Lost has jumped the shark.

It has officially gotten so dumb that I don’t even care about the explanations anymore because the chances they will be satisfactory are slim to none. Despite following a relatively good episode last week, this episode was painful to watch. Of every character on the show, Ben, Jacob, and Evil Locke are the only people we’re left to be at all curious about; the only ones whose motives and goals are still unclear. At this point, it’s like watching a silly chess game where every piece but two are pawns and the players keep making up the rules as they go along. I know it’s become almost passe for me to hate on this show every week, but come on. It’s just getting ridiculous. At this point, I’m genuinely watching just to get it over with.

2010-03-02T22:18:38-05:00

71361 false Lost has jumped the shark.

2010-03-04T20:59:49-05:00

0 he was on rt tv last night talking about finance.

2010-02-26T13:23:02-05:00

he used to contribute to the scrabbled but hasn’t done so in a while. so watch him here! i have no idea what he’s talking about but boy does he look handsome. http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlyonaShow#p/u/0/LszERtL1VDw 71347 false watch my best friend on tv

2010-02-26T17:17:15-05:00

0 a.k.a. Man plans, God laughs What good is faith if you can’t even cross your front lawn with dignity?

2010-02-17T11:06:48-05:00

It’s difficult, so early in the season, to gauge the importance of the connection between characters on the Island and their personae in the alternate-reality. So I enjoyed the emotional resonance they were able to tie between two completely unrelated entities named Locke and the sad corpse quickly decaying into crab-food on the sand. Burying the original Locke in the earth is a pretty heavy nod to his subtext underpinning the two concurrent stories in the episode. Those of us watching know that the John Locke who embraced faith (a belief that things work out, that he was important) marched serenely to a pathetic, lonely death. Alterna-Locke is frustrated and trapped in his wheelchair. Dark Locke is frustrated and trapped on the Island. Both sullenly seethe with the same self-interest that the original, more serene Locke had in spades… but they seem to be coming around to the idea that you can’t expect shit to get done if you don’t have somebody help you along. Both seem to feel it’s fundamentally flawed to march to a system where effort goes unrewarded. Where does faith alone get you? Strangled to death. Bloodied and suspended in a sack like Richard. Every single one of the Others has, at one time or another, lauded Jacob for choosing to bring them to the Island and trumpeted the righteousness of being there. Then they spend eons sitting around, playing at odd experiments, and dicking about with quasi-religious ceremonies. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if each and every one of their names was scrawled on the inside of that cave, crossed off and tossed aside, abandoned. These guys might be sitting around and waiting for nothing, and a cynical Sawyer feels that in his bones. In the end, it might be better to never have your name written on that ceiling at all (and I noticed some names missing). When Dark Locke says (possibly as a lie) that the best choice is to stop waiting around for some invisible asshole to finally decide if you’re worth all that faith you’ve been pouring in, it’s got to be incredibly seductive. My favorite thing about this episode, and it was a great one, was a humane sense of absurdity in how easily our hopes can be subverted and reduced. Of COURSE the sprinklers tick on when you’ve fallen helpless on the grass. And of COURSE you’re shouting encouragement to students running back and forth and back and forth while you sit there without the use of your legs. And for all of the Island Ben’s worship of “the rules,” it’s heartbreaking to see his alternative self parallel that by railing against the improper use of a miserable little coffeemaker. The world is a big, random place… it would be nice to think our actions had some meaning in the end, horrifying to think that they don’t. For all the seductive talk Dark Locke offers on giving easy answers, I can’t help but think that this faithless creature is a walking perversion of everything the original Locke stood for. • That was a great “Evil Dead” POV tracking shot as Smokey trundles through the jungle. • My friend Tim points out that Sawyer sobers up awful goddamn fast for some cliff-scaling. • Who’s the blood-caked towheaded kid appearing in visions to Dark Locke and Sawyer, murmuring about how he can’t be killed because of The Rules? Aaron and a young Jacob are good theories. Maybe it’s the Island manifesting as a young Sawyer, declaring that his candidacy effectively makes him off-limits to a smoke monster murder. • I can’t imagine it’s a good idea for Dark Locke to leave that Island. This entire season is built on balancing between parallel structures… killing off one side of an equation and setting the other side free might result in very bad things. • The idea of a Candidate to protect the Island seems to be singular. Those other names were destined to eventually be crossed out by Jacob’s hand. I guess that people learning to work together is progress and the key, eventually negating the idea that only one person can have faith and destiny. • Lost inhabits a peculiar space in its final season. The most die-hard fans love it and can’t wait for the damned thing to be over already. 71327 false Lost: The Substitute

