IS THIS? Any ideas?
Vanessa and I met up with Sarah Kelly, writer/director of “The Lather Effect”, the film William Mapother is in at the festival, and she said “Willy is right now doing a pilot, but would have been so excited about the show and watching.” LIFE SUCKS! Ha!Very happy though for William Mapother and wish him the best. Ethan is friggin’ SCARY!

Can anyone find anything on the name Brett Decter? I tried Wikkipedia, and Google. I also did a anagram on the name, nothing. Interesting. Time to play with the other names.

PREDICTIONS
- Kate will return for Sawyer
- Sawyer will go with Kate, he’s in love, and everyone is mad at Sawyer, maybe even kicked off the beach
- Sawyer will meet up with the real Sawyer and kill him
- Someone might wants some diamonds and bury up Nikki and Paolo.
- Desmond and Claire, more to come, PLEASE
- Juliet is done with the Others for awhile, and needs to help someone. Sun.
- Will Jack every go back, Yes! But wait until he finds out he’s not the leader they thought he was. Open arms or banished as well?

ANSWERED QUESTIONS/THEORIES:
- Tom worked in the Pearl Station
- Charlie bagged himself a Sun
- Mr. Lashade WAS the Cobra, bastard!
- Juliet thinks Jack is Cute, on their 49th day being there.
- Expose was an international hit.
- Desmond sees “flashes”
- Hurley killed someone, yes he did, stop, he did, sorry
- Nikki can’t act! Uck!

CONFUSED:
- The date on the newspaper (Nikki and Paollo are reading I the airport) says Thursday Sept. 24, 2004, but the flight was Sept. 22nd, 2004. Plus on my ICal, the date of Sept. 24th, was a Friday. Weird
- Keys around the neck? Zukerman, and Jack. What is this?
- Did Paollo ever try the walkie-talkie?
- Eko says “you’re next”, who is NEXT?

LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of The Man From Tallahassee...S03EP13

2007-03-22T10:29:00.000-04:00

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE MARCIE?!
First off all I need to say is that CLEO KING was on the episode, yes yes yes, I called that, MARCIE from Magnolia. Weird! That whole post of Magnolia and Lost connections stuck very true, but the Cleo King and Ricky Jay were just me being retarded. And looky looky here, Cleo King makes her way onto the show 3 episodes later. Very cool. So now 4 Magnolia cast members made their way onto Lost. Congrats!

WHAT’S LOCKED UP IN LOCKE?
Therapy huh? Who was his therapist? A Watcher? Maybe! In last weeks episode, the watcher played the role of a cop, so why not a therapist? Also, depression? So, I’m guessing this is before we see him on the bed of Season 1, talking to phone sex girls, but after the box company. Then not getting the money from “daddy” Cooper, and losing Helen, or maybe even the Navy Commander he joked about being in this episode. SERIOUSLY! A military reference with Locke, A++++
Obviously Locke didn’t receive the $200,000 from Cooper for the help Locke was to provide for him. Locke is in some dingy $20 a night motel sized apartment, eating Banquet Salisbury Steak frozen foods. Guess you can use that disability money now, huh Locke?
One more thing! We still have to see 4 more years of Locke in that wheelchair in flashbacks, so let the wheelin’ begin.

YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL
Juliet throws a football better than Tom, seriously. Just thought we should point that out.

HIT THE ROAD JACK
JACK! Snap out of it man! Isn’t this way you got divorced in the first place, do you not learn from mistakes? You can’t be in love with Kate, and run off with Juliet! Naw uh!!! That was a test before Jack! Kissing that Italian woman (maybe a watcher?) and Sarah leaving you already, all that was a test Jack. Now this? But honestly who didn’t get goose bumps when he said, “I will come back for you” to Kate.
So my prediction of Juliet and Jack leaving by season finale was wrong, but they were leaving. So now they HAVE TO play along with everything Ben and Tom want. A lot is going to open up from here, I will admit. It seems Jack hasn’t learned from his test with women, and CAN’T leave the island.

JACK AND KATE SOAP OPERA
Ryan yells with a gun at Kate’s face, “Who else is WITH YOU?”, and Kate looks at Jack, and Jack says “Just answer the question Kate.” Deep down, there is more than meets the eye there. Jack means tell me Sawyer is with you, as in “with you.” Kate has no clue that Jack knows about the cage match-up the two had.
“I’m not with anyone Kate” was a great line too. Jack oh Jack, just tell her how you feel. She meant are you with “them”, and we know what you meant. Wait, you do tell her at the end of this scene. You will be her knight in shining armor with a cavalry to take her off the island. Hate to say it Jack, that didn’t work out for ya. Next!

BEN! THE TWO OF US...
Ben was born on the island, this much is true? No! HE’S A LIAR!!! Everything out of this man’s mouth is a LIE! Everyone is telling us that. But why is he not recovering faster? Is it because maybe, just maybe he told the truth, and HE IS BORN ON THE ISLAND. Maybe something is very spiritual and mysterious about this island. Maybe you can have what you deep down desire, like the “box” Ben is talking about. What if Hurley REALLY NEEDED that VW van, to bring back the feeling he had with his dad. Or what if Kate wanted the Marshall to die, to stop being on the run. What if Sawyer really wanted Anthony Cooper to be there to venge his parents? Wait moving to fast here.
So Locke was paralyzed, and ANY time it’s mentioned, he slips out of his element. He cries deep down inside, and the pain is unbearable. But what about Ben? Is it a test? Did someone make Ben sick to see if Jack would work on him? I think so. TESTS people! TESTS!
“Most of us were recruited and committed” Ben says! What the hell is that, a cult? Please, no! But I think Mitellos, Hanso, and Widmore started this underground experiment for the island, and Room 23’d (brainwashed) them into staying, loving, and accepting the island for everything it holds dear. Sick bastards!
Also, Ben blows up the submarine? Is that what Alex is saying? He makes you think the idea is yours, but it’s his? Love that! Also, Ben mentions fear and afraid again, and proves that the island wants people to remain scared. Hurley defeated that though! Way to go HUGO!
Plus, did you check out…

BEN’S LIVING QUARTERS
The art work, paintings, sculptures, books (A Brief History In Time), the clock reading 4:20 (but 4 is a number!). The painting of the woman in the chair I found bizarre. Also, in Ben’s room, the chart and symbols of stars and constellations. Well, then that room must be Alex’s.

BEN AND LOCKE
Okay people, RE-WATCH THIS EPISODE! Little things said, became HUGE theories. Ben is talking to Locke like they’ve been friends for years. Ben jokes about the two hamsters in a wheel for their electricity, and that sounds like Locke’s sarcasm. Or Sawyer. Plus, the way Ben says “I ate most the dark meat, sorry” knowing Locke is a fan of dark meat. No report, or book, or tests will show Locke likes his leg, thigh and not breast.
One thing Ben says “How do you think you know this island better than I do?” and I’m telling you right now! BECAUSE LOCKE HAS BEEN ON THIS ISLAND BEFORE!! He might not know it better than you, but he has been there.

BATMANUEL
Richard Alpert is an other huh? Well, I think we knew that, when hanging out with Ethan in the episode “Not In Portland”. But is he the brains behind Mittelos or is there more? Is that voice we hear in the video of Juliet’s sister Rachel and niece (then goes dark) saying don’t trust them Juliet and all the talk of false hope and science? Or is the voice someone who left Mittelos? What is Mittelos Bioscience?

THE MAN FROM TALLAHASSEE
“You make people think you are their family” Locke tells Cooper, and what you are saying Locke is very true. HE IS NOT YOUR DADDY! Remember what your mother said. You are “special”, immaculately conceived. Mittelos and Juliet have their work cut out for them, but what about before Juliet’s time. I mean Locke is at least 10 years older than her. How is Locke part of that?
But, the question on most people is WHY is Cooper there, and that’s easy. Sawyer needs to see him again. But! HOW is Cooper there? And bloody? He’s a prisoner? Did he screw over the Talbots and the Talbots are connected to maybe Hanso? Or Widmore? HOW is Cooper there? Easy, he conned Widmore/Hanso and they send him to an island and BAM! There he is. The others are a little too smart, and coned him into going there.
What do Desmond, Sawyer, Cooper, and Widmore have in common? Rhey love their MacCutcheons whiskey! Did you catch Cooper offering Locke some before Locke’s reversed belly flop.

PET SOUNDS
Loving these animal sounds, BUT, COME ON, give us the animals. MUST SEE THEM! I am so sick of hearing these animals every time Jack is with the others. Where are these ANIMALS!?!?! Ha! WE KNOW these animals are HUGE to the show, as in most of our characters resemble an animal in many ways. (See blog post, well most of them, I guess)

A REMINDER
I don’t want to hear, but people don’t know about the island this, and well since that submarine was THE ONLY way of finding the island that. Come on Lost fans, we’re better than that. Don’t forget season 2 with the sky turning purple and Penny getting the call. People are coming, the outside world knows of the island, trust me. Season finale of season 3!

PREDICTIONS ( not many since the lat post was HUGE)
- It looks like Jack and Locke will have to stay at the Barracks for a bit, but Kate WILL go back to Sawyer.
- Sayid has a date with Alex, but Alex has a date with Karl, which will be interrupted by Mom! And Mom has a date with DEATH! Ha! That was fun!
- Sawyer will make his way to Cooper, but how and when?
- Jin and Sun, what’s up guys? We need more drama!!! Sun, what about the baby?
- Locke will find out Ben is his brother, and maybe, just maybe HE WAS born on the island, but we’re taken from each other. Locke has some recollection of his past with his brother, but who told him? Their sister died, how?

I’VE GOT SOME GOOD NEWS and BAD NEWS

BAD NEWS FIRST
William Mapother, famous for being Ethan Rom on the show, will NOT be attending the Florida Film Festival, and now will no longer be watching LOST with me this Weds. night after the screening of “The Lather Effect” in which he has a significant role in. SUCKS! I was to conduct a Q&A with William this week, but he had to cancel for a new project! Oye!

GOOD NEWS
Congrats to ABC and LOST for starting production on their Season 4. See Season 4 in Feb. 2008!!!! Yes! That late!
The blog post about Locke’s theory made it to number #12 again in Myspace’s Movies, TV, and Celebrities today. Again! HUGE THANK YOU to everyone reading, I know this is a stupid theory/recap/prediction blog, but all the comments make this so much fun, love you all. Please tell more Lost fans to read, more comments make this so much fun.

Thanks everyone! Like JOHN LANDIS says in every film he makes “SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY!”

b.quain

I SOLVED LOST!!! DO NOT READ

2007-03-21T12:30:00.000-04:00

PLEASE REMEMBER!!!! These are not SPOILERS, this is from the brains of ME, VANESSA and JIM. Not even predictions, maybe some are, most I guess, but THIS IS A HUGE THEORY.)

REALLY QUICK - John Locke is THE reason we are on this island. This will be John Locke’s second time being on the island, and if what I’m thinking is true, Locke switched places with Desmond after the Swan exploded.

