Lost, Heroes, American Idol, and Stuff
Well, the ’spoilers’ for American Idol last week ended up being true, so what does that mean for tonight? It means, if they stick to it, Blake will be the runner-up and Jordin Sparks will be the winner. I don’t really have an opinion because I stopped watching about half way through so I’m not sure what to think, but I’m more and more confident that your votes stopped mattering a month or two ago.
Why I am confident? Well, I know it sounds like an National Enquiror article, but this report claims that the show won’t release it’s voting records from the six seasons. This would not be hard to do and I can’t see any reason why they wouldn’t unless they didn’t want to show something. It even claims that the public only actually chose the winner twice out of the six seasons. Makes sense. What if America got it wrong? Nigel Lythgoe steps in and tells us who our Idol should be.
In other Wednesday Blog news, the season finale of LOST airs tonight. I’ve already read the recap, because I’m fucking stupid, and it was confirmed today (and last week when the description ended up being DEAD ON) by someone else that the spoilers I read were entirely accurate. Which means there will be no surprises for me tonight. I will not be reading spoilers for that show again. (I hope.)
But, of course, what makes the show great is not just the stories but the writing, acting, look and feel, music… the whole shebang-a-bang. I’m still looking forward to seeing it! After some thought, it’s going to be great.
I’ll give a teaser (*not* a spoiler, but if you want to you can skip this paragraph): Mittelos Bioscience, the company that recruited the Other we know as Juliet, is an anagram for LOST TIME. We’ll get a feel for what LOST TIME exactly means tonight, and it will no doubt set the course for the rest of the whole series. And it has an ending you might see in an M Night Shyamalan movie (twisty ending where you have to rethink everything you just saw.)
I had a dream yesterday about Lost (yeah, I’m crazy, but I think it’s because I was watching the recap episode before I went to bed.) What happened was, the Others were forcing Kate to put together an anti-aircraft weapon on the ground. She was supposed to shoot something down. She was crying because she didn’t want to do it, but they made her, and the missle ended up knicking the wing of a silverish blue U shaped aircraft. It floated around a bit and then zoomed away like a UFO as it turned invisible (like it had a cloaking device.) Next thing I knew I was seeing through Jack’s eyes, and Juliet asked if he thought they were being watched. They were about to engage in intercourse (of the SEXUAL variety) in the jungle. He said “no, of course not.” She said, in her creepy calm way, “I do,” and was looking over Jack’s shoulder. He turns around and there is a FUCKING ALIEN in the trees. It gets scared and turns invisible, and then they look up and there are little nobules floating in mid-air about 10 feet above them. Turns out the nobules were holo-projectors and the entire island was a hallucination on some alien world.
Ooooo-weeee-oooooo….
In the shower after I got up I was scared to open my eyes and see an alien peering in at me from behind the shower curtain.
Then I got to thinking… remember how Cindy the Flight Attendant said “We’re here to watch.” It would have been my new theory had I not spoiled it for myself already.
When Lost is at it’s best it scares the shit out of me.
Like this clip from last season’s finale:
When I first saw it, the reaction was: “WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN?” Also, it was the culmination of everything I hoped Lost was going to be. In that scene, it became the sci-fi show I was hoping for.
Speaking of other sci-fi shows, does anybody else feel that the end of Heroes was a little anti-climatic? I’m not sure what I was hoping for, but it was more than that. I mean it was a good show and it had it’s good parts but at the end you just kind of went “huh, so…. that’s that.” What has me intrigued now is what the “Tracking” girl said about one of the ‘evolved humans’ that she can see. They asked her if there was anybody worse than Sylar, or something, and she said yes, but she doesn’t like to look for him, because when she looks out to him, he looks back. I want to find out who this person is.
It’s BENJAMIN LINUS.
No, it can’t be.
At the end of Heroes, when Hiro transported himself back to ancient Japan (and ends up meeting the warrior who carried his sword), a total eclipse happens and everyone looks up to see it. At that moment, before they showed the eclipse, I thought it was a UFO casting a shadow, and that the explanation to the question “why do these people have superpowers?” would be my friggin idea from last summer. The second to last line (the one in ALL CAPS) seems to fit.
Even if is ends up being all about alien influence, I suppose there’s nothing I can do now! Too late!
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Adam Goes to the Motor City Comic Con
I have a secret to tell. Today I played hooky from work for a number of reasons…
1.) I am exhausted.
