Will Ferrell- SNL- Goodnight Saigon

Wait, it's not about LOST ? What the fuck, man ?

I TiVO SNL every Saturday(that it's new) and I watch it usually sometime on Sunday. I like this because lately, I can usually watch it in about 20- 25 minutes...If I like the band, maybe 30 minutes. When Will Ferrell hosted on Saturday, I actually watched the whole thing...And found most of it funny. I was pretty surprised.

  They did a Celebrity Jeopardy where Tom Hanks played himself as an imbecile, and Norm MacDonald showed up as Burt Reynolds halfway through and left before it ended.

  There was a very odd sketch at a funeral where a long line of people(including Maya Rudolph) came up and made stranger and stranger announcements, which I found very funny.

   The lovely and talented Amy Poehler returned to do Weekend Update with Seth Meyers.

  And then there was the Final Sketch, which I  think just needs to be seen:

 It's just brilliant and surreal and odd, and full of random cameos, and then, I think the fact that it was all a distraction so the Will Ferrell character did not have to pay his tab just capped it perfectly.

  Alright, I think I'm gonna watch it again.

LOst 5.16/17: "The Incident"

Holy H-Bombs, Jacob!!!




Wow, where does one start with that episode ? i guess with the beginning. We get to meet Jacob! And he's not Jack, or Locke , or Christian...He's Jacob. And he's apparently some godlike fellow. We also meet someone else(Esau-I am not fully brushed up on my Bible, but i know Esau was Jacob's brother and did some bad stuff).
We also get the implication that Jacob keeps bringing people to the island to run them through some sort of "experiment' that always seems to go the same way "they come, fight, destroy, corrupt". It always ends the same way. And Jacob seems to want to prove this other fellow wrong. About what ? Human nature, I'm assuming.

then, the guy says that he wants to kill Jacob,and that someday he will "find a loophole", and Jacob says he'll be right here.

Fast forward to the end, and we find out that undead Locke is actually this other guy from the beginning of the episode who "found his loophole", and has Ben kill Jacob. To quote Shelley Bravlofski.."WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?" 

So, Locke is really dead. And this other guy, who I am going to call Esau, just fro brevity's sake, had Richard tell Locke that Locke needed to die to get everyone to come back to the Island. And that MIGHT be true, but the real reason that Esau needed Locke to die and be brought back to the Island was so that he could assume his form, as he has done with Christian Shepherd(and Ben's Mom? and Claire ? And whom else ?Maybe not Ben's Mom, since she did not die on the Island).

Poor John Locke, a dupe to the end.

But, did Jacob seems a little too accepting of his death ? He seemed to almost egg Ben on with "What About YOU?", didn't he ? is he gonna be kinda like Obi-Wan Kenobi, or(as I saw mentioned on a LOST blog) like Aslan, from The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe ? In dying, he will become more powerful ? perhaps ?

Also, who are Ilana and them working for ? I presume it's Jacob, but I am confused.

And why was Jacob out there (literally) touching the Oceanic 6 at different points in their lives? making sure they would come to the Island ? Guiding their courses ? Or, is it possible that whom we saw was not Jacob at all, but Esau, and they all played a part in his scheme ? he did say,"And you have no idea what I had to do" to get/use his loophole.I think it probably was Jacob, I'm just throwing the thought out there.

Are we all assuming that it was Esau that was trapped in the cabin ? I am thinking that it was, since it's the people in the cabin that have been manipulating Locke. But then, who let him out ?Who had him trapped there ?

We did find out that Ben had never spoken to Jacob. Was Ben deceiving Locke when he brought him to the cabin to meet Jacob, or is that where Ben thought he was ?

the whole Jack/Kate/Sawyer/Juliet thing was as annoying as always.Though I did feel bad that Juliet got killed(or did she ?).
I still think that the detonation of the H-Bomb will send Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Miles, Juliet ? and Sayid back to their present time(2007 right?) on the Island, so that they can take part in whatever the battle is going to be.Though I cannot figure out who will be fighting who exactly.
i think they were who Jacob was talking about when he said "They're coming" before Esau/Not-Locke pushed him into the fire.
How great was it to see Rose and Bernard ? And how great were their reactions ? "Oh hell no" and 'Son of a bitch!" AWESOME!!! I hope that they don't get pulled to 2007 too. i liked them where they were.

Also nice to see Phil get his. Wes aw Dr. Chang lose his arm. radzinski survived so that he can still blow his brains out in the Swan.

What might Lapidus be a candidate for ? A body for Jacob, perhaps ?

Interesting that Jacob was not in Juliet's flashback, and Miles did not have one at all.

Loved Lapidus' line"Usually, the guys in a rush to say they're the good guys are the bad guys."(I'm pretty sure I got that wrong, but I think i got the gist)

Lost- What's Gonna Happen ?

I don't think there are any HUGE spoilers in here, but I do mention some stuff that happened in the last few episodes, so if you have not seen them yet, don't go on.

I have been thinking about this a lot since Wednesday night. Just what the hell is gonna happen on that damn island ? What's gonna happen in 1977 ? What's gonna happen in 2007 ? How will one affect the other ? It makes my head spin.

  But that doesn't mean it's not fun. Here is what I think I'm thinking is going to happen in the season finale next week, and beyond.