PRE-SEASON ONE– Once upon a TIME, there was a boy who played MouseTrap with his brother, but how they lost touch, we don’t know. But then there were a list of problems for this man.
- winds up a foster child & doesn’t know his real parents
- can’t keep a real job (every time I’ve seen him, he’s a had a new one)
- meets his mother, and tells him he was immaculately conceived and a special “destiny”.
- Meets this man, Cooper, whom he thinks is his father, and they HUNT together and become great friends
- Gives Cooper his kidney, then Cooper ditches him in the hospital, and later finds out their not even related
- meets a woman, Helen, in Anger Management, has the worst time trying to commit.
- While trying to commit, she makes him chose between her, or the obsession he has with the man Cooper. Who comes back into his life, and offers him a deal (a TEST if you will). Helen finds out, and he loses her.
- He ends up taking a job at a box company, where is picked on by co-workers.
- Starts calling phone sex lines and talking to them about going to Australia, and calling the girls Helen.

After some time, the man, John Locke, thinks he can make things better and decides to join the military. During a physical, the doctor notices something growing on Locke’s spine. At this time or close to it, his brother comes back, and needs this man’s help. In the kind nature of John Locke, he helps his brother and takes him in. His brother “knows someone (guess who!)” who can help with his spine, and starts giving him pills for it. Theirs no pain, but then Locke is unable to walk and ends up in a wheelchair.
The military tell him, he can still help in a way, if he’d like to “save the world” by just PUSING BUTTONS. They are working on this program called the Dharma Initiative, and can use him. They tell him of an island, where there are stations, hatches, doing tests to help mankind. It takes Locke a bit to think about, but his brother agrees with Dharma and Locke decides to go.
While Locke is pushing numbers into a computer in this Swan hatch, he meets some incredible people. He meets Mikhail, who works in this other hatch called The Flame. Mikhail comes in to pick up some food and alcohol (all alcohol has the Swan logo on it). Also, Locke hears stories on how there are “others” on the island, who have been there before Dharma. To Dharma these “others” are called “hostels”, because their leader Jack wanted their land back.
While Locke is in this hatch, he read, and reads A LOT. Books on how to’s, what if’s, and things that can come handy, if he wasn’t in the damn chair. Also, the more Locke heard of the outside world, he would add to this map on one of the blast doors. Also, Locke finds some composition books and decides to write a journal and make some lists and describes some of the people on the island.
What Locke heard was that these “hostels” were part of this experiment from the Hanso Foundation to build the perfect life. But Hanso got sick, lost all his money and the investors involved of Apollo Foods and Oceanic Airlines pulled out. Hanso was forced to give the island to the government who built these hatches, where Locke is living. The government started a program called Dharma. But in time, Mittelos Bioscience decides to take over and hand over some money to the experiment. Also they know woman who can help make “things happen”, like women having babies by “immaculate conceiving.” Giving the “hostels” an incentive to keep their island, and make life better for living.
He hears the “hostels” are “good” people though, but want their island to themselves. The hostels also hear Dharma tell their members to wear radioactive suits because of the sickness outside. It was too much for Jack to take, and he wants what was theirs. He tells “Him”, a man named Tom, he will get their land back, and not to worry.
If Locke’s information is true, then what he heard was Jack started something called the Purge. For Jack, Dharma and these “hostels” could not live on the island together, and the hostels had a plan of their own on the island, a better way of living. But, in the Purge, many people died, but the surviving members of Dharma were told “as long as you don’t cross our line (a line of metallic posts what will kill anyone who passes) we have a truce.”
Then one day Locke hears a plane crashed on the island, and that’s where Locke’s life changed. In time some of the survivors of the plane crash come into the hatch needing help and food. Being stuck in the chair, Locke isn’t able to help anyone an discover what’s out there. He also realizes he has been lied to, and that there was no sickness, or quarantine in the outside world. Might Locke have been lied to this WHOLE time of other things? Thoughts of not pushing the numbers anymore come across Locke’s mind. Locke keeps writing in his journals and makes descriptions of everyone, kind of making more lists.
In the next month he hears this guy Boone, found a way to get them off the island with a distress call. Also, this “boy” Boone killed one of the Hostels to save a pregnant girl, the info gets back to the Hostels, and they blame it on Dharma. Boone finally gets a connection to the outside world and the plane crash survivors are saved. BUT, Locke is still strapped to a chair. Boone and the survivors are saved, but without this woman Kate and this man Sayid. They meet the Hostels, forcing Mikhail to go with them. But, sad news is Kate and Sayid were killed, (or Kate falls for Jack?) and from that pivotal point, Locke STOPS pushing numbers. He’s DONE! Done seeing so much pain and suffering on this island. The countdown clock goes to zero and the hatch explodes with Locke in it. The sky turns purple and sends out a HUGE electromagnetic pulse onto the whole island.
Locke is okay, but still has no legs, and nowhere to live now. No chair to sit, or move around. In time though, some people show up to see what the explosion was. Locke can only imagine these are the Hostels. But one Hostel in particular, let’s just say, it was Locke’s destiny to meet. Jack Shepherd, prior to being on the island was a spinal surgeon with his father in California. They both got hired on by the Hanso Foundation and were both asked to work for Avar Hanso on the island.
Jack tells Locke, he can fix his spine, but afterwards, after healing, you will have to leave our island. They take Locke to their community and fix him up right away. While Locke is healing, someone comes to visit Locke, someone he hasn’t seen since he left. Someone by the name of Ben, his brother. Brother Ben apologizes to Locke for never telling him, he was part of this Hanso Experiment. Plus, he tells Locke of the horrible work Jack has been doing as a leader, and Ben needs to take over. Locke is at his wits end and is so sick of EVERYONE lying to him. Family, work, Dharma, and now Ben. Locke gets better and can walk, it’s time for him to be sent off, and Ben takes him to this submarine and while in there, Ben talks Locke into helping him take over. Locke is done with everyone and everything and just wants to get home. Then in time, Locke is home and one day HITS HIS HEAD!

SEASON ONE – Locke wakes up and totally confused on why he has woken up, and woken by a plane that has crashed. Also, Locke can STILL move his legs. He is okay! But while everything seems okay, he sees Jack Shepherd and Boone helping some of these familiar faces from the plane crash when he was in the hatch. But, Locke thinks about it and realizes that it IS THAT plane crash. Locke went back to it. And is now part of it.
Locke realizes that he has this chance to do it all over again, but this time he CAN help and will do anything to go his way and see his brother again. The one thing Locke needs to do is go back to the Pearl and see if it’s still there. He knows that Boone was the leader from the crash last time and asks him to help out. Boone was first to help that dying lady Joanna from drowning, got the distress call to work, was first to say he’d help Claire from Ethan, so Boone would be Locke’s right-hand man. BUT, Just to make sure Boone is fit, Locke “tests” him to see if Boone would turn the other cheek and leave. One day when Locke and Boone are going to find Claire and Locke tests him with the “rains” and Boone insists he stays with Locke. Boone also says “What rain?” and within seconds rain pours down on the two, as if LOCKE HAS BEEN THERE BEFORE! As Boone passes the test, Locke throws a flashlight at Boone and we hear this CLANG. Flashlight meets “the Hatch” door. Bone is into helping Locke open it and they become great friends.
One day, Locke puts Boone up to the ultimate test, and ties him up, and leaves him a knife. A simple knot he learned while reading in the hatch prior to the bump on the head. Boone gets out of the “test” and goes to kill Locke. Locke is assured and now Boone is brainwashed into helping Locke. But in time, Boone is helping other crash members, and still in love with Shannon, and there was only one thing to do, but kill him, since he would get them off the island.
Locke opens the hatch and spends more time with Kate, Jack and Hurley. But one person that is not connecting to Locke, is this Hurley guy.

SEASON 2 - While in the Hatch, Locke feels “at home.” They met this guy Desmond who is now working for the Dharma Initiative. Locke begins to push the numbers again and Desmond leaves, leaving Locke to go back to work.
In time, Ben comes to the hatch to see his brother, and this seals the deal that his brother is there. Ben tells Locke he is there to see him, and Locke then shows Ben the map on the back of the blast door. In this time, the blast door crushes Locke’s leg and Ben helps him by going to push the button. Following the revelation of Ben's deception, Locke was thrown into a state of self-doubt when Ben claimed that he never pushed the button and that nothing happened. Why wouldn’t the numbers work with Ben? Ben escapes thanks to the help of Michael, and Locke knew that if Ben got away, once he stops pushing the numbers, he will see him again.
Jack though, sees things differently and builds an “army” to get the to “others.” Sounds all to familiar to Locke since Jack started an army prior to this plane crash as the leader of the hostels, I mean “others.”
On “that” day though, Locke tells Eko he will no longer push the numbers. Locke never wants Sayid or Kate to die, and also knows he needs them to get to his brother again. So, Desmond gets locked up in the room with Locke, and Eko and Charlie (military call signs) get caught in the hallway down there. When the numbers go to zero, Desmond realizes that he crashed the plane they were on, and Locke gets nervous thinking, he might be wrong about all this. It’s like surgery, you know it will be okay, but WHAT IF something goes wrong? Desmond goes to hit the failsafe key, and tells Locke, “See you in another life brotha!” and YES YOU WILL! Locke’s life!
Eko finally breaks in and Locke tells Eko, “I was wrong!” Wrong? Can’t solve that one yet!

