TDTVS

Stand Still Already

I’ve changed the background…again. The tartan was kinda cool, but I wanted something a little more in keeping with my current obsession (I’d call this blog that, but Rick beat me to it) Mad Men, so I opted for something from my old pal Jen at Pixel Decor. She has a ton of 50s – 60s backgrounds for personal wallpaper use. For web site use you need permission. Last time I asked she replied (and I may be paraphrasing here), “For your personal blog, of course, feel free.”

I’m assuming that would still stand today, if not, let me know Jen, and I’ll cease and desist. Also if you think it an aberration for to me to grayscale one of the mono chunky patterns and reducing it in size by 25%, yell at me, I can probably take it.

Roger Sterling: I bet there were people in the Bible, walking around complaining about kids today.
Don Draper: Kids today, they?ve got no one to look up to. ?Cause they?re looking up to us.

I have also started to separate my inane and somewhat pointless TDTVS episode recaps into their own posts so the whole episode title equals post title thing will make more sense when I start witting about my real world as opposed to J.J. Abrams’ made up one.

We rode the tandem to work today, so the Emperor stayed in the castle all day. The Royal Dentist visited and the vampire teeth came out until next October.

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

What Kate Did

(33/82) So far on island we have seen Kate’s mug shot and know that she was handcuffed on the plane while being escorted by a federal marshal. Off island we have seen her being apprehended by that Marshall in Australia, rob a bank to get a toy plane, get the owner of that small plane killed when he helps her sneak to see her sick mother.

Tonight we found out just what she did to get herself in trouble with the Feds (if you gloss over that whole bank robbing thing), she blew up her biological father and the house he was passed out in.

Kate, both on and off the island, sees a black horse. WTF? Is it the same horse? It must have some literary meaning that escapes me. Maybe the answer is here, but I don’t feel like reading all 11 pages to find out.

Collision

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.

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.