Scott's Blog of Doom

Finally, we see the statue, and it's an Egyptian god of some sort.  Yay!

Minor thing I noticed for whatever reason:  The ankh symbol on that necklace also shows up on the display of the countdown if you don't push the button every 108 minutes.

This was of course Sawyer's episode all the way and he knocked it out of the park, going back into grift mode but doing so for the power of good instead of evil.  Loved him using bits of the show, like the Black Rock, to construct his cover story,and loved that he knew exactly what Richard Alpert needed to hear.  He's truly turned into the leader that Jack never could be.  And I really think he deserves some happiness with Juliet, so hopefully he blows off Kate in the next episode and we can lay that stupid triangle to rest.  Juliet's the only one who calls him "James", they have to be together!  Although when he was telling Horace that he "didn't go for it" with Kate, I (and many others) were thinking "Sex in a polar bear cage isn't going for it?"  I'd like to see what putting the moves on someone really is, then. 

I feel for Faraday, but stalking a little girl isn't the way to work through your grief.  That scene was creepy as all hell.

Two weeks until the next episode?  WTF?

Unfortunately a combination of no TV and no high-speed internet this week means I couldn't even download House/24 on Monday night, but luckily everything was up and running tonight for LOST.  And thank god, it's a GOOD episode featuring the Oceanic 6 for once.  And it was weird, because at the beginning when Mrs. Hawking was running through her explanation of the Magic Island Theory I was thinking "Wow, this season is totally about the answers instead of the crazy questions" and then BAM, by the end of the episode I'm all "What happened to Ben and why is Sayid in cuffs and what's up with the other Arab dude we met and WHY THE FUCK IS JIN DRIVING A DHARMA TRUCK?!?" and I just love this show all over again.  Last week's somewhat disappointing foray into Rousseau's past (she shot and killed her own crew?  You don't say?) was totally made up for here.  I still want to get back to Faraday and Sawyer and the merry band of time travellers who are no longer time travelling, but this one at least made Jack interesting again for a week. 

Kate:  "Never talk about Aaron again."  My pleasure.

My favorite part of the episode:  Ben's casual lying about EVERYTHING.  Even when there's no need.  "My mother taught me to read" indeed.

Next week:  The secret origin of Jeremy Bentham.  I'm there, dude. 

For some reason I was thinking about the show this morning, and it occurred to me:

1)  We don't know who Alex's dad actually is, right?  We just know Ben basically kidnapped her from Rousseau after the purge and adopted her as his own daughter. 

2)  Charles Widmore really, REALLY hates Ben.

3)  Widmore was on the island as a younger man.

So what if Widmore is Alex's real father?  Ben stealing his daughter away would certainly explain the hatred between them.  And it would also explain why Ben was so sure that Widmore's goons weren't going to murder Alex in cold blood. 

OK, people are hijacking other topics for Lost, so we might as well bring it into its own one.

LOVING this season.  I have to say, I agree with the majority opinion thus far in that the Oceanic Six stuff is pretty dull so far, but The Adventures of the Time Travelling Islanders are just knocking it out of the park each week.  Daniel "It can't happen because it didn't happen" Faraday is my new hero and second favorite after Desmond, and "Jughead" was just jam packed full of great stuff to keep people guessing.  Obviously Ellie the Other = Eloise Faraday later on, but what's with a third person on the show named Charles?  This stuff is never a coincidence, so I'm thinking they go with the mindfuck and have little Charlie go to the island in the past and then grow up to be Charles Widmore.  And speaking of him, what a reveal!  I haven't had one of those "HOLY CRAP!" moments for a while now and it was great to be totally caught off-guard like that, as the pieces now start to fall into place. 

Is it Wednesday yet? 

Although the Oscar nominations proved to be a huge disappointment, Lost did not. 

I've always had a love-hate relationship with time travel, and although this season threatens to warp my fragile wittle mind, I'm loving the discombobulation going on.  Faraday steps up to the plate and becomes a main event player!  The time travel stuff now allows the writers to play in the sandbox they've created, because we can visit Rousseau, Dharma, the Black Rock, the hatches and get all kinds of cool backstory without needing the flashbacks and flashforwards.  In fact, the story on The Island was so overwhelmingly fascinating for me that it really made the "three years later" stuff look weak by comparison.  But then I'm sick of Jack and Kate and Hurley anyway.  Nice shoutout by Anna Lucia ("Stay away from the cops") and I'm glad someone stood up to Ben, but I don't think getting arrested is the best course of action for Hurley.  But as Ben said, it IS tough for people to trust him now.  And Frogurt, the dumbest character ever, gets one of the most deserving deaths.  Loved it. 

Great start to the season.