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Hmmm...it's a beautiful, the sun is out, the sky is blue...don't worry, I'm not going to break out into song. Although the song Dear Prudence is bouncing about in my head at the moment. Hurricane? What Hurricane? Earl completely ignored us and went to visit Rhode Island instead, apparently. All that fuss and bother over nothing. Even the governor got in on the act. I swear sometimes I think NY State government is a comedy act.

Pondering whether I really want to venture out to the subway, take a 45-50 minute ride to the upper West Side, and meet up with 200 and some strangers having a picnic in Central Park. Got a message from meetup groups inviting me out to Central Park to frolic - bring rollerblades, skateboard, bike, or just good walking shoes. But the prospect of a crowded day in Central Park is not exactly enticing. Particularly after the difficult week I've had - negotiating with difficult people both inside and outside my company- enough to give me a complex. May just venture to the promenade...then again maybe not, sort of want a people free day. OR as people free as one can get living in a city.

Spent most of last night reading Buffy reviews. There's about ten on my flist alone. Which begs the question? If I stopped talking about Buffy would I lose half my readers? I'm guessing not, since I don't talk about it that much anymore.

After reading the reviews? I honestly don't know if I want to continue reading the comic books or not. The consensus, assuming there is one, appears to be that the comics are entertaining and interesting if you want to take the time to analyze the frigging daylights out of them and engage in the Whedon's favorite guessing game: what is the story exactly? And what does it all mean? Sort of similar to the tv series Lost - which liked to play a similar game.( grousing about the difficulty of focusing on plot twists as your main story bit, and how the focus on plot twists can hurt good stories...it's a ramble )

The best reviews are by

local_max,

aycheb,

beergoodfoamy and

2maggie2 - go read both of maggie's, then contrast and compare. The first one demonstrates why the comics aren't working for most people, the second demonstrates why they are working for a select bunch. Which is why I'm on the fence about them.

In other news, I just watched this week's Project Runway -( rant about project runway which I'm really hating this year...thisclose to dropping it from the DVR. )

And apparently Jane Espenson is writing the 4th season of Torchwood? (according to flist - all my entertainment news these days comes from flist) That woman gets around, she was the show-runner on Caprica (which may or may not return according to flist?), and Warehouse 13 (also according to flist.). Busy lady. Lucky lady. What I want to know is - is Torchwood going to be on BBC America still or is it on Starz (where I can't get it?)

Loving Storm of Swords - this book is suspenseful and exceedingly detailed in all the right places. A pleasant surprise. Have to admit - when I see 1500 page books, I blanch in fear and foreboding. Few writers can do lengthy epics well. Too often they get bogged down in extraneous details that few people care about and does not pertain to the story. Also this novel seems to be more character driven and less about battles than the last book was. I remember getting bogged down in Clash of Kings.

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(I swiped this from numerous folks on my flist. And trying to do it for a second time - tried earlier but got stuck on few questions, because I drew a complete blank. It's probably worth noting that I have watched way too much television in my lifetime and have most likely forgotten more tv shows than anyone else out there has actually watched.)

( ridiculously long 30 day TV Meme that I chose to do in one post. )

1. There's a rather cool article in Watcher Junior about how women are drawn in comics. Well at least it looks cool - I can't figure out how to read it on my computer without losing my eyesight. Tried to make larger and it backfired on me. Anyhow here's the link, in case you can do it:

http://www.watcherjunior.tv/05/schumacher.php

What it reminds me of is an experience I related to my Aunts last weekend, somewhat drunkenly, while staring at the Manhattan skyline scrolling past us at night. ( Read more... )

2. Re-watched the ending of LOST again tonight, but skipped the self-congratulatory and fawning after-show on Jimmy Kimmel Live. (Those things make me cringe with embarrassment.) Anyhow, what I realized is the final does actually work within the framework of the series and it's narrative structure.

( Lost spoilers )

3. Saw Iron Man today - was quite fun. Highly recommend. Loved the actors, the story, the romance and the characters. In some respects - I prefer it to the first one. It gave us a bit more depth on everyone involved. Also Don Cheadle was in some respects more interesting than Terrance Howard. And a better fit. Like Downey, Cheadle is a small man, not someone you think of as being powerful - and that is part of the point of the story.

Iron Man - is basically Marvel's somewhat snarky and ironic take on DC's Batman. I prefer Iron Man in some respects - because he's more realistic, and less romanticized. Also he has a female sidekick. Marvel was also a little less sexist in its depictions of female characters than DC in my opinion. Captain America is Marvel's snarky take on Superman.

Loved Downy Jr. I could watch that guy read a phone book. He's good in just about everything. Hard to do. He comes across as insanely bright in both this film and Sherlock Holmes. Laughed a lot in this film. And the violence was actually not as graphic or prevalent as in the first one.

I did have an embarrassing geek moment after the credits - in which I had to explain, somewhat awkwardly to my friends (who have not read the comics) - what the last scene meant and what it was in reference to.

4. Finished Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking -which is rather amusing and accurate take on what it is like to be mentally ill and have undergone ECT (electro-shock therapy). After seeing Next to Normal - which also deals with these topics - I found it truly interesting. Fisher has a snarky, self-deprecating wit - that I suspect keeps her sane. Or as sane as possible. In her book - she states a bit of useful advice, worth jotting down here - "Resentment is poison that you drink yourself while waiting for another to suffer or die from it." She also sheds a bright light on what it is like to grow up famous, the child of famous and iconic parents, and in a world where everyone cares what you ate for breakfast. Her novel is at times a rather interesting critique of our at times narcisstic celebrity obsessions and devotions. And the price those who are the objects of our devotions pay for it. Raising the question - should those who are successful artists - actors, writers, musicians, entertainers, and athelets - be at the mercy of their devoted fans worship? To what degree do we harm others by our own obsession with them? To what degree does the relationship become co-dependent?

5. Currently reading Terry Gross's All I Did WAS ASK" - a book that reproduces her interviews with accomplished writers, artists, actors, and musicians from her program Fresh Air. I'm in an odd mood -reading wise. I want dialogue, not description, but not dialogue from a play. I want to hear the voice of the writer, the I narrative. To be taken out of my own head. And I don't want violence or the idea of violence. Which is dicey - I looked at my bookshelf and most of my books have violence in them or the threat of it.

