Category: ABC
Lost: 02-13, “The Long Con”
Rating: 
I am spellbound by last night’s episode of Lost! It was Sawyer-centric, which couldn’t please me more. Sawyer is my absolute favorite character on this show and without him, I’m not sure I could watch it. For once we had a good mix of island and flashback, without too much of either.
While Sawyer was off in the raft and on the other side of the island, his stash of goodies was taken and distributed among the group. This angered him, so he raided Jack’s medical supplies and took back whatever pills he had previously.
Jack and Locke agreed reluctantly that they would both have the combination to the gun vault as long as both of them consented should it need to be opened. Locke casually explained the row of Virgin Mary heroin statues by indicating they may have some therapeutic value. He didn’t take them out of the statues because he thought it would be unlucky to break seven Virgin Mary statues. That makes sense enough. My hopes of this being an episode where Locke loses all rational thought were squashed already, I could tell.
Episode spoilers inside! Lots of thoughts about this episode and some cool clues (or at least one clue) I picked up,
Lost: 02-12, “Fire + Water”
Rating: I truly wasn’t expecting to like an episode centered around Charlie. While I do like Dominic Monaghan as an actor (and a singer), the character he plays is a bit messed up. I don’t know if I’d say it was because of his heroin addiction, but maybe it is. He’s nice and charming and funny one minute and the next he’s giving you the evil eye and plotting against you. After last week’s disappointment, this episode was actually pretty freaking cool! It didn’t do much to solve any island mysteries, but it did open up some new ones!
Let’s jump into the meat of it. Spoilers inside! Do not continue if you haven’t seen this episode!
Lost: 02-11, “The Hunting Party”
Rating: 
What a disappointing episode!
Michael cracks, takes a gun and runs off into the jungle to find Walt. Jack, Sawyer and Locke band together to find him and bring him back. All the while, we learn what happened to Jack’s marriage.
There wasn’t much new information revealed in this one.
Spoilers inside! Continue reading at your own risk.
Lost: 02-10, “The 23rd Psalm”
Rating: Last night’s brand new Lost episode centered around the mysterious Mister Eko. Charlie was a huge part of the episode as well. I’m not sure we saw Sayid at all. Again, I have a tolerable amount of Ana Lucia (did she even speak?). I guess Rose and Bernard were back in their tent making up for lost time because they were scarce as well.
There were several important developments in the plot tonight.
Spoilers inside! Do not continue if you haven’t seen the episode!
Alias: Season One
Rating: When Mark and I got into Lost we kept hearing J.J. Abram’s other show, Alias was of equally high quality (at least in the first few seasons). To be honest, I’ve never really been into ABC as a network and I’ve missed out on a many of their shows the first time around simply because I didn’t know they were on. I’d heard about Alias, of course, and I think I even saw half an episode once, but I guess I just didn’t think Alias was going to turn out to be for me.
I was very, very wrong.
This season runs full circle. Many mysteries are set up and some are solved within a few episodes, while others aren’t even addressed again until the final few episodes. The show itself is fast paced and gets your heart pumping!
Thoughts on Season One and Spoilers Inside. (Also a tiny spoiler for season two, which I haven’t seen yet)
Lost: 02-09, “What Kate Did”
As usual, my thoughts on last night’s episode of Lost. This post contains spoilers so please do not continue unless you’ve seen the episode!
Lost: 02-08, “Collision”
We just got back into town last night after thirteen and a half hours driving and of course the first thing I did was plunk down on the couch to watch last week’s episode of Lost. I’m terribly excited to have a new episode to watch tonight! Here’s just a few notes on my thoughts about last week’s ep. Spoilers ahead, so do not continue if you haven’t watched this episode!
Lost: 02-07, “The Other 48 Days”
That was one great episode! It totally made up for all the crappy episodes I’ve put up with this season.
I have more to say, of course, so please only continue reading if you’ve already seen the episode. Spoilers inside! You’ve been warned.
Lost: Unfinished list of character questions
Instead of a journal entry today I am going to write more about Lost since it is my new obsession.
