Naveen

For all yall who didn't see it, Naveen Andrews is in GRINDHOUSE. He has no beard, and it makes his face look fat. Sayid looks all lean and mean and dangerous; No-Beard Naveen is a pudgy lady. I just bring this up in case any of you were wondering why i haven't shaved in three years. I have a Sayid face.

Snitches and tricky bitches

I know, i know, Sam always brings it back to the Holocaust, but listen: at the Nuremberg trials, all those tricky bitches said "I resisted in my heart," or "I never really agreed with it, but i had to do what i had to do." But bitch you *did* do it! You think the lady you're pushing into an oven feels better because you're "resisting in your heart"?!?

I bring this up because we're all, "oh, Juliet hates Ben, she doesn't want to do it," as if that makes her shit less ill. Whatever it is going to be.

I gave Sun credit for more sense than to go with Juliet in the middle of the night when no one knows. Where's the logic in that, from Sun's perspective?

Good episode, all in all.

Don't you see...

... that the writers of this show ARE the Others?

Now, for the real...

Why is it that Jin is the only mofo that doesn't speak English, yet he is the only one who seems to always know what's going down. What's that Jin? What's that you're trying to say? The others are coming? No, no it couldn't be that. I can't quite understand you. Uhp, too late we've already been caught. I'm sorry, what was that Jin? That one-eyed Russian mofo took the phone and you're desperately trying to get it back? No, no it's best if we chase you yelling hollow reassurances. Why are people teaching Jin English if no one wants to listen to him? Hmm?

Now for the show...They can't be dead! If they were, how did Rosario Dawson get there? Do they want us to believe that the Others are the only ones alive? Or that the Losties are straddling dimensions? Or that they're all chilling up on zombie island? That wasn't tranquilizer in that orange juice, girl! Oh please, this isn't FOX! If they were all dead, then what's at stake? This shit is a writer trick I tell you! Pish posh, I say!

Are we all loving Sun's quiet, demure, kick your assedness, because I am. Sun said it may be okay with everyone else that you're washing your clothes...but I'll cut a bitch! Okay, maybe that's not a direct quote. But damn, it's getting so a chick can't launder her delicates without getting harrassed. I love that Kate is not the only tough chick on the block. (No one really believed spoiled, screechy Claire was going to be the next tough chick did they? Oh Sam, look what your hateration has taught me.) For quite some time, the only tough women on the show were Kate and the Others.

Raised eyebrow award to Desmond for pointing out that the Losties have killed more Others than vice versa.

Okay, I'm going to need help with a couple of things. First and foremost, why is foaming at the mouth, bleeding from the ears Mikhail not dead? Does that mean Ms. Klugh is not dead either? Tina seems to think that putting blood packets in one's ears and an exploding foam pack in one's mouth is preparedness on Mikhail's part, but a squib and a blood pack is just this side of ludicrous when Ms. Klugh does it. Guess it's not just the island that has some
thing against black people. Okay, back to the questions. Why did Sun not follow Juliette back into the hatch? Why didn't Sun push Jin's hooker mom into the bay? And most important, where the hell is Rose?!

Here Comes the Sun

Oh shit.

ridiculous

Kate: "Glad to be back in your own bed?"
Jack, if Jack had any sense: "Bitch I had a piano! I had windows! I didn't have to spend an hour a day getting sand out of things! Why the hell haven't we moved into the village?!?"

Brothah

I am also really enjoying the way this show explores what it means to be part of a community. Again and again we see different models of small social groups whose members depend upon one another (The Losties, the Others, Desmond's monastery, etc... you can even look at Jack's "invasion" of a Thai village or Locke's life on the marijuana commune) but who have different strategies for order and structure and survival. The Lost Beach is mostly comfortable anarchy, with no need of rules and law because everyone respects one another and the ill shit between people can be settled between them; and they only need a "Leader" in times of crisis (when they first got to the island, when figuring out how to respond to threats from outside... you notice that even though Hurley was grooming Sawyer for the throne, they seemed to be doing FINE without Jack). The Others, on the Other hand, live in an extremely structured network with its own laws, tribunals, sheriffs, and an autocratic and exceedingly nasty leader, Ben (and possibly someone even shadier and more powerful, Jacob). The monastery episode reveals Desmond's major failing: he is unable to abide by the rules and be a productive constructive loving part of any community (even a community of two, as we saw with Penny and now with Ruth, and "the Family" is the smallest and most intimate form of community). His stupid "Calling" is everybody's calling, except not everybody has so much trouble with it: finding a place in the universe and loving the people who share that place.