Today overall though? Lovely. Had lunch at Pigalle - a french restaurant off of 48th and 8th Avenue near Times Square with pals CW and G. On the way there - passed a store devoted entirely to M&M paraphernila. I kid you not. It was two floors of nothing but cups, buttons, t-shirts, sweats, plastic characters and chocolates that were M&M's. At the center - had M&M character statues. Outside a huge M&M character hanging on the side of the building, and a tv screen with their commercial at the top. I was blown away by the sheer audacity of the thing. And not to be outdone? Across the street was the Hershey Store - which took two floors and was huge as well.
Two floors of items devoted to Hershey Chocolates.

At lunch spoke with G, who'd returned from three years of teaching children in a remote village off of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Africa. She's started a foundation for the children there. And is hunting a job. She's still a bit overwhelmed by the media overload. A bit of a culture shock going from a world with 0 electricity, no cell phones, no computers, no tvs or movies. She had something out there - because she watched DVD's people sent her, and read books they sent. There were no book stores or libraries. She said NY blew her mind. CW seems to think California is more open-minded than NYC. I had to laugh. People are more or less the same where-ever you go, I've discovered. Although we don't like to believe this. We drug poor G, who'd have rather seen Sex in the City, to Iron Man afterwards.

Current Mood: calm

[Warning - much snark below, had a long tough day, back is killing me and slept horridly. This brings out snark. I had to kept deleting emails at work - because sending snarky email to engineer who is driving me bonkers could come back and bite me in the ass.]

Sort of watching this week's The Big Bang Theory in the background. It's interesting - half the time I'm torn between deleting the thing and never watching it again and laughing my ass off. "pre-evening" - LOL! It seems to veer alternately between offensive sexist male fantasy piece and an often side-splittingly hilarious comedy about a bunch of lovable yet annoying nerds. How it does that, I'm not sure. Actually all sitcoms tend to do this - one moment they offend and make me cringe and want to flip them off to never be seen again, the next, I'm laughing my ass off. Sigh. You know what I miss? The comedies about something other than sex - such as Cheers, Fraiser, Murphy Brown, MASH, News Radio (I loved News Radio), Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinatti (a true classic and amongst the best of the breed), and Cybil. Big Bang is at its funniest when it is focusing on Sheldon and Leonard, and Penny is nowhere to be seen or playing straight woman as opposed to ~~sex object~~Leonard's love interest.

Best thing about last night's LOST was...well, okay that would be a spoiler. Never mind. Just read the post below this one, which is more positive about the episode. This bit is after pondering it last night and is, a lot more negative and a lot snarkier in nature. So if you LOVED the finale, which is your choice - this is subjective well to a degree, after-all, you might want to skip the below - just saying.

I'm oddly ambivalent about it. I enjoyed it for what it was. And the plot is head-ache inducing, because it doesn't quite work. The BSG series finale made more sense, was a lot tighter and better written, and more or less said the same things without the heavy-handed cliches. So if you did not like the BSG finale, I'm guessing you'd hate the LOST finale. Actually, come to think of it, the Angel TELEVISION (not the comics) finale worked better. Considering the writers had decided two years ago to end the series on their terms and plotted out what the ending would be ahead of time - you'd think it would have been better than series, which are canceled without warning and the writers had no time to come up with a clear-cut ending, like you know, Angel the Series?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I couldn't figure out what was happening, I could and did - although friends have kindly posted commentary explaining it to me in the comments to the post below this one just in case I didn't. ( cut for spoilers )
So, at the moment, HOUSE is winning the season finale sweepstakes for me. With Vampire Diaries and Grey's Anatomy and Supernatural in a three-way tie for second place. And no, I don't watch Ashes to Ashes for the simple reason that I burned out on cop shows a while ago, that and Homicide Life on the Street sort of ruined me for the entire genre. Best cop show EVER! Everything else feels a bit like Starsky and Hutch with bad hair in comparison.

Okay, off to watch Glee - which I've been enjoying more than LOST lately. Actually enjoying The Good Wife and Glee more than LOST. Both have, gasp, strong and interesting female characters of various races, ages, and body types - who are, gasp, lead characters and protagonists. And talk about things that don't, wait for it, involve men or kids. Yes, shocking! Isn't it?

Current Mood: bitchy

Just finished watching the finale of Lost and now, half-watching the self-congratulatory pre-finale. Prior to discussing the spoilery bits, I thought I'd mention that this is not the huge big deal the network and mags like to think it is. Was discussing with Momster the other night, and she wanted to know if I knew anyone (outside of people on my live journal) who actually enjoyed or watched LOST. Does anyone at work watch it? Do you know anyone at church who does? Uh no. In fact my Aunts don't and most of my family doesn't. My Facebook page is rather safe. And no one my parents know outside of myself and possibly my brother watches it. (Nor are we really that into it. I rarely talk about it. Never been fannish about it, not like Buffy or BSG for that matter.) From my perspective, Lost was innovative and ground-breaking in only one way - its narrative structure and focus on anti-heroic or dark characters. The characters were all deeply flawed and somewhat anti-heroic at times. Often doing horrible things. And the narrative structure - was interesting, it was a combo of anthology and serial. The first two seasons did flashbacks plus present story. Each episode would have a flashback on one character or their life prior to the island, and at the same time their present on the island. The second season, did flashbacks for new characters. Then we got stories of the characters who managed to escape the island and their lives off it. And last season we got stories of those off island trying to get back on, while getting the stories of those stuck back in time on the island trying to get back to present day (which was a sort of twisted time travel tale). The narrative structure was not entirely linear and very difficult to maintain on tv.

I watched the show primarily for the characters and the bizarrely innovative narrative structure - which I haven't seen anyone successfully attempt on tv before. The plot at times, got sacrificed for the narrative structure. And often the science, philosophy and mythos got muddled. The writers appeared to blend Buddhism, Christian Mysticism, and the philosophies of John Lock and Hume. With the rules of backgammon thrown into the mix. As far as tv shows, books and movies go - I saw the references early on. Stephen King's The Stand clearly was an influence, as were more philosophical books such as Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men,
The Brothers Karmaozov, Ulysess by James Joyce, the Odyssey, Lord of the Flies, etc. The one's I mentioned have to do with the relationships between brothers and long voyages. Movies? Mysterious Island, King Kong, and Voyage of the Damned. There's also the failed 1970s tv series' starring Isac Eseniman and Roddy McDowell about a bunch of people stuck on a mystical island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Not to mention tv shows as wide ranging as Saving Grace, Dead Like Me, and Six Feet Under. The themes of Lost are not new, nor for that matter was the science or the mythology. Or even the plot. What was new about the series was how it attempted to combine an anthology format with a serial format - which is a bit different than the traditional episodic/serial format that we see with tv shows such as Buffy, Doctor Who, or Angel - where each week the main characters solve a mystery. Here - the mystery is the place they are stuck, and each week we are given a flashback in their own history, explaining why they were on the plane that crashed on the island. Very different format and one that has not really been tried on prime-time American Television. Also Lost may be amongst the few cult tv shows to hit mainstream audiences.