SEASON 3 - When the hatch explodes Charlie and Eko will switch lives, meaning the island has this feeling Charlie is going to die, but it’s Eko. Also, Desmond and Locke switch lives, meaning, now Desmond has this power to bend time and space by bumping his head. Like Locke was able to do, when he blew the hatch before the plane crash.
“See you in another life brotha” actually, meant JUST THAT. Desmond, since he realized what he had, uses it. But Locke being the “Man Of Faith” didn’t know he can bend space and time, and never really needed to. He had been there already. So Desmond can see things happen and bumps his head to fix things.
Locke gets Kate and Sayid ready for the their trip and with Eko’s cane, Locke takes them to see Mikhail. Mikhail tells Syayid, we made an agreement, “I didn’t cross the line, we made a truce!” Meaning, after the Purge, Jack and Dharma made an agreement, stay on your side, we’ll stay on ours.
Mikhail remembers Locke, but they keep things quiet. While hanging out at the Flame, Locke meets a computer and starts playing with it. But from what we’ve seen (and what I heard from fans) was Locke was not in his element. He seemed out of sorts. It’s because he’s not Locke, he’s got Desmond in him. Locke knows more then we think though, and uses Mikhail’s computer to get to it. When Locke hears a brawl in the other room, he knows Kate and Sayid are okay they won’t die until they get to the Hostels anyway. BUT, this is time when Locke can look out for himself and pick up some essentials. Like C-4!
Locke then sees a familiar face once again, Bea Klugh and KNOWS she is a “hostel.” Mikhail then kills her and they set off on their journey to Hostel Land. Locke knows prior to all this Mikhail who is who got Sayid and Kate killed, so he takes it upon himself to kill Mikhail and get into Hostel Territory.
(NO SPOILERS!!!! JUST THEORY!!!!!)
NEXT FEW WEEKS ON LOST - While inside the Barracks, Kate meets the true side of Jack. A brutal leader, and someone who is where he belongs. She realizes Jack wasn’t the right one for her, but Jack then wants her back. She goes to Sawyer.
Danielle Rousseau sees her daughter and connects with her, but later to be killed by a confused and brainwashed Karl.
Sayid, who has no reason to be there, dies.
Locke sees his brother Ben and the truth WILL come out. Ben will explain how he tried (lying to Locke) to save his life and the military sent him to the island. Ben wanted Locke on the island and to be part of the Hostels/Others, but this man Jack wouldn’t listen and he was an evil man, killing people left and right. Ben tells Locke that he’ (Ben) would be a better leader and to get RID of Jack.
Jack becomes to used to this new way of life and Juliet insists they stay for a few weeks/months and do what they say. In time we can leave together on the submarine and start a new life. Something gets in the way though, Christian Shepherd. Christian tells Jack, this is the way they live and what does Jack have outside of island. Juliet has a HUGE life outside of the island, and that’s her sister and niece, she NEEDS to get back to. Jack realizes he LOVES Juliet and wants t go with her. But, Locke is scared Jack would tell the outside world of their plans, so puts the C-4 on the submarine and kills Juliet and Jack. SEASON FINALE

SEASON 4 – Rebirth of Avar Hanso, Hostels under new management, drama with the Losties.

Sorry, so sloppy! But this was written so quick and if you know me, written how I explain things. But, I hope this makes sense, and please tell me what you think. I will do more more more predictions TONIGHT after this episode.

LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of Par Avion...S03EP11

2007-03-15T10:59:00.000-04:00

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just thoughts and predictions Vanessa, Jim, and myself ramble on about, but some stuck around and maybe could be true. Or make an interesting Lost)

Now all of you Lost Season 3 haters can go STUFF IT in your PIEHOLE. I, Vanessa, Bobb, Jim, and ”insert your name here” thought this was the episode of the season, maybe the SERIES. And rightfully you should.
In case you missed it, YA DUMMY, let’s recap! But first, this episode proved to us yet again that EVERYONE is on this island for a reason and the connections are INTENSE. We thought Claire was on the island because of Aaron, well maybe. But, wow, yet another connection. Oh yeah, WE TOLD YOU SO!!

WHAT’S GOT INTO YOU CHARLIE?
Oh I don’t know CLAIRE, maybe a friggin’ hatch exploded with ME IN IT! Charlie, Desmond and Locke had something happened to them when the Pearl ex/imploded. The three of them have yet to be themselves since the explosion, and what can it be?

CLAIRE:
I don’t know even know how to say it, but this was obvious. COME ON! Lost is BRILLIANT at giving you a hint and dragging it on, like Sayid dragging his prisoners to pain in his interrogations. Lost gives a HUGE hint, then they’ll go episodes without explaining themselves, and then in time you solve it. But, a new one forms. So good.
Yes, we know Christian is Claire’s dad, but what about Aunt Lindsey. Lindsey knows more than we do, of course. She knows what Christian is REALLY capable of. Christian goes back to see Claire YEARS later after the car crash to see his daughter and Lindsey says no, we see this in SEASON 2 “Two For The Road,” what does Christian want with her then?
And, when Christian is with Claire over some delicious coffee, and Christian explains her mother is in pain. Christian was testing her, much like the Others do. Christian wanted Claire to kill her mom, see if she is capable of doing it. And she did. We don’t see it, but she does. COME ON, it’s LOST people! Claire had no choice at the end of that episode. I think Claire kills her Mom and wants to MOVE to Los Angeles, to never have to go back. Agreed? Oh, and Locke uh, hmmm, yeah, which we will get into. HOLY SHIT!
Aunt Lindsey KNOWS Christian is part of Dharma and didn’t like it, and also doesn’t like her sister with his American with a family. Who would? Christian will become a HUGE story arc soon, but when soon?
STAGES OF CLAIRE:
Black Claire: When Claire is in the car crash and says she hates her mom/wishes she was dead, she is driving a black car, has black hair, and black clothing. Also, “wish you were dead” huh? NOW CAN SHE MAKE THINGS HAPPEN? Are you serious? Juliet, Walt and now Claire huh? Maybe, just maybe?
Pure Claire – The one we see on the island, and the one who goes into her mom’s hospital room pregnant and with blonde hair at the end of the episode. Claire makes a drastic change, and the change is killing her mother to move on. YEARS go by and Claire is done seeing mom in pain. I have some thinking to do with Claire and the blonde look. It’s funny that we’ve seen her the whole time with blonde hair, but I feel I understand the Black Claire more than the blonde Claire.

LOCKE:
Killed someone!!!!!!!!!!!!! Uh!!!! Yeah. Wow! This doesn’t sound like the Locke we know. But, we don’t even know him yet! More to come on that, but first.
Locke is bad at pushing buttons on computers, but he’s still good at pushing peoples buttons on the island. NOTHING ever comes out good for John Locke. Boones death, Mr. Eko dies, Bea Klugh dies, let’s just say what Jim said to me makes the best sense. He’s a false prophet, and thinks he has the aid for everyone, but when he tries to help them, he winds up hurting them more than they could ever imagine. The ONLY person he has aided and succeeds was Ben! Which we will be getting into in the next few weeks I’m guessing.
Back to the killing! What was it that Mikhail knew that Locke needed to kill him? What is Locke really have going on inside, and in the past?
Also, what if, and I mean this, WHAT IF? Locke is in Desmond’s boat, or other way around. What if Locke is doing this all over again? Maybe he kept pushing the numbers in, and was never able to help the people around him. Locke is not enslaved to time and space, and he is able to go back to the hatch and blow it up.
So he KNOWS to kill Mikhail, because Kate maybe died, or Sayid, and word comes back to the beach that they are dead. Locke felt bad he couldn’t help since he was plugging in numbers. So he stops and now helps them. Also, he KNOWS that Ben will be in Barracks, and Jack is with them (that’s why he sets him free in Season 2, and he’ll see him again), but! The reason we seeing him stumbling on things now, is because he NEVER made it THIS far! He just kept pushing the numbers into the Pearl. He is changing things now. Please tell me I’m not crazy!

SINCE THE HATCH:
Something happened when the Pearl exploded. Desmond, Charlie and Locke all have changed in some major drastic way.
Locke – seems like we have someone who switched the tables since he got on the island. Everyone else doesn’t seem to be themselves, from the flashbacks we see. Including Locke. But since the The Pearl exploded, I think Locke is back to what he was before the island. We will see a Locke in some flashbacks that will shock the shit out of us. I have a feeling, the Locke flashbacks to come, will be no different with the Locke we see now.

Charlie – comes out of the hatch all giggly, seems to be ok with EVERYTHING. And everyone tells him what to do (Hurley, Desmond, etc). He’s not the same “I’ll do anything for you Claire” that we’ve seen in the past two seasons. When Claire flipped on him, he laughed her off, and walked off. He never has before.
Desmond – sees the future, or can relive memories? Bump on the head and turn the events the way he needs. He KNOWS Claire is in trouble and wants to be there to save her, since he couldn’t do that for Penny.
- The lightning rod was for Claire’s tent, WHO CARES about Charlie?
- Claire was in the water FULLY CLOTHED? Wasn’t going for a dip!
- Slip on the rock? Charlie would have said “let me get the bird Claire”, Claire would have been LET ME GET IT, MY IDEA CHARLIE!!!! And she would have slipped.
The thing that is going to KILL Charlie is the fact that the girl he deep down inside loved is dead. But, if what I think is true, then a HUGE part of Charlie, since the Pearl blew up, is now DEAD.

SIBLING RIVALRY:
Now that we have solved the case on Claire and Jack, who/what else is in store? What about some more siblings. Locke’s brother (MouseTrap)? Charlie’s brother? Ben’s brother? Juliet’s sister? There will be more on siblings coming up soon. I think John Locke’s brother will show up very soon, if not already! I think we have met him! Actually, I think he’s dead.

NOT ON THE LIST:
Mikhail mentions “the list”, which will be reoccurring on this show for the rest of this season, I am gathering. Jacob’s list! Mikhail has some insight on the people surrounding him.
Kate – Flawed
Sayid – Weak, and frightened
Locke – Angry
Sayid says “Don’t speak to us as if you know us”, but he does Sayid. So, we found out Mikhail was an Other, and Danielle was covering his ass. That WHOLE scene is HUGE, and then gets torn apart.
As soon as Mikhail might spill some beans, Danielle cuts him off. Cuts him off when he says “But you John Locke, you have this fleeting memory of, but I must be confused. The John Locke I knew was para…” Now! How the hell does NO ONE ever mention within seconds of him talking, ask “WAIT! WHAT?” Oh and the C-4, let’s just say, we all live in the yellow…
John Locke will be the center of attention for the next few weeks. We will find out some major flaws, but also, some of his major strengths. Only fools are enslaved by time and space!

HE ARE MARSHALL:
So Matthew Fox finally gets to play ball again, but this it’s on TV. Boys will be boys Kate, you know that. Jack has things (a piece of paper with names on it!) up his sleeve and we know that. Last time we saw him, he was exchanging glances with Juliet. They both NEED to get off that island. The Season 3 opener with Juliet crying, listening to “Downtown”, wow!
Juliet had to tell Jack, to give in to these people, become one of them, and we can plan our escape. More than meets the EYE. Get it, eye, episode openers with eyes and all, haha! No?
Great, brilliant ending. WOW!

SO NOW THEN:
Told you we NEEDED Ricky Jay to be in an episode, or Anthony Michael Hall. The final montage with Charlie reading the note, talk about Magnolia AND The Breakfast Club.
Sawyer – The Fountainhead? I’ll look more into that, once again. Damn you Sawyer and your library.

THANK YOU PAUL EDWARDS:
You have directed THREE of my favorite episodes, and keeping going on pushing Christian Shepard. “Two For The Road” was brilliant, and “What Kate Did” had the same effect this episode did. A+!

PREDICTIONS & THOUGHTS:
LOCKE – What an asshole, but we will find out why soon enough. The next flashback we have, and I say not this next week, but the one after, it won’t solve the world, but we will find out more. Producers in a podcast a HUGE Locke secret is revealed this season in a flashback.
- STOP BLOWING THINGS UP! But I have a feeling, what Rose said will stick true. He doesn’t want off this island, and that submarine that Mikhail mentioned is a great way to get off. Say goodbye to that sub! What numbers will you have to push to blow that thing up?
- Lost his legs on the pot farm. Someone from the island was there.
- Locke has done ALL OF SEASON 1 and 2 before, like Desmond can do now, since the Pearl blew.

