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The latest Lost article by Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly is up for your reading pleasure. Doc has some bits about tonight’s episode, as well as spoilers for the next episode — including references to a VERY IMPORTANT EASTER EGG that is supposed to be in the 3/7 ep.

Doc includes a theory by one of his good friends, and it is REALLY good — and y’all know that I rarely recommend a theory to read. This would be one of the one’s that is worth your time.

I wasn’t going to link this blog review of last Wednesday’s SPECTACULAR episode of Lost. Maybe it’s because I’m a bit of a Lost snob. Oh wait, that is exactly what it is To steal a comment that The Nomad left on The Fuselage a while ago — there are people who “get” this show, and those that don’t. This guy…doesn’t.

But, thankfully, a number of those who commented on his review…do. And their comments defending the show and, in particular, this episode, are very much worth the read.

You can read the full cover story by Entertainment Weekly on Lost, including pics from the mag, by going HERE. Being the spoiler-phobe that I am, I haven’t read the whole article, but I am going to assume that there are basic plot spoilers.

The Associated Press has their video recap up for last night’s LOST. The end of the video does discuss some spoilers for next week’s episode, so be forewarned

Okay, here are my notes from last night’s episode. I was burning up the Google and Wiki, I tell yah!

• I have never read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, but I guess the time looping/deja vu/back to the future stuff is similar to what happens in that series.
• Numbers — 1:08 on Desmond’s clock. Delivery for 815. When the old lady is explaining to Desmond what his future has to be, she says it is 2 years before he joins the boat race and then he has 3 years on the island (23 is one of the numbers).
• Up close image of Desmond’s eye is a callback to many Lost episodes that started with just an eye, most notable one being the Pilot episode. Jack waking up in the jungle, we start with just a shot of his eye.
• Abstract painting in Charles Widmore’s office has “namaste” written backwards across the top and a polar bear, which Desmond notices.
• When Desmond sees Charlie in his alternate universe, he is singing Wonderwall by Oasis. Also, the sign says “Charlie Hieronymous Pace” — Hieronymous is the first name of Bosch, a 15th century painter whose most famous painting was “The Garden of Earthly Delights”
• Desmond’s professor friend is explaining to a student that you can run the same study 10 different times and get 10 different results. Is this a clue for theorists?
• At the bar, jukebox is playing Mama Cass’ “Make Your Own Kind of Music” which is what Desmond played on the turntable to open up the Season 2 premiere episode of Lost “Man of Science, Man of Faith”
• “The universe has a way of course correcting” is very much like the Final Destination movies.
• The only hit I got for Admiral McCutcheon was from a television miniseries adaptation of Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” — it was the name of a character whose ship, the Abraham Lincoln, came up against Captain Nemo. I wouldn’t even mention it, except for Charles Widmore’s “Admiral McCutcheon” story and that it involves ships and the sea…appropriate for Desmond.

That’s all I got for now. That whole episode was a mind-trip, in the literal sense of the word. Oh, and Hannah Tucker over at Entertainment Weekly posted a (lame) review, if you’re interested. All of the MEAT in that episode and she focuses on David Hume’s theory of combatibilism? *YAWN*

I’m TEASING. It looks like the fellas over at IGN have been a bit bored. They sat down to look at the “Top 50 Lost Loose Ends”. I have to admit — I didn’t even read through the list. I don’t need that kind of frustation this close to the holidays. But some of you may be a bit more mascochistic

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Listen to us pontificate about the “Fall Finale” of Lost, plus some news items related to Six Degrees and What about Brian, and Listener Questions!

The Associated Press has put up their video recap of “I Do.”

There is some crazy chick with glasses who throws in her buck-fifty regarding the “Fall Finale” of Lost.

