Day 01 – A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 – A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 – Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 – Your favorite show ever
Day 05 – A show you hate
Day 06 – Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 – Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 – A show everyone should watch
Day 09 – Best scene ever
Day 10 – A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 – A show that disappointed you
Day 12 – An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 – Favorite childhood show
Day 14 – Favorite male character
Day 15 – Favorite female character
Day 16 – Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 – Favorite mini series
Day 18 – Favorite title sequence
Day 19 – Best TV show cast
Day 20 – Favorite kiss
Day 21 – Favorite ship
Day 22 – Favorite series finale
Day 23 – Most annoying character
Day 24 – Best quote
Day 25 – A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 – OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 – Best pilot episode
Day 28 – First TV show obsession
Day 29 – Current TV show obsession
Day 30 – Saddest character death

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Day 06 – Favorite episode of your favorite TV show

My favorite show is Lost, and even though it’s kind of an obvious choice, my favorite episode is The Constant, the episode where Desmond is jumping around in time and is able to set right his relationship with Penny. It’s just a brilliantly written, brilliantly acted, brilliantly directed episode, and I think it perfectly sums up everything that’s great about Lost, which is the way the show handles it’s characters and their relationships to each other. It’s a truly beautiful episode.

The episode called Greatest Hits is a close second. It’s the one where Charlie is writing down a list of his five favorite memories before he dies. It’s heart wrenching.

Day 07 – Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show

My least favorite episode of Lost is that fucked up weird episode where they try and explain the “MYSTERY OF HOW JACK GOT HIS TATTOOS”. It’s a completely idiotic and weirdly out of place episode that doesn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the show at all. Plus it had Bai Ling in it, which pretty much sums it all up. Plus it had that weird thing where The Others put Juliet on trial and they were going to kill her or something and they ended up branding her with that symbol.

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I’m quite satisfied with that.

So I noticed something the other day.

I was watching TV and a commercial for some kind of L’Oreal woman product was on, and Evangeline Lilly came out talking about her hair or something. I scoffed and yelled at my TV “OH FUCK OFF KATE! I DON’T WANT WHAT YOU’RE SELLING!”

Then I started to get pissed off at the prospect that I might actually have to continue seeing Kate even after Lost ends.

But then I started thinking about it, and I felt bad. It’s not Evangeline Lilly’s fault that Kate is such a horrible, awful, hateable character. There’s no reason for me to wish this actress ill-will just because I hate her character so much.

So now, almost in penance, I hope she does really well after Lost. Why not? She’s cute and not a bad actress. She just plays a bad character.

Then I was watching a clip of her on Craig and I felt REALLY bad because she seems like such a sweetheart and now I really do want her to do well.

In related news: Here’s a collection of goofy, kind of creepy Lost porn.

Dear Lost,

Please stop wasting my time with a bunch of bullshit! Like, seriously!

Jesus. We got one week left and they’re jerking us off with a bunch of Jacob flashback jibberjabber?!

I might be willing to forgive this episode if I felt like we actually learned anything. I and don’t mean like, solve a couple of unimportant trivial mysteries. I mean like, learned some actual crucial shit. Something that furthers the story on in some way.

Fucking Lost.

At least the commercial for next week has The Doors in it.

Lost can eat all of the dicks!

MEET ME BEHIND THE CUT FER CHRIST’S SAKE.

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I haven’t bothered to look up whether or not other people have already thought this, because I’m avoiding spoilers for Season 5. There’s a very good chance that this is already a standard theory, or even one that people have put forth and then torn apart.

Sandra and I are in the process of rewatching season 4 right now, getting ready for the new season which starts January 21st. Obviously if you haven’t watched all of Season 4 yet, you probably shouldn’t read this post, because I’m going to talk about things that have happened in the show all the way up to this last season.

We just watched the badass episode where the freighter guys shoot Ben’s daughter and we see Ben in the future and he goes to Charles Widmore’s bedroom to tell him he’s going to kill Penny. Something occurred to me at the end of that episode.

Okay, bear with me.

Here’s what we know. Charles Widmore is desperate to find The Island. He’s willing to kill people to get to it. He has apparently unlimited resources and drive. We know that Ben is also desperate to keep Widmore from finding The Island. He believes (or claims anyway) that it’s Widmore’s intention to kill everyone ON The Island and then exploit the island’s healing properties.

