TDTVS

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.

The Greater Good

Season 1 Episode 21 revolves around Sayid off island and we find out just how he ends up on that fateful Flight 815. On island we attend a funeral, witness a near murder and Sawyer calms the new baby, “Turnip Head”, by reading a car magazine. The SciFi Channel has been running repeats of TDTVS since September by running 4 episodes every Monday starting at 7 PM and coincidentally the show running tonight at seven is The Greater Good.

I stayed up to see the whole game last night. It was close the whole way and the FRS had a couple of chances in the late innings, but couldn’t pull another rabbit out of their hats. The Tampa Bay Rays are on the way to the World Series to play the Philadelphia Phillies and the Red Sox are going home. Because it doesn’t matter to me who beats who in the Series, I might watch some portion of the games if Donna can’t find anything she wants to watch on TV those nights, so baseball is pretty much over for me for this year.

Pitchers and catchers report in 115 days.

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Lost In Translation

I had a different image picked for Episode #17, but I swapped to use this one because it is the pose that inspired McFarlane’s Series 2 “action figure” of Sun. The show’s flashback is more about the back story of our Korean couple. I think the show’s writers hit their stride with this episode, the on island story centered on the wife and her feelings while the off island stuff was more about the husband and what was going on in his head. But this married couple is comprised of two people who are not communicating with each other real well, so they don’t know that their problems are so similar that a hug, an apology and some honesty would make their marriage stronger, but instead they end up moving to separate on island camps. While the Sun and Jin story was the main focus of this episode, we also received a lot of interesting developments in a few of the other relationships.

I’m not watching the game, it is too horrific. I’m listening on the computer where it seems somewhat less painful. If the Rays score one more run here in the sixth inning the umpires will invoke the 10 run rule and award the game to Tampa. Once that happens we will have the Rays just where we want them, up 3 games to 1 and over confident. Last year in the American League Championship Series against the Cleveland Indians we were behind 3 games to 1 before coming back to win and then going on to sweep the Rockies winning the World Series. In 2004 the FRS were down 3 games to none to the MFY before coming back and taking 4 straight to get to the World Series. Where they then swept the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Outlaws

We watched Episode #16 tonight instead of tomorrow because tomorrow the FRS play game three of the ALDS at 4:30 PM and if the game goes as long as last night’s it will be past my bedtime, leaving no time for TDTVS viewing. In the flashback we learn a lot about Sawyer’s motivation in the flashback and on island we learn that he is not smarter than your average boar.

In between this morning’s cloudy dampness and this evening’s rain we actually had a nice, albeit windy, day and after lunch instead of a bicycle ride around town to pay our bills (that windy thing) we walked.

Right now I’m couch-ridden with Endoftheweekenditis, but don’t worry about me, Dr. Gregory House is on the job.

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Whatever The Case May Be

Twelve of eighty-two and we learn just how devious Kate is, both on and off the island. The little airplane is a reminder of a person Kate says she loved, and said she killed. We do know that she orchestrated a bank hold up and shoots several people to get the toy plane. A replica of that plane (included in the Kate “action figure”) sits on my mantle right next to the life-size replica of the dingus from the movie Maltese Falcon.

At the Chocolate Festival this past weekend one of the books I picked up was Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker. It is no secret that I devour his Spenser novels like a starving man at a Thanksgiving buffet, so I figured I’d at least like the book. I did. They’ve made a movie of the book and I have already come across one or two of the scenes from the book in the trailer and if the rest of the movie tracks as well to the book as those bits, this one might be worth seeing in a theater.

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