Oh wait…that’s me

Here are my notes on last night’s “Fall Finale” for Lost. Feel free to comment and add things I may have missed

• Kate’s husband Kevin is played by Nathan Fillion, who may not be recognizable to the general viewing public, but is HUGE in the cult fanbase. He played Mal on Firefly (and in the movie Serenity), and is fondly referred to as “Captain Tightpants” by the fanbase. His character “Kevin” on Lost is a police officer with the Miami Dade police department (patch on his sleeve and logo on police car). He also mentions Tampa.
• NUMBERS — Not many. The only one I picked up on was when Kate was talking to her mother-in-law and she said she had four boys.
• Jack “grew a pair” and has taken the control away from Ben — but is Ben really the “Him” that has been referred to by The Others as who they answer to? A comment is made by Danny that “Shephard wasn’t even on Jacob’s list” — WHO is Jacob? Could he be the real leader? Could he be the guy with the patch we saw last week? (whom I like to call Patchman)
• Alex (who we assume to be Rousseau’s daughter) tries to help Kate and Sawyer escape by using a slingshot and rocks (Danny in the walkie - “How the hell did she get over here?” — So she is usually on the main island?). She says, “I wanna talk to Ben” and that they “killed my boyfriend” (who would be Carl who used to be in Kate’s cage). Later, as Ben lies facedown on the table before his surgery, he asks Juliet if “Alex asked about me” and Julies says “No, we took her home last night. I don’t know where she is now.”
• Kate’s choice seems to be Sawyer — they get busy in the cell (and were watched by Ben) and they exchanged “I love yous” kind of. Jack is crushed twice by Kate’s choice — once when he realizes that Kate asks Jack to do the surgery to save Sawyer and the second time when he sees them post-coital in Ben’s viewing room. Ben is obviously upset that Kate doesn’t break Jack (and admits to Jack later that he thought Kate would chose him), but is even more surprised when Jack agrees to do the surgery anyway.
• Jack takes control — he doesn’t take the tumor out (yet), but he doesn’t discreetly kill Ben either (for Juliet). Jack has become the hero (again?). He gave up the girl and intends to sacrifice himself in order to give freedom to Kate (and Sawyer?).
• Locke is mid-eulogy when he notices the words “Lift Up Your Eyes and Look North” — which partly comes from the scripture next to it: “Lift up your eyes and look north, south, east and west” (God to Abram, Genesis 13:14). The northern part of the island is probably where you can see the other island.
• In the scene when Juliet comes to get Kate, Danny is arguing with Juliet and says something like “supposed to be 2 weeks!” and “it’s stupid!” What was supposed to be 2 weeks? How long they kept Kate/Sawyer/Jack? Or was that part of Ben’s original plan on how long it would take him to manipulate Jack into doing the surgery?
• When the intercom wakes Jack up (and finds the door open), the voice sounds like Alex.

So, what answers did we get? Not a lot really, but is that a bad thing? We know that the tumor IS Ben’s (there was speculation that it was part of the ruse) and that there is someone named “Jacob” who seems to have made a list that Jack was NOT on. Ben’s premonition-type comment — “Whatever happens, it’s going to change everything.” Jack agrees. Kate and Sawyer can be controlled by threatening the other, but Jack has his own power over The Others now. Also, we have true hope that Kate (at least), and possibly Sawyer, will make it off Bencatraz — and that Locke is going to head North and SEE Bencatraz.

In the spirit of equality, here is an article that gives Lost a list of ultimatums — a “last straw” plea from a reviewer who I know has been a big fan of Lost up until now, it seems.

This reviewer from Entertainment Weekly seemed pretty happy with the “Fall Finale” of Lost. I’m hearing both high praise and severe disappointment (especially after last week’s OMGWTF episode). She also thinks that the “Triangle” is not as over as we may think.

While there have been plenty of complaints about this season of Lost, there has also been praise. Rob Thomas, a writer for The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, gives this examination of why he believes that watching Lost is like watching a “great striptease.”

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Here it is! I warn you, we both kinda liked this eppy

Yay! We’re famous again!

The Associate Press has put up it’s video round up for “The Cost of Living”, and not only do we get a shout out for the Bob Dylan video mention, but they also show a screen shot of the EPM site in the vid!

Entertainment Weekly has their review of last night’s episode of Lost up. It’s long, but it’s thorough, and hits on some things that I missed the first go ’round.