I don't know what that all means, either within the show (is that what Lost Island boils down to for all the Losties: a purgatory they all need to pass through in order to be purged of their own failure to truly live in honest and open and respectful communities? (Sun & Jin, Jack and his wife and his father, Sawyer and Charlie and Locke and Ecko... all these folks got problems being upfront with the ones who love them)) or outside the show, from a cultural perspective (is it a way to comment on how Americans--and really residents of any modern industrialized society--no longer believe themselves to be a part of a community in the same way, with responsibilities to their neighbors and the capacity to solve their own problems, etc? is it about post-9/11 anxiety about how "our community" is threatened, and what is wrong with "our community" that brings those threats in the first place? who knows!). But I am enjoying it.

Desmond Tutu, you ain't...

Oh crap, I can't stand how good this show is!! It leaves me sitting at the dining room table--all tense, hunched, and wide-eyed! This show will be the death of me. Don't you understand that I can't take the pressure of it all?! That being said, Lost has neatly positioned itself as one of the best shows on television (or at the very least the one with the most posturely-challenged fans).

Lost has started to be about how far one would go given desperate circumstances, and I love it. I must have said "Desmond, really? C'mon Desmond, really?!?" a million times. Without knowing if it will really make a difference, can you really sacrifice someone else's life? Mmmmmmmmm, maybe. Yeah, I didn't comment about Juliette last week, but you do what you gotta do when stuck on a not so deserted island with its own monster for three years. Juliette doesn't know those people. Ok, maybe you don't shoot people Michael style, but you certainly betray them to get home. Get your plane ticket on, girl. Work your guilt out later.

Oh yeah, the other thing Lost seems to be all about is giving us tidbits when there are meals to be had. There is a four-toed statue to be explained and all we get is why Desmond says "brother" all the time. I just thought it was a Scottish thing.

Did anyone catch the photo Desmond's silver haired medium sitting on the monk's desk? Do you think that she/they set Desmond up? I mean, honestly, one moment he's perfectly coherent (or, you know, close) and then he is lying in the street speaking to a monk. He stays at the monastery for months only to get fired and leave the very day Penny, rich ass Penny (Hey, did she say "My name is Canelope."?), comes there on a beer run? You make 108 (interesting number) cases of wine and you don't have a deal worked out with the local post office? Do the ridiculously rich customarily go on trips to lug boxes of wine from the local monastery? I think Cruella had a plan for Desmond, and I think it was to save the world.

Tryna get Kate Pregnant?

So do you think that the others made it conducive for Sawyer and Kate to have sex, so that Kate could get pregnant? They knew she could get out of the cage and did nothing. And they put Sawyer's life at stake, making her feelings for him more intense. Your thoughts?

Would I be considered one of the "bad ones"

I thought it was a great episode, finally they are answering some questions.

I don't think Juliette is either good or bad. The girl is doing what the girl has got to do. I gotta tell you, when push comes to shove, I'm taking care of me and family. I’m sorry, actually no I’m not. I knew that Juliette was not "left behind" from the whole fence thing, but the question is how far back have they been setting it up? Was the whole I wanna kill Ben thing fake and to gain Jack's trust? Or was she just pissed that Ben won't let her off the island? I mean that whole thing where they were gonna kill her cuz she killed that Danny guy, smelled of set up to me. Jack loves to be a savior and they let him do what he does loves, while making them a team. Also, is the branding protection from the smoke monster?