2.) I have shit to do.
3.) The Motor City Comic Con is this weekend so… why not?
So today for a few hours I dorked myself up and drove to Novi to meet with fellow dorks. First, I got all dressed up…
…notice the unibow and the fact that I mysteriously am always carrying around comic books even though I wasn’t holding any when the picture was taken.
I have not been to many conventions before. I went to two in high school but those were strictly Star Trek conventions. I didn’t really understand much of what it was all about, and still don’t. But I remember it was cool to meet the people you watch on TV. Before that, I ran into some Klingons and Romulans at King’s Dominion in Virginia.
Yup, always a dork.
Anyway, I went for a couple of reasons. The first was because I wanted to complete my Supergirl collection (which may sound homosexual but they were written by one of my favorite authors), see what other deals they may have, and meet some of my favorite characters who were going to be there from Star Trek.
Lots of folks were there to sign autographs and take photos with the fans, but they charge $20 to do it! There must have been about 50 guests sitting at booths for meet and greats. Most of them I didn’t know and never heard of… comic book writers, inkers, etc. Even a porn star or two. But, I headed for three in particular.
This guy’s name is Domic Keating. He played Malcom Read on Star Trek: Enterprise. That look on his face pretty much sums up what he was like to meet in person. When I walked up to him and introduced myself and asked “do you mind if I get a picture with you?” his response was “Here’s the thing, mate, (he’s English) … I’ll do a photo with you if you buy a photo.” It sounds ruder here than it was. Anyway I got caught up in the moment and did it.
The autographed photo has less sentimental value than the photo I took (which was blurry because some old guy couldn’t hold the camera steady.) Like I said, I bought it for the other photo.
Next, and here’s honestly my main motivation for going… was Connor Trineer. I swear to god if I had a vagina, I would probably have not been able to do this, because my heart was already pounding so hard even though I have a penis. I am not homosexual but I was giggling like a school girl.
*swoons*
There you go ladies… how’d ya like to be the action in the middle of THAT?
Honestly what made me so nervous was because he seriously was the best character on Enterprise. And they killed his character off in the last episode in what was supposed to be some heroic act of self-sacrifice, but really ended up being some poorly written piece of crap. So… they resurrected his character in the Star Trek novels. Turns out what we saw on screen wasn’t him actually dying, but faking his own death to go undercover for a secret organization on a mission to save the universe. (What else?) I just finished reading the book and it did his character more justice than the show ever did. So, if I walked away with nothing else, I was determined to walk away with this…
He was the nicest guy I met there and actually asked me about the book. He looked at it when I gave it to him and said, “Wait… is this the one where they bring me back?” And I said, “Yup, they resurrected your character.” And he said, “I heard about this back home! Apparently I went on some undercover mission and had to fake my death. Is it any good?” And I said, “Uh-huh,” and he’s all like, “I’ll have to read it,” and I’m all like, “Yeah, it’s really good.” That’s it.
Throughout the whole thing I kept waiting for Johnathan Frakes to show up (he played “Number One” in Star Trek: The Next Generation.) It would have been cool to meet him but apparently he was all big-bad-celebrity and didn’t show up by the time I decided to leave. So instead I went up and gave my money to this guy…
…Robert Picardo, who played “The Doctor,” on Star Trek: Voyager. Of course no photo op is free so I had to purchase this photo for him to sign:
…which I didn’t mind at all because it’s such a great photo. It’s the cast of Star Trek: Voyager which was, like, a staple of my high school years. He’s the guy on the far left. When he was autographing the photo he said, “You know why I’m smiling in this photo, right, Adam? I made a dirty joke.” And me, not getting what was happening, said, “Huh?”, and he said something about “Roxanne” (the girl leaning against him) being real close to his cock and balls. He said the guy in the right of the picture (Ethan Phillips) was giving him a jealous look. Cooincidentally, Ethan Phillips was seated RIGHT FRIGGIN NEXT TO HIM, but by that point I had ran out of money and didn’t feel like approaching him because he was being wierd and shouting out random things.
Surprisingly there was not a line to meet any of these people and most of the time they appeared to just be sitting there.
