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Last night I received the following email from my mom:
so, i’ve missed many episodes (years) of LOST…so, what the hell is the smoke monster? where did the temple come from all of a sudden? i cannot do this TV thing…can’t keep up. xomom
Whoa, mom. Language! Here’s the thing, though: I haven’t missed any episodes (years) of Lost, and I have no idea how to even begin answering either of those questions. I have no idea what the hell the smoke monster is! And if you are confused by where the temple came from all of a sudden, WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR ABOUT THE LIGHTHOUSE. You would kind of think that a person who was really sticking with it, really doing his or her best to untangle the mysteries of the Island, would at least have a modicum of authority and satisfaction when a social Loster (“Only at parties, and never alone”) asked a question that definitely seems answerable. And yet here we are, just as in the dark as anyone, holding our satin satchel of Jacob dust wondering where are the answers went.
So we set aside questions of the smoke monster and the temple and basically everything for the moment. And we ask the less pressing but still interesting question, Hey, What’s Up With Ben?
Whuuuuuuuut?! Oh, right. We already know that Ben is a school teacher in Bizarro LA. But still. It is weird! He is giving a lecture about Napoleon and his exile on the island of Elba. ISLANDS! PRISONS! SHORT PEOPLE! I don’t know. I am not smart enough or bored enough to try and unwrap what Lost is trying to say with the island of Elba lecture. Unless they are referring to that other famous story of multi-verse time-travel parallel lives, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, in which case I have a feeling that the Locke Smoke Monster is about finish a Piggly Wiggly Ziggy Piggy at the bowling alley all by himself. Meanwhile, Ben has an ongoing feud with Principle Skinner, who is removing Ben from his precious HIstory Club and putting him on detention duty. Again, I’m sure there is some kind of meaning I am supposed to extract from this (Jacob put a thumbtack on God’s chair?) but I’m just going to play dumb.
Oh no, not detention!
That day, at lunch, Ben complains to his colleague about the stupid principal making him run stupid detention. Classic Ben with the Classic Whining. I mean, it seems to me that his main complaint against having to run detention is that he has a PhD, eats his lunch with chopsticks, and doesn’t want to. But running detention for a few weeks seems like a perfectly reasonable part of one’s job. You’ve already got the World’s Best Teacher Mug, Ben:
Now earn it. But uh oh, here is substitute teacher John Locke, who is like, maybe you should be principal, and I will support you. Uh, thanks? You are a substitute teacher. Your support in something as entrenched and political as the upheaval and replacement of a Los Angeles high school principal is going to take more than a show of mustard-smeared hands. But this gets the wheels turning in Ben’s head. You can almost see them. They are right behind his eyes.
Of course, Ben’s father wanted a different life for him. None of this HAVING TO RUN DETENTION FOR A COUPLE WEEKS COMPLETELY REASONABLY. That is why he signed up for the Dharma Initiative and took Ben to the island. Imagine what their lives would have been if they had stayed! Well no need to imagine Mr. Linus, I know what your lives would have been like! It is called Lost Season 4, and it is available on DVD. This IS the first mention, however, in Bizarro Town of anything to even do with the Island. So that’s…something. Why did Ben and his dad leave the island? I’m sorry, please save your questions until after the show has ended. There’s going to be a special page on FRUSTRATION.COM for those.
Oh, wait, there is a knock at the door. Who is that?
Whuuuuuuuuuut?!
Of course, Ben’s daughter was never actually Ben’s daughter. She was Rousseau’s daughter. Or was she Claire’s son? (Claire +/- Rousseau = Huh?) It doesn’t matter now, because something something the island, NO RULES. I am pretty sure this show is now available on Zazzle in t-shirt form.
Ben is Alex’s history tutor, which is why they go to the library together to study SLAVE SHIPS (foreshadowing). Speaking of foreshadowing, my only concern is that the library is TOO normally lit like a regular library.
