Lost and confused
Poll results show that you're all a bunch of Red Sox fans, except for those of you who are Cardinals fans. *g* But every team got at least a little love, so that's good, and as it should be. Also good is that the Angels won last night, yay! (What is it with all these "red" teams?) Now we go into hostile territory...
I got a mystifying email from the financial aid office this morning telling me that there had been a change to my financial aid offer. Of course, they don't tell you what that is in the email - you have to look it up on the website. The website said that my loan offer (which I didn't need to take out this year due to grant money, thank goodness) had been downgraded due to a Teaching Assisstantship. Um. What? This is the first I've heard of that this year. o.O
Anyway, last night I did indeed watch Lost, and I can't believe how much info they gave us! I totally agreed with Locke - they needed to watch that film again! (And haha, that line was so meta. <3) I have to admit, once they name-dropped B.F. Skinner, I came to the conclusion that Jack did - that it was all a black box social engineering experiment designed to mess with your head. The name is interesting, too - Dharma can be translated as "duty," which is certainly what Desmond felt he had. The mystery of the polar bears is no more. And dude, did they seriously add a Calvin to the show? With our already existing Locke and Rousseau?
I may have agreed with Jack, but at least I wasn't a complete ass about it. Seriously, Jack needs to pull his head out of his butt. He spent the episode working against everyone, demanding answers and justification for his personal issues, rather than dealing with the immediate "oh shit" problem at hand and then taking time for a Q&A. The man claims to be a rationalist, but his attitude doesn't support it. So far, he has annoyed me far more than Kate this season.
Okay, when you shoot a computer? It is not immediately obvious - nor likely - that it can be fixed! WTF, Lost writers. They should have been royally screwed by this, not "Oh, no worries, Sayid can fix it!" I mean...why are you so sure of that? And then, of course, he did - exhibiting the lovely "I'll do this first, then ask questions" attitude that Jack should have had - which streched my suspension of disbelief beyond its usual wide limits. Mer. Sayid has apparently become the writers' all-purpose fix-it guy, whether or not it makes logical sense. I'm all for more Sayid, but let's at least make it plausible, mkay?
Haha, I love Hurley. "Don't do it!" *numbers are wrong* "Eh, go ahead, I don't care." That totally should've been their first clue. *g* And he found the food, which made me jump almost as much as did Charlie finding the drugs.
But onto the episode's focal character - my beloved Locke! Oh Locke. I loved his outburst at the meeting. I have the very sinking suspicion that Helen will somehow end up being the reason for his paralysis. I don't know how, exactly, but it seems like the sort of thing they'd inflict on him. :-( Anyway, as usual, he was all kinds of awesome, but I don't have more to say about it than that.
You know, individually, I don't care one way or another about Sawyer, Michael, and Jin. But together? <333! They're so...barely functional! It's fabulous. And now they're in a hole, and I almost thought we were going to get the episode I wanted last week, but no, because Lost works best when the plot is driving. The "It's a girl!" reaction was a bit much (because dude, I know you've been at boy scout camp, but it hasn't been that long since you last saw one), but I was just as surprised as they were that she turned on them. The question is, are these really the "Others" or are they the other plane people? Is she working for them out of her own free will or so as not to die? These are the new questions, in the post-polar bear era.
I'm a little wary of this new tie they all now have to pressing the button. I feel like unless something about the situation changes, it will really inhibit the plot by keeping them tied to one place and one purpose. I suspect that the drug we saw Desmond shooting up with in the first ep is some sort of stimulant, because 108 minutes may be longer than 33, but not by much when you're talking sleep deprivation.
Preview! Jin speaks English! I knew it! Mwahaha!
Finally, Yahoo could really work at its normal pace right now. *glares*
I got a mystifying email from the financial aid office this morning telling me that there had been a change to my financial aid offer. Of course, they don't tell you what that is in the email - you have to look it up on the website. The website said that my loan offer (which I didn't need to take out this year due to grant money, thank goodness) had been downgraded due to a Teaching Assisstantship. Um. What? This is the first I've heard of that this year. o.O
Anyway, last night I did indeed watch Lost, and I can't believe how much info they gave us! I totally agreed with Locke - they needed to watch that film again! (And haha, that line was so meta. <3) I have to admit, once they name-dropped B.F. Skinner, I came to the conclusion that Jack did - that it was all a black box social engineering experiment designed to mess with your head. The name is interesting, too - Dharma can be translated as "duty," which is certainly what Desmond felt he had. The mystery of the polar bears is no more. And dude, did they seriously add a Calvin to the show? With our already existing Locke and Rousseau?
I may have agreed with Jack, but at least I wasn't a complete ass about it. Seriously, Jack needs to pull his head out of his butt. He spent the episode working against everyone, demanding answers and justification for his personal issues, rather than dealing with the immediate "oh shit" problem at hand and then taking time for a Q&A. The man claims to be a rationalist, but his attitude doesn't support it. So far, he has annoyed me far more than Kate this season.
Okay, when you shoot a computer? It is not immediately obvious - nor likely - that it can be fixed! WTF, Lost writers. They should have been royally screwed by this, not "Oh, no worries, Sayid can fix it!" I mean...why are you so sure of that? And then, of course, he did - exhibiting the lovely "I'll do this first, then ask questions" attitude that Jack should have had - which streched my suspension of disbelief beyond its usual wide limits. Mer. Sayid has apparently become the writers' all-purpose fix-it guy, whether or not it makes logical sense. I'm all for more Sayid, but let's at least make it plausible, mkay?
Haha, I love Hurley. "Don't do it!" *numbers are wrong* "Eh, go ahead, I don't care." That totally should've been their first clue. *g* And he found the food, which made me jump almost as much as did Charlie finding the drugs.
But onto the episode's focal character - my beloved Locke! Oh Locke. I loved his outburst at the meeting. I have the very sinking suspicion that Helen will somehow end up being the reason for his paralysis. I don't know how, exactly, but it seems like the sort of thing they'd inflict on him. :-( Anyway, as usual, he was all kinds of awesome, but I don't have more to say about it than that.
You know, individually, I don't care one way or another about Sawyer, Michael, and Jin. But together? <333! They're so...barely functional! It's fabulous. And now they're in a hole, and I almost thought we were going to get the episode I wanted last week, but no, because Lost works best when the plot is driving. The "It's a girl!" reaction was a bit much (because dude, I know you've been at boy scout camp, but it hasn't been that long since you last saw one), but I was just as surprised as they were that she turned on them. The question is, are these really the "Others" or are they the other plane people? Is she working for them out of her own free will or so as not to die? These are the new questions, in the post-polar bear era.
I'm a little wary of this new tie they all now have to pressing the button. I feel like unless something about the situation changes, it will really inhibit the plot by keeping them tied to one place and one purpose. I suspect that the drug we saw Desmond shooting up with in the first ep is some sort of stimulant, because 108 minutes may be longer than 33, but not by much when you're talking sleep deprivation.
Preview! Jin speaks English! I knew it! Mwahaha!
Finally, Yahoo could really work at its normal pace right now. *glares*