TDTVS

The Moth

Show number seven. Charlie-centric. Before I started rewatching the TDTVS episodes I would have told you that season 1 was my favorite, because it was new and it was interesting getting introduced to the characters. Now I’m not to sure, maybe because I already do know their back stories…

Ironman was waiting on the front steps today thanks to the UPS guy. I watched it tonight and it is just as good as I remembered. It is so good that I can overlook one of my pet peeves in action movies, the clich?d car wreck scene that destroys dozens of cars when just a few would get the point across. The one thing I couldn’t overlook is the hiring of an actor that was unsuited for the role or they changed the direction of the role and kept the same actor in the part (hey, maybe he was the producers brother-in-law or something.)

You are saying to yourself, I’ve seen that movie, the casting was spot on, what’s this guy talking about? There is this scene late in the movie where Obadiah Stane is berating this scientist guy because he has failed to recreate the mini “arc reactor” needed to power the Iron Monger suit. They shaved the head of the scientist guy in such a manner as to give him a typical male pattern baldness look. Was it in an effort to make him look more scientific? I’m surprised when this film was first released there weren’t members of the SPODAAAS (Society for the Prevention Of Discrimination Against Androgenic Alopecia Sufferers) protesting the not hiring of an actual bald actor to play this pivotal role.

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82,000 White Rabbits

Tonight we watched episode 5 of 82 of TDTVS. It was the one we should have watched on Friday, but we weren’t home, we were in Myrtle Beach and I forgot to bring the DVD.

Finished up the weekend today by taking the long way home and snapped 10 more PO Portraits giving us a total of 23 for the 3 days. We are now 93% finished with the project and all that remain are the ones right around Charleston and the 6 military bases in the state.

Somewhere west of Branchville the Emperor cruised past the eighty two thousand mile mark, so when we got home I gave him a well deserved royal bath.

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Tabula Rasa

TDTVS episode 3 of 82 gave us a little peek at Kate’s Australian back story. On the island miracle man John Locke whittles a whistle that brings Vincent out of the jungle.

Besides LOST we also watched 2/3rds of the second episode of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman the decidedly British mystery show that came in the mail today. When we tear off the outer flap of the red Netflix envelope we shred that sucker because it has our name and address on it. For those of you who laugh in the face of the identity thieves I have the perfect solution of what to do with all those envelope flaps – Netflix Origami

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Pilot – Part 2

Show 2 of 82. Does this photo look familiar? I think it does. Just six days ago I posted a photo I had taken of the Shannon Rutherford “Action” Figure that was based on the scene from this episode.

After Sunday’ games the FRS had a magic number of 1 for clinching a wild card playoff spot. They were also only 1-1/2 games out of first place and winning the division was once again in play. But last night they lost and Tampa Bay won dropping them back to 2-1/2 games behind. Because the Yankees had the night off the playoff clinching magic number remained at one. Tonight the Yanks are winning and Tampa Bay has won the first game of their doubleheader and although the FRS are winning, they are making it look hard, they are up by only one run and the Indians have loaded the bases the last two innings. Update: The FRS managed to stave off defeat and are going to the playoffs.

The weather has turned positively March like all of a sudden here, High near 80, low in the upper 50s and 20 MPH winds. Even though it is our long days and 1 hour earlier start, we got up even earlier so we could ride the tandem to work. The good thing about the extra hour early start, there is nobody, and I mean nobody, on the road at that time. The good thing about the wind is it is coming from a direction that makes it a tailwind on the way home.

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Pilot – Part 1

Night 1 of 82. We have started watching all the previous seasons episodes of Season 5 of TDTVS , one at a time, every weeknight until January when new episodes begin again.

I still have trouble with the jet engine remaining running long after the crash and then spectacularly blowing up when some red shirt is sucked into it. The second explosion when the wing crashes down on the sand is a credibility stretcher as well.

This episode is entitled Pilot (Pt 1) because it was what the producers, in the traditional sense, used to sell the show to the network. But knowing now, what I didn’t know then, I’m betting it is also called this because of the key role the pilot played in the plane getting lost.

Just how old was J.J. Abrams in 1969? Do you think the genesis of LOST was a show called The New People?

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Man of Faith


John Locke

Like Mr. Locke, I am a man of faith, as long as you consider faith in failure. The FRS were leading tonight’s game by 13 to 1 after 5-1/2 innings and then as if to validate my faith, they have given up 5 runs in the last two innings. I’m pretty sure they won’t blow the remaining 8 run lead in the last two innings, but if they do, you should have faith that I will blame myself for the loss because I jinxed the team by saying, “Pretty sure they won’t.”

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Political Action Figures

And here I have been slowly building up my collection of TDTVS action figures, how so 2004, I need to get in the moment. According to a New York Daily News article there are 2008 Presidential campaign action figures available from HeroBuilders.com.

Poor Joe Biden, he doesn’t rate a figure though. You can get McCain in a T-shirt, Palin dressed in some Japanese school girl fantasy outfit (among others) and Obama, sans shirt, who looks like he has been working out. Also available for your collecting pleasure are a couple of disgraced politicos who had trouble with that whole faithful section of their marriage vows, John Edwards and Elliot Spitzer.

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