Lost Episode Three "Jughead"

I'm writing this before I've searched the internets for answers and theories and opinions. I want to write this fresh.

I thought last night's episode was in the top 5 Lost episodes ever. Here are few quick reasons why:

1. Desmond centric
2. Lots O' Faraday
3. Took place mainly on the island (and when it didn't, it was all about the Desmond)
4. Answers were given
5. Absolutely no Jack and Kate

The episode started with Penny giving birth to her and Desmond's son, who they named Charlie...how sweet! Although, he also shares the name with the father she hates, so in reality, would they really have named him that? But this show is far from reality, so let's continue.

We jump ahead three years and Desmond is on a mission to help the islanders based on his dream/memory of Faraday telling him to find his mother.

Desmond heads to Oxford only to find there is no record of Faraday as a professor. He finds the attic room he did his experiments in and is met by someone who tells him that Faraday is being kept a secret after what he did to some girl. We meet this girl later and learn that she is basically catatonic and "crazy" as her sister will find her talking to their dead father. Obviously, this girl has the same brain time flashes that Desmond has, only she can't control them. We also learn that Faraday's experiments were being paid for by Charles Widmore.

On the island:
Sawyer, Juliette, and Locke have captured two of the army guys. It turns out they speak Latin, which is the language Juliette was forced to learn when she came to the island. They ask to be taken to their camp where they know Richard Alpert is. As one of the soldiers is about to spill the location, the other soldier kills him and takes off running. We learn later that this soldier is....Charles Widmore! So he really did at one time live on the island. My guess is that at one point, just like Ben, he was asked to turn the magic donkey wheel to move the island and now he can't get back.

Meanwhile, Faraday, Charlotte, and Miles have been captured by the army people - okay, I'm going to stop calling them "army people" because, as we know, they are really with Richard and are island natives or Hostiles that Dharma spoke of, so from now on I will call them the Hostiles to keep things consistent - Miles learns after talking to dead people whose graves they just walked over that these Hostiles have recently killed people from the US Army. They are brought to their camp and Faraday decides to play along and says they are with the army and here to disarm the hydrogen bomb on the island. Yes! A bomb on the island. He figured this out to due to the radiation burns on some of the Hostiles.

After confessing his love for Charlotte, Faraday is led to the bomb by a woman who looks so familiar to him. My theory: this is his mother. We learn that his mother is the old psychic woman with Ben in the church later in the episode.

This is where the episode grows a little dull. I was concerned that the disarming the bomb would be dragged through multiple episodes, so I was relieved when time eventually shipped and it was dropped. Although, since this is Lost, I'm sure it will have some signifigance later. My guess, it becomes part of a hatch at some point.

To wrap things up, Locke tracks Charles Widmore and finds the location of the Hostiles. He approaches Richard, tells him Jacob sent him, and gives him the compass. Richard informs Locke it is 1954. As Locke tries to convince Richard who he is (he tells Richard he was born in 1956 and to come see him the hospital - we see this happen in a previous episode) and that he needs to tell him how to leave the island, time shifts again and the Hostiles disappear. After the shift, Charlotte starts having a major nosebleed and passes out. My Charlotte theory: That she belongs in the 50s time period. Before the flash that brought them to the Hostiles time period, her nose was bleeding. The whole time they were with the Hostiles, she was fine. As soon as time shifts again, her nose starts to bleed. So either she belongs in that time, or her Constant is in that time. Maybe her Constant is Widmore?

Off the island:
Desmond pays a visit to Charles Widmore and demands to know where Faraday's mother is. Widmore tells him she is in LA. He gives him her location and asks Desmond to keep Penny far away from all of this because she is in danger. Desmond returns to Penny and tells her that he is giving up on his mission. She tells him he's never give up.

I loved this episode. It tied in with so many previous episodes. We learned that Widmore knows Alpert and did in fact once reside on the island. We learn Faraday has a lot of secrets and that his mother is a very important person. We learned Locke is the one who sent Richard to him as a child. It, once again, brought importance to the compass and to the episode where Richard asked Locke to pick an item as a child.

This show never ceases to amaze me.

Next week looks like we are back off the island for much of the episode and back with Jack and Kate and all of their whining. As long as the plot advances, I can deal with it. It also looks like we might get confirmation on the whispers everyone hears on the island actually being the Losties travelling through time.

I can't wait.

My Lost Thoughts

I'm a big Lost fan. And like all Lost fans, I have my own theories on the show. I'll be honest, I come up with a lot of theories while I watch, then I scour the internet the next day and see the much better theories out there and take a bit from them to piece it together myself.

