Lost, Episode 3.04: Every Man For Himself

I'll be worthless for you guys this morning, since we didn't get to watch Lost last night. We had friends and family in town, so the episode is sitting on our Tivo taunting us until tonight. To make matters worse, I've already had a few co-workers come to my office this morning saying "Wasn't that a great episode last night?" and "that was one of my favorite episodes so far this season".

Sooooo... go ahead and post your comments for one another, but I'll have to avoid reading them until after tonight....

Heroes - Chapter 5 - Hiro's

Loved Heroes last night. The show is pretty darn intriguing, and unlike Lost, this show seems to actually be going somewhere. Where... we're not sure. Still love Lost, but it is starting to go X-File on us where you wonder if anything will ever be answered, and whether it will be too late by the time they do. Who knows.

As for my random thoughts from this week's Heroes:

Love future Hiro. The guy goes from dorky sci-fi nerd to cool dude, bad accent to no accent. Interesting comment to Peter about "you look different without the scar".

Not sure how Suresh is going to play into the big picture. Does he have a power, other than being the worst actor on the show?

Wild hospital scene with Claire's dad and the mind-eraser dude erasing Brody's memory. Those guys are really creepy, yet I really wonder whether they are playing it up just make you THINK they are bad. I'm really not sure. If he were the bad dude, wouldn't he have cut out Matt's brain when they captured him? What about that serial killer the cops were looking for?

Very cool watching Nathan fly away. Very funny scene with him and Hiro in the diner. Quite the politian for him to demand double the donation after discovering they'd blackmailed him. "$2M makes me a candidate, $4M gives you a congressman".

So where are they going with Niki's character? That's not much of a power if she can't control her alter-ego (or even know it exists).

Matt's scenes were interesting. I wondered when hearing voices would eventually overwhelm him. I have no idea where they are going with his character and how it'll tie in.

Peter and Isaac was wild. I think we saw a glimpse that Peter's power isn't flying (like his brother's), but really it's being able to tap into other people's powers, as evidenced by him taking on Isaac's glassed eyes and being able to complete the painting.


***** SPOILER ALERT - episode guide below, including previews of next two weeks *****

Episode # Air Date Title
1 1x01 25/Sep/2006 Genesis
2 1x02 02/Oct/2006 Don't Look Back
3 1x03 09/Oct/2006 One Giant Leap
4 1x04 16/Oct/2006 Collision
5 1x05 23/Oct/2006 Hiros

Chapter 6 (1.06): “Better Halves” (Original Airdate: October 30, 2006)

Hiro (Masi Oka) and his buddy embark on their heroic journey to New York, when they are stopped by a Vegas high-roller who offers them a deal they can’t refuse. As H.R.G (guest star Jack Coleman) sets up a meeting for his daughter Claire (Hayden Panettiere) with her biological parents, she hopes that questions about her newfound indestructibility can be answered. Meanwhile, Isaac (Santiago Cabrera) receives another confusing call from Hiro, but Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) is there this time to pick up the phone and relay a life-saving message. Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) bids farewell to Eden (guest star Nora Zehetner) as he heads back to India to bury his father. An unexpected visitor shows up at Niki’s (Ali Larter) home.

Chapter 7 (1.07): “Nothing to Hide” (Original Airdate: November 6, 2006)

Facing a crisis involving her son Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey), a distraught Niki (Ali Larter) reveals her recent personal struggles to a friend. Pushing aside his own issues at home, Matt (Greg Grunberg) assists Audrey’s (guest star Clea Duvall) investigation into another bizarre murder, but their pursuit of mysterious serial killer Sylar takes an unexpected turn. After failing to act like a “superhero” when faced with danger, Hiro (Masi Oka) questions his heroism. Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) and his wife Heidi (guest star Rena Sofer) strategize on how to win the congressional election. Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is shocked to learn where her missing tape wound up. Meanwhile, her father H.R.G. (”Horn-Rimmed Glasses,” guest star Jack Coleman) is disturbed by news from one of his associates. Santiago Cabrera, Tawny Cypress, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Leonard Roberts and Milo Ventimiglia also star, and Randall Bentley (”Judging Amy”), Ashley Crow (”Champs”), Lisa Lackey (”NYPD Blue”) and Richard Roundtree (”Shaft”) guest star.

Episode # Air Date Title
8 1x08 13/Nov/2006 Homecoming
9 1x09 20/Nov/2006 Seven Minutes to Midnight
10 1x10 27/Nov/2006 Six Months Ago
11 1x11 04/Dec/2006 TBA
12 1x12 11/Dec/2006 TBA
13 1x13 18/Dec/2006 TBA

Lost - Episode 3.03: Further Instructions

Ok, I'm back in business. Barely. We may still have a zillion boxes to unpack, but at least I've got tivo and internet again!

Ok, so this was a really weird episode. I liked it, but didn't love it. It was one of those back-story, build-up type of episodes, that it much better when you view it from the big picture than by itself. I enjoyed seeing many of the characters we'd missed for the past several episodes, and also liked seeing several new/seldom seen characters among the group.

