LOST or The Office?

Okay, I have a debate to start. In my youth group, there has been many discussions over the best show on television, LOST  or The Office. I am the only one defending LOST  which is fine with me because I enjoy it so much. Anyways, I am going to watch my first full episode of The Office on Saturday, the finale of this season. Hopefully I don’t have to watch every episode before to understand. I would like to get you guys’, that is, anyone and everyone who reads this at all, opinions on which is better. After watching the Office episode, I will explain the pros and cons of both and give my final summation.

Review: “There’s No Place Like Home, Pt. 1″

So, we are wrapping up Season 4 of LOST  and it has been a crazy season. We have found out the first group of people to leave the island (Hurley, Jack, Kate, Sayid, Ben, Sun, and Aaron, for now), those who are definitely not leaving the island (Jin), and those who are determined to stay (Locke). I don’t think I can wait two weeks to see how all of this ends.

Jack finally found out that Claire is his half-sister! This is crazy. I did not know exactly until this morning because a failure in our satellite blacked it out at that exact moment. We lost it when Claire’s mom said that her daughter was on Flight 815, and it was Jack’s dad’s daughter. It went out, and we came back with Ms. Littleton ironically saying, “You have a pretty son” to her own grandson. Crazy.

As soon as Ben said that he was going to make a way for Locke to get into The Orchid, I knew immediately that he was going to turn himself in. Ben is beginning to be a good guy. I am really actually liking the way this is going. I remember when we first saw Ben as “Henry Gale from Minnesota” in Season 2. I didn’t trust him, but I am beginning to believe that he turned a page. He’s getting to be like Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. I like the direction he’s going.

There are still a lot of mysteries to be solved. As in: “How does Hurley get to the chopper to get off?” “What happens to Kate and Sayid?” “Will the freighter blow up, and if so, how do Jin and Aaron get off of it in time?” “What happens to Claire? Does she just disappear?”

That’s why I give this episode the sleepless nights rating I do. I’m basing it off the fact that there are two weeks until the next episode.

10 SNs/14 SNs

CRASH-LANDED

Starting next Monday, I will be releasing “episodes” of my long story, CRASH-LANDED. It is a spinoff of my favorite show LOST. The storyline is a little different, but you will notice some similarities. FYI it is not a TV show so don’t expect video. Below is a paragraph preview:

Alpha Airlines Flight 427 is headed from Los Angeles, California, to Moscow, Russia. On board are a journalist who was an aspiring filmmaker, an undercover CIA agent, a frustrated Olympic coach and his cousin, an Olympic swimmer, an author who reads one book continuously, and a doctor who has a secret. Tune into http://crashlanded.wordpress.com/ next Monday, May 19th, to catch the Pilot of CRASH-LANDED.

 

Review: “Something Nice Back Home”

I was pleased that we finally got a Jack flash this season. Jack seems like he has the most flashes (including the first flashforward), but it was a good idea that the creators took this long to finally bring his flashes into the picture.

I was also pleased that the phenomenon known as Christian Shepard was reintroduced. I always found him to be the most mysterious character in the show. The fact that Jack and Claire are half-brother and -sister has still not been revealed. I get the feeling that Jack and Claire will find out very soon, if they stick around long enough to see each other. We know Jack does, but what happens to Claire?

Kate, wow. What a turn of events. This was something I never expected, something surprising. So we know that Juliet is not Jack’s dreamboat in the end. This takes away from the suspense.

The dilemma on the boat has not been resolved in two episodes. This was saddening, but the previews for the next episode show that it will be resolved. Michael, er, Kevin will take a bigger role, I believe. I also think that he will accomplish his mission. If you are forgetting what his mission is, just look to this quote: “I’m here to die.”

Next week’s episode brings a lot of promise. “Cabin Fever” could imply multiple things. We left Locke, Ben and Hurley as they were trekking to Jacob’s cabin in “The Shape of Things to Come.” It could also mean that those on the freighter are getting restless being cooped up, like Desmond and Sayid. I really hope that Desmond gets off the island. I like him a lot. Or, in response to my self-inquiry about “Cabin Fever”, it could be both…

Review: “The Shape of Things to Come”

I was really excited for “The Shape of Things to Come,” the last LOST episode that showed last Thursday. I knew that Locke’s camp was going to be attacked, but I was unsure about who. The appearance of Keamy remedied that.

I was surpised that Alex was killed. I figured that she was going to be given a deeper back-story. We don’t know the process behind Ben kidnapping her, we don’t know how she met Karl, we don’t know, well, we don’t know a lot.