Like it or hate it - it did change how networks program tv shows - because of Lost, we got more science fiction/fantasy series, more innovative narrative structures, and more tv shows with anti-heroes or large ensemble casts. A nice change from the procedural/mystery of the week or
the show with one lead character. Lost in some respects expanded programming choices, much as Twin Peaks, Hill Street Blues, Homicide Life on the Streets, the Sopranoes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and others had before it.

As for the Finale? I liked it a lot better than I thought I would. The plot was a bit confusing, and the story didn't make a heck of a lot of sense, but I liked how each of the characters arcs were resolved. (And obviously plot isn't something I've ever cared all that much about, or I'd be watching Law and Order episodes, which put me to sleep.)

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Had very low expectations. I was quite worried that the Sideways verse would be sucked into the Island verse, and the show would end cryptically with Lock/Smokey and Jack/Jacob sitting on a cliff chatting philosophy. Also it gave me four great character moments.

1. Juliet and Sawyer - once they met in Sideways verse, they were complete. They remembered the island. It was as if they'd found their soul mate. It was a perfect moment and the fact that it was by the vending machine, echoing Jack's inability to get that same candy bar out of it and Jacob helping him do it, yet here - Juliet aids Sawyer/James Ford.

2. Hugo and Benjamin Linus - Ben who tells Hugo how he can take care of the island. That he should do what he's always done, take care of people. And Hugo asks Ben if he can help him.
Loved what Ben told Hugo, that he didn't have to keep people on the island, that was Jacob's way, there had to be a better way - a way to help them find their way home, to move on.
This interaction is echoed in the Sideways verse - where Hugo thanks Ben for being his number 2, you were a great number 2.

3. Benjamin Linus and John Lock - Ben apologizes to John and John forgives him. Then Ben tells him that he no longer needs the wheelchair.

4. Lock and Jack....their fight on the island and their healing in the Sideways verse.

Probably helps that I was a Ben, Lock, Hugo, Sawyer, and Juliet shipper.

The story ended in a circle. Lost starts with Jack Shepard waking up in the bamboo forest, on his back, starring up at the sky, with the dog Vincent licking his face, after a plane crash. With the fuselage on the beach. And that's how we end. What is the Sideways verse? It's a sort of limbo or a place similar to the one seen in other tv series, such as Life on Mars (British Version). {An aside, while Life on Mars had a tighter and clearer plot arc - I got bored during it and kept falling asleep. Could just be that I'm burned out on cop shows.) Where we go until we are ready to move on. Some people believe that the soul has to let go of it's body and material existence before it can go home. And that's what limbo is. It's not purgatory (not a place of punishment) it's ...well another way of looking at it is a waiting room or place where you resolve those issues that hold you earthbound, tied to your life on earth.

So what is the island? Was it purgatory? Or was it simply earth? Not clear. Could be the real world. Christian Shepard tells Jack that everyone in the church died at different times. Some long before him, some long after. But they stayed until they could meet up and move on together.
Jin/Sun are together because they died at the same time. Sayid and Shannon had to find each other. James Ford and Juliet did as well. First Juliet found Jack, because they died closer together. And in the Sideways verse they resolved the issues that they had in the primeverse,
came to terms with those things that kept them tied to the earthly plain.

The mythos is very Christian and yes, I've read it and seen it done before. Reminds me a little of CS Lewis' novels actually.

There is a heavy theme of love entwined throughout - which neither Smokey nor Jacob seem to understand. Hugo and Ben who take Smokey and Jacob's place on the island, after Desmund Hume and Jack Shepard and John Lock make it possible for them to...seem to get this. That taking care of others...as opposed to enforcing your will upon them is the better option.

We aren't really told if Lapidus, Miles, Sawyer, Claire, Richard, and Kate get off the island.
I'm guessing they did. Not sure it matters, since they all eventually end up with Jack in the limbo verse anyhow.

The story begins and ends with Jack. Yet, he is not the central focus. And the book-ending does do a good job of covering some of the gapping plot holes - which are easily smoothed over by the whole, this may well be limbo and anything goes perspective.

As for the whole Smokey plot arc? I don't know what to make of it. Honestly, the above bit makes more sense if we ignore the Smokey sub-plot entirely. Didn't really like the Smokey sub-plot - it made no sense and when it did, was fairly cliche.

My guess is that Jacob and Smokey ruled one version of Limbo, which Smokey kept trying to leave, while Hugo and Ben ruled another, better version?? Nah, I don't like that interpretation.
OR better yet, Jacob and Smokey ruled a real place, while the Sideways verse was the place that everyone went to after it? A sort of limbo? At any rate, I think Jacob won the game with Smokey, when he had Juliet blow up the bomb and create a parallel limbo. Assuming that's what happened. It's a tad confusing. Did everyone die when the bomb blew up and end up in limbo?
And if so, why did we get the whole island verse story? Or did the bomb create the limbo world?
Or did they all die on the plane crash and meet each other in limbo and another limbo was created? Or is the island real, and they go to limbo once they die, after being on the island, which serves as a sort of pseudo Garden of Eden or gateway to limbo?

LOST, I'm guessing, is one of those shows that I'm not sure makes much sense if you think about the plot too hard. Better just to go with the flow. Otherwise you'll just give yourself a headache. Plot? What plot? Fuck that. Cool characters who achieve a peaceful ending.

[Sigh, chock-ful of typos, sorry, no time to edit. Must go to bed!]

Rather difficult day which has made me slightly, oh ever so slightly cranky. I find my patience for fools to be at its limit. Sigh. Now if I only I didn't have to deal with them on a daily basis, life would be lovely. (I'm being snarky, I don't really mean that. Okay, well not entirely).