I also got to shake hands and meet Fat Momma, Major Victory, and Feedback from the show Who Wants to Be a Superhero? that aired last summer. I met Seka the porn star (who I had not heard of), Peter Mayhew (Chewbocca from Star Wars), and got to shake hands with Grace Lee Whitney again. She was on the original series of Star Trek and I got a photo with her years and years ago (when I went to a convention in 8th grade), but the photo didn’t turn out. I would have gotten another photo but of course she was charging for them.
Back in 8th grade I don’t remember having to pay her for an autograph. Times must have changed.
I took advantage of a half-off sale and bought some other comics including Watchmen, The Walking Dead, and Origin (where Wolverine’s past is finally revealed.) I also talked one of the vendors into giving me the following with a little discount:
I’m sure I probably shouldn’t have taken them out of their packaging but oh well. They have more value to me prominently displayed than they do in a box. Of course, these are the main characters from Lost.
Anyway, it was a fun experience, if not expensive, and one that I’ll definately go to again next year, assuming they have some more awesome guests and give me more time to save my money.
What’s that you say? You thought I didn’t have any money and was broke to begin with? Well, you’d be right. So I’d like to put up one more photo…
…big thanks to DISCOVER, who made it all possible. I have $1.54 in my bank account now, but a credit card with a 0% APR that’s getting hungrier by the minute.
***Fin.
American Idol and Lost tonight.
The big question is… is Locke dead?!? Ben shot him in the gut in last week’s episode, but methinks that since his dad conned him out of a kidney, and therefore is lacking in organs in that area, he’ll be just fine. Not that I came up with that myself, but I thought I’d share.
Speaking of not coming up with things myself, I can’t say anything about what I expect to happen in the next two episodes because I read a pretty detailed “insiders summary,” otherwise known as MAJOR SPOIELRS. I’m a fwiggin wee-tawd. It didn’t necessarily ruin it because I was like “OH MY GOD!” as I was reading it, and seeing it on film will be awesome. If they are even true, which there was some debate about, but after seeing the clip of tonight’s episode they seem pretty true.
But, if the summary of the season finale (airing next week) is true… it’s… we’ll, it’s great. I think. Personally, I think what happens in the last few mintues will put the show into a whole other realm of whatever else is being shown on TV today. Whether you think it’s a good idea or not, I’m pretty sure you’ll be going “HO. LEE. SHIT.” either way. But I think it’s going to furthur divide the Lost audience. One side will continue to make fun of the show for being so over-the-top, unpredictable, and poorly written (when really it’s just WAY ahead of it’s time), yet continue to watch, while the other will grow even more loyal.
That is, if it turns out to be true. What I read could be completely wrong, like last week when I read that Jacob was revealed to be Richard Alpert (obviously that didn’t happen, but what’s the deal with Richard not aging?? My prediction: the original Others are the survivors of the Black Rock shipwreck and for whatever reason don’t age.)
Moving on to spoilers from another show: American Idol. That’s right. I read the spoilers for American Idol and the winner will be Jordin Sparks. Melinda Dolittle will go home tonight, and Blake Lewis will be the runner-up.
If you’re mad like Katy that I posted “spoilers” for American Idol, remember it’s a show where you call in and vote and therefore control the outcome week-to-week. If those end up being accurate it means one of two things: 1) Lucky guess, Slick or 2) the show is pre-determined and you’re vote does nothing but rack up money for Cingular, or, I’m sorry, the new AT&T. “Cue the Coke sign,” Ryan. Sanjaya’s tidal wave of fame ended way to abruptly for it to have happened by your votes. In my opinion.
But, what’ll probably happen is the minute both shows air tonight
In other words, to sum up: Lost will be SOOOOO good, but then again, it might not! Jordin Sparks will become America’s Idol, but then again, maybe it’ll be Blake!
SHALOM.
‘Pider-Mang 3
I saw Spider-Man 3 over the weekend and it was good.
That’s it.
Actually, I think I might want to say more.
It was good, but I wouldn’t call it the best of the three. It’s pretty much on the same level. Which is good, because at least it’s not worse than the other two.
What?
Kind of like Eminem’s first three albums. They are all good, but it’s hard to compare because by the third he grew as an artist so much that it was kind of a completely different album.
Anyway… things I liked about Spider-Man 3:
*The fact that it was Spider-Man 3
*The fact that it was 2 hours and 30 minutes long.
*Venom (Side note: I think of all the supervillians I would not want to find in my bedroom lurking in a corner late at night, Venom is on the top of that list. He’s fucking creepy. I think it’s the insanely muscular body and little-ass alien head.)
