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JI-YEON!!!!

2008-05-21T21:38:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I realize that I haven't been recapping in awhile, and I highly apologize. We're just about a week closer to the finale, so I guess it would be best for me to bring everyone up to date with what's up on the Island. Let's start off where we left off in season four's seventh episode "Ji-Yeon".
Oh, by the by, did I mention that from now on I'll be doing episode recaps with the help of PICTUREVISION?! IT'S LIKE TECHNICOLOR BUT AWESOMERERRRR! (Actually I just discovered the "Add Image" button, so yeah. OFW. :P)

And so now... I present to you...

(Warning: some foul language involved.)

OKAY. So like after the "PREVIOUSLY ON LOST..." thingy, guess where the episode opens?

On the freighter, yay! With Frank Lapidus, nonetheless. How fitting for an episode about Koreans. Anyways, Frank takes a walk around the freighter, he talks to Keamy and OMG we see Regina for the first time, but she's like paranoid and reading books upside down and all of us are like OFW.

So Frank talks to Sayid and Desmond. He's like "Room service, homies?"

Sayid: "You're not black."

And then Frank was like "Riiiiiiight. Well I hope you enjoy your beans. BTW, nice job doing a PrisonBreak from the sick bay. Nobody has any idea how you did a David Blaine thingy with the door."

So Sayid was like "I thought you opened the door."

And then Frank was like "Whatever, bizatches. I did not open the door."

Desmond like flashbacks to Minkowski who was all James Taylor and "You've Got a Friend" and we all thought at that point *COUGHMICHAELMUCH?COUGH*

So anyways Sayid told Frank "I still want to talk to the captain."

And Frank was like "Nuh-uh."

But then Sayid was like "Foschizzle, bizatch. I'm the real west side shiznit."

And Frank was like "That's my niggah."

MEANWHILE...

Back on the beach, Sun is like thinking about a lot of things like being preggers and things she could teach in Jin's next Jinglish 101 class like "I am a Slave4U" or "LOLERZ TXT U LATR!!!"

And speak of the devil, Jin arrives and he's all like "Tally ho, my darling wife. You look distraught. Shall I come to comfort you?"

So Sun is like "Sayid and Desmond left three days ago and I totally miss them but not in the I love them kind of way just the friendly kind of way because I totally love you and I would never have an affair with bald English-speaking Koreans who would gladly teach me English and be killed by my father's henchmen such as yourself."

And Jin is like "... Udders?"

Sun is like "NVM" and Jin then says in perfect Jinglish "Let's talk about baby names, lolz."

And Sun + us are like "OMG Jin we love you and hope you never die."

Jin's like "Our baby will be called Ji Yeon and she will be the cutest baby on LOST, surpassing Aaron and his chubby-ness."

And Sun is like "Mwahaha... Get me off the Island first unless you want me and the frikkin' baby to die sad, sad deaths."

So Jin is like "Deal."

And some a-hole on the other side of the world probably said "NO DEAL!" and probably half of the people who read this will be like "OMG Mi you are so corny you slay me." :D

So anyways we flashback to the future and Sun is like in Korea and all, and apparently she watches Expose in Korean. Die-hard LOST fans are like "OMG the spirits of Nikki and Paulo live on!"
And then Sun stumbles and everything and we're all like what's wrong? And then Sun is like "I'm preggers and in deep pain" and all of us are like OMG!

SUN IS ONE OF THE OCEANIC SIX!!!

L O S T

So like then we see Jin and he's like OMG I'm rushing to the hospital I've got to buy a panda.

So he buys a panda and we're all like Awww how sweet, but obviously the LOST writers and producers, sitting high in their dark volcano lair, are all like "More than meets the eye, biatch!"

And all of us were like "Transformers?! Lololerz."

Back on the Island, Jate/Jacket + Charladay return to the beach and we're all like "I sense another shipper episode coming soon" and the writers grin with evilness in their smile.

So for a moment Jin speaks perfect English, not Jinglish, and Kate is like "I don't listen to Good Charlotte anymore."
Sun was like "OMG she hit you?" and Kate basically told them everything that happened in the last episode.... And we were all like "Dude, we kinda knew that like forever ago" and Kate closed her statement with "I don't think they're going to rescue us" and we were like bitchplease but I was still like "OMG u r hot"

And then Desmond woke up and suddenly we weren't suprised that he woke up wondering why Sayid wasn't on the bed anymore and we were all like "They're surrounded by water and there's virtually no women on that boat! Good God!"

But anyways Sayid was still proper and English with "Good morning, baby. Can I pour you some coffee, honey? You were wonderful last night, by the by."

And Desmond was like "Penny?"

And Sayid was like "NVM"

Suddenly, a mysterious noteslipper slips a note through the door holes of the door which can be totally used for slipping notes!

AND GUESS WHAT IT SAID?

So Daniel, the most awesome memeber of the F-Team, was like fixing a computer and we were all wondering who would build a hotter fembot: Daniel or Sayid?

And then Sun introduces herself and Daniel shows off his awesomeness by saying "I'm Daniel", then nodding, then briefly smiling, and we were all like "DANIEL YOU ARE THE COOLEST GUY EVER."
But Daniel was being really shy and Sun was being pissed off and hormonal which is okay coz she's preggers and not naturally bitchy.

Jin showed off his Jin-glish to Jack to score some cocoa puffs, and then Sun was like "Hey Jack, I'm here to discuss something with my husband that does not involve going postal and leaving your team. Mmkay?" And Jack was like "Sure thing."

Juliet was dense enough to realize their evil scheme so she was like "You need to get off the Island, Sun. Stay with us." But Sun was like "I'm going to do what's best for me and my baby... Breastfeeding is best for babies up to two years!"

Meanwhile, Sun was being rushed into the hospital and Sun was like "Get Jin plz."

We were all like "Thank God Jin's safe and off the Island and not dead" and the only thing the LOST writers and producers could do was continue their evil smiles and Mwahahas.

So Jin was like on the phone, but we were like "Who could he possibly be talking to? Sun's in labor." And then he leaves his panda bear in the taxi and the taxi leaves him and then a bike runs over his phone and Jin has a major BF and all of us are like "Poor Jin."

So Jin walks back and he's like "I need another panda" but the store dude is like "it's on reserve" and Jin is like "I've got the money bizatch" and we're all like "Jin sounds aggressively like Jin pre-Island."

So Sun and Jin are ready to go the Camp Lumberlocke and leave Camp Lumberjack (Get it? 'Coz his name is Jack..........) but they don't know the way there so Kate is like "Do you need me to draw you a map?" and Sun is like "Yes" so Kate is like "Sure thing."

And then Juliet comes storming in like a Gestapo officer and she's like "STAY IN CAMP LUMBERJACK."

But Sun is like "Heyl naw" so she takes Jin and says "If we hurry, we can get some ho-ho's and cheez-it's while they're fresh."

And then Juliet does the most BITCHY THING EVER: "Jin, your wife had an affair." AND WE WERE ALL LIKE HOLY SHIT THAT KANYVING BITCH IS THAT HOW YOU SPELL KANYVING? IDK It's kinda like Ka-Knive-ing.

And Sun naturally responds...

With a bitch slap.

But Jin is like all confused and "... Udders?" and we're all so sad about it because Jin is like about to cry.

And they end up crying about it anyway, but Jin won't even talk to Sun and Bernard wants to go fishing with Jin and Jin's like "Okey dokers, skipper" but then Bernard realizes they're crying and he's like "Oh shit. Bad timing."

But they end up fishing anyways.

Then Bernard says "We're the only married guys on the Island, you know."

Then Jin gets all smirky and he's like "MARRIED."

But then Bernard is like "Oh dammit... I mean, not to each other...... Brush and floss twice a day. I am Rambo."

And Jin feels so inspired because Bernard is talking about karma and stuff and he's like "You do realize I am Korean, right?" but Bernard is like OFW Karma is great anyways.

So on the freighter, Doc Ray is like "The captain would like to see you now" and Sayid and Desmond are like "What are you? His nurse?"

But when they get on the deck, they realize OH NOES The helicopter is gone so they slowly start to freak out, but Desmond is the only one who's spaced out enough to notice that the Regina chick from the start of the episode is like Iron Maiden and totally like Jack at the end of last season.

And Desmond's like "We've got to save her, brotha!" And we're all like "BROTHA!!!!"

But then the Captain comes out and makes an asshole-ish first impression by saying, "Don't save her! She's got cabin fever!"

And Sayid was like "She's got cabin fever?"

And Desmond was like "She's got cabin fever."

And everyone on the freighter was like "I've got cabin fever!"

But before everyone could break into song, the Captain was like "Someone has broken our engines."

And Sayid was probably thinking "Hmm... The only people who I know have technological experience are that Daniel guy, Michael, and myself. However, I sure didn't do it and Michael is so obviously not on this freighter, so it must've been Daniel!"

And Desmond was like "Good thinking, Sherlock!"

So in the Captain's office, he shows them a mysterious box and we're all like OMG it's another LOST reference to mystery boxes, but then the Captain was like "This box is from Oceanic 815 with all the passengers dead." And the Captain knew it was obviously staged, so all of the actually observant LOST fans were all like, "WTF Widmore stages a fake crash and then hires someone and makes him think someone else did it?"

OK so back on the Island like Juliet says "I'm sorry I was being a bitch."

"Sometimes breastmilk doesn't work the way it should."

"I mean, what if you have AIDS? That can't be good, right?"

Okay so back to the future, the docs are like "Damn that bitch is huge" and we're all like Lololertz but WTF is Jin?

And then Sun gives birth and it's like the circle of life for everybody. And even though she's covered in blood, we know the baby's probably cute if she wasn't... covered in blood.

So anyways back on the freighter, the Doc is bringing Sayid and Des to a new room. He's all like "I'm sorry the last room we gave you was quite crappy. I can assure you that this next room is much crappier."

So then the Doc calls up this guy Johnson, and we're all like, hey cool it's the first black guy on the ship.

We haven't had much black people on LOST since Eko died.

I mean like the only black Islander right now is Rose, but--

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-- I mean, Michael! HOLY CHRIST IT'S MICHAEL! I'M SO SURPRISED! I TOTALLY DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!!!!

But Sayid is all cool about it. Maybe all that cabin fever made Sayid forget WTF Michael was.

I sense an ass kicking coming along.

And then Jin and Sun finally have their retribution and we're all like OMG it's an awwww moment coz he made Sun dinner.

And Jin's like so accepting about it and everyone's so happy and we're all like OMG this is like a Korean version of that scene in the Constant with Penny and Des.

