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March 06, 2008

Here is the place where my liveblog of Lost is

Male Jim Treacher | Category: TV
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Okay, if I'm doing this right, the liveblog itself should show up below. Enjoy, or don't.

P.S. I like how Juliet starts off on the island with too-big hair and too much makeup, and how obvious it is right from the start that Ben's in love with her. Now we know why they used to be buds but now her skin crawls at the sight of him, huh?

P.P.S. Sepinwall, AV Club, Poniewozik. And of course, the episode's Lostpedia page.

P.P.P.S. I've been thinking about that videotape ("I taped over the game..."). Presumably it's the same tape Ben showed Jack to prove he had access to the outside word. That was in "The Glass Ballerina," which was set on Nov. 29, 2004. This episode is set on Dec. 27, 2004. So wherever that tape was shot and however Widmore caught Ben's guy whose teeth he was kicking in, it happened within the last month. We know FutureBen is using FutureSayid as an international assassin, so I guess he's got other operatives around the world too. Which goes along with that secret room Sayid found, with the fake passports and different currencies. So this whole thing is some kind of cat-and-mouse game between these two ruthless creeps. But which one's the cat and which one's the mouse? Who's more evillerer, Widmore or Ben?

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Hey, I got another tragically unhip Lost neophyte question, but at the end of season 3, did we get a chance to find out what it was that Hurley was talking about that Charlie heard that made him realize that it wasn't Penny's boat?

And also, what was the last line of Jack's there at the end when Juliet told him that Ben knows how she feels about Jack? Didn't quite catch that...

Comment by Mark V. on March 6, 2008 7:47 PM

Here ya go.

Comment by Treach on March 6, 2008 8:48 PM

About the whole Cap'n Michael thing...if it's true, and if it's supposed to be a surprise, they don't seem to be hiding it very well.

Comment by Sean M. on March 7, 2008 2:13 AM

Yeah, he's been in the opening credits all season, right? I don't know if that's a contractual thing, or so we don't know exactly when to expect him, or maybe both. But yeah, he's gotta be on the boat, either Ben's spy or the Captain or Sayid and Desmond's "friend." Or maybe all three?

Comment by Treach on March 7, 2008 5:05 AM

Ben told Locke he'd better sit down before he told him who's his man on the boat. It's been pretty obvious that it's Michael. Wouldn't that even be Locke's first guess too? He'd better tell Locke something pretty shocking, like, "It's Aaron" or "It's a shaved polar bear named Steven Hawking."

Also, Kate should get pistol-whipped every episode.

Comment by chaika on March 7, 2008 7:07 AM

It would have to be Michael or Walt or somebody's twin. It's not like Ben would say, "You better sit down. The spy is somebody you've never met or heard of."

Unless it's a celebrity playing themselves, which could be awesome. "You better sit down. It's Abe Vigoda. Yes, the actor." The could call the episode Fish Out Of Water!

Comment by dorkafork on March 7, 2008 4:59 PM