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Season 7 – 24 – 1 am to 2 am

Previously on “24”: We learned that if Jack doesn’t get to shoot something for a while, he starts to get the shakes and blames it on “toxic gas exposure”; Speaking of “Toxic Gas”, Janis yet again proved she’s no Chloe; Ken and Olivia vied for the Sleazy Weasel of the Year award; Jonas must have terrible depth perception because he wanted to show Douglas a large glass bottle up close, but ended up hitting him over the head with it; Mrs. President stopped an air strike, which would have put the whole show out of it’s misery.

1:00 am – Tony’s still sneaking around, watching a truck at the compound. Jack gives Tony the bad news, no air strike, and no quick end to this season. Tony notices that they’re pumping “RP-7” into the depot. Renee thinks that with a little help with C3PO they could use his protocol droid abilities to talk to the surface to air missiles and save the day. Tony tells her that she wouldn’t know a Jawa from an Ewok, and besides, “RP-7” is rocket fuel. Jack suggests they use the C4 that Tony just happens to have in his pocket. He wants Tony to blow up the truck using a remote detonator, which is a much better detonator than the “up close” detonator, but Jack has to make a call to Mrs. President first.

1:02 am – Agent Tim comes in to tell Mrs. President that the Joint Chiefs have been smoking quite a bit of what they’re in charge of, and are wondering why she didn’t bomb Starkwood into next week. Mrs. President tells him it’s because she invited Jonas Hodges to the White House, and doesn’t really want to answer any of his other questions because she forgot those lines in the so-called “script-thingie” for the show.

A receptionist calls to let Mrs. President know that Jack and Renee are on the phone. Mrs. President is hoping that they’re calling from “Who Wants To Save The World”, and that she’s one of their lifelines. She really doesn’t want to hear what Jack says. Jack interrupts, and lets her know that HE knows all about the surface to air rockets. She relents and tells Jack all about the rockets, and Hodges. She thinks she can talk Hodges out of it! Jack wants to act quickly, but all this “talking” is slowing things down! Jack wants Mrs. President to trust him… she tells Jack that she expects Jack will do what he thinks is right!
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LOST – Dead is Dead

Spoilers ahead

First, looks like I was wrong on both counts. Doh! Ah, well…. such are theories.

The show just ended, and here are some random thoughts:

– After all this time of living with it, The Others don’t have a name for that monster. Even more interesting is where it seems to live – inside the basement of the temple. Sure looks like no one has been down there in some time.

– It was interesting to see Ben working Caesar to try and get Locke taken care of. Caesar sure didn’t last long either. That shotgun blast was quite a surprise.

– That warning that Ben gave Danielle – “If you want your child to live, every time you hear whispers, run the other way.” That seems weird. Why should she run, if The Others took Alex?

– I don’t believe for a second Ben’s “reason” for killing Locke – that Locke needed to die to get everyone back to the island.

– I think the name “Jacob” was invoked more times in this episode than in any other episode.

– Did you see Ben’s reaction to Christian being on the island? I think Ben knows Christian. Recall that we weren’t quite sure how Christian died. I think Ben might have killed him.

– The question “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” is going to be the question on everyone’s lips for the next… well, until we see what lies in the shadow of statue.

– Alex, or whatever looks like Alex, sure wanted to make sure that Ben followed Locke. I think we might have just seen the threat of what ends up getting Ben killed at the end of the series. And did you see the look on Ben’s face when she told him that he had to follow Locke? He sure was surprised about that.

I think there are four factions on the island in the present day: 1) The Others, 2) The crash survivors, 3) Locke, Sun and Ben, and 4) The spirits that keep coming around (like Alex).

Remember what Ben said to Sun about Locke? That he’d never seen anyone brought back from the dead by the island? If that’s true, I believe Ben knows those other people really are spirits.

Question is, what’s their agenda? They’re not part of The Others. Do they work for Jacob, as Christian suggested when he first met Locke?

I have a feeling that whatever they’re up to, it’s not good. As in, if they get their way, it’s going to be big trouble for the world.

What did you think of the episode?

Fringe – “Inner Child”

Spoilers ahead

Pretty obvious appearance of “The Observer” last night. Watched for him during the whole show, and there he was at the very end.

All the way through the show, I kept thinking, “That kid is an Observer.” Chances are that he “beamed in”, or however that alien race comes in from their world. He might have been down there the whole time, simply unable to grow up for the very reasons Walter stated, or he could have just beamed over recently.

Thoughts about Ben Before Tonight’s “Dead is Dead”


As I’m sure you’ve guessed by now, tonight’s episode of LOST, “Dead is Dead” will center around Ben.

There are so many ways to read how the title of the show relates to Ben, it’s hard to decide what it might mean…but that never stopped me before, so here goes:

1) If we’re going to see how Ben got all bloody, chances are it will be tonight. He was at the marina making that phone call to Jack… Who else is at the marina? Penny and Desmond. Yep, chances are pretty good that Ben killed Penny. This is going to set up the reason why Desmond is headed back to the island, to confront Ben.

Far out thought: I think Charles is likely to bring Penny’s body with him to save her, and it will turn out the skeletons in the island are going to be Penny and Desmond.

2) “Dead is Dead”, huh? Not so much for Locke, now that he’s back on the island. The conversation between Ben and John should be pretty interesting, because it sure looks like “Dead is Dead….but not on this island”.

Maybe Ben and John have more in common than it looks…

What if “Little Ben” died while in Richard Alpert’s custody, and came back the same way John Locke did?

We’ll have to see what happens! Can’t wait!

