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Recently my craving to listen to music has increased. At the moment I can't quite put my finger on why. (My intial thinking is that the amount of crap that's being released is causing a backlash in people listening to something older and better, either way the music producers win...) But what exactly has been at the top of my music playlist? Well it's time for the chart rundown...
Ok...not the most original idea...
5. Johnny Cash - When the Man Comes Around.
4. Enter Shikari - Sorry You're Not A Winner.
3. Mcfly - Transylvania.
2. Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot.
1. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist.
Yeah...try to define my taste...It's really hard. And just to top it off I do enjoy a good session of Classic fm (Only if there is no singing, singing in classic music to me is a cardinal sin.) Dee out.
It's day 3 of my blogging week. Well...the blog story started...meaning will one of the other members please carry the story on. Yeah, that means you arsehole! In other news the Three R's myspace got a new look. Which I slaved over trying to get it to have the same feel. I think it worked, but the only way to show your appreciation is to either become friends with the Three R's or to comment post on THIS blog. I really annoyed that all the comments we get on posts are on the myspace blog even though the posts on though are just 4 lines or so...
Well...
Yeah...
This is allot harder than I thought, it's only day 3 and I'm already fully out of ideas, maybe this shitty post can be let off seeing as I did two posts yesterday. Talking of yesterday, thewinekone released a new video.
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Well I have set my self a mission...post at least once everyday over the half-term. And part of this mission means I can't just do a "Dumb questions 7" or a Lost review. I must vary it up abit and seeing as there is a suaver lack of posts from other members at the moment, (And what they do post is 90% there own material) it doesn't sound great for the future. Hopefully after the exams end the amount of blog should hit fever pitch. No promises though, but I'll promise I will post during the holidays. Anyway on with to days post. I haven't done a real rant in a long, long time. Well the Dumb Question could be a seen as a rant at times. But the point is I have been neglecting my ranting roots from back on Dee4leeds Daily Rants. (Later renamed Dee4leeds Periodical rants, because posting everyday seemed unethical...) So without further ado Dee4leeds returns to his ranting roots.
What to rant about? Mind going blank? Done that. Youtube? That as well. Old Man Fahey's Country Style Water? Please. This emphasises today's rant. "There's nothing left to rant about," it's true all subjects have been done to death. Just pressing "Next Blog" brings up another site which has blog about something you've never thought of. (I understand that this blog lacks the blogger toolbar, so you can't use the "next blog" button. I do want it back but I cant figure out why. Any help would be great.) When pressing "Next Blog" (Dont worry this isn't becoming Next blog>> 3 or 4, I can't actually remember.)I arrive at a site called "Journey of the Mind" which rants about forgetting to do a living room makeover after going to Ikea. Now come on. That was my initial intention for this blog. I went to Ikea yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it, for anyone that wants to know the best section is the lighting (SENSORY OVERLOAD!) I planned to take pictures and post them on this blog as a review of said shop. In the same vain as mine and Scott's trip to Flamingo Land. Flawed because I used all the photo for my art exam before I could scan them up. Failed twice then you could say. I don't. Why should I concede to such an ambiguous statement? We shall redo our trip, hopefully, after the new rides have been spruced up and all of the Three R's members can go. (Me and Scott will most likely go. Ste and Jordan...well that will need abit of persuasion, maybe even a bribe.) That would of been something different, a review of a place shown as a trip out. Ok the pictures we took were not so good. But that's all in the past, its time to look at the future. Any guesses that "the future" has been done to death on over blogs. I guess we have joined them. Hmm I have a real erge to start a blog story. Maybe I'll do that now. Yeah. Thanks for reading this blog entry, which I think is one of the longest blog entry I have ever wrote. Ta-tar!
Hmm, it really feels like I am scraping the barrel for ideas here. Well I'll be the first to admit I am. Or I am just having terrible withdrawal symptoms since Lost ended. I hate to think what I will be like when the show fully ends in 2010. Let's not think about it...on with the show.
Which is the other side of the street?
The side with Hostiles on it!
Was the pole vault accidentally discovered by a clumsy javelin thrower?
I sure hope so! And I would love to see the video. TO YOUTUBE! Erm, when was pole vault invented? Greek times probably. All the best inventions was created by the Greeks. Pens, law and the film 300. But lets admit that film really lack a story, even though it was the story of the Spartans vs. the Persians. They should of included the war at sea...idiots. Anyway back to the point, if it wasn't then the person who created was watching Takeshi's Castle...
What do you call a bedroom with no bed in it?
The fat cats in Washington..
What does Geronimo say when he jumps out of a plane?
Geronimo was a native American, they didn't have planes. YESH!
Do boxer shorts box?
Mine do. They hurt the Mr Bojangles...
What happens if you get scared half to death, ...twice?
Nothing it's a tired old cliché...
Do Vampires get AIDS?
AIDS is the most severe manifestation of infection with HIV. HIV is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells (a subset of T cells), macrophages and dendritic cells. It directly and indirectly destroys CD4+ T cells. CD4+ T cells are required for the proper functioning of the immune system. When HIV kills CD4+ T cells so that there are fewer than 200 CD4+ T cells per microliter (µL) of blood, cellular immunity is lost, leading to the condition known as AIDS. Acute HIV infection progresses over time to clinical latent HIV infection and then to early symptomatic HIV infection and later to AIDS, which is identified on the basis of the amount of CD4+ T cells in the blood and the presence of certain infections. In the absence of antiretroviral therapy, the median time of progression from HIV infection to AIDS is nine to ten years, and the median survival time after developing AIDS is only 9.2 months. However, the rate of clinical disease progression varies widely between individuals, from two weeks up to 20 years. Many factors affect the rate of progression. These include factors that influence the body's ability to defend against HIV such as the infected person's general immune function. Older people have weaker immune systems, and therefore have a greater risk of rapid disease progression than younger people. Poor access to health care and the existence of coexisting infections such as tuberculosis also may predispose people to faster disease progression. The infected person's genetic inheritance plays an important role and some people are resistant to certain strains of HIV. An example of this is people with the CCR5-Δ32 mutation are resistant to infection with certain strains of HIV. HIV is genetically variable and exists as different strains, which cause different rates of clinical disease progression. The use of highly active antiretroviral therapy prolongs both the median time of progression to AIDS and the median survival time. The short answer is yes.
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
"Get that fucking camera out of my face!"
What's the sound a name makes when it's dropped?
The sound of a head going up someone's arse! Yeah take thta Tom Cruise. Blog Protection Act *2006
When day breaks who fixes it?
I don't know...the show got cancelled!
How does a thermos know whether a drink should be hot or cold?
A practical vacuum flask is a bottle made of glass, metal, or plastic with hollow walls; the narrow region between the inner and outer wall is evacuated of air. It can also be considered to be two thin-walled bottles nested one inside the other, and sealed together at their necks. Using vacuum as an insulator avoids heat transfer by conduction or convection. Radiative heat loss can be minimized by applying a reflective coating to surfaces: Dewar used silver. The contents of the flask reach thermal equilibrium with the inner wall; the wall is thin, with low thermal capacity, so does not exchange much heat with the contents, affecting their temperature little. At the temperatures for which vacuum flasks are used (usually below the boiling point of water), and with the use of reflective coatings, there is little infrared (radiative) transfer. The flask must in practice have an opening for contents to be added and removed; as a vacuum cannot be maintained at the opening, a stopper made of thermally insulating material must be used, originally cork, later plastics. Most heat loss takes place through the stopper.