2010-02-18T13:51:23-05:00

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0 I just finally watched the new episode today. Here are the things I noticed. Spoilers below…

2010-02-11T18:01:32-05:00

“He’s alive.” Hmm… does this mean Sayid? Or does it actually mean that Jacob is alive (err… existing in a new body)? Did Kate recognize Jack for a second there? I’m still getting the “Constant” vibe here. Hahahaha… no way, is that the guy from Always Sunny? This new cast is blowing my mind. Was the test to see if it was actually Sayid? So Jacob put on a nice act of being in pain and the other Others are onto him? It’s really starting to seem like Jacob is the bad guy here. Unless the other Others were making sure it wasn’t Smokey in Sayid’s body. We still don’t really know where Claire is on the island, right? It’s nice to see a small crowd walking through the jungle again. Classic Lost scene with trails and traps and deception! Sayid is talking just out of character as Locke has been. Sayid gave Jack the decision to give him the pill; normally Sayid would have been more aggressive, no? Either Sayid has calmed down after seeing the light or there’s some other soul behind the wheel. Ethan Rom in the house! Hahahaha… “I don’t want to stick you with any needles if I don’t have to.” Oh yea… that’s right… Claire is Jack’s sister. Some of these emotional-ish scenes are kinda falling flat for me. Jack being told to give the pill. Sawyer at the docks. Kate and Claire at the taxi. Just meh, at this point, I prefer the scenes with plot answers. 71321 false Lost: What Kate Does

2010-02-12T16:52:21-05:00

0 Two adults who clearly don’t like each other having having a civil and respectful conversation on television. Huh.

2010-02-05T11:06:15-05:00

71301 false Jon Stewart was on the O'Riley factor earlier this week. Here's the entire unedited inteview.

2010-02-12T11:51:37-05:00

http://media2.foxnews.com/020410/020410_oreilly_stewartwhole3_FNC_020410_22-24_FNC_HIGH.mp4

0 I figured I’d split this up. Mainly because I wanted everyone to know that I’d be up to my old postings again. What is with that guitar case?! Spoilers below:

2010-02-02T22:59:24-05:00

Ah yes, the guitar case. It reminds of the Oceanic 6 and their return to the island. Sun and Ben made it to the present time. The rest ended up in the 70s. Everyone seemed to need an object. Locke had to be in that suit, remember? Well, I just saw Jin look at his watch in the last episode. Jack no longer has the body of his dead father. Anyway, this just has me thinking about the constant thing from seasons ago. I hear the whispers! This temple was where Ben met Smokey, right? I guess Smokey didn’t kill Ben back then because he knew he could use Ben to kill Jacob. I would love to see a Smokey highlight reel (now that we know what its/his deal is). Damn! Kate took Jack’s pen. Okay so Juliet knew that “it worked” before she actually died? Or did she have something else to say? And once she died, she knew that it worked? Hugo, Kate, Jack, Sayid,… what is the rest of that note in the ankh? I bet there are TEN names. THE TEN. LA X. Booyah! So… did Jacob (after centuries of trials) finally find ten people to win his argument with Smokey? And as long as those ten are alive, then Jacob will posthumously win the epic argument? Will the dichotomies finally fucking stop? I thought that stewardess looked familiar in last episode! Have we seen her before? Why is she suddenly with this temple group? Why hasn’t she gone through what everyone else has? Why won’t John Hawkes take his fucking thumbs out of his pockets? The healing properties of the island have returned to the plot. Paralysis, sterility, kid-Ben’s gunshot. Whoops (that hand slice didn’t heal). Something went wrong somewhere in the past. The dirty water doesn’t heal like the clean water does. That transition from Kate’s escape to the bubbling water has me thinking. Has the water become dirty because that alternate timeline shouldn’t be existing right now? That stewardess is still offering drinks. Hahaha. Zack and Emma, huh? The kid servants. Let’s remember them for a wacky theory later in the season, shall we? So the Temple-people are afraid of Smokey, now that Jacob is dead. They don’t seem too surprised that Jacob can die. I mean, they sure had plenty of things prepared (i.e. that rocket). Did Dead-Sayid just say, “it worked,” too? Does everybody have to die on this island-timeline? Wow, Jack and Locke made a thoughtful connection. Yet they butted heads in Season One almost immediately. How long have those Temple-people been living in the Temple? Do they know the Others? They sure dress like the Others. What is Smokey so disappointed about? The fact that everyone on the island almost cost him his bet? Remember in the all the past episodes how we, the audience, could never tell who was good or bad at first? I think the jury is still out about Jacob and Smokey. Sure Smokey wears the black shirt, but is he actually trying to help. Jacob mentioned something like, “anything that’s not the ending is just progress”. What ending is he looking for? Maybe the grand game is like so (after hearing Smokey mention how “miserable” their old lives were): Jacob thinks, sooner or later, that some group of people (The magical Ten) will do everything it takes to get off the island. Smokey thinks, no way would any group of people want to leave the island once discovering it. 71295 false Lost: LA X, Part Two

