the list of now

on that mysterious eye in the LOST 2010 promo

So, I thought that someone would have done this already, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.   We need a photo comparison to investigate whose eye that is on the LOST final season 2 second promo teaser!

The way eye see it… (what, you didn’t really expect me to get through this without a bad pun, did you?) there are only two possibilities:

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On the death of the LISTcap and moving forward

I started writing LOST recaps when I was working part-time and therefore could devote hours to the screencaps and discussion.   Now I am working full-time and on a number of projects.  I just finished an intensive 2.5 weeks of training that ate my sleep schedule.  So I feel that I have to make an actual choice.

Thing is.  I miss blogging.  If I were to try to catch up and maintain recaps, that would be my entire blog.  There would not be time or room for anything else.  So I’m quitting recaps.  I will still add in some discussion on episodes of LOST and hopefully Dollhouse, but those won’t be nearly as comprehensive.

My blog is not a TV blog and I don’t wish for it to turn into one.  I want to get back into writing about all the list items that enrich my life.

So if you came for the recaps, I do apologize to leave off, after only a few eps and I hope you find my commentary on TV and other things just as interesting.

ListCaps: LOST 5×05 “This Place is Death”

This was a couple of weeks ago, now.  I’m super duper late and frankly, don’t care much about this episode, because last week’s episode (5×06) was SO amazing that I can barely remember what happened before it.  I’m really excited to recap that one.

So um… I’m going to skip ahead.

I know, I know, I’m awesome at this recapping thing.  Four fucking episodes and I can’t even keep up.   I promise to be better at this from here on out.  REALLY.  But in the meantime, here is a brief overview of the major bullet points of this episode.  And then also some handy links to some actual better recaps.

So this is my really basic, no-frills, nutshell-cliche kind of bullet-listed recap:

• Sun, and her gun, interrupts Ben’s little rendezvous with everyone at the dock.  He tells her Jin is still alive and she could kill him now and never know or give him a chance to prove it, but he needs to take her somewhere in order to do it.   Kate takes Aaron and leaves.  Sun and Jack go with Ben.  In the best scene of the episode, he pulls over the van and screams at them about how underappreciated he is, when he has been apparently struggling and working hard to protect them and all they do is complain, threaten and distrust him.
• Jin travels with Danielle’s party through the jungle.  They find mysterious ruins that we have never seen, being guarded by the smoke monster, which attacks their crew. They survive but become “sick” and later Jin flashes into another time to find Danielle on the beach shooting Alex’s father, who pleads with her at first but then indeed, does try to kill her.
• Jin (in another flash) is reunited with Sawyer and the group of survivors on the island.  He and Sawyer hug and it’s adorable and makes me go “Awwww”.   They continue on to the Orchid.   He gives Locke his wedding ring and makes him promise to  lie to Sun, tell her he is dead and never bring her back to the island.
• Charlotte becomes weak and ill and Daniel stays behind with her while the rest of the group continues on to the Orchid.  She confesses she was raised on the island with her mother.   She says there was a crazy man who kind of scared her as a child.  This man warned her never to return to the island or she would die.  She believes this man was Daniel.   She tells him all this and then quite predictably dies.
• They arrive at the Orchid and the station is not there.  Charlotte had muttered something about a well, so John finds the well and drops down into it.   Christian finds him there, reprimands him for ignoring his previous instructions and allowing Ben to move the island, instead of John himself.  The wheel apparently is off the axis and must be moved again to stop it, and for John to get off the island.  He does this and there is another flash.
• Ben brings Jack and Sun to the church where Mrs. Hawking is.  Just before they go in, he gives Jin’s wedding ring to Sun as proof that he is still alive.  She continues on with him (either because she believes him or has to go with him to find out for sure if Jin is still alive).   Desmond arrives (looking for Mrs. Hawking because of Daniel’s message) and they all go in.  She is disappointed that Ben was not able to get all of the Oceanic Six, but says that this will have to do.

The End.

Links to some more comprehensive recaps:

Official LOST website

TV Without Pity

The Ack Attack (OK, so this one is less comprehensive if you didn’t watch and really want to know all the details of what actually happened.  But it’s freakin’ hilarious.  Highly recommended.

And I will be back with my 5×06 recap tomorrow!  And some Dollhouse recaps soon too, if you are into that.

Cheers!

ListCaps: LOST 5×04 “The Little Prince”

A few notes:

• If you haven’t already figured this out, scroll over the photos on my recaps to see captions.  Most of them have one.  Most of them are funny, although I don’t know if anyone will find them as hilarious as I do.  I crack me up.
• This was a busy, but excellent episode.  A lot happened, but it unfolded perfectly and the action/emotion + reveal/anticipation ratios were spot on!
• Brian K. Vaughan is one of the writers on this episode.  He’s a fantastic comics writer, in addition to being one of my fav LOST writers, so I just like to point it out when I see it.  Because more people should know who is writing their favorite TV.

On to the recap!

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ListCaps: LOST 5×03 “Jughead”

For me, this week’s episode was like watching a gymnastics competition.  I got excited for it to start, then had to watch a lot of discussion and posturing and explanation.  Then the events started rolling, some I find super interesting, some I don’t.  And then one particular routine, vault or fancy flip makes me go “OMG! That’s incredible”.  Such is the writing in some episodes of LOST.   This was not one of my favorite episodes, but it had one of my favorite moments in it and it finished off really, really nicely.

Way to stick the landing, LOST writers.

Now onto the recappage:

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ListCaps: LOST Clip Show, 5×01 and 5×02 – Part 2

5×02 The Lie

1.  We open on Penny’s boat, 3 years ago, preceding the big public “rescue” of the Oceanic Six, who are deciding on exactly how to lie in order to protect their friends who are still back on the island.  Hurley does not want to lie, but everyone else thinks they will look crazy if they talk about the island disappearing and all.   For no apparent reason, he singles out Sayid and seems specifically resentful that he won’t back him up on this.  Penny, Desmond and Frank Lapedis all agree to back up the story even though they are going separate ways.

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