Well that's it for this week...I mean from Dumb Questions, not me or the blog.
Now, as some of you may know, I lurk around a sub-forum on GAIA Online known as 'Life Issues'. This said sub-forum is where, unfortunately enough, a load of teenagers (and the occasional twenty-year-old-plus, as demonstrated later in this post) go to whine about their problems. These 'issues' can consist of anything to 'OMFG SECKS FOR THE FIRST TIME' to emo rants about how the poster wants to kill his or herself. Usually, the majority of these threads are condemned by the posting public and the problems are either bashed, ridiculed or dismissed with a very simple solution. However, sometimes a response comes up which throws me off completely - either to the edge of laughter or thoughts of 'What the Hell was that!?'. The latter feeling applies with the topic which will be mentioned in today's post, which raises a few good talking points (which I'll probably forget or at least forget to discuss, but regardless).
So yes, to today's subject-at-hand, then. Here's what the original thread-creator had to say on his post on Life Issues:
I'm 19, and I've never experienced anything with a girl. I was homeschooled since I was 12, and I never left my house unless it was absolutely necessary. I have little experience even talking with people, and almost all social interactions are really hard for me. Now I'm in college, and it's really scary because I'm awful at speaking and constantly embarrass myself. Everyone else around me is so confident and has such an easy time talking to other people, but for me it's the most terrifying thing in the world. I have no good traits whatsoever, so I have absolutely nothing to feel self-confident about.
It seems like all the guys have been dating girls and experiencing all sorts of things with them since they were around 14, while meanwhile, I've experienced none of that. I feel so left out and like I've missed out on everything. I feel like my youth is gone, totally wasted, and like I can never make up for everything I missed out on.
I really want a girlfriend. I want someone to like me and appreciate me and want to be around me. I want to care about someone and have them care back. I want to belong to someone and have them belong to me.
But I don't know the first thing about how to get a girlfriend. I don't know where to find girls, how to meet girls, how to talk to them, how to ask them out, or how to ask them out on dates.
How do I do those things? How do I get a girlfriend?
His name is EvaXephon - and evidently this is a very serious cry for help. EvaXephon himself is somewhat renowned on the small forum for his constant troubles with gaining female interest, as pointed out here by him personally. His antics are even more crazy and novel than my own - yet he still fails at receiving any attention. The thread proceeded as normal, various people telling him to 'be confident' and 'get out more' (to paraphrase greatly). Then, in the midst of the second page, comes this strange little number from a bloke who called himself Cyraka:
Well, well well. It looks like I'm not the only one with this fucking problem. EvaXephon, as much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I am going to tell you just like it is. You will NEVER find a woman. Being in a similar position, I know what you're feeling, buddy. Sadly, The girls have NO FEELINGS for you pal! And what's worse, is that its true! No girl wants a man like you! They'd rather have someone who treats them like shit! NO LIE!! Well let me ask you this: Have the girls broke your weak heart already? If not, you're only on the road to collapse, pal. Girls don't like you and they never will. If they say they love you, its empty and shallow, don't believe it.
Human beings are so prone to this lie called love, that it never ceases to amaze me. A poor man or woman has feelings for someone only to have that certain someone reject them in the end, breaking their hearts and their egos beyond repair. EvaXephon, please, for the sake of all that is good, stop this shirt chasing madness before you can! It will drain you of your life, your years and your health. Before you know it, you'll be an old man withering away into nothing, as we all will one day.
On a side note: Humanity can not love, it can only hate. Don't believe me? Read your history. It's one war after another. People hurting people. People killing people. There is no true happiness or true peace on Earth. Kindness, love, joy, peace, are all empty words with empty meanings. People have been using these vain words for so long, they no longer matter. People love violence and death. Our Media and our history prove it. History is only interesting when someone is killed or overthrown. No one cares about human development. People only care about war and hate, not peace and love. It's suffering left and right man, happiness is only temporary.
Face it, EvaXephon, the girls will NEVER give you a shot at the title. No matter what you do or say. You are doomed to a life of singledom. Believe me when I tell you to give up now or end up like me. A bitter, wasted man who keeps on hoping one day someone will complete him.
A rather hefty statement, I may add. And a little too harsh for the inexperienced Eva, perhaps. However, what surprised me the most was the amount of people who actually agreed with the claims of Cyraka - in context. One girl adding:
Its true what they say most women are shallow as a puddle, me being one of them. But there is the 1 in a million chance you find one that isn't and when you do really the only thing you need to do is talk to them one on one. Be smart not a brainiac, don't say things like did you know.. Be confident but not arrogant, whats they worse that could happen, them not like you, well fuck them, more fish in the sea. You're better then that, just be yourself and one day you'll find that someone.
Now, I usually go on Life Issues to have a bit of a laugh and try to assist the odd people in a specific field I know I'm good in. But the lack of people who are openly willing to give hope to someone who is as apparently useless as young Eva here is bordering on outrageous. Are they simply telling him to give up and agreeing with Cyraka's rant? Bare in mind that it is rather obvious that the aforementioned rant was simply released to bring reaction from an onlooking public - but now we have 'sane' people approving of it?
Season 3 ay? It's been quite a ride...but more on that later when I do a full season review! On with today's (Well, today for the UK, tomorrow for Ireland and 3 days ago for the US...) episode. It was the 2 hour, with adverts, finale. Thus making this a double length post. The episode was...
...Jack's sporting a rather bushy beard.
