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Jezebel 
04/09/09
04/09/09
You know what's going to happen now, don't you? Now that you've publicly proclaimed that it's over, you'll be forced into sordid late-night hookups. While all of your friends pat you on the back for your healthy decision to move forward, you'll be in the closet at 3AM watching random episodes online. You'll come up with a new screenname to haunt LOST message boards incognito. You'll be living a lie and tell yourself it's liberation. You'll say you can stop whenever you want to! It's not a problem, it's a 'friends with benefits' sort of thing.
When you're inevitably discovered, you'll swear it was the wine, the late hour, boredom. But you'll be back in the closet with your laptop, streaming episodes again.
One of your friends will step in and commandeer your laptop, your Season DVDs, your iPhone, and your iTunes. They'll put you in a 12-step program.
Probably right before the series finale! The horror!
We love you too much for this, Dodai! Just say you're going to start seeing other shows and see what happens. ;) It will be better for you!
04/09/09
When Ben was in the Aztec temple??! And he saw Alex who I don't give two sh*ts about and never did?!!!
Meh. They better do something quick to get the awesome back. Cuz the season finale of season one was AWESOME!!
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You will thank me.
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And it's KILLING me what Alex said to Ben in the temple. I played it several times but still couldn't hear it exactly, and I just KNOW I'm missing something important. And have no closed captions.
Sigh. Anyone care to recap?
04/09/09
Also, I hope we're still getting a Lost discussion from Tracie, cuz lots of us still love this show.
04/09/09
Quitchermumbling, Alex! Or, OK, yeah, it might be time to get my hearing checked. Dern.
04/09/09
LOST, I thought you were better than that. I mean, I know your frozen underground Cogsworth Cog wheel dumps fools in Tunisia when the island is through with them, but damn... someone please give Egyptians a break already.
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But it's really, really long post. In the thread about the girl whose friend knows Mr. Eko.
I promise, it's not a crackball theory.
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Else, you'd really get it.
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Comments like this only belong on your blog.
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I broke up with "Lost" second season, right after they opened the damn hatch and it was just another convoluted red herring. It hurt (what if "Lost" was the one? He's so deep, so tortured. I'm were the only one who understood him- nobody else is good enough!) but I knew I did the right thing.
Sure enough, my friends start seeing "Lost." They're hooked, and at first its fine, its exciting. Then, "Lost" starts blowing off their regular dates, only to show up six months later begging for a second chance, luring them in with flashy plot points and shots of adrenaline and promising it'd be different this time, baby- see??
It never was, and it never will be. "Lost" is a black hole, and all your years of hopes and dreams and loyalty will never pay off. At the very end, when "Lost" finally accepts you and tells you all the secrets, it'll be the freakin' hatch all over again, and you'll realize you too should've jumped ship back in 2005 before you got too attached and the crazy hit the fan, because "Lost" is the intellectual hipster boyfriend from sophomore year of college who read too much damn Camus for his own good and was just a flaky Jewish kid from Brooklyn who needed to wash his hair.
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But, LOST didn't kill off Mr. Eko. Unfortunately, he wanted out. He probably would have still been on the show if he didnt want out of Hawaii and LOST.
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No, we don't need to resort to death threats; all we have to do is recount the myriad ways this show is empirically better that just about every other show on TV, and our point comes across loud and clear.
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Flame away.
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I want to know who pulled Ben out of the water and put that sling on his arm, though! More mystery! Gah!
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How the hell did Ben happen to get the sling, though? I know it's a minor detail, but it's weird. I mean, he must have made that phone call right after the fight with Desmond. Does he walk around with a fully-stocked first aid kit or something? Ben is always prepared!
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Have you ever read Jorge Garcia's blog? It's not totally Lost-centric, but he seems like a really nice dude. [dispatchesfromtheisland.blogspot.com]
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I love this cast. They all seem like genuinely cool people and like they really get along, which make the dvd bloopers excellent viewing. :)
04/09/09
I think you missed a key theme of last night's show: Ben has a total soft spot for babies and new moms. It's his Kryptonite. He couldn't kill Rousseau because she had a baby. And he not only took that baby to raise safely (in his mind), he told Rousseau how to avoid the Others.
Then, he not only got all discombobulated when he saw toddler Charlie, he actually lowered his gun before Desmond sacked him.
He just can't think of harming a baby or a new mom. I guess we are supposed to relate this back to his own loss of his mom in childbirth.
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