Alex tells Ben about how she caught Principal Skinner fucking Mrs. Krabappel, and Ben is like DING DING DING, now is my turn to run the island, I MEAN HIGH SCHOOL. So he asks his colleague to hack into the principal’s email account. Oh good. No, see, he just needs those emails because of how much he cares about the kids! That’s all. The kids deserve a principal who is looking out for them and pushing them to reach for the stars, and if someone has to violate the law in order to expose sexual misconduct in order to CARE SO MUCH, then so be it. Ben’s logic about his own motivations and desires is just air tight. Like nuclear submarine tight.
Anyway, Ben confronts Principle Skinner with lascivious emails that describe sex on school grounds (hahhaa, very sexy emails, I’m sure. “I want to ravish you where the jazz band practices.”) and the principal gives him a choice: you can have my job, but if you become the principal then I won’t write Alex a letter of recommendation to Yale. HAHAHAHHAHA. It’s a second chance for Ben to do the right thing and SAVE ALEX! Because as we all agree, not getting a letter of recommendation to Yale is the same thing as BULLETS IN THE FACE. 1 for 1. Even Stevens.
Back on the island, Team Jacob is heading to the beach after everyone was killed at the temple. Miles is like “what the hell was that thing” and my mom was like, “GOOD QUESTION, MILES!” Ben explains that it is what killed their friends, which is not a very good explanation at all, and then Ilana is like “and it killed Jacob, right?” and Ben is like “oh duh der doy no doy, yeah, of course, duh, haha, duhhhhhhh.” Good answer, Ben! So Ilana makes Miles talk to the bag of Jacob dirt (don’t worry about it, mom) and he is like “Ben definitely killed Jacob.”
Whoops! But Ben is like, “psychics are unreliable.” Haaaaaa. Double haaaaaa, actually. Because on the one hand, Ben’s frantic self-defenses are hilarious, as frantic self-defenses always are, but also ha because you are on a MAGICAL ISLAND of SMOKE MONSTERS and FABULOUS LIGHTHOUSES, so you can’t really become a Scully all of a sudden.
So Ilana rips down some wiring and creates an unbreakable ankle shackle (Mrs. Wizard over here) and shackles Ben to a tree and gives him one of those classic Lost Island Patented scoop shovels and tells him to dig his own grave. Sure. And Ben digs pretty slowly as anyone who was facing their own death and also tasked with the nightmarish job of monitoring detention for a few weeks digging their own grave would. But my favorite part is how he does make sure it is a very neat and geometrical grave.
What does a man have if not pride in his work? Anyway, at one point, Miles walks over with some food in a “banana leaf.”
And somehow this moment just captured for me everything that is wrong with Lost this season. Because WHAT IS THAT BANANA LEAF? That is literally a laminated piece of green construction paper. If the show never said “this is a banana leaf” I would have let it go, but they do say it, and so it’s like, NO. Honestly, Lost, you are a big budget cultural phenomenon TV show on a Big Three network in its highly-anticipated final season. If the script calls for a banana leaf, GET A FUCKING BANANA LEAF. Or, cross the words “banana leaf” out of the script and hope no one notices that big bright green sheet of paper in Miles hand. “Oh, I hope they don’t think that’s a banana leaf.” “Well, no one said banana leaf, so it could be anything. It’s probably just a piece of paper…from the airplane.” Either take the time to make your show good, or put it in the garbage with the rest of the shows, but stop making me feel like the asshole for actually liking you, Lost.
Anyway, dig dig dig, grave grave grave, and then Locke shows up and Ben is like “well, you got what you wanted,” and Locke is like, “I don’t want you to die, Ben.” Which is probably pretty true. I mean, Locke has killed a bunch of people in the past few days. So he releases the ankle shackle with a flick of his hand (really, Lost? Actual just straight up fucking Harry Potter MAGIC now?) and tells Ben that there is a gun propped up against a tree in the forest and that if he runs, he will beat Ilana to the gun, and he can shoot Ilana in the face, and then when everyone leaves the island, Ben will be put in charge. Oh fun? Who wouldn’t want to be trapped all alone on a deserted island of rotting corpses with one empty grave waiting by the beach? Ben gets the gun and all he wants is for Ilana to let him go to Locke. Why? Because Locke is the only one who will have him. Awwwwwwwww. SWEET BABY BEAR! “I’ll have you,” Ilana says. (Hotcha!) So Ben doesn’t go with Locke. He sticks with Team Jacob, fixin’ tarps n’ stuff. And we are treated to our first slow-motion-everyone-doing-stuff-on-the-beach-montage in a long time.
