Lost: Jesus Christ Is Not A Weapon

It struck me–the idea, not the gold statue of Jesus–halfway through this episode that “Claire” and “Aaron” are both names that symbolise guidance and leadership. “Claire” means light, and often the “guiding” type. Aaron was the father of the priestly caste in Israel. So Christian Sheppard’s daughter and grandson are both guides. [...]

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Lost: Eat Me

Ah, Lewis Carroll! What would we do without you, oh you gallant mathematician with the addled mind?! We certainly wouldn’t have far-out passages of literature for our characters to read to sleeping babies. Granted, it’s nicer for them to read part of a story than to actually come into our living rooms [...]

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Total Dick Move

I am a die-hard, self-confessed Philip K. Dick fan. Even so, there are two things I freely admit.
1. I can never remember if his first name is spelled with one or two ‘l’s.
2. I think that VALIS is an incomprehensible mess.
As much as I loved ‘The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, I just can’t [...]

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Lost: Better If You’re On Drugs

Biographical Interlude
Yesterday at 1:30 I called my husband and said “I think it’s time to go to the hospital.” Now, in the movies that means we’d be having a baby. On television it means we would get stuck in an elevator and have a baby there. In real life it [...]

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Lost Marriage

I have a great marriage.   My husband and I rarely keep secrets from each other, and if we do they’re of the non-threatening variety.  (Don’t tell him I ate ice cream at midnite a couple of days ago.)    We’re open and honest and after 19 years together we have pretty good communication overall.
I thing that’s [...]

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Lost: It’s About Time

I suppose I could spend a long time coming up with “ohhh COOL” observations and definitions for “31″ to explain the symbolism of the Time Difference both on and off the island. I won’t, though, because I’m too busy thinking about the deeper implications. This new wrinkle (in time! ha!), coupled [...]

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Lost Braindrain

Tonight I care–and yet I don’t. It may be that my salad didn’t have enough dressing, my fancy new drugs kept making me doze off or the writers are still yanking my chain. I’m not sure.
By all reckoning this was a well-written episode which strayed only briefly into the Kate/Jack/Sawyer Love [...]

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LOST Thoughts

I hate when they do this. I thought it was going to be a two-hour new episode. Nawp. It’s a one-hour “since we’ve been off the air for 9 months” recap episode followed by a one-hour new episode. Frabjous.
I ended up eating my pizza during a TiVo’d episode of [...]

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Fight Your Own Battles

Oh please, Damon Lindelhof. Get real. You sound like a buggy whip maker outside the first Ford plant.
If television truly dies, you all are euthanising it with this strike.
But that’s not the point I want to make. The point that the libertarian in me is dying to make [...]

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Lost: Get You Some Satisfaction

For all of you Lost fans out there of the same general Jackocidal persuasion as I…
I would advise you to check out Smokin’ Aces.
It’s strangely satisfying.

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