BUT, in a change of fate, I'll just get on with what is most important...Realtime. The survivors are leaving the beach in head of the Radio Tower. Leaving Sayid, Jin and Bernard to blow the dynamite, "destroying" the others. In the underwater station, the Looking Glass, Bonnie and Greta are interrogating Charlie. Charlie-boy says that he found out about the Looking Glass station from Juliet. The two women named, Bonnie and Greta go into an adjacent room to radio Ben. Through the open door, Charlie notices the blinking yellow light from Desmond's vision for the jamming equipment. Bonnie tells Ben about Juliet's betrayal. Ben therefore orders Mikhail to go and find out why Charlie has gone to the Looking Glass, and Ben admits he lied about the station being inoperable. Mikhail wonders what else Juliet has told the survivors. Ben, immediately, tries to alert the Others' assault team, but their radios are off. Over at beach-central, the Others, led by Ryan Pryce and Tom, start searching the marked tents. When they realize the tents are empty it is too late; Sayid and Bernard shoot bundles of dynamite, setting off large explosions that kill five Others. Jin misses his targeted dynamite but shoots and kills another 2 red-shirts...I mean Others. However, the three remaining Others capture Jin, Bernard and Sayid. Distantly, Jack's group hear only two of the expected three explosions, followed by gunfire. The group are worried about what might have gone wrong, especially Rose and Sun, but Jack urges everyone to stick to the original plan (What an arsehole!). Deep down, Charlie tells Bonnie and Greta that he is going to turn off their jamming equipment so that rescue helicopters can come to save everyone, especially Claire and Aaron. Bonnie claims only she, Greta and Ben know the code needed to disarm the jamming equipment. Charlie calmly replies that he won't need the code because the Looking Glass will soon be flooded. Bonnie asks what Charlie will do when the station floods; he replies that he will die. SMASH CUT! At the Beach Tom radios Ben to tell him seven of the assault team are dead. Ben orders Tom to execute Kwon...(Jin.) Making Sayid and Bernard reveal where the other survivors have gone. Sayid insists nobody talks, saying the Others will kill them anyway. Pryce knocks Sayid out. Bernard panics, revealing that Jack's group are heading for the radio tower to use Naomi's satellite phone, and that Karl warned them about the early attack. Back over at the others Camp, Ben realises Alex must have told Karl, and tells Tom not to kill Sayid, Jin and Bernard...YET. ANOTHER SMASH CUT! In the morning, Ben plans to intercept Jack's group and talk them out of going through with their plan to contact Naomi’s freighter. Richard asks to come along but Ben orders him to take the rest of the Others to the Temple "as planned". Alex asks to go with Ben; surprisingly, Ben agrees, saying it's a good idea, remarking that Alex must want to see Karl again. Ohhh, what a bitch! At the little canoe thing, the thing Desmond's on, Desmond wakes up above the Looking Glass station to realize that Charlie has gone below. Suddenly Mikhail begins shooting at him from the shore with a rifle. Desmond takes cover by diving overboard. He swims down into the station. When he surfaces in the moon pool, Charlie desperately tells him to hide before Bonnie and Greta notice him. As Desmond hides in a gun locker, the two women emerge from the communications room and demand to know what the commotion was. When Charlie gives a flippant answer, Bonnie grows angry and she strides toward the spear gun locker when Desmond has hidden. Just then, Mikhail appears in the station in full scuba gear, distracting Bonnie before Desmond is discovered. Phew! Mikhail says he thought Bonnie and Greta were on assignment in Canada; they reply that Ben ordered them to lie. (Ben Lie? When?) Mikhail takes out a knife and approaches Charlie; Charlie reveals that the station is jamming transmissions, which startles Mikhail. Ben contacts the station and Mikhail speaks to him privately. Ben justifies the deception about the Looking Glass as necessary to defend the island and ensure everyone's security. He orders Mikhail to kill Charlie, Bonnie and Greta, and make sure the jamming device continues to work at all costs. Mikhail asks how he can be sure Ben hasn't ordered Bonnie and Greta to kill him; Ben answers "if I had, you would be dead already". Back with the pilgrimage, Sawyer announces that he's going back to the beach to help out, telling Kate, who earlier expressed feelings about going back, that he just did not want to go with her. Juliet volunteers to go with him, explaining she knows where to find a cache of guns, and telling Jack it's something she has to do. On parting, Juliet gives Jack a lingering kiss and cheerfully tells him not to wait up. As soon as he is on his way back to the beach, Sawyer is more like his old self, bantering with Juliet. She admits that she lied about the guns so that Jack would let her go. Hurley chases Sawyer and Juliet down, desperate to help his friends; but Sawyer dismisses him, saying that Hurley will get in the way and get people killed. (Now I know what your all thinking...Where's Locke? What happened to Locke? Well slow down...) Locke awakens in the mass grave nearly a full day after being shot by Ben. He cannot move his legs but he manages to reach a revolver in a holster on one of the corpses. He checks the revolver for bullets, cocks its hammer and puts the barrel to his head. As he prepares to kill himself, Walt suddenly appears standing over the grave. Walt tells Locke to stand up and to get moving, because he has "work to do."
BREAK!
We'll take a break there and move onto the just-as important part of the show, the section which makes Jack have a beard. Appearing disheveled and severely depressed, Jack sits on an airplane. After being refused a drink from the stewardess, he notices an article in the newspaper next to him. He rips out an obituary. Later we see him sitting in a car that is parked on the side of a Bridge, crying while looking at the newspaper clipping. He makes a call to someone. No answer. After leaving a message he climbs up onto the ledge and whispers "forgive me". Just as he is leaning forward to jump, a fiery car crash occurs. He rushes to save the victims. In the hospital, Jack is being stitched up, when a pregnant Sarah enters; she is still listed as his emergency contact. She asks him if he's drunk, which he denies. Sarah asks Jack what he was doing driving at 2 O'clock. But Jack ignores the question by asking Sarah if she can give him a ride home. She states that it "would not be appropriate", and leaves. The next day Jack is at the bedside of the woman from the crash. Jack takes some oxycodone pills, just before Dr. Hamill enters. The woman has a spinal injury and Jack wants to operate. Hamill refuses to allow it and tells him to go home to rest. Some time after that, Jack is driving with the newspaper clip grasped in one hand. He parks, and again calls someone on his Mobile, no answer again. He jaywalks across the street and enters a funeral parlor. The casket is closed and nobody has arrived. The funeral director steps in and informs Jack that he is the only one to come to the viewing. He then asks Jack if he is a friend or from the family of the deceased; Jack replies that he is neither. When asked if he wants the casket opened, Jack says no and the director leaves Jack alone, who then takes some of his wacky drugs. Jack is at a pharmacy trying to get his prescription of oxycodone refilled but he has used up all his refills. He tries to hand the pharmacist another fake prescription from his father. When she tries to call in to confirm the prescription, Jack grows angry and storms off, knocking over a rack of sun-glasses on his way out.
BREAK!