On the plus side - got quite a bit done. And got rid of two cartons of comic books, plus about 20 other books that I'd had in boxes beneath my bed. Now I just have to get rid of three more cartons of comics, and 50 other books and we're set. Easier said than done. I tend to compile books compulsively - it comes from an inability to ~~rent~~ check out library books, because I hate being told I have to read anything in a specific amount of time. Possibly a side effect of being an English Lit major in a school where I had to read and write papers on lengthy books within the space of two days. And by lengthy - I mean in some cases over 1000 pages. It was an odd school. We had a semesters worth of one class a month. In other words - you'd have five weeks of say Contemporary English Lit in Sept. Then five weeks of Behavioral Psychology in October. Quite intensive. Killer for Science Majors. Anyhow as a result of this - I really like to take my time with fictional novels. Being ordered by anyone to read a book in less than a month or two, annoys me. That and the fact that I happen to be allergic to the mold that grows inside most library books.

Moving on to TV - a much safer topic than the ones I've blathered about recently. Particularly if you don't watch any of the shows I'm discussing. You probably are, because I don't see any point in talking about shows that someone on my flist hasn't commented on and is not watching.

1. House - last week's, not this week's - haven't gotten around to this week's yet, I don't watch tv live anymore. I hate commercials and feel a compulsion to fast-forward during them. Last week's House was co-written by

tightropegirl otherwise known as Doris Egan (who is an executive producer this year). The episode was amongst the best of the season, and far better written than just about anything else I've seen lately. And yes, that includes Lost. It was character driven and every element furthered the story. It took place, almost entirely inside House's therapist's office - and was told in flashback, often with House and his therapist standing together in a scene and commenting on it. The language had a rhythm to it, the lines actually bounced and then stayed in my head long afterwards. And it did not hurt that it was in some respects a two-man play, acted by two of the best in the biz - Andre Braugher and Hugh Laurie. There is a reason why House is hands down the best procedural on television, it cares more about the characters than the procedures. And it explores every inch of the character. If you missed this episode, try to catch it on repeat - it's not to be missed.
Flawless in all respects.

It was about relationships. House's difficulty with them, specifically with romantic relationships. His desire to be happy. He tells his therapist that he's done everything that was asked of him. Went off viacodine, got his life together, tried to be nice, and he is miserable. Everyone else is moving on, having a happy relationship but him. What is the frigging point! While this is on the surface a simple enough problem, universal in fact, the writer delves into the minituia of it, explores the angles, and in a new way, making it surprising and unpredictable.

2. Vampire Diaries - laugh all you want, this has turned out to be a fun and satisfying series. Sure the pilot and first two or three episodes were well, silly and cheesy beyond all measure, but then it picked it up speed and did something True Blood failed to do, make me care and surprise me. It may not have the acting chomps of True Blood, but it is in some weird way more enjoyable. Maybe because it doesn't take itself nearly as seriously? It's just campy fun.
(Granted I only saw season 1 of True Blood, it is more than possible I'll change my mind about the show during S2. Season 1 - I felt was a bit derivative. Season 2 - does promise the untold riches of Michelle Forbes letting loose. And S2 has more of Pam and Eric, which were the best things about the books. The best things about S1 were Sam, Tara, and Tara's Cousin. Everyone else I was rather bored by, and a little of Jason can go a long long way.) Anyhow, back to Vampire Diaries - this is co-executive produced and co-written by Kevin Williamson who is actually a rather good writer. ( Vampire Diaries - vague spoilers )

3. Supernatural finale. Yes, the writers have definitely been channeling Neil Gaiman, and possibly Terry Prachett this year, with a little of old Jonah Hex, Preacher, and just about every other horror noir comic book I've ever read thrown in. Methinks I've read too much of this particular genre and am close to burning out. Since I found the ending rather predictable in places. Yes - God is the writer, writing the story, what is new? I sort of like the fact that Whedon played with the idea but only implied it, never went there. Going there is...well
ripe with difficulty, you can, if you aren't careful, reduce your series to a campy remake of a Twilight Zone episode. Also, Supernatural is regrettably the most sexist tv series one the air, which may be an accomplishment - since it certainly has plenty of competition for the honor.
You can ignore this, if you squint, and focus on the two brothers - who the story is about.
IT's their relationship that has always lay at the heart of the series, and it is a love story about two brothers (platonic, please, although there are fans who ahem, see otherwise.). Do I enjoy it? Sure. But like Vampire Diaries - it's not something I can see myself becoming fannish over or posting on. What I like about it - is the mythology and the brother relationship.
Both of which I strongly identify - having a brother myself, one sibling, and being a student of urban folk legends. It's the main reason I watch. Actually the sole reason. That and I like the actors and characters they play. The writing is pretty good too.
( Supernatural Spoilers up to and including the Finale )

5. Lost - last week's Lost was...okay. I'm ambivalent to be honest. And not really all that surprised. My first reaction - was laughter - and this so does not work plot-wise. It doesn't. You can tell that the writers sort of pushed the story into a crack in the plot and hammered away at it to make it work. David Fury - left after the first season because he couldn't deal with the fact that the writers had no clue where they were going with the series and didn't have a plan in place. Considering this is David Fury, we are talking about, the same guy who wrote for Angel and Buffy, as well as 24 - TV shows that aren't exactly known for their tight plots...then there may be a problem with Lost. IF Fury got upset with how they were writing it, clearly something was off.

And he's not wrong. Plot wise? Lost does not work. Well not without quite a bit of glue, and fanwank. But I give the writers credit for trying to make sense of the tangle they've created, which is what this episode was in part about - an attempt to make sense of that tangle, but wisely not saying too much, because there really isn't any way to do so without making it sound incredibly lame. If you don't know the answer? Pretend you do and don't say anything.
In other words, bluff. Which is what they are doing.
( Read more... )

6. The Good Wife - if you haven't seen this show, you should. Best legal show on. And amongst the few feminist tv shows on the air. Alicia Florek, Diane, and Kalinda are strong tough women in their own right. Complex. The series depicts the difficulties of being a strong woman in a man's profession and man's world - the obstacles in your path. It's also a complicated political drama with a deft view of both office politics and the politics in the legal system or at work behind the scenes of local government and the courts. The writing, acting, and pacing are gripping. It is amongst the few tv shows that I find myself engrossed in and not wandering off during.

And it is building. Complete one arc each week, while building on the next. Perfect combo of episodic legal procedural and serial political thriller, with personal relationships in the mix.

