As for the situation with him outing Michael: I hope Sayid did that as part of a bigger plan to take down the captain. I'm thinking that Sayid doesn't trust the captain at all.

Four hours left and then seven months. I did NOT need to be reminded of that.

And A's Ana-Lucia, a bad cop, not a winner, gave her handgun to Michael who popped a cap in her.

And A's sarcastic Arzt and I won't try to con ya, he blowed up real good, dude, there's some of him on ya.

And A is for young Alexandra, killed and gone, because her dad used her life as if she were a pawn.

B's for Benjamin Linus, a quite awesome baddy, whose crimes just begin with nerve-gassing his daddy.

And B's for Boone who survived Oceanic, but died from a smaller plane crash, how ironic.

C's for Cindy the stewardess, taken by The Others, watches over The Children as if she were their mother.

D is for Driveshaft, a Brit one hit wonder that broke up when one of the band moved down under.

And D's Desmond, a Scot, soldier, monk, and a seer, brotha's unstuck in time, now he's then, now he's here.

E's for Mr. Eko who stood silent, strong, tall, until Smokey smacked him around like a ragdoll.

F's for Tom Friendly, fake-bearded pretender, who was killed on the beach as he tried to surrender.

F's for pilot Frank Lapidus, a man with a history, a darn good chopper pilot, a drunk and a mystery.

and F is for Faraday, a physicist twitchy, with a crush on Charlotte, archeologist bitchy.

G's Greta with Bonnie in Looking Glass Station, 'til Mikhail, obeying Ben, performed their elimination.

H is Hurley Reyes, a big helpful man, played cursed numbers, got rich, drives an old Dharma van.

J's Sayid Jirrah, who knew how to torture, but that's in his past, he just kills in the future.

K's bilingual Kwons, there's unfaithful wife Sun, forgiving fisherman Jin and their daughter Ji Yeon.

And K's for Kate Austen who manipulates men, and winds up with Aaron, we don't know how or when.

And K's Karl, Alex's friend from room 23, his water bottle sprung a leak, and then so did he.

L's for John Locke, unable to commit patricide, who conned James Ford into performing the homocide.

L's also for Libby, of whom we know nut- tin'; she kinda liked Hurley, got shot in the gut.

M is Michael, some really bad things were his fault, but you have to admit that he loved his son Wa-a-alt!

and M's Miles Straume who's a would be ghostbuster, with psychic abilities and a noisemaking dustbuster.

N's for Nikki and Paulo who were there all along, and died in a way that was horribly wrong.

P's Charlie Pace, Desmond forsaw his doom, ex-junkie turned hero who drowned in a room.

P's for Pilot Seth Norris, whose cameo brief ended with him dangling up in a tree like a leaf.

R's for cured Rose who had faith that her husband Bernard was somehow alive and somewhere on the Island.

And R's Danielle Rouseau, crazed French fighter, not lover, who was shot, died, and was buried beneath shallow cover.

S is for Sawyer, who was shot by an Other, he got better, caught and executed the mother-.

S's also for Shannon, man that bitch was hot, did that Iraqi guy (and her brother!) and then she got shot.

S's Dr. Jack Shephard, who'd rather be drinking, but they made him their leader - man, what were they thinking?

So I started doing a LOST version in my head and once I had about a half dozen I thought I should get up and write it down.

Totally from memory, so I may have missed a few important characters. And a couple of those "rhymes" were pretty awful, I know. but I got a quadruple post out of it - I stuck it up at the Room 23 blog, in the old talkback before I noticed the new one had started, here and in my Napoleon_Park Yahoo! group.

I'm dying as fast as I can (2 points to the Trekkie who recognizes that quote) and writing weird stuff is what I do while I'm waiting. That's what that is.

http://tinyurl.com/5uqhrv

the 'text' of the gashlycrumb tinies

http://tinyurl.com/yqawoo

much more abbreviated grimness than nappy :). although i do appreciate your efforts, Nap. F is my favorite.