Hahaha, Miles.
Back in Bizarro LA, Ben decides not to blackmail the principal into being the principal, and instead he secures Alex her letter of recommendation to Yale. It does make you wonder why Locke didn’t just give him the gun? Why did he make him run to it in the forest? It is almost as if Locke and Jacob are the same? Or something? I don’t know! Honestly, this show:
AND THEN THERE IS JACK AND HURLEY. Hurley, wake up from your hilarious nap!
So they are making their way back to the temple from the lighthouse (don’t worry about it, mom) but Hurley is stalling because Ghost Jacob told them they couldn’t go back to the temple, and that is when they run into Richard Alpert. He leads them to the Black Rock, which apparently he was on when he first came to the island? As a slave master or some shit? You racist, Richard Alpert! CafePress knows!
He wants to die, but he can’t kill himself, because he’s been touched by Jacob. He needs Jack to light the fuse for him (on the dynamite, you know, suicide stuff). Jack does it. Whoa, Jack. But then Jack is like, “let’s talk.” DOUBLE WHOA, Jack. But it turns out that Jack is confident that the dynamite isn’t going to explode, because he is a total Jacob-head now? That was fast. One second it is all smash up the most wonderous lighthouse of all time, and the next second it is like “Jacob has a plan for me, and I can’t wait to find out what it is.” Jack is a clown.
And then there is this shit:
Oh, Widmore. OH BOY.
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Michael Emerson is so good. So, so, good.
Bonus gif:
I will be marrying this gif on 4/8/15, and you’re all invited.
Did we talk about how Professor Linus’s colleague = Dr. Arzt = Jay Leno in The Late Shift?
The whole movie is on YouTube if anyone is bored!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KAu2EdGr5U
WOW! That explains a LOT!
I’m thinking Conan needs to convince Jay Leno to help him move some dynamite from the Black Rock…
This gif is so good. So, so, good.
That was really amazing acting. He deserves one million emmys.
He definitely should, since he’s been overlooked for so much of his previous work.
In that .gif he looks like the lovechild of Pee Wee Herman and Crispin Glover.
I’m almost done courting this show.
NOT UNTIL I GET ANSWERS!
But you got answers. Richard, the Black Rock, who’s coming to the island. If you got them all, what would you do for the next 11 hours.
I loved it when Ben was all blubbering and sad and Ilana was all like, “I’ll have what he’s having.”
I believe it was the Ziggy Piggy, and it was before the bowling alley. MLIBATEA.
I was going to correct that as well. I’m just not a quick enough BATEA nerd.
Exactly – I was with this post until that snafu. Next you’ll be telling me they ditched him at the water park (Waterloo – ha!), when CLEARLY they ditched him at the bowling alley. How can I count on you for reliable Lost updates?*
*I don’t even watch Lost. I’m just reading this post because I’m bored at work.
Bens teacher friend was the guy who handled the dynamite in season 1 right?
The LA bits are like an extended dream sequence in a bad tv show where the entire cast is playing different people. also the dr. linus should definitely be a spin off.
obviously, Little Ben skipped out of class to chill with the Others when DharmaSchool was covering Intro to Manipulation.
Principal: If you blackmail me, I’ll not do this other thing for your student.
Linus: Really? Because I still have these sex emails and I want you to resign AND write that letter. That’s how blackmail works.
Little Ben must’ve skipped out of class to chill with the Others when DharmaSchool was covering Intro to Manipulation.
