I had this dream last night — Jack and Sun somehow got together after they were tasked with setting everything on the island back to rights. I’m not kidding. There was a Jack-Sun hook-up. This is not the first LOST-related dream I’ve had in the last five months, either. Here’s another story: In my junior [...]
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Thoughts on Lost – What They Died For
May 19th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television
I wonder if anyone else writing about this show found it hard to formulate thoughts about this penultimate episode, since it built up such a nice momentum going into the finale that I’m almost content to wait and see how it all plays out on Sunday. (I can’t believe this is going to be over [...]
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Thoughts on Lost – Across the Sea
May 12th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television, writing
Here’s the thing about origin stories: they’re never going to fully satisfy one’s need to know everything. Origins — true beginnings — simply don’t exist. There’s always something that came before, always the question “How?” looping back, over and over, until finally you get to a shrug and the unknowable. The Mother says as much [...]
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Thoughts on Lost: The Candidate
May 5th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television
I’ve been reading a good deal of posts and tweets and other sorts of status updates about this episode, all from people who were absolutely devastated, reduced to a blubbery mass of tears, over what transpired in the second half of this episode. Me? Not so much. It upset me, for sure (my refrain last [...]
Thoughts on Lost – The Last Recruit
April 21st, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television
I’m just jumping right in. I mostly liked this episode, though I grow increasingly tired of the way our group comes together and splits up, comes together and splits up, and all anybody ever seems to do is wander around the island. It’s a wonder they ever got off the island in the first place. [...]
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Thoughts on Lost – Everybody Loves Hugo
April 14th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television
Well, now. Well. I didn’t take many notes as the show aired — compared to last week’s “Happily Ever After,” this was a relatively uncomplicated, straightforward episode in which characters move, the plot moves, and no new mysteries or questions crop up. In that, it was highly satisfying. There were still a few things I [...]
Thoughts on Lost: Happily Ever After
April 7th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television
Why are Desmond episodes so good? It’s partly because Henry Ian Cusick is just so good, so fun to watch, but it’s also because Des eps always have to do with the timey-wimey stuff, the scientific explanations for why the island is like it is, its powers and limitations. It’s the same reason the Locke [...]
Thoughts on Lost – The Package
March 31st, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television
Meh? Am I right? Mostly meh, anyway. I don’t think it’s wrong to expect Lost to follow up one kickass episode with another, because they’ve done it many times before, but this was so far from kickass that now that I’m sitting down to write this I find myself mostly disappointed in it. But anyway. [...]
Thoughts on Lost – Ab Aeterno
March 24th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television
Today’s post filler comes from Milton’s Areopagitica, which was written in 1644 in support of “the liberty of unlicensed printing” — in other words, against censorship or book banning. I quote it for reasons which should become clear. When God gave [Man] reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing . [...]
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Thoughts on Lost – Recon
March 17th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television
Hey. ‘Sup. So ummmm . . . whatcha all doing? Oh, right. Sorry. I was distracted by shirtless Sawyer. What? Like you weren’t. Today is one of those rare days in which I have lots of stuff to do, so I can’t give this episode its full due — but I think that’s fine, since [...]