LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 19 F#@% the Hiatus!

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The LOSTies have emerged from the gelatinous ooze that is this dark dreadful hiatus with an episode of jam packed excitement!  Actually, they are reviewing Donald is LOST's latest episode entitled "The Accident."  Look out for more Adventures with SPRSPNDX and Bella... and perhaps some fun with the LOSTies!

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 19 "The Incident"

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Season 5 of LOST has ended and here is the end of Season 1 of LOSTies.  Join Jed & Cara as they gather and watch the finale with friends, head to Kansas City to party it up, and go through another full bag of vidmail!

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Jacob's Cabin Initial Reaction show

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Wow... WOW!  The Incident has shown us what lied in the shadow of the statue and man... it was stunning!  The LOSTies decided to join Anna in Indiana and a slew of other friends on Talk Shoe for a discussion of all things FINALE!  Enjoy.

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 18 I Deserve the Hugo Cup!

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The LOSTies are here with a special edition of the show.  Jed has put his name in the ring for the glorious HUGO CUP!!!  He submitted a video to Jay and Jack's Vidcast and it was shown... and loved?  Join the LOSTies as they watch Jed's video, talk about the post Finale plans and deliver a show under 10 minutes.  Who knew?

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 17 "Follow the Leader" Part 2

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Vidmail, vidmail and more vidmail. The LOSTies are bombarded with messages from fans, crazy iron pumping supporters and one not very nice fugly. This might be a lengthy episode but join the fun as the LOSTies discuss the upcoming finale and who or what exactly is John Locke.

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 15 "Follow the Leader"

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John Locke is gonna kill who!??! The LOSTies' heads are spinning with the thunderous thump that was "Follow the Leader." Thankfully, they have a few friends joining them to articulate some sort of reaction. Come along and watch our group discuss the episode as quickly as possible during the wretched commercial breaks!

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 15 "The Variable" Part 2

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What does Daniel Farraday, gerber daises and "Hardcastle & McCormick" have to do with LOST? Not much... but the LOSTies find a way to combine them all in another action packed episode. Join us as the LOSTies ponder Farraday's "death," Jed plays dress up, and we go through a slew of vidmail!

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 14 "The Variable"

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LOST's 100th episode rocked Jed & Cara's world! Check out their reactions to the amazing ep, "The Variable," and make sure you watch for some truly shocking bathroom footage - YIKES!!

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 13 "LOST Rock Band"

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What does LOST have to do with Rock Band - not much, but that doesn't stop the LOSTies!  Here is the Monday edition where we are joined by a few friends who might just be bigger LOST fans than Jed and Cara combined.  Let's get LOST ROCKING!!

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 12 "Some Like It Hoth Part 2"

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The Monday-morning LOSTies is here!  In this episode we run with the Star Wars theme that Hurley introduced to us last week and make Cara take a quiz to test her Star Wars knowledge!  We also read and watch some viewer mail and that pesky Lilly makes an appearance.  *note - the episode begins with the same ad from last week.

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : Episode 11 "Some Like It Hoth"

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Hurley is re-writing "The Empire Strikes Back" from memory... and Cara can't remember who stabbed Naomi in the back!  Another exciting instant reaction from the LOSTies - join us, won't you?

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : "Dead is Dead Part 2"

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It's the Monday edition of LOSTies.  Jed and Cara and enjoying some burritos, pondering over Ben's role in the future of LOST, and prancing through the backyard in search of hidden Easter vidmail!

LOSTies with Jed & Cara : "Dead is Dead Part 2" from Jed Findlay on Vimeo.

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TV REVIEW : LOST 5.08 "La Fleur"

Here is a review of "La Fleur." Watch for flying peppers!


LOSTies with Jed & Cara: "La Fleur" from Jed Findlay on Vimeo.


LOST 5.08 "La Fleur" : A (Jed) B+ (Cara)

TV REVIEW: LOST 5.07 "The Life and Times of Jeremy Bentham"

Here is the review of "The Life and Times of Jeremy Bentham."

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LOSTies with Jed & Cara: "The Life and Times of Jeremy Bentham" from Jed Findlay on Vimeo.


LOST 5.07 "The Life and Times of Jeremy Bentham" : A- (Jed) A- (Cara)

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TV REVIEW : LOST 5.06 "316"

This is the first episode of LOSTies with Jed & Cara - discussing "316."

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LOSTies with Jed & Cara: "316" from Jed Findlay on Vimeo.

LOST 5.06 "316" : A- (Jed) B+ (Cara)

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TV REVIEW: LOST 5.05 "This Place is Death"

Blowing my mind is a quality that LOST often beholds and does very well - "This Place is Death" definitely delivers on the mind massaging.

I am so happy with how the season is going, we have yet to have a bad episode or one that I really did not have a gasping moment with! This ep made me gasp about 5 times.


The biggest and best gasp of the night belonged to smokey. Watching Rousseau's team wander through the jungle to meet up with the Smoke Monster... watching one of her crew get blown out of the ground - into the air - and landing with a nasty thud (sound effects were big tonight).

Montand gets grabbed and is dragged in an exciting sequence - smokey is taking him all the way back to the...


TEMPLE!!! Finally, we get a view of the Temple! I guess smokey likes to hang out here and was given Montand a little tour - the gang held on to him as long as they could, til smokey severed his arm... oops!

Here was gasp 3 and 4 - realizing that Rousseau's team got the sickness by entering the temple after Montand... the scene where Danielle had to shoot Robert was heartbreaking and stunning!


The fun sort of let up once we dealt with the Island Losties finding the Orchid... and the LA stuff was ok this week (though not much happened). I did like Ben's fit about everyone not giving him the respect he deserved!

Having Desmond arrive at the end was annoyingly TV convenient. But - whatever.


