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By stephen, February 7, 2010 6:28 pm

So after much waiting the final season of Lost is under-way and before we know it, it will soon be all done & dusted and gone forever which I’m sure will please some people. The Lost love/hate Marmite effect seems to be in full flow at the moment!!!

So what do we now know after the season’s 2 hour opening and more importantly, what don’t we know?

The bomb – Well it seams as though the bomb did actually go off in 1970’s Lost. As a result, the Swan Station was never completed, there was never a button to push every 108 minutes, which meant that the infamous Oceanic flight 815 safely sails across the Pacific and lands safely in L.A. with all of the original Losties on-board and strangely leaves the present day Island now submerged deep under the ocean (did the explosion cause this? Was it a result of the huge magnetic energy being released?). Well that’s the story in one reality anyway, as our 1970’s Losties appear to have been zapped to the present day Island at precisely the same time as the bomb exploding, which gives us two intriguing ‘parallel’ stories or realities to follow, which I’ll call (A) & (B), with (B) being the new non plane crash reality. I guess for me the most interesting development with these two (A) & (B) realities is the fact that (A) Losties have no idea that their actions have indeed created a (B) reality… Well almost all of the (A) Losties and this intrigues me more than anything else…

Juliet - Once the love interest for the loathsome Ben, then switched her affections to Jack, only to spend her time in the 70’s with Sawyer.

• Juliet (A) was last seen crushed at the bottom of the pit at the Swan construction site, desperately trying to get the bomb to ignite. Now zapped into the present day, Juliet is where we last left her. After a frantic rescue attempt, Sawyer finally reaches his beloved Juliet, only for her to die in his arms Her final words to Sawyer… ‘I need to tell you something really important…‘ And with the aid of medium Miles we learn that the rest of Juliet’s sentence should have been, ‘It worked.‘ Now assuming that this refers to trying to stop the plane crash, then how the hell can Juliet know this???
• Juliet (B) I’m assuming is somewhere in reality (B)???

Jack – He’s never been my favourite character, but I guess I aught to give him a mention. So…

• Jack (A) is full of remorse. As a result of his ‘oh let’s blow up a bomb’ actions, Juliet is now dead and Sawyer is not best pleased. Sayid appears to die from the shooting he received in the bomb climax, which improves Jack’s mood even further!!!
• Jack (B) meanwhile finds himself a little confused on-board Oceanic flight 815. He has a strange little sore on his neck, which I’m sure is very significant. He also manages to save a choking Charlie’s life by dislodging a heroine bag from his throat. Back in L.A. while trying to get to the bottom of his father’s missing coffin, Jack (B) also offers to give the wheelchair bound Locke (B) spinal surgery, which brings us to…

Locke – Easily the most interesting Lost character.

• Locke (A) is dead. End of story!!! Well maybe? There is an evil version of Locke (Locke ‘C’???) on the Island, but that’s Jacob’s nasty enemy/nemesis AKA the Smoke Monster. Not sure about everyone else but I kinda miss the original John Locke.
• Locke (B) as I’ve already mentioned is wheelchair bound and who knows just where his story will go? Where ever it does go though, Locke (B) will be going there without his trusty knives, which along with Christian Shepherd’s coffin have mysteriously vanished.

Jacob - Who the hell is the mysterious Jacob???

• Jacob (A) has just been stabbed to death by Ben and his body has been burnt by Locke (C) AKA Jacob’s enemy AKA the Smoke Monster. A ghostly Jacob then appears to Hurley and instructs him to take a dying Sayid to the Temple to be cured. He also tells Hurley that he must take his guitar-case with him. A guitar-case that a living Jacob gave to Hurley off the Island in 2007. A guitar-case that contained a big wooden Ankh, with a hand-written message hidden inside from Jacob, telling the Temple folk to cure Sayid. Coincidence that the Ankh is the Egyptian symbol for eternal life? I think not… Lots of hows, whys and whens spring to mind with this particular issue But it does certainly imply that Jacob knew what was going to happen a long time before they did and decided to do something about it.