Actually, I like what we did last week with predictions being in a separate blog and in the beginning of the week. BUT, I think I have this HUGE THEORY that I will post next week. WOW BIG, and makes a lot of sense! We tackled it somewhat in this post, so, see if you can make a connection or some sense.

THANK YOU!!! EVERYONE for making this blog so HUGE and thanks to Bobb for texting me with some huge excitement, we feel you buddy!

b.quain

LOST IDEAS & PREDICTIONS...MAGNOLIA connection (03/13/07)

2007-03-13T10:34:00.001-04:00

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just thoughts and predictions Vanessa, Jim, and myself ramble on about, but some stuck around and maybe could be true. Or make an interesting Lost)

JACK:
- Will be traded with Ben for Locke.
- Claire and him will discover they are brother and sister, but we have to wait until Christian Shepard shows up.
- Oh yeah, Jack’s (and Claire’s) dad show up again, living in the Barracks.
- What have we missed these past two, now maybe three weeks without Jack? What’s in store with these Others?

JOHN LOCKE:
- Will meet up with Ben to find out why Ben came all that way to see him
- Will choose a destiny with the Others.
- Has something to do with Mikhail, and they have the scars to prove it.
- Something happened when “The Pearl” went BOOM! What’s up with Locke since then? The same? Maybe not?

SAWYER:
- Will go after Kate. No one goes along. But someone will follow him. Someone on the island seems to have made a 180, and has his eye out for some people.
- Not just an unshaven, pretty face. We’re going to dig a lot deeper into Sawyer. Lots more to come.

CLAIRE: (So we haven’t seen much of her lately, well I expect, before SHE dies, they will focus A LOT more on her. The fate on Charlie is NOT for Charlie, it’s for Claire.)
- She’s related to Jack, thanks to an episode last season where Ana Lucia takes Christian Shepard to see “someone”, his daughter in Australia.
- The love triangle between Charlie and Desmond might rear it’s ugly head.

DANIELLE:
- Very evil. Expect a 180 to hit in the next few episodes.
- So! After being on this island for 16 years, you have no clue about these hatches. No! She does, and she knows A LOT more than we expect.
- Will die, by Karl. After she sees Alex. Karl will think Danielle is crazy and shoot her.

MAGNOLIA:
The island loves its flowers, but it shows it loves movies about flowers, well one movie named after a flower (a street mostly). There are connections to Lost and Magnolia, but what Magnolia (the film) loves to do is share it’s cast with films or TV. Not saying the TOP 10 characters (Julianne Moore, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, or Tom Cruise), but already we have had cast members in Lost:
Danny Pickket – Michael Bowen (played Stanley’s father)
Bea Klugh – April Grace (played Gwenovier, interviewed Tom Cruise)
Ethan – William Mapother (WDKK Show Director’s Assistant)
LOVE IT when Magnolia cast members do this, so expect more of Magnolia cast members. Who’d I’d LOVE to see very soon is Miss Cleo “That Ain’t Mine!” King!!!!!! LOVE HER!!! She played Marcie in Magnolia. Also, let’s see some magic, literally from Ricky Jay on the island! Pat Healy, whom needs to be in everything, fantastic actor, and getting more roles, which he deserves. But, with P.T. Anderson using many TV actors for Magnolia, in the smaller roles, expect to say “Oh, it’s THAT guy” more on Lost. And those who have love for the film Magnolia, we love you here at this blog!

b.quain

LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of ENTER 77...S03EP11

2007-03-08T11:50:00.000-05:00

(Remember, Vanessa, Jim and myself DO NOT watch trailers/previews for the NEXT WEEK or spoilers, let’s just focus on what we THINK will happen and RECAPS)

WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?
Sawyer, asks this to Nikki before our friendly game of ping pong. This is a question we all have asked, when we met Patch In The Hatch (Mikhail), but I guess we learned to live with. But, if my calculations are correct, and I swear I always want them to be with this show, NIKKI AND PAOLO WERE NOT ON THE FLIGHT!!!!!!!
Everyone who was on that flight has and had to let go of something. Rose and Bernard are different because they were separated, then found each other, then had to still face Roses’ illness. Still struggling. Jin and Sun, they are still battling with drama and hard times, and were separated from secrets. Now, when Sawyer asks Nikki, who the hells are you, Paolo looks at him like “Shut Up Man!” Nikki and Paolo come in and we know nothing, and they seem so calm, cool and collective. No! They are bad, and in this episode, we found out where they came from!!! Which leads me to.

HOW NOW, BROWN COW!?!
Welcome to the Flame. The Flame Hatch, comes with table set for four, with enough food and drink for FOUR, and jumpsuits and chairs suit for FOUR. Well, at LEAST three. Before Bea Klugh comes in, after the sky turned purple.
WOW! So excited! I swear there were so many new and exciting things to see and play with. Tomato Sauce, Crackers, manuals, jumpsuits, all with the Flame logo on it. Horses, cows, kitties, more animals. We need to go more into this whole animals thing. Lots to talk about. But, one thing we need to point out is that Nadia (the woman in the picture Sayid had, and the one Locke helps with her electricity in a Flashback = CONNECTION), Nadia is still trying to help Sayid. Even if she is a gorgeous cat on the island, digging for doors in the floor.

AFTER THE WAR
Many of these Dharma buffs are all gung-ho about trying to “save the world” after this Cold War. Kelvin was crazy, Razinski obviously crazy (offing himself?), and then Desmond goes to the military. Coming soon to a LOST near you! Did someone recruit these guys? Have we met that person yet?

LOCKE and THE ISLAND
Locke doesn’t want off the island, we know this. Rose knew this, and where the hell is she? Did Locke know that entering 77 into the chess game would cause the explosion? Of course he did, he had to. Also, Locke is also going to let Mikhail go, more than meets the EYE, ha! Get it, PATCH! Remember, Ben and Locke have more talking to do, since season 2 when Henry (Ben) told Locke “I was coming to see you”. Many connections here, many more stories.

DHARMA and OTHERS
Well, now some tables are turned. Bea Klugh (April Grace) was shot dead from Mikhail to stop LOSTIES from knowing the truth. WHY? They are JUST Flight 815 crash victims. What harm can they do to you? Well, more than we know. So, are Dharma and Others different? The same? Predictions I guess. Also, under in INCASE YOU MISSED IT, I have the translated conversation between Bea and Mikhail.

THE PURGE
A group of scientists attacked the Others? So, then why doesn’t Danielle recognize Mikhail? Also, all this happened at the Swan, they is THIS how Radzinski died? Not a suicide? I can’t wait to find out more on THE PURGE.

NOW I’M PISSED
Okay, the FLAME went up in FLAMES, yes, BUT, all of the BEAUTIFUL and PRESCIOUS MANUALS!!!!! GONE! I want to know what was in those manuals so friggin’ badly, and Locke just throws it all away. SUCKS! All those binders, never to read again.

L*O*S*T
M*A*S*H, Stripes, Saving Private Ryan, I mean come on Lost, how many more connections with characters can you come up with. Vanessa and I were talking about it this morning, and we get it, but do we, and how long will it take til you explain it to us. Let’s break it down a bit. The military has a HUGE influence on the story line of Lost, but what about the characters we follow everyday,

Jack – Capt Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce (M*A*S*H)
Locke – Sgt. John Miller (Saving Private Ryan)
Sayid - Capt. Said (Three Kings)
Kate - Lt. Jordan O’Neil (G.I. Jane)
Sawyer - John Winger (Stripes)
Hurley - Dewey Oxberger (Stripes)
Sun - Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (M*A*S*H), maybe, still putting Sun together

But, do these connections, and character developments make sense. Locke and Miller have that lost inside, and psychical condition they try to fight. Kate breaks rules and will keep fighting, for good or bad? Sawyer is the comic relief always having a joke and making fun of anyone. Hurley also, being a comic relief in many ways.

(IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

Nadia Elena Comaneci
Facts from http://www.nadiacomaneci.com/bio.htm
Mikhail said they share the same birthday Nov. 12th 11+12=23 A number. Which LOSTpedia was nice enough to let me go ahead and add to their site. I will be also adding info onto LOSTpedia in the future, I support this site for the fact that they separate everything, and are very smart. Since we don’t do spoilers, we don’t see any.
Also, Nadia Joined a newly formed gym club, "The Flame," in 1967; coaches are Marta Karolyi and Valeriu Munteanu.

DRINKS and THE SWAN
Sorry no pic. The beer from last week, I remember doing a freeze frame and seeing that the beer had the logo for the Swan Hatch, but in Mikhail’s Flame Hatch, mostly everything had a Flame logo, but the drinks, Vodka and Merlot. Beer, vodka, and wine, we have ourselves an ABC Liquors over at the Swan, the place to be. Wonder why. And now it’s dead, dead, deadski.

COLLECTED FROM THE FARM HOUSE:
What did Kate and Locke get from the Farm House that may be useful. When Kate is asking John is ready, she gathers some stuff, was John smart enough to grab some stuff before entering 77. I hope he’s not THAT stupid, I mean, it is Locke, right?

TRANSLATIONS: (lostpedia.com)
The dialogue before Bea Klugh was shot dead (or is she?) from Mikhail
* The dialogue in Russian:
Klugh: Mikhail. Mikhail! You know what to do.
Mikhail: We still have another way [out].
Klugh: We cannot risk. You know the conditions.
Mikhail: There is another way.
Klugh: They captured us. We will not give (or let, or betray) [unintelligible].
Klugh: You know what to do. It is an order.
Mikhail: We still have another way!
Klugh (in English): Just do it, Mikhail.
Mikhail: Forgive me. (shoots)

What was written on the paper Locke picks up that’s in Russian, and proofread in red marker.

.. lost in his country, and they must...

... and, if necessary, through complete social
(break) [ I suppose it implies a complete social upheaval or overthrow - Soltari ]
...
... in a measure, it made Andrey to feel alienated [Not `pushed away', physically, sounds rather like an event or idea which made him to feel alienated, estranged, repelled or rejecting. - Soltari].

* The name Andrew-Andrey is higlighted with red, and the handwritten note at the side states: "And my name is Andrey, too".

- Nadji was not...

- the Afghans' resistance. [Most probably it means the armed opposition and the guerilla war of Afghans against the Soviet Army troops. - Soltari], but he was an excellent [soldier? a spy? A `a specialist'? In any case, he was a great expert in what he did. - Soltari].

- He was a cousin of an influential... [Here the word is not simply "cousin", but meaning the third level of family relations, their grandmoms or grandpas were siblings, but not their moms or dads; so, it's not a very close cousinage. - Soltari]

-... [he, a male] controlled one of the northwestern..

... [he, a male, was] ...[analytical?] specialist who was helping to...

