Tonight’s episode (Stranger in a Strange Land) was
one of my all time favorite LOST episodes. A theme is emerging with
another psychic in a flashback and of course the title Stranger in
a Strange Land means something in both the flashback and in the main
story. Of course, Jack was a stranger when he was staying in Phuket, and
of course he is a stranger among The Others but he is an unexpected
stranger in the bigger story. Remember when Pickett said that Shephard (Jack)
wasn’t even on Jacob’s list? I think this story is telling us that Jack is
very unique. He is a wild card thrown into the whole big equation and
this makes him very important. Jack is unpredictable. He refuses to be
manipulated. He is the unknown factor.

  
I think you’ve got one guy up there with a gun. I think there’s more of us than there are of you.
I think if you had any real strength, you wouldn’t have had to send a spy — Ethan.
– Jack to ‘Mr. Friendly’
in Season 2’s The Hunting Party

  There is also something very intensely emotional about this
story. Kate wants to rescue Jack and Karl will risk everything to see
Alex again. Sawyer also, obviously, has strong feelings for Kate. The ending
sequence with the backyard scene and the boat ride was also very intense on
an emotional level.

  More things to think about: Juliet is also marked.

  
Karl has never heard of the Brady Bunch.

  The Others have an eye for an eye philosophy.

  Tonight’s episode (Stranger in a Strange Land) was
one of my all time favorite LOST episodes. A theme is emerging with
another psychic in a flashback and of course the title Stranger in
a Strange Land means something in both the flashback and in the main
story. Of course, Jack was a stranger when he was staying in Phuket, and
of course he is a stranger among The Others but he is an unexpected
stranger in the bigger story. Remember when Pickett said that Shephard (Jack)
wasn’t even on Jacob’s list? I think this story is telling us that Jack is
very unique. He is a wild card thrown into the whole big equation and
this makes him very important. Jack is unpredictable. He refuses to be
manipulated. He is the unknown factor.

  
I think you’ve got one guy up there with a gun. I think there’s more of us than there are of you.
I think if you had any real strength, you wouldn’t have had to send a spy — Ethan.
– Jack to ‘Mr. Friendly’
in Season 2’s The Hunting Party

  There is also something very intensely emotional about this
story. Kate wants to rescue Jack and Karl will risk everything to see
Alex again. Sawyer also, obviously, has strong feelings for Kate. The ending
sequence with the backyard scene and the boat ride was also very intense on
an emotional level.

  More things to think about: Juliet is also marked.

  
Karl has never heard of the Brady Bunch.

  The Others have an eye for an eye philosophy.

  In a recent interview with Kristin Veitch, Damon
Lindelof said something truly incredible when he and Carlton were asked about the Flashes Before Your Eyes
episode: an episode that Kristin described as insanely good.

Lindelof: Hopefully, it opened up the show in a way that you understand that the flashback devices might not just be the sort of simple thing that we’ve been
presenting you before – that some of these bad decisions that people have made in their lives
are potentially reversible in some way, shape or form and this is sort of us dabbling in that world.

  
Wow! Could this be one of the bombs that Lindelof mentioned three months earlier!

According to series cocreator Damon Lindelof, «two bombs» will be dropped shortly after the island thriller
resurfaces on February 7. «One is a character bomb, and that will happen within the first three episodes after the break,» Lindelof reveals. «And the other is
a more significant story bomb– a game-changer that will happen shortly after.»

Source: TV Guide (November 13-19)

   In any case, this is quite a surprise. Did anyone see that one coming?
Lindelof is a genius!

  In a recent interview with Kristin Veitch, Damon
Lindelof said something truly incredible when he and Carlton were asked about the Flashes Before Your Eyes
episode: an episode that Kristin described as insanely good.

Lindelof: Hopefully, it opened up the show in a way that you understand that the flashback devices might not just be the sort of simple thing that we’ve been
presenting you before – that some of these bad decisions that people have made in their lives
are potentially reversible in some way, shape or form and this is sort of us dabbling in that world.

  
Wow! Could this be one of the bombs that Lindelof mentioned three months earlier!