• Jacob (B) I’m assuming sinks with the Island??? I don’t actually believe this for one minute!!! I’m not actually convinced that there even will be a Jacob (B)

And a few other interesting points.

The two (A) & (B) realities appear to be portraying very opposite characteristics. A ‘cursed’ Hurley (A) is mirrored by a Hurley (B)  who claims to be the luckiest man alive. A lucky Hurley (B) who appears to have grabbed the interest of a certain conman Sawyer (B). Interesting to see how this plays out. Sun & Jin’s relationship is also in stark contrast in the (A) & (B) worlds. Jack & Locke’s brief meeting in the L.A.Airport Lost Property was I thought particularly poignant. These two characters have been at opposite ends of the spectrum in world (A) and it will be very, very interesting to see how this storyline develops.

And finally a few questions.

• How will the two (A) & (B) worlds collide? (Surely this is a given conclusion?)
• How did Juliet know that the bomb experiment had ‘worked’?
• How did the large Egyptian 4 toed statue (Taweret) get destroyed? A bomb going off and a sinking Island would surely cause this, but had it already happened by then???
• How does Desmond fit into reality (B)? He appeared on the flight next to Jack, but was never actually on this flight.

As with almost every episode of Lost I could write a whole website full of questions, so just for now I’ll leave it at that!!!

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By stephen, January 21, 2010 10:35 pm

It’s been a while since I’ve had a good old rant on here. And before you all leap in and accuse me of being bone idle for getting the shopping delivered in the first place, I must point out that our charmingly cute little boy…

… turns into a manic, foaming at the mouth, hyperactive lunatic (very hard to imagine, I know!!!) if we get him anywhere near a supermarket It’s as if we’ve taken him to the biggest, grandest playground he’s ever seen. Sawyer has an absolute blast once inside. We don’t!!!

Which is why Home Delivery is our preferred method of weekly shop. And as we’re on a bit of an economy drive at the moment, ASDA is our supermarket of choice. It’s cheap and as the saying goes, ‘you get what you pay for.’ We have had a few mishaps in the past with ASDA, but you kind of expect a few every once in a while. Recently however ASDA have been truly and shockingly shite. Our weekly order of Xmas shopping simply failed to turn up and then when it did a few days later we were charged nearly £70 for some fancy sparkly wine that should have been on offer. We complained, ASDA failed to budge, we gave them their fancy pants wine back and the driver gave us a complimentary box of mince pies for our trouble

And then there was this week, which was quite frankly a little bizarre… For probably the first time in ages our shopping did actually arrive within the 2 hour slot we’d selected. The driver dumped our bags onto our doorstep in record time and then disappeared before I’d even picked half of them up. No goodbyes or any awkward little electronic pad to sign; she was off and that was that. Some time later we discovered that a lot of our dairy products hadn’t been delivered.  About 12 items in all, so I rang to complain (it doesn’t take much. I do like a good moan )

‘Hi. We’ve just had our shopping delivered and loads of items are missing.‘

‘Oh I’m sorry. What are the product codes?‘

I then read through our order and gave the woman all of the relevant codes.

‘I’m afraid we won’t be able to re-deliver those items, but I can give you a voucher for a free delivery the next time you order from us.‘

‘I’m guessing that we won’t want to order from ASDA again, so we’ll just have our money back thank-you.‘

‘Oh ok. Is that all?‘

‘Well I guess so. Our shopping would’ve been nice, but I guess we’ll have to go out and buy that from somewhere else now.‘

‘Yes I am sorry. I’ll give you a voucher anyway.‘

We then re-ordered most of what had been missing from lovely Sainsburys and got butter & milk from the local shop…

Last night we had a knock on the door. An ASDA delivery man was stood on our doorstep with bags of shopping.

