With the Oscars looming on Sunday, February 22, GonzoGeek will be previewing this year's awards with a look at five major categories...with some help from a Nintendo 64 game. Monday: Best Supporting Actress Today: Best Supporting Actor Nominees (Odds) Josh Brolin, "Milk" (20/1) Robert Downey, Jr., "Tropic Thunder" (25/1) Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Doubt" (30/1) Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight" (1/100) Michael Shannon, "Revolutionary Road" (50/1) The untimely death of Heath L...

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With the Oscars looming on Sunday, February 22, GonzoGeek will be previewing this year's awards with a look at five major categories...with some help from a Nintendo 64 game. Today: Best Supporting Actress Nominees (Odds) Amy Adams, "Doubt" (12/1) Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Christina Barcelona" (1/2) Viola Davis, "Doubt" (3/1) Taraji P. Henson, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (15/1) Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler" (5/1) The odds aren't too far apart for any one nominee in th...

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This week: On the nose right from the start, This Place Is Death has no place for subtlety. Jack Shephard: What are you doing? Benjamin Linus: What I'm doing is helping you, and if you had any idea what I've had to do to keep you safe, to keep your friends safe, you'd never stop thanking me. LOST, Season 5, Episode 5 This Place Is Death A. Does Sun giving Ji Yeon her own cell phone make her a good mother? You have to give her some credit – she wouldn&rs...

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This week: Does it matter who's raising The Little Prince? It's not Claire, and that means you're all doomed for reasons unrelated to the other circumstances where you're all doomed. John Locke: The light came on, shot up into the sky. At the time, I thought it meant something. James “Sawyer” Ford: Did it? John Locke: No. It was just a light. LOST, Season 5, Episode 4 The Little Prince I. The Truth(ish) About Faraday A. I’ve been in Kate’...

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This week:  It's starting to get easier to list who ISN'T an Other after Jughead. Ellie: Are they from the future, too? Sawyer:  You told her? LOST, Season 5, Episode 3 Jughead I. The Truth(ish) About Faraday A. Once again, Penny proves to be the ideal woman on the show, having little problem with her husband leaving her alone on the houseboat to go find the local doc (whom they apparently both meet for the first time), then she proceeds to ...

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This week:  we keep playing from behind, but we're almost caught up.  Now everyone who escaped the Island realizes that they weren't entirely prepared to keep up The Lie. Ben Linus:  John's casket is outside in a carpet van. I need to move it somewhere safe. Jack Shepard: Safe? He's dead isn't he? Ben Linus: I'll see you in six hours, Jack. LOST, Season 5, Episode 2 The Lie I. The Lostaway Reunion Tour A. It’s no wonder Hurley is leery of the Big Lie pl...

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This week, we're running slightly behind on the start of season five, but we'll get there soon.  To start things off, we've stopped jumping back and forth in time during episodes, so instead all of the characters start jumping back and forth in time.  Why?  Because You Left. Daniel Faraday: I really think we have far more pressing matters then me giving you a shirt. LOST, Season 5, Episode 1 Because You Left I. Getting The Band Back Together A. Talk ab...

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This week: There's not much bad to say about the final 2/3 of "There's No Place Like Home", but I give it my best shot anyway. LOST, Season 4, Episodes 13 & 14 There’s No Place Like Home (pts 2 & 3) I. The Future They Create A. What about Locke’s reppaearance off the island makes it important to call him “Jeremy Bentham” at every opportunity? You’re adding five syllables to the name of a guy who’s had one name for the entirety of y...

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This week: The greenhouse effect as everyone storms towards The Orchid on "There's No Place Like Home." LOST, Season 4, Episode 12 There’s No Place Like Home I. Leavin’ On A Jet Plane, Don’t Know When I’ll Go Nuts And Demand To Go Back Again A.  It would be harsh to classify Jack’s schemes as harebrained (and I’m no stranger to being harsh about what Jack does, doesn’t do, thinks, doesn’t think, is, isn’t, etc.), but wh...

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This week: Great, just what I needed, more story complications in "Cabin Fever". LOST, Episode 4.11 Cabin Fever I. Locke To The Future A. Maybe I should consult Juliet on this one, but I wasn’t aware that being six months pregnant and getting hit by a car means you have to deliver the kid immediately? I can see an emergency c-section if something went wrong with the mom, but since Mama Locke has a Claire-like dexterity and suffered little more than a scrape on the head...

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