We also know that Ben apparently also has fairly unlimited resources to protect The Island from people like Charles Widmore. Over the course of the second and third season, we saw the extent of what Ben is capable of doing to protect The Island and that he’s perfectly willing to maim and kill people in order to do that.

Both men are incredibly resourceful and willing to do whatever it takes to have control over the fate of The Island.

The episode we just watched, where Ben confronts Widmore, takes place immediately after the season finale. Ben wakes up in the desert having been transported after “moving” The Island with the frozen donkey wheel. We know that he is now “banned” from The Island and can never return, and that this is the point when he starts trying to gather everyone together to go back and when he starts using Sayid to kill Widmore’s people.

Here are more things that we know:

Apparently some people on The Island don’t age. We know that Richard Alpert, the guy played by Nestor Carbonell, looks exactly the same now as he did when he first met Ben as a kid on The Island back in the 70s. We also know that Ben looks roughly the same as he did after he “purged” the Dharma Initiative, though I don’t know if that was intentional or not. It may just be that they didn’t do a good enough job making him look younger. Either way, we do know that Richard Alpert at least doesn’t age on The Island. Or ages much slower anyway.

Another thing we know is that Charles Widmore collects artifacts related to The Black Rock, which was the slave ship that Rousseau took them to way back at the end of the first season. The Black Rock crashed on The Island (somehow incredibly far inland) in 1881. Widmore is at an auction buying the recovered First Mate’s Log which was found on a pirate ship, for 380,000 pounds. He also has a painting of The Black Rock in his bedroom when Ben shows up in the episode Sandra and I just watched.

Something else that we know: The “Others”, who are apparently the original inhabitants of The Island, have some sort of process that they use to determine who is going to lead them. We know that they, for some reason, need a specific person to act as a figure head and work to protect them and The Island from outsiders. They (or, Richard Alpert at least) recruited Ben as a small child and eventually convinced him (or put him in a position where he made the call himself) to kill everyone else from the Dharma Initiative with poisonous gas. And, at that point, Ben became the new leader of The Others.

In another episode, Richard Alpert visits John Locke right after his birth in the hospital, and then later when John was five. He set up a kind of test for John, asking him to pick an item that he thinks belongs to him. It is the same test that Buddhists use to pick a new Dalai Lama. Alpert visits John again when John is a teenager and tries to recruit him. At the end of Season 4 Alpert informs John that he is the new leader of “The Others” after Ben is banished from the Island.

There seems to be a lot of weight attached to this job of leading The Others. And, one would have to assume, that at the point when The Others recruited Ben to be their new leader, they were without a leader. That would have either been in the early 70s, when Ben was first contacted by The Others, or in the late 70s/early 80s when Ben “purged” the Dharma Initiative.

How old is John Locke? Sandra says she puts him at somewhere in his fifties. I would put him at in his late forties, early fifties. So if Alpert did the Dalai Lama test on Locke when he was five, and Locke took over as leader of The Others 2004/2005 (the time the main story events on Lost takes place) then that would mean that Alpert visited John at some point around the early sixties, roughly. He was either anticipating needing a new leader for The Others or they were already without a leader.

Anyway, my point is that that we know that The Others need a specific person to be their leader. We know that Ben was that person for a good twenty years at least. We know that Locke is now that person and they’ve been courting him for his entire life, however long that has been. We know that Ben, as the leader of The Others, has access to seemingly unlimited resources simply by holding that position, both on and off The Island.

We also know that John leaves The Island at some point after the Oceanic Six left to try and convince Jack and a few others to try and come back to The Island, for some reason. We know that Ben is has also tried to convince the Oceanic Six to come back to The Island.

And we know that Charles Widmore is trying to get to The Island.

So what I’m thinking is that Charles Widmore used to be the leader of The Others before Ben. When Ben visits Widmore in his bedroom, to tell him that he plans to kill his daughter, Widmore tells Ben “Everything you have you took from me” implying that The Island belonged to Widmore before Ben had it. I think that, for some reason, as the leader of The Others Widmore felt the need to “move” The Island, just like Ben did, and managed to get himself banished, just like Ben did. And, just like Ben, he is desperate to get back.

I was just reading a bit about Ben’s childhood friend, Annie, who was in a Dharma Initiative classroom with him. While in the class, there’s a big explosion and an earthquake like shaking of the building. We’re meant to believe that this was an attack by the “hostiles” (who are the “others”) but I’m wondering if it wasn’t The Island moving. If perhaps this was the point when Widmore left The Island. After that is when Alpert approaches Ben and begins courting him to be the new leader of The Others.