And then we get back to the Adventures of Jin and the Stuffed Panda! A lot of us are like really confused because apparently the panda bear is not for Sun but he's like "I heard the Ambassador is now a grandfather. XOXO Gossip Dude."

And then he tells the nurse that he hasn't been knocked up since he got married two months ago. AND THEN THAT'S WHEN WE WERE LIKE "DOUBLE-YOU. TEE. EFF???"

So we get back to Sun and she's apparently finishing the lipstick job from the start of the episode. The doorbell rings and lo and behold:

IT'S HURLEY!!!! And he's come to devour the baby!!!

Relax folks, I was only kidding.

OMG Baby Ji Yeon is so cute. There will sooooo be a total showdown between Ji Yeon and Aaron on the cuteness battleground.

And then Hurley is like "I guess we should see him." And all of us are like, "See who?"

And then it hits us. The Adventures of Jin and the Panda was not an adventure in the future. It was a flashback.

IT ALMOST GETS AS EMOTIONAL AS LAST SEASON'S CHARLIE SWANSONG SCENE. EVERY LOST FAN AROUND THE WORLD PROBABLY CRIED WATCHING THIS. ME INCLUDED.

We miss you and love you, Jin.

L O S T

BEWARE OF SPOILERS ABOVE!!!!

(Pictures are courtesy of http://www.lost-media.com Please comment guys! Thanks!)

I'm Back!!!

2008-04-16T23:38:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't been posting in awhile. I've been caught up recently in things and now, I'm proud to say I'm back to give you readers more thoughts and more immediate LOSTage! My next post will be the long-delayed back-to-back Ji-Yeon Meets Kevin Johnson uber-review! Prepare for the return of more LOST!!!!

Getting Ready for the Hiatus

2008-03-19T18:07:00.000-07:00

Well, thanks to the Writers' Strike, the inevitable occurred and everyone in the production team a.k.a. Darlton decided that they needed to cut Season 4 in half to support their huge and intelligent team of writers. On Good Friday, the eighth episode of Season 4 will premiere and it will kick-off a one-month hiatus that will be spent filming the last episodes of Season 4. There were rumors actually that ABC was planning to show the eighth episode, entitled "Meet Kevin Johnson" after the hiatus, which ends around April 24 or 25, because they felt that the episode was more of a mini-premiere than a mini-finale. Honestly, I'm glad that they picked to show it prior to the hiatus. Why?

Because in the eighth episode, someone will die.

Mark my words when I say this: I have absolutely no idea who this character is since I am still sticking to the spoiler swear valid until May. I do not know who the hell will die. I have some clues but it's still not helping. I'd rather see the person die before the break and let it reverberate throughout the hiatus rather than see someone get killed when the show kicks off again in April. Seriously.

The Philippines, F*CK YEAH!

2008-03-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

As some of you know, I am a huge fan of the Team America: World Police theme song entitled "America, F*ck Yeah!" My friends are big fans too. So, bored as we were, we decided we should make our own national version of the song, and if ever any of us gets elected to be President, we would change the national anthem to our version of the song.

The song's best part is when the band elaborates all the things that America has "pioneered". This is our list:

Jolibee
Ayala
Friendster
Gary V.
MRT
Bibingka
Adobo
Tito Boy
Jeepneys
The Cellphone
YM
Cheap porn
Fake shoes
Pirates
Wrestling
Nurses
Prisoners
De La Salle University
Wowowee
Advils
Askal
Halo-halo
Lightbulbs
Charter Day
Students
Yoda
George Clooney
Bb. Pilipinas
Teledrama
Basketball

GO PHILIPPINES!

Bad English Teachers

2008-03-13T15:40:00.001-07:00

With the advent of that Bb. Pilipinas video, I thought it might be time to share a little story my dad told me once.

When he was much younger - grade one, I think he said - he had a horrible English teacher. She raised up a pin and a pen, and showed it to the whole class.

Teacher: Class, this is a hairpen and this is a ballpin.
Dad: Patay.

Carrie

2008-03-07T21:09:00.000-08:00

I finished reading Stephen King's Carrie this morning. It was creepy. Definitely shorter than all the other Stephen King books I've read, but still definitely a good scare. I read that it was King's first released book, so that gave me an idea that what I was reading was raw Stephen King. In LOST, it plays slight relevance as Juliet's favorite book of all time. It was cool nonetheless and actually gave me an idea about the new show I'm writing about moon colonies and stuff. Look it up here soon.

THE OTHER WOMAN!!!

2008-03-07T15:13:00.000-08:00

TALK ABOUT DOUBLE MEANINGS! The new episode of LOST ACTUALLY HAS SOME ANSWERS!!! But with more answers comes more questions... *sigh*

This week's episode "The Other Woman" was fairly great. I mean, it wasn't as excellent as last week's episode, but it comes a little short of it, catching up in last week's trail marks. Nonetheless, I became excited with the new episode since we finally got some -- and I emphasize SOME -- answers. There is much cheese, much creepiness, and much suspense in this week's LOST. Let us venture into "The Other Woman"! (Woah.)