My favorite character may well be Kalinda. A female private detective, who is from American born, with India heritage, but does not speak Hindi - a great touch. She defies stereotypes.
She may well be bisexual, we aren't told. And she is definitely next to Mary Shannon of In Plain Sight, the toughest gal on TV. I adore her to pieces. Also quite found of Christine Baranski's complicated and at times nasty, Diane, as well as Julianne Marguiles, steely Alicia Florek - a true heroine, watching her cry as she attempted to pay all her bills, while a potential lay-off hung over her head...was moving.

7. Glee - getting better and better each week. This season has managed to rise above last. The subsidiary characters are actually being developed. We've moved away from Will's love-life to a degree, thank god. And are focusing on the stronger - female characters. This is a series that has better female characters than male in some respects. Tough and dynamic. I can't quite decide who is my favorite at the moment - Mercedes who demands respect for herself and those around her, or Sue Sylvestrie, the at times comical yet also oddly vulnerable nemesis of the Glee Club. Her love and devotion to her mentally challenged sister is a nice twist. Each character is layered and has slowly over time risen above their cartoonish exterior - demonstrating that exterior may well be a satire on our own assumptions. Murphy enjoys, much as Joss Whedon did before him, throwing a dark funhouse mirror up in the audience face and forcing us to question our own prejudices and assumptions. The homosexual teens, rough and tumble football loving Dad is gasp, sensitive to the boy's plight and actually supportive, and in some respects more understanding than the teen is or Will himself for that matter.

Also the musical numbers are fantastic, twisty, fun, unpredictable, and at times hilarious.
Glee manages to succeed where most shows who attempted to be musicals failed, it uses the music to further it's own story, to examine and explore characters and relationships, and to comment on our own cultural wars and sensibilities at the same time. Brave, daring, at times offensive, and at times moving...Glee is proving to be a bit more than just a spot of fun, and may well turn out to be my favorite show..it's certainly the one I look most forward to each week.

Now if Lost would just end, or The Good Wife, so that I can actually catch the last five minutes of Glee - life would be great!

Current Mood: complacent

1. So the landlord knocks on my door and asks if I've seen any mouse pellets, because apparently the downstairs neighbors are noticing that now. My response? "Okay. What are you saying? Now I'm going to be getting mice? First roaches, then mice? Should we consider buying a cat?" "no, no, none of us want a cat." (Landlord quickly negated the cat - he and his wife are both allergic, as am I...for that matter, not that I know for certain, but I have allergies to mold spores, dust and possibly pollan - cat dander is not that far behind.) Then landlord goes to look under my sink, which is crowded with pots and pans. Also tells me to try and take out my garbag every day.
(Easy for him to say - he lives on the first floor. I live on the third floor of the brownstone, with three flights. )

Ugga Bugga. I really have to start looking at condos and coo-ops to buy now! This procrastinating has got to end. Making an appointment with self to do this one - two hours a week. And we'll go from there. (I'm a weird person - I hate shopping for things, doesn't really matter what they are, just hate it...okay not all things. I love shopping for books and DVDs and music. It's just the expensive non-cultural items that make me crazy.)

2. There's a smattering of posts on feminism on flist now - apparently I started a chain reaction? (No, doubt it. I think it is mostly coincidencidental to be honest. I seriously doubt they were inspired by anything I wrote or necessarily read it.) They are interesting posts though - particularly because the cultural perspectives are so varied. We forget that we do not have the same cultural up-bringing. Someone from France is going to perceive nudity, sexuality, and feminism far differently than someone living in say Houstin, Texas or was raised in Kansas City or even someone living in New York City. Just as a woman living in Austria will look at it differently than a man living in England or one living in say a guy living in Arizona or a woman from India or Sri Lanka, who happens to be a lesbian. Then add things like age, someone who is 43 is going to look at it differently than someone who is 24. Add experience - a person who has slept with numerous people, is very open with their sexuality, and talks about it a lot will deal with these issues far differently than someone who has only had sex with one person, or someone who has not had sex at all. Not to mention issues such as class, educational upbringing, career choices, what people have read or watched, where people have traveled... At any rate I find the subtle differences and similarities interesting. It's fascinating to me that I might agree with a woman from Austria, but strongly disagree with one who lives in the US. Or agree with someone who is 24 with wildly different experiences from my own, and disagree with someone who has far more similar ones. Makes me realize that it is almost impossible to put lables on individuals, or generalize about them. We are ultimately individuals, with our unique points of view on a vast array of topics, struggling to find some commonality or communion with one another - a means of coming together, getting along, and feeling less alone. Respected for our differing opinions, some of which feel polarizing, and also to a degree accepted. At the same time - I think we cling or gravitate towards those who echo or to a degree articulate our own view. Just because it makes us feel less lonely...if for no other reason. Yet, the posts with the most comments are often the controversial ones - where people disagree. So, perhaps...we prefer to be challenged, to discuss, and disagree, and hopefully either persuade or have our own minds changed?

I think one of the reasons I'm addicted to lj - is the vast range of voices and perspectives on it.

3. Buffy Comics? Eh. I'm waiting to read everyone else's reviews before I bother to lug myself down to the store and purchase it.

4. Loving new Butcher Novel - Changes [No spoilers please, have managed to avoid all of them on flist so far, yay me.] Far better written than Kim Harrison's Black Magic Sanction unfortunately. Damn. I want better female writers in this field. Harrison needs a better editor - her's ain't cutting it. The number of grammatical errors, typos, and long-winded passages. Of course I'm only 30 pages in to Changes, so we shall see how it holds up. At any rate, I did enjoy Black Magic Sanction quite a bit (hey I finished it in less than three weeks, a record) - I just liked her other books better.

5. Tonight's episode of Lost rocked like nobody's business, and considering it focused on Jack's pov, that's saying something. Great moments for just about everything. ( spoilers )

Things amusing me at the moment:

1. Lost - was actually enjoyable this week. Not a lot happened. They are basically building up to the grand finale. So a lot is being rushed. This happens a lot on tv shows, they spend a lot of time telling us what we already know, then rushing on the more interesting, end-game points. Making me wonder about the huge disconnect between writers and viewers of their work? I've been seeing this a lot lately. May write more later. But bed calls. So no time. Lost- still feels a bit a like a funky and somewhat failed logic game to me, plot-wise, but explaining why requires a lot more brain energy than I really want to expend at the moment.