... Mujahads who used... [Mujahads or Modzhaheds are Muslim armed groups, usually participants of Jihad.- Soltari]

PREDICTIONS:

THE BARRACKS CREW:
Not going to be easy for these five. The map is a decoy, or Mikhail will run off thanks to Locke. I have a feeling we might not see these five until the next week after this next Weds. Locke and Mikhail have a LOT going on, more than we ever know. And Locke won’t say it, cause Locke is all pissy with Sayid. That opening scene in Enter 77, no one talks to Locke like that.

LOCKE'S SCAR:
What’s up with Locke’s scar, being on the same eye as Mikhail’s? Hmmm.

DESMOND:
More on Des very soon. The whole waking up naked and Claire will surface it’s ugly face in the next three episodes.

CLAIRE:
Dead, alive, Desmond’s fantasy, a sister to Jack? We will find out more soon. Charlie take a seat, we don’t need you for awhile. Now we must focus on Aaron, Des, Claire, and Sun. Yes, Sun!

PLEASE COMMENT! Very interested in Others and Dharma, what’s the truth?

b.quain

Who The Fuck Are The Arctic Monkey's...Brianstorm NEW SINGLE

2007-03-06T09:58:00.000-05:00

Arctic Monkey’s – Brianstorm

Thank you Sheffield for finally doing something right. I was never a Pulp or huge Thompson Twins fan. I can’t stomach the Full Monty, and as for the proper football teams, can’t stand Sheff Weds and not a Sheffield United fan at all (go back to Championship League). But finally Sheffield gave birth to one of the most amazing rock bands to come out and play music in 10 years, fuck it maybe 20 years. Best rock band to come about since Weller and the Jam.
We’ve been through some MAJOR rock revival in the 80’s and 90’s, and I could never put alternative rock or bands like Faith No More or Nirvana, or metal revival icons Isis, Pelican in this category. But when I say rock bands, I mean indie/punk revival bands that put an indention on the music scene. The Jam, The Police, Husker Du, maybe a runner up for this revival coming up, Kings Of Leon. If you are not a Oasis fan, stop reading now, please. But if you have not found the Arctic Monkey’s yet, they have a handful of singles and one album that broke them “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not,” go find it, go buy it, go sing a long.
Vanessa and I heard of the Monkey’s but never gave them a listen until they played Saturday Night Live. My friend Ben pushed “When The Sun Goes Down” music video and I was like eh, I guess, but never listened to it. But it was when they came out and played “…Dance Floor” on SNL and I lost my SHIT. “A Certain Romance” and I was sold. Just never yawn and get caught by lead singer/guitarist Alex Turner.
The Sheffield quartet has a new album in April, and shows the band has no intent of slowing down. The band have mixed up their sound with bluesy B-Sides, and Alex Turner’s writing what he knows as in a pretty private lifestyle. Here is the new single that BBC played over the weekend and should be out very soon. I have finally uploaded something on my rapidshare, and it’s very much worth it. GO GET IT!

http://rapidshare.com/files/19690630/Brianstorm.mp3

enjoy
b.quain

LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of TRICIA TANAKA IS DEAD S03EP10

2007-03-01T10:41:00.000-05:00

(Remember, Vanessa, Jim and myself DO NOT watch trailers/previews for the NEXT WEEK or spoilers, let’s just focus on what we THINK will happen and RECAPS)

First off for this week, I want to take a second a honor the family and friends for the two LOST crew members who had past away from heart attacks last week. Very sad news, and I hope for the best with everyone.

Sorry, didn’t mean to start off so harsh, so, let’s go to some THANK YOU’S. THANK YOU to EVERYONE who reads the blog, I saw that my blog post on “Stranger in A Strange Land” was #21 in the most popular/viewed blogs on Myspace in Movies, Television, and Celeb’s last Friday and throughout the weekend. YOU GUYS RULE! THANK YOU!

Okay, let’s talk about tonight’s episode, “Trisha Tanaka Is Dead.” For most of us, I’m sure we felt it was really heart felt, sweet and it was a “finally we get to see the Losties again” episode. But like Twin Peaks always said, the owls are not what they seem. DIG DEEPER.

RECAP!

“SHAMBALA” by Three Dog Night:
If we remember, in Season One, Hurley was listening to a song on his CD player about “I got troubles oh, but not today, Cause they're gonna wash away, They're gonna wash away”. The song was called “Wash Away” from Joe Purdy. Last night, while fixing the car Hurley comes out with his tape player listening to Three Dog Night’s “(Road to) Shambala” which also comes back on while Charlie and him kick start the VW. In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala is a mystical kingdom, ”Pure Land”, hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas. Man, I love this show. SO FRIGGIN’ SMART!

RED FLOWER:
Hurley puts a red flower on Libby’s grave. I need to look into this red flower. Why now, why red? Anyone know?

LUCKY RABBITS FOOT/WE MAKE OUR OWN LUCK:
First, Hurley’s dad says it in the car while fixing it., “Good things will happen and they will”. But then he says, “In this world, we got to make our own luck.” In this “world” huh? This episode focuses mostly on luck, but what of hope? Was it hope that started the van? Sawyer also says “If it’s hope your looking for, you’re on the wrong damn island.” Then go to the other island Hurley. But! Listen to your daddy and not Sawyer, hope is not stupid.

HURLEY:
Hurley is at this point, TURNED AROUND, big time. Yes, he’s crazy, but maybe this is what he needs to go sane. Maybe it wasn’t the mental hospital to help him, but the island. He got rid of Dave on the island, what else can he cure. So, with Hurley going through all this, finally he might not be the cute cuddly “Snuffy” we know. Hurley has lifted this curse? So what happens now? Also, read VW and VINCENT for more of something deeper with Hurley.

SOMETHING I FOUND INTERESTING:
AMAH. Hurley’s father’s motorcycle (probably for advertising/legal reasons) is a YAMAHA, but the Y and the last A are taken off. AMAH is a term used in other dialect, as a woman employed by a family to clean, look after children, etc. In a legend of Mosuo, small ethnic group in China, border of Tibet, closer to the Himalayas tells a story of a rock in Hong Kong, and according to legend, a faithful wife waited loyally for her fisherman husband, not knowing he had drowned and was turned into a rock by the goddess of the sea. Nice!

VW VAN and VINCENT:
Oh no everyone, DO NOT GET EXCITED and think this “FEEL GOOD” episode was what you are thinking, cause this episode was anything but “FEEL GOOD.” Hurley says to Charlie (of all people) “I’m kind of cursed, death finds me dude.” And who else comes after that but Mr. Death himself, Vincent! Adorable Vincent happens to bring the arm of a SAWN HATCH “Work Man” named Roger. Roger’s arm is holding a key and a rabbit’s foot (good luck) attached, and Vincent requests Hurley’s assistance. Things seem peachy, but why now this VW van? What will this van bring, who will die? We haven’t seen Vincent even before the death of Eko, and Vincent seems to show up when he’s doing his scouting, then shape shift when it’s kill time. ALSO! Vincent is protecting Hurley and watching Sawyer and Jin when Hurley is praying, wait, what? Yes, Hurley was praying. Something is connected with Vincent and Hurley. Vincent sniffs out the bad, and we know Hurley isn’t supposed to be on the island, so what does Vincent need with Hurley. Vincent WANTS Charlie! He’s bad! Keep READING!

ROGER:
Who is Roger? Is he dead from a curse? I’m gathering it’s not Radzinski since he blew his head off, but who was Roger? I think the show is still telling us drinking and driving is bad, right Cynthia and Michelle?

RUNNING OUT OF FOOD/RECYCLING:
I don’t know, something might be happening on the island where everyone has to fend for himself or herself again. Sawyer mentions recycling. Recycling? Why?

BROKEN CURSES:
Charlie was with Hurley when Hurley lifted this curse. So does this mean Charlie is safe, these visions that Desmond had a flash of the past?

SAWYER LOVES CHILDREN'S TV:
Little House (on The Prairie) huh? But hat about Sawyer calling Hurley “Snuffy” (my fav), and “Blockhead” (Peanuts, Charlie Brown), or Skeletor (He-Man). Cute? A little too much? Whichever it is, is there more than meets the eye? Ha! Sorry, I had to!

All I have to say to Kate, Locke, Danielle (can we call her that yet?), and Sayid is LOOK UP!!!!

Which leads to our PREDICTIONS (not SPOILERS!!!!):

LOCKE and SAYID – will split up with Danielle and Kate to take on Patch In the Hatch since this next episode is a Sayid centric episode. Sorry, I saw this on TV.com doing a I’m Feeling Lucky on Google when I typed in Tricia Tanaka is Dead. Sayid has a passed that he wants gone, but I feel with a flashback episode of Sayid, we have warfare to come. Also, Patch has someone or sometwo telling him someone might be coming. Wonder who it is? I hate those two, arguing over Dharma Oat Bars,

DANIELLE and KATE – will spilt up with Locke and Sayid to go and find her daughter. But, when getting to the island and find it’s OTHERS deserted, they will bump into Cindy and the “Watchers”. They will lead them the right way, but it will be Karl who KILLS Danielle thinking she is trying to harm Alex instead of helping her. Whoa mama!

CHARLIE – Not safe yet, are you? But wait! What if he is? And that leads to someone else to die. Like Claire. This might sound a little too Final Destination but works, what if she was next in line to die, since she was drowning, and in the tarp house when lightning struck. SHE WAS CLOTHED IN THE EATER FOR F’s SAKE! Something’s gotta give with her, she’s not safe. Aaron NEEDS to be given away. Also, what if Vincent was seeing if Hurley had power over Charlie, and which he does. So Vincent goes ahead and makes Hurley use Charlie for something and kills Claire. Ha! Okay, sorry! You never know!

NIKKI and PAOLO – F’ these two! They are bad, awful, worse, terrible, dreadful, worst, very bad, much worse and horrible. NO GOOD! Not to be trusted. Plus, they are a cheap way of bringing two new characters to thee show. I have a feeling Paolo may rule as a bad guy soon, but not as a Lostie. Paolo comes out of the bathroom in the hatch when patch decides to go to the camera. Paolo told him they were watching him. Only way! There’s no motion detector I’m thinking, so Patch knew they were watching him. Bollocks! Paolo, in the bathroom, radio’d while flushing and said “go to the camera, I think we’re watching you!” BAM! PATCH! YEAH BOY!

LOST RECAP...WHAT I GOT out of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND S03EP09

2007-02-22T10:46:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone,

Now, last night was the first time Vanessa and I watched Lost with Lost fans. We watched Seasons 1 and 2 last summer, got into Season 3 from the beginning. But no one we know around here watches the show, but those who kind of got into it later in the game, don’t watch since they want to start from the beginning. Last night, major geek sci-fi fanatic Jim DeSantis and his sister Stacy came by and hit up 42 minutes of DVR action on LOST. FANTASTIC! They told us that in the preview from last week for this episode, 3 SECRETS will be REVEALED. Now do we guess?

Let’s start with the RECAPS and PREDICTIONS:
“STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND” (the name is huge by the way!)

