Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Happy Ash Wednesday, Jesus is on a door

Here's a photo of the door that's being sold on Ebay to raise money for Haiti. It's supposed to be the image of Jesus. The owner is selling the doorknob and photos of the door and donating the money to Haiti relief.

Buyer beware: It may actually just be an image of a raccoon:

Belarus steals "The Big Bang Theory"

TV Producer, Chuck Lorre, is pissed at the country of Belarus. Apparently, the government-run TV network has been running a rip off of his show, The Big Bang Theory. According to Lorre, the shows running in Belarus are using scripts translated from episodes of TBBT that have already run in the US. Sadly, Lorre has been told that it's practically impossible to sue because the network is owned by the government. I think subjecting the Bellarus people to The Big Bang Theory should be punishment enough.

Here's a sample of the show in Belarus; it's a pretty obvious rip-off:

Lost: Names in a cave

Here's why I get so frustrated with Lost: As your watching the show you can't believe that you're finally getting some answers to what's going on and then you realize... they didn't really tell me anything! I'm even more confused than before!

So here's what we know:

In the alternate reality Locke is pretty well off. He married Helen (yeah!) and is still on speaking terms with his father. While he still yearns to get out of the wheelchair and doesn't want people telling him what he can't do, he has the love and support of Helen who loves him unconditionally.

Locke is surrounded by the other Oceanic passengers in his life. He has a run-in with Hugo, hangs up on Jack's receptionist, meets with Rose at the temp agency (who may or may not know Desmond, according to the poster on the office wall) and the real shocker: he's now working with Ben as a substitute teacher. I love the alternate reality Ben, by the way, getting all pissy about the coffee filter in the teachers' lounge!

Back in the island universe, Locke is moldy and decomposing while the smoke monster walks around looking just like him. We now know that old smokey can no longer change forms, so he's stuck in Locke's image. Why wouldn't they tell us the reason? Could it be because Jacob is now dead? Because the "rules" state he can only steal one of the candidates' bodies? Who knows, it may just be unimportant to the story, but necessary for us to understand that Locke is the one and only smoke monster.

So that leads us to Claire, Sayid and Christian. If they're not the smoke monster, since he is now solely living in Locke's body, who or what are they now? Were they former "candidates" that have been taken over by the dark side's team? What if that's part of the history of the island? Jacob brings the candidates and smoke monster tests them. If they pass the test they continue to be a candidate, if not, they become a part of the dark side?

On to the candidates: Nice touch giving them "numbers" that correspond to Hurley's numbers. It looks like many people have been brought to the island as candidates. I paused the cave scene searching for other people and thought I caught Charlotte's and Claire's last names. Right now here's the possible candidates:

4=Locke 8=Hurley 15=Sawyer 16=Sayid 23=Jack 42= Jin or Sun

I'm going with the theory that 42=Jin. Why? Because he was involved with the time shifting, which somehow shows that he was special. When the Aljera flight landed on the island, Sun was one of the few who wasn't zapped off of the plane to 1977 with the rest of them. Well, neither was Locke... but he was a part of the original time shifting crew before leaving the island and getting murdered.

This leads us to Kate. Why wasn't Kate's name on the cave walls? Is she no longer a candidate? Is she a possible replacement for Sayid or Locke? Is it possible that women can't be a candidate? (I don't believe this theory because smoke monster seemed to believe Sun may be a possible candidate). Anyway... like I said, more questions after getting these "big answers"

So what did you think about last night's show? I look forward to your comments below