OK that made a welcome break...back to the Island. About an hour away from the radio tower, Ben and Alex intercept Jack's group, as planned, Ben asks to speak to Jack alone. Ben tells Jack that Naomi is one of the "bad guys" trying to find the island, and if she makes contact with her ship, everyone on the island will be killed. Jack refuses to surrender the satellite phone. Ben radios the beach so that Jack can hear that the Others have captured Sayid, Bernard, and Jin. Ben tells Jack to get Naomi's phone and bring it to him. Jack asks why he shouldn't just snap Ben's neck, so Ben tells Tom that if he does not hear back from him in one minute to shoot all three hostages. Smart move. Jack refuses to back down. When the minute is up, three gunshots are heard through the radio. Upset, Jack throws Ben to the ground and kicks the shit out of him. Jack marches Ben back to the group of survivors, then strides away, followed by Kate. Ben introduces Alex to her mother. Jack tells Kate that he had to let Ben order the killing of Jin, Bernard and Sayid. Kate asks why Jack brought Ben back instead of killing him; Jack says he wants to wait until after Ben has seen them all rescued...then kill him. Inside the Looking Glass, Mikhail checks that Bonnie and Greta are the only ones who know the jamming code, and that the jamming mechanism will continue to function if the station is flooded. He shoots and kills Greta. Bonnie runs but Mikhail shoots her in the back; before he can finish her off, Desmond emerges from the locker, like a wolf, and shoots Mikhail in the chest with the spear gun. Charlie convinces Bonnie that Ben has betrayed her loyalty, and she can gain revenge by revealing the code to disable the jamming signal. She starts to tell him the code numbers, but her life is ebbing away; so she tells Charlie the code will play the The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations when entered on the numeric keypad. It was "programmed by a musician". Most likely Dexter Startton, or they would of dropped his name in the earlier episode. At the beach, Tom is telling Price that Ben has lost it and they should have actually killed Sayid, Bernard and Jin instead of shooting into the sand. Watching from the jungle, Sawyer and Juliet cannot think of a plan because they are unarmed and outnumbered. Suddenly, Hurley drives the van out of the jungle and accelerates towards the Others. Tom dives out of the way, but Pryce stands his ground trying to shoot Hurley; Hurley runs him over and kills him. An Other guarding Sayid, Bernard and Jin is distracted by the Van; Sayid knocks Jason to the ground by kicking his legs, then kills him by snapping his neck with his legs. PWNAGE! Juliet grabs Tom's gun and he quickly surrenders but Sawyer, who has Prices gun, shoots him in the chest and says, "That's for taking the kid off the raft". Hurley begins to talk down the walkie talkie, Jack hears the message on Ben's walkie-talkie and asks Hurley about Bernard, Sayid and Jin. Hurley proudly confirms that he has saved them all, to the joy of the group. Claire asks about Charlie but Hurley has no news. This is the happy emotional scene, the clam before the storm etc. Back at the Looking Glass, Desmond fetches scuba gear while Charlie disables the jamming equipment by playing "Good Vibrations" on the control pad. Charlie turns to leave, but his attention is grabbed by an 'incoming transmission'. On a video screen, he speaks to a woman who ends up being Penelope. Charlie shouts Desmond, which excites Penny. Charlie mentions Penny's boat and Naomi; but Penny says she is not on a boat and asks "Who is Naomi?" DOM DOM DOM DERRR! Desmond notices that Mikhail's body is missing. Suddenly Mikhail appears at the porthole near Charlie. He has a hand grenade. Charlie closes and locks the communication room's watertight door, but not before Desmond has seen Penny's face on the monitor. Mikhail detonates the grenade; the window shatters and water pours into the compartment where Charlie is now confined. Desmond tries in vain to break the door’s window with a fire extinguisher. As the room fills with water Charlie writes a message on his hand and presses it against the door’s window for Desmond to read. "NOT PENNYS BOAT". Back with Jack's group, Naomi gets a green light on her phone, meaning the jamming device has been disabled, but it only receives Rousseau's distress signal. But they have finally reached the radio tower and Rousseau switches her message off. Ben, tied to a tree, begs Jack not to use the phone, saying it will be a mistake and "the beginning of the end". Just as Naomi gets a connection, she is killed by a knife in the back. As she falls the killer is revealed. Locke. Revolver in hand, Locke threatens to shoot Jack to prevent him using the phone. Jack stands his ground, telling Locke that he's finished keeping him and everyone else on the island. After macho conversing Locke backs down, but tells Jack, "You're not supposed to do this." A man answers the phone. Jack responds. Jack explains who he is and mentions Naomi's name, which he recognizes. Jack asks if he can get a fix on his location; he tells Jack that someone has been sent.
Well then...The end of all realtime stuff in season 3...
Realtime Rating: 5/5 - I love you, Damarlton!
Finally the last section of this blog entry. Carrying on from before. Unable to get his fix legally, Jack raids his hospital's supply of oxycodone. When he comes out of the medicine room, Dr.Hamill asks Jack what he is doing. Jack replies that he was trying to find out how the surgery went. Hamill tells him Mrs. Arlen's back surgery went well, and that the woman remembers seeing a man about to jump off the bridge, which caused her to lose control of the car. Hamill then begins quizzing Jack on how he got to the crash so fast. Jack begins ranting about how long he has worked at the hospital, and how Hamill doesn't know anything about him or what he has been through. Hamill asks him how much he has had to drink; Jack replies by telling Hamill to get his father, Dr. Christian Shephard, if Jack's drunker than his father is, then Dr. Hamill can fire him. Later that day, we see Jack in his messy apartment, which is full of dirty dishes and various papers. While swigging from a bottle of tequila, he is finally able to reach the person he has been desperately calling. They agree to meet at the airport. Outside the airport's gate at the end of a runway, a car parks up behind Jack's, and out of it steps Kate. Kate asks Jack why he called her, Jack pulls out the newspaper obituary he ripped out on the plane. Jack claims he had hoped to see her at the funeral. Kate replies instantly, "Why would I go to the funeral?" Jack then confesses that he has been flying a lot. Every Friday night he has been using the "Golden Pass," that Oceanic has given him. On each flight he hopes that the plane will crash and he will be on the Island again. He tells her he doesn't care about anyone else on board, that with every bump he prays that he can get back to the Island. He tells her he is sick of lying and that they made a mistake. Kate tells him she has to go because "He" will be wondering where she is. Jack tells her that they weren't supposed to leave, saying it can't be changed. As she is driving away he screams, "We have to go back, Kate! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!!"
Yes...It wasn't a Flashback...it was a Flashforward. Hence the reason I didn't say flashback at all!
Flashforward rating: 5/5 - Well I didn't see it coming!
Episode rating: 5/5 - Best season finale ever? Yeah!
Next Year - Episode 401 - Season 4 Premiere - ...Hasn't been announced yet.
Mel's Introduction: Right kids, this time I've taken a new approach to blogging. Instead of constructing my own, largely pointless rant for today's post, I've discovered something better. Corrine from MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/stuckwithpins) has had her own go at making a rant-related blog entry, and it has worked quite well. So, as a professional(ish) company, I thought it was about time we give a fellow blogger recognition, in the sort of old-styling of my 'Next Blog >>'s, all the way back on En Masse (http://www.melaisis.blogspot.com). So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you; The ultimate teenage sex rant, by Corinne (Eats Ghosts):
Everyone around me is either screwing up their lives, screwing up someone else's life, or are thinking about it. Suddenly, all the little boys and girls are doing as they did in elementary school: discovering sex. Only now, they are being far more immature about it than we were as kids. We are still kids. For some reason, everyone (when I say everyone, I mean 99.8 percent of the teenage population from ages twelve to seventeen) has gotten into this mindset that they are older and more mature than they really are. I'm sorry, but you are not an adult, and your juvenile actions stand to back me up on that statement. I'm sure in about ten years it's going to be completely relevant and everyone is going to care about how many "chicks you did" in high school. We'll all be sure to applaud you for both being the biggest sleaze and for having the most STD's. Kudos. Since when has sex become a competitive game? As far as I remember, sex was for "when two people love each other very, very much." Not for when two stupid teenage kids hook up in less than a matter of two weeks. What I'm trying to understand is how -- why, rather -- would you give it up that easily? For nothing. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but teenage love hardly exists. I hear girls say, "But we loved each other." Really? Then why aren't you two together anymore? "Oh. Well, I don't know. He just said that it wasn't working out." Sex ruins relationships. Sex is the number one cause of adolescent breakups. Whether it be because the other refused to have it, or because they did have it. Along side that, sex ruins you. The more partners you have, the more STD's you have. It's that simple. But don't worry; you look totally cool to everyone in high school being voted "Most Likely to Contract AIDS." I know it's merely impossible for the average person to wait until marriage due to flaming hormones and how good lust looks on you. But, for God's sake, do you have to screw everyone who will let you? Get some respect for yourself and for that person. I understand if you're in a long term relationship with someone and you feel it's "right" for the both of you. But seriously, you don't know someone enough in a week. Not even two, or three weeks. I believe that certifies you as a free prostitute; screwing people you don't know. Congratulations hooker. That girl or boy you "hit it and quit it" with is not yours. She/he belongs to someone in the world that she/he is yet to find. And you defected her/him with your selfish desires. The person whom she/he belongs to, now will have to attain her/him with the reminiscence of you still on her/him forever. Way to go, slut.
