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Rewatching episodes from the beginning I'm in the middle of S01E06 - House of the Rising Sun. Just saw the scene where Charlie split the beehive and they all ran away back to the cave. Kate sees the dead bodies and Jack looks at them - one male one female. And he finds a bag on them - with the white and black stones.

Hmm...

I just watched a repeat where Locke and Ecco are in the Pearl and watching the orientation, which shows that the copywrite date was 1980.  In the orientation, Marvin Candle (or whichever name he was using at that time) doesn't have an arm missing... but in the season finale which occurs in 1977, it looks like he may have damaged his arm.

Any suggestions?

( ye olde Spoilers for s4 and s5 )

Previously, on Lost: Before he dies at the hands of his own mother in the past, Dan sets in motion a plan to change the course of the future by using a hydrogen bomb to blow the crap out of a hole in the ground that houses massive electromagnetic energy. That sounds even crazier when you read it out loud. People, we've come a long way since the days when we got all excited because there was a single man at the bottom of the Hatch.

( There be nothing but death and destruction this way.... )

Cross-posted to ckirkman

Preamble: I'm an independent cartoonist. I also watch Lost. With the Season Finale still fresh in my mind while deadlines for my book stare me in the face like an angry polar bear I started taking the edge off by telling myself the dialog in LOLCat which makes for good stupid fun, but I found this more fitting.

And so with a panel snippet I offer a kind El-Jay Cut juuuuuuuuuuust in case.

( Pretty Much My Reaction Last Night )

Previously, on Lost: Ben whacked Locke, but Locke fooled Ben, and later told Sun that he could find Jin. Daniel told Jack of some temporal slack, and with Kate looking on said he'd get their lives back. All it required, he said with aplomb, was some faith and some time and a hydrogen bomb. So Dan threatened old Richard, his thoughts not the clearest, and was soon dropped with a boom by his blonde mommy dearest. A little bit of blood, then down with a whup, except for details that'll catch us all up.

Athankyou.

( There's something under this cut that is going to blow your mind. )

Cross-posted to ckirkman

( incredibly spoiler-y for episode 5x14 )

Previously, on Last Cake Standing: Bronwen, Courtney, Mary and James had out-baked Elisa Strauss (no sock monkey for you, babe!) in the last surprise wedding cake elimination. Darn shame there, 'cause Elisa's super cute. This time, the twist came about in teams - Bronwen and James (Team Smiley) were teamed up against Mary and Courtney (Team Emotion) in designing superhero cakes. Everyone was seeing green, as they all pulled eco-heroes out of their creative butts - all except for James, that is, whose Captain Beachtowel was the best of the bunch. His idea might have been the best, but it wasn't Bronwen's idea, so that meant that almost none of it got used. Queen bee much, missy? Anywho, Team Emotion combined their ideas and crafted a well-sculpted, glow-in-the-dark homage to fireflies, hippos and toxic sludge, while Team Smiley crafted a thong-clad man in a cape that rotated on top of a giant, phallic tower, complete with a single, enormous ball at the base. I wish I was kidding. Team Emotion took the prize easily, and Bronwen and James were forced into a 30-minute cake decorate-off. Bronwen won. Duh.

And I believe that just about catches us up. (By the way, check out the Lost 100th episode cake, made by Duff's Charm City Cakes over at Jorge Garcia's blog! It's awesome.)

( Mmmmm, cake. )

Cross-posted to ckirkman

Previously, on Lost: I have no idea what happened previously, because Christian Shephard's voice didn't come on and say those magical words to introduce the previous clips. So let's see if I can remember everything that went down! Previously, our tempus fugitives, with the help of the Sayid 4000™, escaped the clutches of the evil Kelvin, who you may recall was resurrected from the dead by the ghost of Naomi using a formula developed at the Arrow station to form an undead army and was sent back in time to find the sub, get off the Island, and kill John Locke while he was still a child. Whew. Now on Hydra Island, Jack and Kate have reconciled and asked Sawyer to wed them using his powers as a constable in the Dharma Initiative. During the ceremony, the castaways were ambushed by bionic polar bears, led by a team of robotic animal wranglers that had held up in the Hydra station after a particularly nasty rabies outbreak. Kate managed to give them all the slip, and using her master tracking skills, circled around and took the lead wrangler hostage using only a soup spoon. Jack cried, and basically didn't say anything completely stupid for a full hour. The last episode ended with a 15-minute-long segment where Juliet first baked bread, then worked on a gunmetal grey 1965 Pontiac GTO in a pony tail and tank top.

I think that about catches us up.

( If you haven't seen The Empire Strikes Back, you may want to watch that before reading this. Seriously. )

Cross-posted to ckirkman

Previously, on Lost: Gentle Ben was shot down by Sayid back in 1977. In order to save his life, Sawyer took little Ben over to the Others and Richard Alpert said that if he took Ben and saved him, he would never be the same again - he would always be one of them. Sawyer said whatever, and so Richard took Ben's failing body into his arms and entered the Temple. Later, speaking in standard temporal terms anyway, Ben is at a standoff with Keamy, the merc sonofabitch that Charles Widmore sent to the Island to get Benjamin. The mercs had his stolen/adopted daughter, Alex, at gunpoint, and Ben tried to call the bluff. Bad move. Keamy put a bullet in poor Alex's brain. In 2008, Sun, Lapidus and Ben returned to the Island on Ajira Airways flight 316, and Sun aimed to go over to the main island to find Jin. Before she could leave, though, she felt the need to wallop Ben over the head with an oar. Sure, why not. Soon, Ben was laid out on a cot in the Hydra station, as John Locke - now fully resurrected from the dead - watched over him.

