Some of my Favorite Bloopers

In no particular order (Alias Season 3 bloopers are the best ever)
Lost Season 4:

Alias Season 3:

Lost Season 3 Bloopers:

ER Season 4 bloopers:

"He's Our You"

I quite enjoyed this episode, but due to my tardiness in writing this post and illness last week (which has left me with a mound of make-up work to complete and a migraine headache to deal with) I am only going to summarize important events of the episode (things you'll need to know for next week).

• After being brought to New Otherton and imprisoned in what will eventually become Ben's basement Sayid is questioned by Horace who assumes due to the handcuffs that Sayid is either in some sort of disagreement with 'his people' (meaning the Hostiles as they assume he is a Hostile since there are supposedly no other people on the Island and Sayid is not a member of the Dharma Initiative, my question is why didn't Sawyer just say that the Oceanic 4 who are currently in his timeline are the long-lost members of his research team?) making Horace sympathetic towards him or he is a spy making him ripe for the killing. Sayid does not answer any of his questions.
• Sawyer then tries to convince Sayid to allow him to beat Sayid up to make it look like he got Sayid to confess that he was trying to defect from the Hostiles so that Sayid can become a free member of the D.I. Sayid refuses and tells Sawyer that he is on his own.
• Sawyer 'has no other choice' but to let the Dharma people take Sayid to their interrogator who gives Sayid what I assume was Sodium Pentathol (truth serum) which causes Sayid to confess that he came to the Island via Ajira flight 316 in turn causing him to confess that a) he has been to the Island before b) that he is from the future c) that he knows everything about the Dharma stations and d) that the everyone in the Dharma Initiative is going to die in the Purge. This unbelievable confession causes the Dharma people to think that their interrogator screwed up the dose and that they will never get the truth out of Sayid. (Wow, that was a great plan Sawyer, good thinking he almost exposed you and everyone who you love.)
• After returning Sayid to his cell the Dharma people take a vote on whether or not to kill Sayid it is almost unanimous in favor of executing Sayid escept for Sawyer. After a few words from Horace Sawyer changes his nay to a yay in order to 'keep his standing' w/the Dharma folks. He then goes to release Sayid, but Sayid doesn't take the opportunity to run I believe Destiny was involved in his reasons for not running.
• Sawyer then goes to talk to Kate (who was recently informed by Hurley about the relationship between Sawyer and Juliet) about why she came back to the Island, they are interrupted by a burning Hippie Bus before she is able to answer (I hope what she was going to say was something along the lines of "Because there wasn't anything worth staying for back in L.A." because that would have been something of poetic justice, but I suppose I shan't ever know). Sawyer and Kate rush to help the people in the burning house that the bus crashed into.
• Meanwhile in his future basement Ben releases Sayid in exchange for Sayid's promise to take him to the Hostiles. The tow head along a dirt road out of New Otherton where Sayid is spotted by Jin who is driving a hippie bus. Sayid tells Jin that Sawyer let him go then has no choice but to knock Jin unconscious when he radios 'LaFleur' to check out Sayid's story.
• Sayid then tells Ben that he was right about him (in a flashback big Ben told Sayid that he was a natural born killer and that it was really the only thing he was good at) then shoots him...L O S T!
• In flashbacks we learned that Sayid was on the plane being escorted by a bounty hunter (Ilana) back to Guam to receive justice for killing someone Ben had asked him to kill, that's really all that was important I think.

My opinion: Ben's not dead, what happened, happened, they cannot change the past and they cannot die for if they died in the past they could never come to the Island in the future meaning that they have to get back to real time or their lives on the Island will run in an endless loop. I am really curious where they will go with the whole Sayid is a Hostile thing and if he will actually join the Hostiles. I'm also thinking that the reason Ben picked Sayid to be his assassin was because Sayid shot him when he was a child (remember people heal much faster on the Island than normally). So many twists, I am really excited for next week, wonder whose flashbacks it will be (can't be Jack or John's their lives have been pretty much fully explained). What's going to happen to Ben now that he is w/John (who he murdered)? Where are all the other original survivors (Steve, Rose, Bernard, etc.)? Jack and Juliet, Sawyer and Kate? Will Jack in an angry and resentful flurry of emotions try to overthrow Sawyer as the leader and start doing things his own way? I also wonder how Sun and Lapidus will get to the '70s and if Claire will show up w/Christian at any point. So many questions that really need to be answered. Oy to the Vey. Exciting.

