This week: Jack wishes he had "Something Nice Back Home," but we quickly learn again why Jack can't have nice things: because he's a d-bag. LOST, Episode 4.10 Something Nice Back Home I. Meet The New Jack, Same As The Old Jack A. Every Jack-centric episode makes it more and more frustrating that he’s the “focal” character of the show. This time around, as we watch his descent into the bearded madness to come, it’s becoming painfully obvious that he&rsq...
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This week: Benry deals with the changing of the rules in "The Shape Of Things To Come". LOST, Episode 4.09 The Shape Of Things To Come I. The Benry Identity A. When he jumped in the ol’ Dharma Port-A-Bear machine and beamed himself off the Island, he either missed his connecting teleport or he has a poor grasp of the climate in the Sahara region. B. The two horseback marauders who found Ben were probably Libyan or some other make or model of North African (aka not te...
This week: Michael returns and Potentially Finally Openly Gay Tom implores us to Meet Kevin Johnson. LOST, Season 4, Episode 8: Meet Kevin Johnson I. Michael A. Why won’t the Island let Michael kill himself, but it lets Mr. Eko get smacked to death by Smokey? The guy is thousands of miles away, not even thinking about screwing up Island business, and he can’t even run his car into a port container in peace. Does he just have to ...
This week: Jin & Sun, Past, Present & Future in "Ji Yeon". LOST, Episode 4.07 Ji Yeon I. KWONS ACROSS TIME A. Not one episode ago, the Kwons were still playing telephone to share information with the group because Jin didn’t know English for “they went into the jungle.” Now he’s ready to be on the Beach Debate Team. B. I should have known that it was a double-flash (back AND forward) when Jin wa...
This week: Romeo Goodwin Benry Jack & Juliet deal with The Other Woman LOST, Season 4, Episode 6 The Other Woman I. Now She Says, “Oh Goodwin/Ben/Jack, Yeah, I Used To Have A Scene With Him” A. Where did The Others get a psychiatrist/therapist from in the first place? Did Harper just up and decide she wanted to be a shrink? I’m assuming it was her impeccable sense of empathy and her stable demeanor that gave her...
This week is sort of short and probably a little weak because I can't find too much to say without nitpicking. I thought it was a good episode that kept incredibly busy, and spent a lot of time focusing on one of the most compelling characters of the run so far. I'll take lackluster Notes and a strong episode any day. LOST, Episode 4.05 The Constant I. Billy Pilgrim Desmond A. There might not be a more leisurely military force than the Scottish arm...
This week: Kate Austen, Babynapper in Eggtown. LOST, Episode 4.04 Eggtown I. Raising Aaron-zona A. Past, present or future, Kate’s story is about as compelling as drying cement. What a shock, she’s back in handcuffs! Who would have guessed?! And she ran away from the Island! And now she’s a babynapper! So many harrowing twists and turns that I never saw coming! There might have been a little suspense...
Back in college, I briefly had the editorial reins of the entertainment section in an alternative (read: unpopular) campus paper. One of my few accomplishments was an Oscar prediction article pitting our resident film critics up against Wrestlemania 2000, the old then-WWF game for Nintendo 64. It was supposed to be a stupid gimmick, something I have built a reputation on over the years. But then Wrestlemania 2000 went 5-for-5 and blew our “experts” out of the water. Ever since,...
This week: Sayid prefers TIME Magazine to The Economist. LOST, Episode 4.03 The Economist I. Sayid And My Perfectly Healthy And Completely Heterosexual Man-Crush A. When does one get good at golf after spending a lifetime in the Republican guard? Had Sayid been logging a lot of hours at Hurley’s makeshift course that we didn’t know about? If he taught himself how to play just to set this Italian sucker up, you’d think he could h...
This week: Meet the new folks, same as the old folks (in other words, they’re just as retarded as everyone else on the Island). LOST, Episode 4.02 Confirmed Dead I. Chip & Dale’s Not-Exactly-Rescue Rangers And The Oceanic Plane That Took Its Name A Little Too Seriously A. I’d appreciate if the flashbacks could show some sort of character development. That peek into Daniel’s life showed us nothing except he cries at the television. So un...