TDTVS

I Need A Cool Code Name

During one of the episodes of TDTVS on Wednesday night, Sayid is taking Hurley to a safe house (which turns out to be just the opposite) and they are having a conversation. I don’t remember exactly what was said, but it went a little like this:

Sayid: I’m not taking any risks after Bentham died.
Hurley: You mean Locke.
Sayid: ..Yes, I mean Locke.
Hurley: I need a cool code name.

I think this would be a cool little applet to put on the ABC Lost site, sort of like the Sawyer’s Nickname Generator. The writers and producers are fond of creating characters who names have a hidden meaning relating to philosophers, scholars and writers. John Locke is actually the name of a 17th-century philosopher, so when they made up a pseudonym for him to come back to the world from the island, they gave him the name of a 19th-century philosopher, Jeremy Bentham.

So in that spirit, since I did so well in algebra in high school and am into computer stuff, my Cool Code Name™ is George Boole.

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It’s Here

Season 5 of TDTVS starts tonight. I was so excited that I couldn’t go to work today, I had to stay home under sedation. Well, aspirin and antihistamines. I’ve got the flu or something, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, you know the drill. Hope I can stay awake until 11 to watch both episodes…

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New Year’s Eve Marathon

The Shape Of Things To Come

Something Nice Back Home

Cabin Fever

There’s No Place Like Home (Part 1)

There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2)

What the heck, just finished watching the last 5 episodes of Season 4, gonna have to twiddle our thumbs for the next three weeks until Season 5 starts. I just love the photo from Cabin Fever, looks like TDTVS and TDTVS2 had a crossover episode…

For your marathon pleasure I have once again created a Best of the Year page which includes my favorite post for each month. Some months the pickings were slim and others were chock full of picks, but I stuck with one per — Best of 2008.

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Two More

Ji Yeon

Meet Kevin Johnson

Watched two more episodes tonight, numbers 76 & 77 of 82. In the first Ji Yeon the producers got tricky on us. We see Sun giving birth to her baby off island (the show’s title is the new born daughter’s name) and we see Jin, her husband rushing around off island frantically buying a giant stuffed panda and trying to get to the hospital. We are so used to flashforwards in Season 4 that we assume these are taking place together, but in the end we find out that Sun is a member of the Oceanic 6 and is a flashforward to post rescue while Jin is really in flashback and he didn’t get rescued, Hurley, Sun and Ji Yeon visit his grave.

In the second show we find out that Kevin Johnson is in reality Michael who left the island with his son Walt at the end of Season 2. He was my least favorite character and I would have really liked to see him shoot himself, but even though he tries, it won’t happen, he can’t die yet. The “island” won’t let him, whatever that means.

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It’s All Over Now

The Constant

The Other Woman

We watched Episodes 74 & 75 of 82 tonight, so technically we’ve watched this whole week’s worth of shows already and the rate of two a night we will be through with Season 4 by Friday and Season 5 doesn’t start until almost 3 weeks after that.

Episode #74, The Constant, took place on Christmas Eve in Lost time, missed it by 5 days. When we started rewatching them from the beginning, I started on a Monday with the shows spaced so that we would finish up a couple days before the next season started, maybe I should have scheduled them to line up with island time, Season 1 started on September 22, 2004 and Season 4 ends on New Year’s Eve 2004. Maybe next year (as long as when Ben moved the island in time he just jumped exactly in years and didn’t shift days.)

It is almost a good thing because I have really wanted to stop writing the little episode synopsizes, because Season 4 is where the show got far out there (if that was even possible for this show that has been water skiing around a school of sharks looking for a ramp ever since the get go.) The season’s arc was intriguing, we find out that six people got rescued and we find out early on who five of them are (turns out we knew the sixth, but the producers were being cagey) and through out the episodes we see those 5 people scattered amongst several separate locations and circumstances and they are only brought together in the season finale. But several of the goings on leading up to the rescue are like jigsaw puzzle pieces that look like they came from a different puzzle.

We took the tandem out for a couple three miles as a sort of a shakedown cruise for it and us. Things worked well, mechanical and physical, and if the helmet mounted lamp arrives tomorrow as planned we are going to ride the bike to work on New Year’s Eve.

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Fell Off The Wagon

Confirmed Dead

The Economist

Eggtown

We just got through watching Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday’s episodes, numbers 71, 72 & 73 mainly to appease my wife who sort of graciously allowed me to watch a half dozen or so episodes of House on the USA network.

The Beginning Of The End

The first show of Season 4 is number 70 with an even dozen left to go. We will finish watching all the previous shows a week and a day before Season 5 starts. It would have been perfect, finishing up the day before, had ABC not moved the season premier on me.

This flashforward (which becomes the theme for this season) concerns Hurley and the fact that he keeps seeing his dead friend Charlie from the island. Charlie has something to tell Hurley, but Hurley doesn’t want to hear it, he has to go back to the island.

Real time on the island the Losties split into two factions, most follow Jack in his quest to get everyone rescued by the people on the freighter off shore. While some choose to follow Locke to the Others old home, the Barracks, in an effort to avoid the freighter folks because, they like Ben, think that they are coming to kill everyone.