TDTVS

Mad Men Madness

My latest obsession is Mad Men and I got the full Monty going, I may need to add an acronym (maybe TDTVS2). My computer wallpaper is a cleaned up version of the show’s logo and my current screensaver (mypics, that comes with XP) cycles through pictures in a folder that is chock full of these.

Don Draper: Advertising is based on one thing: Happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car? It?s freedom from fear. It?s a billboard on the side of the road that screams with reassurance that whatever you?re doing is okay. You are okay.

I want my (old style, back when they played music videos) MTV! Well now I can have it online, but I have to pick the tunes out by myself. Where the heck is Martha Quinn when you need her?

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 18

The Other 48 Days

We have spent the first 30 shows covering what has happened to the survivors of the front section of Flight 815 in their 48 days on the island. Show 31 gives us the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of all forty-eight days for the tail section survivors and it ain’t pretty.

Abandoned

In the episode number thirty of eighty-two flashback we are at the hospital where Shannon’s father has died. In typical TDTVS fashion he was killed in the very same car accident that almost crippled the woman who would become the future Mrs. Jack Sheppard after he chooses to save her instead of him, the other driver. Off island we attend Adam Rutherford’s funeral and on island Shannon visit’s brother Boone’s grave before chasing off into the jungle where she is ultimately shot and killed by the returning raft sailors and tail section survivors.

…And Found

(29 of 82) If this episode was a movie I would have to label it a “Chick Flick.” In the off island flashbacks we get to see how Sun and Jin met in Korea and on one side of island we get a little bit of Jin wondering about Sun and on the other side of the island a lot of Sun wondering about Jin.

Orientation

Twenty seven of eighty two finds flashback Locke finding love and then losing it because of his obsession with his father while on island Locke finds a replacement obsession — the button.

“We’re gonna have to watch that again.”

Adrift

Episode #26 unfolds in typical soap opera fashion as we spend an hour and progress the story 5 minutes, mostly with a flashback involving Micheal and his original separation from Walt as a follow up to him losing him again to the “others.” A full third of the show is spent rehashing Locke, Jack & Kate entering the hatch as we saw in the last episode and progressing nowhere. The most exiting thing that happened was Kate getting locked in a closet in the hatch and discovering chocolate bars.

Man of Science, Man of Faith

Episode 1 of Season 2 and number 25 overall finds Jack in flashback being the miracle surgeon saving the woman who will become his wife from being a paraplegic and on island he chases Locke & Kate down the rabbit hole of the opened hatch where he comes face to face with a blast from that flashback past and it’s not his wife.