My Shows

It's been awhile since I've posted anything about the shows that I typically watch and since this week has been a good one in the life of said shows I figured I would give it a shot.

I've not been an American Idol fan from season one.  I've occasionally watched episodes from season to season, mostly those including auditions which are always hilarious and insane.  But after last season when I became a big fan of David Cook's (the winner, of whom I'm still a fan), I've been more invested in watching this season.  While I personally don't think any of the contestants are as talented as Cook, there are several good ones this season.  Last night was Motown night, I only watched the first half (because the second half conflicted with the best show ever on television) but thankfully I was able to see Kris' performance of "How Sweet It Is" during that half.  That song has lots of nostalgia linked to it because it has been my parents' "song" since they first started dating in the 70's.  I've grown up hearing it very frequently, not to mention seeing "How sweet it is..." followed by xoxo written on cards and notes that they've exchanged with each other over the years.  I thought Kris did a great job singing this classic!  This performance combined with last week's performance of Garth Brooks' "To Make You Feel My Love" has brought him to the forefront of my picks for the winner of this show.  I'm also becoming a big fan of Matt's, who has a Ryan Tedder from One Republic sound to him.  Unfortunately Matt was in the bottom 2 this week, he didn't get voted off, but apparently I'm gonna have to throw a few votes his way next week just to be sure I've done my part to keep him on the show.  While I try to watch as much as possible, I'm not someone who votes typically (last season being a big exception once David Cook rocked my face off with his performance of Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby", then I voted each and every week, multiple times.)  So we'll see how this season pans out.  I don't see myself becoming as invested with a contestant this go around, but I still enjoy watching and I'm curious who will ultimately win.

While I have a variety of other shows that I watch on a regular basis, the only other one that I'm going to blog about is "Lost".  I've talked about it before, but the past several weeks have been some of the best episodes this show has seen.  If you are currently watching old seasons in order to catch up to the new episodes, then please skip over the rest of this paragraph if you don't want to read any spoilers.  With that out of the way, I have to say that this week's episode blew my mind in the last 5 minutes.  I'm on the edge of my seat in anticipation with how the death of young Ben (assuming he's dead) is going to change the show.  Will the future be changed because Sayid shot Ben as a child?  Will Ben be healed by the island as we've seen happen with atleast 2 other previously dead characters?  Did Sayid's "betrayal" of young Ben's trust become the ultimate reason why Ben is who he is in the future?  Maybe Ben would have turned out all together differently had Sayid helped him escape to be with Richard and the "hostiles" rather than shoot him for no reason.  (Obviously Sayid did have a reason, but young Ben wouldn't have known what those reasons were.)  I'm a huge fan of Sayid's, but I'll say this, if he killed Jin or caused Jin to somehow become framed for Ben's shooting/murder, I will be very upset with him.  I think it's obvious now that the reason why Ben gave the "others" his list of people to capture from the plane when it first crashed are the people he knew on the island before from the 70's.  That list only included Sawyer, Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid.  The only person left off that list was Jin, which I'm having a hard time figuring that part out.  This show just keeps getting better and better and I'm so happy that I have been watching from the beginning because it's one of the few that I'm thrilled to be invested in.

Just as an aside in closing, I'm becoming a little jaded with "The Office".  I feel like the episodes are trying too hard, or maybe not trying hard enough.  I'm going to continue watching as my time allows on Thursday nights, but I'm disappointed in this season because the funny just seems to be all gone.  

Lost. I finally have some theories.

If you don't watch Lost, or didn't watch last night's episode (Wednesday, Jan 28), then this post might not interest you. You have been warned.

I've never really blogged about Lost other than to say that it's the best show and I love it a lot, etc. But, in my opinion, last night's episode was the. best. episode. yet! I now have some theories to the show that I want to share with anyone else who reads this blog and also watches. I would love to hear your input as to whether or not these theories are possible as well as what your theories are. So this post is probably gonna be a bit disconnected, but I'll do my best. I mostly just want to put these ideas to paper so that I can come back later in the season or series to see where I may have been right and where I was wrong.

First off, we already know that the show is dealing with time travel. Some of the characters know how to travel back and forth in time. I'm not sure if it's really been revealed as to how they do that other than we know Ben had a place in his house in the Others' camp where he could travel in time and we also know that the island itself can be moved in time, which is what is happening right now. I don't understand why the island is continually jumping from time to time after Ben spun the "dial" (for lack of a better word) only one time, as far as we saw. But the fact of the matter is that it IS jumping around in time right now and we rarely know what time frame they are actually living in from one scene to the next.

On to the episode and what I discovered from watching it. I have to say that I loved the scenes with Desmond and Penny. They are the best! And when it was revealed that they named their baby Charlie I almost shed a tear. (Then I began theorizing as to whether or not it was possible that island Charlie could actually have been Desmond's son, due to all the time traveling, but I dismissed that theory. Doesn't mean that it isn't possible, I just don't think that's the case.)

We saw a young Charles Widmore on the island which atleast shed some light as to why Charles is even aware of the island as well as why he's obsessed with it. Of course it then asks the questions: how did widmore get off the island? why does he hate Ben? why does he want to go back? is he really 70 years old as an age guesstimate would lead you to believe after last night's episode?