Last week I promised a list of unanswered questions regarding the main characters. I hope to add to this in some form or another as the plot thickens and answers are uncovered.
Lost: 02-06, “Abandoned”
I was so very excited about watching Lost last night because it was my first ‘real-time’ episode. Caught up with the rest of the world, I can finally view (spoiler free) threads about the episode and interact with others about what’s going on. I’ve decided I’m going to try to write out my thoughts after each show and post them here.
For now I’m not going to try to be structured or coherent and will just babble as I see fit. I might try to organize my thoughts a little more in the future if I continue to do this. Mostly my thoughts are just questions. Feel free to comment with your own thoughts and/or theories, but please do not post or point me to any spoilers for future episodes. (Mentioning what happened in the preview for next week is okay.)
Please continue reading if you want to know my thoughts on last night’s episode of Lost. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE EPISODE! Spoilers for last night’s episode are inside. You’ve been warned!
I *LOVE* Lost
I rarely ever watch ABC, so when Lost premiered in last year’s fall schedule, I hadn’t seen any previews. I didn’t even know it was coming on. I heard nothing about it until it was several episodes into the season. Fans were raving, thankfully not with spoilerific information. The only thing I knew was that it was about the survivors of a plane crash and took place on an island (in real life Hawaii).
Since so many seemed to love the show, I was determined to see it. The moment it came out on DVD, I added it as the highest priority in our Blockbuster queue and the first disc was sent out a few days later.
Mark and I held onto the disc for a little while before popping it into the DVD player. I’m not sure what we were afraid of.
One weekend afternoon, I asked Mark if he wanted to watch an episode of Lost. He said no at first, but I whined as I’m prone to do when we keep Blockbuster Online discs too long, and he quickly changed his mind. We watched the first episode, then the second. Soon our afternoon was half over as we finished watching all four episodes on the first disc. To say we were floored was an understatement.
“Have you heard anything about this show?” Mark asked me as we finished the disc, in a pleasant shock by what we’d just seen.
Nope, I only knew it was about the survivors of a plane crash. He didn’t know about anything either. That is not all this show is about. Oh, not nearly!
We returned that DVD to be sent the second disc a few days later. Soon all those episodes were devoured as well. When Season 2 started, we debated over setting up a reoccurring recording on our HD-DVR. We were afraid episodes of Lost would clog up all our DVR space before we got a chance to finish the first season. At the last moment, I decided to go ahead and record it and we’d deal with the issue of DVR space when we crossed that bridge. I can’t say enough how GLAD I am that we did that!
Around this time, Mark’s birthday was coming up so I decided to forgo the Blockbuster rentals and buy the first season outright as I knew we’d watch the episodes over and over and would enjoy lending them out so others could get hooked on Lost too.
Once we had around 5 or 6 Season 2 episodes on the DVR, the space issue was posing a threat. I knew if we didn’t get the DVR cleared by the time we went to Texas for Thanksgiving, we’d have problems. Mark and I made a commitment to finish the first season of Lost and have all the episodes from Season 2 watched and cleared off the DVR before we left for Texas.
This weekend, Mark and I watched Lost nearly nonstop. I’m not sure a person’s supposed to watch that must Lost in a 48 hour period. We breezed through disc after disc until we reached the end of season one and turned our attention toward the saved episodes on our DVR. Here’s where I’m thankful for my decision to record it. I’d really be kicking myself if I had to wait for Season 2 to come out on DVD before starting it!
Right now, we have one or two episodes to go before we are current. I can’t believe we watched that much Lost over the weekend! I’m definitely addicted. It’s my new favorite TV show. I’m not sure how I’m going to cope once we run out of episodes at our fingertips and I don’t even want to think about the hiatus between seasons.
If you haven’t got into Lost and especially if you’ve managed to avoid any spoilers, I would highly recommend renting the first disc of season one to try out a couple episodes. I challenge you to watch two episodes before writing it off as just another show on TV.
To all my reads who watch Lost, I want to thank you for never being spoilerific in your visible posts and without warnings. This show would not have been as good for me if I’d known anything about what would happen.
