In Episode 32 of 82 Shannon gets shot for the third time (once at the end ep #30, then again in the tailie recap and again tonight in the beginning of this one to lead in.) The off island flashbacks give us the story of Shannon’s accidental killer, ex-LA cop Anna Lucia Cortez.
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?
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.
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.
(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.
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.”
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.