Everyone: please grow up. I don't mean "grow up" in act like you're older than you are. No, I mean, act your age. Realize you are not an adult. You are still a kid. Now start acting like it.
"Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!" 1 Corinthians 6:15
xoxo, Corinne
Please note that I am not criticizing anyone who has had sex. I am, though, calling you a whore if you have someone on booty call for every day of the week, and have sex more than you change your underwear (dramatically speaking).
IMPORTANT EDIT (as of 5/23/07): I had replied to a disagreement on this blog in a comment, and it was just pointed out to me that my response had more depth to it than this blog itself. So if you're feeling like I'm just a judgemental bitch who's out to put you down about your life choices, then read this:
"First off, let me tell you my reasoning for writing this blog when I did. I was having a very bad week in April; I was recovering from a recent break-up, my girl friends were crying and whinning to me that their sleazy ass boyfriends had taken their virginities and left them in the dust two days after, my recent ex-boyfriend along with two of my male friends tried to use me for a ride to hook up with three slutty hoes they picked up off the internet, and my other friend had just slept with an emotionally fragile girl who he had no intentions of keeping around. Everything was dealing with sex and the ugly outcomes of irresponsibilty.
Secondly, let me tell you where I stand in my own personal preference with sexual relations. I'm in a strongly commited relationship with my boyfriend of over a year. And yes, I am a virgin. Out of choice. Does that mean I'm a prude? No, it means I understand the value of 'God's greatest gift' and want to save it for the man who's meant to have it. I don't rewrap gifts I give to people. My boyfriend and I are both saving ourselves for each other in marriage because we know it will be that much more special knowing we waited for the right time and that we are the only ones who have experienced the other. I personally would be heartbroken to feel that something as special as sharing sex with someone was given to more girls than just me; that some other girl was there before I was and experienced that passion, and I'm only getting the left-overs. That isn't to say that I believe everyone should 'wait for marriage.' But I think sex has completely lost its meaning when it's thrown around like handshakes.
Yes, my blog is overly harsh. But to those who take offense to it: maybe they should take a second look at what they're actually doing. If someone is believing I'm referring to a person such as them, then maybe they aren't emotionally stable to handle the sex they're tossing about. This blog isn't about taking a stab at kids who have sex and making them feel so ashamed of themselves that they never want to touch another human being again. But it's to maybe show another insight into an issue of responsibility or lack there of. Because I have girls and boys complain to me and say, 'Corinne, how do you make love work?' Well first of all, having sex with someone isn't going to find you love.
Basically, what I'm saying is, promiscuity has outcomes that sucks. And young kids who think, 'Oh, I'm living in the moment. I'll fuck as many people as I want,' don't realize how that may suck later on when they grow up and find a girl or boy that they actually love and realize that they don't have that 'special gift' to give them anymore."
I'm afraid, reader, that this 'rap' will be the last of the recent lot which I have posted; as I only came about sharing these said er... 'raps' with the public during the course of me steadily clearing out my room and finding these small groupings of lyrics, posting them up onto the blog, and then throwing the original copy away - with hopes that it will never be heard again. I suppose posting these on the blog helps sort of immortalise my poetic 'achievements' in one way or another. As for the backstory for this particular rap; it came about during Religious Education revision once and, instead of studying from a textbook like a good little Melaisis, I created this monster with a curly-haired, estranged man named Elliot(t?) Logan.
The Rabbi
I am the rabbi, And I like blueberry pie, I like to eat my Challah bread, Just before I go to bed, I drink some of the blessed wine, And try not to become a drunken swine, Now I want to testify; The blueberry pie, the blueberry pie. I like the pie's special flavour, It's the taste I like to savour, I also love to wear my funky hat, But when I do I look like a giant rat, I like to give advice to all the Jews, Especially when they're sat in pews, They all like me to read the Torah text, But it leaves the kids all perplexed. So then I testify, The blueberry pie, the blueberry pie.
As every single reader of this blog, all 4 of them, have noticed my blog entry's nearly always have a certain theme. As an attempt to further the stereotype I shall now be showing TV producers how they should rebrand there channel as yours truly creates his own TV channel!
Yes, the almighty channel is called Geek TV. "Geek TV? No one will watch it with a name like that!" Well random criticiser, geeks embrace being geeks. Geek is all the rage, its the latest fashion trend. You are clearly getting mixed up with a nerd. On with the lineup. (7pm while 12am)
Mondays 19:00 - GeekTV News 19:05 - The Gadget Show 20:00 - When Games Attack! 20:30 - Futurama 21:30 - Movie 23:30 - Heores Repeat 00:00 - Adult Swim
Tuesdays 19:00 - GeekTV News 19:05 - Fantastic Four 20:00 - Who wants to be a Superhero? 21:00 - Spider-Man 22:00 - X-men 23:00 - Hulk 23:30 - Lost Repeat. 00:30 - Adult Swim
Thursdays 19:00 - GeekTV News 19:05 - Evolver 19:30 - Around the World in 80 Games 20:00 - Who wants to be a Superhero? repeat 21:00 - The Sarah Connor Chronicles 22:00 - Anime Movie 00:00 - Adult Swim.
Fridays 19:00 - GeekTV News 19:05 - The Gadget Show 20:00 - Endzone 20:30 - Spider-Man 21:00 - Movie 23:00 - Adult Swim
Sundays 19:00 - GeekTV News 19:05 - Blockbuster Movie 22:00 - Heores 23:00 - The Sarah Connor Chronicles Repeat 00:00 - Adult Swim
Yeah! TV Producers stick that in you pipe and smoke it! (Even though the channel is basically five, Sci-fi and Bravo mushed together with a sprinkling of Jetix!)
Found this very interesting poem in this month's PC Gamer (United Kingdom edition, guys). It is a short review, sent in by a guy called Samuel Mercer, who deserves all the credit for such a marvelous summary of this great online game: EVE Online If you like RPGs but had enough of WoW, Look to CCP you'll be sure to raise a brow. Give it a minute or two of your time, And welcome to the world of EVE Online, Where the endless expanse of space stretches before you, With countless galaxies for you to soar through. Drifting through time and cruising through space, Billboards; '1 million ISK' for some Amarrian hooded face, Unwarily passing some horrid burnt-out wreck, Phew. It's cool though, I'm in point 5 sec. A tech II ship passes, damn I'm impressed, And I'm stuck here with my Nuclear S. Be a miner, a refiner, a hunter or a looter, And be told what to do by the ship's computer. Angels, Guristas, and Blood Raider Covenant, Each pirate faction causing constant torment. If you ace the cosmos missions, stick together and survive, You'll be on your way to your Gistti A-type warp drive. Keep going, turn pro and own your own space station, And rise up to the pinnacle of galactic domination. It's slow burning, complex and graphically stunning, You turn the game off, but EVE keeps running! With the time-base skill system you train in real time, All these small things turn EVE into the sublime. You see WASD doesn't control, although you might think it's a shame, The mouse is king in this award-winning space-game. Marks for style, expanse, graphics and content, I've awarded this groovy game 89%.
Salut! The penultimate episode of Season 3 this week!
This weeks flashback comes from our "knocking at heavens door" scoundrel...
...Charlie.
Flashback. Well flashback is the wrong term it was Charlie's greatest moments...his "Greatest Hits."