Season 7 – “24” – 12 am to 1 am

Last time on 24: Jack took off his clothes in the middle of the street, stopping traffic for miles; Jack’s also infected, and it’s not from previously touching Audrey; Olivia is Head Staff Weasel; Tony raided an empty warehouse.

12:00 am – Tony and Larry talk out of the corner of their mouths, as if the guys pointing guns at them don’t see them talking. Three Humvees drive up, because that’s how many it takes to bring Hodges to talk to Larry.

Jonas yells a lot and pretends that he’s innocent of doing all kinds of bad things. He tells Larry that he wants Greg back, because Greg chafes a lot if he’s kept captive too long.

12:03 am – Out of no where, Jack realizes that someone might be able to help – a guy named Deus Ex Machina, going under the alias Douglas Knowles, the chairman of Starkwood.

Jack gives him a call, and it turns out that Douglas was hoping Jack would call. He’s probably a big 24 fan. They rehash the current state of the plot for a little while, just in case everyone happened to forget what occurred last week. This is a regular feature on the show, usually with different people talking about what happened the week before.

Douglas thinks he might know where a bio-weapon might be hidden – in the Bio-Weapon hanger on the Starkwood compound.
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Reactions to LOST – “Whatever happened, happened”


Spoilers ahead

Just finished watching the show. Here are my reactions to what happened:

First off… my “pre-show” prediction score: 1 out of 3. Sawyer did want Kate to make sure Clementine was OK.

When Cassidy asked Kate if she should wake up Clementine from her nap, my instant reaction was Clementine didn’t exist and Cassidy had lied to Sawyer. I was glad to see later that this wasn’t true.

I loved Hurley looking at his hand, waiting for something like “Back to the Future” to happen. I really liked the conversation between Hurley and Miles too. Miles’ explanation of how time works in the LOST universe was really great.

I really, really have to wonder what the heck Juliet hasn’t been saying about what The Others can do and what they are. Maybe she knew all along this was Ben’s destiny.

At one point during the show, I was pretty convinced the reason Kate went back was because Ben did something in the future to help Aaron, and if Ben died, Aaron couldn’t be saved. This turned out to be wrong, of course.

When Kate lost Aaron in the store, it sure was creepy to see that woman that was holding Aaron’s hand, wasn’t it? It looked like it could be a much, much older version of Claire. I’m sure this was done on purpose…. sure was creepy though. Makes me wonder why Aaron didn’t scream or anything… Has Claire been visiting Aaron a lot more than we know about?

Here’s a random thought: Remember how Claire was warned by the psychic that “Aaron must not be raised by another?” Maybe that warning should have been “Aaron must not be raised by an Other”….

The ending was great. I was pretty surprised to that we got to see where Richard took Ben, and glad they at least said why he wouldn’t remember anything that happened. Richard’s warning that, “He will always be one of us”. “One of Us” was the title of the 16th episode of Season 3.

Did you notice that one of Richard’s men mentioned Elly and Richard? Elly was the girl with the gun in “Jughead” earlier this year (and probably Daniel’s mother). Charles is Charles Widmore. I was surprised they were both still on the island, 20 (or so) years after their first appearance. This probably means that the power struggle between Ben and Charles started on the island itself.

I have to say, Hurley was great this episode, but they should have stopped before he got this “Ask Jack about time travel” (or whatever he said). Completely unnecessary, just like the “Nama-who?” comment in the previous show. It just makes him look stupid.

As for the previews for next week, sure looks like Ben is going to be judged by Smokey, probably right in that temple where Richard took him. Can’t wait!

What did you think of tonight’s show?

Theories Before Tonight’s LOST: “Whatever happened, happened”

Tonight’s episode, “Whatever happened, happened” is supposed to be Kate-centric, so it looks like we might to find out a few things we’ve been wondering about: 1) What did Sawyer tell Kate before he jumped out of the helicopter last season? 2) What happened to Aaron? 3) Why did Kate decide to go back to the island?

We’re in wild guess territory here, so here are my theories.

1) What did Sawyer tell Kate before he jumped out of the helicopter last season?

I think Sawyer realized that he probably wasn’t going to ever get off the island, so he wanted to make sure that one person was going to be OK: His daughter, Clementine. I think Sawyer told Kate to go and make sure that Clementine was OK, and the trust fund was intact.

2) What happened to Aaron?

I think this ties in with theory #1. At the point Kate gave up Aaron, she was sure that someone wanted to take her away and at the very least that Ben and/or Widmore might be after him. There are a lot of theories that Kate gave Aaron back to Claire’s mom, but I don’t like that theory. Aaron would be easy to find with her.

Who better than Clementine’s mom, Cassidy? When Kate goes to visit Clementine, it should take about 1 nanosecond for her to realize that the guy who conned Cassidy was Sawyer. She’s probably one of the few people Kate feels that she can trust, merely because of her association with Sawyer. (*I* wouldn’t trust Cassidy, but who else does Kate have? Her father?) I think Cassidy has Aaron.

3) Why did Kate go back?

Easy. For Sawyer.

On to other guesses for tonight:

Ben’s not dead. They’ve got a zillion doctors running around, playing mechanic, janitor, and otherwise.

Daniel’s finally going to make an appearance, and he’s really going to freak out Dr. Pierre Cheng about his tales of the future. Cheng’s son is Miles, I’d wager.

A lot of people have guessed that Jughead was the reason Dharma built The Swan. I disagree. If they’d known about Jughead, that would have been one of the first stations they built. The would have a lot of people working on it too. The Swan was built to keep the island hidden, just like it was doing before the hatch blew up.

What do you think is going to happen tonight?