2010-02-03T07:44:36-05:00

0 What’s with the episode title? Obviously it’s a play with the Los Angeles Airport abbreviation. But there is a space between the ‘A’ and ‘X’. ‘LA’ for the spanish feminine singular article ‘the’? ‘X’ for roman numeral ‘ten’? The Ten? Who are the Ten? Am I even right?! That white screen was a second to long if you ask me. Teasing us already! Spoilers below:

2010-02-02T22:00:29-05:00

First of all, the opening refresher brought something to my attention. Jacob said to Faux-Locke, “They’re coming.” I wonder if he meant the ragtag team of followers (lead by Ilana) or if he means the original Losties coming for vengeance. So Jack is back on the plane. I couldn’t tell if he was aware of his “old timeline” or not. When he touches the blood on his neck, I figured, no. But he seems to be getting deja-vu-ish glimpses. Didn’t Jack say, “it’s normal,” to Rose back in the first episode? Not the other way around? She was reading Weekly Woodsmen. Hahahaha. Hmm… looking like a splice in reality. Two alternate realities branching because of the same nuclear explosion (yet beginning from Desmond’s electromagnetic explosion)? Hey! That’s the guy who fucked up with the dynamite way back when. Hugo? Lucky? I guess if the island isn’t above sea-level anymore, then those numbers aren’t getting broadcasted to Hurley anymore, and so he really isn’t paranoid/unlucky anymore. Jacob has his own loophole now! With the Losties “success,” he’s actually back to being “alive”. Whatever “success” or “alive” might mean! Wrong! He’s dead! Oh no! Sun & Jin suck again! And fuck, Locke can’t walk! Wait, can he? I think he was lying. Is there something from the past that would have never paralyzed him? Yup, he’s paralyzed! Wow the Losties are working together like never before on this island. It’s like they’ve been friends for years. Hell, P-Jack and P-Sayid even work well together upon “first meeting” (P-Jack means Plane Jack). Charlie lives! That nuclear bomb explosion sure does wonders for teeth whitening, doesn’t it? Did anybody see the rocking chair in the foot statue room? Hurray for answers! Faux-Locke, aka Black Shirt, is indeed Smokey. He found a quick loophole for that ring of ash rule too, didn’t he? At first I thought, hey, Charlie died in the bathroom. I guess that’s a bit of the old course correction at play. But then he was saved. And then Charlie said, “I was supposed to die.” There’s that phrase again: “supposed to”. Wow, Charlie had such a better ending year’s ago. And so… the epic black vs. white theme continues. We’ve seen dichotomies all over the place and now it has expanded to the very plot line itself. One branch has the Losties back on their Oceanic flight, and the other branch has them on the island. But I’m not quite sure which branch is supposed to be the bad one? Are either of them really bad? Are both bad? 71294 false Lost: LA X, Part One

2010-02-03T10:38:17-05:00

0 because this video is sure to terrify grandparents everywhere!

2010-02-02T14:10:45-05:00

71292 false It must be Sweeps Season

2010-02-03T11:52:29-05:00

http://www.kdvr.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=8dd7f487-7d6e-457b-82db-a95e5673e301&src=front

2010-01-26T11:59:44-05:00

71277 false Televangelism show gets Fresh Prince'd.

2010-01-26T12:02:21-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpBJAzXQQJU

0 Amazing!

2010-01-21T13:47:13-05:00

71267 false Conan trying to create the most expensive comedy bits of all time.

2010-01-21T16:50:00-05:00

http://jalopnik.com/5453417/conan-obriens-15-million-bugatti-veyron-mouse

0 And just in time. We just switched to FiOS. Go phils!

2010-01-21T09:42:34-05:00

71266 false Comcast's local sports monopoly is over.

2010-01-22T20:20:31-05:00

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20100121_FCC_ends_Comcast_s_local_sports_monopoly.html

0 I plan on gifting as many of these as possible to as many kids as I possibly can.

2010-01-19T10:50:05-05:00

71258 false Mr. Wizard released on DVD.

2010-01-21T22:19:26-05:00

http://www.reddit.com/tb/argzp

0 Wow, I need to watch this show.

2009-12-16T15:05:12-05:00

71158 false Apparently the best improv comedian on TV is 8 years old.