At number 5 - "The first time I heard myself on the radio." Driveshaft's van has broken down, in heavy rain, and they need to get to a gig. Charlie explains that he has had enough of band-life and is ready to quit, much to Liam's dismay. At that point "You All Everybody", which would become the band's biggest hit, plays over the van radio. Ecstatic, the four members of Driveshaft celebrate their victory and Charlie's resolve to stick with the band is rekindled.
Moving two at 4 - "Dad teaching me to swim at Butlins." "Butlins? Whats that?" the voice of every American. Child Charlie is stood on the edge of the pool. Charlie's dad is stood in the pool, he tells Charlie to jump in but Charlie refuses because he doesn't believe his dad will catch him. Charlie's father insists on jumping in the pool. Charlie faces down the pool and jumps in. Charlie embraces his father and begins to swim.
New at 3 - "The Christmas Liam gave me the ring" Charlie wakes up on Christmas morning in Helsinki, Finland. He finds himself in bed with two groupies. Liam enters the room, Charlie gets out of bed. Liam then takes Charlie aside and explains that he wants him to have his DS Ring. Charlie refuses, but Liam explains that out of the two of them Charlie is the one who is going to have a family and live past 30. Charlie then says he will hold the ring for his brother but that he will not take it from him. Ironically Liam ends up living past 30 and having a family.
Just missing the top, in 2 - "A woman outside Covent Garden calls me a hero." Charlie stands on the corner of the street singing "Wonderwall". As it begins to rain, Charlie concludes his song, packs his guitar up, and begins to walk home. (Sound Familiar? Yeah in Flashes before my eyes. Desmond appears in his altered time line.) Charlie speeds up to escape the rain but then notices a woman being mugged in an alley. He decides to confront the mugger and beat him off with his guitar case. The mugger does not fight Charlie, but rather runs away in a cowardly manner. The woman, Nadia, (Sayids Love, Locke housing Client.) thanks Charlie for his assistance, explaining that other people just passed the alley ignoring the attack, but Charlie did not. Nadia then calls him a 'hero'...
Two weeks at number 1. - "The day I met you." On the first night after the crash, Charlie is wandering about the wreckage of the plane. He notices pregnant Claire and approaches her. He offers her his blanket, though she has one already, explaining that she, still preggers, needs to keep warm for two. She accepts the offer and the two begin to converse. Charlie jokes around, asking Claire if this is her first plane crash she's been on. Charlie then assures her that they will be rescued, cheering Claire's spirits a little and beginning their relationship.
WATER-REY!
Flashback rating: 3/5 - Flashback?
Onward with the Realtime. (Have I used that line before?) A group of survivors, the ones with professional actors, follow Jack and Juliet to an opening in the forest. Desmond stops in his tracks, Charlie knows this means he is having a flash. Jack tells the group that they have seeked help, it's from Rousseau. Jack gives the signal, a explosion knocking trees down happens. Jack explains that using dynamite from the Black Rock they are going to fight the Others, when they attack in one day, they are "gonna blow 'em all to hell." OOOOH! This is exciting. Sayid tells Jack they can't get a signal to Naomi's boat using the phone because Rousseau's signal is blocking it. Juliet interrupts claiming it doesn't matter. She claims there is an underground station Ben is using to block all the signals off the island. Alarm bells ring for Sayid. He runs off and grabs some of the binders he took from the Flame, inside one has a blueprint for a station called the Looking Glass. Sayid comments that the station has a moon pool which could be used for someone to dive down. Desmond and Charlie approach the group and hear them talking about swimming to the station. Charlie volunteers himself for the trip, claiming to have been Junior Swim Champion of Northern England and able to hold his breath for 4 minutes. Jack then decides that they should spend all of their attention on the Others, judging the idea of swimming a suicide mission. According to Desmonds earlier flash, explained during the afore mentioned section in the episode, Desmond saw one of Claire and Aaron getting into a helicopter and leaving the island. Charlie at first does not understand how this can be bad, but Desmond explains that for this to happen, Charlie must drown after "flicking a switch next to a yellow light" in a hatch. Catch-22 if I ever saw one. The group are soon interrupted by the arrival of Karl on a boat. After Sayid initially attacks him, Sawyer insists they listen to him as he had been caged with him. Karl explains that the Others are going to attack tonight as opposed to tomorrow. A brief flashback shows events from six hours ago. Yeah I could do another heading but I can't be arsed. Ben coming back from visiting Jacob, appearing agitated. Alex asks about Locke, and Ben coldly gives the gun that she gave John back to her. Richard shows up to ask what happened and Ben tells him that they're going to move to the camp now because Jacob wanted it to happen now. Richard begins to ask, "Did John see...?" to which Ben only says that Locke had an accident, leaving Richard without words. Ben orders Pryce to prepare his team and leave as soon as possible, making their attack that night rather than the following night. Upon hearing the news, Alex runs to Karl, who has been hiding away from the camp, and tells him to warn the survivors immediately. When Karl is hesitant, she reminds him that "Ford and Austen" saved his life, and that he owes them this. Karl says that if he's caught Alex's father will kill him this time, but Alex questions if Ben is really her father at all. Karl takes the boat, upon Alex's instruction, along the coast of the island to the beach camp of the Losties, allowing him to get there before Pryce. Back to real realtime, Sayid claims there isn't enough cable to rigged each tent with dynamite. Sayid proposes that they should camouflage the dynamite and instead shoot it instead. This is the new plan. Later Bernard is shooting Cans off a log, he wants to stay behind to be one of the shooters. Jack convinces Rose Bernard should. Desmond and Charlie using Karl's boat follow the cable to the underwater station. Before diving down Desmond claims maybe he should do it. Charlie grabs an oar and knocks out Desmond. SMASH CUT! As he descends deep into the ocean and approaches the Looking Glass, Charlie begins to struggle for air. He manages to find the moon pool and swims toward it. Instead of a flooded room, however, he enters a pressurized chamber, which is not flooded at all. Charlie gasps for air, and climbs over the side onto the flooring, yelping with happiness that he's alive. His jubilation is short-lived, however, as two armed women run into the room after hearing the noise. One approaches Charlie with her gun pointed at him.
Realtime Rating: 4/5 - Did it's job perfectly.
Episode Rating: 4/5 - Not Bad.
Next Week - Episode 322 - Season 3 Finale - Through the Looking Glass
Guns, Guns Guns, guns they kill you and me, Guns, guns I shoot you in the knee, Big Gee uses a gun, And he even shot his son, If it wasn't for the Portugeese, He would still have his kiddies, In 1400 AD, They ended up in China's sea, They found gun powder while staying there, And took some home for a dare, They needed something to hunt salmon, So they went and invented the cannon, But war was spreading everywhere, So yet again, for a dare, They tried to make a hand-held gun, And they came up with the muskeet one, Then America was found, They found it was sound, They saw the Azetec people there, And shot them, not the bear(s),
America was set free, But then all they had was anachy, There were guns, guns, everywhere! They started to use them to shoot the bear, The Yanks became obbessed with all the guns, So much they liked them more than chocolate buns, They were there for you and me, If I shot you in the head you couldn't see, Guns, guns, they're here today, If you don't like guns, you must be gay!
(OR A WOMAN!)
Original lyrics by me, Elliot Logan and John Lappage.