14J means pull the shotgun out of the piano bench and whistle for Smokie because its go time.

oh, it is going to be a long day.

I have to work late tonight, so my DVR better work!!

The FBI used a male honeypot to trap Lockes doper buds. And Locke ONLY associates with the younger more impressionable males on the island.

Why not just have hang a wrist, tie the ends of his shirt together, toss on capri pants and snap his fingers in Jacks face.

I can put breaks in my posts!

I've waited a long time for this lol

testing

please

work

Oh, and please send a pound of whatever NP is smoking to my room immediately! :)

This episode has to kick ass! SPOLIER...It has Jacob's cabin, dead Christian Shepard, Degroots..whose been dead for 12 years, Sayid and Desmond raising hell on the freighter. Oh and the return of Richard.

This has to be good. I'm going out on a limb and proclaiming 3rd best episode of the season, right behind TSOTTC (4.9) and The Constant (4.5). Slightly better than TBOTE (4.1)

A) He returns to the boat with his squad

B) The events on the boat are taking place before him and his squad left (Actually I don't think that is possible)

Or C) He is both on the boat and the island at the same time a la Doc Ray

Also, the return of Richard, will we only see him in flashback form or do we get to see what's up with the temple and the other Others?

And for those of you doubting a John Locke episode...think of Walkabout and The Man from Talahasse (?). Tonights has to be as good as those.

I loved The Constant but it didn't have as much of the mythology stuff in it.

There was something special about TBOTE and also TSOTOC. I guess being the first episode back after a hiatus makes it seem a lot better. But TBOTE had ghost charlie, Abadonon (?), Jacob/ Christian, and so much more.

for some reason that episode really had a huge impact on me.

Freedom!

Goodbye Pathagoreum's Therom

Goodbye fiance's birthday

Goodbye to everything that is stored in my brain. Everything will be blown clean out of my head and will splatter onto the back of my couch (hopefully my fiance wont see the phone number of that stripper i met last week). The only thin left in my brain after tonight will be the letters W.T.F! And the words: HOLY SHIT followed by about a billion exclamation points.

God, I'm so excited. Cant wait. If this doesn'e deliver, I will be highly surprised and disapointed.

On one of the spin-offs, DS9 I think, a Klingon General, named Gowron I think, was reunited with his estranged wife. she greeted him with a condescending and disapproving "Still alive, I see." to which he apologetically replied "I'm dying as fast as I can."

Not familiar with the McClinton milieu, but it sounds like a good song title.

In 1976 I flipped a bike off a short cliff and landed back first on a watermelon sized rock, so I have recurring back trouble. I'm also disabled with an open surgical wound because I can't afford skin grafts.

I smoked a lot in the '70s but it's out of my price range now - and it wrecked my lungs.

Sometimes Ibuprofin and whatever the sleep aid in PM pain relievers help me rest. I take aspirin for the heart benefits, acetominophen and Doans pills for the back, I shoot insulin for the diabetes and drop Lisinopril for a heart condition. I'm supposed to avoid caffeine but a couple cups of coffee enhance my creativity. I try not to overdo any one thing. Sometimes a candy bar or a few cough drops supplies a nice sugar buzz.

Sleep deprivation helps, too. I got four hours of sleep, woke up and wrote "Gashleycrumb LOSTIES," then went back to bed.

I only drink alcohol a couple times a year - too many alcoholics in the family tree.

So it's not exactly a Gonzo lifestyle. A couple of pills to dull the pain and a passion for a great TV show to supply the inspiration.

For the record, I endorse boycotting imported drugs, but those lucky folks in Hawaii have the best domestic homegrown in the country.

basically, as limited as my knowledge is about military is, i have always understood that if you want some serious, kickass, no holds barred help, you get the marines. everyone else is just support.

i hope you don't mind, but now that i know you're going back into the thick of things, i am going to worry about you if i don't see your name pop up in the tb's for a while.

by the way, the xiphos is a lovely blade, very old school.

is it 10:00, yet?????????

later folks. :o)

Hey Xiphos and Node, how are you guys doing? Ready for the best episode of the season so far??