Estoy Muriendo

I feel like whining as I've had a pretty crappy run lately (don't think about that sentence too hard). So last week I came down with a respiration-ending cough that deprived me of air, my ability to speak, and sleep all week. I went to the doctor and after having two unpleasant tests run on me (influenza and mycoplasma) the doctor was able to determine that I had a virus and there was absolutely nothing she could do for me which was just spiffy. So Wednesday I was still coughing and couldn't speak (when I did speak I sounded a tad bit like Gollum) but I didn't think I was running a fever and my head ddidn't feel quite like it was going to explode so I decided to go to school at least to get the homework and such that I had missed. School went okay, but I had a ton of things to make up (i.e. major tests, papers, etcetera) which was just spectacular for me because by the time school was over and I was home all I wanted to do was sleep. Regardless of that I did all of my immediate homework and emailed a couple of papers to my AP Bio teacher just in case I couldn't go to school the next day (twas an off-chance at that point in time). Then I ate dinner, watched Lost ("Namaste") and went to bed. That night I woke up and for some odd reason that I didn't care to acknowledge couldn't see very well out of one eye (my vision was incredibly blurry), not seeing caused me no problem in gettting back to sleep, but the next morning when I woke up couldn't open my eye all the way, one corner seeme to be glued shut. I got up, went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror to my horror there was a ton of matter (gunk) in my eye and half of my eye was a lovely shade of hot pink. I went and told my mother figuring that pink-eye was no reason to miss school. Oh how wrong I was, pink-eye is incredibly contagious and is capable of spreading through a school like wildfire through a drought-stricken valley. Thus I went back to bed. That was a very miserable day, between hacking and not being able to rub my incredibly itching/burning eye. That afternoon I got my antibiotics (Z-pack) which did absolutely nothing to relieve anything, but made me non-contagious enough that I thought maybe, just maybe, I would be able to go to school the next day. Well, the next morning I woke up and couldn't open my eye at all so school went out the window once again. So I emailed my teachers for my homework and went back to bed. The next day I felt a little better, but still wasn't capable of doing uch other than sitting on the couch and watching television while coughing and trying not to rub my eye. the next day was more of the same (less pink and matter in my eye though). Monday was good, I took a friend of mine to the Barn and let her ride my horse. Tuesday was horrific I ended up with a tremendous migraine that caused half of my forehead to swell up to twice its normal size prompting people to ask if I had hit my head on something (which I hadn't). Wednesday was okay (yay, more Lost), but I had planned to do homeowork on Tuesday and Wednesday and since I slept through Tuesday I only had Wednesday and I spent most of Wednesday at church making soup and serving food so I didn't get much done. Thursday I had another migraine which was bad because I had a six-hour drive to Seward, Nebraska ahead of me (luckily I wasn't driving so I slept most of the way). Yesterday was fun I visited my sister's college (as in college visit) and watched Twilight for the first time (meh, twas okay) with her and her friends last night. Today I woke up and my eye was weird again (it's a little pink and there was quite a bit of junk in it) then worked for 3 and a half hours on my paper for AP Lang (which is really, REALLY BAD) and now it's done and I'm starting to get a migraine. Oh joy. I'm going to go heat up my lunch now.

I Realize that I Missed One and It's too Late to Do a Summary and So I Shall Mearly Rant

"Namaste"

What an episode! They're back! Anyone who actually reads this blog is probably tired of this topic (well I hope you're not, but you kind of have to have watched the show from the beginning and developed an opinion on the matter to really care or find it interesting, but anyway)but I have a strong inclination after watching this episode of how things are going to wind up romantically on Lost: Jack and Juliet then Kate and Sawyer.