Firstly, before I begin today's article properly; I'd like to take the opportunity to credit Sam ("Jesus The Second") Newell for helping me with the prior-posted rap, Migration Nation. There, Jesus. I gave you credit. Happy, kidda? However, his major contribution to the work was cut from the final version. That being his suggestion that we have someone in the background singing the chorus to Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing' when the rap was being read. I'm sure there's some sort of possibility for that in a mash-up/remix sort of thing, but the idea wasn't that pratical at the time.
Now, moving on from that totally out-of-context opening; I'm sure if you're British, like all of us Three Rs posters are; you'll have realised that last Saturday, it was the Eurovision Song Contest, 2007. I had somewhat of a party to celebrate the occasion. Now, despite Terry Wogan's initial fears at the semi-finals that the show would be 'just too camp for television' - I personally firmly believe that it was one of the greatest Eurovisions to date. Certainly, Terry's fears were confirmed - as the contest offered everything to transvestites to the French entry playing Daisy Rock guitars. Yet I believe that anyone who finds this sort of behaviour offensive should take the time to grow up and become more liberal. Heck, even the British entry featured PVC suits and the most explicit, innuendo-induced lines I've ever heard ("Would you like something to suck on for landing, sir?"). Yet, I suppose that's the fun in the whole event; just how outrageous can an act get without pushing the limits too far? I feel that the entry that I did eventually vote for, Ukraine, tests it to the very limits. Here they are prior to the semi-finals:
If anyone watches 'Japan Today'; I think you'll agree that the parallels between the infamous drag queen Verka Serdyuchka in this video and Japan's notorious 'Hard Gay' are rather disturbing. However, what is even more unnerving about the Ukraine entry is that it indeed, did come second - much to my semi-delight. But, as everyone says: 'The voting is just political'. Which makes perfect sense, of course. Especially when it comes to Israel not making it past the semi-finals (with their ironic song, 'Push the Button'; detailing of how the world is run by trigger-happy fools. Nice one, Israel. Nice one) and the British entry (despite being clearly better and more humourous than many of the Western mainland Europe finalists) only gaining second-to-last place. Then again, the British didn't even end up giving 12 points to Ireland - apparently violating the 'unwritten rules of Eurovision'. Oh, we apologise for being the only ones who vote fairly.
So, this year's contest was slightly more surprising than the norm, but nothing overly special. Especially when we consider that Serbia's entry (no more than an out-of-tune ballad with a singer sporting a dyke-cut) won in the end. Although I am unsure what holding the event in Serbia next year will bring. Regardless of the bitter end, however, the contest was generally an overall sucess - raking in the most amount of viewers and votes ever (even I voted!).
Recently the video of a "BBC reporter losing it" with a scientologist has been circulated. After hearing both sides of the argument, I decide that scientologists were to blame for the whole debacle. What does an impressionable 16 year old do in a situation like this? Of course, spam "ALL HAIL XENU!" all over YouTube. Every scientologist I could find and every in carnation of the BBC reporter video. All I was expecting was a smack on the wrist by dearest YouTube, what I got was... a full site block of commenting, messaging and such. All I can do now is view videos.
So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun! Temporarily antagonizing my use of free speech will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
UPDATE: From what it seems I can comment again just not on scientologist videos.
I know all this review is making our rant fans angry. Instead blame everyone else.
Hey Hey Hey!
This week it's a very surprising flashback. Because this weeks Flashback was...
...BEN!
In keeping with tradition, Flashback first. this flashback goes further back than ANY other flashback. Before the person was born! (OK that is cheating because it starts with Ben being born, but for a few moments it was before he was born.) Anyway Ben is given birth to but his mother dies. His father gets help from a passing car. Skip a couple of years till Ben is the age you see above. The more observant of you shall realise in that picture Ben is coming off the Submarine. He and his father are met by the man who helped Ben's father at Ben's Birth. (Does that even make grammatical sense?) They are taken to the induction room. Ben's Vater heißt Roger is given the job "Workman." (Alarm bells ringing? It should be. Roger the workman was the body found in the Dharma Van in Tricia Tanaka is Dead) In the waiting room, while Roger is complaining about his job, Ben meets a young girl called Annie, she gives him an Apollo bar. The friendship begins. Later Ben is in Dharma class, they are learning about Volcanoes. Then an alarm begins to ring. The teacher tells her pupils to enter there positions, the teacher grabs a rifle and guards the door. She claims it's an attack by the Hostiles. After the attack, Ben is at home with his father. His father claims he didn't get Ben anything for his birthday because Ben killed his mother, hardly fair now is it? Ben goes to his room. At the window he sees his mother. Ben rushes outside and sees her stood outside the sonic fence. She tells him not to cross, Ben doesn't. A couple of days later Ben returns to the gate this time, with the code to shut it off. He ventures into the jungle. In the jungle he runs into a mysterious looking man. This mysterious man is revealed to be Richard Alpart. (The guy who recruited Juliet. The guy who got Locke to get James to kill Sawyer...) But he looks the exact same way he does in realtime. He takes Ben under his wing. Many years later Ben goes with his father to drop off supplies at the Pearl. But at 4:00Pm Ben puts a gas mask on and kills his father. Ben returns to the barracks where all the Dharma Workers are dead. The Hostiles come out from behind the houses with gas masks on.
INFORMATIVE!
Flashback rating: 5/5 - Best Flashback ever? Definitely.
On, forward, with the Realtime. Locke arrives at the Others place with his dead father on his back. Locke demands answers from Ben, after intense negotiations Ben is persuaded to let Locke meet Jacob. Off-course Mikhail returns and tells Ben about Naomi and her phone. When collecting water for the trip, Alex pops out and wishes good luck to Locke and gives him a gun. At night they arrive a dilapidated house, Locke inspects the ground and finds a grey power around it, Ben quickly detours Locke away from this powder. Before opening the door, Ben makes Locke take off all of his technology based items, claiming Jacob hates technology. Locke hides a torch in the back his pants. When they go in side no one is there. Ben claims here he is, Locke thinks it's a joke. Ben claims Jacob is sat the chair, Locke's having none of it. Ben begins to has a conversation with "Jacob." Locke gets pissed off and begins to walk out of the door. When he hears a deep, erie voice..."Help Me." Forgetting the rule about technology Locke turns around and points his hidden torch at Ben. "What did you say?" The room begins to take a life of its own, ropes dance on the wall, chairs rock and windows smash. Ben's lantern falls to the floor and catches fire, not long after the fire is magically extinguished. Ben also appears to shake someone in the chair telling him to stop and that he has had his fun, immediately after which he is thrown hard against a wall by an unseen force. Here for a split second a figure can be seen sat on the chair. (Have a look at the picture.) The room calms down, Ben ushers Locke out of the building, Locke asks what it was Ben replies..."It was Jacob." The next day Ben and Locke are walking back to the camp, Locke states they are going the wrong way Ben claims he has to show him some thing to show Locke. They arrive at a Mass Grave. Ben claims this is the all the members of the Dharma Initiative. Locke asks why he was shown his? Ben grabs a gun and shots Locke forcing him backwards into the grave. Ben asks what Jacob said to him, Locke replies "Help Me" Ben leaves Locke for dead.
CLIFFHANGER!
Realtime Rating: 5/5 - Best Realtime ever? Definitely.
Episode Rating: 5/5 - Best Episode ever? Definitely.