Yeah, it's kinda complicated. Hope you've been keeping up.

( In which Ben pulls a drain plug and almost goes right down with it... )

I just wrote a lengthy column about Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse that I would love to hear your thoughts on:
http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2009/04/08/murphys-law-losts-long-and-winding-road-trip/

Here's a brief excerpt:

What has me doubting the omniscience of the Lost writers? Well, let’s start with their March 19th podcast, where a fan asked executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse about a continuity error in the show. The fan wanted to know how Daniel Faraday could see a young Charlotte in Dharma-ville in 1974 in this season’s episode “LaFleur,” when last season in the episode “Confirmed Dead” Ben Linus revealed that Charlotte was born in 1979. The fan wanted to know if the writers had screwed up.

The two executive producers claimed that the character was originally supposed to be born in 1970 or 71, but an on-set mistake caused the year to be changed.

Previously, on Lost: Sawyer. Cassidy. Baby. Con. Kate. Copter. Whisper. SPLASH! Kidnap. Lawyer. Carole. Island. Past. Ben. Sayid. Van. CRASH! Escape. Jungle. Run. Jin? WHACK! BLAM! Thud. Thonk!

( Click. Whirrrrr. Read. Head. KABLOOEY! )

Cross-posted to ckirkman

Previously, on Lost: Little Harry Potter, I mean Ben Linus, runs into Richard "The Timeless Wonder" Alpert looking a bit dissheveled in the jungle of mystery, back in 1974. Ben wants to join the Hostiles. Richard tells him that he must be patient before he can join. Yeah, you're probably going to have to wait about 18 years or so. Back in 2007, grown-up Ben has been manipulating Sayid into killing a whole bunch of people, before they join Jack, Kate, and Hurley on Ajira Flight 316. Destination? 1977. Back in the '70s, Jin finds Sayid wondering around near the Flame and has no choice but to take him captive. Later, in the Dharma brig, young Ben brings Sayid a sandwich, and they meet again for the first time.

( Once more into the breach, young friends... )

Cross-posted to ckirkman

Some not very deep thoughts or observations:

A) I knew that was going to happen.
B) Jack/Matthew Fox is getting grey around the temples.
C) I am LOVING James Ford Sawyer LaFleur
D) Hurley is like the voice of the people - the fans
E) Laughing so hard at Sayid - "I am from the future!"
F) The actor playing Horace, Doug Hutchison is short (5 '6" according to IMDB) and has played very scary villians in several other shows e.g. The Practice and C.S.I therefore I am having a hard time seeing him as a gentle Dharma mathematician.
G) The actor playing Ben's father was UNCLE RICO in Napoleon Dynamite. This makes me laugh and forget my fear of Doug Hutchinson.

...that might have already been brought up, but oh well. Maybe the list from Season 2 is made up of a list of folks that Ben met when he was a child (when Jack, Kate, and Sawyer) went back in time. It's all very vague (and blurred by mimosas), but it's a thought? He needed them to go back to the island, because maybe him meeting them as a child set something in motion?

Previously, on Lost: The bitch came back.

( For more of the story, see inside. )

( I just knew... )

As you all may have noticed, there was no new Lost this week. I know, I'm getting the withdrawal shakes already. That doesn't mean, however, that I need to shut up about it. Today's feature won't be as chock full of the usual wild-eyed speculation, but I did want to put down a few thoughts that had been rattling about. Just a little appetizer for thought, if you will. So, without further ado...

( Not too many spoilers in here, but just in case I don't want to get bitched at... )

Cross-posted to ckirkman

Previously, on Lost: Sawyer slaps Daniel around like a little girl to make him talk about what's going down with the island. Daniel equates it to a record on a turntable, skipping - except imagine that turntable is hurtling through spacetime, popping in and out of this dimension's timestream and they're all on the record, being slung around like ragdolls, and don't even get him started on bunnies, and... Sawyer thinks about slapping him again. Sawyer and the gang are jumping about, getting nosebleeds and such, until, sadly, Charlotte has her last nosebleed. Locke suggests they go back to the Orchid so everyone can return, even Kate. "Don't you want her to come back?" Locke asks Sawyer. Well, not particularly, says I. Locke drops down the well, is engulfed in the white light of another jump, and Sawyer is left holding a rope that goes to nowhere.


( Yep, it's the Juliet show. Tickets on sale at the door. )



Cross-posted to ckirkman.

Previously, on Lost: Richard and John have a little talk. "The only way to save the island, John, is to get your people back here." But you're gonna have to die, though, says Methusaleh. No biggie. Later, John's does some well-diving and is swallowed up by a white light. He ends up with a broken leg down in the Great Wheel chamber with Papa Shephard. Christian tells him to get all his friends together and find Mrs. Hawking. Oh, and you're gonna die. No biggie.

Meanwhile, this week, at hobotrashcan.com: Mr. Murphy informs me that Ol' Benjamin Linus, Mr. Michael Emerson himself, did an interview with Comic News Insider in which he told the hosts that my little analysis column on time travel was "one of the smartest articles I've ever read about what goes on on our show." Yeah, seriously! It's all true, I swear. Joel's going to post the audio soon, I reckon, and you can all hear for yourselves. In the meantime, I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that Mr. Emerson tells Jorge, who looks for himself, finds all my love letters to Elizabeth Mitchell (particularly that one from "The Other Woman" recap), and she has no choice but to swoon. Well, if not swoon, just a note to say hello would be perfectly acceptable. A guy can dream, right?


Sigh. What's not to love?

( Uh, don't peek if you haven't watched, mmkay? )

Cross-posted to ckirkman