THE 3 SECRETS from this EPISODE:
1) The Tattoo. (was this a secret? 5 and the Stars though, more secrets)
2) Cindy and the kids (finally)
3) You tell me! Maybe it’s that Bai Ling can’t act, but we knew that already.

TOM:
You see this glass house you are living in? How about I get you some stones!” – Yes, we know Jack has a past, but since my last post about the word “good”, are we finding out he’s bad. Who told Tom he’s bad? Where are you Christian? I feel in this episode we didn’t see the glass house that Jack lives in, but we will. With Sarah, Dad, etc.
(Side Story) – STONES?!?!!? YOU MEAN THE ONES IN JACK’S POCKET THAT HE FOUND IN THE CAVE? You want those back Tom? Adam and Eve’s stones?

CINDY:
“We’re here to watch Jack?” Jack knows nothing of Room 23, which the kids and the other people (tailenders?) are watching. They all had that weird Karl expression on their faces. But! Why were they by Jack’s cage? It looked like some Alcoholics Anonymous cigarette break. So, Jack thinks Cindy is part of the whole experiment. She’s not, they’re part of “THE EXPERIMENT” and Room 23 may also be other rooms so everyone can be brainwashed.

WATCHERS:
Something I was thinking about. Their there to watch? What about this watching? When you look around the island there are some people watching. More to look into in another blog, VERY SOON!

JACK’S TATTOO:
The Chinese we will get into, BUT, what about the 5 and the Stars over the Chinese writing. Jack’s tattoo "He walks amongst us but He is not one of us" is the Ying to Juliet’s Yang marking that has the Scarlet Letter appeal, “You are no longer one of us, but you will always be one of us.” (more…)

JACK’S TICKET OFF THE ISLAND:
Well, Jack, ya big dummy! You just gave your word to Ben, and he gave you HIS! Jack got his ticket off the island, but it’s not going back to his friends. Nope! Maybe, just maybe the Others ARE the “good” people, ‘cause Jack, you are becoming an Other.

ARCHA:
“You are a LEADER, A GREAT man, but this makes you lonely, indifferent, and angry.” This could be huge, but don’t look TOO MUCH into it. Let the tattoo’s and everyone else who understands them explain it to us. What Archa said is nothing we didn’t know already, and the way he treats Archa in that scene, we have seen before. Also, she sees who people are. Like when she saw him on the island for the first time and says “You are not from around here”, meaning, she sees more inside Jack, not just some white guy on the beaches of Thailand.

“THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES JACK!”
Oh man! She didn’t mean with the kid on the beach selling Cokes and getting the shit beaten out of you by her brother and pals. It means she knows more, like when Jack’s sister, I mean Claire went to see Richard Malkin, the psychic saw more.

BEN:
Ben has Juliet “marked” meaning she is now banished from the island. I feel. Does this break Ben’s heart? No, not really, they HAD history, but when you see that “picture postcard” moment on the beach with the umbrella over Ben as they are about to cast off to the BIG BOAT. Ben smiles. Gives an “I love and thank you” smile to Jack? No not Jack, but Isabel, I’m thinking, who is standing next to Jack. But it could also be Ben’s emotions are coming out and he smiles because his scheme is finally working. Jack is becoming one of them, BUT not if Juliet can help it. Let’s not forget the first face we see in Season 3, Juliet’s, wiping tears from her face, and listening to Downtown, thinking about getting away. Get away! But, I really like the connection between Juliet and Jack.

JACK and JULIET:
Great great great connection between these two. He covers for her when she showed him the video asking to kill Ben, when Isabel asked. He saves her from being executed, but to be banished. She brings him the grilled food, with the “toothpicks.” GREAT connection between the two, and they will start to give into each other very very soon.

JIM and STACY:
What I really liked about watching the show with Jim and Stacy, whom I have to THANK big time for discussing and make it so much fun, was a question was brought up. What’s the BLACK SMOKE? Anyone, anyone? I have a HUGE suspicion we will be seeing the Black Smoke or Vincent VERY SOON. Claire or Charlie? Who will Vincent kill? Who will Vincent steer away to kill one or the other?

LOOKING FORWARD TO
- Locke meeting Patch In The Hatch
- Charlie not dying
- More Juliet and Jack
- Ben’s centric episode (flashbacks)
- Kate’s centric episode
- HURLEY HURLEY HURLEY
- The ANIMAL moans are back, BRING SOME ANIMALS INTO THIS!!!

LOST!!! ART...CLAIRE...GOOD...DAVE!!!

2007-02-21T10:34:00.000-05:00

Some LOST connections that I’d like to point out before tonight’s episode.

ARTISTS:
Have you noticed all the connections of artwork going on in the show. Season 1, Claire’s boyfriend/babies daddy Thomas was an artist, Michael does artwork (Walt’s birthday card), Walt obsession with the comic book, Charlie’s middle name is Hieronymus (Hieronymous Bo, sch is a very famous Dutch painter from the 1400’s). Recently, in the last episode we saw more artwork in the show than ever. Some backwards, the one in Desmonds apartment had symbols like the counter clock in the hatch. What’s the connection?

CHRISTAIN SHEPARD/CLAIRE LITTLETON
In Season 2, a flashback of Ana Lucia, she is playing Sarah to please Christian Shepard in Australia. When it comes down to get his job done, they wind up at someone’s house screaming at the lady of the house he wants to see his daughter. So Christian has a daughter? In Australia? Hmmm. Anyone else getting this?
Claire? What are you doing telling Charlie you were just going out for a swim, when you were wearing your best Express for Women get-up. You didn’t look like you were out for a swim! Someone push you in?

The word GOOD
Richard Malkin (the fraud? psychic in Australia) says to Claire that the couple in Los Angeles who want Claires baby are “good” people. Rose tells Jack he’s a “good” soul. Christian says to Sawyer “about Jack “He’s a “good” man”. When Ben is choking Ana Lucia, Ben mentions that Ana Lucia killed one of the “good” ones. She killed “Good”win, rght? Ben’s (maybe) brother? Ben tells Michael “were the “good” guys Michael. In the last episode “Flashes…” Penny tells Desmond she loves him cause he’s a “good” man, and then later on back on the island in the same episode Des tells Charlie he’s a “good” man. Can you think of any other goods in the show? Are there any bads? Eko was called a bad man, from a kid in his flashback, the kids mom calls Eko a bad man, a bad priest, he is no priest.

DAVE/DAVID/LIBBY/HURLEY
Okay, so, re-watching the season finale a few weeks back of Season Two, when Desmond meets Libby/Elizabeth, she mentions her dead husband David. AND, Hurley has a friend named Dave in the mental hospital, where Libby was also in there for treatment. Is this the same Dave/David? Creepy bald man in pajamas and slippers trying to get Libby out of Hurley’s head? Was Dave jealous, cause his wife is on the island? Are we seeing dead people on the island again, like Yemi or Christian (who’s not dead by the way!!!!). Weird connection!

Any other ideas? Thoughts? Predictions?

Bring em up!
b.quain

FLASHES BEFORE YOUR EYES

2007-02-15T11:51:00.000-05:00

Hey fans!

I think I may have been 50/50 on the show last night. I’m in such a catch-22 with shows that do the whole focus on one character and bring drama, end with a cliffhanger. But last night’s episode “Flashes Before Your Eyes”, was BRILLIANT. Love Desmond, love that character, and love everything he is going through, and last night brought a whole new Desmond and a whole new twist to the show. My only thing, and I better practice what I preach, is go to the Library or see Shawn (a good friend) at Barnes and Noble and

LET’S DO SOME READING!

Of Mice And Men – Sawyer reading in prison(remember the rabbit with the 8 on it’s back that Ben kills in front of Sawyer earlier this season? Of Mice and Men deals with death of a dog (Carlson kills that girl Candy’s dog, the nasty smelly old one), bunnies and dogs huh?)

Watership Down – Sawyer reading on the island (dogs taking over the bunnies, but the rabbits, against the wishes of their leader, Chief Rabbit {ben?}, escape the warren. The dogs in the book and film kill of some rabbits). Have you read this yet? No?! Go buy the book AND the film, classics.

Carrie – Juliet’s favorite book Season 3 Episode 1 (a Tale Of Two Cities {guess we’re reading that too} and Season 3 Episode 6 (Not In Portland), when she is watching over Rachel, there is YET another copy of Carrie, reminding us that Juliet has powers to make things happen. Like make her sister pregnant.

A Brief History In Time – Aldo is reading in Not In Portland. (Stephen Hawking’s book dealing with black holes, cosmology, superstring theories, also a doc film by Errol Morris, which you can rent from Netflix.)

Laughter In The Dark (Vladamir Nabokov) – (Written in the 30’s, later translated in English and entitled Camera Obscura, dealt with a similar theme to Nabokov’s 1955 release Lolita. Albert leaves wife and kid for 18-year old actress. A “painter” gets in-between the actress and Albert. Same painter as, Heironymus, wait, well keep reading. Who does this deal with on the island? Sawyer, uh no, I don’t think so, nor Hurley, who’s reading the book from Sawyers stash)

Just a few similarities of books being read on the island and the connection of who’s reading them.

NOW, ON TO THE SHOW, SEASON03 EPISODE08!

“Flashes Before Your Eyes” was pretty tame in some ways, or was it? It’s hard to explain and understand the flashbacks, but more than meets the eye (Desmond’s eye, the pupil, interesting), PLEASE KEEP READING. Now, this week left us with a cliffhanger, but we won’t see Charlie for 3 or 4 more episodes. Next week, we will be dealing with Kate and Sawyer right? We have to! And then there will be more on Jin, Sun, Sayid, Jack, Ben, Locke, Nikki, Paolo, Patch In The Hatch, etc. So don’t expect Charlie to die anytime this month, or at all, but do expect him to give his best wishes soon.

Some things we might not catch, but need to be discussed!

THE PAINTING in Mr. Charles Widmore’s office at Widmore Industries. Polar bears? Namaste backwards. From WIKIPEDIA.com, type in Hanso Foundation, and go down to Trivia, and you get "Namaste", a Sanskrit/Hindi greeting, is found on thehansofoundation.org web site. It is also spoken by Dr. Marvin Candle, presenter of the Swan station's orientation film, Alvar Hanso at the end of the The Sri Lanka Video and Kelvin, the former operator of the Swan station. YUP!

THE PICTURE of Desmond and Penny – We notice that the pic Desmond has on the island now is not this picture we are used to.

But, now the picture has changed to Penny wearing a black shirt, but Desmond is still the EXACT same as he was. No matter what, the picture should be the same right? Not until he got hit in the head by Jimmy Lennon’s cricket bat, should everything be the same, right? Then why did Penny change her clothes? Did someone tell her the ring was to be given to her? Why did the picture change to this?

THINGS PEOPLE SAID:

“And Maybe, You’re Gonna Be The One That Saves Me” Charlie sings as Desmond walks up to him. Also, Dominic Monaghan’s born in Manchester, like Oasis, but differ from Oasis. Dominic’s proper football team and LOVE is Man United (from Jimmy Kimmey live), but OASIS and everyone who is a sane person in Manchester, routes and cheers for Manchester CITY! Just thought you might want to know.

