Snowflakes in Hell

The new episode is on the DVR. There will be no spoilers allowed. Thanks to Sebastian’s new crazy work schedule, our speedy viewing sessions have dropped dramatically. We’re waiting to catch a couple of hours in a row to watch the finale of Season 3. Obviously, that still leaves us with 2 more seasons.

We’re getting to an interesting point in this little viewing exercise. I find the show to be quite predictable by now, and I find myself hoping that more characters die. In fact, I say we just give up and nuke the whole damn island/island chain/whatever. This doesn’t give me much hope for the remaining three seasons. Perhaps those of you who watched last night can give a spoiler-free clue as to whether it is worth it, or I’ll be screaming at the computer to just nuke the whole damn world in order to be free of these characters.

So now that it’s finally official, I think Comcast can expect our cancellation shortly after this goes live. Or sooner. Mix it in with a bundle that Verizon is willing to offer so that we get discounts on the phone & basic tv service, and there’s absolutely no justification for Comcast’s high prices.

Since my last Netflix-related post was unexpectedly popular, here are more topics for discussion:

• The Warner Bros. Compromise: Good or Bad?
• Wii Streaming: Will you use it if you don’t already stream through another method?
• Lost: Ana Lucia’s Finally Dead to Me! Yay!

My own answers will start the comments.

Sebastian had been watching Lost since the series started. Note the past tense. What happened? Well, me.

I didn’t watch Lost. I didn’t ban him from watching Lost, he just opted not to watch without me. So he DVR’d it while I’d leave the room since he didn’t want me to see “current” (i.e. Season 4) episodes without knowing the back story.  He did have all of Season 5 on DVR until we needed the space for something else.  So I deleted without him ever getting to watch.

But we got Netflix last month just so I could catch up. We’ve been watching and will receive the last two discs for Season 2 tomorrow. That means I should be starting Season 3 by the end of the weekend.

No, we won’t quite be done before the final season begins, but we’ll be close enough that we just have to record a few episodes.  With that said, I have found the absolute perfect accessory for the ultimate Lost final season viewing party. A polar bear television. I mean, it’s a polar bear.  How perfect can you get?  I guess options like wild boar and black stallion would also make fine Lost accessories, but they wouldn’t be nearly as cuddly as a polar bear television.

All of that said, here are my thoughts on Lost through the first 40 episodes: Read more »

I knew Tom Friendly was gay!  So it would seem that Ben’s people can move back and forth between The Island and the real world.  I think the writers are thinking at this point we should be pondering that maybe Ben really is the good guy.  He had Sayid Jarrah working for him, after all, I’m guessing talked into it by Michael, who isn’t one of the Oceanic Six, but just ended up back in the real world.  I think Ben is still the bad guy.  What’s the role of Alvar Hanso in all this?  All we hear about now is Charles Widmore. All I can say is they better start answering questions soon instead of raising more and more of them :)

Also, that show that comes on after Lost, “Eli Stone”, is bloody awful.  Seriously.  Get some actual attorneys on your staff so the show can come up with realistic legal situations.  Also, fire all the commies on the writing staff because their dirty hippy is showing, which means guys like me won’t watch it.

Most unexpected twist ever.  All along you’re wondering when they are flashing back to, and they are flashing forward, or is it sideways maybe?   The odd thing is, Jack’s dad is still alive in this parallel Lost universe.  I’m also wondering who died?  No one showed up at his funeral.  For some reason, I’m guessing it’s Ben.

Only six more hours before the season finale of Lost!  I really hope they don’t let us down.   Based on the previews, it looks like The Others had the whole plan figured out.   Did Juliet betray them?  Will John Locke make it?   I think Locke has to live, because if you look at the series, Locke I think is really the central character that the show is mostly about.  To me, the main characters are Locke, the Island, and Ben.

It’s sure to be an exciting two hours of a television.

Sorry for the light posting.  I had the gun club meeting last night, and then, of course, Lost, so not much of a chance to queue some filler.  Last night’s lost episode was excellent, and as Brad pointed out in the comments, it turns out that Ben’s father is Lazlo from the movie Real Genius.

Ben killed his father because he spent all his time making repeated entries into the island’s sweepstakes.  He had calculated that he’d win 32.6% of the prizes.  Or maybe because he drank too much.  I’m getting my plots confused.

I’m thinking that anyone who kills someone on the island dies.  Think about it.  Desmond has consistently foreseen Charlie’s demise, but Charlie seems to be destined to die.  Anna Lucia killed someone, and she’s dead.  The reason the others wanted John Locke to kill his father is to see if he’d die.  If he doesn’t, he must be special.   Sawyer killed Locke’s father instead, so now we’ll have to see if Soyer dies.  Who else has killed someone on the island?   Mr. Eko has.  He’s dead.  Juliet has, not dead yet.   So has Sun.  Sun’s going to die because she’s pregnant, and pregnant women die on the island.

Maybe there’s someone who doesn’t fit here that I’m not thinking about.   Another thing I wonder is what happened to Michael and his kid.

It appears ABC’s Lost will run for three more seasons, each 16 uninterrupted episodes.  This seems to suggest that they didn’t have the show all that well planned out from the beginning to end.  They do mention this:

“Due to the unique nature of ‘Lost,’ we knew it would require an end date to keep the integrity and strength of the show consistent throughout and to give the audience the payoff they deserve,” ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson said.

You better!  If this ends up being another Quantum Leap or X-Files, I’m going to be pissed.

OK, Lost needs to pick up the pace a little bit. Considering they have had falling ratings so far in this second half of the third season, they need to start moving things along. I’ve heard, though this is completely unsubstantiated, that ABC has asked that they strech the series out more. Since it’s such a hit, they wanted it to last just a bit longer.

But come on. What was really interesting about the last episode? Hurly drives a car around the island and it reminds him of his dad who left for 17 years then came back for his lottery money and to boink his mom? The only interesting parts of that episode was the last three minutes. I was waiting to see when Danielle Rousseau would make a reapperance.

So if Desmond is seeing future events, because he relived it before, doesn’t that mean he’s also relived his time on the island as well?  And if Charlie was killed by lightning originally, wouldn’t he have had to relive it more than once to know that Charlie would later drown trying to save Claire?

Also, from last week’s episode, the brainwashing scene backwards:

Only fools are enslaved by time and space.

The ABC series “Lost” starts again in about 40 minutes.  My addiction to the show will unfortunatly cut into blogging time tonight.  I noticed that Lost is filmed in Hawaii, which probably explains why all the Kalashnikovs on the show have the silly looking Clinton magazines.  The odd thing is, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them with the full sized mags in them as well on the series.  Maybe they don’t shoot everything in Hawaii.  A few of the “Others” have been seen with M1As on the show.  Sayid seems to like the SKS.  Some on the show need to learn the lesson that when you’re expecting a fight, take a rifle, and take 5 friends with rifles.  Heading off to look for trouble with a 9mm pistol seems like a bad idea.