We kick off with Juliet making some kind of pattern with sand and rocks in a decorative feng-shui kind of thingy. Although she means for it to be an equal wavy pattern, I laugh at how unequal it is. Perhaps it is a metaphor to her life?
How far back does this flashback occur? Is it pre-Island or Island? I haven't heard anything about a flashforward, so I don't think we can properly say that she may be one of the Oceanic Six. But then again, how would the public consider that since she was not one of the Oceanic survivors?
Another woman enters and introduces herself as Harper Stanhope. This seems to be some kind of appointment, although I can't really quite say who's seeing who since they're both kind of doctors. Harper could be pregnant and asking Juliet about it. Juliet could be whatever she's seeing Harper for.
Oh. Therapy.
OK, so they seem to be off at a good start here, but my spider-sense tells me that there will be much tension as the episode moves on. The awkwardness between them is as large as a Vegas sign.
Juliet doesn't like being treated like a celebrity. Oceanic Six-ness?
We hear again Michael Giacchino's wonderful score suddenly come into the scene. I love he blends in the music with the emotion of the scene, lest make it. It really makes you wonder stuff like "Is Juliet really one of the Oceanic Six or are they just playing with my balls?"
Oh, wait, she's not. TOM / ZEKE / MR. FRIENDLY IS BACK!!!
And he's sporting a 'stache, nonetheless! Is it for real this time?
OK, so the first flashback of the episode basically occurs following Juliet's arrival on the Island. It's probably her first week, as Harper mentioned earlier. Brings you back to "One of Us" when she first arrived on the Island.
Aww... This is the day Ben gave Juliet her house. I think he likes her, and I totally wanna tease on that, but here's a new question: where was she living prior to that?
Present-day Island: Juliet is re-setting up some bamboo for one of the tents or structures at the Beach. Once again, we are audience to some classic Beach-time, and even feel brought back to the final scene of "One of Us" when Juliet was tying the knot on one of the tents. We noticed back then that this was a metaphor of how she was able to tie in and blend in with the castaways while she was still working for Ben. Now I think we come to a similar metaphor, which I view as this: Juliet is finally setting her roots as one of the castaways, but has trouble setting in the way she has trouble putting up the bamboo for the tent. Yet, the castaways are ever-so-helpful to her as Sun is in helping her set up the tent.
Jin attempts to speak to Jack in Korean. More Jin-glish please!
JIN-GLISH! "You said... they ah friends."
They have like all their torches up ready for the search. And then the storm rolls in. SO MUCH FOR THE TORCHES. HAHAHAHA.
Woah. After hearing some whispers, Juliet encounters Harper in the jungle. Will we finally find out where the Others are? I've been dying to see them again!
Some things that Harper mentions caught my mind... First of all, she has a message for Juliet from Ben. How is Ben doing this when he is still captive in Locke's basement? How is he getting his people to sneak in, get messages, and deliver them without getting caught? Second, Harper mentions that Daniel and Charlotte are headed for the new DHARMA Station "The Tempest." I then take it that this has almost no relation whatsoever to the station introduced at Comic-Con, "The Orchid." If so, what really is the importance of the Orchid, and why was it shown to us at Comic-Con as a Season 4 preview?
According to Harper, the Tempest is storing some kind of gas, which supposedly can kill everyone. The Purge, people?
Some more whispers, and suddenly, Harper is gone! Was that really Harper we saw in the jungle? Or was it a manifestation produced by the Island? Maybe Smokey or Jacob? Perhaps we can rule out Smokey since Ben apparently and allegedly knows nothing about it. Jacob is a slight possibility, which means Ben has the upper hand on annoying Locke. But still, how are these messages even getting through from Ben?
The next flashback we see cuts to Juliet weeping in what appears to be a pharmacy. She hears a sound and investigates. It's the return of GOODWIN!
Apparently, Juliet was weeping because they lost another pregnant woman. This is probably her first loss. Goodwin is great at consolation.
WOAH. HARPER IS MARRIED TO GOODWIN. TENSION, PEOPLE, TENSION!
Juliet knows that Goodwin lied about his burn, which was not caused by electrical faults, but rather by chemicals. What kind of chemicals does Goodwin handle? Does he really work at the power station on the Island? Is this power station the Tempest?
OK, Juliet confirms it. The Tempest is the power station of the Island. How does it power up the Island and why is it holding gas? Is Benjamin telling the truth about giant hamsters running on wheels underground and that's what powers the Island? DON'T RULE IT OUT!
We catch up with Daniel and Charlotte who have taken a break to look at a map. Daniel is pretty nervous and seems to be feeling enormous pressure for what he's about to do. Why is there so much pressure on him? Are his future actions really going to haunt him for years to come if he plays it out?
Ah, Kate appears. She sat out last week, but comes back after her exile from Team Locke.
And if Kate was a cat, she'd be curious enough to be killed. Charlotte, however, just bashes her skull with the butt of her gun. It would've been scarier if she shot her.
Juliet: "It's very stressful being an Other." HAHAHA.
Juliet assures Jack he doesn't want to see her file. Why not? What's so bad about it?
In another flashback, we find that Ben and Juliet are working together. Juliet is explaining something about the pregnant women to Ben, but Ben's just going koo-koo for cocoa puffs over Juliet. Come on, we can all see it. You know it. I know it. Hell, everyone in Otherville probably knows it.
Juliet probably even suspects it when she sees Ben's hand move close towards hers! Although she makes a quick save and pulls away before he can make a move.
Quick note: According to Juliet, the immune system turns on the fetus during the pregnancy, but why this happens, we still do not know.
WOAH. GOODWIN JUST WALKED IN ON THEM. JULIET AND GOODWIN ARE TOTALLY CLICKING BUT BEN IS JUST LIKE "GODDAMMIT." This IS really awkward for Ben. Cheers, folks.
Damn, Harper is pretty straight to the point: "When did you start sleeping with him?" Word gets around Otherville really, really fast, don't it?
Harper threatens Juliet about her affair with Goodwin. She's using it as blackmail on Juliet for Ben. DAMN.
Cut back to the present: THAT IS A LOT OF BLOOD. WHAT IS GOING ON? Oh, wait. Locke's just killed another rabbit, never mind.
Claire expresses interest in wanting to know where Miles came from and what Ben knows about the freighter. Personally I think that this means real trouble for Locke already and that his team is losing trust in him simply because he does not know what to do next. He's not keeping Ben alive to tell him about the Freighter people. He's keeping Ben alive because he thinks Ben knows what to do next.
The best part about this is that Ben really is where he wants to be because he's in a position where he can usurp leadership from Locke, who is very flexible to what Ben says to him. It's like in Season 2, where just by mentioning that he assumed that Jack was the leader of the group, he already undermined Locke and made him believe that he had just a minor role in the world and his destiny was all just a waste. Ben is like a grandmaster chess player who knows how to manipulate and use every single piece of the game to his advantage.
Claire has a good point on how the Freighter people could think that they are hostile: Locke killed one, Ben shot one, and they're holding another one prisoner. If you look through the Freighter people's point-of-view, you can almost entirely see the same point-of-view that the castaways had when the Others were "attacking" them.
Ben is enjoying his time in the basement, re-reading "Valis" by Philip K. Dick. Hey, where are Alex, Karl, and Danielle?
I love Ben's comment on the rabbit served to him: "This didn't have a number on it, did it?" HAHAHA.
I find it really amazing how our images of each character evolves throughout the season and how the writers keep finding new and inventive ways to reveal even more about the characters that we didn't know already. Take for instance this scene with Ben and Locke in the basement. It was earlier referenced by Ben that they were in a similar situation in the Swan hatch. Now if we flashback to that point in time when everything was still in Season 2, we should think of our ideas and impressions of the characters. Ben, as we assumed back then, was Henry Gale from Minnesota who crashed on the Island in a hot air balloon. He seemed to know something, was very manipulative but never gave a clue that he was manipulating everyone, and gained everyone's trust until Ana-Lucia came back with the picture of the real Henry Gale. Now here is what we know about Ben: His name is Benjamin Linus, born outside of Portland to Roger and Emily Linus. He lived majority of his life on the Island, but occasionally slips in and out from time to time. He was the leader of the Others and the only person among them who talked to the mysterious Jacob. Oh yeah, and he killed the DHARMA Initiative, which included his own father. Brilliant!
HAHA. It's Locke's turn to make fun of Ben. He gives Ben one dollar out of $3.2 million.
Ben notes that they have a common enemy: the person who sent the Freighter.
It's obvious to us, but not to Locke, that Ben is trying to gain Locke's trust so that he can get himself to an even better position to grab Locke's leadership.
Flashback: A scene slightly reminiscent of Swept Away and other similar-- DAMN, JULIET! DAMN!
Juliet and Goodwin discuss the privacy of their affair. Juliet however is worried of what might happen if Ben finds out about Juliet and Goodwin.
ALRIGHT! BACK TO SEPTEMBER 22, 2004, BABY! OCEANIC 815 IS DOWN AND OUT FOR THE COUNT!
The scene has been slightly edited however to include Harper having a stare-down with Juliet. I think the purpose of this scene is to clue us in that Ben is sending Goodwin to his eventual death at the hands of Ana-Lucia Cortez. However if Ben already knows this is going to happen or not, I still am not sure.
Juliet and Jack find Kate half-unconscious (but not half-naked DAMMIT) in the jungle. She must be really disoriented. Juliet however has left them behind and gone off ahead to the Tempest.
Next we find Locke bringing Ben to the living room to find out who owns the Freighter. FINALLY SOME ANSWERS!
The Red Sox tape? Is Terry Francona behind all of this?!
Oh. Ben thought this information is important than the Red Sox game, so he taped the video over the game... Ass.
SWEET JESUS CHRIST! IT'S THE APPEARANCE WE NEVER SAW COMING! CHARLES WIDMORE OWNS THE FREIGHTER! CHARLES WIDMORE HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR THE ISLAND! CHARLES WIDMORE WANTS TO EXPLOIT THE ISLAND!!!
But why?
Man this episode should have been renamed to "THE REUNION OF EVERYONE WE KNOW."
Last time we saw somebody doing video work for Ben, it was to show Juliet how Rachel was doing with her newborn son. Apparently, Alpert was doing the camera work there. Who's doing the camera work now?
OK. Here comes the part where Ben is finally going to reveal that the man on his boat is-- DAMMIT COMMERCIAL BREAK.
And voila! Feast your eyes on the new DHARMA Station, the Tempest! The door seems to be very bulky. How come?
Ben and Juliet have dinner together, and Ben is as excited as little boy eagerly waiting his favorite television show like say for example, I dunno, LOST?
And where is Alex when all of this is happening?
Juliet is taking care of Zack and Emma. Why are they on "the list"? What the hell is "the list" for that matter?
I have a feeling that Ben knows what he got Goodwin into. He's even trying to clue in to Juliet that Goodwin and Ana-Lucia are getting inappropriately close with each other. Ew.
I'm curious about one thing: did Ben send Ethan to the fuselage for a similar reason?
There sure are a lot of computers in this station. The more you think about it, it's like the more stations we see, the larger and more advanced they get. I specifically wonder about this station, the Tempest. How exactly does it power the Island? What is this toxic gas for?
Daniel however is all geared up with a gas mask and a radiation suit. Boy, we're being prepared very much, aren't we?
Daniel claims he is trying to stop the gas from being released. Should we believe him?
And now, a tough-as-nails fight sequence between Charlotte and Juliet! Finally, some hard-boiled girl-on-girl action!
So Charlotte is probably trying to stop the gas from being released. But why? Who triggered it to be released in the first place? Who is the hand of Ben that we do not see in the big picture here?
Hey, is it me or do I hear classic sound effects reused from the Swan station computer and alarms?
OK, so Daniel was telling the truth about stopping the gas from being released. How did they know that the gas was being released? Who triggered its release? And if it was for a cause to save everyone on the Island, then why didn't Daniel and Charlotte tell Jack in the first place rather than storming off?
The next flashback shows Juliet discovering that Jack is a spinal surgeon. She delivers the news to Ben, who brings her into the jungle to show her Goodwin's corpse.
Michael Emerson's acting is as great as ever, so if I'm interpreting his tone and emotions correctly, he is being sarcastic about his sincerity for the death of Goodwin, which means he knew that Goodwin would die on his mission.
HOLY CRAP. BEN TOTALLY NEEDS A CHILDHOOD AFTER TELLING JULIET: "HOW CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? YOU'RE MINE!" DAMN THAT IS TOTAL CREEP MODE TO THE MAX!
Charlotte and Daniel bring Kate into the station, leaving Juliet and Jack behind. Here comes a scene for all you Jackets out there.
They share a kiss and a hug, so I don't really know anymore who Jack ends up with.
Hurley and Sawyer make their late mark on the episode by playing a game of horseshoe tossing. Sawyer makes a close hit, but it's Hurley who ultimately makes the point. Seriously, why is Hurley better at all the games than Sawyer? I mean, he's even better at killing people! While Sawyer just shoots people, Hurley runs over dudes!
Man, Ben really is going places. The look on Hurley's and Sawyer's faces when they see Ben walking free is priceless. They have probably lost faith now in Locke, and this is probably going to be answered in future episodes.
I just love how Ben acts like he really is part of Team Locke towards the castaways: "See you guys at dinner."
If I was Sawyer and it was 2008 on the Island, I would have been like, "Don't let him touch the wine. Or the Wii."
LOST.

OK, so kind of long, kind of short, kind of pointless, kind of significant. It was a balanced episode basically this week. And although some may be complaining about this episode, I for one think that the episode was good enough for giving us some good answers.

Next week, we get two steps closer to the mid-season hiatus. In the new episode, we get a flash-forward, a new member of the Oceanic Six revealed, and judging by the name of the episode, total obviousness that the last two members of the Six are probably Sun and Jin. Here's to next week! 4.07 "Ji-Yeon"!

THE CONSTANT!!!

2008-02-29T15:56:00.000-08:00

TIME FOR ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF LOST!!! THIS TIME WE GO BACK AND FORTH TO 1996!!! OR IS IT?

Don't worry folks. It is 1996 in this week's flashes, but what happens in these flashes are quite different compared to your usual flashbacks. Hence it is only appropriate that this episode be marked a Desmond-centric episode, since he is the only character to have the powers and probably the cojones to run back and forth through time! Is he a Jumper?

OK, maybe I've been a little too high about this episode. It's a very science fiction-y episode.