And then what? The principal can still just say “no” to writing the letter because even if Ben exposes him, Alex still gets fucked over with no letter. In the end, that was more important to Ben than the job and he realized that the whole blackmailing thing wasn’t going to work out.
Ben just has to say, “And if I find out Alex doesn’t get into Yale… even if I have the job… I will tell your wife about these emails.”
It comes down to who values what more–does the principal care more about his job than Ben does about his alternate universe fake daughter.
If Ben tries to blackmail him out of his job, and he says no, then Ben releases the emails, the principal is ruined, but Ben isn’t really harmed. He just doesn’t get the job.
But, if the principal doesn’t write the recommendation, and tries to purposefully sink Alex, then Ben, or someone he loves, is harmed. So the principal did have the upper hand.
Yes, Ben could have said, “No, you do both” but clearly Ben was more afraid of harming Alex than the principal was about hurting his marraige/career.
Plus, screwing at school won’t get a principal fired–it takes much, much worse behavior to have a principal fired. Trust me.
True, and I see what the writers were trying to do with this scenario. But, back in the world of practical choices, which is not this world, couldn’t Ben have waited until Alex was safely admitted into Yale, and THEN launched operation blackmail? I know Ben is pathetic, but is he too pathetic to think of this?
Yes, but the principal said that he would torch Alex’s chances and academic career, which I took to mean that he wouldn’t just not write the letter, but would take active, and long lasting, action to prevent her from getting into Yale, or anywhere.
THANK you. Someone needed to say it.
More importantly, can we just discuss the fact that this is not how life works? The outgoing principal does not have the power to appoint his successor, and I’m pretty confident the school district would be looking for someone with administrative experience beyond one week of detention supervision, like oh say, one of the vice-principals? Seriously Lost writers? Do you have no idea how things work in the real world?
And forgetting that lapse in logic for a minute, even if the outgoing principal wrote a nasty letter to Yale, couldn’t the new principal with the fancy PhD write his own letter?
I actually thought this was the best episode so far this season, even with the Nikki and Paolo reference! Also, I’m pretty sure Richard was a slave, not the slave master (SmokeyLockes said ‘it’s nice to see you without the chains.”)
Fun fact! Richard was originally written to be a black character. But I guess in the Lost universe, men with eyeliner were historically persecuted and enslaved. Which I can sorta get behind.
Check the history books. Black people were not the only people to be enslaved. It was common for whites also.
I completely agree– this episode was the best one of this season yet. It’s funny, I went from hating Ben in early seasons (and any “others” stories that took away from the original characters) to finding him sooo much more compelling, even in his sideways timeline, than snooze-worthy Jack and Kate and even Sayid. In both on and off island scenes, the episode actually kept my attention, and we got *some* minor answers (candidates can’t die because Jacob touched them– that’s kinda cool to know, right?).
Also, I wish I would’ve found this for last week’s write-up, but I’ll just post it here instead because no rules:
I love how these recaps are slowly (not slowly) morphing from love watching to hate watching. When does Eggs show up to help kill the Maenad monster?
The flash-sideways read like some crazy boring fanfiction. You kind, the kind without gay sex. Look! Ben is a teacher with Dr. Blowuped! While Locke is there for some reason! And Alex is a student at his LA school despite having French parents!
Also, a thing happens on the show alot that I never get happened again. The thing where if one person suddenly obtains a gun, the other people who already had guns feel forced to put them down. Ilana is all shit, “Ben has a gun. Guess I have to put my gun down.” Except a person with 1 gun ≯ another person with one gun? This literally happens all on the time on Lost and never makes sense.
And Alex is pretty. She has a nice face. (But apparently she is dating Jeff Goldblum and that makes me sad.)
WHAT?!
re: alex/goldblum–That’s gross, really? He could be her grandfather. I was just reading yesterday that when Errol Flynn died at age 50 his girlfriend was FIFTEEN years old. Nasty.
Yeah but wasn’t she just a beard?