Now for some Evidence:

• When Sawyer said he was 'over' Kate he said it was because she was never coming back then lo and behold she did come back thus he didn't really mean it.
• Sawyer initiated the whole "It's good to see you Kate."/hugging thing therefore he must still have feelings for her.
• Jack and Kate have barely spoken since returning to the island and what they have said to each other has mainly involved exchanging infromation of the non-romantic kind.
• Jack is definately still in love with Juliet and seemed rather jealous when he found out that she and Sawyer were living together.
• Sawyer is clearly torn between his longlost love and his new little fling with Juliet.
• Juliet seems a little jealous and slightly threatened by Kate's presence on the Island, if her relationship with Sawyer was as impecably strong as his relationship with Kate was she would have nothing to be jealous of.
• We still don't know the true reason Kate came back to the Island, perhaps she came back for Sawyer...

Lost ER Doctors and Miscellaneous characters

In the

Here is a list thus far of people who have gone from ER to Lost (in no particular order):

1. Dr. Legaspi - Juliet Burke



2. Christian Shepherd - Dr. Div Cvetic



3. Bernard Nadler - Dr. Jack Kayson



4. Charles Widmore - Al Patterson (guy who sued Corday)



5. Dr. Marvin Candle - Neuro Resident



6. Marshal Edward Mars - Bum's Friend



7. Martin Keamey - Mr. Mooney



8. Danny Pickett - Boy's father



9. Jin Kwon - Ken Sung



10. Michael Dawson - Isaac Price



11. Rose Henderson - Dr. Rabb



12. Ohil - Chamber Tech



13. Anthony Cooper - Sgt. Pete Mattimore



14. Diane Jansen - Edith Landry



15. Carmen Reyes - Mrs. Landeta



16. Sarah EX-Shepherd - Roxanne Please



17. Leslie Arzt - Kyle Martin



18. Stuart Radzinsky - Rod Stillman



19. Amy Goodspeed - Julia Dupree



20. Colleen Pickett - Meg Riley



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Jack Shepherd vs. The State of Delusion

For those of you out there who follow my blog and have read some of the uber long posts I have about Lost episodes have most likely gathered that I don't believe Jack to be the most spectacular chap to have ever roamed the Island. There are many things that have led me to this conclusion, don't get me wrong there was a time when I totally supported the Jack/Kate relationship it is only recently (anytime between this summer and a week and two days ago) that I have become a much larger fan of the Sawyer/Kate relationship (plus I have a bragging rights bet riding on them soo...) and now I shall proceed to explai why that is via some sort of a pro/con list (do NOT mock the pro/con list):

Reasons Jack is a good leader (pros):

In the beginning (meaning between the time the plane crashed and the day Michael walked off) I perceived Jack to be a rather decent fellow for these reasons:

1. He was very nice to Kate when he learned about her fugitive status - he didn't see it as his business and therefore left it up to her to tell him about it.
2. He genuinely cared for everyone on the island and therefore (even though he really didn't want to) took on the role of Leader.
3. He didn't judge people for their past lives (Charlie-drug addict, Sawyer-con man, Sayid-'interrogator,' Kate-murderess, etc.)
4. He didn't let Sawyer die from the knife wound - bleed to death or die of sepsis (but seriously e shouldn't have pulled the knife out until he had the medical suppise that he needed.
5. He made sure everyone else was safe and happy before thinking about his own health.
6. He put the Marshal, who was dying of sepsis, out of his misery when Sawyer (who needed glasses) shot him in the lung instead of the heart.
7. He selflessly went after Claire when she was taken by Ethan and ended up saving Charlie's life even though it appeared that he was more than only mostly dead.
8. He put the nitroglycerin-covered dynamite in his bag instead of Kate's (which can also be seen as an overprotective gesture and is therefore also a con).
9. He didn't cast out the tail section survivors after they (meaning Ana-Lucia) accidentally killed Shannon.
10. He attempted to save Kate from the Others when they were first captured.
11. He saved Sawyer's life by helping Kate and Sawyer escape the cages on the Alcatraz island.
12. He promised Kate he would come back for her when he thought he was going to get to escape the island.
13. He helped orchestrate the ambush on the Others when they were coming for the pregnant women.
14. He got everyone safely to the radio tower.
15. He encouraged Kate to go the New Otherton w/Sayid and Miles.
16. He helped get as many people as he could off the island.