So we kick off the episode in the helicopter. At least now we'll be able to figure out what the hell happened to them.
Daniel drew a set of directions for Frank to follow when flying back to the freighter. It says that Frank needs to go 40 miles north and 305 degrees. Then from there he should head east for 7 kilometers. Below the directions there is a little map for Frank to follow in case he doesn't know how to read those directions, but he does anyway, so you don't have to worry.
That's some huge storm cloud out there. If there really is a barrier surrounding the Island, is it in the form of this thunderhead? Does it surround the whole Island, which explains why nobody sees it?
Hmmm... Strange. Desmond suddenly wakes up in the barracks. Flashback much? Most likely.
This is interesting. Desmond notes that he has had a dream about him in the helicopter and the storm. Perhaps this is a flashback, but is it in the "Flashes Before Your Eyes" sense where Desmond's consciousness in the present day has traveled back with him?
Yeah, definitely a flashback. Desmond is still apparently Private Hume.
Whaaat the? Now Desmond's back in the helicopter. And he's freaking out. He can't remember Sayid all of the sudden? Has his flashback consciousness been trapped in the present day?! OH MY GOD!
Okay, so obviously, both Charlotte and Daniel totally know something about the Island that WE ALL OBVIOUSLY DO NOT KNOW AS WELL. I would presume that Ben knows stuff about the Island too, but just doesn't want to talk about it. And why does Charlotte want to be all hush-y about it?
Daniel: "Your perception of how long your friends have been gone is not necessarily how long they've actually been gone." I presume then that this is in relation to the experiment Daniel pulled off a few episodes back where we all discovered that there is a time gap between the Island and the rest of the world for at least 31 minutes.
Okay. Daniel says that if Frank followed the directions on the cheat sheet, then everything would be alright. If not, then there would be some side-effects. Let's take into consideration the case of what might have happened to Michael a.k.a. Ben's probable mole and Walt: Ben gave them a specific bearing to follow. Does this mean that Daniel's directions might have been wrong? Moreover, were Michael and/or Walt affected by the said side-effects had Ben's directions been wrong?
Okay. Here's a theory: The storm cloud that appeared at the start of the episode really was some kind of barrier or gateway between the Island and the rest of the world. However, the barrier is something like a time portal, so when they pass through it, there is a sudden change in time. It's like passing through different time zones in a split second. Like jumping from Manila to Texas in a snap. The time gap doesn't seem to be so fixed however. The gap of the timer from Daniel's experiment and Daniel's clock was about 31 minutes. According to Jack on the beach, the helicopter has been gone for a day already and yet still has not yet docked with the freighter.
According to Frank, the freighter is two minutes away from the barrier.
IT IS SO FITTING TO SHOW THE FREIGHTER FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH MICHAEL GIACCHINO'S EVER-SO-EPIC-AND-BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL SCORE. I BOW TO YOU, GOOD SIR.
And voila, feast your eyes on the freighter. It's not as big as I originally expected it to be. I was really thinking like one of those big huge freighters with all those crates and stuff.
Frank's other boat people seem to be pissed that Frank brought back some people from the Island. Wasn't it their secondary objective to rescue them? Or were they also told by Abbadon that there were no survivors of 815? If that's the case, why doesn't anyone at all seem the least bit surprised rather that they are on the boat than they are alive?
WOOOOAH. This definitely is a most interesting episode. If what I think is happening is happening, I believe that Desmond, or at least his consciousness, is jumping back and forth between the present day and the past. This must be the side-effect mentioned by Daniel.
These jumps are really short though. I mean, here we are, back to the freighter like two minutes after Desmond got back to the past.
So we now know two more Freighter people: Keamy and Omar, both Americans.
HOLY CHRIST! IT'S FISHER STEVENS IN THE ROLE OF GEORGE MINKOWSKI!!!
OK, so OBVIOUSLY that is a HUGE thing right now. Minkowski was the second Freighter person we met after Penny. To see him now is really satisfying because we've all heard these voices over the phone, but we've never really seen either Minkowski or Regina.
Pause. Here are some things I noticed: Minkowski sounded really official when he was on the phone with Daniel. I mean he practically commanded Daniel to not put him on speaker phone. This totally made me assume that Minkowski must've been captain. However, here he is, strapped like a loony on a bed in the sickbay. What happened to him? Another thing I noticed is this: what did they do to Naomi's body?
Keamy is going all apeshit on Frank, but we can barely hear a word he's saying. Why is it such a big deal for Frank to bring them on the boat?
Sayid noticed the time gap between the Island and the rest of the world.
Frank makes an exchange with Sayid: the gun for the phone. What does Frank possibly need the gun for? I have a feeling we'll see the gun again very very soon.
Daniel notes that the two conditions for getting side-effects in the time barrier include: electromagnetism and radiation. We know that Desmond got way too much of the first condition at the end of the second season, which pretty much explains his visions of the future. What would that mean though for Locke, who is the only other survivor of the Swan Incident?
More importantly, HOW DOES DANIEL KNOW ALL THESE THINGS?
Back at the freighter, Minkowski is spacing out before he tells Desmond he was on a ferris wheel. Yeah, he's going through what Desmond is going through.
The doctor comes in to give Minkowski a sedative. Why do they think Minkowski is crazy? Why don't they believe him about his side-effects? Also, if he's got what Desmond's got, why does he remember and know everything that is going on?
And here we are, back from the future. Desmond makes a phone call to Penny, who still apparently hates him. YUP. DEFINITELY A FLASHBACK.
Let's take a look at things. Desmond is two different people before and after the Swan Implosion. There is the old Desmond, who is the cowardly man constantly running away from his past. Then there is the new Desmond, who sees the future and is not afraid to change destiny. It almost seems to me that in the present, we are watching the old Desmond, and in the past, we are watching the new Desmond.
Desmond thinks it's 1996. So obviously, his past consciousness is in the present. But is it the same consciousness that's jumping back and forth through time between then and now?
2004 - 1996 = 8 years.
Daniel, by far, is the smartest dude on this show. He tells Desmond to look for him when he jumps back to the past.
Daniel gives Desmond some things to remember to tell past-Daniel. These include the settings 2.342, 11 hertz, and the name Eloise.
Desmond immediately jumps back to the past. As Daniel told him, Desmond makes his way to Oxford, where he finds the past-Daniel Faraday, sporting the WEIRDEST HAIRCUT EVER.
OMG. PAST-DANIEL IS STILL PRESENT-DANIEL. HE STILL SPEAKS IN HUSHED TONES AND HAS THE PERSONALITY OF JACK SPARROW HAD JACK SPARROW BEEN A SCIENTIST. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
OK. So Eloise is a rat, and the settings are for some strange radioactive light machine. What exactly is Daniel trying to do here?
I think Daniel just simulated to Desmond what is happening to him. Using Eloise as an example, Daniel made Eloise's consciousness jump into the future, run or learn how to run throughout the maze, and then let her come back to the present, just to do the maze for real. Interesting, indeed.
Still, HOW DOES DANIEL KNOW ALL THESE THINGS?
Back in the present day, the Freighter people mention the captain again and again. Can we please meet the captain?
Seriously, how do all the Freighter people know about Desmond?
That was a quick jump to the future. Desmond returns again to the past where Daniel explains to him what the hell is going on. Apparently, Desmond's consciousness is constantly jumping back and forth through time without ending. Desmond's consciousness is "unstuck in time." According to Daniel, Desmond requires something like an anchor to stop him from jumping back and forth through time. This anchor is called the Constant, much like constants in an equation. The Constant should be something that Desmond really cares about in both 1996 and 2004. We both obviously know that this is totally Penny.
And the door has magically been opened... And with Minkowski's comment of "You must have a friend on this boat," I NOW TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY BELIEVE 100 PERCENT THAT MICHAEL DAWSON IS BENJAMIN LINUS'S MOLE ON THE FREIGHTER.
Jumping back to the past, Desmond makes his way to the only other person who can help him get to Penny, her father Charles Widmore.
Mr. Widmore is at an auction where a ledger from the Black Rock is being sold. The previous owner is said to be Tovard Hanso. So the Hansos are still definitely alive in the present day. How did Tovard get hold of the ledger, which is still supposedly on the Black Rock on the Island?
Despite repeated theories of Charles Widmore being behind the discovery of the Oceanic 815 plane in "Confirmed Dead", I now think otherwise that Widmore has nothing to do with that plane. I think that there is someone more powerful than Widmore who is pulling this off. By God, if Matthew Abbadon is working for someone else than who we think is Widmore, praise the day on which I have written this theory.
Widmore: "Walk with me." The next thing we see is Widmore in a urinal. HAHAHAHA.
OK, so Widmore doesn't entirely hate Desmond; he just doesn't approve of him.
Minkowski recounts the story of how he got close to the thunderhead and started getting his brand of side-effects. It probably isn't of much significance to me right now, but it probably will be when I find out more about the Freighter.
New question: who sabotaged the communications equipment? Can't be Michael.
Minkowski is apparently dead the same way Eloise died. So obviously Desmond could end up the same way as Minkowski and Eloise. However, when you think about it, Minkowski has had side-effects for apparently what lasted a couple of days. Doesn't this mean that Desmond has more time to save himself?
Sayid notes that it is almost Christmas. So obviously the next episode might as well be Christmas, which is funny since I always assumed that Christmas occurred during the season premiere, "The Beginning of the End."
Man, Desmond totally took advantage of that leaking sink. HAHAHA.
Ah, Penelope Widmore, resident of 423 Cheynne Walk.
Here goes Desmond telling Penelope that he will call her eight years from that day. How much has this changed the future for Desmond and Penelope? Is this event why Penelope suddenly decides to start loving Desmond again?
Here we are at the climax of the episode. Eight years from that fateful encounter with Penelope at Cheynne Walk, Desmond fulfills his promise of calling Penelope. This must really be tense and exciting for Desmond-Penelope lovers everywhere.
Penelope must have the shit freaked out of her right now! HAHAHA.
Penelope apparently knows about the Island. There is a bit of her explanation that is cut off by some interference. What is she saying really?
OMG. This is the sweetest scene ever between Desmond and Penny. It is so beautiful. THIS IS THE BEST DESMOND-CENTRIC EPISODE EVER!!!
Soooooo... Does this mean Desmond's alright now? His brain's not gonna blow up? Are we seeing the new Desmond consciousness now in the present day? I sure do hope so.
Daniel flips through his notes one more time. We see a lot of interesting equations and drawings that I'll probably never learn until maybe senior year or until if I decide to take up physics in college. Out of all these drawings, diagrams, equations, and statements, there is one that I can totally understand: "IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG, DESMOND HUME WILL BE MY CONSTANT."
LOST.

DAMN. I NEVER GOT SO CLOSE TO MOVING TO TEARS LIKE THIS SINCE THE TIME I WAS TOTALLY SURE CHARLIE WAS GOING TO DIE. MAN I REALLY HOPE DESMOND AND PENNY END UP HAPPY TOGETHER IN THE END.

And so that's another week of LOST down and out. We've got two more weeks left until the mid-season hiatus. I've got good news that the hiatus won't last that long. It's barely going to go beyond a month, so that's totally great for LOSTies everywhere. Next week, we grab another Juliet-centric episode in the form of flashbacks. We get to see a new DHARMA station and we finally get more answers and even more questions! Tune in then next week for LOST 4.06 "The Other Woman"!

Some More Thoughts and the Oceanic Six

2008-02-22T14:42:00.001-08:00

OK, after the last episode's big reveal, I am desperately wondering what the hell is going on with the condition of all the other survivors who did not get off the Island. First off, I pulled up a picture of Kate's "son". I am not going to say his name because it is a huge huge huge spoiler and if you want to read it, check out the end of my notes for "Eggtown". Here he is:

The Child

All I can say is that he looks dead-on like his mother. That is a good clue. Enough.

I decided to make more notes on what we know about the Oceanic Six, and the timeline of the flashbacks.