Also, is anyone kind of worried that Locke is going to die tonight? I am kind of nervous about it.

"S end The Marines" by Tom Lehrer, from the album "That Was The Year That Was"

Co ol non-spoilery Rebecca Mader interview with TV Guide's Ausiello. She describes the three hour finale as "Ridiculous… absolutely bananas… a three hour extravaganza…. It's gonna be the best TV ever" and confirms that her character "probably" survives. When asked for specifics she says she has a small roll and "when my mouth opens, cool stuff comes out."

Asked to name Lost's sexiest star, she nominates herself, then Josh.

And I wonder why everyone swears at me...

Check Room 23 roughly 30 minutes after Lost airs and I will have the link to the Ep. My upload - no worries about hanger-ons polluting your PC.

Xi - did you get everything worked out with what the Corps was trying to pull with your injury?

Putting new poll up. WHO is the one to kill that fucker Keamy?

I think you need to drop by Xiphos ;>}

http://lostroom23.blogspot.com /

Just kick the little brat's Millenium Falcon across the room Napoleon and tell him you are only putting up with him to scrog his momma.

See ya in anatha life, brotha!

180 minutes.

Just to make sure - we get Cabin Fever tonight, Part 1 of finale on the 15th, ALL Grey's Lobotomy on 22nd (No Lost) - Then 2 hours on teh 29th....correct?

lostlostlostlostlostlost i definitely need to purge the cabin FEVER.

In a running battle between the Losties and the Frighter Fighters, the mercs, in spite of heavier firepower and a sharpshooter, go down one by one. Under fire, Keamy retreats into the jungle and steps into one of Danielle's old trip wire net traps that hoists him into the air and slaps him against a tree. Benjamin Linus appears with a gun and aims as Keamy saws at the net with his combat knife.

At the last moment Benjamin changes his aim and instead of a skull-centered kill shot he puts a slug through Keamy's hand, forcing him to drop the knife. Then Benjamin, with the faintest hint of a smile, backs away, lets out a sharp whistle, pivots and runs as black smoke begins to emerge from the underbrush. Keamy's screams of agony can be heard in the distance for most of the rest of the show. In the final moments of the episode (though not the final scene) we see the camera pan through the jungle and give us a brief glimpse of a ragged net hanging from a tree holding a skeleton covered in shredded meat.

That's how I'd write it

today's ZD|Net Downloads Digest has a link to a Morpheus download. That I've heard of. Any opinions?

again, remind me never to piss you off.

TEAM SAYMOND!

Of course I've never actually has a computer that printed everything out in inch tall white letters on a green screen while the keyboard went beep beep boop like in all those '80s movies. What program was that?

Irc - Hydra. I like the symmetry, gotilk. I'm looking it up now. I won't be able to mod until midnight - I'm busy getting the Ep ready for d/l on TPB. Otherwise - I am in and can be a part of a mod schedule. I can multi task on my time off work. I'm at my PC right after work - I hit the gym before work and have little other life. Girlfriend is a busy girl. Just let me know what you need. Checking email now.

brilliant

really? move the island? sounds familiar...

That picture on kid Locke's wall was him laying on the beach next to the plane crash, and Richard knew it. Richard probably went back in time and conditioned Locke to follow the same path he originally did, albeit to a like better result.

Claire dead? Maybe so.

Hurley and Ben sharing a candy bar = Priceless.

Keamy vs. Sawyer? I can totally see that happening. (***SPOILER*** - Isn't Sawyer supposed to die this season?)

No Jacob...but Christian and Clair. Hmmm. And it looks like Alpert and Abbadon have had their eyes on Locke for quite sometime. Theory: Alpert (and possible Abbadon) are part of Widemore's original Island group. And it's hard to say but after the last two weeks, it looks like Ben is now completely flummoxed.

