Well I think the writers of LOST finally satisfied the need to start tying some of this storyline together. Over the two seasons, the story has kept branching out further and further and as it has done so it has seemed to get less and less fluid and connected. That is, all of this crazy stuff is happening, we keep meeting new people and new “things” keep happening but how they connect to each other has only become more and more muddied. Last night’s episode helped out tremendously. Don’t get me wrong, I am still relatively clueless as to what the hell is really going on, but last night explained the experience of the other survivors. In doing so, that filled in a lot of the questions from previous episodes. What I liked most was that it was fast paced. They knocked out 48 days in one show and did it in a way that it was still very clear and coverd well. As opposed to some of the recent shows that seem to drag on a bit, have some filler, and then a cliff hanger in the last 5 mins of the show.
I’m hoping that the upcoming episodes are more fast paced like this one was, and starts to bring everything back together. There are still some big questions and themes that have still not connected: The French Lady, the other crashed airplane, Desmond, the consequence of Clair and the baby being taken…and how they got away etc. etc. etc.
I’m still not sure how they will be able to bring all of this together by the end of the season; for all I know there is going to be a season 3.
All in all it was a good show. Thank God for DVR’s!!! Without it I would have had to wait for the DVD’s to come out. If you missed the show, you can get a pretty good re-cap here on ABC’s webpage. Clicky
I don’t understand what happens between taking my socks off, cleaning them, and then pairing them back together, but there is defiantly some strange voodoo going on behind the scenes. I do all of my own laundry, and I never lose any clothes. Shirts, pants, underoos; the same amount that I put in dirty, I take out clean. Then there are dress socks. Over the period of about one year, I have somehow managed to lose over a dozen single dress socks.
Why this is strange:
I don’t lose any other kinds of socks.
I never lose a pair of dress socks, just one at a time.
WHERE THE HELL DO THEY GO???
I think I’ve figured it out. I don’t think I lose them at all. Have you ever realized that no two pairs of mens dress socks are the same? Unless you go solid black, they are all different. The truth is, the sock makers actually just make one style and one color of dress sock; then when they are washed there is some trade secret that makes them they change colors and styles. This is how the dress sock industry is able to produce so many different types of socks: They make a million brown socks, wash them one time before they go to the stores to be sold, and BINGO they have a million pairs of different socks (this also explains why the styles of socks are so goofy). When we buy them, each time they are washed socks we get a different kind of sock. Men never notice because we are stupid, and because we have too many different types of socks to start with.
When a pair of socks is new, they change together so you still have a matched pair after they are washed . As time goes on, they are damaged by the UV light, CFC’s, Ozone, exposure to violent video games and other environmental hazards. They basically get Dress Sock Cancer (DSC) and when this happens they start changing out of control and independently of their other sock in the pair. Then, like me, you will eventually find that you have over a dozen single socks that don’t match anything else.
Tech lost to OSU? Are you kidding me? That is the worst team in the big 12!!! Baylor has a better record than O-State, and that was O-states onl…ONLY big 12 win. I think God is punishing me for going on a date with a married woman last week. No sense of humor Big Guy!
I’m so heart broken.
The good news is, the Aggies lost…yet again. Even if we lose next week too, we will still have a better record than them. I think we should be able to take OU next weekend, they didn’t play very well against the Aggies (Hurt QB, and Petterson was limping all game). Warms my heart to be better than the Aggies.
I have to say that I am starting to get a little bit frustrated with the show LOST. Before last night, the last two shows were re-runs, and the newest episodes have seemed to drag on a little bit for me. I’m still very interested and will keep watching, but am starting to get to that point where if something doesn’t start to evolve and happen, I may lose interst.
Having said that, this episode made the hairs on my neck stand up more than once. I don’t get scared in movies or anything like that, but a few moments in the show yesterday made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and actually got to me a little bit. For those of you who wanted to know what Walt said, here is a clip of what he said last night played backwards.
What Walt said compressed .m4a (mac/iTunes version)300k
What Walt said .wav
RedRum..REDRUM!! haha.
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You always hear how the media can be so very biased, and try to alter public perception in order to peruse their end goal. Most of the time I can notice some “leaning”, but never to such an extent that it really seems as though they have projected a reality that doesn’t exist or is the opposite of the truth.
I live in the Dallas area and was recently able to see the most blatant example of this that I have ever experienced. The city of White Settlement is a town that is west of Fort Worth and founded in the mid 1800’s as a settlement of white pioneers surrounded by Native American villages. The news has had stories constantly for the last month or two about the possible name change that was going to be voted on this Election Day. The argument was that the name was not politically correct, and might be keeping the city from growing by keeping businesses and residents away. If you were to watch the news, you would have thought that the whole town wanted to change the name to West Settlement, and only the simple minded few wanted to keep their name. They would show 3 or 4 relatively eloquent residents who would discuss how the name needs to be changed for the betterment of the city; then they would show one bumpkin who would say that he likes the city name just the way it is. It was portrayed to be VERY lopsided. So much so that I really thought that the city might end up changing it’s name.
Well, it would seem that all of the one sided attention may have backfired on the media. White Settlement voted to keep the name that they choose over 150 years ago by a margin of over %90!!! That is a HUGE landslide defeat by any standard. In fact, only about 220 people out of the 2400 or so that voted, wanted the name to be changed. I guess the news guys found all 200 of them and had them on TV. In all honesty I don’t care if they change their name or not. There are good arguments on both sides of the coin, but that is a decision for the residents of one of the oldest towns in the area to make. What is disturbing is how blatantly the media tried to alter the public’s perception of how the town’s people felt about the situation, seemingly trying to force their agenda.