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"Lost" and Some Tuesday Viewing

February 7, 2007

"Lost" fatigue, some possible spoilers from last night's telecasts and proof that I am a sentimental fool, after the jump …

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Super Bowl Sunday

February 4, 2007

Colts. Bears. Talking lions. K-Fed. Katie. Dave and Oprah. Rainy night in Florida (and on CBS camera lenses). Prince rules. More after the jump …

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"Lost": Huh?

May 26, 2006

The cone of silence has been lifted on "Lost," since the bride and I watched it Thursday night. (Wonderful to have a night when the viewing demands were so minimal that we could spend a couple of hours catching up.) I was sure of some things as it went along, then — within a half-hour [...]

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"Lost"

May 5, 2006

The cone of silence about "Lost" lifted late last night. Actually, it had partly lifted earlier, when that co-worker talked to me, since her comment involved Ana Lucia getting shot. I managed to avoid any additional information yesterday, but when watching the show, I kept waiting through the episode for the shooting. But I sure [...]

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The Greatest "Lost" of All

April 13, 2006

I won't pretend that last night's "Lost" — called "S.O.S." — was great in terms of advancing the overall narrative of the show, although there was some of that. Liked Jack and Kate in the net. Remain curious about the way the captive Other has played with Locke's head. And Michael's back, apparently setting up [...]

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"Lost"

April 6, 2006

This morning, I've been collecting theories about "Lost" from co-workers to go with my own, and there are some good ones. Starting with the obvious: That "Lost" has pulled a "St. Elsewhere" and really is all Hurley's imagination. Then the twist, which I sort of like, that it's all Libby's mental-asylum fantasy. I'd like to [...]

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"Lost"

March 30, 2006

Still wondering what message we should take from the use of Les McCann and Eddie Harris's version of "Compared To What," the song playing when Locke is exercising. Great tune, of course. I've had the album for years, and saw McCann and Harris perform it at the Hampton Jazz Festival back in the '70s. I [...]

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"Lost": Romance and Mysteries

March 23, 2006

Why no shaving cream?
This morning, when I was shaving, I thought of Locke's lament about not having shaving cream and wondered, why? All the other stuff that's in the hatch, but no shaving cream? Is it a Dharma mind game? Is it tied in some way to the locked-up guy's being able to shave? Am [...]

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"Lost"

March 2, 2006

I am still mulling over last night's episode, since I was fighting sleep when I watched it. Not because it made me sleepy, though. There was a lot going on, and not — as was the case in the new episode two weeks ago — baby steps of information. This felt as if the show [...]

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"Lost"

February 15, 2006

I'm not the best one at catching the little surprises on the show. I was happy when I spotted Kate's mom last week, but tonight I didn't recognize her dad (although he looked familiar) until we saw her picture. And I'm going to have to go back into my recording to see the images that [...]

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Are the Olympics in for a Bad Night?

February 15, 2006

"Grey's Anatomy" beat the Olympics Sunday night in the national ratings. "American Idol" crushed the games on Tuesday night, and "House" did so in some markets (including Northeast Ohio). I see a bad night coming for the Olympics.
Why tonight? New "Idol," for one thing, where the field will be narrowed one more time before fan [...]

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"Lost," "Veronica Mars"

February 8, 2006

I reversed some of my viewing tonight. My wife was out for most of the evening, so I recorded "Lost" and waited for her return, since that's one of the shows we like to watch together. Instead, I watched "Veronica Mars" in real time. And, because this was one of those nights with lots of [...]

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M.C. Gainey Says Hello

February 8, 2006

Regular blog readers will recall my Jan. 18 post, "Ladies and Gentlemen, M.C. Gainey," about the actor's appearance on "Lost" as the apparent leader of the Others (the one Sawyer nicknamed Zeke). Not long after that post appeared, I received a very nice thank-you e-mail from Gainey's wife, Kim, and today Gainey himself was on [...]

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"Veronica Mars"

February 2, 2006

In a sign of progress in my home obligations, I actually managed to watch "Veronica Mars" on the same night it aired. All right, not all of it — about half last night, and half this morning, and all of it from a recording. But I'm getting closer to real-time viewing. I may even be [...]

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"Lost" and Other Wednesday Notes

January 25, 2006

I wanted to like "Lost" more tonight than I did. Part of that is my weariness with Charlie's lost-puppy saga — the big wet eyes, the whole please-love-me thing. (Of course, Charlie's need for affection fit nicely with the blossoming of other relationships among the survivors — and gosh, would it be nice to see [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, M.C. Gainey

January 18, 2006

Sometimes we know too much about television. Take, for example, M.C. Gainey. He's a steady, sturdy character actor who appears in a lot of things, and is good enough that somewhere along the line I made a note of his name. And noticed when he popped up on "Lost" before, for the taking of Walt.
Noticed, [...]

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"Lost" Again

January 11, 2006

I don't know if I have said this before, but "Lost's" episode tonight reminded me once again how the show is sometimes like watching Sugar Ray Leonard against Marvin Hagler — Leonard hanging back, letting Hagler dominate most of a round, then revving up in the final moments to impress the judges. While there were [...]

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"Lost": A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Bend

November 30, 2005

How many times can "Lost" throw us in a single episode? A lot, apparently.
Kate's home exploding was an impressive opening, although the story behind it — her killing her stepfather, who was actually her biological father — didn't prove as impressive as the promos implied. We've pretty well known that, whatever her criminal past, she [...]

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"Lost"

November 23, 2005

"Lost" is one of those shows that I watch several different ways, and sometimes I forget that I'm doing it. Tonight I sat, a little uncomfortably, through most of the episode in my move-the-mystery-along mode. There really wasn't a lot of that. And even the promised reunion of the two survivor groups (I keep wanting [...]

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"Lost" Again

November 16, 2005

Tonight was one of those times when I wished I had this whole season of "Lost" to watch at once, whether because I had stored up all the episodes, or had the DVD, or someone made the whole thing available at VOD. Then this would be another chapter in a skein that I could watch [...]

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