Poor Kate

Apparently growing up was tough for actress Evangeline Lilly, according to her interview in the latest Elle magazine:

"I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me."

I ... I thought I was the only one to be cursed with incredible hottie status! (sob!) I'm not alone anymore! (sniffle)

That Hurley is bananas/b-a-n-a-n-a-s

Here are a couple Lost spoilers courtesy of the latest Entertainment Weekly, with Gwen Stefani on the cover. I put 'em in the comment section out of consideration for those who don't like spoilers.

This just in...

This could be GIGANTIC for the show. Other items in the article are spoiler-ish, so read at your own risk.

With three months to kill ...

Here's an idea to pass the time: Predictions.
What do you think will be revealed this season?
- Locke loses use of his legs in a car accident, but there's no real physical damage, it's all psychosomatic.
- Kate and Sawyer are being used to excavate a hatch that got buried/destroyed in the previous cataclysm that ended the DHARMA work on the island.

So, uh, nice weather today....

I feel this deep emptiness in my very soul. I may actually have to read a book tonight. Curse you, ABC programmers!

How to Fix Shows Like 'Lost'

Interesting piece in New York magazine
http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/23763/index.html

The basic premise of the article: And for anyone who didn’t sign on from the beginning, there’s little incentive to catch up now. Why invest hours wading through past DVDs when your co-workers are grousing that the mysteries still haven’t paid off?
The argument: We need the TV equivalent of a novella: the limited-run show. Series driven by a central mystery (Twin Peaks, The X-Files) peter out precisely because they have indefinite life spans. The writers are forced to serve up red herrings until the shows choke on their own plot twists. (Whereas 24 works because it’s more cliff-hanger than puzzle—though Jack Bauer is surely the unluckiest man alive.)

Next!!...??

Some minor spoilers, though I see it more as information, on this TV Guide blog/column, thing. The Lost goodies are about halfway down the page, after all the talk about The Nine, which I missed last night. All this monsoon rain out here has me sick and waterlogged and I went to sleep. Feel bad for me! ; )

Oh, and this answers my two islands question, which Daneman so smartly already knew the answer to and was apparently ignoring me.

http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ask-Ausiello/default.aspx

It takes two to tango

I don't have a problem with the existence of two islands. At least to my eye, it seems pretty clear that the jet crashed on the big main island, the one where the Others have their Stuckeyville town. But currently Jack, Kate and Sawyer are held captive on the smaller, Alcatraz island, which is where the Others have a workshop of sorts.
As to the whole killing of Sawyer thing, I get the feeling it's not a case of the Others as a whole wanting him dead, but are willing to let Mr. Colleen kill Sawyer out of revenge/grief. I think: the Others need Jack because of Benry's tumor; they also took Kate and Sawyer as leverage to get Jack to do what they want. Then with Colleen dying, the grieving hubby needed to lash out at someone at smirking Sawyer was a perfect target and the Others were not going to stand in the way very much.

Who are we kidding?

As annoyed as we claim we are, we're too nerdy to give up on the show now. So....this whole thing is a ruse if you ask me. If they wanted to kill Sawyer, why didn't they just do it? Seriously? I mean, I know it's a TV show, but they're just dragging out the killing. And why do they let Kate and Sawyer get it on? It's not like they aren't being watched. Not like they couldn't have tried to sneak away; yet the others are just gonna watch the homemade porn on their older than dirt TV screens. And why is it so easy for Kate to break the lock on Sawyer's cage? Right.....cause the others are perverts like Daneman and want to see Kate naked for 20 minutes, doing nothing but standing there.

I'm not sure what to make of Jack's decision to almost kill Benry so Kate can be set free. I'm overanalyzing here, but does he mean for only Kate to be set free or for both Sawyer and Kate to be set free?

Furthermore I REALLY don't get this Alcatraz thing! How are they on two islands? Seriously. Wouldn't Desomond have seen the second island during his drunken boat ride? Didn't the final shot of the opening scene of the season pan back to show a lagoon or something "separating" the island, not an entire ocean. I just don't believe it, nor do I get it. I mean we were all looking at another island when they took Sawyer to the top of the hill, but again, in the first episode Benry tells Goodwin to "run. It should take you an hour." and tells the other dude who's name I forget to go be one of them. If the islands are that far apart, how'd they each get to their designated camps so fast. What's weirder is what made Benry automatically say "go. be one of them. come back with lists and information."? If they don't answer that question this season then...well...

It seems like there are two camps of Others. One of you guys suggested that before I think. Alex would be in the "I love Benry" camp I guess. She seemed concerned about him. Juliet would be in the "I'm only going to let you think I love Benry" camp. Apparently Zeke and Colleen's husband and the other dude who went to the cages are with Benry. Right?

K. that's all. I can't see what anyone else wrote so....

Just when I want to give up...

This show is killing me!!! I was so ready to throw in the towel and they just HAD to have an episode like last night's. Now I have to watch what happens in February. Bastards.

I agree with Daneman - they could have wrapped up a few loose ends or given some indication that things would be explained. As for the whole Alcatraz deal, I don't believe it. Yet.

Who cares about naked Kate? I wanted to see more Sawyer. Regardless, it's about time those two got it on. Poor Jack, though. He was hoping he'd be the one to get Kate.