Those are all the pros I could think of, but please enlighten me if you think of any more.

Reasons why Jack is wrong for Kate (cons):

1. When Kate offered to tell him what she did he turned her down saying that he didn't want to know then about two days later asked her what she did and was not very accepting when she didn't tell him.
2. He generally thought that whenever he came up wit and idea (i.e. moving to the caves) that it was the absolute most right thing for everyone to do (yes I realize that is bad grammar and being as I am very tired and it is still before 10 A.M. I really don't care) and therefore pushed it on everyone and was slightly miffed at those who didn't agree with him.
3. He helped torture Sawyer for information when he could have gone about it differently.
4. He made Kate lie to him about the toy airplane when he didn't believe her about who it belonged to (it really belonged to the man she loved not the man she killed) and in the process of doing so made her tell him what she had done even though she didn't want to after he turned down her offer to tell him.
5. He went after Michael when Michael went to try to save Walt even though Locke and Michael both told him not to (he went after him to brig him back, eliminating Michael's free will).
6. He wouldn't let Kate come with him, Sawyer, and Locke to bring Michael back (eliminating her free will and beginning his overprotective streak).
7. He was quite angry with Kate for tracking him, Sawyer, and Locke when he told her not to (showing how little he understands her).
8. He seemed to blame Kate (he gave her the cold shoulder for a while) for losing the guns to the Others since they captured her while she was tracking the threesome stated twice above and made the same threesome trade their guns for her life (in actual reality it was his fault for a)not letting her come along and b)not realizing that she would follow them anyway).
9. He was mean to Sawyer because Sawyer (in his altered state during his infection from the bullet wound in his shoulder) said that he loved Kate.
10. He kept many important people (Sawyer, Locke, Kate, etc.) in the dark about his intentions to 'build and army' to attack the Others with (being as it would affect everyon living on the island he probably should have made that public information).
11. He was angry with Kate for asking him to do the surgery on Ben to save Sawyer's life and set the three of them free (seriously...overly jealous, how could he not see this coming she and Sawyer have been together at the cages the entire time).
12. He got rather buddybuddy with Juliet even though he was supposedly still in love with Kate (yeah obviously not THAT in love).
13. He was angry with Kate for coming back for him when he told her not to and didn't do anything to help her escape the Others, but instead thought only of his and Juliet's escape from the Island (when has she ever done anything he asked her to that involved not going somewhere?).
14. Upon arriving back at the beach and learning of Juliet's alternate agenda he proceeded to not tell anyone about it even though it affected all of the survivors.
15. He was angry at Kate for not telling him about Naomi right away (even though she told him after being sworn to secrecy by Sayid).
16. He didn't listen to Kate when she suggested that Naomi had left a dummy trail and then was miffed when he followed the dummy trail while Kate stole the radio, followed the real trail and found Naomi.
17. After they got off the Island and Jack and Kate got engaged Jack became rather paranoid about Kate's mysterious phone calls so he did the smart thing, got drunk and had a shouting match with her in which he revealed to Aaron (who was unbeknownst to the two adults in the room with them) that Kate was not his mother.
18. And going along with number 17 he got into a jealous shouting match with Kate about her 'doing something for Sawyer' (that's right he got jealous of a guy stuck in a different time on a constantly moving island, the same guy who jumped out of a moving helicopter so that he, Kate and the rest of the people in said helicopter could safely escape from the island, very mature).

And the cons have it, Jack has little to no understanding of Kate and therefore things between them ought not to work out in the end.