The Oceanic Six so far are:

Jack
Kate
Hurley
Sayid

Using Jack's beard growth as my basis for the timeline, I theorize that the progression of the flashforwards is this:

Kate
Hurley
Sayid
Jack

Oceanic Airlines, or at least whoever Matthew Abbadon represents, is keeping eyes over the Oceanic Six, but can't seem to get anything out of them as revealed in the season premiere when Hurley refused to talk and when Jack asked if he would talk.
The Oceanic Six are hiding secrets, possibly about the Others or the other survivors. I ruled out the freighter people because they're not that significant yet as a LOST group to the outside world.
Possibly one of the Oceanic Six is going to die under the name "Jeremy/John Lantham."
Despite leaving the Island, the Oceanic Six find themselves in a tight fix with the outside world. Hurley is back at Santa Rosa, Kate is now doing served time, Jack is a broken man, and Sayid is killing people who he thinks he can trust. It seems to be a sort of price that is paid for leaving the Island.
At the end of "Through the Looking Glass", it is revealed that Jack wishes to return to the Island. Is he willing enough to gather the entire Oceanic Six to go with him or will he just go on his own? Moreover, if he picks the former option, how will he overcome the obstacles surrounding him and the others (i.e. Kate being unable to leave the state)?
My guess is that the flashforwards serve as a parallel storyline to them leaving the Island. At the end of the season 4 finale, we will probably see the Oceanic Six leaving the Island in the present day, and in the flash-forward, we will them coming back. Season 5 will probably take place entirely in the future with the Oceanic Six trying to deal with the Island and the outside world which they stand between in.
Furthermore, the Oceanic Six might have been handpicked by the castaways themselves because they were the ones whom the castaways saw fit enough to defend the Island from whatever is threatening it.

EGGTOWN!!!

2008-02-22T13:10:00.000-08:00

Hey guys! It's another week done, another episode of LOST Season 4 in the bag!!!! THIS TIME WE GET AN ANSWER TO TWO SEASON THREE QUESTIONS!!! AND THIS ONE IS UBER-SHOCKING!!!!

Eggtown. That's an odd name for an episode, but we can totally guess from that title that it's most likely about maternal stuff and pregnancy. And since it's a Kate-centric episode using flash-forwards, I guess you can imagine what they're going to talk about in the episode.

Here's this week's notes:

It opens with Locke waking up. He looks like he's cried by the sight of the wet trail mark underneath his eye.
Man, Locke sure can cook. And for Ben... Aw, isn't that sweet? OK, seriously....
What Ben says about Locke being desperate for help is so totally true. Locke, however, is good at hiding it. Makes you think about the flexibility of Locke's character and Terry O' Quinn's acting. Excellent.
Hahaha... Ben makes a SEASON TWO REFERENCE TO THE HATCH.
HAHAHA... BEN SAYS 'LOST.'
Woah... Ben just made fun of Locke: "Excellent, John. You're evolving!"
Man, Locke just screwed up those last two eggs. OMG! I GET IT NOW! EGG-TOWN!!! :P
DHARMA Reference: Kate is drinking from what looks like a Pearl Station coffee mug.
What makes me really curious about Kate's siding is why she wants to stick on Team Jack. Sawyer is totally right: she has nothing to run to, just like him; and if she goes back to the U.S., she's gonna get screwed up by the law. She's totally safe on the Island.
However, as revealed last season, and in the flashforwards we see in the opening, Kate did indeed return from the Island, and is now on trial for her crimes. The crimes?

Fraud
Arson
Assault on a Federal Officer
Assault with a Deadly Weapon
Grand Larceny
Grand Theft Auto
Murder, 1st Degree

The judge is named Arthur Galzethron... OK...
And with the end of that cold opening, we see that Kate is back where she started. Nice.
Jin is so good now with his Jin-glish: "Al-buh-kur-kee?" "New York?" "I learn English for you to live in America." That's as sweet as Jin last season when he told Sun that he wanted to go home in English.
Sun says though that she wants to go back to Seoul. Moving to Jin and Sun's story, why does she want to go back to Korea? Wouldn't that endanger them considering that Mr. Paik is probably out there looking for them? I mean, the U.S. sounds pretty OK for them. It's a lot bigger compared to Korea. More places to hide. But then again, on the other hand, if they are the remaining two of the Oceanic Six, that would make them recognizable faces. But would that give Paik the ability to harm them, seeing as they have become "celebrities"? This will probably be answered in the last Season 4 pre-break episode: "Ji-Yeon."
Kate notes how Locke is a dictator, and he denies this, but makes an ironic statement about it, thus showing that his leadership in Otherville is in fact a dictatorship. It's easy to see that he chooses to make it so because if he makes Team Locke a democracy such as in Team Jack, there's going to be a lot of free thinking, and people might move up against Locke, which is exactly what he doesn't want, so he makes sure he keeps things in check. The interesting part is that everyone in Team Locke sort of agrees to it, and they seem to be living well with it. I have a feeling that Locke or at least someone from his team is going to pull the trigger on the next future dead character.
It's so obvious that the food Hurley was carrying was not for him. He was so totally not eating it. Hahaha... Although that could be in reference to his fight with eating disorders in Season Two.
Man, that boathouse place of Otherville is by far the creepiest place in Otherville. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was a mini-version of Jacob's cabin.
Miles: "What I want-" Me: "-what I need has now become the same things you've been offering!"
I bet Miles just knows the usual backstory information on Kate. So why is Kate so worried?
Kate states that she has a son! Perhaps this is the "Him" that she mentioned last season?!
Sun now starts to think that Locke might have been right about the freighter people. Has anyone noticed she's become quite defensive and hormonal since her pregnancy check last season?
Kate tells Claire she's not good with children. Hmm....
WOAH! THE DEFENSE CALLS DR. JACK SHEPHARD TO THE STAND TO TESTIFY FOR KATE ANNE AUSTEN! I TOTALLY DID NOT SEE THAT COMING.
I just read from BuddyTV's easter eggs article on the episode the true meaning of the term "Eggtown": "There’s also the Great Depression-era slang term “egg town” referring to a horrible deal someone makes. This comes from the notion that accepting an egg in a trade is stupid, because eggs go bad easily and are plentiful. Plenty of deals are made in this episode (Kate and Miles, Ben and Miles, Kate and the D.A.). Is the title suggesting all these deals are bad?"
OK, now Jack is lying about the details of the crash. He says there were eight castaways, that Kate saved them and tried to save the other two... What exactly is the story that the Oceanic Six gave to the public?
WOAH! THE PLANTIFF JUST HIT JACK WITH A HARD QUESTION: "Do you love Miss Austen?" JACK'S COLD REPLY: "No. Not anymore." GASPSSPSPSPSPSP!!!
I like Sawyer's term for Claire's house: Casa de Claire.
Ooohh... Kate wants to bust out Ben. And she's asking Sawyer for help.
Nice. Sawyer plays Backgammon with Locke. There are so many references to earlier seasons in Season 4. It's all classic.
OMG. Sawyer just sold out Kate to Locke.
Miles is gone! Kate broke him out! Did Locke know about this? Was it all part of the plan?!?!?!
Miles is extorting Ben for $3.2 million?! My next question was asked by Ben: "Why not 3.3 or 3.4? 3.2 or 32 is not even part of the numbers unless you flipped them and read them as 23.
Oooh. Kate and Miles got busted!
As a result, Locke just banished Kate from his team. The tribe has spoken!
WOAH! Kate's mom, Dianne, is like in a wheelchair and has got an oxygen tank because of her cancer? How is she still alive? She says that the doctors have been telling her she's got six months to live for the last four years. Is the Island at work here?
Ah, it's time for more Skate sex.
Here is by far one of the most interesting scenes: Charlotte tests Daniel by asking him to name three cards that are placed face-down on a table. Daniel gets only two out of three cards wrong. Here's the question: What does Charlotte mean at the start of the test when she tells Daniel "Time. Okay, tell me what you remember"? Does Daniel have memory problems or is there something going on with the cards that the Island is doing, but we can't see it? Kung sa bagay, Daniel says at the end of naming the last card the word "maybe" which means he's not entirely sure. However, if the Island is doing something that can't be seen by the naked eye, obviously it explains a lot of things (i.e. moving things, Jack's stubble, Hurley's weight)!
Moreover, what does Charlotte mean when she tells Daniel that two out of three cards is progress?
Ah. The return of Regina's voice on the phone. Charlotte says Minkowski wasn't answering his phone. How come?
The helicopter isn't at the freighter after a day? Imposible. Where are Desmond, Sayid, and Frank? (Find out next week in "The Constant.")
Woah... Locke decided to go all hardcore on Miles and place a grenade in his mouth. Don't worry, folks. He ain't dead yet.
Kate says she's sure she ain't pregnant. If she's sure, we're probably sure. PROBABLY.
Ooooooh! KATE JUST BITCH-SLAPPED SAWYER.
Meanwhile, back at the ever-so-long trial, the lawyers decide to take a break and make a deal in between. Kate stands by her lawyer in almost every scene of her flashforward.
The deal is this: "Time served with ten years probation and agreement that she doesn't leave the state." Sounds slightly reasonable. Or is it? Sure is for Kate since she agrees to it.
Wait a minute. That comes into conflict with her going back to the Island! Is she going to break her agreement?!
Hahahaha... I knew Jack was going to appear in that basement. I could see his cheap brown car from last season a mile away!
Looking at Jack closer now, one can see that he has no beard stubble. Perhaps this takes place before Hurley's flash-forward?
That's Kate's house? Damn that is decent. More than decent even. I wouldn't complain.
OMG. This might be it. The moment of truth. We finally get to see Kate's son.
Aww... He's got Sawyer's hair?
HOLY SHIT. AARON?!

OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. I am still like uber-mindf*cked. That ending was a classic LOST "in-your-face, shit-face" cliffhanger twist ending, which is just as shocking as last week's Ben reveal. For four straight episodes, we've had the best cliffhangers of the show. SEASON 4 REALLY IS THE BEST SEASON YET!!

Next week, we venture to the flashes of Desmond. I heard from the grapevine that we will be seeing it in the style of last season's excellent "Flashes Before Your Eyes" with a parallel storyline that heads back to the beach. Where is the helicopter? What excatly happened to them? Why does the title sound like math and science are involved? And finally, why was it shown that in the preview, Desmond and Daniel are in what appears to be a classroom? Find in the following episode, 4.05 "The Constant"!