“Do I know you?” – Desmond to Charlie. YES YOU DO! Speaking of that painter in “Laughter In the Dark”, Charlie is sitting right there when Hurley is reading, a connection is made? I THINK the connection to “Laughter In The Dark” and Desmond is, that Desmond met Charlie before, but it was the head bump that mixed things up for him. Charlie’s middle name is Hieronymus (like Hieronymus Bousch, the famous painter) and in last night’s episode we see that painting in Widmore’s office that is very similar to a Bousch painting. Also, the hallucination of the baby and drugs Charlie has, very very Bousch style. In What Dreams May Come, the hell Robin Williams ends up in, is very much the same that Bousch paints in “The Garden Of Earthly Delights.”

“I’ll see you in another life brotha.” I know Desmond has been saying this for almost two seasons now, but what if? What if it is another life, brotha. I don’t think so. Hitting your head over and over again though, what a bitch. Speaking of bitch.

NEW CHARACTERS:

ANTIQUE SHOP LADY - She can tell what happens (the gift), like Desmond is pulling off on the island right now. BUT, since she is in his head and he is NOT reliving this flashback, where is she? On the island? Is this Rebecca? (Jacob’s mother) Or Is this Jacob’s wife Rachel, or Leah, or whichever else Jacob married? Antique Shop Lady tells Desmond all the things he’s not supposed to do, and then the incident with “red shoes” happens. Which leads us to!

PREDICTIONS/THEORIES

Charlie isn’t supposed to die silly! It’s Claire. In both incidents that Charlie was supposed to die, Claire was in there. Desmond is telling Charlie this so just in case, both Charlie AND Claire don’t die. Charlie loves Claire so much, he is willing to do everything and anything to help her. BUT! He couldn’t help Claire from drowning, because he couldn’t HEAR her, so Claire would have died. And goes so well with Claire’s knee high khakis she has, some pair of red shoes if you ask me. Sorry Charlie. Tuna for LUNCH!

DON’T TURN THE KEY!!! – So the flight of Oceanic 815 has been brought the island for a reason. My MASSIVE theory is the TURNING OF THE KEY. Desmond was NEVER to turn the key, so he wouldn’t think of Penny anymore. Once he forgets about Penny, he pushes buttons and lives for that purpose (like the Antique Shop Lady says). But someone else had an idea, and brought Oceanic 815 to crash and stop Desmond from pushing the button. Once Locke stopped Des, the key was turned and NOW Desmond can change his fate. Desmond was NEVER to turn the key. We all talk about there is a reason they are on the island, BUT, there is much more than “a reason”, every character has a reason for being there, making it 12-20 reasons they are there. And one HUGE connection, was to STOP DESMOND, but who is that for? HIM? JACOB? BEN? Purple skies mean blue waters to sail. ANTIQUE SHOP LADY is an OTHER!!!! Oh yes she is, she tells Desmond he will turn the key, which he was NEVER SUPPOSED TO DO! HOLY SHIT! “Every single one of us is dead” she says, right? And it was the OTHERS that brought Oceanic 815 to the island. LOCKE TO STOP DESMOND! That’s her connection. She makes Desmond turn the key.

Why is MacCutcheon Whisky on the island? Because it’s what Christian Shepard would get his hands on if he would drink whisky, right? Maybe. But someone on the flight had MacCutcheon. Who?

Okay, enough for now! Wow! So much. I will keep posting but, WOW!

COMMENT! Please, did I miss anything?

b.quain

NOT MY REDS

2007-02-10T23:09:00.000-05:00

Oh Rafa Rafa Rafa!

I'm dying here, seriously, dying. I feel like doodoo, go to the pub to see the second half at the pub (didn' t have a drink, so you can't say "serves you right" if you're sick), to see Guthrie and Arbeloa get sub'ed in for Zenden (good!) and Pennant (maybe not good). But we HAD TO WIN THIS GAME and you play a starter for the Arsenal FA CUP game who played SHIT, and the new guy Arbeloa. NOT YET! NO!!!! Why?! WE HAD TO WIN THIS GAME, do you not care about the standings and 2nd place! Chelsea were playing 'Boro and Arsenal play Wigan, WHAT GIVES?

Oh yeah, side night...great game "Gooh, I finally got to see you play. F' you FSC!

If this is the same team you want to play next Weds. against Barcelona, we out of that FRIGGIN' Cup too! COME ONE!!!! This is so friggin' depressing. Liverpool is one of the greatest clubs in the world right now. But scaring these boys to move the ball so far up the pitch as soon as they get the ball and give it away to Newcastle, not the way to play Rafa, not the way to play!

WE CAN BEAT BARCELONA!!! Right? You are a top Spaniard manager, you have an excellent squad. But, before I get to the praises, I do have a bone to pick with someone. STEVIE G!!! Where the hell are you?! Seriously? Are you playing? You're killing me, NO, you're killing the team! You are my hero, love the quality style you play, and love the book, love STEVIE G! But why? What's going on? Is the lady treating you good, parents healthy? Kids alright? The wedding going good? Alex, you being good to this man?

Okay, i'm done! Go reds! YOU BETTER BE FIT FOR BARCELONA! You can do this...but not this ridiculous team I watched today. Riise. You need a hug?

Come back Xabi A! We miss you! Get fit Luis, we love ya (we'll Vanessa does, wink wink)

b.quain

ABC and their Twin Peaks ways...

2007-02-09T15:25:00.000-05:00

So, I'm at my favorite sandwich joint Roly Poly on the phone with Chris Bain and we're talking LOST, since we have a shit-ton of catching up to do. We get into best show since Twin Peaks and ABC being retarded for taking it off...when all of the sudden, not even thinking Lost can get anymore brilliant and connecting themselves to Twin Peaks.

HERE COMES THE ARM!!! Twin Peak-Freaks will always remember the Arm for his little dance in the Black Lodge and his ability to speak...backwards.

Well...not even 48 hours after the Brainwashing scene, HOMAGE to "A Clockwork Orange" from Lost's Episode 7 of Season 3 (Not In Portland) airs, someone makes a HUGE DISCOVERY. That connects Aldo's reading "A Brief History In Time" to "Lost".

What you are about to HEAR is from the when Sawyer has Carl on his shoulder and asks Alex for the boat to when Sawyer, Kate and Alex walk into the room and find Carl in the chair with the visuals and the music running. LOST? Well, it's cause it's BACKWARDS! I'm not taking a piss here, I'm dead serious. YUP!

Ready to click, well not yet! FOLLOW THESE STEPS!

1) Turn the volume all the way up
2) Click on the youtube box
3) Walk away, but not to far and LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING!
4) Scary!

What do you think?!

Twin Peaks huh? All i have to say is...YES! Only fools ARE enslaved by time and space.

MAMA MIA!

b.quain

What do Sawyer, Carl and this BEAST have in common?

2007-02-09T12:07:00.000-05:00

What th hell is this beast?
Can we say it eats Dharma Fish Biscuits? I wonder how many seconds it took this thing to discover how the mechanism worked? Also, is this thing making the noises we hear at nights, moaning with Sawyer and Kate that night, when I Love You's were passed around?

Or can it be Joop making the noise? Who's Joop? What's Joop? 105 years old? How long has this island been going on?

Who are these beasts we're talking about, more to come!!! Hanso Foundation have been busy. Thanks Rachel, or Persephone. Whichever

b.quain

LOST RECAP & PREDICTIONS: Not In Portland!!! CRAZY!

2007-02-08T15:15:00.000-05:00

All I have to say is DIG DEEP everyone, DIG DEEP. Wow! I can’t even BELIEVE last night’s episode and the theories being dropped on us like Hiroshima. All I need to say is last night was WAAAAAY creepy, and this morning got weirder. As sitting down to write this, and looking at my (don’t make fun) notes, I took MITTELOS (Richard Alpert’s Bioscience company) and did my name scrambler and got some new words.

MITTELOS - Lost Time, Time Slot (ha!), Time Lost

But that’s not what freaked me out. As we remember Oceanic Airlines had their own website, so I’m sure Mittelos Bioscience did too, right? Well, yes they did!

www.mittelosbioscience.org was up, which I can’t get on anymore and found some interesting shit, wow freaky. A video! I won’t sleep tonight it’s that freaky.

(A little girl is on the screen and we hear a voice talking to her, and it’s got to be Rachael, Juliets’s sister. The girl starts saying we miss you, Hi aunt Julie. Then it goes into some freaky static and a voice talking about Juliet being a experiment. I will get some visuals and a script if I can, soon!)

As, I am writing this, Vanessa and I are throwing theories back and forth in AIM, and wow! Posting them all. But. Let’s go with the obvious ones.

RECAPPING Last night’s “Not In Portland” Episode, (which is weird, I kept mentioning Portland last night)

THINGS PEOPLE SAID:

DANNY/PICKETT – “Shepard never was on Jacob’s list” Last episode, Danny made that apparent, but now the show has made it apparent that Danny wasn’t needed anymore, and that Jacob exists. Well, Danny’s dead, why? Colleen is dead, so more baby? Colleen might have been pregnant. What was the weirdness though with Ben and Colleen the night Colleen died, and Juliet was there. Jacob? More to come, MUCH MORE!

JULIET - “DON’T let him fool you, He’ll never let a patient just die” Meaning, when Jack said “I will let him die” (Ben on the table), but Jack has always admitted he would never let anyone die on his table, something his father knew WAY to well. Donde esta Christian? Also, remember that Ben heard everything Tom and Jack said about Juliet wanting him dead. But, don’t expect Juliet gone anytime soon.

TOM – “They’ve got history” (to Jack in the viewing room, about Juliet and Ben). I don’t think Tom meant they have history as in lovey dovey, but as in Jacob. MORE TO COME.

TOM – “As soon as the sky turned purple…” I’m sick of something cutting Tom off and then we miss they next thing. I know we all expecting Tom to say “…turned purple, we can’t get off the island”, but what if that’s not true. NOW THEY CAN! Huh?! Yeah! What if they couldn’t before, but now they can?

Dr. RICHARD ALPERT – “Isn’t it true you successfully impregnated a male field mouse” (To Juliet). Yes she did! And she’ll do it again, or has she? To who? Maybe Hurley is not even, okay sorry Jorge, you know I love you, please keep reading. ALSO, the pics of the woman’s womb, Dr. Juliet Burke isn’t as dumb as we think. Woman in her 70’s, but Dr. Alpert corrects her and says “in her mid-twenties”, what’s this? Who’s womb?

JULIET – “If he were hit by a bus, that might help” – AND HE WAS!! Does Juliet and Desmond share something much more than we know, or was it Dr. Alpert? Why does Ed Burke get hit by the bus? Did Juliet make things happen or know they will happen, like Desmond has been since the hatch went KA-BLOOOIE! Connection about to be made, SOON!