LOTS of important moments.

and it really did go back to it's curious/quirky roots.

now i will take those last three hours immediately, thank you.

***TWIN PEAKS SPOILER*** (Yes, the good Dale Cooper is in the Black Lodge. He was to be seen again in 25 years. In the meantime, the people of Twin Peaks have been getting to know his doppleganger...)

That's all really.

And god, I love Locke's story. Like he always seems so close to greatness and continually fucks it up. Started when he was a kid. I wonder if there was a polar bear in that 'Mystery Tales' comic?

Part 2 AND 3 OF THE FINALE, THINGS WILL GET GOOFY!!!! Others will wind up lying to protect.

For Real.

No he di-in

Michael has moved on to the point you can't make a drinking game from his character repeating the same line same scene. HP must be so glad he has not had to mention his son for a while.

Was that him kind of half whimpering when the gun went -click-click-click-click-click

But NOT ONCE did I think they were talking about John Locke. His mother left him! A CHILD LEFT MOTHERLESS. Son of a bitch!

Actor Terry O'Quinn, who plays John Locke, was born in 1952.

So Locke was born early five years late. Wrap your time traveling heads around that.

Hugo looks down at the ground and moves one step to the left.

I've mentioned here a couple of times that that a man who can't walk wanting to go on a walkabout seemed a little bit crazy. Maybe a little bit less crazy now that we know it wasn't his own idea.

Meant to be a man of science, he becomes a man of faith. Told the knife isn't for him he gets a suitcase full, learns to use and throw them and ultimately murders a woman with one.

I did wince a bit and feel pandered to when they showed us the oriigin of "never tell me what i can't do" but I get that they were trying to reconnect with the "cool" Locke from season one, so it worked.

Too bad his mom wasn't listening to "He's A Rebel" the night he was born, but he would have had to have been born in 1962 for that to have happened. Terry O'Quinn actually looks a little older than most 56 year olds, so even with the fake hair I don't think he could pass for 45.

Jack: "I think we should follow them!"

Somewhere, Brighteyes is weeping.

But i was certain that, knowing that keamy was going to kill him eventually one way or the other, that Frank Lapidus would save the islanders and take out the Frighter Fightere by simply flying off-coordinates, so they would run out of fuel before they found either the island or the freighter.

When that island decides it's not time for someone to die, it really means it.

we... have... to... move... the... island...

WE. Have to move. The Island!

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Thing is, tell anyone else that and they'd say "impossible", but you can't tell John Locke what he can't do.

So, does it worry any of the Atlantis/Lemuria theorists that the best known (or only) way to move an island is to sink it?

And don't break down the difference between a weapon, a pistol and a gun for me, sir. It was called "The U.N.C.L.E. gun."

[And the secret's out, my user name has nothing to do with Bonaparte. I was named after my cat, and my cat was named after Napoleon Solo, the Man From U.N.C.L.E.]

That was an interesting seen. To me, John knew that the knife wasn't his, he just wanted it to be. We know that he do like his knives.

Alpert gave up too quickly, not much of a child psychologist I guess.

Had separate removable clip-on shoulder stock, barrel extension with hand grip and silencer, and telescopic sight.

Very similar to the break down sniper weapon 007 used in "From Russia With Love".

Must have been a double wide 'clip' on the show since it could be switched from conventional rounds to "sleeper" tranquilizer darts.

The toy only fired caps, and the silencer didn't silence them. I still have it, though the guts are rusted out. I don't have the triangular yellow U.N.C.L.E. badge the agents wore in their headquarters, though.

I also had the Fanner Fifty, the Rifleman rifle, a morter launcher and two different types of hand grenades. Yeah, being a kid in the pre-anti-war early sixties was awesome.

Also, the missile launchers from the Marx Cape Canaveral play set could be used and carried as guns, firing rubber tipped missiles. Man, my friends and I sure spent a lot of time killing each other.