The final sequence was gasp 5 - when Locke hit the floor and broke his legs... and had the bone protruding... ewwwww. The sequence was very cool. Christian Shepard announcing that Locke was to turn the wheel... not Ben... odd, what does that mean?

"Say hi to my son..."

The only real bummer of the episode was the death of poor Charlotte... we hardly knew her - my guess is we will see her again as a child - with the Dharma Initiative.

Yummy stuff folks - enjoy it now... this won't last.

LOST 5.05 "This Place is Death" : A

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TV REVIEW: Scrubs 8.07 & 8.08 "My New Role" & "My Lawyer's in Love"

It is my duty - my honor - to report... that Scrubs is good again!!!!

Ok, I never really left the show, but some of the last two seasons was really unbearable to witness. Season 8 opened up on ABC with the notion that it was trying to return the show to it's earlier greatness.

The first two episodes were pretty damn good in comparison to the last two seasons... but the following two episodes slipped right back into nothingness.


Then last week we had two eps that really tried to re-capture some feeling in the series - and they included some decent Seaseme Street dream sequences too!

That sounds weird, but it worked very well.


Now we have the 7th and 8th episodes of the year and... by God, I would put both of these episodes up against anything from Seasons 1-3!!!

In fact, "My Lawyer's in Love" has a moment that I would throw into the pantheon of Scrubs bits... take a look.



Hell, here's another nugget just cuz you were asking!



Seriously... the show knocked both of these out of the park. BRAVO!!!!

Scrubs 8.07 "My New Role" : A-
Scrubs 8.08 "My Lawyer's in Love" : A

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TV REVIEW : LOST 5.04 "The Little Prince"

"The Little Prince" did some good stuff and some really annoying stuff. The opening showed Kate holding Aaron, the night before Jack asks everyone to lie. Kate is pitching the idea that they say Aaron is her child. The scene was flat from the start - unnecessary for the story (we had already assumed something like this went down and we made the leap with the show... why shoot the scene?) and really not very well done on the show.

I get that the scene was to point to the direction of the episode (Kate might lose Aaron) but really, it did not work.


Actually, a fair amount didn't in this episode. Specifically, the writers have gotten very lazy. I am tired of scenes of "What did you just see?" "Nothing" "Why are we doing this?" "That's not important right now." These bits are used to stall until the proper scene starts up. The story is good, but the execution of dialogue is weak.

I do understand that the show has often sacrificed REAL dialogue for story driven time wasting... but it is badly on display here. Let's move on to what I did like.

One little surprise was seeing Claire's mother in L.A. and then finding out it was Ben who was trying to take Aaron. It was nice that I was wrong.


Another moment was one for Locke - his explanation of why he needed to endure the pain of his mistakes - that was worthwhile dialogue... and it made his realization of that all the more important.

The converse was the scene of Sawyer watching the birth of Aaron and seeing Kate - that did not work for me at all.


The biggest winning moments came with two major reveals: Hey there is Jin!!!

I am really glad Jin is alive and back on the show. I thought we might not get this solved until the end of the season - seeing it now surprised and thrilled me.

The other great moment had to do with Jin's rescuers...


Danielle Rousseau and her French gang!!!

I am very excited to see her story.

Overall, the island scenes still moved the episode along well. Methinks the boat and Ajera Airlines water bottle belong to the Oceanic 6 (even though they were chasing our Losties and shooting at them) and that our gang was in the future at that moment.

The O6 should be back on the island soon enough (just gotta go through some Sun drama and a Hurley break out ep). Still a good episode - just clean up some dialogue and get the O6 moving!


LOST 5.04 "The Little Prince" : B

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TV REVIEW: LOST 5.03 "Jughead"

I was a little worried after about 15 minutes of "Jughead" - but things became very very cool. The ep could be called a Desmond centric story, Des was off to Great Britain to find Daniel Farraday's mother at Oxford. Of course, there was no record of Farraday, but his stuff was still left in his office (this was a bad scene... bad writing!). This led him to a time-traveling woman who had worked with Farraday and who was living on life support with funding by... WIDMORE!

None to shocking.

Penny had a baby... blurg. The baby's name was Charlie, which I thought was a great reference to the man who brought them together - our drowned guitar hero... but then Cara said "Isn't her Dad named Charles?" Hmmmm. Des met with Widmore... meh. He made plans with Pen to head to L.A. - ok ok.


This real shiz was Jughead itself! Holy crap it is a Hydrogen-Bomb... dangling on some rope!?!??! When the bomb was revealed the ep finally started to kick into gear. Here is a little theory coming from someone who has watched too many TV/Movies... that bomb will be essential to the dramatic ending of the show.

EXT: H-Bomb Jughead is sitting on the ground in the rain. Jack hovers over it with a gun - Ben stands in front of him and Locke floats above the ground in spiritual form.

BEN/LOCKE: "Jack, don't do it."

JACK, in a breathy huff - sarcastically: "All roads lead here."

Jack shoots and the island explodes. THE END


More coolness came with Locke talking with Richard Alpert (who is delivering the most kick ass lines of the show... "Not that I want to contradict myself...") about searching him out in 1956. We sorta knew this scene was coming, but it was a blast!!


A juicy nugget was this little dish who marched Farraday off to the bomb. She was british, unsure of Farraday... and more importantly, recognizable to Farraday! Methinks this is a young Ms. Hawking - Dan's mom!


And that would make this man Dan's pop! WIDMORE!!! Holy crap! This was the reveal of the ep. I loved it. Man, Locke should have hauled off and slugged this guy - or done a Sawyer bitch slap!

Little Mr. Widmore used to work with Alpert - he was on the island in 1954... whoa.

Uber cool kids... LOST is a rocking!

LOST 5.03 "Jughead" : A-