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"FacebookPinterest\n\nDan Fierman: So we\u2019re going to cast the widest possible net for the end. All I have to say is this:\n\nAll the Asians are dead. Kate isn\u2019t.\n\nKevin Sintumuang: So, since all of the Asians are RIPing does that mean Jesse Lee and I are going to be written off this blog? Because I still have things I can bring to the blog, I think. Like did you notice at the...bzzzzrtkkkKgurglegurrrrgle..\n\nJesse Lee: Right? They just killed Sun + Jin off like that? I guess Kevin we can assume our fate will be similar\u2014stay away from all large electrical bos that can fall on you and anything that can pin you down!\n\nZach Dionne: I have never been so fucking stressed during an episode of LOST in my life.\n\nSome quick things we learned for sure, if the show cares to have any throughline of consistency for the endgame: Jack is going to be the new Jacob (don\u2019t fuck with me on this. Or do). The Locke Dressed Monster is unequivocally evil\u2014and not allergic to water, or not as allergic as we might\u2019ve thought.\n\nThe whole sub scene felt very Titanic. But it was emotional. And brutal.\n\nWhat\u2019s gonna happen with Ji-Yeon now? Some people think this means the alt timeline has to win out, because the adorable little Jun/Sun spawn can\u2019t be parentless.\n\nJesse: And how did Kate get shot first\u2014and for a while it was looking real rough for her\u2014and then end up on the beach with a flesh wound.\n\nWhile Sayid, Sun and Jin die. Oh and Lapidus\u2014but everyone I\u2019m sure was just counting the minutes until that would happen as soon as they walked away from the plane.\n\nI\u2019m curious why Jack\u2019s dad give Claire Danielle\u2019s music box?\n\nAlso......so now can we just assume Smoke Monster is just going to go for Kate now in an attempt to have Jack and Sawyer fight it out and as Jack said just kill each other.\n\nKevin: Writing from flashsideways-istan now. It\u2019s great here except I\u2019m pregnant and in a wheelchair. Weird.\n\nOne thing I failed to notice during all of the submarine action...isn\u2019t Miles still alive? Let\u2019s hope he makes it to the last episode...\n\nAbout the musical box...anyone recognize the tune it played? And shouldn\u2019t have they examined it more thoroughly? There has to be some sort of enscription or secret compartment filled where you put your weed or something.\n\nAnd as the island world seems to be a giant game of Smokey Locke trying to passively kill certain folks so he can leave the island (wasn\u2019t that a weird Othello product placement in the end of episode teaser?) it seems like, yes, the flashsideways has got to win out in the end. At this point in the show it\u2019s more interesting to watch that play out since the island world\u2019s plotline has just become less mysterious.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nJesse: I thought the music box was a nod to Danielle\u2019s music box, the one that Sayid fid for her\u2014but the song was &amp;quot;catch a falling star&amp;quot;\u2014 the island world\u2014Claire said her dad would sing that to her\u2014and she wanted Aaron\u2019s adopted parents to sing it to him\u2014but in the sideways world she never met her dad\n\nAnd yeah\u2014Ben, Miles, and Richard wanted to blow up the plane, so they are somewhere (maybe they stopped in with Bernard and Rose for a sec )\u2014which makes you wonder\u2014was it Widmore who put the c4 on the plane or the Ben crew\n\nAnd wasn\u2019t sideways Bernard so creepy and weird?\n\nAlex Pappademas: Yeah\u2014I was going to bring up Miles Straume. Last Asian Hero!\n\nBut I feel for you, Kevin &amp;amp; Jesse, because we also lost Frank Lapidus last night, and I\u2019ve always thought of that poor no-character-motivation-having bastard as one of MY people. At least he faced death with honor, and a Nick Nolte impression: &amp;quot;Aw, hell.&amp;quot;\n\nAnd yeah, Kevin\u2014my wife couldn\u2019t believe they just closed that mysterious jewelry box. (Quote: &amp;quot;Haven\u2019t you guys ever seen movies? There\u2019s shit underneath there!&amp;quot; Was SILENCE OF THE LAMBS not a super-popular movie in the flash-sideways universe? That\u2019s where the Senator\u2019s daughter kept her sad camgirl photos!)\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nSo, okay. Locke\u2019s evil. Eeeeeeevil. I assume the eight people who thought there was any ambiguity around that point are relieved that the show cleared that up. I found it kind of inexplicable that when they were all getting on the sub and then, oh shit, the trees turned out to be full of snipers, he pulled out his gun and returned fire instead of, y\u2019know, turning into THE ALL-POWERFUL SMOKE MONSTER WE WERE JUST REMINDED HE CAN TURN INTO and straight murking all of Widmore\u2019s dudes, but I guess he didn\u2019t actually care because he was just going to kill the Candidates in a minute anyway.\n\nHonestly? I have less and less to say about what\u2019s actually happening onscreen on this show as we head into the home stretch. But the extratextual stuff is becoming really interesting. Lindelof and Cuse have been doing a lot of press lately, and the spin seems to be all about managing people\u2019s expectations regarding the finale and what it\u2019s going to resolve. Did you guys read their Wired Q&amp;amp;A? This Damon quote should strike fear into the hearts of anyone still anticipating a comprehensive unified-field-theory-of-LOST reveal:\n\n&amp;quot;I assume that as a physicist, you say, \u2019Force equals mass times acceleration,\u2019 and you can explain why. But when you spend time with a 3-year-old, you quickly find out that one question just begets another--there\u2019s a \u2019why\u2019 in the wake of every \u2019why\u2019--and the only way to end the conversation is to say, \u2019Oh look, a Chuck E. Cheese!\u2019 The show is doing its best to say, \u2019Oh look, Chuck E. Cheese!\u2019 For example, we\u2019ve now given the viewers as much as we\u2019re willing to say about the numbers, and we\u2019re moving on. The characters are going to ask \u2019What is the island\u2019, and \u2019Why are we here\u2019, but more importantly, \u2019How is it relevant to me.\u2019 They\u2019re not sitting around in smoking jackets talking about the theoretical notions that we are, as audience members.&amp;quot;\n\nI mean, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Jacob, SmokeyLocke, the flash-sideways universe\u2014all toppings on a mouse-pizza. I\u2019ll see you guys in the ball-tank.\n\nAlex: Addendum, because I don\u2019t want to end on mouse-pizza: I still think this show is going to go down as one of the great works of turn-of-the-century pop culture. It\u2019s the first TV show to actually engage in meaningful dialogue with the Interwebs hive-mind and it\u2019s going in the pantheon for that alone. I\u2019m firmly in the it\u2019s-been-a-great-ride camp, as articulated by people like this dude.\n\nI mean, THE WIRE didn\u2019t exactly stick the landing either, regardless of everything David Simon keeps telling us about that fifth season, but that doesn\u2019t mean I love it any less. I\u2019m a huge defender of TWIN PEAKS, too, and anybody who knows that show knows that it went into the ditch in a big way about halfway through its second and final season\u2014up until the second hour of the Season 2 finale, where David Lynch, who\u2019d basically abandoned the whole enterprise, came back to direct, threw out the script, and turned in the most surreal and effed-up hour of network TV ever broadcast. Who knows\u2014maybe the LOST finale (now super-sized!) will be similarly blaze-of-gloryish. But even if it isn\u2019t\u2014I\u2019m still going to feel like I got my metaphorical money\u2019s worth.\n\nThat distracting-a-three-year-old metaphor, though. I mean, come on.\n\nDan: And with that, Namaste all. Only three and a half hours left on the Island."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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