I was also expecting an answer to whether or not Danielle and Karl are alive. It would be pointless to end an episode without answering a question…unless you are making LOST. So it’s acceptable.

I’m glad that the writers decided to show a Ben flashforward. I was wondering how Sayid ended up working for Ben in the end. The fact that Nadia died after Sayid married her was interesting.

This also brings up the whole Shannon-Sayid-Nadia triangle. Shannon and Sayid had something going on in Season 2. And where was Nadia this entire time? In Kal-I-Four-Nye-A. Very interesting…

This is some trivia from the Lostpedia.com website. The hyperlinks do nothing so don’t click on them.

Desmond and Michael do not appear in this episode. Jin and Sun appear with no lines.

The three redshirts killed in the attack were portrayed by Sean Douglas Hoban (as Doug), Jim Mazzarella (as Jerome) and Dakota L. (as an unnamed castaway).

This is the first time Lost has returned from hiatus without a recap episode.

This was the first episode of Lost to feature footage filmed outside of the United States. The London scenes between Ben and Charles Widmore were filmed in London due to Alan Dale performing on stage in the West End during filming of the second block of Season 4.

Aaron’s cry after John reassures Sawyer that he will not hurt Hurley, is the same audio clip used in Jim Cramer’s Mad Money sound board.

Can’t watch the episode tonight because I’ll be at a track meet. Can’t watch it tomorrow ’cause I’m going to a Skillet-Decyfer Down concert. Might watch it Saturday and get to you soon after that.

LOST: “Meet Kevin Johnson”

Here is my long awaited review of the most recent episode of LOST, “Meet Kevin Johnson.” At the end of the previous episode, “Ji Yeon”, it was revealed that Michael Dawson, who left the Island at the beginning of Season 2, was back and on the freighter that carried Charlotte Lewis, Daniel Faraday, Miles Straume and the pilot Frank Lapidus to the Island. He was working as Ben’s spy, which was implied in “Ji Yeon” but confirmed in this episode by Locke, who supposedly got the word from Ben. Back to the Michael story. He is living in New York City by himself. It is apparent that Michael revealed to his son that he was the murderer of Ana Lucia Cortez and Libby (which took place in Season 2). Walt does not want to see Michael and is living with his grandmother. This is interesting because Walt is mature. His dad killed them to save his son, yet Walt sees through the “heroism” to the raw facts. Anyway, Michael tries to jump off the metaphorical window ledge by crashing his car into a dumpster with a note pinned to his chest. He tries more times to kill himself before being found by Tom, one of Ben’s people on the Island. He is apparently getting a little vacation time. Tom offers him a job on a freighter with the ability to get back to the Island. His job is to get rid of the people on the boat, who, according to Tom, are working for Charles Widmore, the wealthy father of Desmond’s long-lost girlfriend Penny. Interesting how things get connected. I won’t tell you what happens next, but I will tell you that Sayid takes serious action for the first time since he tortured Sawyer in Season 1 and Jack, Juliet and Kate do not appear for the first time in a while. This is a very good episode and one that I wouldn’t watch again and again, but enough so that I catch everything. Harold Perrineau does well in his return as Michael and we see Tom since his death by shooting by Sawyer at the end of Season 3.

Super Sunday, Hurricanes, and, um, Other Stuff

Super Bowl Sunday is, wow it’s tomorrow! And I do have my favorite, and it’s a shocker. That’s right, the New York Football Giants are gonna win, I’m guaranteening it. Fortunately for me, I don’t have to play against the Patriots (i.e. Anthony Smith). The Carolina Hurricanes actually won 2 games in a row. Celebrate! No, Rod Brind’Amour, who scored the game winner over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday, is on a hot streak and Scottie Walker has picked up where he left off after missing a lot of the beginning of the season. This is exciting hockey again. LOST premiered Thursday with a great and mysterious episode. *SPOILER ALERT* I was surprised that Locke, Hurley and Claire left the main group. I’m sure Claire was shaken up by the loss of Charlie, but Hurley? What? I’m still trying to figure out who that guy is? Last, but not least, Super Tuesday is in 3 days. This is the time for Mike Huckabee, my choice, to pick up the pace. He needs to win over half the delegates to stay in the race, and, in my opinion, I don’t think that’ll happen. It’s gonna be down to McCain and Romney. I still think that Clinton-Obama is going to be the tightest primary race of my lifetime. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.