What would be the technical dividing line there?

Or do I just have it backwards? I think I've seen automatic weapons with something called "a banana clip" in reference to the curved shape.

I think it deserves further review.

and Claire was creepy. If she is sweet of cool when she was alive, why would she get all creepy and baby apathetic if she snuffed it? (Not too creepy for shagging but I would not sleep in the same house as her)

Maybe Kate would be a better mom than creepy dead Claire who leaves babies in trees.

and.. would Ben have had second thoughts about John's information if he knew that john didn't actually talk to Jacob? I liked the episode but that bit reminded me of the film Contact, where Jodie Foster's dead Dad serves as the face of the aliens, bogus.

I remember one with the great Roger C. Carmel (Star Trek's Harry Mudd). He played a Thrush Colonel. Illya Kuryakin captured him. Carmel called to his men "Come on out, it's okay", and when they stepped from cover he gunned them all down, turned to Illya, shrugged and said "Well, how do you think I got to be a Colonel?"

Anyway, if that curved magazine is sometimes called a banana clip, you can see why the civilians get confused.

I saw an awesome video 'clip' the other day, not sure where, the title was 'speed loader'. A man held an automatic pistol in a proper two handed grip. He slapped his bottom hand down to his waistband and grapped a spare magazine as he hit eject and dropped the empty magazine from the pistol, then brought his hand up, slipped the magazine in place and was good to go with a two handed grip in about a second. Though exact time was hard to judge since it was shown in slow motion.

And I thought a speed loader was something else too, from the old Dirty Harry movies, but that's what the video was called.

I was never a Warlord fan, but breaking in to comics by creating and drawing fifty issues of a series that goes on for another 83 after he left, that's pretty impressive.

What an awesome episode. I can't even begin to think of all the cool things in it.

And I don't give a shit what anyone says, Claire was looking NICE in that cabin!!

G is for Gotham's Eve, a spouter of quips, his best pal suit and tie seems to think he has lips.

Really, I think that the Claire being dead thing is a little too easy. It's been telegraphed, and the only thing that the writers of Lost have ever telegraphed beforehand was the return of Michael... everything else has been them leading you down a path, then slapping the shit out of you and saying, "did you really think THAT is where we were going??!?!?"

Come to think of it, the writers of Lost remind me of Ben quite a bit.

Jesus, after tonight it has become pretty obvious that EVERYONE on that plane was brought there for a reason. I am going to go check sites online about biblical brothers and sisters... see if there are any clues to where the Jack / Christian / Claire thing is going.

Then again how do you move something that has no real fixed point or Location ? The "Zone" around the Island of Temporal flux ensures no casual ingress is permitted so moving the island may be some form of manipulating (Bending?)the Temporal Zone that shields it.

The Volcano, the Temple or perhaps another Dharma station may be the candidates for where such a movement has to occur. As for who does the moving, surely Locke ?

What ISN'T clear though is that although Moving the Island may eliminate a future Widmore expedition or re-inforcement how they will deal with Keamy, already on the Island and Weapons Heavy as well as wielding his strange threatening armband, is another matter.

Course Jack will follow like a spud but it looks like Smokey will be needed and needs to be more effective this time around. (I hope for some freaky Island or Dharma countermeasure we haven't yet seen and not another Black Rock Explosive type battle.)

P.S. Roussauex dying sucks !REALLY sucks !! :(

Darn spoiler haters. Well, let's see, how do I say this without saying it? Imagine a bug repellent. For a really big swarm of little black bugs...

Too much?

Co nfirms what I think we knew or assumed. Since this season was two episodes short (14 down from 16) the next two seasons will pick up one episode each for two seventeen episode seasons.

I like the implication that they now have the rest of the series tightly plotted out so that they need every hour to get the story in. Not certain that's true if they could expand this season's finale from two hours to three, but it's still a nice implication.

two more hours in the coming seasons...YES!