*Sam Raimi, Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst
*Thomas Hayden Church is a good actor and I had not heard of him before this. Although in some parts he looked like Jim Varney. I wanted him to turn to the camera and say “Knowwhadimean, Vern?”
*Bryce Dallas Howard?
*Spider-Man kickin ass.
My concern about the movie is that, somehow, it managed to have TOO MUCH going on so that I felt that it dragged on in some parts, even though it was rushing through. How is that even possible? Although the more I think about it, that’s kind of the way I feel when reading comic books.
I kind of felt like the whole Sandman story could have been a movie all by itself. There’s so much story there they could even theoretically do it without Spider-Man.
[spoilers from this point on]
There was so much going on that a lot of the scenes were rushed. The Sandman character wanders into a nuclear test site (somehow in the middle of the city) and gets the sand fused with his molecules, and… that’s it. No explanation as to what the hell was being tested, and why the scientists didn’t decide to try and track down whoever it was that sumbled into their test zone. Must happen all the time. “Oops… I think we created another supervillian, here, guys. Maybe we should reinforce the fence surrounding the nuclear test site.”
And the Venom symbiont just fell from the sky. It just felt kind of silly. MJ and Peter Parker are chilling on his web, looking at the stars, a meteor crashes, and the little alien thing clings to his bike and then that’s how shit hits the fan. I mean, I know, what else could it have done? I’m not sure what I was expecting but it just seemed like, “Okay, that’s cool, but I want to see more Sandman. HOLD ON A FUCKIN SECOND VENOM!”
I kind of felt like I spoiled the movie for myself because a lot of it is really similar. I read up on the stories in the Spider-Man comics before I went to see it, and But, it turns out that wasn’t really true. Gwen Stacy doesn’t die like I had thought. I thought that the Green Goblin would take her to the bridge after he ‘remembered’ what happened like the Green Goblin did in the comics. Then he would drop Gwen Stacey and Spider-Man would try to save her but she’d already be dead.BUT, the twisty thing was that the Green Goblin ended up saving the day, which I thought was GR-8. I like friendship and loyalty and shit like that. Except if all it took was the butler to say, “oh, yeah, B-T-Dubya, Spider-Man didn’t kill your dad,” why the hell didn’t he say that sooner?
Anyway, that’s it, mainly because I don’ t feel like typing anymore. Sorry for the suck-ass review!
AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS INVOLVING SUPERHEROES
Part 1: SPIDER-MAN
Mary-Jane: So, Pete, I have a question.
Peter: Yes, Mary Jane? You’re so sweet and I love you.
Mary-Jane: Gee, thanks Pete. I was wondering, though… about your… webbing.
Peter: My webbing? What about it MJ?
Mary-Jane: How does it…? I mean, does it just shoot out of your skin?
Peter: [holds up his wrists] You never looked?
Mary-Jane: [squeemish] Actually, no.
Peter: Well, when I press my two finges into my palm, this little flap on my wrist opens up and it just comes out. [demonstrates]
Mary-Jane: Oh. I’ve never looked at it that closely before. Why is your wrist wet?
Peter: Oh, that’s just the after-effects. I’m not really sure what it is. [smells it] Some kind of lubricant, probably.
Mary-Jane: So… your body just makes that stuff?
Peter: Yeah. I have to eat like crazy, otherwise I’ll run out and get tired.
Mary-Jane: I always just thought it was some kind of artificial fabric or something.
Peter: Nope. That shit’s all natural. It feels SOOOO good when it comes out.
Mary-Jane: [gulps] Peter I have nightmares that I’ll give birth to baby spiders.
Another Lost blog.
Told ya’ll bitches.
John Locke’s father is the original Sawyer, the one who ruined his life and gave him an identity.
I said in the last post that it was kind of obvious at this point and it was. In season one we learned that Sawyer was not Sawyer’s real name, that it was James Ford. We learned this when Hurley made a list of who all survived and “Sawyer” was not on the list. But before they knew that, Kate read a letter she had found in the wreckage written by a little kid to a “Mr. Sawyer.” In it, it said that the child had no parents because of him. Because of “Mr. Sawyer’s” con, his dad killed his mom and then killed himself. So he promised to find “Mr. Sawyer” using his own methods against him and when he did find him, he’d kill him.