One last thing

When Sawyer was about to be shot, the guy with the gun mentioned that Jack Shepherd "wasn't on Jacob's list." According to Lostpedia, the head of the Hanso Foundation is named Jacob. Same guy? What's the point/signif. of the list? The way it was mentioned, it was tough to ascertain if being on the list was good or bad or what.

Alex reconsidered

Yknow, I wonder if Alex is a willing part of the Others after all, just playing a rogue Other to gain Lostie trust. What'd she accomplish last night? She let Jack out, but that led to Ben getting what he wanted - the operation. Ditto her rushing into the rock-breaking area - that motivated Kate to try to pressure Jack.
She did help Claire escape, but now I wonder if that wasn't what the Others wanted - they test Claire, they let her go, but this way they still have that fear thing going on by making Claire thinking she's escaping.

Stinkin' cliffhanger

Oh great. Feb. 7. Three months until we get the next ep. Threeeeeee months. What am I supposed to do in the interim?
Oh well, let's get into analysis of this ep.:
the Others keep maintaining they're the good guys, yet the attempt to kill Sawyer and the whole interlude with Alex ("they're going to kill your boyfriend like they killed mind") seems to indicate something totally different. Wonder if/why they killed Carl, her bf? Wonder why, if the Others know Alex is not exactly on their side, they keep her around and even incorporate her into missions, such as when the Others met with the search party looking for Michael.
Jack's comment to Ben - "I need to get the hell off this island" - is interesting. At least at first, it raised major red flags, that first-person pronoun. But in light of Jack's ulitimate plan, I think that was just a feint to gain Benry's trust. Jack surely must know that if you nearly kill your patient, any deals are off.
Unfortunately, Jack doesn't really know that his plan may be for naught, since the three are on Alcatraz. Unless Kate and Sawyer can get to a boat.
Meanwhile, on the main island, the one plot advancement seems to be Locke getting that 'sign' from Eko's Jesus stick. i took that quote from the Book of John to be an indicator to Locke of where he should go - north - to find our captives. Anyone have another interpretation?
One small disappointment - we didn't get a long shot of naked Kate. Like, a 20-minute shot with her just standing there and the camera just staring. Darn you, JJ Abrams.
One other small disappointment - it would've been nice to get some kind of answers during this cliffhanger ep, while we have three months off. Would it have been too much to get one or otwo mysteries answered? I mean, we have plenty of them.
Three months. Criminy.

Forget the Red Rider BB Gun...

Ask Santa, or whoever buys your goodies, to get you these.

Lost goodies on E! Online...

Again, Watch with Kristin has the latest on Lost, and some, ahem, kind words about JJ Abrams, the show's producer. I have to agree with her on this one, even if Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje wanted to go.

The link does contain some spoilers, so don't read it if you don't want to know what may happen.

Oh, who are we kidding here? You know you want to know...

Why Eko's gone

Hey! I got this from the USA Today site. This explains why he died.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-11-01-eko-lost_x.htm

Leggo my Eko

RIP one of the most interesting and intriguing characters on Lost island. RIP yet another Tailie, leaving only minor character Bernard. Am not exactly pleased with this decision. Why introduce the Tailies in the first place in season 2 only to axe 'em all? It's as if much of season 2 turned out to be a waste of our time.
So let's talk about Eko's death. What killed him? Have past hallucinatory manifestations on the island - Jack's dad, Kate's horse - also been in fact the black smoke? Maybe even Hurley's friend Dave? Rousseau once referred to the black smoke as a 'security system'? Huh? Eko encountered the smoke once before and it seemeed to be 'reading' him - there were all those images in the smoke from his past. Was it now time to judge him? The fact Locke wasn't a Nigerian warlord and butcher might indicate why he saw somethign very different than Eko did when he encountered the smoke. But why did the black smoke monster just kill the pilot right away in the firstt ep.? Eko's dying words seem to indicate there's gonna be some other judging going on soon. Apparently we have to wait and see.
As one faithful reader, Dave of Upper Monroe put it, here come all the Purgatory theories again.
Meanwhile, in Othersburg, we've got an interesting twist. Anyone else see some real irony in video Juliet warning Jack that Benry is a liar and dangerous - while she's trying to recruit Jack to kill Benry? So Juliet wants Benry gone - perhaps Alex too. I wonder if there's a strong split among the Others, or if ywe've got a couple dissatisfieds. Of course, we can't presuppose tjat Juliet in fact wants Jack to kill Benry -this might be some kind of test or manipulation again. There are so many false thrusts and feints on this island ...
Benry's talk with Jack - we had a great plan to break you - was a highlight of the ep., I thought. Presumably that's what's going on now with Sawyer and Kate. Interesting comment when Benry said that Juliet looks a lot like Jack's exwife - I take it she was made the face Jack sees most often as part of the attempt to manipulate him.
What was with those v-neck linen tunics everyone wore at the funeral? Cult like? Or does that just make more sense in a tropical setting than black?
Finally, looks like we've got yet another new character being introduced - eyepatch guy. Maybe the owner of the glass eye the Tailies found on their side of the island? How the heck do you have a remote, unknown island when it's actually two or more islands and has a population bigger than Batavia? Next we'll see a CVS.
Get Lost. Aaaaaannnd .... discuss.