  First of all, I do not think that exploding Jughead is going to keep Oceanic Flight 815 from crashing. In fact, just as I was deciding to write this, I had a thought...What if Eloise Hawking from 2007 is manipulating the detonation of Jughead so that the people who were on the Ajira flight(Ilana and Graham, et al) cannot find it and use it in the "war for the island" that is coming ? I have not had a lot of time to fully realize that thought, but I figured I would toss it out there.

  Think that whatever Jack does with the bomb in the season finale is going to shuttle Jack and Kate and Sawyer and Hurley and Juliet and Sayid and whomever else(or at least those that survive) BACK to 2007, so that they can participate in this battle for the island.

  On the Locke front...I can't decide whether I think he is good or evil. I think he is probably still good. Thought it was weird to find out that Locke himself was the one who told Richard to tell him that he had to die in order to bring everyone back to the island. But I guess it all comes down to what you think he meant when he said he was going to "kill Jacob". Does he think he can set Jacob free by killing him( Jacob did say "help me" to John when John was in the cabin the first time,and there has never been an explanation for the grey dust encircling the ground outside the cabin- i still think Jacob is imprisoned in that cabin...But why ?) ? Does he think that he can seize complete control by killing Jacob ? Or did he simply tell Ben that he was going to kill Jacob so that Ben would tell Richard ?

  I am finding it hard to believe that after all he has been through, NOW Locke would be evil. Unless he's not really John Locke anymore, and instead the embodiment of some malevolent spirit. My guess is that if he does plan to kill Jacob, then he believes it is the right thing to do for the good of the island. And what is good for the island is good for those that "belong" on the island.

  I am of a kind that Ilana, Graham, et al are either the children of the Dharma Initiative, or they have simply reformed the Dharma Initiative, or both, and they have come back to avenge the deaths of their loved ones, and reclaim the island. I think that the battle for the island will be the final season.

 there, that's what I think...I think.

  What do you think ?

Lost 5.15-Follow The Leader

Wow. Quite a bit to digest from last night's episode.Has Locke gone loco? Or do you trust what he's planning to do ? Do you think that killing Jacob is somehow the "right" thing to do ? It does seem that someone has Jacob trapped in that cabin. And he did say "Help me" to Locke. Either way,Ii thought Locke(and more importantly, Terry O'Quinn) was really good tonight. "I have a purpose now." "I'm not afraid of anything you can do anymore, Ben". "The island told me."
The only troubling aspect is Locke lying to Sun. That was unsettling. Unless he wasn't actually lying. Very interesting developments. It was nice to see Ben get back to his manipulative ways, telling Locke about Richard's concerns.
And what is the deal with Richard and Ben and Jacob ? I think Locke might be right, I don't think Ben ever saw Jacob.Has Richard ? I loved Ben and Richard's exchange :"I think Locke may be a problem" 'Why do you think i tried to kill him ?"
Also interesting to see Sawyer once again dive headlong into self-interest.I do wonder how Kate and Sawyer and Juliet end up back on the island(it's pretty clear from the promos for next week's season finale that they do). Do you think that they get white lighted out of the sub, because they are still supposed to be on the island ? Or do they decide to get off the sub and go back? And how exactly would they pull that off ?

Did anyone else kinda hope that Sayid would shoot Kate when she told him that she and Sawyer saved Ben ? I kinda did.She has basically tortured jack for 3 years, and she doesn't get why he might want to try and avoid that, along with saving a couple of hundred lives ? And when she can't manipulate jack, she goes and plops herself down between Sawyer and Juliet(not that I'm any big fan of theirs either, but still). I think the reason Kate doesn't want Jack to keep the plane from crashing was that the plane crash(never mind the casualties), actually worked in Kate's favor. If the plane doesn't crash, she goes to jail. I know that's oversimplifying a bit, but that's at the heart of it, and I think I would like it better if she had the guts to just say that.

How good was it to see Sayid again ?I think he might actually be my favorite character. he does what he needs to do. I also loved his line about what Jack was doing that even if it didn't work it would "put us out of our misery."

I cannot help but feel that Ellie may be playing Jack. If she remembered Daniel from when they buried the bomb, why did she shoot him ? I would think she might have recognized him, even from behind. I don't totally trust her. Though she did seem shocked when she saw her handwriting in the journal. I'm just so confused !!

It was nice to see Miles get a little insight into why his dad sent he and his Mom away so harshly.

Thought the exchange between Hurley and Dr. Chang was pretty priceless. Especially Jin's face when Hurley says there was no such thing as the Korean war. Is Hurley supposed to be some sort of statement on the state of our public schools ? Doesn't know who the President was in 1977, thinks the Korean war didn't happen.

Loved when Ben said that Richard had been an advisor for a really,really,really long time.

Anyone else gonna be pretty excited when Dharma Phil finally gets his ? I'm also hoping that they will change history and we'll get to see Radzinsky die, too. As much as i dislike sawyer, i thought the whole interrogation was a bit over the top.

I almost completely forgot about Richard saying that he saw Jack, Kate, et al "all die". How crazy was that ? And was he being truthful ? We don't really have a line on how untruthful/manipulative Ricihard can be, do we ? I think he's playing some angle, I just don't know what it is.

 

  Next Wednesday cannot come soon enough!