"LaFleur" or as I Like to Call it "EPIC FAIL"

I could not have been more wrong about what this episode was going to be about and let me just say that I was incredibly sad after watching it as it meant that for the time being I have lost a bet for bragging rights that I have going with a friend about who Kate will end up with (although technically he hasn't won yet and he lost the bet first when Kate told Jack off a couple weeks ago, so there is still hope, after all this is only season 5, season 6 could bring multiple surprises/changes). Anyway let's just get to the plot shall we:

The plot starts 3 years ago right after Locke disappears down the well after the flash. The flash puts Sawyer and friends in the time when the four-toed statue was still whole, then John turns the wheel, another flash occurs and the well (minus the hole) disappears. The group discovers that their headaches are gone and their noses have quit bleeding (which means Locke fixed the problem). Sawyer decides that all they need to do is wait for Locke to come back and that they will wait as long as it takes.

The plot then jumps 3 years into the future or 'present time' on the island (which is not present time in 'real life'). We see Dharma hippies (a fella and a lady) partying (or rather having a hootenanny) in some security station when another guy comes in and complains about the lady being there. While the tow men argue the lady sees something on one of the screens that upsets her, it's a guy at the sonic fence (who is soon determined to be Horace, the leader of the Dharma Initiative at the time) blowing up trees with dynamite. The two guys kick the girl out and after a short debate decide to go get someone named LaFleur. They run to his house, wake him up, and inform him of the situation. He swears and is discovered to be Sawyer (wow, shocker). He then goes to pick up Miles in a hippy van and the two of them head out to go pick up the drunken Horace deciding to keep the whole drunken thing on the down-low. Sawyer takes Horace back to his wife Amy (who is very pregnant) at their house and question her about why he came to be that way (meaning what kind of fight they got into during which AMy goes into labour.

Three years earlier:
The group goes back to pick up Dan (who they left with Charlotte) only to discover that Charlotte is no longer with them in many manners of speaking (she's dead and therefore did not move with them in the next flash). They also discover that they are stuck in whatever timeline they are in. Sawyer takes charge and suggests that they all go back to the beach to wait for Locke which raises protest from Miles (who is very cynical, but has a point, all anybody does on this show is go back to the beach), Juliet agrees with Sawyer's 'stupid idea' and they head back to the beach. On the way they encounter a couple being attacked by the Hostiles the man has been shot and the woman is being taken (bag over the head etc.). The group then argues about how to handle the situation (Dan states that it doesn't matter what they do as they cannot change the past) and Sawyer and Juliet end up 'going in.' Sawyer demands that one of the attackers drop his gun to which he recieves a shot (which should have killed him , but didn't even touch him because if he had died in the past he never could have come to the island in the first place), Juliet kills the Hostile that shot Sawyer and Sawyer shoots the other Hostile leaving them and the woman who was being taken. They take the bag off of her head and tell her that everything is going to be okay to which she replies "Who are you?" The group discovers that they are in the 70's or the 80's due to the fact that the Dharma people are still there. They inform the lady that they saved (who turns out to be Amy) that they have get moving after discovering that the Hostiles had a radio on them (they also tell her that they are shipwrecked and looking for the rest of their crew). She becomes very upset and determines that they must bury the dead Hostiles due to some sort of truce and gets Jin to agree to carry her husband (the dead Dharma dude) back with them. Along the way Sawyer tells everyone to let him do the talking since he used to lie for a living which is sort of agreed to when Juliet yells for Dan to stop (they have come across the Sonic fence). She then demands that Amy turn the fence off (which is not at all suspicious) because 'it looks like some sort of sonic fence or something' (wow...convincing cover). Amy turns it off (after taking something out of the power box thing that controls the fence) and safely walks through it, but when the others walk through it they are knocked unconscious by the sonic noise...Amy takes earplugs out of her ears.

Three years later:
Amy needs a C-section because the baby is a breach so Sawyer goes to get Juliet who reluctantly comes to help (she doesn't think she can do it because every woman she treied to help give birht on the island died). The two run back to the clinic where Amy states that she wants Juliet to do the operation, Sawyer gives Juliet his vote of confidence and goes to wait outside where Jin (who now speaks fluent English) meets him and tells him that they finished another search grid with no sign of 'their people' then when Sawyer tells him that they are to start the next search grid the next day Jin asks how long they are going to continue to look, Sawyer replies that they will spend as much ime as it takes. Then Juliet comes out and informs them that the baby is a healthy boy and therefore everything went as planned. Hooray. (This means that whatever prevents pregnant women from giving birth on the Island hasn't happened yet, I think it would be incredibly ironic if whatever that 'thing' is is Juliet's fault.)

