Ah, the ol’ C4-plastic-explosives-in-the-backpack switcheroo… Classic! Give me a break.

At this late stage of the game, this whole damn thing ending in three weeks, I didn’t think I’d find myself wanting to return to the mystical Jacob/Man-In-Black tale. And yet, here we are, any hope of adequately addressing any remaining logic/science/pseudo-science threads in the plot all but dead. They can’t get back to the myth stuff fast enough.

The entire exploding submarine sequence was Golan and Globus-level hacky, an unworthy contrivance to wipe out three primary characters’ (island existences). And as we all know, you can’t just hop in a damn submarine and go from a dead stop to a take off like the General Lee. Where the hell are they going to go anyhow? Do they have the secret coordinates they spent 5 years telling us were necessary to travel to and from the island?

Oy, this Locke/Smoke Monster thing. Seriously, WTF is up with this dude. First he can’t cross the water; now he can. He can’t directly kill any of the candidates; now apparently he can, locking and loading rifles, hot on their trail. Bullets bounce off of him, but you can just shove him off a pier into the ocean. And apparently now at this late point he has gained a level of omniscience that tells him some survived the exploding submarine. It’s just a writer’s crutch to keep a character so vaguely defined that they can break or stretch any rule that has been established.

But enough about that. Now, a celebration of the beloved characters of Jin and Sun in photos, on the occasion of their watery death.

Click a photo to read a witty/insightful/banal/stupid comment on the episode moment depicted.

Screencaps on loan from Lost-Media.com

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Just go read Lisanti’s 23 Questions on the episode.

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Glee Live In Concert @ Gibson Amphitheatre Thu 5/20
Glee Live In Concert @ Gibson Amphitheatre Fri 5/21

We’re guessing news of a Glee live show is a big deal to fans of the show and of complete indifference to the other 95% of us. You know which camp you fall into.

American Express cardholder (AmEx pre-sale monopoly strikes again) pre-sale this Friday, March 5 at 10 a.m.

»continue reading Trailer Park Boys–Live Tonight at Wiltern, Jammed With Guns N’ Roses in Halifax (Video)

On the occasion of the March 2 premiere of the 2nd season on TNT, here’s a shot to score yourself a DVD box set of the 1st season of the LA-based SouthLAnd, courtesy of the SouthLAnd team over at TNT.

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»continue reading Lost: Season 6, Episode 5: “Lighthouse”

Well, didn’t see this explanation of The Numbers coming. »continue reading Lost: Season 6, Episode 4: The Substitute–No More Complaints, Just a Few Thoughts and Resigned Acceptance

Where can I get one of those poison pills? I am this close to checking out on this thing.

»continue reading Lost, Season 6, Episode 3: “What Kate Does”–Just a Few General Complaints, Not a Full Recap

Obviously, the show is unwatchable, but this silent treatment kind of lends it a new level of macabre. The silent pauses are unbearable.

Video below.

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I admitted my expectations for the new season were unreasonable, so a let down was inevitable. I’m just not feeling the heavy mystical tone on which it seems the Island story is going to end. Reincarnations, manifestations, resurrections, all that crap. It’s just not nearly as compelling as the time travel theoretical (faux) science stuff, to me at least. (Remember back when it was theorized that the Smoke Monster might even be a swarm nanobots?)

On the narrative level, I guess we are looking a Schrodinger’s Cat or Many Worlds (thanks to your dad, E.) set up–with the parallel realities, simultaneous Island/Los Angeles narratives, which at some point will braid together and resolve. Personally, I’d be happy moving the whole story off the damn island for good already. (It’d be fun to see them run around Los Angeles for a while.) And this Genghis Khan-looking dude above, apparently a character of some heavy significance, showing up at this late stage of the game is just an annoying stalling tactic. It’s like a like a new video game boss showing up after you thought you had the game beat.

P.S. Can’t ABC get some quality CGI at this stage? That underwater composite shot looked like some kid knocked that out on iMovie on a Mac.

I admit to anticipating tonight’s return of Lost way out of proportion. I was going to recap where we are to date, but I can’t do better than this over-caffeinated, right-on ramble on Defamer (whipped out “from memory”) , so go read that there. Carlton and Lindelof’s tone in the pre-season press to ease fan expectation back ahead of the last season has been duly noted. It’s actually has me in a frame of mind wherein I will be fine without full, scientific explanations to every last question so long as the broader, overarching framework of the story ends up locking in place. Not that I wouldn’t say no to a real explanation of the Numbers or the Smoke Monster. But mostly just don’t fuck up the finale and I’m good.

If you never caught the short Lost Season 6 teaser from Spanish TV scored with Radiohead (“EIIRP”), I’ll stick it below for the hell of it. I just love it when a fitting convergence of art from disparate sources is figured out by third parties.

»continue reading Finally, The Lost Final Season Is Here, Finally

If, like us, you have a Google Alert set for all mentions of Gary Coleman, you no doubt read the story of his arrest in Utah making the rounds today with the accompanying unflattering booking photo.

However, Losanjealous will NOT be running the mugshot photo, so do not look for it here. It is widely available elsewhere and has been posted with no small amount of mockery and schadenfreude, in which we will not participate (Sample sneering from the Seattle PI article linked above: “Really, it’s the mug shot that makes this story worth posting. No word on if The Gooch was involved.”)

Below the jump, we choose instead to accompany this news story with an image of Mr. Coleman as he was when he was a star in his prime.

This, however, is not to say we condone domestic violence, the charge on which he was arrested. Whether it be be it little man on big woman or big woman on little man, or any other form, all violence is wrong.

»continue reading Losanjealous Will NOT Run the Gary Coleman Police Booking Mugshot

The LAST Tonight Show, Friday 1/23. Guests: Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Neil Young.

We’ll see you in September! On, say, FOX? Say, weeknights, 11 p.m.? Sound good? (Keep the show in L.A.!)

Below: Funny clip from last night’s show–Pee-wee Herman explains the dispute between Conan and NBC using toys.

»continue reading Farewell (For Now), Conan O’Brien