The main theory that I've landed on after last night's episode is that the show's central character is Daniel Farraday. My theory is that Daniel is the son of Charles Widmore and the white headed lady, Ms. Hawking (I think that's her name?). She was the one from last week that Ben seems to answer to and she told him he only had 70 hours to get all the people who left the island, back to the island. My basis for Widmore being Daniel's father is due to the statement that was made several times in last night's episode and that was that Widmore financed all of Farraday's research. Why else would he do this? I feel pretty confident in saying that the woman who held Farraday at gun point while he was examining the H bomb was Ms. Hawking (his mother) 50 years ago. That's why he kept looking at her, which bothered her. It would also explain how she and Widmore "hooked up" since they were both on the island at the same time.

The reason I think Farraday is the central character is that I believe he's been researching and studying time travel for years and years, funded by Widmore. He started with lab rats and then at some point tested it on a person, which was the woman who was in the bed in a comatose state where Desmond found her when he was searching for Farraday's mother. It was said that Widmore was paying for her care and I'm sure that was because something went wrong with Farraday's experiment, so Widmore basically is paying the family off so they won't go public with what happened. Widmore decided to give Farraday a better place to do his experimenting so he founded the Dharma Initiative and sent them to a remote island where they could do the psychological experiments that Dharma conducted as a ruse to their main focus, time travel. Now the only thing that doesn't factor in is how Widmore was on the island before Farraday was even born. Or was he? With time travel, anything is possible. And that also doesn't answer the question of Richard Alpert, the man who never ages. When we saw young Widmore, Richard Alpert was the same age as we've always seen him, so had he already started time travel at that point or was he really the age that we saw him at during that time frame? And who is Richard Alpert? Why is he always there? I didn't say my theories don't have holes in them...

One more theory. I think the reason why all the Lostaways need to get back to the island is because they are each others' constants and they need to be together or they're all going to die. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but we do know that you need a constant in order to travel back and forth in time and not die, and my understanding is that a constant is someone you see in the different times you're in. In most of these characters' cases, that could only be each other.

I still don't have answers for the following: what was the smoke monster and why haven't we seen it again? why did the plane crash when it did? why did widmore try to cover up the plane crash (maybe so no one else who knows about the island would discover its location?) There's actually a multitude of questions that I still have. But I'm feeling good about this season. If we're already discovering this much information this early in the season, it's going to be a good one.

So all my fellow Losties out there? What do you think? Are any of my theories possible? Do you have anything you want to add to them?

Lastly, I found the following video on another blog discussing Lost. I found it to be very funny, it's pretty short, so watch it when you get a chance. My favorite line is "Pregnant women and children under 12 are incapable of perspective." So true!



I seriously love this show!

The Best TV Show Ever

Two weeks from tonight, the best show on TV will finally return for another season!!!  If you don't know what show I'm talking about, then you just don't know me at all.  Of course I'm talking about "Lost".  

I had good intentions of rewatching previous seasons this summer leading up to season 5, but unfortunately I never got around to doing that.  Maybe this summer.  You know, because I won't be busy at all with an almost 4 year old and a newborn.  But if this baby isn't a good sleeper, I may need something to pass those nighttime feedings...  I really hope that isn't the case though.

Back to Lost, I seriously cannot say it enough, this is THE best show ever.  If you like the least bit of intrigue and mystery this show is truly for you.  The writers have no problem killing random characters off.  Some people probably don't like that, but I think it keeps you on your toes because you just never know what's going to happen because nothing is sacred.

I know this is going to be a great season.  

Lost!!

I am officially counting down the days until next Thursday.
"What's so special about next Thursday" you ask?
The season premiere of the best TV show EVER, Lost!

This is their 4th season and the season finale last year was so awesome that I just can't even begin to imagine how this season is going to kick off. I'm already making plans to put Garrett to bed early and insist that, if Keith comes home from work during the show, he will have to wait to speak to me until a commercial, and no questions about what's happening. I know I sound like a tyrant, but there is a serious lack of good, quality shows on TV nowadays, and I've been watching Lost since episode 1, so I'm not about to miss a second of this episode (it's times like these that a DVR or Tivo would really come in handy). I hope that atleast a few of you out there will be watching so we can discuss it later on. Although, if you've never watched a single episode, it might not make much sense to you, if you just jumped in at season 4. I'll try not to spoil anything for those of you who are currently watching previous seasons in order to catch up. I currently have the first 3 seasons of Lost in my Blockbuster queue, but I'll probably save them until season 4 is finished, then maybe it will be out on DVD by the time I'm through the first 3 seasons. Of course working your way through entire seasons on DVD is hard to do. Especially when, though Keith is a big fan, my husband would much rather watch movies than rewatch episodes of a show that we've already seen, whereas I love doing that! So it will probably be something I'll be watching during naptimes and when Keith travels.

Just a reminder, the new season of Lost begins next Thursday night at 7:00. Please don't call me then because I won't be answering the phone until after 9:00. Thanks! :)