Three years ago:
Sawyer wakes up in the rec room (where to date he, Kate, Ben, and Sayid have all been held prisoner) where he is met by Horace who tells him that the restof his people are fine and then questions Sawyer about who he and his people are. Sawyer tells him that his name is James 'Jim' LaFleur and that he and his crew shipwrecked during a storm during their search for the famous slaving ship called the Black Rock and that the only reason they were in the jungle was because they were looking for the rest of their people. Horace tells James that he and his fellow survivors will be leaving the Island the next day on the submarine and if the rest of his people show up they will send them off the Island too. Meanwhile Juliet informs Miles of her sketchy past with the Others. Dan sees a three-year-old Charlotte (yeah, techniqually she shouldn't have been born until 1979 being as she is only thirty years old and they are in '76 if memory serves) playing in the yard and tells the others that there will be no more flashes. Horace and James then come out and join them, Horace tells them that someone will be along shortly to show them to their rooms then leaves James to tell them that they will be taking the sub to Tahiti the next day. All of the sudden a buzzer alarm sounds and the survivors are whisked into a house. From the window they see Richard Alpert walk into the yard. Horace oes out to meet Alpert who informs Horace that he has broken the truce by killing two Hostiles which Horace denies. Horace goes bakc into the house to talk to James who informs Horace that he is going to go talk to Alpert. He walks out onto the lawn and addresses Alpert as Richard which surprises the man as they haven't met in his timeline. James then admits to killing the two men and being as he is not Dharma the truce has not been broken, Alpert then asks him who he is to which he responds by asking him if he buried the bomb and then talking about Locke barging into the Hostile camp 20 years previous and claiming that he was their leader which convinces Alpert that James is indeed not Dharma. Alpert replies that his people still demand justice for the killings and it is agreed upon that Alpert will take the dead man's (Amy's ex-husband's) body back as justice for the Hostiles. Horace informs Amy of this decision and gives her the choice of whether to go through with the deal she agrees (she didn't really have a choice it was either give them the body or let all the Dharma people die). She then takes a necklace from her dead husband's neck. Horace then tells James that he can stay for two weeks to look for his crew. James goes to tell Juliet who is sitting on the dock by the sub, she tels him that she has decided to leave the next morning, he puts on the charm and changes her mind.

Three years later:
James picks a flower and takes it to Juliet who is cooking dinner in their house. He gives her the flower, they kiss and profess their love for each other (I become very angry with the stupid bastard for forgetting about Kate and falling for the women who tortured him, Kate, and Jack, threatened Kate's life and almost allowed his to be taken, gave orders for the Others to kill him and Kate, lied to all of the 815 survivors about her hidden agenda invloving kidnapping the pregnant/possibly pregnant women from their camp, etc.). James then goes to tell Horace that he is a Daddy and confront him about the fight he and Amy had that caused him to get drunk and blow up trees. He tells James that he found Amy's ex-husband's necklace in her sock drawer and they got into a fight when he confronted her about it. He asks James if 3 years is enough to get over someone to which James replies by going into a long schpeel about a girl (Kate) who he used to love and how she left and he held onto her for a while because he thought that she might be coming back, but now that 3 years have passed he has gotten over her BECAUSE HE DOESN'T THINK SHE'S EVER GOING TO COME BACK. (That's in caps because it means that he is not over her now that she is back and I still have a shot at winning my bet so there Aaron). The next morning James is awakened by a phone call from Jin informing him that he has found some of their people. James tells him not to bring them in and that he will meet them in some valley. When he gets there he is greeted by Hurley, Jack, and last of all Sawyer's long-lost-love Kate.
L O S T

(In case you were wonder, which I'm sure you weren't I started calling Sawyer, James about halfway through this post, that is because he has changed from the cynical, sarcastic, hilarious fellow who was in love with Kate, to an annoying, stupid, 'sensitive nerd in bad need of a hair cut who has seemingly settled down with Juliet.)