2. Buffy/Angel Comic Fandom has exploded over how the comic book writers are currently depicting their beloved and favorite characters. This is by the way is not a new phenomena nor limited to Buffy fandom or comics, specifically. ( brief bit on the kerfuffles on my flist surrounding the Buffy and Angel comics, specifically that nasty Willingham and what he's doing to Spike. )

3. Glee - enjoyable episode about Madonna - which even Madonna appreciated. Don't see why not - was quite the homage. Also highly satirical - which is Madonna in some ways. Main impression though? Madonna's music really does sound all alike. That's the problem with Madonna - you listen to a tape of it and you feel like you've listened to the same melody just with different arranging and words for fifty minutes. There's no chang-up. No variation. Don't get me wrong, I like Madonna, quite a bit actually. But...she's not as good a musician/songwriter as she is a performer. That said - rather loved some of the renditions. Missed the one I really really wanted to see - the butch boys singing "What it Feels Like to be A Girl" - because American Idol went too long, so as a result, I got ten minutes of American Idol and lost ten minutes of Glee. Ugh. Oh well, it will be repeated at some point. Or it will appear on youtube. Other main impression? Ryan Murphy really has been reading people's blogs on Glee. (He said they were reading people's blogs on Glee and taking their fans suggestions on how to better the series to heart.) Until this episode, I didn't believe him. But it was obvious here - the shout-outs to female empowerment and how men view it as being all about them, and all about sex, and their getting sex - was quite amazing. Also there's a whole bit about how being a virgin is not a bad thing or something to be embarrassed about. And causal sex not the best thing ever! Hollywood? TV writers everywhere??? Please take notes. Thank you.

Current Mood: amused

Saw Lost last night...and it was actually better than the last two episodes. Not as many cliche moments. Also the most character development for Hurley since well forever. ( Lost Spoilers )

Saw Glee tonight. It was fun. But I'm not sure what it means that I enjoy the musical numbers and find them more entertaining than the writing or actual story or characters? (Although I rather adore the new characters who were just introduced and love the guidance counselor, Sue Slyvertrie, and Mercedes...plus Kurt. But, I admittedly may be watching it solely for the musical numbers, which are often satirical. I like the characters well enough. But Glee is a satire, and a bitter one at times. Satire isn't exactly known for its great character building and development.

Reminded today in a somewhat headache inducing manner at work, and an rather entertaining/fascinating one online, that no matter what happens in my life, no matter what I do, one thing will always remain a constant - people will interpret things (regardless of what it is - it could a pattern on a wall or a stain) vastly differently. And they will all be convinced that their interpretation is of course the correct one, the best one, the most accurate, the logical one, no matter what. That there isn't another interpretation. OR if there is - will be bewildered that anyone could interpret this differently. (At work - I had not one but three frustrating arguments regarding this issue - I'd go into more detail, but really rather not.)

Watching Chuck in the background. And have come to the conclusion that Mark A. Shepard has allowed himself to be typecast - to such a degree that whenever he shows up, I know what character he is playing - purely by sight. Oh, it's Mark A Shepard? He must be playing the snarky villian character or antagonist. Yep. I gotta give James Marsters credit - he could have done the same thing, but hasn't. He's actually played a far broader range.

[ETA: You know - The problem with LOST is it has gotten so convoluted in its plotting with the whole time traveling bit and the vast ensemble cast - that writing posts about it to discuss, can feel a bit like writing a logic game. Not helped by the fact that people insist on using their own terminology to discuss certain aspects of it. Head-ach inducing. Hee, the audience gets "lost" and confused discussing LOST, something tells me that's not coincidental, albeit at times alienating - if you aren't maschositic like me.]

Regarding Lost -I have to admit that last night's episode bored me, although there were a few interesting plot bits. Once again, it felt like I was watching the characters chase their own tails. So not only boring, somewhat frustrating. ( cut for spoilers )

1. Amazon Kindle and why the printed book is here to stay....I've come to the conclusion that the Amazon Kindle works better for online content such as fanfic, and reviews, and word files converted to plain text - then for books per se. I may be wrong about this. We shall see. After twenty minutes with amazon.com kindle support - I finally got Black Magic Sanction delivered to my kindle. The mix-up was due to a computer error - apparently there was an error in the date - the one I bought was due to be delivered to my kindle in 2029. (yeah right). Computers are infallible and frustrating creations. The other problem I'm having - is amazon's computers have decided to create two accounts for me - one for my kindle and one for everyone else. They don't recognize each other and refuse to be combined. And I have two different last names. And now two passwords. Ugga Bugga. I told the customer service rep that I could basically get any content on my kindle but Amazon, which sort of foiled the purpose of the thing. He laughed. Now that I have it - I sort of miss the hard-cover, with the pretty cover and
the page numbers. Amazon does not have page numbers - just percentage...to tell you how far you are. Also you can't skip ahead as easily. No flipping to the end to see what happens. Dang it.

The book is the newest Kim Harrison novel about Rachel Morgan - a kickass witch who has teamed up with a kickass female living vampire to run a private investigation firm. She's tough, savvy, and vulnerable. It's a female noir mystery paranormal series with a female heroine.

2. Struck out in regards to Changes by Jim Butcher - which I'd also ordered from Amazon for my kindle but Amazon and Penguine are sniping over prices. (Amazon was selling the thing for $9 while Penguine had priced it at $25. This is a side-effect of the price-guageing war going on between Amazon and Walmart - which Stephen King recently reported on in EW. In which hard cover best-sellers are being sold at $8-9 or more than 75% off market price. Note - publishers make their money off best-sellers. They need that money to buy and sell lesser known works. Can't say I blame Penguine for being pissed. But I really hope they pulled the books from Wallmart - because fair is fair.) Anyhow - I went to Target to hunt it down after work today, but to no avail. It's not there. I gave up. Waste of trip. Will have to buy at Barnes & Noble after church and small group on Sunday.

It's pathetic - I know. But I only look forward to and enjoy two published books each year - Rachel Morgan and Harry Dresden. Unlike most of these types of books - the characters push the plot, are engaging, and the story gets better with each novel, as well as more complex. (I wish I could say the same of Janet Evanovich and Patricia Cornwell - who got repetitive and paint by numbers by the fifth or sixth novel. Some writers get better as they go, others get lazy and sit on their laurels. The ones who get lazy and sit on their laurels, often achieved success too quickly and got big-headed or they just got lazy. I have no patience for lazy professional writers.