MSNBC has their recap up , and I'm sure Entertainment Weekly will have theirs shortly.

Random thoughts:

Boone returns! Polar bear returns! Desmond returns! Hurley returns! Eko returns! Charlie returns!

Very interesting twist that Locke couldn't speak for half the episode. Also cool seeing Eko's stick fall from the sky.

Loved seeing Boone in the sweatlodge. I'll bet that actor is still pissed he was killed off the show.

Also some interesting interactions between Charlie and Locke, especially the drug references. Quite true, considering Locke did hallucinate out on something, plus we see the flashbacks with him living on that commune where they had a huge weed operation. Loved Charlie's remark about "you'll have to punch yourself in the face".

Interesting flashback with Locke in that commune, and we see yet another case where he was conned. His back stories are so interesting in their contrast to his island persona, in that he is the weak, easily swindled person in the real world, yet the tough hunter sage on the island. We still don't know how he was paralyzed.

Desmond's return brings more questions than answers. How did he survive the implosion? Can he now see the future? Loved the deja vu stuff about Locke's speech.

Funny scene where Locke's knife impales Hurley's canteen. Dude!

Creepy scene in that cave with the polar bear. The Locke-Eko "conversation" (or was it?) was interesting. Can't wait for Eko to get better. He's still my favorite character.


Next week's episode looks really spooky. Here's the next few weeks:

Episode 3.04: Every Man For Himself (Sawyer-centric)
Airdate: October 25, 2006

Episode 3.05: The Cost of Living (Eko-centric)
Airdate: November 1, 2006

Episode 3.06: I Do (Kate-centric)
Airdate: November 8, 2006

Lost and Heroes

Ok, I am going to be a bad blogger this week. We are moving houses and my pc will be boxed up. Feel free to post your thoughts here. I will say we watched Heroes this week and loved it. Week 2 was a bit slow, but this week was great.

And, we actually did get Lost and it was a great episode. There are boxes EVERYWHERE and we had to watch it on a small tv, and we had to watch it real-time (complete with commercials!) since the tivo was already packed up *gasp*!

Anyhow, this was quite the spooky episode. Here are some random thoughts:

* they know Sawyer as his real name, James

* they know Sun's full name. There's gotta be repurcusions for Sun shooting that girl, especially since we know she's got a boyfriend

* Alex makes an appearance and she wants to help. And she is looking for Carl.

* interesting back-story on Sun's father wanting Jin to kill that guy, and when he doesn't, the guy dies anyhow. Did he jump himself (we see the pearls), or did someone else finish the job?

* loved Sayid's plan to capture two of them and kill the rest. Why two? So he could get the other one to talk. I love episodes with Sayid.

I really wanted to see him and Jin kick some butt, but now they are boatless...

* cool seeing Sawyer set himself up in that fight to feel out each of the others. Then chilling to see Ben watching them discuss the plan.

* So Ben has allegedly lived on the island his whole life?

What else?

Lost, Episode 3.01: A Tale of Two Cities

This series had slipped a bit for me last season and I really needed it to start strong to win me back, especially after getting hooked on new shows such as Heroes and Friday Night Lights. Well, mission accomplished with flying colors. Good grief! We were tense the entire episode and have no idea where the show is going. Consider that a good thing.

MSNBC's recap
Lots of pictures of the episode here.

Random thoughts:

The opening scene feels a lot like the past couple season premiers (focusing on eyes, etc.) We see Juliette trying to compose herself, fighting back tears, etc.

Wild stuff with the opening scenes in the Dharma village seeing the plane break up, and seeing all the old "Others" -- Ethan, Goodwin, etc.

The book club was reading Stephen King's Carrie. unHenry/Ben obviously has some tension with Juliette.

Very interesting that Jack, Kate and Sawyer were in vastly different holding areas.

I'll have to check again, but I seem to recall we see Jack and Kate both pulling off bandaids where they received some medicine, but I don't remember seeing Sawyer with one.

How did Juliette get between the Hydra station and the zoo area where she shot Sawyer? Same person? Time lapse? Twin? We do know her character is one tough cookie.

What happened to the dude from the other cage who tried to get Sawyer to escape?

What did unHenry (now we know as Ben) do to Kate? They made it a point to show her wrist marks. Has her "next two weeks will be very unpleasant" already started? Did they tell her what was going to happen? Obviously she didn't eat her food on the beach.

Love the line when Sawyer figures out how to get the food when the guy tells him "only took the bears 2 hours". Wonder if it's the polar bears...

Very interesting story line on Jack and Sarah and how he was contesting the divorce and suspecting his dad of having the affair with her. Also interesting Jack's rage draws his dad back into drinking, after being clean 50 days... which we know eventually leads to his demise.

Chilling about them knowing everything about Jack and that exchange between Ben and Juliette where we see they are breaking him.

Can't wait for next week. Guess I'll have to figure out a different show to drop off my list!