According to series cocreator Damon Lindelof, «two bombs» will be dropped shortly after the island thriller
resurfaces on February 7. «One is a character bomb, and that will happen within the first three episodes after the break,» Lindelof reveals. «And the other is
a more significant story bomb– a game-changer that will happen shortly after.»

Source: TV Guide (November 13-19)

   In any case, this is quite a surprise. Did anyone see that one coming?
Lindelof is a genius!

Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of
solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and
Alice’s first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of
the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was
too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However,
on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had
not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen
inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to
her great delight it fitted!

– from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

  `Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!’ said Alice

   Great works of literature inspire something in us. It’s a wonderful feeling.
It’s a sense of wonder, mystery and adventure. That sense or feeling is
quite a powerful emotion. It’s certainly uncommon almost by definition.
Fortunately, for LOST fans we get to experience it a little bit more than
the general population.

  
Flashes Before Your Eyes has us thinking about so many things: time travel,
deja vu, destiny, clairvoyance, a girl name Claire and even a course correcting
universe. In a sense, this episode isn’t really a flashback. Desmond is off the
island, in the past, and the flashes that he sees are from his future on the island!
The question of what happened to Desmond after turning the key in the hatch
is finally answered. He turns the key while thinking of Penny and immediately
finds himself on the floor of his old flat after falling from a ladder. Penny is
there and he is back. Incredibly, he knows about the island, the hatch, the
race around the world and even Charlie, yet he seems to be re-living his past.
At one point, he is racing to speak to a physicist about the possibility of time travel.

  This is a great episode. This is what LOST is all about: mystery, adventure,
romance, wonder and discovery.

Scene from Season 3, Episode 11

  from: CantonRep.com

  In the opening seconds of this week’s LOST (Wednesday at 10 p.m., ABC), there’s a long resolve of a beach at sunset, with striated bands of orange and deep red on the horizon and phosphorescent waves crashing on a distant reef. It’s alluring and unsettling, familiar yet strange. All in all, a classic LOST kind of visual…

  As the third season wraps four months from now, the show will deliver some answers. Indeed, it has been forced to.

The producers still have three things going for them, says Orson Scott Card, the
prominent sci-fi novelist (Ender’s Game) and editor of a recent book of essays
on the show’s meaning called Getting Lost.

One, they’ve got the mythology – though if they explain all of that away, then the show’s not mystical or magical anymore;
second, the overall conspiracy (and the fact that) everyone’s lying to everyone else and that we need to find out the truth;
and finally, the intense character relations.

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  The votes are in and TV.com
users have voted Evangeline Lilly the hottest actress on TV.

  
Here is the list of the top 5:

1. Evangeline Lilly (LOST)
2. Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy)
3. Ali Larter (Heroes)
4. Heidi Klum (pronounced «Kloom») (supermodel)
5. Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy)

  The votes are in and TV.com
users have voted Evangeline Lilly the hottest actress on TV.

  
Here is the list of the top 5:

1. Evangeline Lilly (LOST)
2. Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy)
3. Ali Larter (Heroes)
4. Heidi Klum (pronounced «Kloom») (supermodel)
5. Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy)

ABC’s streaming video website now has 4 new episodes of Day Break. The video
quality is very good and compares to watching an actual TV broadcast. Four episodes!

My latest project coincides with the release of Day Break to the web: A Home Theater computer.
It uses a new case by a company called Kingwin and the resulting computer takes the place of
a DVD player in the home entertainment center. When connected to an amplifier and a big screen
LCD TV (not pictured) with a VGA input, the result is far superior to watching the same TV show
on a computer.

ABC’s streaming video website now has 4 new episodes of Day Break. The video
quality is very good and compares to watching an actual TV broadcast. Four episodes!

My latest project coincides with the release of Day Break to the web: A Home Theater computer.
It uses a new case by a company called Kingwin and the resulting computer takes the place of
a DVD player in the home entertainment center. When connected to an amplifier and a big screen
LCD TV (not pictured) with a VGA input, the result is far superior to watching the same TV show
on a computer.