Last Wednesday was the season 5 premiere and it did not disappoint. At the end of season 4 when it seemed time travel was going to be a part of the show, I was very nervous. It is always difficult to incorporate time travel to story telling. There are too many what ifs and contingencies that can happen to completely ruin the story. After watching the premiere, I'm feeling a bit better, though not 100% percent. It's still too early to tell where it's all going to go, but so far it looks like they have their bases covered.

Off Island:
I am already bored with most of the Oceanic 6 (or 5, do we really have to include Aaron? I know he's the Golden Child or whatever, but he should really just be included with Kate). I really thought Jack's constant whining would have stopped by season 5, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Kate is as dull as ever. Sun is close to intriguing - I do hope she really does blame Kate and is behind the lawyers who want a blood sample - but she's not quite there yet, unless the former turns out to be true. But if she really is just after Widmore and Ben (like everyone else) then blah. Who cares.

Sayid and Hurley together was pure hilarity, even though Sayid was passed out the entire time. Hurley always brings the goods and I find I enjoy his episodes the most. And Hurley's explanation to his mom about what really happened to them? Perfect. Exactly what every Lost fans sounds like when trying to explain the show to a new recruit.

I'm sad that Ben is stuck in scenes with Jack. I <3>

Bloggity Blog Blog Blah

I know I stated in my first post that this blog was just a holding place for my own thoughts and not meant for anything more, but as I wrote, I thought it would be cool if it became something more. But I've been finding it very difficult to keep up with. It's hard to come up with something every day. I just don't have the time. But I am dedicating myself to trying, even if it's the most inane and trite topics, I will write.

So, for starters, I need a haircut. It is embarrassingly bad. I get my haircut by my best friend, but I have to adhere to her schedule. This makes things difficult since she works, is doing an internship, and is in school. It's not like I can call her up on a Monday and make an appointment. It has to be when she is ready and willing. Fortunately, she does a heck of a job and only charges me $20. Unfortunately, I can end up going months between haircuts and am left looking like the shaggy dog I look like today. I've noticed people I see everyday starting to give me funny looks. Looks like, does she know how terrible she looks? Or, she must not think much of herself. And I do think much of myself, most of the time. I really hate walking around looking so trashy. But, my friend has agreed to cut my hair this Sunday, thank god. Now hopefully she is in a good mood and feels like being creative. Otherwise, she will just trim it up and I will look like crap again in a week.

I was on this big social kick towards the end of last year. I was going out a lot and enjoying it and having fun making new friends, but that seems to be falling by the wayside. I've skipped out on a lot of social events these past couple of weeks. My excuse has usually been that it is too cold, which it is. I heard on the radio this morning that it is the 29th day of below zero temperatures. It's hard to function when weather gets like this. Going outside becomes a big pain in the ass. You have to get bundled up to go warm up the car. For me this is an even bigger pain because our car is parked in our unattached, unheated garage. So, I have to throw on a ton of clothes, go grab the ice cold metal padlock to unlock the door, then open the garage door, back the car out, close the garage door, lock the padlock (which sticks and is really difficult), and then wait 10 minutes for the car to warm up. Then it's pile everything on again and drive to my destination where there is no place to park due to snow emergencies, wade through the snow, ruining my shoes, and freezing the whole time. I just end up thinking: it's not worth it and staying home.

Other reasons might be that the tv season has started up again. Lost is back - oh happy days! (more on that another time) American Idol has returned. Though I swore I would not watch again this year, I have found myself right back in it. I've never liked the audition rounds, but I'm intrigued by all of these "pros" that are coming through to audition and the possible scandals that can occur, which is exactly what the producers want, so I'm just incredibly gullible. I also really enjoyed last season, moreso than I should have and really liked some of the "artists" that have come out of last season, so I'm hoping this season proves to work the same way. I like the new judge when she is not trying to go up against Simon or when she is not trying to bond with Paula. I think she has very valuable criticism and advice to give when she's not acting like a two year old.Prison Break is not coming back unil April. I find this very upsetting. I miss it so much. It will also be the end of the series, which is fine. It needs to end. I'm just thankful they will conclude it and not just cancel it unresolved (knock on wood).