Alex – “Go ahead, Call him! I’m sure he’s got nothing better to do.” (To Aldo) Uh, doesn’t everyone know Ben is in surgery at this time, so why would Alex be ordered to take Sawyer and Kate to the cells. So, it’s not Ben who’s Alex’s dad, IT’S GOT TO BE JACOB! Or Christian, ha! Kidding.

CHARACTERS:

JULIET – Yes, she’s special. NO! She did not make a drug that will make you pregnant. That’s what Ethan was doing in the beginning of the episode, and Rachael is in on it. BUT, YES YES YES Juliet is special, like WALT. Think about all the things Walt was doing in seasons 1 and 2. That’s why they NEED her on the island. NOT cause of the needles.

ALEX - Daughter of one of the higher beings, maybe even granddaughter to Jacob. We’re supposed to think it’s the daughter of Ben’s, but Rousseau and Ben? What about Jacob and Rousseau? Yeah?! Yeah, sounds more like it. Also, what else does Alex do besides make little ditches all over the island?

CARL - Or do we call him Alex for this episode my little Droogs. Poor guy. Wait, Alex! Ha! Sorry, didn’t mean to confuse, but that scene was a little too Clockwork Orange for me. What was the experiment that they were doing on Carl? And why was Sawyer so into it as well? Who was the face on Carl when the glasses came off? The ONLY moving image, we also see him again when Carl is carried out. Looks like Chris Bain or Chris Rae! But is it Jacob, he looks so young though. Maybe it’s from the past!

ALDO – Reading “Brief History In Time” and taking notes. Big Bang theories and time travel? Sounds like Richard Kelly should start sending fans of his Donnie Darko phenomenon to Lost.

RACHAEL –Juliet’s sister. Pregnant. Okay, look, I can’t handle this anymore.

WE NEED TO TALK (anyone who’s still reading!!)

In the Hebrew bible, Jacob had four wives. One was Rachael who had a son named Benjamin. Another son was Joseph. But three out of four is RAD! Take in mind though, Rachael was barren, and couldn’t have kids, kind of like Juliet’s sister Rachael in Lost. Rachael did give birth to Joseph, but later on she died while giving birth to her second child, Benjamin! Also, this is the same Jacob where the term Jacob’s Ladder was given. Angels, Heaven, Ups and downs. Ya dig?

JACOB – Runs the island. That’s it, sorry everyone. I know I’m saying more to come, more to come, more to come. But, oh man, there is so much more to come.

Desomnd/Juliet - What’s up with these two? What can they do? What’s the connection? Since the sky turned purple is an excuse people have been using, even in this episode Tom says it to Jack.

THE NUMBER 23: Eat your heart out Joel Schumacher. Lost is kicking ass with the number as well, ya big dummy. Jack’s seat on Oceanic 815 was 23B, the plane was at Gate 23, and Carl was stored in room 23! Wella Wella What?!

ROOM 23: Isn’t this the same room that Walt was going into last season? In Clockwork Orange you were desensitized by the images and music. Kind of like this room. Carl was acting up, and thrown in. BUT! Sawyer was into it too! What is it!?! And is Jacob the face in it?!

PREDICTIONS (we don’t watch trailers/previews, or anything like that, so these are just our predictions, remember, please don’t give anything away by saying “Well, on the preview we see Jack and Kate, and Walt, and the Elephant Man)

KATE/JACK: She’s going back for him, I mean come on. Of course. Locke has to find the PATCH IN THE HATCH!

SUN – pregnant right? Well, she was injected in the garden, hit in the head by Charlie. What if the injections were from earlier when Ethan was injecting Claire, what if Sun was being injected by Juliet? Or THAT island is still supernatural. It’s got to be.

WALT – “You’re not my dad”, Jesus if I heard that little runt say that to Michael once more, BUT! Wait! Vanessa made a point about, what if Walt was an experiment, and NOT REALLY MICAHELS! Makes sense. With all this pregnant talk, and Walt being the evil one on the island, okay, NOT EVIL, but the Black and Locke is the White. Yessir. More on that soon!

LAST! Christian Shepard is alive and here is a HUGE discovery. When Juliet is in the morgue and the guys from Mittelos come in, Ethan and Dr. Alpert, well if they can let themselves in that morgue, why not go in when Jack sees his dad to identify the body of Papa Shepard. Inject something to make him seem dead.

SOMETHING QUICK AND FUCKED UP!

3 years, 3 months, and 28 days as of 02/07/07: This is what happened according to CNN.com

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/09/05/humans.machine.idg/index.html

Stephen Hawkin + Computers= World Domination

FREAKY FREAKY FREAKY SHIT!

Love ya losters!

b.quain

ALBUM REVIEW: The Go! Team "Thunder, Lightning, Strike"

2005-11-08T10:04:00.000-05:00

THE GO! TEAM “THUNDER, LIGHTNING, STRIKE!"

1 cup of lo-fi samples from some tape cassettes
1/2 Cup of Bubble Gum Dance Beats
1/2 Cup of B-Girl/B-Boy Style
6 oz. Soul
6 oz. 1,2,3,4’s
1 Cup 70’s children’s morning TV
1 Cup 70’s Cop Show
2 lbs. Mint Royale, The Avalanches

Put that in for 40 minutes and what you have is the Brighton, England six member coed band, The Go! Team (that exclamation point is not a typo, and believe me they deserve it). From the second you put in “Thunder, Lightning, Strike!” it opens with that shrieking noise to a wonderful “One, Two Three, Four” sample of cheerleaders, and you are in it to win it.

You have an inclination that good times are to be had from the first 15 second taste. If it’s a Milton Bradley game, dinner, wine party, shower, bathroom break, I-Pod on the subway, a drive or anything, this album is like that amazing wine that goes with ANYTHING and everyone, even those who hate wine (dance, break beats, etc.), will enjoy it.

“Ladyflash” gives any lady that Pam Grier feel of walking down the street to “kick ass and take names” dancing. But don’t fret men, “Junior Kickstart” gives you a chance to be Starsky (or is it Hutch), and not that diaper duo Stiller and Wilson. I will tell you that you are that cop Barney Miller always wanted to be in the late 70’s. “Feel good By Numbers” can make you feel like Schroder of the Peanuts is playing in the other room with some MORE “One Two Three Fours”.

Are you ready for more B-Boy break dancing, Sugarhill style and “Electric Company” sing-alongs? Then “Bottle Rocket” will have you imagining you are Ramon in “Beat Street”, about to dance it out for some kids on “Zoom”. Coming around third base on this record is “Huddle Formation” which instantly I came up with the perfect music video idea, but this album has that all over it for anyone to do that. The Go! Team have made the term “let your imagination run wild” a reality for themselves and the audience in which they pull it off to a “T” (for TEAM). So are you hungry yet?! Good! Then put this album in, and serve immediately.
RATING: A

TV REVIEW: The Boondocks review 1 of 2...

2005-11-07T10:33:00.000-05:00

BOONDOCKS (Sundays, 11pm, ADULT SWIM)

When we think of Sunday Comics, most people my age have given up. Peanuts are now reruns and we have said to ourselves on Wednesdays, “Is Doonesbery still around…Jesus that Opus was phallic.” Sunday morning got a whole lot better since Garfield, and less than a decade ago Dilbert, became half hour length TV Cartoons. But, the curse of Sunday comics as cartoons is that Garfield couldn’t hold down the fort alone, so he brought some of his friends. And who the hell is Dilbert, you yuppie scum! So, is it okay to turn comic strips to cartoons? The Peanuts STILL replay holiday specials for a reason.

I’m sure some of you have had Sunday brunch with Aaron McGruder, who has given us a reason to turn to AT LEAST page 2 for some good ol’ not black and white but “color” reading, with two young urban hip, politically charged, not so P.C. boys Riley, and older brother Huey. McGruder is now giving us the Sunday late night snack, 12 hours later with the half hour Comedy Central or Adult Swim tug of war cartoon of Huey, Riley and Grandfather in “BOONDOCKS.” Adult Swim 1, Comedy Central 0.

I have been following these kids for years now wishing they were my own, and Vanessa has taken them in as well hoping for them to go to nice schools, and get great jobs when they grow up, we still have the spare room waiting. But after last night…I think we can wait on having Huey and Riley as children and maybe we can hang out with Granddaddy more. Grandfather Robert Freeman, voice of John Witherspoon (Friday, Soul Plane)….YEEEEAH BOOYEEE, moves them into the suburban white picture postcard for American Beauty neighborhood. No idea where the parents are as of yet, very good.
Huey and Riley are miserable, and we haven’t sent them to school yet, nor have they made any friends. And the viewers are miserable from these voices of Huey and Riley. Huey, I was expecting HUEY, HUEY NEWTON or Malcolm X, or MLK for him being the leader in the strip. But no, you get the voices that sound like Mike Tyson and Michael Jackson from these kids.

The pilot episode opens with Huey having dreams of crashing Garden Parties saying “Ronald Regan was the Devil!!!!!” and “the Government doesn’t care about 9/11!” GOOD FOR YOU BOY! But, when “Whitey” (Ed Asner) comes knocking on the door to meet the family, dreams become a reality for Huey. And Huey goes all the way!

I’m not going to get into too much of the show since there’s a RERUN on SATURDAY Nov. 12th at MIDNIGHT! Just watch it. But I will give these notes…
1) No Chris Rock yet…and I mean YET! Good!
2) Please get by the voices
3) Good laughs for use of the word Nigga on TV, Huey speaking his mind
4) It is the PILOT!!! Which are usually eh, anyway. We cannot judge yet…

So with that in mind, this is ONE out of TWO reviews of “Boondocks”. For now, the best is John Witherspoon holding his own as Grandfather. McGruder writes along side Reginald Hudlin (Everybody hates Chris, House Party, Bernie Mac), which makes the show true to the comic, but something is missing right now. Maybe we can put a finger on it next Sunday.
RATING :B-

test

2005-10-18T16:37:00.000-04:00

Does every asshole do this before they actualy say anything?

TEST TEST TEST!

Here's my first blog...there is a kitty i don't know who is eating the food, I GAVE HER and her owner can't give a shit becuase they won't call me back. Poor Sunshine. Cute kitty may I add. Resembles one of the two kitties on the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2005 Tour poster. But Vanessa and I say it's brodie reading to Amelie in bed, and she's all itchy.

and...

Dont wear a Clap Your Hands Say yeah shirt out in public, you will meet assholes. Assholes who Clap Their Hands...and scream "Yeah...Yeah...Yeah". Mine were a grocery stor checkout woman and the older male bagboy. Everyone looked.

Well here's too my first blog. I will be updating new film reviews, music reviews like I used to for my website Resolution365, which was my new years resloution from 2003 which was to see a film everyday and critique it on the site. but it landed me a job at the Floirda Film Festival in programming, so thats what i do. And I will be adding the Vanessa tidbit in there, since she has better oneliners about things, and wittier.

ok, have fun!
b.quain