No, I don’t think so, most of the bisexual rumors have been pretty thoroughly discounted, haven’t they? Although, I guess I wouldn’t be surprised. He had been found previously with underage girls too. While I wouldn’t put it past Old Hollywood to stage a situation like that, it doesn’t really seem too smart to use children…
Illana had the gun in one hand, so she would have been unable to get her other hand to the trigger before Ben shot her.
Ummm…So Dr. Linus can just blackmail him next year? Once Alex is attending Yale? AmIright?
I absolutely adored this episode. The story arc of Benjamin Linus is fascinating and the acting is unbelievable. I burst into tears when he said “He’s the only one that will have me”. Whoa, I was not expecting to do that.
Agreed completely. That one scene was worth dealing with all the fake banana leafs and all of the paper macher temples combined. BEN GREAT CHARACTER AWESOME STORY ARC.
Agreed. My favorite episode of the season so far. The character arcs for Ben and Sawyer have both been incredible, and Terry O’Quinn’s ability to play weak-sad-Locke, power-leader-Locke and strange-monster-Locke is outstanding. Even Jack is really coming into his own this season.
I was really worried that Ben was going to die–centric episode + redemption=OH NOES! YOU HAZ A DED!
same I was sure Ben was gonna die at any second and was not okay with it — super glad he got his redemption though and didn’t have to go party with flocke
Well your mom is cooler than me because at least she’s seen some episodes. Last night was the first episode of Lost I’ve ever watched. I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into.
All I can say is, that guy at the end was Caleb from the OC! Does he play a ruthless old man tycoon in everything he’s in or what?
You’re doing yourself a disservice by not starting at the beginning.
I do not agree! Starting from the beginning gives you the whole island sense k
Sadly, I am beginning to think that the last 5 seasons where useless. I feel like Richard Alper after Jacob died.
Where is my Lapidus episode!?
Yes! Lapidus! Here’s a Mother’s Day Card I made for my wife a couple of years ago.
You married your Mom? That’s cool.
Errmm… no. My wife made babies. That… makes her a mom, now (or so I’ve been told)
The card is very sweet and charming. Your wife, who apparently can create small humans out of soil like a 16th C. Rabbi, is very lucky.
This is perfect for girls who are wives. Husbands are boys!
If one of them had a Behold II (available exclusively at T-Mobile), they could just call home and get someone to come pick them up, or at the very least enjoy one of its many other features while they waited.
The special effects are a goddamn shame. Oh, yea that’s just my tiny periscope that goes with my huge submarine because I’m a millionaire that can’t afford a periscope not from Toys ‘R’ Us.
Besides that, this episode was actually good! I haven’t been liking the season as much as I wanted to but hopefully the pace will pick up. However, I must say Ilana’s fake accent is horrible. It’s just really bad.
Also: APUSH exam = LIFE OR DEATH.
That would be AP Euro. And yes it does = LIFE OR DEATH.
I agree. I fully expected Robbie Rotten to be at the other end of that pos periscope.
So when Jacob said, “They’re coming” he meant “Widmore’s comin’ in a SUBMARINE!”
I’ve decided that this is no longer good v. evil, but instead the island is just some ancient mystical prison, and Jacob and Smokey are just two equally shitty entities who are both trying to escape.
I have also come to the conclusion is that this season is crappy by design so the people who were into it will feel like they got chumped, so they will be happy when it’s over, and not demand/form internet campaigns for feature films/miniseries/more Lost.
That’s a good theory but it’s not fair ):
At least the acting is better.
WAAAYYY Better
I know I’m setting myself up for a world of downvoting here, but they did not, in fact, call that thing a banana leaf. The line was, “I hope you like green beans and bananas, because that’s all we got.” Like as in to imply there were pieces of banana on the [whatever] leaf.
Agreed, I don’t recall the banana leaf thing either. But I also don’t pay too good attention to Miles to be honest. He’s just kind of there.
It was called a banana leaf when Ben offers Miles money again, and Miles responds with something to the effect of “are you just going to write me a check on this banana leaf.”
Oh, wait, you’re right. Sorry.
Although it looked like a perfectly reasonable banana leaf to me, either way. I’m not a doctor of banana leafology.