So, you were led to believe that Sawyer was a bad guy and you really hated him. Then, the big reveal was that the letter was written bySawyer, not to him. Then, you felt real sympathetic toward the guy.
And so when it was found out later in the show that Locke’s dad happened to be a con man who went by various names, you kind of thought “hm…” (At least, I did.) It probably would have never occured to anyone but on Lost, everyone has connections to each other. In the special features of the Season Two DVD there is a character map with lines drawn to each other explaining what connections they share. There is one drawn between Sawyer and Locke but it is unexplained.
Then, in last week’s preview for this week’s episode, it said something like “a common enemy shared by Locke and Sawyer.” Well, it isn’t Ben, and I couldn’t think of anyone else. The signs were all there!
Anyway, definately the best episode of the season. I said that about the previous three as well, but, damn, it’s really gotten good as we approach the end of the season.
Next week’s episode is supposed to be about Ben’s origin and the Dharma Initiative. We’re also supposed to find out who the mysterious “Jacob” is. I have the secret: it’s me. Jacob is my middle name so I mean, who else could it be?
Turns out I am the one who got Kate pregnant.
MY BAD! News to me, I haven’t even met her. {cue Lost surprise twist music chimes}
Just kidding.
So, to recap: the first time we heard “Jacob’s” name was when Pickett (the guy who was shot and killed by Juliet who I hated because he was beating up Sawyer for no reason) said it to Ben, saying, “[Jack] Shephard wasn’t even on Jacob’s list.” So Jacob was the one who made the list at the end of season two that was composed of Kate, Jack, James (Sawyer) and Hurley.
Then, during the brainwashing session Karl (Alex’s boyfriend) was subjected to earlier this season, one of the slides said “God loves you as he loved Jacob.” It is no doubt a biblical reference but like everything in this show it means more than that.
Jacob is probably “Him,” not God (I don’t think), but the “Him” everyone was asking about all throughout the show so far. When they found Desmond, he asked “Are you Him?” which is what Kelvin said when Desmond originally came to the Hatch. Then, when they captured Ben and were interrogating him, he said, “You have no idea what He’ll do. He is a good man but not a forgiving man.” There are many other references to a “Him,” and it’s believed that he’s the supreme authority among the others. It’s no doubt someone we know… but I got no friggin idea who it could be.
Except… I know that Naiomi (the parachustist/helicopter escapee) is an Other. I really want someone to crash on the island that is on our side (that is, the side of the survivors). I really want them to be able to trust somebody. But I’m afraid Naiomi is not that person.
I was reading online and people who actually speak Porteguese translated what she was mumbling when they originally rescued her. Mikhail (the eye-patch guy who turned up not dead) agreed to fix her up medically if they’d let him go. While Mikhail was tending to her wounds, she said (in a supposed “dreary state”) something that Mikhail translated as “thank you.” Turns out, she had actually said “I am not alone.”
Was Mikhail expecting her? Did he think Naiomi or one of her companions shot the flare gun, and that’s why he was surprised to run across Hurley? Was he expecting others?
Mikhail then walked away and Hurley (or Jin, can’t remember who) saw that he had taken the iPhone (it is an iPhone bitches, click here to see). Mikhail could have taken it just to suit his own interests but I’m thinking something much more sinister is involved.
What’s more, that would mean a massive cover-up about the wreckage of Flight 815 would not be necessary. If Naiomi is in on the whole thing, she could just be lying. “They found all the bodies,” could just turn out to be a big lie.
I hope Jack Bauer somehow crashes on the island and they can actually trust him and he brings weapons and they blow all the Others to hell (if they’re not there already.) Until then, Naiomi will continue to lie, Ben will continue to be evil, and poor Juliet will be caught in the middle, ultimately getting herself killed with her Romeo (Jack) because of the two warring tribes.
THINGS ADAM IS STILL WONDERING ABOUT:
-Why did the Others leave their houses to set up the decoy camp?
-What the hell was Danielle Russeau doing looking for dynamite? Why was she not at all phased about the man trapped in the brig being killed by Sawyer?
-Why Josh Halloway (Sawyer) isn’t nominated for an Oscar or something. The scene when he hands him the letter he’s waited his entire life for him to read… That shit was GRIPPING.
You don’t understand. I love this show. I love it so much I want to take it back behind the bleachers and get it pregnant.