The Songs I Can't Get Out of My Head for February 2008

2008-02-19T04:31:00.000-08:00

I decided to post the different songs that get stuck in my head every now and then. Eventually I'll make a list at the end of the year of the songs in each list and see the progression of music in my life. This week, the songs are:

"Cherub Rock" by the Smashing Pumpkins
"Into the Night" by Santana ft. Chad Kroeger
"My Father's Eyes" by Eric Clapton
"Plug In Baby" by Muse
"Borrowed Time" by A Fine Frenzy
"Long Road to Ruin" by Foo Fighters
"Highway Star" by Deep Purple
"Closer" by Nine Inch Nails
"Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer
"Hold Me Tight" by the Beatles
"Whistle for the Choir" by the Fratellis

Fun Thing I Tried Out

2008-02-19T04:26:00.000-08:00

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Supernatural Superserious

2008-02-17T04:27:00.000-08:00

R.E.M. is back with a new album due out this year under the title Accelerate. I am personally excited about this because R.E.M. has become a great influence for me in songwriting, and hearing that they've got new material out gives me more potential to be influenced. I can say that this is totally true having heard their new single entitled "Supernatural Superserious." It is awesome.

Supernatural Superserious

THE ECONOMIST!!!

2008-02-15T16:12:00.000-08:00

YES! ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER GREAT EPISODE OF LOST! SEASON 4 IS TURNING OUT TO BE THE BEST ONE YET!

I have to say, I am totally impressed by this week's episode. It focuses on Sayid, who is revealed to be the fourth person in the elusive Oceanic Six gang. I have to admit that before, I was not that interested in Sayid's flashbacks or backstory in general, but I admired that he was this cool, kickass technical dude who could snap necks with his feet (referenced in the new episode.) The new episode totally reinvents his character from torturer to secret agent. Who is he working for? We find out the answer at the end of 403 "The Economist"!

Okay. We start with Sayid meditating. I think it's clear whose episode it is now.
Hmmm... Naomi's got some nifty jewelry: "N, I'll always be with you. R.G." New question: Who is this R.G. and what is his / her relationship with Naomi?
Instant flashforward: this is definitely Sayid's episode.
I believe Sayid's Italian acquaintance here mentions that they are in the Seychelles.
I'm sorry. I just don't think Sayid's golfing form is very good.
This Italian man seems very intrigued when Sayid reveals himself as one of the Oceanic Six. When you consider all the other revealed members of the group who seemed to be of no harm, danger, or mystery, why is it that the Italian man gets worried by Sayid? Is there something that differentiates Sayid from the rest of the group that the whole world knows?
BAAANG! Sayid just shot him down. Like James Bond-shot down. I wonder how the golf course is going to react to that.
Two things: After Sayid kills Italian man, the sprinklers suddenly turn on. Is the golf course cleaning up after his mess? Pun intended. Secondly, Sayid walks back to the country club. Has it occurred to him that the man he just killed came up to him driving in a golf cart?
LOST LOGOS. EXCELLENT.
Sayid seems to be more refined with longer straight hair than his hair on the Island. Also, he can speak German.
Is it me or did Sayid just ask for an "Ex-presso"?
Sayid calls himself a corporate recruiter. Isn't that how they described Matthew Abbadon?
Ooh. Secret agent man. Sayid calls a number, then dumps the phone. Although, the voice on the other end sounded very familiar. I'm not going to say anything on that yet.
Okay, now we address the Penelope-hires-Naomi issue. If Miles says they are looking for Ben, then why did Naomi say she was looking for Desmond? Moreover, are the mission directives of each member of the freighter team different?
Now we get off to Team Locke. Sawyer is still calling people names. Also, he gives a metaphor I need to use some day in the future: "Here's an idea. Why don't we take a gun, point it at his big toe, and send that little piggy to the market?"
Ah. Again with the ash surrounding Jacob's cabin, but no Jacob's cabin. What is its significance, really? And does Jacob's cabin really move, moreover exist?
Ooh. Charlotte's a world-class Brit: "He means as a hostage, love."
Jack notes that Sawyer won't let Locke kill Kate. This is interesting because he's taking advantage of what the other team would and would not do for Team Jack's benefit.
Sayid is still intrigued by Naomi's bracelet. Perhaps he knows who R.G. is?
I like this exchange between Miles and Sayid respectively: "Whose side (Locke's or Jack's) are you on?" "I'll let you know when I decide."
Why does the boss of Sayid's future girlfriend, Elsa, like using old technology i.e. beeper? Take note that this is the future here.
The helicopter blades like to move a lot. And obviously, Daniel likes the Island more than anyone else? Does he really have an idea or at least a legible theory on what the Island really is?
What's this payload the freighter is shooting to Daniel's beacon? Is it integral to the group's mission, or is Daniel just trying to have some fun?
The first distance that Regina notes is the distance between the freighter and Daniel's beacon is about 40 km. If you add up the pause between Regina saying 40 and saying that the payload just fired, you'd find that the freighter is probably at least 45-50 km away from the middle of the Island.
Okay. Zero kilometers left for the payload to reach the beacon. But alas, there is no payload at the scene. Does that suggest something about how certain vehicles and objects come to the Island? The general theory is that there is some kind of shield over the Island that covers it from the rest of the natural world. Does that mean that the freighter is still beyond the barrier?
Yay! We're back to Otherville! But it's deserted. Where is Team Locke? And speaking of Otherville, where are the Others now?
Man, that sounded like a pretty huge bang from one of the houses. Also it's followed by a really loud scream.
That's Juliet's house!
Hurley? How could Team Locke leave him behind? Is it clued that there is some kind of rivalry starting between Locke and Hurley? Well it kind of was with the time Hurley accidentally revealing that he saw Jacob's cabin and the other time Hurley and Locke argued about Locke making decisions for the whole team.
Best Hurley line (referring to Miles): "Oh. Awesome. The ship sent us another Sawyer."
Man, Jack still cannot believe the Red Sox won the World Series.
Hey. The payload just arrived? Why so late?
Apparently the payload is a clock. However, it's shown that Daniel's clock is working slower than the payload clock. Does this explain why watches don't normally work on the Island? Moreover, has Daniel solved the difference between the real world and the Island faster than anyone else? Fun fact: the "time difference" on-Island and off-Island is at least 31 minutes.
Hey, Juliet is back. And she brought Desmond with her.
Meanwhile, Sayid and Miles look through Ben's house. More pictures of little Alex in the background!
It's Ben's huge bookshelf. But as Sayid discovers, there's a hidden room right behind it. Inside the room is a secret apparel filled with suits, shoes, and shelves filled with dozens of cash bills and passports? I think it's understood that the Others who have a high authority seem to have the ability to find ways in and out of the Island to an unlimited extent.
BEST HURLEY LINE EVER (to Sayid): "Yeah. I saw you snap that guy's neck with that breakdancing thingy you do with your legs. I think I'll hang back here." PWNAGE!!! BEST LINES EVER!
Sawyer notes how all the natural things needed to survive can be found on the Island. Basically, he really wants to escape the life he's made in the outside world. He's voluntarily staying on the Island whether it's his choice or not. I guess that rules him out as one of the Oceanic Six.
Ah, Luoy-a Ben. He tells Locke, "I'm thirsty" and Locke just shrugs him off.
Okay so it's revealed that Sayid is basically on Locke's side of the argument, but stands with Jack for the purpose of getting on the freighter to find out their real agenda. Ben's mole is alluded to again. I still think it is Michael.
Ah. Bed time with Elsa and Sayid. Sayid truly is Iraqi James Bond.
Okay, now we get to Elsa. Who is her boss? Why is Sayid so interested in killing him? Who gave him this list of hit targets? Who is Sayid's employer? Theory: Elsa's boss is Abbadon or Widmore.
BANG! Elsa's a secret agent too. And now her boss knows Sayid is coming.
Back-BANG! Sayid just took down Elsa with two shots. I'm not sure if this is really the last we're going to see of her. Another thing I noticed about this flashforward: If Sayid and Elsa had guns to kill each other, couldn't they at least bother to use a silencer?
Aha. Frank has never heard of Penny.
Sayid is back. And he's brought Charlotte along with him to the helicopter.
Daniel instructs Frank to leave the Island the exact same bearing they used to get there. I assume that this is part of Daniel's experiment, but it's also likely that they knew this bearing in the first place because of Michael. Another point on my theory.
Okay. That's fitting that the third helicopter passenger is Naomi. Pray that her body doesn't fall out on the ride.
Man, the way Sayid leaves the Island is like the end of the third Jurassic Park movie. He just looks out, neither satisfied nor pissed. And there you go, the helicopter leaves the Island.
Final flashforward: Sayid gets himself fixed up at a pet clinic. Remind you a little bit of PrisonBreak season two where an Middle-Eastern dude was the vet and a creep was the patient? Well here, I think it's logical to say that in this scene, the roles have been reversed.
And there you have it: Sayid's boss off the Island is none other than BENJAMIN LINUS. HOLY S*ITFACE. OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO IN THE FUTURE.
I assume though that Ben is not one of the Oceanic Six however.
I like how the episode ends. It's really thrilling like a spy movie.

And so, WOAH! RECIPE FOR A GREAT LOST EPISODE THERE, FOLKS. I WASN'T ANTICIPATING IT AT FIRST, BUT HAVING SEEN IT, MY MIND HAS BEEN BLOWN OUT... AGAIN. Next week, we take a look at Kate's life in the future. Will we finally discover who the new man in her life is, as referenced in the Season 3 finale? Find out next week on LOST 4.04 "Eggtown"!

THE WAR IS OVER!!!

2008-02-09T15:23:00.000-08:00

On February 9, 2008, it was finally declared that a tentative agreement had been reached between the Writers' Guild of America and AMPTP. This may very well be the end of the long-suffered WRITERS' GUILD OF AMERICA 2007!

The agreement may be read here.

It says that it will last until 2011.