It looked like a banana leaf to me… am I missing something?
Good call Mr. Tom Foolery, although the person above me does share my opinion that it indeed does appear to be a banana leaf. Wow, in the middle of typing this I seriously had the realization that ARE WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS? This is WAY too much nitpicking for me.
Indeed, that’s pretty much what a banana leaf looks like: bright green and kinda shiny. They’re also really big, so what Miles is holding would only be a small piece of one.
The only odd thing about it is that the edges seem very neatly cut.
…easily accomplished with a machete.
Finally! Answers! It WAS a Banana Leaf!
We should definitely keep talking about this; there is no question that unlocking the mystery of the banana leaf will be the key to the entire show. I’d really just like to say that I thought it was a perfectly fine banana leaf last night too; I wasn’t even bothered by the temple set until reading these reviews. That being said, if the biggest problems with a show are aesthetic and relatively minor, I’d say it’s a pretty good show.
Indeed, the bigger mystery is where the hell did Miles get GREEN BEANS?! If I was on a tropical island and somebody said, “Hey check out that banana tree”, that would make sense to me. But if someone said, “Hey everybody, check out that green bean stalk”, I would be utterly confused.
I had no problem with that, I mean I’m assuming he got green beans from the leftover stash of Dharma food/cans on the beach
no still photo of booty babes? i spent the whole episode wondering what wouldve been different had ben found THIS in the sand:
shit. i mean this: [IMG]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/semiautobunny/shemales.png[/IMG]
i give up. the she-males porno from billy madison.
You’re right Gabe, did you see this?
Did that do it?
*crosses fingers*
Whoops.
this was supposed to be a reply to philplusbert.
ill allow it, and ill upvote you to your hearts content, as i feel i wouldve been upvoted…
*single tear*
yeah, for posting images you just start at the http and end it at the .png or whatever (.jpg, perineum, etc)
Why can’t we all break from this addiction and watch Fringe instead. its like methadone. Multiple universes: check. JJ Abrams: check. A linear storyline: you betcha
“Alohomora Ben’s ankle shackle! I learned that one from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It was a long exile.” –Smoke Monster Locke
Sirius Black Smoke Monster Locke and the Island of Azkaban?
I’d just like to say that I actually REALLY appreciate Jack’s crazy-ass this season. Say what you want but the guy is definitely out to get some ANSWERS. And he’ll break the shit out of your shit if you don’t give it to him. He’ll swallow some poison shit and blow himself up (twice if you count The Incident) to find out WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE. His scene with Richard in the boat was one of my favorite bits last night because it was all about Jack refusing to just ask a question and move on. He’s like “No, I WILL know the answer to this question I asked. You will not just give me some half-assed answer and expect me to just move on. I DON’T MOVE ON!!!! KING KONG AINT GOT SHIT ON ME!!!”
Pretty sure Alpert was a slave. In the first episode of the seasonFlocke told him “The last time I saw you, it was in chains” or something like that.
Whoops! The internet was hiding comments from me. Someone already said this.
Arzt is annoying in any timeline.
so here’s the thing. I know it’s like Gabe’s Blog so we all play by Gabe’s Rules… but seriously last night’s episode of Lost was spectacular. Furthermore, this show never promised that it was going to give us all the answers in the first half of the last season. Honestly, that would be bad storytelling. What they seem to be doing is setting us up with some interesting information that will (hopefully) make more sense toward the latter half of the final season, because that would be good storytelling.
You know, like good storytelling where the fan favorite and arguably most sympathetic character on the show has been turned into a remorseless villain. Or good storytelling where the remorseless villain has been turned into arguably the most sympathetic character on the show.
I’m not saying Lost is not a ridiculous series full of weird plot gaps and random nonsensical time travel, but I am saying that this has been a show about an island with polar bears and black stallions and dead people running around on it from day one. At what point did any of us expect it to become the Citizen Kane of television?
you! with the logic! stop it!
I’ll woot woot that.
And how!