3. Off to watch Lost. Although have remarkably low expectations. The last few episodes have been lacklustre at best. But - it does feature Desmond - which means we might get an explanation of the Sideways verse finally. Lost seems to be more interested in chasing its own tale lately then actually providing answers. Considering there's only 6 episodes left, I wish they'd get on with it, and stop revisiting things I already know. Show me what I don't know.

4. Before I do watch Lost...quick question for those still reading or who have recently given up on the Buffy Comics: Do you think the Buffy Comics jumped the shark? And if so, why or if not, why not??? I'm actually more interested in the why not's, to be honest. Because it really looks like the comics jumped the shark in Retreat and kept on going...to me. Sure I can see the themes and big picture stuff as easily as the next person, but I don't care about that stuff.And to be honest? Do you guys care about it? Does anyone outside of the writer? Actually that's an interesting question in of itself - do you care more about the characters and story, or do you care about the message/theme? And what will make you stop reading - a message that you find offensive/enrages you or something regarding the characters that feels OCC or doesn't work or that they aren't the characters you like or you start to despise them? OR are you like me and it is a bit of both - but really, the characters...if the characters don't work, if they no longer work for you or fit how you perceive them...do you stop reading or watching? What signifies "jump the shark" in your opinion? What does that term mean for you? And does it apply to the Buffy comics??

[ETA: this is one of those situations in which the comments are far more interesting than the actual post. And the majority of the comments interestingly enough all agree on one thing - the posters dislike the term 'jump the shark' or don't believe it applies, regardless of whether or not they got fed up with the comics..]

Current Mood: contemplative

1. The current ~~fight~~ debate on health care in the US (now that the bill has been signed into law) reminds me of the wars in various fandoms. Nice to know that people are consistently stubborn about adhering to their pov no matter what. And somewhat crazy in expressing it. Although to be honest? I think the people haggling over health care have long surpassed the craziest of fans. It's a bit frightening to realize that a professional news commentator can be crazier than a teenage fan on the internet. Or reassuring, I can't decide which. Been one of those weeks.

Overheard two co-workers discussing it this morning. One insisted that this was evidence that the end was near. Both sides had gone insane. Actually, everyone had gone crazy. And maybe he should head off to the hills and become a mountain person, live off the land, and in a bunker until it passes over. Granted work has been nutty lately, but not that nutty --- okay, wait, they are discussing the health care debate and NY State politics.
Got it.

2. Work is killing me right now. Strung out. Had several panic attacks. And feel like I'm being pulled in five directions at once. Don't want to talk about it. Just throwing it out there to let you know, real life is kicking my butt - so don't have the energy to spend much time writing or online and if this post comes across as a tad snarky and cranky, that's why. I come home at night and crash in front of the telly, a complete zombie (in the metaphorical sense not the literal one of course.)

3. I'm considering giving up on Damages - I don't care about anyone - both women characters, Rose and Patty, are people that I feel an overwhelming desire to slap repeatedly whenever they are on-screen, probably does not help that I've met them in real life and went to law school with them, reasons 500 and 501 of why I am NOT a lawyer, and find my attention wandering. Plus, bored. And it's plugging up my DVR. I may just let it delete itself.

4. Lost - sigh. Well that was a thrill and a half. NOT. You know actually

selenak pretty much said everything I thought about the episode in her journal already. So did

wee_warrior for that matter. Which was basically...( spoilers for Lost )

There were some interesting bits...unfortunately they were at the very beginning such as the first five minutes, but hey we can't have everything.

( Lost spoilers...what was good, what was awful...and where I think this stupid show is headed. )

5. Been watching or streaming Being Erica , the Canadian tv series, via my DVR - which is shown on SoapNEt in the US. Watched several episodes in a row this week. Quite a cool little show. Rather enjoying it and its premise. Also it meets the Bechdel Test, well most of the time, just not in the last two episodes, but you can't have everything. I'm in love with Kai - who has a definite Spike-ish air about him. He even moves a little like Marsters did in that role. And Erin Karplunk as Erica is wonderful. She's also the best thing on Life Unexpected - which I'm getting close to giving up on. Yep, the one notable thing about Life Unexpected is the actress playing Erica, has a recurring role as Kate Cassidy's best bud and producer on Life.

Current Mood: cranky

1. Did you know that a man was hit by a plane while jogging on the beach with his i-pod? It happened in Hilton Head. Private Plane built by the pilot, apparently not that well, and had engine trouble - so the pilot opted to land on the beach of all places. Which normally would not be an issue...except, well you know the visiting business man jogging on the beach plugged into his i-pod. There were other people walking about, but they skeddaled when they heard the planes approach. The man unfortunately could not hear it, because of his ear-phones. Good news? He never knew, died on impact, no pain. Plus no other injuries. Bad news? Left behind a family with three kids. (Hmmm. So if he was single with no family it wouldn't be a huge loss? Good to know. Being single and all. How expendable I truly am.) Anyhow...apparently the odds of getting killed while running on the beach listening to your i-pod are higher than winning the lottery - who knew? Moral? Running on the beach is healthy. But you might want to leave the i-pod at home, along with the cell-phone. These gadgets are truly hazardous to one's health.

2. I've been compulsively scanning the internets for spoilers on the Buffy Comics. And there aren't any, well not any that I don't already know. Highly frustrating. The TV show had spoilers. Stupid comics don't. Interestingly enough, I don't always do this. I don't hunt nor want spoilers for Lost, Caprica, and 99% of the tv shows on. It's only Buffy, BattleStar Galatica (to a degree) and whatever soap opera I'm addicted to at the moment.

3. Saw Caprica this morning. ( Spoilers for Caprica, this past weeks episode )

4. While I was rather unimpressed by Lost this week...I did find a few bits worth noting. ( Lost Spoilers )

Okay bedtime.

Current Mood: cranky

Didn't really like Lost last night. Lost seems to be an every other episode deal. That said did read two opposing reviews that are worth looking at:

1. The first is

selenak's whose review I pretty much agree with. Why write your own when someone else articulates what you thought about the episode? Nice time saver that. Go here: http://selenak.livejournal.com/557994.html?style=mine#cutid1

2. For a completely different take on the same episode go see

frenchani here: http://frenchani.livejournal.com/387757.html?style=mine#cutid1

Proof that you can see the same episode and pick up completely different things from it, yet similar things as well. Very cool.

I love meta reviews.