The Office is also back. I was excited about this until I saw the first two episodes upon it's return and became very disappointed. What happened to this show? I can't quite put my finger on why it is so bad now. Is it because Jim and Pam are together? I don't think so, because their story line was never the best part of the show for me. I think they've lost the ensembleness of the show. The show was always the best when they were in the office interacting with each other. It seems now they are too often offsite in smaller groups and that just doesn't work for me. I also think the romantic relationship potlines are killing the show. They dragged the Dwight/Angela/Andy plotline out for way too long. I guess they still kind of are dragging it out. I don't think anybody cared and really just ended up making them all out to be assholes. I also don't care for NEW! CONFIDENT! PAM! Give me jaded, demure Pam anyday.

My husband is in travel season and I miss him. It's odd how hard it is to reacquaint yourself with yourself and only yourself once you've lived with someone so long. When he first leaves, I go from immediate sadness to a sense of excitement. I can listen to the radio as loud as I want when I want, I get to watch whatever I want on tv. I can dance around the house, singing at top volume. Not that I can't do these things when he's home, just that it's not very fair to him. But after about a day these things lose their novelty and I just want my husband home. I hate going to bed alone. It's so quiet and cold. I miss having him right there to talk to when I see/read/hear something funny. I miss having him there to give a kiss or hug to, just because. I just miss him.

Well, that's all for now. I don't want to give it all away in one post. Because I know how intriguing my posts are. I'm sure you are all sitting there on the edge of your seats.

Stay tuned for my theories on Lost, why I think I'm being stalked, and my notes on Rock Band 2.

My Country Tis of Thee

It's been a while and I just have this to say:

Oh, what a beautiful day!!!

Obama is President! Bush is gone! Hallelujah

Happy New Year!

My new year has started off quietly. Due to this frigid snowy weather, I barely left the house during my 4 day weekend. My husband and I spent New Years Eve at home. He played Rock Band while I drank wine and listened to music. Then at midnight we popped the champagne and called it a night.

It's funny. It was the first year in a long time where we had several options and we opted to just stay home. I never like to go out on New Years. I get really nervous about driving and it always seems expectations are so high. But, I like to know that I have the option to do something. But those options always seem to involve going to several different places. I probably would have been more inclined to leave the house if the thing to do was at one place and one place only. But the last thing I want to do is drive around from party to party and bar to bar on a cold, drunken January evening.

I received a $50 Macys gift card for Christmas. I went there on Thursday and walked the whole store about 4 times and could not find a single thing to buy. There are a lot of things I need - a shoe rack, a new cordless phone, another Rock Band guitar - but none of these things can be purchased at Macys. I thought I'd try out the shoe section. But everything is either knee high boots - and I can never find a pair that fit my calves -, stilettos - I'm tall enough as it is and it is winter and there is snow on the ground and it is slippery - or way more than $50 and I didn't want to spend another $75 of my own cash. I could probably have found a purse, but I had just bought one with my Aldo gift card and didn't think I really needed another purse just yet.

I did see a jacket I really liked...loved, actually. I tried it on and it was just a touch too snug. I went home and looked online, but I couldn't find the jacket. Oh, well.

So, now I have this gift card and I can't spend it. It's incredibly frustrating.

The rest of the weekend was spent indoors. I believe I'm starting to suffer from Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder. I'm having a hard time leaving the house. This really sucks since winter has only just begun. It is just so fucking cold and dark and cold and it won't stop snowing. I'm finding myself worrying that summer will be as brief as last year and how I really don't think I can handle another winter. I am seriously considering having a serious discussion with my husband on leaving this state for a warmer climate. I'm not talking California or Arizona or Texas or anything...just a little further south where the snow isn't so constant and the weather only gets down to 20 degrees. Because this high of 2 with a windchill making it feel like -20 is getting really old really fast.

Or, maybe I need to save some vacation time for this time of year and head south for a week. Maybe that would help.

2009. I will being turning 30 this year. Scary thought, I guess. It's supposed to be scary, right? I've never been bothered by age and getting older. But I can feel it starting to happen. I think I'm starting to worry about time a lot more. I'm still very uncertain if I ever want children. My first thought is always, NO WAY. But then I think, maybe I do. But now I'm going to be 30 which means I'm running out of time and I should have one soon but am I ready? No way near ready. So when will I be? I know I don't want to be an old mom, if I were to be a mom at all. My husband is 3.5 years older than me and I know he thinks he's running out of time.

Then there's my career, or lack there of. I am heading down the path of lifetime administrative assistant, which is not what I want to be. So then what? What do I want to be? I have ideas, but they all require going back to school, which requires money, which I don't have.

It's all very overwhelming.

Holy crap I'm going to be 30.