Thoughts and Comments on Future Episodes

2008-02-09T07:07:00.000-08:00

Just saw a preview of the next episode of LOST, 4.03 "The Economist". Hurley delivers his greatest line yet, referring to Freighter Miles Straume: "Great, the ship sent us another Sawyer." :))

Meanwhile, I think I've finally figured out who Ben's mole is. I figured it has to be someone we know who is very closely linked to Ben since Ben trusts him with that mission. It's a very logical choice, and if you've followed the show and the progress of Season 4, you will probably understand as well. I think that the mole working on the freighter for Ben is MICHAEL DAWSON. Yeah, as in Walt's dad. Think about it. It's very possible. First of all, consider that the people on the freighter know where and how to find the Island because they were given information. And remember that we've already concluded that the freighter is "Not Penny's Boat." So there are only two people who could possibly give that information. Michael is the most likely candidate while the other is none other than Charles Widmore, Penny's father. However, Widmore would need a guide at least to show him the way, and that's kind of hard to find since the Island is apparently the world's biggest secret. Michael on the other hand, used the instructions Ben gave him to get off the Island, and knowing the way out, he also discovered the way back to the Island. Now I think Ben, being a master manipulator, established that Michael would use his efforts to keep the other survivors safe. Using this knowledge, he told Michael that there was a group bent on destroying the Island. Between the Island and the real world, Ben somehow kept in contact with Michael and constantly updated him on the situation. So, when Ben discovered that the people who would destroy the Island were actually coming because the survivors called them, Michael knew he had to step in to save them. Hence, he is working with Ben and is providing him with information on every single member of the freighter's crew.

Finally, the more I watch the first two episodes of the season, the more intrigued I become about the character of Matthew Abbadon. Who is he, really? Is he really a representative of Oceanic Airlines as stated in the season premiere? Or is he working for the dark group mentioned in the earlier paragraph? Charles Widmore, perhaps?

CONFIRMED DEAD!

2008-02-08T09:37:00.000-08:00

WOAH!!!!!!! ANOTHER EPISODE OF LOST-Y GOODNESSNESS!

I was so excited to watch today's episode I practically called up the house and gave my mom instructions to make sure that it was loading up in the computer. When I loaded it into my PS3, I was like at the edge of my seat already before the episode even started. I swear, the episode was so exciting and the starting is popping up the biggest questions that I have about the new season: WHY AND HOW ARE THERE TWO OCEANIC 815 PLANES (ONE ON THE ISLAND , THE OTHER IN THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN!!!)?

Time for my list of notes. There's actually some pretty good answers given to my previous list from last week. Spoilers included.

Woah. That opening is so totally Find815, but that sure isn't Sam Thomas speaking on that radio.
I repeat the question: WHY AND HOW ARE THERE TWO OCEANIC 815 PLANES?
One theory could be that the ocean plane is a fake... Damn someone got into a lot of trouble to put it there.
Okay, so now marks the first time they actually tell us where the flashbacks are happening.
What's up with new guy Daniel Faraday? Is he having his period or something?
I so totally love Daniel's point-of-view of jumping out of the helicopter. That is so quizas.
Hmmm... Continuity errors have been detected...
I wonder what Minkowski's got to say to Daniel that's so secret... Does it have something to do with their real mission directive?
Hey, Zoe Bell's name is credited lagi in the guest stars. I wonder which role she plays...
It's still raining when we see Locke for the first time. Has it really been raining for over 12 hours or is there some kind of time difference on the Island itself??
How could Hurley tell the direction of Jacob's Cabin if the damn house friggin' moves all the time? Has he established some kind of directional mentality with the cabin?
Classic Sawyer: "Mind telling me where you got your orders from, Colonel Kurtz?"
Wow... Beach time. It's so nostalgic!!!
Okay, so Daniel's pack has got a gas mask in it. Is this in relation to "The Sickness" or are they planning some kind of Purge-style assault on the Island?
Dan, just tell us what you're doing on the Island!!!
Holy crap! Locke must be glad that he was missing a kidney. Or not. I'm not really sure. He looks kinda pissed to be alive.
Can't seem to understand how Miles survived if he landed on the rock formations. I mean, that's the way Kelvin died!
Okay so Miles seems to have powers? Seemingly, he appears to be a psychic. Is there any relation between him and Walt?
What is this tool that Miles uses? What is it's purpose?
Ah. Con-artistry topic: Miles poses as an exorcist, but does he always find valuables with the help of ghosts? More importantly, why would Miles use his power to do something as low as stealing? At the end of the scene however, Miles proves to be not as half as bad as he seems.
Oh. So the sister thing Naomi mentioned in the last episode is a code. Woah.
What's Ben got to tell Alex? When you think about it, he's practically told everyone in the show that he's got to tell them something.
Haha... Sawyer called Ben "Yoda."
Okay. Dinosaur fossil. Wait. No. Polar bear fossil? Wait. DHARMA Initative collar fossil?! What's it doing all the way in Tunisia?
Man, Charlotte is in deep shit.
It's amazing how all the survivors have this ability to track each other down.
Why doesn't Dan prefer to stick to his protocol?
Why doesn't Vincent ever get killed despite the fact that he runs throughout the jungle during the course of the entire show?
This new guy is awesome. His name: FRANK.
Woah! It's Greg Grunberg with a beard on TV!
Clue that the plane in the ocean is not the real plane: the pilot is not wearing the ring he supposedly wears all the time.
Apparently, Frank was supposed to pilot Oceanic 815. HAHAHA.
Holy crap! It's the cow from the trailer! What is his significance in this episode?
This satellite phone that everyone from the crew carries... Is it like a trend now?
Shiiiiiit. How the hell did BEN GRAB THE PHONE WITH HIS HANDS TIED? Well doesn't really matter now. Charlotte's still breathing.
DAMN, Frank is one hell of a pilot. The helicopter got hit by lightning and he still managed to land it safely?
The way they focus on Jack, Sayid, and Kate before the break makes you think of Captain Jack, Will, and Elizabeth from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Ah. A Naomi flashback. With MATTHEW ABBADON.
He seems to be very insistent on the "There are no survivors" statement. I wonder why.
Why do I get the feeling that Charles Widmore has a hand in this?
"I'll give you the phone if you tell me what you're doing here." "I'll tell you what I'm doing here if you give me the phone." Is this going anywhere?
Hmmm... This Regina character... Could she be Zoe Bell's role? A freighter?
Oceanic 815 is practically Frank's life and work.
Miles is definitely more of a leader than I expected. I didn't expect him to take that much charge into the operation.
WHAT THE?!?!?!? THE FREIGHTERS ARE LOOKING FOR BEN?!?!?!?!?!??!!!
Where did they take that picture of Ben? And just as important, when?
Ben has answers. Locke asks one of our questions: "What is the Monster?" Ben answers: "I don't know." Hahaha...
Oh. He has answers on the freighters.
So Lapidus is pronounced La-pee-dus, not La-pi-dus.
Why is Ben so important to the Freighters?
OMG. WHO IS BEN'S MOLE ON THE BOAT?

So there you have it. My look at LOST episode 4.02 "Confirmed Dead". Stay tuned for next week's episode where it has been said that another member of the Oceanic Six will be revealed. That means flashforwards for next week then. See you then 4.03 "The Economist"!

That Musical Piece by My Friend

2008-02-06T03:52:00.002-08:00

In the post about new tools, I talked about how my friend made a good recording with her batchmates. Try to compare the audio quality with that of one of my songs. You'll see what I mean. Here it is:

A Fine Frenzy

2008-02-06T03:35:00.000-08:00

In the Burn magazine I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I talked about how I liked the reviews section since it was loaded with artists. I checked out the reviews that I liked in the issue that I got; I listened to the albums with the highest numbers of stars that seemed to appeal to me. One of the artists I especially looked into was this three-piece band called A Fine Frenzy. The album that was reviewed was One Cell in the Sea.

The album is quite interesting. It's like a toned-down, less gritty, you-could-practically-call-this-thing-quiet version of Paramore. The similarities mostly lie in the looks between the two bands, but their musical style is almost nothing alike. However in some of the songs, you could say that vocalist Alison Sudol slightly does sound like Hayley Williams. I've listened to half the album and it's working out for me. I'm quite interested with the track "Almost Lover." I have yet to have a final general word on A Fine Frenzy. However, so far, they seem to be good enough for me.

I Want New Tools

2008-02-06T03:16:00.000-08:00

I was listening to a friend's recent musical piece that she did with her friends and I noticed that the sound quality is WAY BETTER compared to the stuff I use here at home. Kung sa bagay, she did her thing in a professional studio and I did my stuff... at home. It totally made me realize the difference between using tools built for professional recording and just a simple computer microphone and the computer itself.

A few months back I was in JB Music and I noticed they had some pretty good recording tools you could plug your guitar into. I guess that eliminates feedback that you normally get on an amplifier. Hmmm...

Reading Up

2008-02-02T19:32:00.000-08:00

Just picked up a new magazine in my dad's store called Burn. It's a publication all about music and it talks about various genres like rock, acoustic, RnB, etc. It seems like an alright magazine. I especially admire now the reviews section of the magazine, which has caused me to look back at all my other old music magazines to look for good album reviews.

Looking at this example, I wish there was a Pinoy magazine that was all about rock music gyud. Something that talked about international tunes, but remained true to the Pinoy spirit. I admire magazines like Guitar World because they help me to know that it's like I'm part of some kind of worldwide calling... That I'm not the only one who likes this kind of music.

I challenge magazine publishers to make a new mag like the one described above.

Update on Pulp Friction II

2008-02-02T15:47:00.000-08:00

Hey guys! I have an update on that new film serial project that I talked about on my Multiply blog. For those who didn't or don't read my Multiply when I put up that announcement of my new project, here's a basic recap of what I said: I'm making a show for the internet that's roughly 12 to 16 episodes. It's starting on the second season instead of the first because I want to experiment making a show that already has some "history" like a backstory. This backstory will be presented in the very start of the show in the form of a season recap.

So the updates are these:

We have actually began shooting and will continue to shoot until at least one half of the season has been covered.
Three episodes have already been written and the first one is still in production.
Many of the major players in the series have already been talked to and agreed to doing the show.
The first episode is entitled "Three Months Later..."
Whereas the first season was meant to have one villain, the second season has at least two villains: one of them being the villain from the former season and the other being something larger than one man.
The airing date of the first episode will depend on the shooting schedule.
The episodes are weekly and will be posted on this blog, on Multiply, and on YouTube.

So there you have it. I'm going to put more updates on this blog and hopefully some behind the scenes vids.

Cheers folks!

An Update on My Team Decision

2008-02-01T22:36:00.000-08:00

Okay so I'm kinda leaning again more towards Team Locke because he's starting to make sense with everything and because I'm listening to Charlie, but if one listens to Hurley's conversation to Jack in the flash-forward of the Season 4 premiere, Hurley says that he's sorry he joined Team Locke. Why so sorry? What happens to Team Locke?

LOST! IS! BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-02-01T15:02:00.000-08:00

OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD! I JUST WATCHED THE PREMIERE OF LOST SEASON 4!!!!!