‘Hi. It’s your shopping.‘

‘We were told it couldn’t be re-delivered. We’ve had a refund and re-ordered the stuff.‘

‘Well it’s your shopping, you may as well have it.‘

‘We didn’t order that much milk!!!‘

‘Well you may as well have it.‘

So last night we had over 14 pints of milk rammed into our fridge We can’t eat the cereals fast enough at the moment!!!

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By stephen, January 18, 2010 12:05 pm

The Dark Knight (2008)

Easily the best Batman film to date, but what the hell was that ever so charming Christian Bale doing with his Batman voice I’d call it gravelly, but that doesn’t even come close!!! Heath Ledger, simply awesome.

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By stephen, January 11, 2010 12:23 pm

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Not so mini, only because I’m a huge David Lynch fan and I’d find it really hard to squash my review into my usual one sentence version!!! Being such a huge fan, I’ll have to admit it’s slightly embarrassing that it’s actually taken me this long to finally watch Mulholland Drive. But thanks to a lovely Lynch box-set from my lovely wife, that was put right last night. Inland Empire is next on the list…

I guess the first thing to say about Mulholland Drive is that it’s very typical of Lynch, which is all very well if you like his style. Tracy’s not quite as besotted on Lynch as I am and I’m sure her review would be very different and a lot more concise than mine; ‘What the fuck?!?!‘ springs to mind. For me, the film was surreal, dark, disturbing, bizarre and made little or no sense in places (typical Lynch). The cast was littered with stunningly good looking females (typical Lynch), freaky weird characters (typical Lynch) and a midget (has Lynch made anything without a midget?). The soundtrack, as Lynch soundtracks usually are, was brilliantly haunting… I was hugely confused (typical Lynch), but did enjoy this a lot.

On a negative side I’ll say this. Mulholland Drive was initially intended as a TV series, but got rejected and I can’t help feeling that it would’ve worked so much better broken down into a series of 50′ish minute episodes. It’s why Twin Peaks worked so much better than the film version. I’m sure Tracy was quite happy with just 2 hours of Mulholland Drive, but I’d have like to have seen Lynch get the opportunity to expand it further… Maybe he did in Inland Empire? I’ll have to wait & see on that one.

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By stephen, December 14, 2009 6:40 pm

1. Everyone and their dog has got an iPhone and that just makes me want to get something different, regardless of how good they may be.

2. The price. I would’ve had to up my current contract by almost £15 a month for 2 years, which if my maths is anywhere near, equals about £360

3. Motorola (who I’m a little addicted to) have finally released a phone that is actually rather good. They’ve always delivered nice looking sexy phones (which is why they’ve always sucked me in!!!), but even I would admit they’ve often been a wee bit shite when it comes to actually using them. But apparently the boffins at Motorola have had a change of tact, which makes this…

a very, very nice phone indeed. Not quite as sexy as previous phones, but nice none the less. I’m not going to say that I think the Motorola Dext is better than the iPhone (Motorolas’ next creation will probably do this), but it is better in some areas. It’s got a proper keyboard, which is very easy to use, (unlike most on the market) and the camera is 5mp as opposed to the 3mp iPhone. And then there’re the ‘apps’ which everyone keeps going on about. At present iPhone users have literally 1000’s of lovely apps to choose from. The Dext runs on Android (which is Googles’ ‘app’ equivalent) and their ‘app market‘ must be one of the fastest growing things out there at the moment. It’s the next big thing, apparently. Which is all good news for the Android phone user

The big selling point of the Dext, apart from the ones I’ve mentioned above is the phones’ Motoblur software. Facebook, Twiiter, MySpace & other social networking sites are all synced direct to your phone and you can be constantly updated of any changes in status updates or tweets etc. It was one of the things that did slightly sway my choice of phone (I’d been undecided for AGES!!!), but it’s not really that amazing a feature if I’m honest. Although to be fair I’ve not fully worked out how to properly use the bloody thing yet

I do however have a Lightsaber app, so I’m a very happy little boy