The question is (as Walead said) what's Ben's endgame. What does he gain from having her there? Is she there to monitor Claire? Sun (if so, how do they know she's preggers? This realization came at the island, so if they know about Sun, then there's a mole or a bug or something in the camp). Maybe they just need more women to impregnate. Maybe they just need to keep an eye on the Losties cuz they are pesky mofos.

I want to know more about Juliette. There's a big leap from the bubbly, nice lady that she was in the flash backs and the cut throat lady she is now. She bitched Sayid and Sawyer without hesitation and the "Let's have it" comment was ballsy especially since she knows what Sayid is capable of. She also shot Danny (was that his name?) without hesitation, I think these actions are a far cry from the nervous girl we saw drinking OJ. And of course, the ninja skills, Juancy. I want to know what else she did on those 3 years on the island. I want to know what Ben has to offer Julliette that still makes her do what he says. She wants off the island, can he still make that happen? And if there is no communication then he can't really threaten the sister. What's motivating her?

Also, how do they know about the man that Sawyer killed? All the other info could be found, medical records and research etc. But that happened the day before they left and supposedly only Sawyer knows. How’d Patchy find out? (I was writing this when Sam’s posting came in. Good eye, Sam, good eye)

AND ANOTHER THING! They should always believe Sawyer and Sayid when they think peeps are shady. Game recognizes game! Sayid knew from the get that Ben was lying about not being an other. So much so that even with evidence to the contrary, he dug up a grave! He dug up a fucking grave and got out a license, that’s a man that follows a hunch. He also knew that Michael was up to no good. And Sawyer! When Michael, Walt and Jin where all smiles and waves on the raft, that sexy mofo had his hand on his gun. Why? cuz Game recognizes game! Shade recognizes shade. No wonder Jack is so easily duped. He needs to start doing some question asking. First he didn’t ask what Kate did, now Juliette. Come’on Jack! You are a doctor! Ask for the history! It’s fucking important.

I found the Sawyer/Kate moment precious! I gotta give him big-ups on the acting skills. He said nothing but I saw it all in his face. He wanted to go to her but tried to hold back and pretend, finally he broke! Damn, I lust that man! I’d be in trouble on that island cuz even knowing the pregnancy kills, I’d have sex with him and possibly die.

And last but not least, did Hurely kinda threaten Juliette? The last one of you who came and f’ed with us is buried over there. Just so ya know...

Evil is the New Good

Hey peoples... SORRY but i had a meeting downtown this morning where Marco and I dazzled a bunch of service providers and got them excited about organizing and advocacy...

Otherwise i would have had extensive postings already. I found it was a fun creepy episode, altho I wanted to see Sayid and Juliette get *into* it a lil more. And I really can't wait to see what Jack's ill shit is. What he's up to.

On a side note, did the cops or any authorities KNOW about Sawyer killing that dude before getting on the plane (i just don't remember from the backstory)? If not, the Others must have REALLY good off-island investigative capabilities...

Juancy also brought up the possibility that the Island might impose strict guidelines on what the Others can and can't do (can't just raid the camp and slaughter everybody), and the smoke monster is ONE OF the ways that behavior is punished, so Ben has to be manipulative and get "good people" to do the bad things. Michael, Juliette, etc.

As a semi-non-sequiter, is it possible to imagine someone who ISN'T a good person? I mean, even the most evil destructive motherfucker imaginable must be okay with his/her conscience, like George Bush must think that the good things he attains by his evil actions must outweigh their negative consequences, or, as in the case of psychopaths, they must feel like they're acting in ways they can't control... To quote the talented Mr. Ripley:

"Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it, in your head? No one thinks they're a bad person."

Thoughts!?!?!?

