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If an award is given to someone other than me, then that award is useless!

Re: The Garden Variety Fire Starters (cue Prodigy)

Over time it may be effective, but how often is a zombie story told where the protagonists have the luxury of time? If you are fighting through the hordes to reach a destination, I don't think fire should be your first choice. Now, if you are holed up somewhere, with a height advantage (don't want En Fuengo Zombies bursting through your windows), fire may be helpful.

But in the terms of escaping? That would probably be a last restort.

Yeah, fire = bad when dealing with zombies. Remember, they feel no pain and you need to destroy their brain. Fire doesn't really help.

All this has happened before and will happen again.

Are we sure this isn't some sort of Russian The Onion joke?

Awww, I thought this was going to be about a Forum of Love!

Ellen Page, my futute second ex-wife (after Natalie Portman).

I like Rainn Wilson. Was one of the good parts of My Super Ex-Girlfriend

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!








So I just got done watching the epilogue "The New Man in Charge" from Lost: Season 6 DVD and I haven't decided yet if it is the biggest FU to Lost fans or the biggest fan service to Lost fans. Either way, I enjoyed it!

Basically, it is split into two parts: Ben shutting down the pallet drops and Ben visiting Walt(!) in Santa Rosa Mental Hospital to recruit him to come back to the Island. A lot of injokes and mysteries were solved:

-The pallet drops have been going on for the past two years at least. The people in charge of the drops have no clue where they are going (drops are made by drones) and the coordinates of the drop keep changing (confirms that the Island is constantly moving). The two men who man the pallets have no clue that Dharma was shut down.

Ben gives them the chance to ask two questions (one each). The first guy asks about where the drops are happening and the second asks about why they need to drop Polar Bear Biscuits to a tropical Island...which leads to the first Orientation film...for the Hydra!

-Here, Pierre Chang introduces himself as...Pierre Chang. He says if knowledge of his name became public fodder he would have to change it (implicit: because of what the Hydra actually is for). What is it for? Genetic mutation of animals. Including the Hurleybird! (Chang calls it a "Hibird"). He goes on to talk about the Polar Bears, mentioning the cages, and says they will be eventually transported to the Orchid station for electromagnetic study. But it is important that the female polar bears are not pregnant around the Orchid Station due to the electromagnetic energy causing gestation problems! ANSWER!

-We also learn what Room 23 is: an interrogation room where Dharma took Hostiles. Chang mentions they want to study them and figure out their culture, especially why they worship an Island diety known as Jacob. The film we later see being shown to Karl is used by Dharma to give the Hostile a temporary case of amnesia so they don't remember being captured and the truce seen in S5 remains in tact. Interesting to note that, while not seen here, the film contains a slide that says "God Loves You As He Loved Jacob." Is it possible that Dharma was trying to convert The Others, ala Christians in the New World?

Ben then pops up in Santa Rosa Mental Hospital asking for "Keith Johnson." For a minute, I thought he was going to talk to Leonard about the Numbers, but no, it is WALT! Seems Walt went crazy when he kept on expecting someone, anyone, from the Island to come for him. By the way, Malcolm David Kelly looks huge! Walt and Ben have a nice back and forth conversation about Ben kidnapping him. Ben says he can't change the past, but he is truly sorry. Ben eventually convinces Walt to leave the hospital by saying even though Michael is dead, Walt can still help his father. Walt goes with Ben to a Dharma Van. Inside the van is Hurley. Walt is happy to see Hurley and Hurley basically tells Walt that he was never supposed to leave the Island, that Walt is special, and that Hurley has a job for Walt (next ruler of the Island?) It ends with Hurley saying it is time to go home and the van riding off into the night.

Now, I say it is almost like an FU (in a funny way, to me at least) to the fans because in the first half, the Dharma workers are only allowed one question and Ben shuts them down after that, saying he can't say anymore. They are all like "But what about this? And this? AND THIS?" And the Orientation video is crammed full of stuff like the Hurleybird, which was a nonsense "question" to begin with, it came across to me as everyone involved saying "Here are the not so serious answers to your questions." Michael Emerson has said that sometimes it felt like Ben was in an unintentional comedy, and this epilogue, at times, feels like a comedy. But is great fanservice because it is almost like they heard, in advance, what people would be asking about and actualyl answered them in a straightforward way. It wouldn't have felt out of place during an actual episode, though it is somewhat light in tone. Definitely recommend it.

Oh, and I watched the deleted scenes. Nothing too major revealed there, though it does explain what Desmond saw when he got electromagnetized and I think it clears up some of his motivations.

Director of 1995 Sandra Bullock film wants to turn movie into a show.

Cannot wait to see how inaccurate they get the Facebook and the Twitter.

Also, Mephisto.

You can get rosemary and thyme at Scarborough Fair!

Mind blown!

I have a confession to make:

I am the Teal Hulk. I actually have no superpowers, but there was a lot of confusion over the identity after it destroyed 3 LMDs of myself, called me out on Twitter, and tagged all my Facebook photos as "jack ***"

I wonder if the order the names are listed in is the preferred list of choice?

Also, I love how Tim Russ is like the superutility guy for the Star Trek franchise. "Eh, let's call him in and have him read for this part. Maybe he'll be good. If not, we can always use him elsewhere."

Okay, now that I am thinking about Michael again, I have a wildly off-the-wall theory that I am just putting out there, I don't necessarily think it is true:

Being a Candidate grants you limited immortality (as seen by Michael). However you can still die and depending on your actions, you, sadly, get to "live on" by being a Whisper on the Island. You were a Chosen One who failed to earn Jacob's Touch.

The final 6 were special because they were both Candidates and touched by an Angel, er, Jacob. The vast amount of Whispers on the Island are because they lacked the second part, the touch.

::Cue Transformers Animated Movie::

The Emmys:

I'm on a mantle!

Reggie Jackson for Geordi? Reggie Jackson, as in Mr. October, Reggie Jackson?

I would have thought trying to kill the Queen would disqualify him from any future projects!

When Laser Tags becomes a real, full-on Olympic sports, can they retroactively award Middle School me a couple of medals?