My own thoughs? Outside of the fact that I thought last night's episode mostly sucked beans? What can I say? I don't like Jack-centric episodes. But I do have some thoughts in addition to the above two reviewers. ( Lost Spoilers )

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: Olympics

I didn't know the title of last week's Lost episode was the Substitute until I read my flist's reviews of it. Rather good title, and far more interesting than the previous weeks.

This episode is one of those that gets better several days after you watched it, after you have time to ponder it and think it over. No, I haven't re-watched. I don't re-watch Lost. Actually I rarely re-watch tv shows in general. Only those that hit a certain emotional chord get rapid re-viewings.

Before I go into a lengthy review - an aside. I've realized something recently...or rather always knew it but was reminded of it this weekend, which is it is hard posting a perspective on the net, particularly controversial ones. It will get attacked. There are people for example, reading this journal, who despise the tv series Lost and do not understand how I can enjoy it. Just as there are people who read this journal who thought the Buffy/Spike relationship on that tv series was disgusting, sick, and the most self-destructive/anti-feminist thing ever and you'd have to be a nutjob to think otherwise (yes, I know some of you guys think that, but I love you anyways - as I guess or hope you love me, okay maybe love is too strong a word...like? tolerate? put up with??). I'm aware every time I write an entry that these folks are out there and may or may not read it and may or may not choose to reply or refer to the entry or things I stated within it. Just as I know that my co-worker, who I would do just about anything for, has political views that turn my stomach. The problem with life is we have wildly divergent tastes, interests, and perspectives on things for various reasons, most of which we do not know. There's so much we simply do not know about one another, that the majority of the time in our interactions with each other - we are playing guessing games and often step on the equivalent of a land-mine, which to us may seem like nothing more than just a normal bump in the road. All week long I ~~fight~~negotiate with people. I ~~fought~~ negotiated with my insurance company for most of this week to the point in which if I were queen of the universe I would get rid of all insurance companies. It's head-ache inducing. Damn it, people. I sometimes want to scream. I'm right, you're wrong! Can't you see that!!! But I know that's not true, well about 40% of the time at any rate (;-) and I know as herself_nyc once wisely stated in her lj, being right isn't always important, sometimes it gets in the way. So I'm working hard on that. It's not as easy as it looks. ;-)

( Review of Lost - The Substitute - spoilers of course )

[Re-read this post in email format this morning and cringed. Ugh. The typos are horrendous. Sorry folks. Will attempt to fix now at lunch break.]

selenak did a great analysis of this episode as well as a fairly decent critique of Dollhouse - both of which I more or less agree with.

But, I have few things of my own to add....

( Spoilers for last night's lost )

Well I downloaded Firefox and it still didn't block the pop-up ads. I also don't like how Firefox is setup. Too use to Windows Internet Explorer...evil, but comforting.

Curious about something - it's a general question, well sort of - to all who read this:

How much importance do you place on awards? By that I mean - not how much you place on getting them yourself, but how much you place on choosing to see a film, watching a tv show, or reading a story or book or something on the internet based on awards it has received?

For example:

Do you choose to watch a tv show because it won an Emmy? Or do you care?

How about a movie - would you go see a movie just because it won a bunch of awards? Would you decide to go see AVATAR if it won best picture?

What about books? Would you be more likely to read or buy a book if it won the Booker, Pulitzer, National, Hugo or Nebula book awards?

Do you choose fanfiction or metas based on the rewards they get? Or just recs?

How about music? If an album wins a Grammy - would you be more likely to listen to it?

Or does it matter? Really?

I'm curious. I know if a film, book, tv show, or piece of music wins an award it is more likely to get distributors and have a bigger marketing campaign, also the creator is more likely to get a second deal or get it extended in print or if a tv show, another season.Mad Men for example got reknewed based purely on it's critical acclaim and awards at the Emmy's and Golden Globes. It was not based on ratings, which are below most tv shows. Few people actually watch Mad Man. It has a nitch audience.

So, my question is - what is the importance to you, personally, regarding awards?
( my own rather jumbled feelings regarding it )

( Last Season's Lost Finale Spoilers - okay not really, since you won't understand anything I've written unless you saw last season's finale entitled The Incident )
( The fanfiction that I'm reading... )

Current Mood: contemplative

I've fallen head over heels in love with Lost the last two seasons. Particularly this one, outside of maybe one episode, all of them have been really good, and last night's episode was beyond awesome. Best season finale to date. Much better in some respects than BSG's and Sarah Connor, both of which I was sort of meh (ambivalent) about.

Rewatching it now.

Oh great line:

John Locke to Benjamin Linus: Mind if I ask you a question?
Benjamin Linus: I'm a Piceses.

( Spoilers for The Incident )

Current Mood: contemplative

Works slow which is making me edgy. I don't do slow well. I like to be crazy busy. Most people just wander about and chat with folks, which I can do a little of...before feeling quilty for distracting them from their work and running out of stuff to talk about. This will be fast since at work.

Anywho...Lost?

Is that a cliff-hanger or what? And now we have to wait eight frigging months?
Also...

( spoilers of course )

Still stuck at home recuperating from my battle Tuesday night with the sidewalk. Wales came by last night, brought flowers and a few odds and ends. Took one look at my face and felt compelled to take a picture of it with her cellphone.

Anyhow, I've been entertaining myself with tv. Have been watching the Nip/Tuck episodes I DVR'd - tis okay, except I'm having troubles buying the relationship between Liz and Christian at the moment. Feels too much like a romantic sex fantasy. Of course that is Nip/Tuck - exposing the ugly truth behind sex fantasies.

Saw Lost last night and read some reviews of it this morning. Apparently I'm the only person who saw the preview for next week's episode. Are you guys avoiding the preview trailers because you consider them spoilers? OR are they just not available on the internet downloads?

Regarding Lost - I'm loving this series. And it makes complete sense to me, I know exactly what is going on and what they are doing. The writers have clearly studied time travel and the physics involved regarding time travel.
( spoilers abound up to and including last night's episode, 316 )

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Things to post in my livejournal before I go to bed...and a bit on Caprica and Lost
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Lost Finale...Not really a review, more a haphazard ramble of impressions before bed

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Things to post in my livejournal before I go to bed...and a bit on Caprica and Lost

Lost - The Lighthouse Episode...which sucked, but what can you do?

The Quintessential Lost Post...or review of The Substitute.

Lost - Season Premiere: LAX Parts 1 &2

Another Kitchen Sink Post: awards, fanfiction, Lost...Spuffy...

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