Where's the peeps at?
I thought for sure SOMEONE Else would've been the first to post something!
Anyway.... really good episode... I knew that bitch was bad!! What a sneaky lil' thing... she almost had me going, but I knew better!! Does anyone think she's playing Ben, or is she really JUST THAT BAD???? Also... did anyone else hear Ben say... the chip has been implanted, and she'll start feeling symptoms in 48 hours? If that's what he said... wouldn't that mean someone on the island is bad and implanted said chip?? Or did I hear him wrong?

revisiting Cassidy and Sawyer

this is a recap of the flashbacks from season 2 (form tv.com). Note that while we see the flashbacks here, Sawyer was pinning Jack against Locke to get control of the guns. I feel it's worth to note that Sawyer betrayed someone he was in love with for his own self-interest:

The Long Con

In FLASHBACK we see Sawyer in a now familiar scene. He's in bed with a beautiful woman when he has to rush out to make a meeting. He grabs his briefcase and -- oops! -- thick bundles of cash "accidentally" fall to the floor. Only this time, his mark is on to him. But there's a surprise. Cassidy doesn't call the cops -- she doesn't even storm out of the room. Instead she wants him to teach her everything he knows.

In FLASHBACK we see Sawyer grooming his new pupil in the art of the con. Cassidy's a very bright pupil. But she's hungry for more. She wants to learn the long con. And she knows how they can fund it. Cassidy got more money than we thought in her divorce. A whole lot more: $600 grand.

In FLASHBACK we see Sawyer meet up with his old mentor, Gordie. They meet at the diner where Kate's mother is a waitress. He's been playing Cassidy like a fiddle, knowing the whole time there was more money in her. But when Sawyer says he's having second thoughts Gordie makes the decision real easy for him. Finish the job or, die. Turns out everybody works for someone…

Sawyer: (Cassidy just told him she has 600 grand) Well hell baby,

with that kind of money let's just sit out on some beach and drink

mojitos 'til we go toes up.

Cassidy: Sawyer, for the first time in my life I'm actually happy.

Come on, one long con? Then the mojitos.

Hope for Sawyer

Agreed, hermanita! I did like the way that once Hurley tricked him into being nice ("lamest con ever!"), he had this moment of clarity at the end where he realized that he does like these people, even if it's in his nature to be an asshole, and that the really scary thing about being banished was not that he would have to catch and clean his own fish, but that he does need them and get something from them.

I will be disappointed if Juliette turns out to be a mole for Ben. I think something shady is going on with her, but i hope it's not that simple. Actually, I want Jack to be the mole, and not because i don't like him, but because that would be more interesting storytelling (remember, Walt's dad got turned into a mole against his will) after spending a little time with the Others.

Don't Trust Juliette!(or whatever her name is)

I'm here!!
I do love Sawyer... how sweet was he with Claire and the baby? I would love to see a throw down with him and Jack, can't wait to see how that one works out!! Of course...my money is on scrappy Sawyer! Also, how smart is Hurley? Don't you just love him too!?!?!
As for the rest of last night's episode... Juliette DEFINITELY knew about the monster, b/c she said to Kate "ok- we know about it, we've known about it for 3 years... and we don't know why it doesn't like the fence." I don't trust her ONE Little bit... I think she was just lying there, pretending to be asleep, when she and kate were handcuffed to each other. How else would she have known the PRECISE Momemt to wake up and grab Kate's hand? There is no way the Others would've "left her behind". I think she is way too valuable to them, and it's all part of Ben's "master plan."
Locke probably just wants to be included/loved/a part of something, and that's why he's going with the Others. If history is any indication of what will happen.... I have a feeling HE will be the one who is left behind.
Did I mention how great I thought Sawyer was?? I knew he had niceness in him!!!!!

Left Behind

What'd you guys think? I thought it was another good episode. Lots of questions, though. Is the "Left Behind" title a reference to the book of the same name about the people who remained after the rapture? What happened to Locke (anyone else notice that his hand was bandaged)? Whatever it is the Others are doing, they've seemed to convince Locke that it's what he should be doing as well.

Has Juliet never seen the Monster because it's a security system run by Ben against newcomers to the island? But now that Juliet has been banished, it looks like she's fair game (was it taking pictures of her?).

One last question -- why were they going back to the beach? You'd think they'd send one or two of them back to get the rest of the Losties and they'd just all move into Otherville. They'd have a shield protecting them against the Monster, they'd have beds, refrigerators, etc.

Thoughts?