Well, I don’t speak for Gabe, but I do like the show a lot. But along with that love comes a knowledge that while good, Lost is absolutely ridiculous. It is like how you probably make fun of your friends a lot more than anyone else.
I think the problem with these flash-sideways stories is that, while we’re sure that all this will mean something later, right now, we’ve been given no hint that it will, so it means very little to us right now. Therefore, it’s not very effective to a crowd hungry for answers.
not to the mention the adventures in the temple felt like a hydra station-like waste of time and the sudden shifts in character do not feel earned.
I don’t want to come across as a Lost apologist. I describe this show to my friends by telling them Lost is the TV show equivalent of a really awesome girlfriend who got way less cool, so I was going to leave her but then she got diagnosed with terminal cancer, so now leaving her seems mean, because of the dying of terminal cancer thing.
Like, I stuck around for awhile thinking Lost would get good again, and by the time I realized it was never going to be the show I fell in love with, they’d announced the end date, so I was like “Well it’s going to be all over soon, so I probably shouldn’t just walk away now.”
Basically i am just waiting for Lost to die so I can get on with my life.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Lost. I thought Season 4 and 5 were excellent, but lately it’s been feeling like Season 3 all over again, and that’s a bad thing.
I would not watch the “Citizen Kane of television.” The characters would be too black and white. I would however watch the LOST movie.
Did I do it?
No, no I did not.
Comedic gold. Great timing. Loved it. UPVOTE!
i think you did? but blue-question-mark box. but it’s so funny!
Awww…thanks guys!
Apparently the Ghostbusters were wrong. Peck/Principal Skinner HAS a dick
I cannot believe that Gabe failed to mention that Mario Van Peeples directed this episode. That seems noteworthy.
WHAT?!
How did I miss that?!
I think there was something wrong with my cable last night because last night’s episode of Lost kept getting interrupted by an episode of Degrassi High.
I was about to get on here and say something like I’m not trying to be a dick but banana leaves look exactly like what Miles was holding… but someone else already beat me to it and, let’s be honest, I would have been trying to be a dick. Anyway, who else is totally ready for Claire to die? Sweet jeez!
I don’t like that Gabe’s tone is so pissed off now. This was the best episode of the season. It solved mysteries without springing new ones (MAGIC CAVE?! MAGIC LIGHTHOUSE?!) up. in fact, it hearkened back to the roots of the show in a totally natural way, ex. going to the black rock (also funny is the plot point centered around how volatile the dynamite was on the Island, combined with Arzt being all over the alt-timeline).
and now the rest of the season is definitively set up, with the two factions and also widmore coming so it’s coming together.
jack’s transformation and subsequent explanation for it is completely natural. I think his smashing the lighthouse was dumb as shit on shit but it works now.
and it brought down the conflict from being about Jacob and Smokey, which pissed people off, to showing that is still essentially a mechanism to show who these characters are and their discovery of themselves.
also, smokey can turn into fucking spiders (RIP niki and paulo- as someone said, great reference ahhh) so there are easily a million different plausible (within the show’s universe) ways that he could have unchained the shackle.
this episode had literally everything people complained that was missing from season 6, and none of the shit they were pissed about being there. temple’s gone, dogen’s gone, even fucking kate didn’t make an appearance.
CHIN THE FUCK UP, GABE
i want to see rousseau and the french man scientist living happily ever after in LA with their smarty daughter. how come they haven’t been saving their whole lives for her to go to yale and keep with the family scientist tradition?
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I’m sure whatever the Rousseau’s family plan is to get Alex into Yale, it’s fairly logical and almost certainly involves a bidet.
downvote me all you want, bastards. I’ve worked in college admissions for 9 years and shit like this bugs me. As others have pointed out, the idea that Ben would just be made principal is equally rediculous.
Rediculous: when something is so ridiculous it pisses you off and makes you red in the face.
** HIstory Club**
I see what you did there.
You folks are too obsessed with answers, ey. (I’m Canadian).
Principal Skinner = Professor Hathaway
Banana leaves.
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