Holy crap. I'm still in like an aftershock. The minute it started, I still couldn't believe it. Eight months. EIGHT FRIGGIN' MONTHS OF NO LOST. WITHOUT SPOILERS PA. THAT'S HOW LONG I HAD TO WAIT. And although there was that occasional fix given to me by reviewing the older seasons and watching those new mini-episode mobisodes, I wanted to know what the hell is going to happen? Season 3 left me with so many damn questions. The ending was so bloody brilliant that I couldn't get over it until like a month and a half later.

Anyway, it's time to talk about the new season. It kicks ass. I DID NOT REGRET A SINGLE MOMENT. Although I was totally expecting all the freighter people to appear in the episode, only one of them came out, and he's presumably the leader. Or so I think. The first episode, entitled "The Beginning of the End" made me laugh, cry, jump in surprise, and express everything I want to feel when I'm watching something.

I made a list of thoughts while watching LOST. Beware of spoilers!

I feel so sad for Claire.
OMG. DESMOND TOLD HURLEY. CRAP THIS IS SO SAD.
Who is Matthew Abbadon? Is he really working for Oceanic? And the most important question: why is he asking Hurley if the others are still alive? That leads to yet another question: if the Oceanic Six are the six people who got off the Island, what really happened to all the other survivors?
HOLY CRAP DID JACOB'S CABIN JUST MOVE BY ITSELF? WHY IS CHRISTIAN INSIDE?
Is there a connection between Christian, Jacob, and the Smoke Monster? Most likely.
HAHA. HURLEY SAID HE GOT LOST.
I wonder who Naomi's sister is. Possibly someone we already know i.e. Michael's wife, which would make some sense?
Okay, so Charlie is definitely gone, but if Hurley is having hallucinations of him, why can the other patients see Charlie too?
Team Locke is made up of:

Locke
Hurley
Claire
Rousseau
Ben
Alex
Karl
Sawyer

Team Jack is made up of:

Jack
Kate
Sayid
Juliet
Desmond
Sun
Jin
Bernard
Rose

Okay, so many of the major players are with Jack, but Team Locke has more people with deeper elusive roles in this whole thing. I'm not quite sure whose side I'm on, but I'm slowly leaning towards Team Locke.
I STILL DON'T KNOW WHO IS IN THE COFFIN.
Waitaminnit. Does this flashforward happen before the one in "Through the Looking Glass"? Evidence: Jack says he wants to grow a beard, which means he probably hasn't grown one yet. If so, what really drove him off the edge in Season 3? That's really bugging me.
Is there really a freighter?
I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE.

So there you pretty much have a taste of what I'm like when I'm watching an episode of LOST. I can't wait for the next eight weeks to come. Here's to an awesome season. 402 "Confirmed Dead", I hope to see you very, very soon.

Signs of Obsession

2008-02-01T11:58:00.000-08:00

I'm soooooooooo excited, guys. Last night I left my torrents on and when I checked it, my roll of the first episode was at 81 percent, which means in an hour or so, I'll be watching the fourth season of LOST on widescreen, no less.

Yesterday I was with my cousin Monica and we were watching the first season in her house because I'm trying to convert her to the goodness of LOST-ing-ness. During the show, we were talking about things that proved I am obsessed TOTALLY with LOST. We made a list about it, so here are the five reasons why I, Frank Patris, am totally obsessed with LOST. These are not in order, so you can sort it any way you want to.

I refer to Cebu as 'The Island.'
I only notice the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 if they appear in my life
I have Driveshaft's "You All Everybody" on my iPod.
When I go to Starbucks or other coffee shops during the seasons of LOST, I give my name as "Sawyer."
Every new episode to me is equivalent to New Year's celebration at Vudu. (Ask Mikel about that.)

So yeah there you have it. The five reasons why I am totally obsessed with LOST. Actually I was trying to remember the last two on that list, but those were the only ones I could recall. I really like those first four though; those are the really good reasons to me. There are actually more reasons and some reasons that I haven't quite discovered yet. When I said I would make a list of five, Monica and I agreed that "Five is not a number big enough to fit all the reasons I love LOST."

GUESS WHAT???

2008-02-01T11:56:00.000-08:00

LOST IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have You Ever Gotten that Bad Vibe?

2008-01-30T01:40:00.000-08:00

OK, to first lay it down, I'm a guy who believes in vibes. My instinct tells me half of what I know, and what I basically feel about something might tell me what exactly is going on. However, as all of us probably know, our vibes aren't exactly correct 100 percent of the time.

Now let's say you had this situation: you've been sober from hitting on girls for quite awhile now, say like three to four months since your last failed relationship. You suddenly find a really nice girl who you think you're a good match with. You start to go for her, but along the way, a BIG HUGE roadblock pops up in the middle of the road. Another guy is going for her, or at least you think he is, and you don't like him that much. Noticing that the other guy's had a very social background in the past, you start to wonder if something might be going on.

Nah, I'm just paranoid.

An Invasion of a Different Kind

2008-01-29T03:08:00.000-08:00

Ah yes, finally is what you're probably thinking if you can figure out what the hell this post is about. Don't worry. I'm not messing with you. No monsters, no creatures, no effing video games about monsters or creatures... Unless you called Beatles a specie of creature.

For some reason I've become eagerly fascinated towards the British Rock Invasion artists of the late 70's and some of the ones of the modern day. I think it truly started after I started listening to the Beatles and played Guitar Hero, where I learned about a lot of other Brit acts like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. There were also bands and artists I knew about before but didn't really pay much attention to since I was caught up then in... other music. But after awhile, I finally noticed the difference between British sounds and American sounds, and observed this: Britrock is a notch grittier than American rock and seems to be the home genre of many of my preferred artists.

Take Eric Clapton for example. Having evolved from several smaller bands, Clapton has become a classic blues rock musician. In the 70's, he was part of the great hippie rock movement where everything was just distortion and random licks that made every listener just move into a trance. Clapton however did something different and included some stuff from his blues influences. He ended up making "Sunshine" and "Layla." He had taken the experience with him as he joined each new band, and when he went solo, he took everything he learned from every band he played with, including Hendrix, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds, and put it into a solid gold post-hippie genre career. The result: Change the World is the song I listen every time I go to bed. Clapton is my idol guitarist.

However, if you look back, you'll find that Britrock has also been influential to modern day music, and that what I've been saying about all that gritty is true. Remember Radiohead when they made "Creep" or Muse when they started killing with their intuitive sounds and powerful vocals? The British Rock Invasion plays an important part in my musical influence, and pretty much defines the kind of sound I wanna hit when jamming.

Going Back to that Cloverfield Game...

2008-01-28T12:28:00.000-08:00

Three more things: it would be also really cool to have like a part where you can specify how the monster asexually reproduces itself like Godzilla or whatever the Cloverfield monster does to make them spiders jump off its back. And with today's advanced gaming technology, one can see the attack as it happens from an entirely different point of view in the special SurvivorCam, in which you watch the attack as it happens from the eyes of a survivor running amidst the havoc wreaked by the monster. Finally, the game should have like three to four "levels of attack" or something like that: the surface, which is the main ground and stuff; the underground (most likely to be divided into two), which includes the subways, sewers, and waters; and the sky if your monster can like fly.

Haaaaaaaaay.

It Was the Attack of CLOVERCHIPS!

2008-01-28T11:59:00.000-08:00

Yeah, apparently I was attacked by a praying mantis.

It was sitting on the tire of our car, and you know, fascinated by its praying-mantis-glory, I decided to check it out closely. I said some things to it, (I'm not crazy!) and it actually turned to look up at me. Thankfully I had my contacts on so I could clearly see that it was really looking straight up at me and it seemed to be moving its mouth or jaw or whatever. I decided to imitate it, and as we were both opening our mouths (although it looked like I was trying to eat food off of the tire) it crossed my mind if praying mantises actually make growling sounds when they open their mouths in sight of a human being. The mantis read my mind, knew I was off-guard, and jumped in my face. I was like "Aaargh!" for two seconds before it disappeared under my car.

Oh yeah, and I was eating Clover Chips at the time. :P

In the Director's Office

2008-01-27T18:17:00.000-08:00

Hey guys! Now bombarding the school director in his own office. I'm using his computer. Just wanted to say hi to all! :D

That Cloverfield Made Me Wonder...

2008-01-26T20:42:00.001-08:00

That would be so cool to have a video game where you control your own big-ass monster RTS-style as it rampages through a chosen city and you have to fight the military with it and crap and when you're generating the monster, you can modify it genetically to make it stronger against its enemies. Hmmm....

You Mean It's Not A Lion?!

2008-01-26T20:08:00.000-08:00

Man, I still can't believe how huge that monster was. Minute the movie ended, I jumped straight to Wikipedia or Cloverfield Clues to check if they had any high resolution pictures of the thing. Unfortunately neither had any, so I just considered myself lucky for creating that mental image of the thing in my head. One thing I couldn't understand though was how the real name of the creature was unknown on Wiki. Didn't J.J. Abrams already say it was called the "Parasite"? Oh well... Bless the man for making that movie. God, I thought that concept was awesome. The concept can pretty much be boiled down to: Blair Witch + Godzilla = Awesome, and although the monster wasn't Godzilla, it was still pretty kick-ass.

The scariest part for me, and I guess because I didn't expect it to be so damn bloody was [SPOILER alert: Place in a text reader and then enlarge!] Marlena's explosion, as in her body spontaneously inflating and then POP! [Spoilers end.] I mean I had clues about it in the trailer. I pretty much saw the thing, but when it really happened, I was like, "Shit. That is crazy." But believe me when I saw it had much more emotion and enthusiasm when it happened. I'm just suffering from the effects of post-monster movie hangover. I mean, it's been a long time since they made decent monster flicks or ones that I could actually remember; presenting in the case of the latter: Godzilla. I mean all the other ones like Alien vs. Predator I don't really call monster movies. They're just movies. That's it. Cloverfield really broke the mold for me and I hope they make another one or at least something that's just as good as Cloverfield. You can imagine my screaming surprise when [SPOILER alert: Place in a text reader and then enlarge!] The monster towered over Hud and lowered to eat his ass, so we basically got a look see into the face of the monster and the look of the insides of its mouth. Jesus I thought I was the one being eaten for a second. [Spoilers end.] It was fantastic.

Hey Folks!

2008-01-26T19:20:00.000-08:00

Hey guys.

Decided to make this my new blog. Kinda hating the one on Multiply that nobody really reads and cares about much. So I'm trying out stuff here. Yeah. Gonna be completely random. Hope you guys read and catch up with everything that's on my mind!

Thanks!