We've hear it all the time. "I'm writing a novel, and I'll make millions." and they fail. What makes me different? "I'm writing because I want to, and I'll make billions." It also doubles up as revision for English, writing to describe. I'll post more details later. Basically it's a First person, Detective case story. Although there is something to set it apart from millions of others.
Lost backtracking this week...or should I say last week...
As I strive to make these reviews somewhat interesting, I shall be writing this Flashback review in a new fashion. (I should of used this style for the episode Exposé but that gone now and editing it with make it appear at the top of the RSS feed.) Here we go...
8 Days Ago -Same day as episode The Man From Tallahassee "Dad?" Locke looks bewildered at his dad gagged and tied to a chair. Locke questions why he is here and asks to remove the gag around his mouth. Ben warns him, Locke takes it off anyway. Ye olde Anthony Cooper (Locke's Dad) uses his pair of chompers to bite a chuck of Locke's hand off. (See right) Tom removes Locke and Ben from the room. Ben tells Locke that they are going to an "Old Place" and then suggests saying bye to Kate.
3 Days Ago - Morning When Locke arrives at the "Old Place" he sees the Others building tents in a valley. The tents are surrounding a large wooden pole on which Cooper is begin held. Locke goes in Ben's tent. Ben is listening to the tape recorded by Juliet in the last episode, D.O.C. Ben tells Locke that they have sent Juliet in as a Mole, but not to worry because they won't hurt anyone. Ben then asks John to pass him his cane, and stands up. Linus says that a week ago he couldn't move his toes, but that when Locke arrived, suddenly there were "pins and needles." Ben goes on to say "I can't wait to show you what this island can do." Sounds interesting. Ben confirms what that the "magic box" was just a metaphor. Will Locke lay the smack down? Will Ben ever stop talking in Metaphors? And will the blog entry ever end? Find out right now, as we return to the Lost reviews, only on The Three R's.
3 Days Ago - Night Ben wakes Locke and takes him outside where all the Others, including Cindy, are gathered to watch. Locke is taken to the Pole holding Cooper, given a knife and told to kill Cooper. Locke begins to hesitate. After some man to man arguing and baiting Locke decides not to kill Cooper. Locke walks aways through the gathered Others.
2 Days Ago Locke is sat on the hillside. He removes his bandages around his hand to show his hand is healed. Richard Alpert joins him. (Richard Alpert not ringing a bell? Well it should do. He was the person who worked on getting Juliet to the island. that was in episodes, Not in Portland and One of Us. Remember? Good.) Richard tells Locke that Ben knew he wouldn't kill his father, and needed to put him in front of everyone, so people would watch Locke fail. Locke asks Richard why Ben would do that. Alpert explains that Ben was worried because the Others were beginning to think that Locke might be special, very special. Richard says Ben has kept everyone occupied with nonsense such as fertility issues. Richard goes on to say Locke could remind the Others of the more important reasons they are on the Island. Richard yearns for Locke to find his purpose. ("As we all know without purpose no of us would exist" - Agent Smith, Matrix Reloaded.) For purpose finding to happen, Locke's father must go. Richard knows that Locke won't kill him, but suggests that he could enlist help from someone else. He hands him a file. The file is on James "Sawyer" Ford. Locke claims he is confused as to why Sawyer would want to kill Cooper, but Richard reassures him, telling him to keep reading...
1 Day Ago Locke awakens to find the Others are on the move. Locke asks whats going on. Ben explains that they are leaving Locke and Cooper behind. Locke demands they can't leave him behind. "Don't tell me what I can't do, John." Locke claims that Ben said he was speical. Ben replies that everyone makes mistakes. Ben tells Locke that they will leave a trail for John to track, but he shouldn't try unless he arrives carrying the dead body of his father on his back.
w00t!
Flashback rating: 5/5 - Best Flashback ever? Possibly.
I'm on full speed now. Time for the Realtime. Again this week I shall split the storys up.
The Parachutist Storyline.
They have her back on the beach and now have her in a tent. Only Jin, Hurley, Desmond and Charlie know shes there. Charlie tells Desmond that they should tell Jack. Desmond claims that he's been with the Others for too long and can't be trusted. (JACK'S IN ON IT...just saying. That's my theory.) Desmond tells Charlie to get someone they can trust. They get Sayid. Sayid goes inside the tent and introduces himself to the parachutist. Speaking with an English accent, she tells Sayid that her name is Naomi Dorrit and she flew the helicopter from a freighter 80 nautical miles west, as part of a search and recovery team. When Sayid asks her about her statements regarding Flight 815, she says the entire plane was found off the coast of Bali in an ocean trench four miles deep. Sayid asks who she was looking for, she claims it was Desmond. Her company was hired by Penelope Widmore and who only gave them a set of coordinates in the middle of the ocean. Naomi's group had been conducting a GPS grid search, but thought it a fool's errand because they didn't know about any islands in the area. Three days ago she was "heading back to the ship when the clouds parted" and she spotted land. The helicopter started spinning and she knew the helicopter was going to crash, so she grabbed her parachute and bailed out. Sayid asks Desmond if he saw the helicopter, but he did not. Naomi asks if Sayid if he thinks she's lying. He asks her if she had any communication device. She shows him the satellite phone. She tells Sayid to remind her not to rescue him. Later after a Hurley blunder, Kate is told about the person they have, she is told not to tell anyone. Even later Kate tells Jack and Juliet that they have found a women on the island and she has a phone. Jack becomes interested in the phone. "We should tell her." Juliet claims but jack dismisses this and tells her "Not yet." Jack leaves.
The Sawyer Storyline.
As Sawyer taking a piss, Locke turns up and claims to have captured Ben. Sawyer grabs a gun and places it in the back of his pants, he goes with Locke. (Sounds like trouble ahead.) Partly through the jungle Sawyer confronts Locke about where they are going. Locke claims he can't tell him, Sawyer gets angry. Sawyer pins Locke to the floor at knife point. Shouting. They arrive at the Black Rock, the boat. Locke claims he has Ben in the Brig. Inside Locke lets Sawyer enter the brig but then closes the door behind him. Leaving Sawyer and "Ben" in the brig. "Ben" is tied up against a pillar in the boat. Sawyer grabs his gun and points it towards the door. "Open or I'll shoot" Locke claims that he doesn't need to open the door because the gun is empty. If it had been full he would of used it earlier when pinning down Locke. Clever, I know. Sawyer removes the Bag on "Ben's" head. It's Cooper. After some interrogation Sawyer finds out that Cooper was a con man. Sawyer asks Cooper his name. Cooper says he has had many names including "Alan Seward, Anthony Cooper, Ted MacLaren, Tom Sawyer, Louis Jackson, and Paul." Tom Sawyer? Hmmm. More interrogation by Sawyer on...Sawyer. Confirms that Cooper is in fact The original Sawyer. James finally is allowed to make Cooper read his letter. Cooper rips it up. James gets so angry he grabs hold of the chains and strangles him to death. Locke opens the door and thanks Sawyer/James. Outside the Black Rock, Locke tells Sawyer that Juliet is a mole and the Others are coming. Sawyer leaves. Later Locke has Cooper in a bag places the bag on his shoulder and follows the track of the Others.
SMASH CUT!
Realtime Rating: 5/5 - Best Realtime ever? Possibly.
Episode Rating: 5/5 - Best Episode ever? Possibly.
Next Week - Episode 320 - The Man Behind the Curtain
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