2009-12-16T15:35:17-05:00

http://jezebel.com/5427946/funny-girl?autoplay=true

0 And it looks amazing.

2009-12-15T13:37:04-05:00

71153 false Will Arnett and David Cross's new BBC show, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.

2009-12-16T12:53:16-05:00

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/tag/the-increasingly-poor-decisions-of-todd-margaret

0 I love it, in all its permutations. I’m pretty happy that at any point in my afternoon I can find an episode of it somewhere on basic cable. It’s almost that PCU Caine-Hackman theory, but way easier to prove. Anyway, it’s infinitely quotable. I’d like to dedicate a post to some of my favorites.

2009-12-09T16:10:37-05:00

Huang: Do you gamble, Elliot? Stabler: Only with birth control. Stabler: What the hell are you doing here? Attorney: Your conversational skills are what I like most about you. 71138 false Best of Television: Law & Order

2009-12-10T11:02:14-05:00

2009-12-07T13:18:36-05:00

71125 false The Office is the most depressing show on television.

2009-12-07T17:39:39-05:00

http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/meghan-keane-the-office-is-the-most-depressing-show-on-television

2009-11-20T10:05:32-05:00

71067 false CHUCK!

2010-01-08T23:58:13-05:00

http://chud.com/articles/articles/21626/1/THUD-CHUCK-COUNTDOWN-CLOCK-IS-AT-52-DAYS/Page1.html

0 I wasn’t old enough to appreciate this back then, but man. I hope the other 12 episodes get posted.

2009-11-19T15:11:11-05:00

71065 false MTV's Buzz.

2009-11-19T15:11:11-05:00

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/mtvs-buzz-fantastica.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

0 I’m very surprised Battlestar isn’t in the top 10. Dead Wood is totally my next show.

2009-11-16T13:49:47-05:00

71051 false Onion A.V. Club's 30 best TV series of the 00's.

2009-12-10T13:05:37-05:00

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-tv-series-of-the-00s,35256/1/

0 This clip thus guarantees that I will never watch an episode of Numbers.

2009-11-11T20:26:24-05:00

71042 false I really, really hate it the TV and Film industry delves into tech.

2009-11-14T10:47:54-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

2009-10-30T12:31:17-04:00

71007 false NBC orders 6 more episodes of CHUCK!

2009-10-30T14:03:33-04:00

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/10/28/breaking-nbc-ups-chuck-order/

0 …Sorta.

2009-10-28T10:33:11-04:00

70996 false Captain Malcolm Reynolds returns.

2009-10-28T14:43:38-04:00

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/captain-mal-is-back-cci/

0 Well shit. Looks like I’m going to have to get HBO now.

2009-09-13T14:49:50-04:00

70831 false Bored To Death: A Noir-otic Comedy.

2009-09-15T14:46:52-04:00

http://www.hbo.com/boredtodeath/

0 Has anyone watched this?

2009-08-28T17:23:43-04:00

I’ve been told it’s something I’d dig, and I am in the process of downloading it. Anyone ever watch it? 70777 false Carnivale

2009-08-29T09:52:30-04:00

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0 With the full cast, no less. Hot shit.

2009-08-28T10:09:50-04:00

70775 false Confirmed! Arrested development movie is happening!

2009-08-28T17:26:07-04:00

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/08/tony_hale_talks_ctrl_the_infor.html

2009-07-31T00:24:26-04:00

70674 false Apparently 120 episodes of Iron Chef Japan never aired in the US. You can now get them online.

2009-07-31T00:24:26-04:00

http://filehouse.ironcheffans.info/

0 If you haven’t seen the show, it’s really great.

2009-07-23T19:16:59-04:00

70641 false Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, and Nick Frost's first show, Spaced, is now on Hulu in it's entirety.

2009-07-25T16:58:54-04:00

http://www.hulu.com/spaced

2009-07-09T15:48:58-04:00

70590 false Cracked's 6 most ridiculous Star Trek aliens.

2009-07-09T16:06:08-04:00

http://www.cracked.com/article_17317_star-treks-6-most-ridiculous-alien-races.html

2009-07-02T01:12:14-04:00

70561 false One TV nature show host. One season. A ridiculous number of Smiths references.

2009-07-02T11:16:26-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT9hGAlt89o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhome.php&feature=player_embedded

0 The people who made Band of Brothers have a new HBO series based on the pacific theater. Link leads to a trailer.

2009-06-22T07:54:41-04:00

70513 false The Pacific

2009-06-22T22:10:44-04:00

http://www.pacificfans.com/trailer-videos