We also never find out what happens to Annie. We know that she and Ben were close, and that she gave Ben a pair of wooden dolls as a birthday present, meant to represent the two of them, and that Ben still has those dolls as an adult.

We also know that Ben has/had a crush on Juliet because she “looks just like her”. We never find out, officially, what “her” Juliet looks just like.

We know that, for some reason, Ben swiped Rousseau’s baby and raised her as his daughter.

I’d like to know what happened to Annie. And I’m wondering if perhaps the “her” that Juliet looks like isn’t Penelope, Charles Widmore’s daughter (and Desmond’s girlfriend, and the Penny in Charlie’s “Not Penny’s Boat” message). And if, perhaps, Annie and Penelope aren’t the same person.

That aspect of my theory is much loser and less likely than the idea that Widmore used to be the leader of The Others. That’s the main theory I’m putting out there. The Penny/Annie connection is just a little sub-theory that I don’t really expect to pan out.

That John Locke should play Randall Flagg in a new movie version of The Stand.

That is all.

First off, I didn’t post this last night because I was waiting to post it today.

Let’s get right down to it.

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Well, tonight, like most episodes this season, was a big one.

Not the most exciting episode (I suspect because of a significant lack of Desmond) but one that finally gave some solid, concrete answers. Like, no fucking around. For once, Lost said "Hey, we’re just going to fucking TELL you what’s happening! Yay!"

And those answers are, of course, behind the spoiler cut:

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Alright, as per usual, spoilage discussions of tonight’s episode of Lost are behind the cut.

So yeah.

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via Ain’t it Cool

Fresh LOST Returns To ABC Next Month!!

I am – Hercules!!ABC will begin airing new fourth-season episodes of “Lost” Jan. 31. Many speculated fresh “Lost” might remain lost until next fall in the event of a long strike. ABC’s move to schedule “Lost” at midseason defies the preferences of showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, who did not think the last episode of “Lost” scripted before the writers’ strike made for the best of season finales. Locke, Hurley, Kate, et al will be taking up regular residence away from Wednesday night for the first time. They’ll now be replacing the incorrigible Dr. McSteamy & Co. by inheriting the “Grey’s Anatomy” timeslot at 9 p.m. Thursday (where they are certain to crush NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice”). ABC’s new drama “Eli Stone,” from a bunch of the guys behind “Brothers & Sisters,” will follow at 10 p.m. Thursdays, replacing the Christopher Titus crapfest “Big Shots.” “Stone” is about a thirtysomething attorney (Jonny Lee Miller) who finds himself plagued with “visions” that take him in not-always-lawyerly directions. “Lost’s” old Wednesdays-At-10 timeslot will be taken over by “Cashmere Mafia.” James Hibberd at TV Week has “Lost” and other scheduling news here.

 So, in addition to Simon Pegg playing Scottie in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek reboot… it’s now been announced that John Cho is playing Sulu.

What?

Yes, John Cho of Harold and Kumar fame. Cho is also responsible for naming Jennifer Coolidge a MILF in the first American Pie.

This strikes me as particularly odd casting. Mostly because, like, it seems like they went “Okay, compile a list of all of the popular young asian actors for us to choose from!” and then a couple of days later they came back with the list and they looked at it and it had one name on it, John Cho.

Personally, I would have gotten Daniel Dae Kim who plays Jin on Lost, but that’s just me.

If only because I have a really hard time picturing John Cho running around and looking badass and psycho with his shirt off and attacking people with a sword, which Sulu is inclined to do when infected with the horny disease.

Yes, it was a complete shock when George came out of the closet. I didn’t see that one coming at all.

Simon Pegg, aka Shawn of Shawn of the Dead fame, is playing Scotty in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek movie. Fucking awesome!

And then there’s this bit of news.

You know the last episode of Lost when Jack was…

hold up… spoiler alert.

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okay.

You know the last episode of Lost when Jack was talking to that dude on the satalite phone and the dude was all like “Hang tight good buddy, we’re gonna rescue you and shit!” and Jack was like “OMG!”

Well, apparently the guy on the other end of the phone was Fisher Stevens. And apparently, he’s going to be coming on the show as a regular. Also, apparently, he looks like crap.